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The former of these gives the fullest and best information we have as to the history of England down to the year 731, and the latter is an encyclopædia of the sciences as then known.
His most important work is the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, which is really a history of England from Julius Caesar's invasion to 731. The quotation from Bede's work relative to Caedmon shows that Bede could relate things simply and well. He passed almost all his useful life at the monastery of Jarrow on the Tyne.
He imagined , that the Dutch, from ill-will to him, had entered into a kind of conspiracy not to treat him as Ambassador, and to make him be considered as a simple Resident ; and afterwards to make a crime of his weakness in giving up any part of his right. Puffendorf, l. 13. n. 77. Ep. 690. p. 284. Inter Vossianas Ep. 656. Ep. 1689, p. 731. Ep. 1477. p. 668. Ep. 572. p. 928. Ep. 620. p. 942.
Nabonassar was succeeded in the year B.C. 733 by a certain Nadius, who is suspected to have been among the independent princes reduced to subjection by Tiglath-Pileser in his Babylonian expedition. Nadius reigned only two years from B.C. 733 to B.C. 731 when he was succeeded by Ghinzinus and Porus, two princes whose joint rule lasted from B.C. 731 to B.C. 726.
The moment of enormous danger passed, the pope received both his enemies; but from that moment it was evident that the Lombards were not to be trusted and must one day feel the weight of the papal arm. Gregory died in February 731, and was succeeded by Gregory III. who continued his predecessor's Italian policy.
Vital. p. 523. H. Hunt. p. 731. The transactions recorded during the remainder of this reign may be considered more as domestic occurrences which concern the prince, than as national events which regard England.
North Dakota's constitution provided that the legislature might in the future enfranchise women. History of Woman Suffrage, IV, p. 556. Harper, Anthony, II, p. 690. Ibid., p. 688. Harper, Anthony, II, p. 731. Ms., Diary, Feb. 28, April 18, 1893. Published first in the Woman's Tribune, then as a book in 1898 under the title, Eighty Years and More. Harper, Anthony, II, p. 712.
The census gives 191,691,731 people as agriculturists, of whom 131,000,000 till their own or rented land, 18,750,000 receive incomes as landlord owners and the remainder are agricultural laborers. The landlord caste are the descendants of hereditary chiefs, of former revenue farmers and persons of importance to whom land grants were made in ancient times.
For Pope Zachary, about the year 731. in answer to the enquiries of Boniface, bishop of Mayence, states that "on holy thursday, when the sacred chrism is consecrated, three lamps of a large size filled with oil collected from the different lamps of the church, and placed in a secret part of the said church, should burn there constantly, so that the oil may suffice till the third day, that is saturday.
Of the sum of $18,012.50, which remained unexpended at the close of the year 1806, $8,731.11 have been placed in the hands of the Attorney-General of the United States, to enable him to defray sundry expenses incident to the prosecution of Aaron Burr and his accomplices for treasons and misdemeanors alleged to have been committed by them, and the unexpended balance of $9,275.39 is now carried according to law to the credit of the surplus fund.
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