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Constantine ordained, in the year 336, that if an engagement was broken by the death of one of the contracting parties and if the osculum had taken place, half of whatever donations had been given was to be handed over to the surviving party and half to the heirs of the deceased; but if the solemn osculum had not yet taken place, all gifts went to the heirs of the deceased.
One other event of this time has to be mentioned: the great persecution of Buddhism in 955, but not only because 30,336 temples and monasteries were secularized and only some 2,700 with 61,200 monks were left.
In 1750, M. Dunoyer makes the observation, and it may serve as a measure of all lucubrations of the same sort, "in 1750 the population of the duchy of Lancaster was 300,000 souls. In 1801, thanks to the development of spinning machines, this population was 672,000 souls. In 1831 it was 1,336,000 souls.
The increased revenue in 1869 exceeded the increased revenue in 1868 by $996,336, and the increased expenditure in 1869 was $2,527,570 less than the increased expenditure in 1868, showing by comparison this gratifying feature of improvement, that while the increase of expenditures over the increase of receipts in 1868 was $2,439,535, the increase of receipts over the increase of expenditures in 1869 was $1,084,371.
He lent him also the original journal of his Hebrides, and received in return a complimentary letter, which he in like manner published. Boswell's Hebrides, near the end. 'The landlord at Ellon said that he heard he was the greatest man in England, next to Lord Mansfield. Ante, ii. 336. See ante, under March 15, 1776, where Johnson says that 'truth is essential to a story. Johnson wrote to Mrs.
The average annual number of American suicides in June is 336 and in December 217. If we divide the year into halves and compare the figures of the semi-annual periods with those of Russia, the correspondence is almost startling.
Their next right was the dignity of the consulship, and led to the dictatorship. In 351 they secured the censorship, and in 336 the praetorship. Political distinctions now vanished. The possession of a share of the great offices created powerful families, and these were incorporated with the aristocracy.
The events of the years B.C. 336 and 335, the successes of Alexander in Thrace, Illyria, and Boeotia, woke him from his fool's paradise to some sense of the realities of the situation. In B.C. 335 the preparations for defence were resumed.
George, Napoleon's Invasion of Russia, p. 33. James, British Naval History, iv., 470-84. See above, p. 58. See Cambridge Modern History, vii., 336, 338. For details of the naval warfare of this year see James, British Naval History, vi., 115-202. Rose, Life of Napoleon I., ii., 372. For the importance of this flight of the Emperor Francis see Rose, Life of Napoleon I., ii., 418, 425.
It is stated in a report of the Commissioners appointed in 1832 to inquire concerning the employment of women and children in factories, that 'in the cotton-mill of Messrs Houldsworth, in Glasgow, a spinner employed on a mule of 336 spindles, and spinning cotton 120 hanks to the pound, produced in 1823, working 74-1/2 hours a week, 46 pounds of yarn, his net weekly wages for which amounted to 27s. 7d.
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