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In the year B.C. 707 a disputed succession gave him an opportunity of interference in Illib, a small country bordering on Susiana. Nibi, one of the two pretenders to the throne, had applied for aid to Sutruk-Nakhunta, king of Elam, who held his court at Susa, and had received the promise of his favor and protection.
Brompton, p. 1062. Gervase, p. 1408. Epist. St. Thom. p. 704, 705, 706, 707, 792, 793, 794. Benedict. But the king attained not even that temporary tranquillity which he had hoped to reap from these expedients.
This Alexandrian insurrection, insignificant as it was in itself and slight as was its intrinsic connection with the events of importance in the world's history which took place at the same time in the Roman state, had nevertheless so far a momentous influence on them that it compelled the man, who was all in all and without whom nothing could be despatched and nothing could be solved, to leave his proper tasks in abeyance from October 706 up to March 707 in order to fight along with Jews and Bedouins against a city rabble.
John to its mouth contained 707 square miles less, or 9,998 square miles. The difference at the time was probably believed to be insensible. The first alternative was, however, rejected by Great Britain, and obviously on grounds connected with a difference in supposed advantage between the two propositions.
This morning the pilot told Columbus that they were 588 leagues to the west of Ferro; but the admiral answered that they were only 584, though his reckoning was actually 707.
Do., p. 808. Do., p. 478. Do., p. 506. Do., p. 474. Do., p. 549. Do., p. 471. Do., pp. 435, 467, 602. Do., pp. 405, 707. Do., p. 808. Do., p. 677. Do., pp. 463, 467. Do., p. 684. Do., p. 435. Do., pp. 468, 546. Do., p. 470. Jefferson MSS. Dep. of Wm. Robinson, February 28, 1800, and letter from Harry Innes, March 2, 1799, with a copy of Logan's letter as made in his note-book at the time. "Am.
Frothingham's "Siege," 126, and Sabine's "Loyalists," 707. Reports vary from eighty to three hundred feet. Dearborn's account of the battle, Historical Magazine for 1864. Bancroft, v, 612. Ross's "Life of Cornwallis," quoted in Fonblanque's "Burgoyne," 159. The picturesqueness of this scene has been remarked by many writers. The best contemporary description is, of course, Burgoyne's.
Such is the practical effect of the Union, of that suicidal act of the Irish Parliament which yielded up in a moment of treachery and terror the dearest interests of the country to the legislation of an English Parliament and the tender mercies of Castlereagh, of that Castlereagh who, when accused by Grattan of spending L15,000 in purchasing votes for the Union, replied with the rare audacity of high-handed iniquity, "We did spend L15,000, and we would have spent L15,000,000 if necessary to carry the Union; "that Castlereagh who, when 707,000 Irishmen petitioned against the Union and 300,000 for it, maintained that the latter constituted the majority!
Some make love their theme; some deal with sorrow; some are allegorical; some draw their inspiration from nature's beauties, and some have miscellaneous motives. To the same century the eighth as the Manyo-shu, belongs the Kiraifu-so, & volume containing 120 poems in Chinese style, composed by sixty-four poets during the reigns of Temmu, Jito, and Mommu, that is to say, between 673 and 707.
From internal revenue 124,009,373.92 From sales of public lands 1,016,506.60 From tax on circulation and deposits of national banks 7,014,971.44 From repayment of interest by Pacific Railway companies 1,707,367.18 From sinking fund for Pacific Railway companies 786,621.22 From customs fees, fines, penalties, etc 1,148,800.16 From fees-consular, letters patent, and lands 2,337,029.00
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