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In other types the current is generated and the bell rung by the act of pulling, as in a common house-bell. Electric bells in large houses and hotels are usually fitted up with indicators, as shown in figure 88, which tell the room from which the call proceeds. They are serviceable as instantaneous signals, annunciators, and alarms in many different ways.
Nebuchadnezzar is the great monarch of the Babylonian Empire, which, lasting only 88 years from B.C. 625 to B.C. 538 was for nearly half the time under his sway. Its military glory is due chiefly to him, while the constructive energy, which constitutes its especial characteristic, belongs to it still more markedly through his character and genius.
No one could hear this tale as he originally told it in my hearing I think none can read it as here condensed and unadorned without admiring the fairness and simplicity of the Samoan; and wondering at the want of heart or want of humour in so many successive civilised Germans, that they should have continued to surround this infant with the secrecy of state. September '87 to August '88
III. cap. 4. 28 Edw. III. cap, 3. 37 Edw. III. cap. 18 88 Edw. III. cap. 9 42 Edw. III. cap. 3. 1 Richard II. cap. 12. * Chap. 29
This alternative scheme would cost the State about £88,300 a year, but, like all makeshifts, would not effect a real settlement of the difficulty, creating, as it would, a patchwork system of payment which might break down at any moment.
By this report it appears that the amount of revenue received from all sources into the Treasury during the fiscal year ending the 30th June, 1857, was $68,631,513.67, which amount, with the balance of $19,901,325.45 remaining in the Treasury at the commencement of the year, made an aggregate for the service of the year of $88,532,839.12.
[Footnote 88: See Allg. Litt. Zeitung, 1796, I, p.
Ravis, Turner, and her older brother, Stanley, Yale '88, a very serious young gentleman of twenty-seven, continually professing an interest in economics and finance. Besides these were the two children, Howard, nine years old, and his sister, aged fourteen, who had been christened Virginia. They were a home-loving race. Mr. Ravis, senior, belonged to the Bohemian Club, but was seldom seen there.
ACCIPITE: 'hear'; so dare often means 'to tell'. With accipere in this sense cf. the similar use of αποδεχεσθαι. He wrote philosophical works, and was also famous as a mathematician and astronomer, besides being the leading statesman and general of the commonwealth of Tarentum. For another saying of Archytas, cf. Lael. 88. TRADITA EST: 'was imparted to me', i.e. by word of mouth.
April 10 Pers: 60,079 57,676 81,150 88,948 The enemy occupied the cities of Charleston and Augusta, with garrisons capable of making a respectable if not successful defense, but utterly unable to meet our veteran columns in the open field. He was supposed at the time to have, at and near Columbia, two small divisions of cavalry commanded by himself and General Butler.
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