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Paul paper, the 'Pioneer Press, gives some statistics which furnish a vivid contrast to that old state of things, to wit: Population, autumn of the present year , 71,000; number of letters handled, first half of the year, 1,209,387; number of houses built during three-quarters of the year, 989; their cost, $3,186,000.
On the other hand the enactment in the law of 387, not incompatible indeed with the earlier mode of management but yet far more appropriate to the later, viz. that the landholder should be bound to employ along with his slaves a proportional number of free persons, may well be regarded as the oldest trace of the later centralized farming of estates; and it deserves notice that even here at its first emergence it essentially rests on slave-holding.
Lastly civic equality was in a certain sense undoubtedly attained or rather restored by the reform of 387, and the development of its legitimate consequences.
The discussion was prolonged and animated, and the result was not reached until nearly two o'clock in the morning. Nine districts were at stake, but the vote was taken on each separately, and the delegates chosen in the districts were admitted by a vote of 387 to 353.
They often give concerts, to which the men come “from long distances decked out like male ostriches.” In these concerts the women improvise the songs, accompanying themselves on the tambourine and a sort of violin or rebâza. They are much sought after in marriage, because of the title of cherif which they confer on their children. Ibid., p. 387. Duveyrier, op. cit., p. 430. Ibid., p. 362.
Letters of John Adams to his Wife, i. 47, 48. Works of Jefferson, i. 116. 4 Am. Arch. ii. 1227. Ibid. iii. 390. 4 Am. Arch. ii. 387. Ibid. ii. 395. Ibid. ii. 442, 443. Ibid. ii. 426. 4 Am. Arch. ii. 443. Patrick Henry's reasons were thus stated by him at the time to Colonel Richard Morris and Captain George Dabney, and by the latter were communicated to Wirt, 136, 137. Wirt, 137, 138. Wirt, 141.
The Doctrine of Grace; or the Office and Operations of the Holy Spirit vindicated from the Insults of Infidelity and the Abuses of Fanaticism, 1762. A Letter to the Bishop of Gloucester, occasioned by his Tract on the Office and Operations of the Holy Spirit, by John Wesley, 1762. Malone records: 'I could not find from Mr. Prior's Malone, p. 387. Johnson wrote a Life of Sydenham.
On the 30th day of June, 1888, there had been coined $299,708,790; and of this $55,829,303 was in circulation in coin, and $200,387,376 in silver certificates, for the redemption of which silver dollars to that amount were held by the Government.
I am a kind of ship with a wide sail, and without an anchor. Ante, ii. 387, note 2. In the spring of this year everything was settled for his journey to Italy with the Thrales. 'Johnson and Mr. Boswell have this day set out for Oxford, Lichfield, &c., that the Doctor may take leave of all his old friends previous to his great expedition across the Alps.
Moore seems worthy of his office, which, when justly considered, is a very important one. London Mag. 1783, p. 204. For the quarrel between the City and the Court, see ante, iii. 201. See ante, i. 387. Knox in Winter Evenings, No. xi. 'Biography, he complains, 'is every day descending from its dignity. See ante, i. 222, note 1. Piozzi Letters, ii. 256.
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