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In vol. ii. p. 205 et seqq. of his History of Egypt, Professor Petrie maintains the same views. The same volume also contains his earlier synopsis of the Tell el Amarna tablets. Professor Maspero’s account of the historical bearing of these tablets is worked into the second volume of his great Histoire Ancienne des Peuples de l’Orient, which is entitled Les Premières Mélées des Peuples.
Observing the surprise which these words excited, he continued: "Say not that I have lost my reason: I tell you the truth. I know it from better authority than any which you can have from Galen or Hippocrates. It is the answer of God himself to our prayers; not to mine alone, but to those of others who have a more intimate Hist. iii. 647. Bulstrode, 205. interest in him than I have."
In the April of the following year, 1500, the new task was given. The payment for the roof was to have been 205 ducats; for the walls they offered 575. Besides this, the painter was to be furnished with ultramarine, a certain quantity of food and wine, and a free lodging, with two beds, as the lengthy documents of commission minutely tell.
The Moors were so careful in maintaining the details of their system, that they kept in publio offices bronze models of their dams and sluices, as guides for repairs and rebuilding. Some of these models are still preserved. Ibidem, pp. 204, 205. For an account of recent irrigation works in Spain, see Spon, Dictionary of Engineering, article Irrigation.
At two miles and a half changed our course to 225 degrees, having found some fresh horse-tracks; at seven miles camped for the remainder of the day to recruit the horses, having come upon some new green grass. Distance actually travelled, fifteen miles. Monday, 16th August, Dense Mallee Scrub. Started at 9 on a course of 205 degrees. Twelve miles to Miller's Water.
The government distributes one-eighth of a bushel to each person, everybody being obliged to wait two days to take his turn. "La Revolution," I., 208; II., 294, 205, 230. Buchez et Roux, XX., 431. The three delegates of the Convention disposed to interfere have their lives saved only on condition of announcing the rate dictated to them. Ibid., 409. Ibid., 417.
Dwight of New York sought to limit the legal-tender quality of the silver dollar to $50, and for larger sums to make it receivable at its value in gold. A motion by Mr. Hewitt of New York to lay the bill on the table was lost by ayes 71, noes 205.
He had, however, more reason to be gratified than disappointed with the result; for, though in plain fact he was a raw and unknown youngster, he stood third upon a list of eight candidates, receiving 657 votes; and out of 208 votes cast in his own county he scored 205. In this there was ample encouragement for the future.
The result of the vote was a strange surprise to all parties, and one of the greatest ever experienced in Parliamentary history. The vote for Mr. Roebuck's committee was 205; and against it, 148; a majority against the ministry of 157. "The scene was a peculiar and probably an unparalleled one.
"Fred, tell me; you've known John Judson longer than I have: do you trust him when he's sober?" "Yes." The answer was unqualified. "I think I do, but he talks too much. He is over here, somewhere, to-night, shadowing the man who may have done this. He and the man came down on 205 this evening. I saw them both board the train at Angels as it was pulling out."
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