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In the grim and crowded gallery of the personages of an Irish Epic, such an intruder is like the thin piping note of a tiny bird mid the carnage and shouts and roars of a battle-field. Everybody knows the result of the division: for the Bill, 41; against, 419; majority, 378. It was a conclusion that was foregone, but the Lords themselves recognized the comic futility of it.
The great event of the reign of Valens was the irruption of the Huns into Europe, and the consequent invasion of the Goths, by whom Valens was defeated and slain in 378. In 476, after successive invasions of barbarians had disorganized the western part of the Empire, the line of phantom emperors at Rome came to an end.
In the battle of Adrianople, August 9, 378, the Roman army was defeated, and in the retreat Valens was killed. The Visigoths pressed on, ravaging the country even to the foot of the walls of Constantinople, and the doom of the empire seemed to be at hand.
There was no change, and as I got into the train I had become that rarest and ultimate kind of traveller, the man without any money whatsoever without passport, without letters, without food or wine; it would be interesting to see what would follow if the train broke down. I had marched 378 miles and some three furlongs, or thereabouts.
It became notified to Reddypalm with sufficient clearness that his bill for the past election should be paid without further question; and, therefore, at five o'clock the Mayor of Barchester proclaimed the results of the contest in the following figures: Scatcherd 378 Moffat 376 Mr Reddypalm's two votes had decided the question.
Two or three years later Sir William married the Bishop's daughter. Life of Sir W Jones, pp.240, 279. No. 2. See vol. i p. 378. Northcote, according to Hazlitt, said of this character with some truth, that 'it was like one of Kneller's portraits it would do for anybody. Northcote's Conversations, p.86. See post, p.98. London Chronicle, May 2, 1769.
In these regulations an ORDER embraces instructions or directions given orally or in writing in terms suited to the particular occasion and not prescribed herein. ORDERS are employed only when the COMMANDS prescribed herein do not sufficiently indicate the will of the commander. ORDERS are more fully described in paragraphs 378 to 383, inclusive.
Mendana's fleet consisted of three large vessels and a frigate, and, since it was intended to settle a colony, many took their wives with them, among the emigrants being Mariana, the wife of Lope de Vega, who commanded the "Santa Isabel". The total number of men in the fleet was 378, of whom 280 were soldiers.
For instance, in 1786 the San Andres, which had a cargo on board valued at a couple of millions, found no market for it in Acapulco; the same thing happened in 1787 to the San Jose, and a second time in 1789 to the San Andres. In 1855 its population consisted of 586 European Spaniards, 1,378 Creoles, 6,323 Malay Filipinos and mestizos, 332 Chinamen, 2 Hamburgers, 1 Portuguese, and 1 Negro.
On this same wall are a varied series of Chardin's studies of still life; a poor replica, 93, of his Grace before Meat; 104, The Ape as Painter, and other similar homely subjects. Here also are two historical revolutionary portraits by Greuze: 378, The Girondin, Gensonné, and 379, the Poet-Deputy, Fabre d'Eglantine.
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