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The important fact is that the second major period, called the Palæozoic, or "age of ancient animals," saw the evolution of the lowest members of the series, the invertebrates, and the most primitive of the backboned animals, like fishes and amphibia. The rocks of this long age include about 106,000 feet of strata, demanding some 21,000,000 or 22,000,000 years for their deposition.
As it happened, Polk had a plurality in New York of but 5,106 in an immense vote, and that slim plurality was given to him by the Abolitionists throwing away some 15,000 on Birney. And thus also it curiously happened that it was the Abolition vote which secured the election of the candidate who favored immediate annexation and the extension of the Slave Power!
Mickle, speaking in the third person as the Translator, says: 'He is happy to be enabled to add Dr. Johnson to the number of those whose kindness for the man, and good wishes for the Translation, call for his sincerest gratitude. Mickle's Lusiad, p. ccxxv. A brief record, it should seem, is given, ante, iii. 37. See ante, iii. 106, 214.
Nothing was allowed for 179 mink skins, worth each.40 22 raccoon, worth each.40 28 lynx, worth each 2.00 18 fox, worth each 1.00 106 fox, worth each 1.50 71 black bear, worth each 4.00 16 grizzly bear, worth each 10.00 Arrival of a Strange Sail. Agitation at Astoria. Warlike Offer of Comcomly. Astoria Taken Possession of by the British. Indignation of Comcomly at the Conduct of His Son- in-Law.
I now come to the amount alleged to have been received from the Junta of Maranham, viz. 217,659 dollars, "at different times," which I have no doubt is perfectly correct, though that portion of it under the title of "indemnification for prizes" is incorrect, the amount being 106,000 dollars minus the discount, and not 108,736 dollars as represented. The difference is not, however, worth notice.
This step roused some opposition and many communications upon the subject appeared in the newspapers, which were afterwards collected in pamphlet form. The students soon became numerous and the institution grew to such an extent that, in January, 1805, it was chartered as St. Mary's University. On August 13, 1806, the first class was graduated; in that year there were 106 students.
Cicero was born in 106 B.C., the year of the final conquest of Jugurtha, and the year before the terrible Cimbrian disaster at Orange: he perished in the proscription of the triumvirate in December, 43 B.C. His first appearance in public life was during the dictatorship of Sulla; and either from this date, or from one ten years later when the Sullan constitution was re-established in a modified form by Pompeius and Crassus in their first consulate, the Ciceronian age extends over a space which approximates in the one case to thirty, in the other to forty years.
Judson sickened with violent fever, and the governor permitted him to be removed into a little bamboo room, six feet long and four wide, where his wife was allowed to visit him and bring him food and medicine, she meantime living in a bamboo house in the governor's compound, where the thermometer rose daily to 106 degrees, but where she thought herself happy as she saw her husband begin to recover.
I am sorry to intrude upon you, trouble you. Can you tell me, madam ? Do you know your opposite neighbour; a young man who lives at No. 106 there?" Every woman is an actress; every woman will show fight for the thing she is protecting, whether it be a man or a dog.
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