...the drift of the time ; a reaction from the extreme Calvinistic theology which then prevailed. But at the close of the last and the beginning of the present century the Unitarian defection was spreading. It was in the atmosphere of this period, and reached its decisive...

...But an equal if not higher reputation belongs to the archives of American diplomatic statesmanship, at the close of the last and the beginning of the present century. The published volumes of American States Papers during the early years of the French Revolutionary War...

...organization to study the political import of the marvellous happenings which centered in the United States in the close of the last and the beginning of the present century. The following year saw an attempt at federation on the part of men identified with movements for the correction...

...adversaries, and Evangelical by its adherents. It originated in the revival of religious life, which marked the close of the last and the beginning of the present century, - the reaction against a long period of frozen lifelessness. The thermometer of the Church of England sank...