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For Mrs. Green, Mrs. Cobb, Mr. Taylor, see ante, ii. 462-473. Dr. Erasmus Darwin, the physiologist and poet, grandfather of Charles Darwin. Mrs. Piozzi when at Florence wrote: 'I have no roses equal to those at Lichfield, where on one tree I recollect counting eighty-four within my own reach; it grew against the house of Dr. Darwin. Piozzi's Journey, i. 278.
Taylor's Reynolds, ii. 448. See ante, p. 348. The Chancellor had not, it should seem, asked the King. See ante, p. 350, note. The custom had been discontinued at Chatsworth before my recollection, and so far as I am aware is now only kept-up at Wentworth, Lord Fitzwilliam's house in Yorkshire, where a few public dinners are still given annually.
Kippis, informs me, that several divines have thus explained the mediation of our Saviour. What Dr. Johnson now delivered, was but a temporary opinion; for he afterwards was fully convinced of the propitiatory sacrifice, as I shall shew at large in my future work, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. BOSWELL. For Dr. Kippis see ante, iii. 174, and for Johnson on the propitiatory sacrifice, iv. 124.
'Indifferent in his choice to sleep or die. Addison's Cato, act v. sc. 1. See ante, i. 485. He was at this time 'employed by Congress as a private and confidential agent in England. Dr. Franklin had arranged for letters to be sent to him, not by post but by private hand, under cover to his brother, Mr. Alderman Lee. Franklin's Memoirs, ii. 42, and iii. 415.
He paid a visit to Appleby in Leicestershire and to Ashbourn. Ante, i. 82, 133 note 1. Oxford. July and August, about five weeks. Ante, i. 270, note 5. Oxford. July, length of visit not mentioned. Ante, i. 347. Lichfield. Winter, a visit of five days. Ante, i. 370. In the summer of this year his pension was granted, and he henceforth had the means of travelling. Ante, i. 372.
Alexander of Aphrodisias thinks the material intellect is only a capacity, i. e., a power in the soul, and appears when the soul enters the body, hence is not eternal a parte ante. Averroes holds that the possible intellect is a separate substance, and that the capacity is something it has by virtue of its being connected with the body as its subject.
"Madame Augustine was attacked in the night with cholera, and taken " He was unable to finish. Dagobert struck him a tremendous blow with his fist, right on the jaw, and, putting forth his still formidable strength, the old horse-grenadier lifted him to his legs, and with one violent kick bestowed on the lower part of his back, sent him rolling into the ante chamber.
The puncher instantly covered him with his long-barreled revolver and snapped tersely: "Hands up!" "My ante!" gasped the hunter. "A a road agent!" But he did not throw up his hands. With the rash bravery of inexperience, he dropped his knife and snatched out his automatic pistol. On the instant the puncher's big revolver roared. The pistol went spinning out of the hunter's hand.
It is never possible to return to the status quo ante bellum. It would not be possible for Great Britain to do it in 1763. Yet victory had its price and its problems.
Coming in due time and with a grateful heart to a small ante- chamber, he was told to sit down and wait. He sat down very promptly. In any other house he would have sauntered around, looking at the emblems, crests and shields that hung upon the walls. But now he sat and wondered. He wondered whether this could be William W. Blithers.
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