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In the year 1538 this hospital was surrendered to King Henry VIII., being then valued at 266 pounds 17s. 6d. per annum.
In a conflict to which fifty years of steadily increasing provocation had driven us we had lost 266 sailors on the Maine; had lost at Santiago and elsewhere uncounted victims of Spanish guns and tropical climates; and had spent in this war over $240,000,000, without counting the pensions that must still accrue under laws existing when it began.
Thorpe's "Northern Mythology," ii. 81-2. Thorpe's "Northern Mythology," iii. 266. See "The Phytologist," 1862, p. 236-8. "Folk-lore of Shakespeare," p. 15. See Friend's "Flower Lore," i. 34. Thorpe's "Northern Mythology," iii. 266. Friend's "Flower Lore," i. 27. See Keightley's "Fairy Mythology," p. 231. Grimm's "Teut. Myth.," 1883, ii. 451; "Asiatic Researches," i. 345.
I that never used to drink, and seldom would try, had commonly some gentlemen with me that served for that purpose when it was necessary. Temple's Works, ed. 1757, i. 266. See ante, ii. 450, note 1, and iii. 79. The passages are in the Jerusalem, canto i. st. 3, and in Lucretius, i. 935, and again iv. 12.
Const. ii. 561, note. Writings of Washington, ix. 266, note. Elliot, Debates, iii. 161, 57, 63. Elliot, Debates, iii. 23, 52, 44, 156. Elliot, Debates, iii. 150, 462, 445-446. Elliot, Debates, iii. 149-150. Elliot, Debates, iii. 58-60. Bancroft, Hist. Const. ii. 459-460. Elliot, Debates, iii. 653. Elliot, Debates, iii. 652. Bancroft, Hist. Const. ii. 316-317. Rives, Life of Madison, ii. 610.
Annales des Mines, vol. ix., 4th Series, 266. "I have always found it in mine own experience an easier matter to devise manie and profitable inventions, than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself." Sir Hugh Platt, 1589. Henry Cort was born in 1740 at Lancaster, where his father carried on the trade of a builder and brickmaker.
In a word, if we speak of the territorial acquisitions, which were the result of the victories obtained by means of the extraordinary resources created by the men of science, France has acquired an extent of 1,498 square leagues, and a population of 4,381,266 individuals; namely, Savoy, containing 411,700 inhabitants; the County of Nice, 93,166; Avignon, the Comtat Venaissin, and Dutch Flanders, 200,500; Maestricht and Venloo, 90,000; Belgium, 1,880,000; the left bank of the Rhine, 1,658,500; Geneva and its territory, 40,000; and Mulhausen, 7,200.
This abbot was B.D. of Cambridge and one of the king's chaplains. It was during his time that Queen Katherine of Arragon was interred in the minster. Abbot Chambers surrendered the monastery to the king in 1540, and was appointed guardian of the temporalities, with a pension of £266, 13s. 4d. and 100 loads of wood.
The first contained about 10 per cent. of bichromate and 9 per cent. of H SO by weight; the second was eight-tenths as strong, the third about half as strong, the fourth about one and a half times as strong. In all cases the amount of solution employed was considerably in excess of the amount required to dissolve the steel used. A residue was obtained as before. C, 0.266 per 100 of steel.
The attention of Congress is called to the annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the condition of the public finances. The ordinary revenues from all sources for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1879, were $273,827,184.46; the ordinary expenditures for the same period were $266,947,883.53, leaving a surplus revenue for the year of $6,879,300.93.
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