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In the charge, the column, including Birge's sharpshooters, but excluding the Fifty-second Indiana, lost 61 killed and 321 wounded; of these, the Second Iowa lost 41 killed and 157 wounded. General Smith, though sixty years old, spent the night without shelter, on the captured ridge.
He observed with a smile that his room number was 157. "The idea of living in a huge hotel and calling it a home!" he mused, with grim humour. "Room 157; great Scott!" His hostess showed him first the library. The magnificent room contained more than forty thousand volumes, bound in hand-tooled morocco.
As a proof that it could not well be otherwise, let us look to a return, which was presented to the House of Commons, of the number of officers in the British army in the pay of John, which return was as follows: Field Marshals, 5 Generals, 81 Lieutenant Generals, 157 Major Generals, 221 Colonels, 152 Lieutenant-Colonels, 618 Majors, 612 Captains, 2960 Lieutenants, 4725 Ensigns, 2522 amounting in the whole to the enormous number of TWELVE THOUSAND AND FIFTY-FOUR officers!
The receipts into the Treasury during the same year were $29,769,133.56, of which there were derived from customs $27,528,122.70, from sales of public lands $2,077,022.30, and from incidental and miscellaneous sources $163,998.56. The expenditures for the same period were $29,968,206.98, of which $8,588,157.62 were applied to the payment of the public debt.
During his brother's long imprisonment in the Tower, Sir Carew Raleigh was living in prosperity at Dounton. * Stebbing, Sir Walter Raleigh, p. 157. * Ibid, p. 248. Atheists did not as a sect entirely disappear from England after the execution of their scapegoat, but they do not seem to have been further molested for their opinions.
This engine, exhibited at South Kensington by Fielding and Platt, of Gloucester, consists virtually of a universal joint connecting two shafts whose axes form an obtuse angle of about 157 degrees. It has four cylinders, two being mounted on a chair coupling on each shaft.
Justice Jackson said it was "such as no free and enlightened people can ever possibly sanction or approve." The comments of law journals were also severe, and on the whole, the criticism of legal experts was more outspoken than that of the politicians. * Pollock vs. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, 157 U.S. 429. Springer vs. United States, 102 U.S. 586.
Then take from the sixth volume, page 152, the passage beginning 'Within the soul' down to page 153 at 'despair, and again at page 155 beginning with I have seen A curious child, &c. down to page 157 to the end of the paragraph.
Arbuthnot wrote The History of John Bull. Boswell in three other places so describes Johnson. See ante, i.129, note 3. See ante, i.467. 'All nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues. Rev. vii.9. See ante, ii. 376 In Cockburn's Life of Jeffrey, i.157, there is a description of Edinburgh, towards the close of the century, 'the last purely Scotch age that Scotland was destined to see.
Injunctions ... of ... Bishop of Durham, 18, 84, 99; Visitations of Canterbury, in Arch. Cant., XXVI; Hale, Precedents, 1475-1640, 147, etc. Arch. Cant., XXVI, passim; Hale, op. cit., 147, 148, 163, 185; Mrs. See Hale, op. cit., 148, 157. Hale, op. cit., 148; Depositions ... from the Court of Durham, 99; Arch. Cant., XXVI, 21. Hale, op. cit., 148, 185. Ibid., 157.
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