...Scheele. The first phosphorus matches, the so-called Turin candles, were introduced into commerce at the end of the eighteenth 'century. At the beginning of the nineteenth century the first phosphorus— sulphur matches were made on a small scale, but the actual production of phosphorus...

...gradually losing its transparency, took a dull and floury appearance, and this went on increasing until the end of the eighteenth century. At the beginning of the nineteenth century all these traditionary methods disappeared, neglected by those who ought to have taught them, forgotten...

...servant was a trusty henchman, and so on. But although the Romance of past times had fallen low towards the end of the eighteenth century, at the beginning of the nineteenth it suddenly rose to high-water mark, as an artistic creation, under the hands of Walter Scott. Romance...

...shallower mass in which it took its rise. While human knowledge gathered in three or four broad basins to the end of the eighteenth century, at the beginning of the nineteenth century it began to move in an increasing number of parallel grooves which tended to develop more rapidly downward...

...Scheele. The first phosphorus matches, the so-called Turin candles, were introduced commercially at the end of the eighteenth century. At the beginning of the nineteenth century the first phosphorus and sulphur matches were made on a small scale, but the actual considerable production...

...the intellectual life of early America because great ladies were playing a similar role in France. At the end of the eighteenth century, at the beginning of the nineteenth, the salon spirit is abroad in the United States ; and we can scarcely question the indebtedness of...

...irrigated plains of Piedmont and Lombardy of rice growing, which had first been introduced into Italy at the end of the eighteenth century. At the beginning of the nineteenth century one observer thought it worthy of note that the growing of rice ' gives work... to women and even children...

...form of the Dutch East India Company and its successors, governed the settlement at the Cape until the end of the eighteenth century. At the beginning of the nineteenth century the country was acquired by Britain and thereafter governed as a colony of the British Crown until...

...to cultivate potatoes and some of the commons were divided. The village was again affected by war at the end of the eighteenth century. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, feudal obligations were abolished as a result of the Napoleonic Wars and the transfer of jurisdiction...

...Joseph Brant (Thayendanega) tried to create a political-military confederacy in the Old Northwest at the end of the eighteenth century; at the beginning of the nineteenth Tecumseh, the Shawnee orator and statesman, along with his brother the prophet Elskwatawa, led an intertribal...