...able to 154 penetrate beyond Tenda, which continued for years to be the limit of discovery. Between the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries much information respecting the country on the Senegal was due to the activity of Brue, who had a large...

...opinion, in direct opposition to the wishes, views, and opinions of our senior officers. When, towards the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, the army of England was billeted amongst the people, it can scarcely be said to have been a standing...

...the stage of the nineteenth century in England was improved to an extent far above adverse criticism. The close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries gave cause for people to find fault with the stage on the ground of immorality, both behind and before...