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As one visits the dressing room of the New York Giants and sees the attendant work upon the wonderful physique of Christy Mathewson, one cannot help but realize what a potent factor he must have been on Bucknell's team. When Christy played he was 6 feet tall and weighed 168 pounds stripped. He prepared at Keystone Academy, playing in the line.
The air here is of a very wintry temperature. This, however, is not astonishing, when we consider that this place is situated 500 toises, or 2,040 feet above the lake of Geneva, and 3,168 feet above the level of the sea, but 11,532 feet below the summit of Mont Blanc.
Saturday, 27th. Fresh Gales and Cloudy. Employ'd repairing Sails. Wind South-East 1/2 South; course North 55 degrees West; distance 168 miles; latitude 20 degrees 4 minutes South, longitude 356 degrees 40 minutes West. Sunday, 28th. Ditto weather. Variation per Azimuth 14 degrees West.
Commissariat Series, part I, p. 382. Ib. p. 442. Report of Central Relief Committee of Society of Friends, p. 168. This Workhouse was built to accommodate 900 persons. The Fever Hospital and sheds had room for only 250. A Visit to Connaught in the Autumn of 1847: by James H. Tuke, in a letter to the Central Committee of the Society of Friends, Dublin, p. 8.
'Reynolds used to say that "the pupil in art who looks for the Sunday with pleasure as an idle day will never make a painter." Northcote's Reynolds, i. 119. 'Dr. Johnson, said Lord Eldon, 'sent me a message on his death-bed, to request that I would attend public worship every Sunday. Twiss's Eldon, i. 168.
By the same method of calculation as above, the Jews, who, according to the Jewish yearbook for 1922, number 15,393,815, must have doubled their numbers 23.8758 times, or once every 161.251 years. The whole human race, therefore, on an average has doubled its numbers every 168.3 years; and the Jews, every 161.251 years. What a marvelous agreement!
In this Sound, about fifty icebergs were seen at one time floating outwards, and one of them must have been AT LEAST 168 feet in total height. Some of the icebergs were loaded with blocks of no inconsiderable size, of granite and other rocks, different from the clay-slate of the surrounding mountains.
He cited page 168 of Andrew D. White's book in which Ambassador White said he persuaded Germany not to permit a German ship laden with ammunition and consigned for Spain to sail. I thought that if Germany had adopted such an attitude toward America, that in justice to Germany Washington should adopt the same position.
There were continual rumors that the British plan was laid, and deserters frequently came from Boston prophesying a sally; but still the regulars lay in their fastness, and did not move. See Frothingham's "Siege," 168, note. Adams Letters, 67. Bancroft, iv, 583. Bancroft, iv, 590. These quotations are from Lodge's "Washington," i. Adams Letters, 65. Sparks, "Writings of Washington," iii, 1.
Theol. t. 3. p. 99. Ep. 556. p. 883. Ep. 502. p. 884. Ep. 1564. p. 708. These expressions afterwards gave occasion to the accusations of Socinianism brought against Grotius. Ep. 440. p. 880. Ep. 135. p. 794. Ep. 880. p. 387. Ep. 1096. p. 492. Menag. t. 2 p. 298. Ep. 19. p. 760. Patiniana, p. 18. Vind. Grot. p. 557. Animad. Phil. & Hist. Crenii, part. 10. p. 113. T. 1. p. 168.