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The Confederate losses during the assault are not known. In Beall's brigade all the losses up to the 1st of June numbered 68 killed, 194 wounded, and 96 missing; together, 358; most of these must have been incurred on the 27th of May.

On the road from Guigue to the Llanos, by the table-land of La Villa de Cura, I found, to the south of the dividing ridge, and on its southern declivity, no point of level corresponding to the 182 toises, except near San Juan. The absolute height of this village is 194 toises.

We know that some of the stars are travelling about this central point of the heavens at a pace exceeding 194,000 miles an hour, or with nearly three times the rapidity of our earth in its orbit.

The combined war strength of the two States may be estimated as follows: In Germany there were drafted into the army, including volunteers and non-combatants, in 1892, 194,664 men; in 1909, 267,283 men; or on an average for seventeen years, 230,975 men annually. This gives a total of 3,926,575 men. If we estimate the natural decrease at 25 per cent., we have 2,944,931 trained men left.

The seven-thirty notes had disappeared from the financial statement, and the bonds authorized by the Act of March 3, 1865, amounted to $958,455,700. The rate of interest on the bonds still stood at six per cent, except on the old debt of 1858 and 1860, and upon $194,567,300 of the ten-forties issued under the Act of March 3, 1864.

County Folk-lore, vol. vi. East Riding of Yorkshire, collected and edited by Mrs. The Eve of St. Peter is June 28th. Bonfires have been lit elsewhere on the Eve or the day of St. Peter. See above, pp. 194 sq. 196 sq., and below, pp. 199 sq., 202, 207. J. Brand, op. cit. i. 305, quoting the author of the Comical Pilgrim's Pilgrimage into Ireland , p. 92. The Gentleman's Magazine, vol. lxv.

192 Woman, in your laughter you have the music of the fountain of life. 193 A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. 194 God loves man's lamp lights better than his own great stars. 195 This world is the world of wild storms kept tame with the music of beauty. 196 "My heart is like the golden casket of thy kiss," said the sunset cloud to the sun.

The sending of his own troops to the camp of Niger would have committed him irretrievably; but the actions of a vassal monarch might with some plausibility be disclaimed. As the struggle between the two pretenders progressed in the early months of A.D. 194, the nations beyond the Euphrates grew bolder, and allowed themselves to indulge their natural feelings of hostility towards the Romans.

Colloquies, i. 253. Colloquies, i. 171. Ibid. i. 178. Ibid. i. 169. Ibid. i. 167. Ibid. i. 170. Ibid. i. 194. Ibid. ii. 247. Colloquies, ii. 259. Ibid. i. 109. Ibid. ii. 105-7. Ibid. i. 106. Ibid. i. 47. Life and Correspondence, iv. 195; Selections, iii. 45. Colloquies, i. 62. Colloquies, i. 135. Ibid. ii. 147. Southey is here almost verbally following Burke's Reflections.

In my former visit I had been a successful hunter, and had always given the flesh to the natives; thus, as the road to a negro's heart is through his stomach, I knew that my absence must have been felt, and that the recollections of past times would be savoury and agreeable. I had with me a herd of 1,078 cows and 194 sheep.