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The majorities were, on their question, 683 to 66; on the second, 423 to 281; on the third, 387 to 334; so that on this last, the fatal question, it would have been easy for the Girondins to have turned the scale. Goncourt, p. 370, quoting "Fragments de Turgy." "S'en défaire." Louis XVII., sa Vie, son Agonie, sa Mort, par M. de Beauchesne, quoting Senart.
Then, when the time was come, he sent to Bishop Ambrose a written confession of his errors and faults, and represented to him his very firm intention to be baptized. He was quietly baptized on the twenty-fifth of April, during the Easter season of the year 387, together with his son Adeodatus, and his friend Alypius.
Whitehouse called on one man and woman after another of a carefully selected list, solicited contributions, and many large amounts were given by persons who had not before been brought in touch with suffrage work. New York City led with $183,387; Yonkers came next with $41,748 and Buffalo with $30,163. The supreme test of the organization came on election day.
The waters of the Mosel flow almost perpendicularly against the right bank of the Rhine, and have helped it in forming the precipitous rock of Ehrenbreitstein rising to the height of 387 feet above the river, upon which stand the famous fortifications of that name.
Sidney, Sir Philip, Chevy Chace, 379. Silsbee, William, aid in publishing Carlyle, 81. Simonides, prudence, 410. Sisyphus, illustration, 334. Sleight-of-hand, illustration, 332. Smith, James and Horace, Rejected Addresses, 387, 397. Smith, Sydney, on bishops, 219. Socrates: allusion, 203; times mentioned, 382. Solitude, sought, 135. Solomon, epigrammatic, 405. Solon, 199. Sophron, 199.
The number of books returned to the shelves of the General Library from the Reading Rooms was 119,093; to those of the Royal Library, 11,252; to those of the Grenville Library, 387: to the closets in which the books are kept from day to day for the use of the readers, 110,950: making a total of 241,682, or 830 per diem. The Keeper of the MSS. has been busy cleaning, cataloguing, and stamping.
The appointment of a supreme magistrate in Rome exclusively for the administration of justice in 387, and the establishment of separate police functionaries which took place contemporaneously in Rome, and was imitated under Roman influence in all the Latin communities, secured greater speed and precision of justice.
Even Henry VIII. himself at one time begged the Pope's favour for the Observants, saying that he could not sufficiently express his admiration for their strict adherence to poverty, for their sincerity, their charity, their devotion;* but they were Scotists, and Erasmus could not therefore admire them. * Henry VIII. to Leo X., Add. MS. 15,387, f. 17; B.M. Printed by Ellis, 3, 1st series, 165.
COLLINS' Account of Colony of New South Wales, p. 387. Playing at "stealing a wife" is a common game with the Australian children. One custom, which to Europeans seems extremely remarkable, is that of the family name of the mother, and not of the father, becoming the surname of the children of either sex.
So Gracchus, immediately after entering on office, proposed the enactment of an agrarian law, which in a certain sense was nothing but a renewal of the Licinio-Sextian law of 387. Indemnification appears to have been granted for any improvements executed by the former holders, such as buildings and plantations.
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