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Refunding operations of the Treasury Department under the act of March 14, 1900, resulted in the conversion into two per cent consols of 1930 of $200,309,400 bonds bearing higher rates of interest. A decrease of $8,687,956 in the annual interest charge resulted from these operations.
The first period of it extended from A.D. 309 to A.D. 337, or a space of twenty-eight years. This was the time anterior to Sapor's wars with the Romans. It included the sixteen years of his minority and a space of twelve years during which he waged successful wars with the Arabs. The minority of Sapor was a period of severe trial to Persia.
And now, when by the benignant effect of time the present Royal Family are established in our affections, how unwise it is to revive by celebrations the memory of a shock, which it would surely have been better that our constitution had not required. BOSWELL. See ante, iii. 3, and iv. 40, note 4. Johnson reviewed this book in 1756. Ante, i. 309. Johnson, four months later, wrote to one of Mrs.
Strabo, Geog., lib. i. Maurice, Indian Antiquities, vol. ii. p. 297. Div. Leg., vol. i. b. ii. § iv. p. 193, 10th Lond. edit. The hidden doctrines of the unity of the Deity and the immortality of the soul were taught originally in all the Mysteries, even those of Cupid and Bacchus. WARBURTON, apud Spence's Anecdotes, p. 309. Isoc. Paneg., p. 59. Apud Arrian. Dissert., lib. iii. c. xxi. Phaedo.
Having described the vast concourse of people that flocked forth to greet their new Sovereign on his approach to the metropolis, honest John says "After our breakfast at Edmonton at the sign of the Bell, we took occasion to note how many would come down in the next hour, so coming up into a chamber next to the street, where we might both best see, and likewise take notice of all passengers, we called for an hour-glass, and after we had disposed of ourselves who should take the number of the horse, and who the foot, we turned the hour-glass, which before it was half run out, we could not possibly truly number them, they came so exceedingly fast; but there we broke off, and made our account of 309 horses, and 137 footmen, which course continued that day from four o'clock in the morning till three o'clock in the afternoon, and the day before also, as the host of the house told us, without intermission."
Origin of Species, Chap. Life and Letters. Thoughts on Religion, pp. 92, f. p. 94. Life and Letters, I., p. 309. Address by Sir Frederick Treves at the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution, October, 1905. p. 380. p. 377. p. 381. p. 375. p. 383. p. 377.
In the year ending September 1, 1837, the slave arrests, numbering 768 in all, were followed in 138 cases by prompt magisterial discharge, by fines in 309 cases, and by punishment in the workhouse or by remandment for trial on criminal charges in 264 of the remainder.
An air cylinder 18" in diameter filled with free air once every half second, and at each stroke compressing the air to 60 pounds, and thereby producing 309 degrees of heat, is thus, by means of water injection, cooled to an extent hardly possible with mere surface contact. The specific heat of water being about four times that of air, it readily takes up the heat of compression.
The importation of coals has increased from 230,000 tons in 1783, to 417,030 in 1804; of tobacco, from 3,459,861 lbs. in 1783, to 6,611,543 in 1804; of tea, from 1,703,855 lbs. in 1783, to 3,358,256 in 1804; of sugar, from 143,117 cwts. in 1782, to 309,076 in 1804.
Eclectic Review, Dec., 1839. Gibbon. Alison on Population, vol. i. p. 309, etc. Vol. i., p. 66, note. Alison, ch. xx., § 28. The Pope and the Turk. And now, having dwelt upon the broad contrast which exists between Christendom and Turkey, I proceed to give you some general idea of the Ottoman Turks, who are at present in power, as I have already sketched the history of the Seljukian.
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