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

----- 十八世纪的简要回顾

ISBN: 9781331019237 出版年：2016 页码：561 Samuel Miller Forgotten Books

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.