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On April 19, he wrote: 'I can apply better to books than I could in some more vigorous parts of my life at least than I did; and I have one more reason for reading that time has, by taking away my companions, left me less opportunity of conversation. Croker's Boswell, p. 727. He told Mr. Windham that he had never read the Odyssey through in the original. Windham's Diary, p. 17.
Two hundred thousand dollars a year is what it came to in round numbers. He figured it as a rather handsome salary, more than he could earn at anything else. Of course, if it should happen to be but twelve years, the remuneration, so to speak, would be $250,000; eleven years $272,727 and a fraction; ten years $300,000; nine well, he even figured it down to the unlikely term of two years.
In the British army, from 1793 to 1815, including twenty-one years of war, and excluding 1802, the year of peace, the number of officers varied from 3,576 in the first year to 13,248 in 1813, and the men varied from 74,500 in 1793 to 276,000 in 1813, making an annual average of 9,078 officers and 189,200 men, and equal to 199,727 officers and 4,168,500 men serving one year.
At that period in the middle of the ninth century there was nothing but the church and shrine no palace and no hospital. One other humble building of some sort, "called Burgus Saxonum, Vicus Saxonum, Schola Saxonum, and simply Saxia or Sassia," it is interesting to know, existed close to the sacred centre of the place, a lodging built for himself by Ina, King of Wessex, in 727.
Ep. 489. p. 894. Ep. 622. p. 943. Via ad pacem, p. 623, art. xx. Animad. in animad. ad. ar. 19. p. 645. Via ad pacem, p. 626. Votum pro pace, p. 916. Animad. in animad. p. 646. Via ad pacem, p. 626. Animad. in anim. p. 646 Ep. 622. p. 943. Votum pro pace, p. 727. Ep. 613. p. 940. Ep. 668. p. 957. Via ad pacem art. 1. p. 615. Art. 7. p. 617. Via ad pacem, p. 628. Anim. in anim. p. 647.
Thus, from 606 measures of Venus on the sun, taken with a new kind of heliometer at Santiago in Chili, M. Houzeau, of the Brussels Observatory, derived a solar parallax of 8.907", and a distance of 91,727,000 miles. But the "probable errors" of this determination amounted to 0.084" either way: it was subject to a "more or less" of 900,000, or to a total uncertainty of 1,800,000 miles.
According to a late writer, in the year 1830, there were 46,727 acres occupied in the cultivation of hops in Great Britain alone. This enormous consumption attests the fondness of the people for the beverage of their forefathers. Interior of the Church. Dr.
But Elulaeus, without delay, led an expedition into Cyprus, and speedily put down the rebellion. Hereupon the Assyrian king of the time, Shalmaneser IV., the successor and probably the son of Tiglath-pileser II., led a great expedition into the west about B.C. 727, and "overran all Syria and Phoenicia." But he was unable to make any considerable impression.
The live stock at this period, in the public and private possession, amounted to the following numbers: 60 horses, 143 mares; 332 bulls and oxen, 712 cows; 2031 male sheep, 4093 females; 727 male goats, 1455 females; 4017 hogs a prodigious multiplication of the means of subsistence in about five years!
In the meantime the Central Pacific, operating from Ogden west to the coast, had added many branches, while a new company known as the Southern Pacific Railroad of California had for some years been constructing a system of lines throughout that State south of the Central Pacific and by 1877 had penetrated to Yuma, Arizona, 727 miles southeast of San Francisco.
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