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But in a situation of acute urgency they were still used to construct trenches upon which withdrawal by the newly engaged Divisions could be made. The Brigadier. G.O.C., 80th Brigade, a few weeks later bade farewell to the little force in a speech that sent a wild thrill of pride throughout the small Battalion. And thus the Passing from the Great Undertaking!
But the door was locked, and the window heavily barred with iron rods. He sat down again, and drew his journal from his pocket. On the line where these words were written, "21st December, Saturday, Liverpool," he added, "80th day, 11:40 A.M.," and waited. The Custom House clock struck one. Mr. Fogg observed that his watch was two hours too fast. Two hours!
A universally respected man of unquestioned integrity and decided importance. Close friend of Curator Jewett. IV Eben Clarke, door-man. Been long in the employ of museum. Considered entirely trustworthy. Home in decent quarter of West 80th Street. Wife and nine children, mostly grown. Never been abroad. Has no foreign correspondence.
This treatise is dedicated to her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia, Electress, and Duchess Dowager of Brunswick, on which occasion that Princess, then in her 80th year, honoured her with the following epistle, written by the Electress in French, but which we shall here present to the reader in English. Hanover June 25, 1710.
When the unexpected wonders which are concealed in that catalogue, commenced to be disclosed, it was manifest, that on the 80th place was put the representative of the Beast which itself is the eighth king, Revelation xvii: 11 and has ten horns. To show, that it was in the complete age or in the fulness of its glory in our age, it was put on the ten times the eighth place with suitable names.
When the Governor-general found this, mounting his horse, he called to the 80th Regiment, which was at the head of the column, "My lads, we shall have no sleep until we take those guns."
Piozzi died not long afterwards. She was still a vivacious old lady, who celebrated her 80th birthday by a ball, and is supposed at that ripe age to have made an offer of marriage to a young actor. She died in May, 1821, leaving all that she could dispose of to a nephew of Piozzi's, who had been naturalised in England. Meanwhile Johnson was rapidly approaching the grave.
But the door was locked, and the window heavily barred with iron rods. He sat down again, and drew his journal from his pocket. On the line where these words were written, "21st December, Saturday, Liverpool," he added, "80th day, 11.40 a.m.," and waited. The Custom House clock struck one. Mr. Fogg observed that his watch was two hours too fast. Two hours!
A week later, Gunner Heinrich Wilhelm Wolf, of the Sixth Battery, 80th Regiment, Eastern Division Field Artillery, was condemned by the military tribunal of the 42nd Division, for actual bodily assault on a superior officer, to three years' imprisonment. It was quite necessary, unless there was to be a christening before the wedding.
But I remember that on that day the day he addressed that joint session of the newly elected Republican 80th Congress, he spoke not as a partisan, but as President of all the people calling upon the Congress to put aside partisan considerations in the national interest.
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