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The total S.A.T.C. enlistment was 2,727, of whom 2,151 were enrolled in the Army, and 586 in the Naval Training Corps; these were entered as regular students in the University, while 2,247 more in Section B, the army mechanics course, were not considered University students.
Two such portions are figured at pages 247 and 256 of Mr. Lowell's volume. The Oases.
Rush. vol. vi. p. 817. Upon application, therefore, of the servants and apprentices, the parliament appointed the second Tuesday of every month for play and recreation. Rush. vol. vii. p. 460. Whitlocke, p. 247. But these institutions they found great difficulty to execute: and the people were resolved to be merry when they themselves pleased, not when the parliament should prescribe it to them.
The money consisted of Spanish and Mexican dollars, a lot of silver bars and change fused into one mass, and some gold in the same state, also $247,000 in copper coin, which was regarded, under the old dispensation, good stuff to pay poor wages to poor men and women. There are some fine points about customs.
He was not only a sovereign of ability, but was also distinguished for his amiable qualities of mind, for his encouragement of the arts and commerce, and he was called the richest and most powerful monarch of his age. He was born in 309 B.C. and died in 247. The Greek poet THEOCRITUS, who lived much at his court, thus characterizes him: What is his character?
"N.B. In 1709 and 1710, a pestilence carried off 247,733 of the inhabitants of this country, and in 1736 and 1737, epidemics prevailed, which again checked its increase." It may be remarked, that the greatest proportion of births to burials, was in the five years after the great pestilence.
The Turks, too, had committed the fatal error of fighting upon a lee shore. Having no sea room, and being repelled in their first onset, many galleys were driven upon the rocks, to be destroyed with all their crews. De Thou's estimate is twenty-five thousand Turks killed, three thousand prisoners, and ten thousand Christians killed, vi. 247.
The proceedings of this court are printed in American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. pp. 477-497. Annals of Congress, 1811-12, p. 890. Dec. 17, 1811. American State Papers, Naval Affairs, vol. i. p. 247. Niles' Register, vol. ii. pp. 101-104. Russell to Monroe, May 30, 1812. U.S. State Department MSS. Russell to Monroe, August 15 and 21, 1812. U.S. State Department MSS.
John Bowman'. Cibber, in his Apology , speaks of 'Boman the late Actor of venerable Memory'. p. 234 half Pike. 'Now Hist. A small pike having a shaft of one half the length of the full-sized one. p. 245 Geometry. A colloquial term for magic. p. 247 a Sirreverence under your Girdle.
The pyre served the purpose of a burial-ground or grave, and hence our author writes of it as such. Under Maha-nana, Buddhaghosha wrote his commentaries. Both were great builders of viharas. See the Mahavansa, pp. 247, foll. See chapter xii. Fa-Hsien had seen it at Purushapura, which Eitel says was "the ancient capital of Gandhara." See chap. xii, note 9.
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