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The expenditures for the same period were $5,212,953.43, leaving a balance of revenue over expenditures of $340,018.05. I am happy to find that the fiscal condition of the Department is such as to justify the Postmaster-General in recommending the reduction of our inland letter postage to 3 cents the single letter when prepaid and 5 cents when not prepaid.
They weigh 212 oz. 27 dwt., which is about L50, at 5s. per oz., and then they judge the fashion to be worth above 5s. per oz. more nay, some say 10s. an ounce the fashion. But I do not believe, but yet am sorry to see that the fashion is worth so much, and the silver come to no more. So home and to my office, where very busy late.
'It is natural, in traversing this gloom of desolation, to inquire, whether something may not be done to give nature a more cheerful face. Johnson's Works, ix. 136. Ante, p. 19. See ante, i. 521. See ante, p. 212.
It was found that if you put an infusion in which animalcules would appear if it were exposed to the air into a vessel and boiled it, and then sealed up the mouth of the vessel, so that no air, save such as had been heated to 212 deg., could reach its contents, that then no animalcules would be found; but if you took the same vessel and exposed the infusion to the air, then you would get animalcules.
This lapidation has sometimes been doubted, and treated as an invention of Rousseau's morbid suspicion. The fifth of the Rêveries. See also Conf., 262-279, and Corr., iv. 206-224. His stay in the island was from the second week in September down to the last in October, 1765. Corr., iv. 221. Oct. 20, 1765. Ib., iv. 136, etc. April 27, 1765. Streckeisen-Moultou, ii. 209, 212. Ib., ii. 554.
I want gladly to express my conviction that that symphony will fire men's courage and will live as long as a nation bears the name of France." See the Mémoires, II, 212, for the incredible emotion which the Marche de Rakoczy roused in the audience at Budapest, and, above all, for the astonishing scene at the end: "I saw a man enter unexpectedly.
It was found that if you put an infusion in which animalcules would appear if it were exposed to the air into a vessel and boiled it, and then sealed up the mouth of the vessel, so that no air, save such as had been heated to 212 degrees, could reach its contents, that then no animalcules would be found; but if you took the same vessel and exposed the infusion to the air, then you would get animalcules.
Rushworth, vol. i. p. 560, Parl. Hist. vol. viii. p. 111. The king accordingly came to the house of peers; sent for the commons; and, being seated in his chair of state, the petition was read to him. * State Trials, vol. vii. p. 199. Ruskworth, vol. i. p. 561. Parl Hist. vol. viii. p. 116. Whitlocke, p. 10. See note B, at the end of the volume. * State Trials, vol. vii. p. 212.
Thornycroft has for some years used the locomotive form of boiler for his steam launches, working them under an air pressure produced by a fan discharging into a close stokehold of from 1 in. to 6 in. of water, as may be required. The experiments made gave an evaporation of 7.61 lb. of water from 1 lb. of coal at 212 deg. Fahr., with 2 in. of water pressure, and 6.41 lb. with 6 in. of pressure.
See Elwin and Courthope's Pope, x. 212, for his correspondence with Pope. It may be observed, that I sometimes call my great friend, Mr. Johnson, sometimes Dr. Johnson: though he had at this time a doctor's degree from Trinity College, Dublin. The University of Oxford afterwards conferred it upon him by a diploma, in very honourable terms.
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