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The greatest results have been attained by England. Mr Müller of Bristol supports, in connexion with his famous Orphanage, 22 foreign and 80 home missionaries. The Moravian Missionary Society has sent, since 1732, 2000 missionaries, of whom 643 have died in mission service; 9 on mission journeys; 13 on the voyage out or home; 22 by shipwreck; and 12 were murdered.
He d. at Paris, Feb. 15, 1732, and was buried privately in Westminster Abbey.
This was the expulsion of the Jesuits, whose dangerous and destructive doctrines had been long a warrant for this salutary example to the Protestant states of Europe. In the year 1732 the United Provinces were threatened with imminent peril, which accident alone prevented from becoming fatal to their very existence.
The rising scale of prices for Pennsylvania lands, changing from ten pounds and two shillings quit-rents per hundred acres in 1719 to fifteen pounds ten shillings per hundred acres with a quit-rent of a halfpenny per acre in 1732, soon turned the eyes of the thrifty Scotch-Irish settlers southward and southwestward. In Maryland in 1738 lands were offered at five pounds sterling per hundred acres.
This was done according to the plan proposed by Lemaire in 1732 by slightly inclining the speculum so as to enable the image formed by it to be viewed with an eye-glass fixed at the upper margin of the tube. The observer thus stood with his back turned to the object he was engaged in scrutinising.
It was, I believe, in 1732, that I arrived at Chambery, as already related, and began my employment of registering land for the king.
After a few days, he examined the two pieces of canvass, detached the first by means of warm water, which left the whole painting upon the second as it was originally upon the wall. Contri was born at Ferrara about 1660, and died in 1732.
The first candidate for a new designation, in 1732, chose the name of the generous Charlestown clergyman, Harvard, for no appropriate local reason now discoverable. Six years later another body corporate imported the name Bolton. Two years passed and a third district sought across the ocean for its title Leominster.
This was the occasion of a destructive war, in the event of which the raja and his mantris were obliged to fly, and the country was nearly depopulated. In 1705 he was reinstated, and reigned till about 1732. But the kingdom never recovered the shock it had received, and dwindled into obscurity.
In 1732 Franklin began the publication of an almanac under the name of Richard Saunders, which he continued for twenty-five years, and which gained immense popularity as Poor Richard's Almanac. It was the flourishing time of such publications.
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