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Rome was still victorious, but no territory was added to the empire. The third century saw the southward movement of the Germanic peoples, who took the place of the Celts. The Emperor Diocletian, a native of Dalmatia, who reigned from 284 to 305, carried out a redistribution of the imperial provinces.
Lippincott says Papua disputes with Borneo the claim to the second place among the great islands of the world; and I do not propose to settle the question. Chambers gives the area of Borneo at 284,000 square miles, the population in the neighborhood of 200,000, and the dimensions as 800 by 700 miles. "It has a coast-line of about 3,000 miles, nearly the whole of which is low and marshy land.
From internal revenue 130,642,177.72 From tax on national-bank circulation, etc 6,523,396.39 From Pacific railway companies 749,861.87 From customs fines, etc 1,136,442.34 From fees consular, patent, lands, etc 2,284,095.92 From miscellaneous 412,254.71 State of the Union Address Ulysses S. Grant December 1, 1873
The Western Pacific and New Guinea, 2d. ed., 284 pp. John Murray. London, 1887. Sproat, G.M. Scenes and Studies of Savage Life. 317 pp. Smith, Elder & Co. London, 1868. Wissler, Clark. The American Indian. 435 pp. D.C. McMurtrie. Jour. Anthr. Inst., viii, 1879. Callaway, Rev. Canon Henry. Religious System of the Amazulu. 448 pp. Trübner & Co. London, 1870.
The entire cash receipts of the General Land Office for the same period were $1,632,745, being greater by $284,883 than the amount realized from the same sources during the previous year.
The entire cash receipts of the General Land Office for the same period were $1,632,745, being greater by $284,883 than the amount realized from the same sources during the previous year.
A second embassy seems to have been sent in the year A.D. 284, during the reign of Probus: that the object of this also was commercial there can be no doubt; but the particulars or the precise object in view, and the result which flowed from it, are not noticed by the Chinese historians.
Or the description of the blue-cap, and of the noontide silence, page 284; or the poem to the cuckoo, page 299; or, lastly, though I might multiply the references to ten times the number, to the poem, so completely Wordsworth's, commencing "Three years she grew in sun and shower"
Melioration, a characteristic expression, 405. Mendon, Mass., Joseph Emerson's ministry, 4. Mephistopheles, Goethe's creation, 208. Merrimac River, 71. Metaphysics, indifference to, 249. Methodism, in Boston, 56. Michael Angelo: allusions, 73, 75; on external beauty, 99; course, 260; filled with God, 284; on immortality, 290; times mentioned, 382. Middlesex Agricultural Association, 235.
Johnson wrote on Dec. l3: 'You must all guess again at my friend. It was not till Dec. 31 that he told the name. Miss Burney, who visited him on this day, records: 'He was, if possible, more instructive, entertaining, good-humoured, and exquisitely fertile than ever. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 284. The day before he wrote to one of Mrs.
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