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He had not only been elected President, but the Democratic party had also recovered its control of Congress. The presiding officer of each branch was a Southerner. Out of 64 members of the Senate, 39 were Democrats, 20 Republicans, and five Americans or Know-Nothings. Of the 237 members of the House, 131 were Democrats, 92 Republicans, and 14 Americans.
I will myself furnish you, as far as it may be in my power, with opportunities of gaining the esteem of your country." He fought as a mere adventurer, and took sides from a calculation of personal gain, and chances of plunder and advancement." Sabine's "American Loyalists," p. 131.
The Second Army, under the command of Prince Frederick Charles, was 131,000 strong, and constituted the central army. It consisted of the IIId, IVth, and Xth Corps of Guards, and two divisions of cavalry. Its meeting-point was in the vicinity of Homburg and Neunkirchen.
Joseph Boehm, the noted violinist, then in his twenty-eighth year, rehearsed this fugue under Beethoven's direction, and often played the violin part subsequently. The great C sharp minor Quartet opus 131, is the next one to claim our attention. Beethoven characterized it as a piece of work worthy of him. This colossal work was one which Wagner continually held up for the commendation of mankind.
Between them is a Tintoretto, No. 131, Vincenzo Zeino, one of his ruddy old men, with a glimpse of Venice, under an angry sky, through the window.
Acres For the quarter ending 30th September, 1852, there were sold 243,255 Located with bounty-land warrants 1,387,116 Located with other certificates 15,649 Reported under swamp-land grants 2,485,233 Making an aggregate for the quarter of 4,131,253
"Wherefore," he concluded, "I cannot undertake this government with that title of king, and this is mine answer to this great and weighty business." Thus ended the mighty farce which for more than two months held in suspense the hopes and fears of three nations. But the friends of Cromwell resumed the subject in parliament. Journals, April 21-May 12. Parl. Hist. iii. 1498-1502. Ludlow, ii. 131.
Pitt. D'Israeli. I do not know whether they are of sufficient importance to mention them in the House; but this I know, that I then held in the same estimation the panegyric with which I now regard the attack." Memoirs by Sir Robert Peel, part 3, page 113. Sir Robert Peel's Memoirs, part 3, page 119. Ibid. Memoirs, part 3, page 121. Quarterly Review, Sept. 1846 Memoirs, part 3, page 131.
Even his admirer, Swinton, says that any possible course would have been better than inaction. Army of Potomac, 140, 141. The Peninsula, 188. Swinton seems to regard it in the same light. Army of Potomac, 147. Gaines's Mill, contested with superb courage and constancy by the Fifth Corps, under Porter, against very heavy odds. McClellan's Report, 131, 132.
Today the schools number 7,147, the officers and teachers 131,145, and there are in the schools 965,201 children and young people. The formation in 1869 of the Circuit Sunday-school Union, and in 1874 of the Connexional Sunday-school Union, has done much for the schools, in providing suitable literature for teachers and scholars, and in organising their work.
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