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"The Lord shall bring a nation against thee, a nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young, until he have destroyed thee." All these, with other similar threatenings of destruction, are contained in the twenty-eighth chapter of Deut. See verses 20-25, 45, 48, 51.
About the same date, "a deputation from the department of Gard expressly demands a sum of two hundred and fifty millions, as indemnity to the cultivator, for grain which it calls national property." Decree ordering the forced loan of a billion on the rich, May 20-25 Buchez et Roux, XXV., 156. Gorsas, "Courrier des Departements," No. for May I5, 1793. Cf.
How comforting it was in that veritable morass. Even as we chatted we were subjected to a heavy shrapnel attack, and the way we all scuttled to the trench huts was a sight for the gods. It was one mad scramble of laughing soldiers. Plunk plunk plunk came the shells, not 20-25 feet from where we were sitting by the fire. Six shells fell in our position, one failed to explode.
Hezekiah, 2 K. 18:1-20-21; 2 Chron. 29:1-32:33. Reigned 29 years and died. Manasseh, 2 K. 21:1-18; 2 Chron. 33:1-20. Reigned 55 year and died. Amon, 2 K. 21:19-26; 2 Chron. 33:20-25. Reigned 2 years and was slain by a conspiracy of his servants. Josiah, 2 K. 22:1-23; 2 Chron. 34:1-33:27. Reigned 31 years and was killed in battle. Jehoahaz. 2 K. 23:30-34; 2 Chron. 36:1-4.
QUI: quique might have been expected, but the words above, qui ... familiari, are regarded as parenthetical. OECONOMICUS: Cicero translates from this work c. 4, 20-25. INSCRIBITUR: see n. on 13. REGALE: 'worthy of a king'; different from regium, which would mean 'actually characteristic of kings'. Yet Cic. sometimes interchanges the words; thus regalis potestas in Har.
But McClellan still had 105,000 fairly trained soldiers, and there was no reason to doubt that a second Union army was forming near Alexandria. It was a critical moment. Meanwhile, Jackson's operations in the Shenandoah Valley had so startled and astounded the Federals that he was able to march, June 20-25, unobserved, over the passes of the Blue Ridge Mountains to Lee's assistance.
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