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Gwinner's Life and Professor Wallace's little work on the same subject, as well as to the few other authorities that have been available. Wallace, p. 108. Haldane and Kemp's The World as Will and Idea. Wallace, p. 145. There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.

Montagu was 80 when she died; Mrs. Their hostess, Mrs. Garrick, was 97 or 98. Miss Burney, describing how she first saw Burke, says: 'I had been told that Burke was not expected; yet I could conclude this gentleman to be no other. There was an evident, a striking superiority in his demeanour, his eye, his motions, that announced him no common man. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 145.

Astronomical Observations and Experiments selected for the Purpose of ascertaining the relative Distances of Clusters of Stars, and of investigating how far the Power of Telescopes may be expected to reach into Space, when directed to ambiguous Celestial Objects. Memoirs of the Astronomical Society of London. On the Positions of 145 new Double Stars.

And all things, God be praised, happy and peaceful about us." He wrote of the large "family" of 145 Melanesian natives he had around him; at another time he spoke of his sleeping on a table with some twelve or more fellows about him; and people coming and going all day long both in and out of school hours!

'That's Longestaffe, said Felix, 'and I'll change that of course. Then out of his pocket-book he extracted other minute documents bearing that M.G. which was so little esteemed among them, and so made up the sum. 'You seem to have £150 from Grasslough, £145 from Nidderdale, and £322 10s from Grendall, said the baronet. Then Sir Felix got up as though he had paid his score.

As our route between these camps traversed the great bend where the course of the Bogan changes from north to west-north-west I was enabled to cut off four miles by travelling North 145 degrees East a part of the way. We crossed some undulating ground with an open forest upon it in which we killed two large kangaroos.

Study of sciences in the spiritual world, 207. STUPIDITY of the age, 481. SUBLIMATION. The purification of conjugial love may be compared to the purification of natural spirits, as effected by chemists, and called sublimation, 145. SUBJECT, every, receives influx according to its form, 86. All a man's affections and thoughts are in forms, and thence from forms, for forms are their subjects, 186.

Wind Westerly; course North; distance 50 miles; latitude 38 degrees 54 minutes South, longitude 145 degrees 39 minutes West. Monday, 4th. First and latter parts, little wind and Cloudy; in the night Calm. Very few Birds about the Ship. Wind Westerly; course North by East; distance 26 miles; latitude 38 degrees 29 minutes South, longitude 145 degrees 32 minutes West. Tuesday, 5th.

It were idle to discuss with a confirmed Anglomaniac the respective merits of the British and American governments. It may be that the former is "cheapest," despite the maintenance of an established church, a great army and navy and a sovereign who, with her worthless spawn, costs the taxpayers $3,145,000 per annum, while our president requires less than one-sixtieth of that sum.

This gave Nova Scotia at Confederation in 1867 145 miles of railroad in all, built at a cost of $44,000 a mile, and connecting Halifax with the Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of St Lawrence. The gauge adopted was five feet six, and the Nova Scotia road led the way in Canada in using coal for fuel. New Brunswick had a more chequered experience.