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I., p. 117. The mask of official propriety worn over this pernicious intrigue, the disclaimers, the implications and mental reservations of which it was made up all became absurd in view of the results it produced. The President, indeed, explains that it was no pledge or agreement.
In The Rambler, No. 78, he says: 'I believe men may be generally observed to grow less tender as they advance in age. He passed over his own Life of Savage. 'When I was a young fellow, I wanted to write the Life of Dryden' Ante, iii. 71. See ante, p. 117.
They adjusted the limits of all their territories, mutually secured the interests of their vassals; and, to render the union more durable, John gave his niece, Blanche of Castile, in marriage to Prince Lewis, Philip's eldest son, and with her the baronies of Issoudun and Gracai, and other fiefs in Berri. Rymer, vol. i. p. 117, 118, 119. Hoveden, p. 814. Chron.
This defect has probably been remedied by Mr. Todd's enlargement of the Dictionary. Wooll's Life of Joseph Warton, p. 230. The writers, besides Smart, were Richard Holt, Garrick, and Dr. Percy. Their papers are signed with the initials of their surnames. Johnson's are marked by two asterisks. See Hawkins's Life of Johnson, p.351. Miss Seward's letters, vol. i. p. 117.
Much has already been done in this direction. In 1891 the power of turbines driven by the Falls of Neckar at Lauffen was transformed into electricity, and transmitted by a small wire to the Electrical Exhibition of Frankfort-on-the-Main, 117 miles away. The city of Rome is now lighted from the Falls of Tivoli, 16 miles distant.
"Elevation of the Colored Race," a memorial circulated in North Carolina, vol. xxxi., pp. 117 and 118. "A Lawyer for Liberia," a sketch of Garrison Draper, vol. xxxiv., pp. 26 and 27. Numerous articles on the religious instruction of the Negroes occur throughout the foregoing volumes. Information about the actual literary training of the colored people is given as news items.
The number classified as weak-minded at the end of the year was 117, but in addition there were 34 convicts attached to the parties of weak-minded for further mental observation.
Occasionally, during the following month, I dropped in at 117 Wall Street to inquire how the repairing and refurnishing of the vessel was coming on, how additions to the passenger list were averaging, how many people the committee were decreeing not "select" every day and banishing in sorrow and tribulation.
North Carolina enrolled, in 1886, 117,562 colored pupils, employed 2,016 teachers of the same race, paying them about the same as its white teachers, $23.38 per month. The colored school population of Tennessee numbers 158,450, of whom 84,624 are enrolled in her 1,563 common schools, which are taught by 1,621 teachers of the same nationality.
It was solely the fear of perpetuating British supremacy which has led Germany consistently to reject the extended hand of friendship. Standing side by side with Great Britain, either in friendship or alliance, Germany would have given her approval to Britain's historical position in the world. Berlin, 1915, p. 117.
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