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It was bought by the founder of the library from Jean Aymon, who stole it, together with eight other manuscripts, from the Bibliothique Royale in Paris, in 1707. It still bears on folio 2 its original press-mark. Another MS. in Lord Oxford's possession having been identified as one of these, was restored to its rightful owners in 1729.
Louis XV. had had several daughters, but only one son. That son, born in 1729, had been married at the age of fifteen to a Spanish infanta, who, within a year of her marriage, died in her confinement, and whom he replaced in a few months by a daughter of Augustus III., King of Saxony. His second wife bore him four sons and two daughters.
"I thought it might be what you wished me to see and went up to read the names." "Do not spare. Never fear. Let me hear the very words." "On one face of the block there was a name On the other side was this inscription: 'MARY, ONLY DAUGHTER OF GEORGE SEDHURST, ESQUIRE, AGED 19, DIED AUGUST 1st, 1729. Love is strong as Death. Sorrow not as others that have no Hope.
Houses shook and people feared. Rev. Mr. Hosmer, in a letter written to a friend in Boston in 1729, says that before white settlers appeared there was a large Indian population, that powwows were frequent, and that the natives "drove a prodigious trade at worshipping the devil."
On the last Sunday in November of the year 1729, the doctor went and preached a sermon in conformity with those purposes. 'But, says he, 'on the morning of that day an incident happened, which affected me greatly. On the night previous, it seems, he had been urged very importunately by his Northampton friends to undertake the vacant office.
Annapolis was founded about 1683; and Baltimore in 1729. The Dutch on the Hudson.% Meantime great things had been happening to the northward. In 1609 Henry Hudson, an English sailor in the service of Holland, was sent to find a northwest passage to India.
I infer from the fact that settlements were previously made on both sides, at Fredericksburgh on one side, and at New Milford on the other, at New Milford there was a Quaker Meeting established in 1729, fifteen years before Quaker Hill that the value of the lands in the Oblong was well advertised.
This resolution led to the Essay on Man, which appeared soon afterwards; and, with the exception of two labors, which occupied Pope in the interval between 1726 and 1729, the rest of his life may properly be described as dedicated to the further extension of that Essay.
He opened in Dublin a private academy, which succeeded beyond expectation. The publication of his Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue and his Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions brought him great fame, and in 1729 he was elected to the professorship of moral philosophy in the University of Glasgow.
Gray, however, found in 1729 that these bodies were conductors of electricity, and his discoveries and experiments were explained and described to the president of the Royal Society while on his death bed, and only a few hours before his death.
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