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They had salt and flour, however; but they were nine months without seeing a white face. They killed elk, buffalo, and a moose; and had a narrow escape from a small Indian war party. Deposition of Daniel Boon, September 15, 1796. I, page 156, Clarke County Court, Ky. First published by Col.
In December 1795 Whitbread introduced a bill providing that the justices of the peace should fix a minimum rate of wages. He undertook to produce a comprehensive measure; and an elaborate bill of 130 clauses was prepared in 1796.
When, in the course of things, the disclosure came, there was nothing, in a manner, for either party to disclose to the other. In July 1796 I made an excursion into the county of Norfolk, which occupied nearly the whole of that month. During this period Mary removed, from Cumming-street, Pentonville, to Judd place West, which may be considered as the extremity of Somers Town.
I do not ask all this gratuitously: for upon returning health I promise and engage to furnish you with five pounds' worth of the neatest song-genius you have seen." Burns to Thomson. 12th July, 1796. Sydney Smith had a severe struggle with poverty in the early part of his life. He had a poor living, a wide parish, and a large family. I see I shall end my old age in a gaol."
The Emperor Paul, born October 1, 1754, ascended the throne on the 12th of December, 1796. What I have related touching Catherine's funeral is sufficient proof that the new Emperor did not share the national sorrow; it is well known, besides, that he bestowed the order of St. Andrew upon Nicholas Zuboff, who brought him the news of his mother's death.
In 1794, he was employed, as a general of brigade, in the army of the Sambre and Meuse; and during the campaigns of 1795 and 1796, he served under another Jourdan, the general, without much distinction, except that he was accused by him of being the cause of all the disasters of the last campaign, by the complete rout he suffered near Neumark on the 23d of August, 1796.
Farewell Address, September 17, 1796. President Jefferson. First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801. "The political system of the Allied Powers is essentially different ... from that of America.
Charmed by the recent and brilliant discoveries of M. Galvani in electricity, he next entered with ardour into that new branch of science; and, not content with studying it in the abstract, he made a great variety of curious experiments on the effects of galvanism on his own person, and published the result in two octavos, at Berlin, in 1796, enriched by the notes of the celebrated naturalist Blümenbach.
In October, 1796, he requested his recall, but this his Sovereign refused, with the most gracious expressions; and he could not obtain it until March, 1797. Some disapprobation of the new political plan introduced by Count von Haugwitz in the Cabinet at Berlin is supposed to have occasioned his determination to retire from public employment.
This manuscript is entitled, 'My Conversation with Comte de Montgaillard, on the 4th of December 1796, from Six in the Afternoon till midnight, in the presence of the Abbe Dumontel. I omitted what I thought unimportant, and transcribed only the most interesting passages.
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