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The representations we have of it bear a striking resemblance to the Jewish ark, of which it is now admitted to have been the prototype. "The Egyptian reference in the Urim and Thummim is especially distinct and incontrovertible." HENGSTENBERG, p. 158. According to the estimate of Bishop Cumberland, it was only one hundred and nine feet in length, thirty-six in breadth, and fifty-four in height.
All the States ratifying the Constitution, except Massachusetts, held slaves; Virginia the largest number over 293,000; New Hampshire the smallest number 158. Even the granite hills of New Hampshire were not then free from the feet of bondmen. Our fathers were not responsible for the existence of slavery in their midst.
It had been all along decided that the Perseverance should be placed under Captain Hastings's command; and it was now arranged that he should take her to Greece as soon as she was ready, and that Lord Cochrane should follow in a schooner, the Unicorn, of 158 tons.
On this, the viceroy gave him leave to depart, with orders to bring all the Hollanders in chains. Mendoza then swore that he would never return till the Hollanders were all taken or slain, and set sail from Calao, the haven of Lima, on the 11th July. The flag ship was the Jesu Maria, of twenty-four brass guns and 460 men, which was said to have cost the king 158,000 ducats.
Its main peculiarity is in the fumaroles, or escapes of steam, and mofetti, mephitic emanations of limpid water and sulphur-vapour. Of these we counted five narices within as many hundred yards. Their temperature greatly varies, 109 deg. and 158 deg. Fahr. being, perhaps, the extremes; my thermometer showed 130 deg.. These soupiraux or respiradouros are easily explained.
Reibmayr, Entwicklungsgeschichte des Talentes und Genics, Bd. II, p. 31. Mardrus, Les Mille Nuits, vol. xvi, p. 158. In Ch. IX of the present volume it has already been necessary to discuss the meaning of the term, "morality." Thus, in Paris, in 1906, in the rich quarters, the birthrate per 1,000 inhabitants was 19.09; in well-to-do quarters, 22.51; and in poor quarters, 29.70.
The great Riding School is one of the wonders of Moscow, being 560 feet long and 158 feet broad and 42 feet in height; supposed to be the largest room in the world unsupported by pillars or props of any kind. This vast enclosure gives ample room for two regiments of cavalry to go through all their manoeuvres unobstructed by stormy weather, being heated by upwards of twenty stoves.
"Article XVII. No territory beyond the present limits of the United States and the Territories thereof, shall be annexed to or be acquired by the United States, unless by treaty, which treaty shall be ratified by a vote of two-thirds of the Senate." The Kellogg Proposition was defeated by 33 yeas to 158 nays. The Clemens Substitute was next voted on.
This small party of antislavery veterans, over 158,000 voters in the aggregate, and distributed in detachments of from 3000 to 30,000 in twelve of the free States, now came to the front, and with its newspapers and speakers trained in the discussion of the subject, and its committees and affiliations already in action and correspondence, bore the brunt of the fight against the repeal.
La Croix: Mémoires sur la Révolution, I, 253, 408. Marquis d'Hermonas. Cf. Johnston: Negro in the New World, p. 158. DeWitt Talmage, in Christian Herald, November 28, 1906. Brown: History of San Domingo, II, 158-159. See Leger: Hayti, Chap. Cf. Johnston: Negro in the New World.
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