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From this second visit, and a longer acquaintance, Hadrian seems to have formed a very poor opinion of the Egyptians and Egyptian Jews; and the following curious letter, written in 134 A.D. to his friend Servianus, throws much light upon their religion as worshippers of Serapis, at the same time that it proves how numerous the Christians had become in Alexandria, even within seventy years of the period during which the evangelist Mark is believed to have preached there: "Hadrian Augustus to Servianus, the consul, greeting: "As for Egypt, which you were praising to me, dearest Servianus, I have found its people wholly light, wavering, and flying after every breath of a report.
I was nineteen weeks in the islands met with no adventures worth mentioning, only one little affair which was rather critical for a few minutes, but ended very well and in some of the Solomon Islands made more way than heretofore with the people. We have 134 Melanesians here and a baby.
Mark on the dome is five feet long. There are about 134 popes buried here, and when looking at their grand and beautiful monuments, extending up the left aisle, one cannot but remember that these were the men whose power was at times almost unlimited, who controlled the destinies of the world, and made emperors tremble; and the mind travels back into the dark ages of the past.
His son, also, named Jehan, figures in the Royal accounts in 1528 as valet and court painter to Francis I., and was known as Maître Jehan or Jehanet. To him, an artist of great simplicity and charm, are attributed 126 and 127, R. wall, portraits of his royal master. To the latter artist is ascribed 134, Louis of St. Gelais.
LACROIX. A ring-plain 20 miles in diameter, N. of Schickard. It has a prominent central mountain. SCHICKARD. One of the largest wall-surrounded plains on the visible surface of the moon, extending about 134 miles from N. to S., and about the same from E. to W., enclosing a nearly level area, abounding in detail.
The Babylonians, no doubt, were offended by such an act, and in order to conciliate them, Ashurbanabal, who pursues a mild policy towards the south, orders the statue to be restored at the time that he appoints his brother Shamash-shumukin as governor of the southern provinces. Ib. p. 53, note. Ashurnasirbal's Inscription, IR. 23, col. ii. l. 134. See above, p. 462.
The official returns of the Eleventh Census and those of the Tenth Census for seventy-five leading cities furnish the basis for the following comparisons: In 1880 the capital invested in manufacturing was $1,232,839,670. In 1890 the capital invested in manufacturing was $2,900,735,884. In 1880 the number of employees was 1,301,388. In 1890 the number of employees was 2,251,134.
A fresh easterly wind, and the ship lying a mile from the shore, did not hinder those good-natured people from swimming off to us in shoals of twenty or thirty, and returning the same way. See his 'Description of the Isthmus', page 134. On the 10th, a party was on shore as usual; and Mr Forster so well recovered as to go out botanizing.
The Most Happy Armada, for so he had styled it, consisted of 134 sail of towering ships, of the total burden of 57,868 tons; on board of it wore 19,295 soldiers, 8450 sailors, 2088 slaves, and 2830 pieces of cannon.
The Lilienthal machine had an area of 151 square feet; that of Pilcher, 165 square feet; and the Chanute double-decker, 134 square feet. As our system of control consisted in a manipulation of the surfaces themselves instead of shifting the operator's body, we hoped that the new machine would be controllable, notwithstanding its great size.
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