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My work this winter has been very harassing, and I feel both tired and restless; for the next few months I shall probably be in Dakota, and I think I shall spend the next two or three years in making shooting trips, either in the Far West or in the Northern woods and there will be plenty of work to do writing.* * Douglas, 41-42.
There is an ancient legend which represents the Irish as giving three hundred wives to the Picts, on the condition that the succession to the crown should always be through their females “There were oathes imposed on them, By the stars, by the earth, That from the nobility of the mother Should always be the right to the sovereignty.” Giraud-Teulon, op. cit. pp. 41-42. Bede, II. 1-7.
The story of Jonathan's exploits against Michmash by Saul and his escape, I Sam. 14. The story of David's choice and anointing, I Sam. 16:1-13. The killing of Goliath and defeat of the Philistines. I Sam. Ch. 17. Story of Jonathan and David, I Sam. 18:1-4; 19:1-7; 20:1-4, 12-17, 41-42; 23:16-18. David's wanderings, 21:10-22-5.
Meditating over the condition of Ireland, a subject very frequently in his thoughts, and of the means to combat its vast and inveterate pauperism, Lord George was frequently in the habit of reverting to the years '41-42 in England, when there were fifteen hundred thousand persons on the parish rates; eighty-three thousand able-bodied men, actually confined within the walls of the workhouse, and more than four hundred thousand able-bodied men receiving out-door relief.
He who most believes in progress needs most to resist its temptations. James H. Snowden: Is the World Growing Better? pp. 41-42. Francis Turner Palgrave: Faith and Light in the Latter Days. George Hakewill: An Apologie of the Power and Providence of God in the Government of the World, or An Examination and Censure of the Common Errour Touching Natures Perpetuall and Universall Decay.
He then mentions the tribes that dwell on the Danube, eastward from the Decumates Agri: the Hermunduri, in whose country the Elbe has its source; the Narisci, Marcomanni and Quadi, 41-42. The Marcomanni hold the country which the Boii formerly possessed; and northward of them and the Quadi, chiefly on the mountains which run through Suevia, are the Marsigni, Gothini, Osi and Burii, 43.
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