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Tremendous, again, were the labours of the Jesuit Fathers of Vienna, who boasted that they had cast out no less than 12,652 'living devils. Such arithmetical exactitude silences all hostile comment. In some parts of Scotland, as late as 1783, lunatics were left all night in the churchyard, with a holy bell over their heads. In Cornwall, St. Nun's pool was famous for the cure of lunatics.
Vol. ii., p. 74. Vol. i., p. 732. Vol. ii., p. 738. Vol. ii., p. 709; ii., p. 45; ii., 601. Vol. iii., p. 727; v. 7, 8. The women were remarkably active in defending the town. Thoresby's Leicester, 4to, p. 128. Hist. of Rebellion, edition 1712, vol. ii., p. 652. Vol. i., p. 661. Vol. iii., p. 357. Vol. iii., p. 113, 358. Vol. i., p. 726. Vol. i., p. 694.
But the king, her father, had so high an opinion of Tonbert one of the noblemen of his Court, who was alderman, or, as some render it, prince, of the South Girvii that he prevailed upon his daughter to be married to him, and the marriage took place in 652, two years before Anna's death.
Commander under Anthony, and conqueror of the Parthians in three battles, A.U.C. 715. He was raised from the lowest rank and the meanest employment, hence perhaps the expression, dejectus infra, humbled beneath Ventidius. Caius Marius almost annihilated the Cimbri at Aquae Sextiae, A.U.C. 652. Drusus.
An Italian attack launched at noon against the north slope was preceded by powerful artillery fire. It extended along the entire sector. During the afternoon it resulted many times in severe hand-to-hand fighting, which also raged during the night. Especially violent fighting occurred in the region of Hill 652.
* Townsend's Journals, p. 250. Stow's Annals. Strype, vol. i p 603. Birch's Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 422. * Birch's Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 511. Sir John Davis's Question concerning Impositions, passim v D'Ewes, p. 141. v* Rymer, tom, xv. p 652 708, 777.
He had excited a tumult against the conqueror of Numidia, Quintus Metellus, when he was a candidate for the censorship in 652, and kept him besieged in the Capitol till the equites liberated him not without bloodshed; the retaliatory measure of the censor Metellus the expulsion with infamy of Saturninus and of Glaucia from the senate on occasion of the revision of the senatorial roll had only miscarried through the remissness of the colleague assigned to Metellus.
Each time they were repulsed, and the Fochux bastion of Monte Cucco from Height 611 to Height 525 remained firmly in Italian hands. Moreover, the Italians made appreciable progress toward the important summit of Height 652, on the Vodice.
The sum of $290,436.90, included in the foregoing statement of expenditures, is chargeable to preceding years, so that the actual expenditures for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1878, are $33,874,647.59. The amount drawn from the Treasury on appropriations, in addition to the revenues of the Department, was $5,307,652.82.
He obeyed, after sending Colonel Weldon to the west with a detachment of four thousand men. The king, having effected his purpose with regard to Chester returned southwards: and in his way sat down before Leicester, a garrison of the parliaments. * Rush. vol. vii. p. 18, 19, etc. Rush, vol. vii. p. 28. * Clarendon, vol. v. p. 652.
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