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Throughout England, many refused these loans; some were even active in encouraging their neighbors to insist upon their common rights and privileges. * Rushworth, vol. i. p. 419. Franklyn, p. 207. Rushworth, vol. i. p. 422. Franklyn, p. 208. * Rushworth, vol. i. p. 431. Rushworth, vol. i. p. 429. Franklyn, p. 210.
There was a great demand at Rome for spices and aromatics, from the custom of the Romans to burn their dead, and also from the consumption of frankincense, &c. in their temples. At the funeral of Sylla 210 bundles of spices were used. Nero burnt, at the funeral of Poppaea, more cinnamon and cassia than the countries from which they were imported produced in one year.
Silas Deane in 1775 said he had "a very young look and an easy soldier-like air and gesture," and in the same year Curwen mentioned his "fine figure" and "easy and agreeable address." Nathaniel Lawrence noted in 1783 that "the General weighs commonly about 210 pounds." After death, Lear reports that "Doctor Dick measured the body, which was as follows In length 6 ft. 3-1/2 inches exact.
The veterinarian had nudged me and given me to understand that he was not serious in saying what he did about the cow, that it was an excellent animal, but then 210 francs was a large sum for us. During this time Mattia had gone behind her and pulled a long wisp of hair from her tail and the animal had given him a kick. That decided me.
Allowing fifty head for each wolf and cougar and ten for each coyote, by their bounties alone 196,210 head of game and domestic animals were saved. Is it any wonder that deer are increasing almost everywhere?" The great horned owl has been and still is a great scourge to the upland game birds, partly because when game is abundant "they become fastidious, and eat only the brains of their prey."
Green and I took several Observations of the Sun and Moon, the mean result of which gave 209 degrees 17 minutes West Longitude from the Meridian of Greenwich. By observation made yesterday we were in the Longitude 210 degrees 9 minutes.
On this point see the very interesting essay by Meredith Townsend entitled "The Charm of Asia for Asiatics," in his book Asia and Europe, pp. 120-128. Townsend, op. cit., p. 104. H. Spender, "England, Egypt, and Turkey," Contemporary Review, October, 1906. Bertrand, pp. 209, 210. Archer, pp. 11, 12. Cromer, Political and Literary Essays, p. 25. Townsend, Asia and Europe, p. 128.
Glendower Evans in Proceedings of Sixteenth National Conference of Charities, pp. 24 sq. Papers on Social Settlements in Proceedings of Twenty-third National Conference of Charities, pp. 106 sq. "The Causes of Poverty," F. A. Walker in "Century," Vol. LV, pp. 210 sq. "The Jukes," Richard Dugdale.
The Presbyterians exclaimed, that this indulgence made the church of Christ resemble Noah's ark, and rendered it a receptacle for all unclean beasts. And they menaced all their opponents with the same rigid persecution under which they themselves had groaned, when held in subjection by the hierarchy. * Rush. vol. vii. p. 210. Rush, vol vii. p. 308.
In one building a shell harmlessly made a hole in the courtyard large enough to bury every commander of a German army; another shell a 210 mm. went through an inner wall and opened up the cellars by destroying 150 square feet of ground-floor: ten people were in the cellars, and none was hurt.
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