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Boswell, James: allusion, 138; one lacking, 223; Life of Johnson, 268. Botany, 403. Bowen, Francis: literary rank, 34; on Nature, 103, 104. Brook Farm, 159, 164-166, 189, 191. Brown, Howard N., prayer, 355. Brown, John, sympathy with, 211. Brownson, Orestes A., at a party, 149. Bryant, William Cullen: his literary rank, 33; redundant syllable, 328; his translation of Homer quoted, 378.
Men outnumber women throughout the entire western territory; in some states, two and three to one; in Nevada, still higher. But, whereas, in the election of 191, President Wilson got 69 electoral votes from the suffrage states, in the 1916 election, when the whole West was aflame for him because of his peace policy, he got only 5'7. Enthusiasm for Mr.
Steam-engines, to the number of 40,191, and of 1,215,711 horse-power all of the stationary variety, and exclusive of nearly half as many that traverse the country and may be classed among the rural population have succeeded the websters and spinners who were wont to clothe all the world and his wife, and who survive only in the surnames of some of our statesmen and financiers.
See Introduction to XCV. Theses, p. 19. Votum satisfactionis. It was and is the teaching of the Roman Church that, where the actual reception of any sacrament is impossible, the earnest desire to receive it suffices for salvation. The desire is known as the votum sacramenti. In Spain. The shrine of St. James at that place was a famous resort for pilgrims. Cf. below, p. 191, and note.
In 1854, in the same month, the City of Glasgow left Liverpool for Philadelphia with 480 souls, and was never again heard of. In February, 1856, the Pacific, from Liverpool for New York, carrying 185 persons, passed away down to a sunless sea. In May, 1870, the City of Boston, from that port for Liverpool, mustering 191 souls, met a similar fate.
London, 1888. Bancroft: History of the United States, vol. x. p. 191. Although the English thus culpably failed to use their superiority to the French alone, the Channel fleet numbering over forty of the line, the fear that it might prevent the junction caused the Brest fleet to sail in haste and undermanned, a fact which had an important effect upon the issue of the cruise.
"Close? Have you figured up the total of the disbursements I told you of?" "No, I didn't think of that." "Well, lets see: Spent in Washington, say, ........... $191,000 Printing, advertising, etc., say .... $118,000 Charity, say, ....................... $16,000 Total, ............... $325,000 The money to do that with, comes from Appropriation, ...................... $200,000
There was no moving him for some time. At last he was carried to bed, and he has been dreaming about himself and the pavement." Twiss's Eldon, i. 130. Boswell wrote to Temple in 1789: 'I hesitate as to going the Spring Northern Circuit, which costs £50, and obliges me to be in rough, unpleasant company four weeks. Letters of Boswell, p. 274. See ante, ii. 191, note 2.
+191+. A ban of silence is often imposed the name of the dead person is not to be mentioned except by certain privileged men; among certain North American tribes on the death of a child there is a ban of silence on the father. The reason for this prohibition of the dead person's name is not certain. It may be respect for him, or it may be merely an expression of sorrow at his loss.
For the formation of this class of future-perfects see Peile, Introduction to Greek and Latin Etymology, p. 295, ed. 3; also Roby, Gram. 1, p. 199, who has a list of examples; he supports a different view from that given above; cf. A. 128, e, 3; G. 191, 5; H. 240, 4. COQUIT: 'vexes. This metaphorical use of coquere occurs in poetry and late prose; cf. Plaut.
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