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She looked upon it, and quivering her fingers in a manner which I thought very pretty, but of which I knew not whether it was art or play, multiplied the sum regularly in two lines, observing the decimal place; but did not add the two lines together, probably disdaining so easy an operation. Johnson's Works, ix. 161. 'Words gigantic. FRANCIS. Horace, Ars Poet.. 1. 97.

The golden mines have never since been explored, but remain among the mysteries of the Kaatskill mountains, and under the protection of the goblins which haunt them. New York Hist. Society, vol. i., p. 161.

At first in B.C. 173 it was only the Epicureans who were sent out, but in B.C. 161 the edict was broadened to include philosophers in general.

Measurements made on fifteen men and five women gave the following results: Height Men: Maximum 161.3 cm., minimum 145.1 cm., average 153.9 cm. Women: Maximum 152.3 cm., minimum 144.1 cm., average 146.8 cm. Cephalic index Men: Maximum 89.1, minimum 76.3, average 84.6. Women: Maximum 84.8, minimum 75.2, average 81.3. Length-height index Men: maximum 78.7, minimum 64.5, average 74.2.

His first play was produced in the year that Caecilius died, 166 B.C.; the Hecyra next year; the Hauton Timorumenos in 163; the Eunuchus and Phormio in 161; the Adelphoe in 160; and in the following year the poet died at the age of twenty-six, while sailing round the coast of Greece. The maturity of mind shown by so young a man is very remarkable.

Preparations were then made to attack the lower fort, but the garrison of 2000 men and upwards yielded without firing a gun. Of the British, 17 men were killed, and 22 officers and 161 men wounded. The French had 130 casualties; several of their officers were killed. Fully 2000 Tartars must have been killed and wounded.

Pitt's recent Union speech, which he designated "a paltry production." But again, a majority mustered, at the nod of the minister, 161 to 140 a few not fully committed showing some last faint spark of independence. It was on this occasion that Mr.

The expenditures of that Department for the year ending 30th June last were $9,060,268.58, The estimates for the year commencing 1st July next and ending June 30, 1853, are $7,898,775.83, showing a reductions of $1,161,492.75, The board of commissioners to whom the management of the affairs of the military asylum created by the act of 3d March last was intrusted have selected a site for the establishment of an asylum in the vicinity of this city, which has been approved by me subject to the production of a satisfactory title.

From the Vulgate. Luther is probably thinking of his own experience, when, near Erfurt, he came near bleeding to death from an injury to his ankle. See Köstlin-Kawerau, Martin Luther, I, 44. Luther no longer held this view of "satisfaction" in 1535. See also pp. 150 and 161. Luther is thinking here specifically of the Elector. He means the communion of saints. See next chapter. August 29th.

But there are some far-transported masses of granite and gneiss which are still larger, and which have been found to contain 50,000 and 60,000 cubic feet of stone; and one limestone block at Devens, near Bex, which has travelled 30 miles, contains 161,000 cubic feet, its angles being sharp and unworn.