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Again the initiative in courtship is taken by the woman, who chooses from her suitors the one whom she herself prefers. Duveyrier, Toûareg du Nord, p. 337 et seq. Chavanne, Die Sahara, pp. 181, 209, 234. It is interesting to note that the Targui women know how to read and write in greater numbers than the men.
The ordinary receipts into the general fund, excluding postal revenues, amounted to $701,372,374.99, and the disbursements from the general fund for current expenses and capital outlays, excluding postal and Panama Canal disbursements, including the interest on the public debt, amounted to $654,137,907-89, leaving a surplus Of $47,234,377.10.
'This, observes Lord Grey, 'owing to the extreme forbearance of Lord Elgin and his advisers, was the only life lost throughout these unhappy disturbances. Lord Grey's Colonial Policy, &c. i. 234. In 1858, however, this 'perambulating system' having proved expensive and inconvenient, the Queen was asked to designate a permanent abode for the Legislature.
Sheridan taking the chief part. He it was who, in admiration, repeated the passage to Johnson which provoked the parody. Murphy's Garrick, p. 234. 'Letters to Mrs. Thrale, vol. ii. p. 284. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 47.
"A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind," and it is an immense advantage to us in dealing with the criminal classes that many of our best Officers have themselves been in a prison cell. Our people, thank God, have never learnt to regard a prisoner as a mere convict A 234. He is ever a human being to them, who is to be cared for and looked after as a mother looks after her ailing child.
John's Day is a cure for diseases of the skin in Normandy, Périgord, and the Abruzzi, as well as in Spain. M. Longworth Dames and Mrs. See below, pp. 234 sqq. Adonis, Attis, Osiris, Second Edition, pp. 202 sq. G. Finamore, Credenze, Usi e Costumi Abruzzesi, pp. 158-160. We may compare the Provençal and Spanish customs of bathing and splashing water at Midsummer. See above, pp. 193 sq., 208.
Later it was found that Pashepaho and the others had signed away all the Sac and Fox lands east of the Mississippi River! That was how the treaty might be made to read. The payment for many millions of acres was $2,234.54 down, in goods, and $1,000 a year, in other goods. But there was one pleasing clause. As long as the United States held the land, the Sacs and Foxes might live and hunt there.
Perhaps the ocean steamer is nearest unity and easiest to measure, for any one might hire, in 1905, for a small sum of money, the use of 30,000 steam-horse-power to cross the ocean, and by halving this figure every ten years, he got back to 234 horse-power for 1835, which was accuracy enough for his purposes.
Were I a Baron of the Exchequer and you a Dean, how well could we pass some time there! Letters of Boswell, pp. 231, 234. To the rooms! and their only son dead three days over one month! 'That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two. Hamlet, act i. sc. 2. No doubt Mr. Burke. See ante, April 15, 1773, and under Oct. 1, 1774, note, and Boswell's Hebrides, Aug. 15.
On doubts being expressed as to the correctness of this method, they immediately proved that not only was the mean distance 234,347 miles, but that astronomers could not possibly be in error in their estimate by more than seventy miles either way.
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