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We need not forget Nelson's complaint of paucity of frigates: but had the number attached to his fleet been doubled, the general disposition of vessels of the class then in commission would have been virtually unaltered. At the beginning of 1805, the year of Trafalgar, we had besides other classes 232 frigates and sloops in commission; at the beginning of 1806 we had 264.
In the dedication of this mighty edifice five thousand wild beasts were slain in the arena, the games lasting one hundred days. The first show of gladiators in Rome was one given by Marcus and Decius Brutus, on the occasion of the death of their father, 264 B.C. Three pairs of gladiators fought in this first contest.
The assailants were driven headlong from the redoubt and retreated, leaving behind them 637 of the French troops killed and wounded and 264 of the Americans.
Yoga, Hindoo idea, 397. Young, Brigham: Utah, 264, 268; on preexistence, 391. Young, Edward, influence in New England, 16, 17. Zola, Emile, offensive realism, 326. To From a painting by Sarah W. Whitman After an interval of more than fifty years, I propose taking a second look at some parts of Europe. It is a Rip Van Winkle experiment which I am promising myself.
Under the Homestead Act, the Government gave away land amounting to 2,400,000 acres before the close of the war. The Illinois Central alone sold to actual settlers 221,000 acres in 1863 and 264,000 in 1864. It was during the war, too, that the great undertaking of the transcontinental railway was begun, partly for military and partly for commercial reasons.
For details, see Letourneau, L'Évolution du commerce dans les diverses races humaines, Paris, 1897, especially pp. 264, 330, 354, 384, etc. This condition has been well-described by various novelists, among them Zola, in Money.
The second in merit, one Ramson, had strangled 608 people. The third, it is true, could only claim about 500, but he had reached this figure in thirty years, and had made a record of 25 murders in one year. Others had to their credit 377, 340 and 264 assassinations respectively, after which one dropped from these heights to figures of twenty, ten or even only five annual murders in honour of Kali.
At a later time, when cereals were cultivated, they formed an important part of sacrificial offerings, and were held as, for example, among the Greeks and the Hebrews to have piacular efficacy. +264+. Among the discoveries of the early period was that of the intoxicating quality of certain plants a quality that came to play a prominent rôle in religious life.
The majority of the vessels, although well armed, were out of date. 9000 officers and men were the extent of the personnel, and several useful craft, together with more than 1200 guns, were laid up in Norfolk dockyard, on the coast of Virginia, within a hundred miles of Richmond.* December 1, 1861: 264 ships in commission. December 1, 1862: 427 ships in commission.
Of what conditi-on soever, we Palliate seditions. His share of the present play presents many such cases. III. 3, seems also by Massinger. III. 4, is by Fletcher. On page 263 there is an unmistakable reminiscence of Henry VIII., Wolsey's "Farewell." On page 264 occurs, "At no part," one of the commonest Massingerisms; and a little lower down, Ever maintained The freedom I was born to.
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