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So far they had been fairly successful, but the next move on their side was a blunder and worse. When the Sardican envoys, Vincent of Capua and Euphrates of Cologne, came eastward in the spring of 344, a harlot was brought one night into their lodgings. Great was the scandal when the plot was traced up to the Eusebian leader, Stephen of Antioch.
Such a combination, they knew, if not checked in its first appearance, must be attended with the most dangerous consequences, and must soon exalt the military above the civil authority. * Parl. Hist. vol. xv. p. 342 Parl. Hist vol. xv. p. 344. This declaration, which may be deemed violent, especially as the army had some ground for complaint, produced fatal effects.
I am a king, and can procure them for you at your pleasure; and what will certainly never happen to you in respect of your enemies, I will cease to persecute you as soon as you cease to take a pride in being persecuted. Your good friend, FREDERICK." Corr., iv. 313, 343, 388, 398. Ib. 395. Ib. 389, etc. Ib. 384. Ib. 343, 344, 387, etc. Corr., iv. 346. Ib. 390.
Parker, Life of Sir Robert Peel, iii. pp. 382-3. Stanley to Metcalfe, 18 June, 1845. Gladstone to Cathcart, 3 February, 1846. Gladstone's speech in Hansard, 14 June, 1849. Parker, Life of Sir Robert Peel, iii. p. 389. Hansard, 4 March, 1853. Memoirs of an Ex-Minister, i. p. 344: Disraeli to Malmesbury, 13 August, 1852. The Speeches of the Earl of Beaconsfield, ii. p. 530. Hansard, 9 March, 1876.
When I have bled to-morrow, I will not give up Langton nor Paradise. But I beg that you will fetch me away on Friday. I do not know but clearer air may do me good; but whether the air be clear or dark, let me come to you. Piozzi Letters, i. 344. See post, Sept. 16, 1777, note. See ante, i. 411, and Boswell's Hebrides, Aug. 24, 1773. Johnson tried in vain to buy this book at Aberdeen. Ib. Aug. 23.
It is written in a clear hand upon small quarto paper, and bound in two volumes. On the fly-leaf of the first volume is written "Aug. 7. 1732, Jo. Drummond." See also Burnet's "History of My Own Time," ii. 553; Dalrymple's "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland," i. 344; Burton's "History of Scotland," vii. 360; Napier's "Memorials of Viscount Dundee," i. 16-32, and 178-9.
I doubt whether I shall get fees equal to the expense. Ib. p. 335. 'Nov. 22, 1791. I keep chambers open in the Temple, I attend in Westminster Hall, but there is not the least prospect of my having business. Ib. p. 344. His chambers, as he wrote to Malone, were 'in the very staircase where Johnson lived. Croker's Boswell, p. 830. Sunday was the 21st.
In the same period of one week the prisoners taken by the French First Army amounted to 8,500, making a total of 30,344 Germans captured in the operations of the Allied armies on the Montdidier-Albert front, besides 700 heavy guns, quantities of machine guns, and other important spoils of war.
The aggregate traffic on our railroads for the year 1891 amounted to 704,398,609 tons of freight, compared with 691,344,437 tons in 1890, an increase of 13,054,172 tons.
In the morning a light breeze sprung up Southerly, with which we steer'd North-West; at noon we were by Observation in Latitude 33 degrees 30 minutes South. Wednesday, 17th. Fresh breezes and fair weather, with a swell from the South-West. Wind Southerly; course North 50 degrees West; distance 118 miles; latitude 32 degrees 14 minutes South, longitude 344 degrees 8 minutes West. Thursday, 18th.
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