A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century - In Two Volumes, Containing a Sketch of the Revolutions and Improvements in Science, Arts, and Literature During That Period #245939

Hence the close of one year, and the commence ment of another, are generally marked by mutual: congratulations, by a peculiar train of reflections, by new plans and undertakings, and by charac teristic changes in domestic, social, and political affairs. It is a period which intereststhe feelings, and constitutes a prominent point in the life of almost every man.