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The destruction can hardly have been complete. But in any case Herodotus can only have seen fragments, easily misinterpreted, easily explained by local ciceroni as relics of something quite unlike the facts. Others give the figures a little differently, but not so as to affect the argument. Hdt. iii. 159. Turn now to the actual remains of Babylon, as known from surveys and excavations.
The Supreme Court upheld the action, although on broader grounds. Above, p. 256, cf. 159 U.S. Reports, 564. In 1893 the "World's Fair" in Chicago had celebrated the four hundredth anniversary of the landing of Columbus, and many of the criminals attracted by the event had remained in the city.
The date of its composition is abundantly indicated by the notes with which he terminates his notices of living authors: 'Viuit adhuc anno quo hec scribimus 158' or 159.
It is remarkable that this perforation seems to have been present in man much more frequently during ancient times than recently. Mr. "On the Caves of Gibraltar," 'Transactions of the International Congress of Prehistoric Archaeology, Third Session, 1869, p. 159. Prof.
William died in 1702, and the number of ships had then increased to 272, and the tonnage to 159,020 tons. The permanent navy, begun by Henry VIII. and given its first system of regular warfare by the Duke of York in 1665, had become well established, and trading vessels had ceased to form a part of the regular establishment.
"She will think the clerk has made a mistake. I must get her unbiased opinion of it before the voyage ends." The voyage at that moment was just beginning, and the thud, thud of the screw brought that fact to his knowledge. He sought a steward, and asked him to carry the portmanteau to berth 159. "You don't happen to know whether there is any one else in that room or not, do you?" he asked.
He affirmed what was in him no abstract doctrine, but the most concrete of all realities, Incarnated in the person and passion of Jesus Christ, drawing from Him its eternal and universal significance." Fairbairn, "The Place of Christ in Modern Theology," page 159.
The Brandon Bank, at Brandon, Mississippi, which was virtually identical with the Mississippi and Alabama Railroad Company, bought prior to 1839, $159,000 worth of slaves for railroad employment, but it presumably lost them shortly after that year when the bank and the railroad together went bankrupt.
It is strange that Addison should, in the first line of his travels, have misdated his departure from Marseilles by a whole year, and still more strange that this slip of the pen which throws the whole narrative into inextricable confusion, should have been repeated in a succession of editions, and never detected by Tickell or by Hurd. Nos. 26, 329, 69, 317, 159, 343, 517.
Wirt, 159. 4 Am. Arch. iii. 1067. 4 Am. Arch. iii. 1713-1715. Graphic contemporary accounts of this battle may be found in 4 Am. Arch. iv. 224, 228, 229. Wirt, 178. 4 Am. Arch. iii. 1962. Ibid. iv. 1669. Ibid. iv. 1517. Ibid. iv. 1515, 1516. 4 Am. Arch. iv. 1516; also, Wirt, 180, 181. 4 Am. Arch. iv. 1516. 4 Am. Arch. iv. 1516, 1517. Ibid. iv. 1518. 4 Am. Arch. iv. 1519. Wirt, 175.
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