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The Insurgents grew surer and surer that the Americans were cowards, and openly boasted that when the attack began they would drive them into the sea. On January 21 General Otis wrote to Admiral Dewey that: "The insurgents will not now permit us to cross their lines and have been very insulting to our officers, calling to them that very shortly they will give us battle.
I expect Captain Prime from Corinth in two or three days. I am, with great respect, yours, W. T. SHERMAN, Major-General commanding. HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, September 21, 1862
Unwin, Industrial Organization in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. S. and B. Webb, The History of Trade Unionism. Wallas, The Great Society. 1914. G. D. H. Cole, The World of Labour. 1915. On this point see Poverty and Waste, by Hartley Withers, 1914, written before the war, which has driven its lessons home. The Living Past, pp. 20, 21. Second Thoughts of an Economist, p. 89.
When the roll was called, there were voting and paired in favor of the amendment, 63 senators; there were voting and paired against the amendment 83 senators. The amendment lost therefore, by one vote. Of the 63 favorable votes 62 were Republicans and 31 Democrats. Of the 33 adverse votes 12 were Republicans and 21 Democrats.
"'The six bicycles were placed on the morning of the 10th ult. against the entrance to the R.E. Dump at A.21, C.2.4. It would appear that during the absence of the riders a hostile shell of large calibre fell on the six said bicycles, completely demolishing them, for when the riders returned after the day's work merely a few fragments remained scattered round the shell crater."
That this oldest prose work on the history of Rome was composed in Greek, is established beyond a doubt by Dionys. i. 6, and Cicero, de Div. i. 21, 43.
At the present moment the average age of the world is I suppose about 21 or 22, the normal death somewhen about 44 or 45, that is to say nearly half the world is "under age," green, inexperienced, demanding help, easily misled and put in the wrong and betrayed.
If we deprive Portugal of the advantages of this wine trade for a revenue of 100,000 l., putting political economy and commerce out of the question, we shall make the greatest political blunder that has been seen for a long time past. Feb. 21, 1831. How is the Government to be carried on after the Reform Bill? March 3, 1831.
On the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio rivers and tributaries in the same year the traffic aggregated 29,405,046 tons, and the total vessel tonnage passing through the Detroit River during that year was 21,684,000 tons.
Taking up his massive mace adorned with gold, he began to slay thy troops like the Destroyer himself armed with his club. The mighty Bhima, with his mace, crushed those 21,000 foot-soldiers who were without cars and steeds and elephants. Having slain that strong division, Bhima, of prowess incapable of being baffled, showed himself with Dhrishtadyumna in his front.