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At page 246, speaking of Negroes met by him during a stroll which he took at Mandeville, Jamaica, he tells us: "The people had black faces; but even they had shaped their manners in the old English models. The women smiled and curtsied, and the children looked shy when one spoke to them.
As an indication of the estimate of the credit of Japan within her own territory as well as abroad, I may record the fact that the Exchequer Bonds which were issued in the country in 1904 and 1905 for the purpose of defraying the extraordinary expenses of the war were largely over-subscribed, the first issue to the extent of 452 per cent., the second 322 per cent., the third 246 per cent., and the fourth 490 per cent. a record surely!
General Wolfe, in his letter from Head-quarters on Sept. 2, 1759, eleven days before his death wrote: 'In this situation there is such a choice of difficulties that I own myself at a loss how to determine. Ann. Reg. 1759, p. 246. See ante, p. 89. See ante, ii. 169, note 2. The particulars are minuted in my Journal, but I shall not trouble the publick with them.
Authority and instruction are as necessary as in school; indeed, playgrounds are a supplement to the indoor education of American children. 246. =The City School.= The school is expected to be the foster-mother of every American child, whether native or adopted.
Siddons: 'You see, Madam, wherever you go there are no seats to be got. Sir Joshua also paid her a fine compliment. Siddons's portrait as the Tragic Muse, when he wrote his name upon the hem of her garment. "I could not lose," he said, "the honour this opportunity offered to me for my name going down to posterity on the hem of your garment." Northcote's Reynolds, i. 246.
If 54.4 lb. of coal is equal to 1,000 cubic feet of gas, then one ton, or 2,000 lb., is equal to 36,764 cubic feet, or 2,240 lb. of coal is equal to 40,768 cubic feet of natural gas. If we compare this gas with anthracite coal, we find that 1,000 cubic feet of gas is equal to 58.4 lb. of this coal, and 2,000 lb. of coal is equal to 34,246 cubic feet of natural gas.
It is for the convention to say whether it will hear them read. I have to state beforehand that it can hear nothing more repulsive nor better authenticated." De Martel, "Fouche, 246. In his speech to the people of Moulins-Engelbert, St. Pierre-le-Montier, and Nevers, Laplanche asked girls to surrender themselves and let modesty go.
Freeman's Growth of the English Constitution, c. i. Cont. Soc., III. xv. 140. See extract from his pamphlet, prefixed to M. Auguis's edition of the Social Contract, pp. xxiii, xxiv. Gouvernement de Pologne, v. 246. For each of the seventeen Intendances into which Comte divides France, is to be ruled by a chief, "always appointed and removed by the central power."
"Now, I think it quite reasonable to conclude, that, were there not another document in existence relative to this subject, the facts thus deduced from the census of England are fully sufficient to demonstrate the position, that the fecundity of human beings varies inversely as their numbers. How, I ask, can it be evaded?" What, we ask, is there to evade? Is 246 to 420 as 50 to 4000?
The flue of the Nile would require to be 35- 1/2 inches in diameter if made of the cylindrical form, and 47-3/4 feet long; the tubes of a locomotive if 1-3/8ths inch diameter would only require to be 22.19 inches long with the same velocity of draught; but as the draught is 11.11 times faster than in a flue boiler, the tubes ought to be 246.558 inches, or about 20-1/2 feet long according to this proportion.
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