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Bentham, however, had been favourably noticed in the Hermes for 1822, and his merits since acknowledged by Mittermaier and Warnkönig in the Zeitschrift für Rechtswissenschaft. A great mass of Bentham MSS. belongs to University College, London. They are contained in 148 boxes, which were examined and catalogued by Mr. T. Whittaker in 1892.
It is curious that to this latent suspicion has been traced the origin of a custom universal amongst the natives, of nipping off with the thumb nail the thick end of the stem before chewing the betel. Tail compressed; fingers long; nostrils near the extremity of the snout. A black band on each temple; round yellow spots disposed in transverse series on the back. Ch. xxiv. p. 148.
This led, B.C. 220, to a war with Rhodes, instigated by aggrieved merchants in different parts of the world, the result of which was that the Byzantines levied no more tribute on ships. By treaty, B.C. 148, Byzantium entered into relations with Rome, then engaged in eastern wars, and from that time the Byzantines sought Roman favor, and long maintained an alliance with the empire.
It has 7,148 marble statues, and will have upwards of three thousand more when it is finished. In addition it has one thousand five hundred bas-reliefs. It has one hundred and thirty-six spires twenty-one more are to be added. Each spire is surmounted by a statue six and a half feet high.
The mineral output can also point to an undreamed-of extension in Germany during the last thirty years. The amount of coal raised amounted in 1879 to only 42 million tons; up to 1908 it has increased to 148 1/2 million tons, and in value from 100 million to 1 1/2 milliard marks.
Cited in Frothingham, 181. Oxenbridge Thacher. Works of John Adams, x. 287. Frothingham, 181. Cited by Sparks, in Everett, Life of Henry, 396. Frothingham, Rise of the Republic, 181. Daniel Leonard, in Novanglus and Massachusettensis, 147, 148.
In 1858, when the government was transferred from the East India Company to the crown, there were only 2,000 public schools in all India, with less than 200,000 pupils, and even now with a population of 300,000,000 there are only 148,541 institutions of learning of all kinds, including kindergartens and universities, with a grand total of 4,530,412 pupils.
Louisbourg, on Cape Breton, was fortified by the French, after the peace of Utrecht, at an expense of $5,500,000. The fortifications consisted of a rampart of stone, nearly 36 feet in height, and a ditch eighty feet wide. There were six bastions, and three batteries, with embrasures for 148 cannon and 6 mortars.
Goethe: called Mr., 31; dead, 63; Clarke's essay, 79; generalizations, 148; influence, 150; on Spinoza, 174, 175; rank as a poet, 202, 320; lovers, 226; rare union, 324; his books read, 380, 381; times quoted, 382. Goldsmith, Oliver, his Vicar of Wakefield, 9, 10, 15. Good, the study of, 301. Goodwin, H.B., Concord minister, 56. Gould, Master of Latin School, 39. Gould, Thomas R., sculptor, 68.
Every part of man, both interior and exterior, renews itself, and this is effected by solutions and reparations, 171. RENUNCIATION of whoredoms, whence exists the chastity of marriage, how it is effected, 148. REPASTS. In heaven, as in the world, there are repasts, 6. REPRESENTATIONS. Among the ancients the study of their bodily senses consisted in representations of truths in forms, 76.
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