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The English claimed as far west as the St. Croix, while France asserted her right to the whole country east of the Kennebeck. These claims remained unsettled; and were mingled with other differences of more importance, which soon occasioned the re-commencement of hostilities. The whole weight of the war in America fell on New England.
We had proof of this in an event which occurred at the re-commencement of hostilities. To reassure themselves, they sent some individual men to slip into the wood, on the right and left, and when they heard no sound of gunfire, they gradually built up the number until they had completely surrounded our troopers.
The Spectator, from its re-commencement, was published only three times a week; and no discriminative marks were added to the papers. To Addison, Tickell has ascribed twenty-three.
Watson on the stage between the parts, when the gods, growing impatient, whistled loudly for a re-commencement of the performance. Paganini, who happened to be near us, seemed rather surprised at the noise, and turning to Watson he inquired qu'est que c'est ces tapageurs ces siffleurs? and on being told, he grinned horribly, and said in a low voice Bah! betes!
In the general inexperience and susceptibility, the excitement and stir of freedom amounted to civil war on the eve of re-commencement. To meet the difficulties of such a state of things, to preserve at the same time liberty and peace, to cure the wounds without restraining the blows, no Government could have been too strong or too able. Louis XVIII. and his advisers were unequal to the task.
Save for the Bible record of the opening of Solomon's Temple, Cohen and his colleague-priests, had no precedent upon which to base their order of procedure as regarded the official opening of the Temple, and the consequent re-commencement and re-establishment of the daily sacrifices.
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