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The first memoir by that illustrious observer presented to the Royal Society of London and inserted in the Philosophical Transactions treats precisely of the changes of intensity of the star o in the neck of the Whale. This memoir was still dated from Bath, May, 1780.
Our pepper settlements to the northward of Fort Marlborough, from Moco-moco to Laye inclusive, export each a small quantity, but from thence southward to Kroi supplies are required for the subsistence of the inhabitants, the price varying from twelve to four bamboos according to the season. This has reference to the period between 1770 and 1780 generally.
The presents were delivered at Aukpaque by James White and the masts were brought safely to Fort Howe. The first cargo of masts arrived at Halifax on 22nd November, 1780, in one of the navy transports. Among the James White papers is the following: "Aupahag, 26th June, 1780. "Received from James White, Esq., agent to Indians, River St.
Let an invading power send a naval force into the Chesapeake to keep Virginia in alarm, and attack South Carolina with such a naval and military force as Sir Henry Clinton brought here in 1780, and though they might not soon conquer us, they would certainly do us an infinite deal of mischief; and if they considerably increased their numbers, we should probably fall.
This was a common sentiment with all old ladies, who barely tolerated moustaches: "Gentlemen did not wear them in 1780," they would say.
In 1780, in a new constitution drawn up by James Bowdoin and the two Adamses, Massachusetts led the way in the construction of a more efficient executive department. The president was replaced by a governor elected annually by the people, and endowed with the power of appointment and a suspensory veto. The first governor elected under this constitution was John Hancock.
The history of religions is an education of the human race through divine revelation; so teaches his small but thoughtful treatise of 1780. And as the teacher does not impart everything to the pupil at once, but considers the state of development reached by him at each given period, so God in his revelation observes a certain order and measure.
Christopher Burley and I stood behind his chair looking over his shoulders, as he turned the faded, musty-smelling leaves one by one. The law clerk's cheeks were slightly flushed, and a rapt and expectant expression was on his face. "1780," muttered the factor "'83 '85 '87 was that the year?" "He left England in the year 1787," Christopher Burley replied eagerly, "in the month of June.
This fact explains a certain preoccupation of the British mind with questions remote from theological reconstruction or religious speculation. It may now sound like a contradiction if we assert that the years from 1780 to 1830 constitute the era of the noblest English poetry since the times of great Elizabeth.
They first represented the conduct of Hastings in 1780 and 1781 as so highly meritorious that, like works of supererogation in the Catholic theology, it ought to be efficacious for the cancelling of former offences; and they then prosecuted him for his conduct in 1780 and 1781.
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