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About A.D. 241 or 242 the Sixth Roman legion, commanded by Aurelian, at that time military tribune, and thirty years later emperor, had just finished a campaign on the Rhine, undertaken for the purpose of driving the Germans from Gaul, and was preparing for eastern service, to make war on the Persians.
Parsee 94,190 Mohammedan 62,458,077 Jewish 18,228 Christian 2,923,241 India is a land of immense distances.
You see, then, it is so clear a point in this person's opinion that the ready road to popularity here is to trample under foot the interests of religion, the rights of the church, and the prerogatives of the crown." Coll. i. 12. Perry, Hist. Coll. 316, 317. Hening, Statutes at Large, vi. 88, 89. Ibid. vi. 568, 569. Perry, Hist. Coll. i. 508, 509. Hening, Statutes at Large, vii. 240, 241.
The diffusion of the solar rays acting on the 20 inch heater being in the ratio of 1 to 10,241, the temperature of the solar surface cannot be less than 298.87° × 10,241 = 3,060,727° F. This underrated computation must be accepted unless it can be shown that the temperature produced by radiant heat is not inversely as the diffusion of the rays.
A flat in a three-decker may be obtained at a moderate rental, but such houses are usually poorly built, of the flimsiest inflammable material, and they, too, lack privacy and modern conveniences. 241. =Effects of these Conditions.= It must not be supposed that these evils have been overlooked.
In this ambitious spirit "they commenced business with a box of soap and half a chest of tea." In 1852 they had 167 branches, a capital of $241,7191.66, and a business of nearly $91,000,000 a year. In the meantime similar cooperative movements began elsewhere.
/$ Thirty-fifth Regiment .... 519 Twenty-eighth Regiment 421 Fifty-eighth " .... 335 Forty-seventh " . 360 Seventy-eighth " .... 662 Forty-third " .. 327 Louisbourg Grenadiers 241 Light Infantry ........ 400 Making a total of 3,265. $/ The French force engaged cannot be precisely given.
See ante, i. 400. For respectable, see ante, iii. 241, note 2. Boswell, in the last of his Hypochondriacks, says: 'I perceive that my essays are not so lively as I expected they would be, but they are more learned. And I beg I may not be charged with excessive arrogance when I venture to say that they contain a considerable portion of original thinking.'London Mag. 1783, p. 124.
To the Romans themselves, as they looked back two hundred years later, the beginnings of a real literature seemed definitely fixed in the generation which passed between the first and second Punic Wars. The peace of B.C. 241 closed an epoch throughout which the Roman Republic had been fighting for an assured place in the group of powers which controlled the Mediterranean world.
'In all his intercourse with mankind, Pope had great delight in artifice, and endeavoured to attain all his purposes by indirect and unsuspected methods. Tacitus, Agricola, ch. xxx. 'The unknown always passes for something peculiarly grand. Johnson defines toy-shop as 'a shop where playthings and little nice manufactures are sold. See ante, ii. 241. Mrs. Mr. See ante, ii. 432.
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