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The king was too suspicious to sign the letter written in his name to the President of the French Republic. In all probability he was unwilling to let the President have his sign manual, for of course M. Carnot would have no hesitation in bewitching him by its means. Keightley, p. 121, quoting from Thiele; Thorpe, vol. iii. p. 155. Campbell, vol. iii. p. 403; Mac Innes, p. 211; Wratislaw, p. 314.
In my last annual message I stated: The Union Pacific Railway, main line, was sold under the decree of the United States court for the district of Nebraska on the 1st and 2d of November of this year. The amount due the Government consisted of the principal of the subsidy bonds, $27,236,512, and the accrued interest thereon, $31,211,711.75, making the total indebtedness $58,448,223.75.
There are eighteen stars of the first magnitude that are 211,000 times further from us than the sun is. If one of them should be extinguished it would be three years before we would see its light go out. There are six thousand stars of the sixth magnitude. It takes thirty-six years for the light of one of them to reach the earth.
It is estimated that 90 per cent of these deposits represent the savings of wage earners. The bank clearances for nine months ending September 30, 1891, amounted to $41,049,390,08. For the same months in 1892 they amounted to $45,189,601,947, an excess for the nine months of $4,140,211,139.
It is estimated that 90 per cent of these deposits represent the savings of wage earners. The bank clearances for nine months ending September 30, 1891, amounted to $41,049,390,08. For the same months in 1892 they amounted to $45,189,601,947, an excess for the nine months of $4,140,211,139.
This gives about 400 years for sixteen Patriarchs, which is possible, for these worthies were long-lived. Ind. Lit. II. i. p. 211. See B.E.F.E.O. 1911, p. 453. For Nâgârjuna see especially Grünwedel, Mythologie, pp. 29 ff. and the bibliography given in the notes. Jour. Budd. Text. Soc. V. part iv. pp. 7 ff. Watters, Yüan Chwang, pp. 200 ff. Târanâtha, chap. XV and Winternitz, Ges. Ind. Lit.
I remained five months with these people without once visiting my own home, only returning to it when the frost had killed the green I had left in May. In that time, it was estimated, we had housed, handled, and distributed $211,000 worth of supplies new and old for, by request of the weary chairman of the general committee, at the last, we took up the close of its distribution.
Quoted by Austin Dobson, Op. cit., 100. Dedication of The Fatal Secret. The Novelist's Magazine, XIII, 106. Quoted by W. Forsyth, Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century , 211. J.C. Dunlop, History of Prose Fiction, edited by H. Wilson, II, 568. Monthly Review, V, 393, October, 1751. Letters from the Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Everyman edition, 392.
A.E. Crawley, The Mystic Rose, pp. 273 et seq., Crawley brings into association with this function of great festivals the custom, found in some parts of the world, of exchanging wives at these times. See "The Analysis of the Sexual Impulse" in vol. iii of these Studies. G. Murray, Ancient Greek Literature, p. 211. R. Canudo, "Les Chorèges Français," Mercure de France, May 1, 1907, p. 180.
Under Marcus Antoninus, the Christians were treated harshly, but the tyrant Commodus protected them by his leniency. After a temporary period of persecution during the reign of Severus, the Christians enjoyed a calm from 211 to 249. The storms gathered again under Decius, and so vigorous was the persecution that the bishops of the most considerable cities were removed by exile or death.
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