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Just at this time the Helvetic invasion, which was closely interwoven with the German and had been in preparation for years, began. According to their own reckoning the whole body consisted of 368,000 persons, of whom about a fourth part were able to bear arms.
The postmasters of 368 offices are appointed by the President. The length of post-roads in 1827 was 105,336 miles; in 1837, 141,242 miles; in 1847, 153,818 miles, and in the year 1857 there are 242,601 miles of post-road, including 22,530 miles of railroad on which the mails are transported.
By the 1st of December it had lost 25 officers and 368 men, more than half its total strength. In the three weeks the men had not ceased from fighting and marching. They had been often on half rations, without tobacco or home mail, never sufficiently clad and without any real rest or sleep.
As regards the feeling of the people of Norway regarding separation, it was decisively shown on August 13, when a vote was taken upon the question. It resulted in 368,200 votes in favor of to 184 against dissolution of the union. The chief question to be settled was that of the abolition of the frontier fortresses, of which Norway had a number on the border while Sweden had none.
Moreover, it is only accidentally that he mentions the circumstance to his landlord; "he came to see him for another purpose." Cf. "The Revolution," vol. Wallon, "Histoire du Tribunal revolutionnaire de Paris," V., 368. "After the rout at Clisson, says the woman Laillet, he appeared in the popular club with a brigand's ear attached to his hat by way of cockade.
Thoreau, Henry D.: allusion, 22; a Crusoe, 72; "nullifier of civilization," 86; one-apartment house, 142, 143; The Dial, 159, 160; death, 228; Emerson's burial-place, 356; biography, 368; personality traceable, 389; woodcraft, 403. Ticknor, George: on William Emerson, 12; on Kirkland, 27; literary rank, 33. Traduction, 393.
The Oldest Italo-Greek Calendar What we know of the oldest calendar of Rome and of some other Latin cities as to the Sabellian and Etruscan measurement of time we have no traditional information is decidedly based on the oldest Greek arrangement of the year, which was intended to answer both to the phases of the moon and to the seasons of the solar year, constructed on the assumption of a lunar period of 29 1/2 days and a solar period of 12 1/2 lunar months or 368 3/4 days, and on the regular alternation of a full month or month of thirty days with a hollow month or month of twenty-nine days and of a year of twelve with a year of thirteen months, but at the same time maintained in some sort of harmony with the actual celestial phenomena by arbitrary curtailments and intercalations.
It afforded him an opportunity of holding out fresh glimmerings of liberty to those who were too shortsighted to see into the future. He was pretty certain that there could be no change but to his advantage. Had any one talked to him of the wishes of the nation he would have replied, "3,577,259 citizens have voted. Of these how many were for me? 3,368,185. Compare the difference!
Perry, Hist. Coll. i. 514, 515. Works of John Adams, ii. 249. Works of Jefferson, vi. 368. Life of Henry, 66.
And what was that but the ordinary fashion of sitting at table? Since the Laodicean canon, which did discharge the love-feasts about the year 368, importeth no less than that the gesture used in them was sitting Non oportet in Basilicis seu ecclesiis. Agapen facere et intus manducare, vel accubitus sternere.
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