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Sunday, " 17..... 8 " 200 " " Monday, " 18..... 8 " 200 " " Tuesday, " 19..... 7 " 175 " " Wednesday, " 20..... 6 " 150 " " Thursday, " 21..... 5 " 125 " " Friday, " 22..... 4 " 100 " " Average of 4th week.....6.71" 168 " " Saturday, Dec.23..... 3 grains, = 75 drops of laudanum.
This was the first time that I entertained a thought of breeding up some tame creatures, that I might have food when my powder and shot was all spent. Dec. 28, 29, 30, 31. Great heats, and no breeze; so that there was no stirring abroad, except in the evening, for food: this time I spent in putting all my things in order within doors. January 1.
I implore of you therefore once more, and most earnestly, to have a better opinion of me. Mannheim, Dec. 27, 1777. A PRETTY sort of paper this! I only wish I could make it better; but it is now too late to send for any other. You know, from our previous letters, that mamma and I have a capital lodging.
As some one has said, "He attempts the impossible, yet finds practical ways to accomplish it" The way he met an unexpected demand for money during the building of the church illustrates this: The trustees had, as they thought, made provision for the renewal of a note of $2,000, due Dec. 27th. Late Friday, Dec. 24th, the news came that the note could not be renewed, that it must be paid Monday.
James found at Leiden a small Greek manuscript in the same hand, containing some letters of Aeschines and Plato, and a colophon stating that it had been written by Emmanuel of Constantinople for George Neville, Archbishop of York, and completed on 30 Dec. 1468.
This necessary article can be obtained in sufficient quantities only by the contributions of the people; and although Great Britain can and ought to assist with money, as well as in other modes, every effort of this description, the principal financial as well as military effort, ought to be by the people of the resisting country. Dec. 10, 1811. The French System of Predatory War.
Dec. 19 Have had a three day snap of frost, Either getting used to the cold or are adapting ourselves to meet it, for do not feel the discomfort we did. Ruth going to the ox-stable without putting a wrap over her head got her cheeks and ears frozen. Robbie trapped a hare. Pleads for a gun. Ailie will give him a surprise New Year's morning.
But the chief blessing resulting from this circumstance I consider to be this, that several brethren, who earn their bread by the labor of their hands, have learned through this circumstance that it is the will of the Lord they should lay by their rent weekly. Dec. 17. To-day eleven brethren and sisters were proposed for fellowship. Dec. 20.
All American prisoners are nearly sent out of New York, but there are 615 French prisoners still there." "Oct 18, 78. The Ship, Good Hope, lies in the North River." "New London Dec. 18, 78. A Flag with 70 men from the horrible prison ships of New York arrived: 30 very sickly, 2 died since they arrived." "N. London. Dec. 25, 78. A cartel arived here from New York with 172 American prisoners.
VII. pp. 91, 92, 97, 115, 116, and 118. The one-and-twenty Peers who were present on Saturday, Dec. 28, when the order for Milton's examination was issued were Lord Grey of Wark, as Speaker; the Lord General the Earl of Essex; the Lord High Admiral the Earl of Warwick; Earls Rutland, Kent, Pembroke, Salisbury, Bolingbroke, Manchester, Nottingham, Northumberland, Denbigh, and Stamford; Viscount Saye and Sele; and Lords North, Montague, Howard of Escrick, Berkeley, Bruce, Willoughby of Parham, and Wharton.
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