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In 1668, it produced a yearly revenue of £99 a considerable sum in that day, but not in any proportion to the present rental, which amounts to upwards of £12,000 a-year. Grace Abounding, No. 3. Vol. i., p. 618. Grace Abounding, No. 4. Philip's Life of Bunyan, p. 4. Vol. iii., p. 597. Vol. ii., p. 564. Grace Abounding, No. 27. Grace Abounding, No. 5. Ibid., No. 8. Life, p. vii. Ibid. p. viii.
Van Heerden did not ask him what those days were. He never pryed too closely into the early lives of his associates, but Milsom's history was public property. Four years before he had completed a "life sentence" of fifteen years for a crime which had startled the world in '99. "How are things generally?" he asked. Van Heerden shrugged his shoulders.
With Dr Robertson were Captains Colin Campbell and Townshend of the Central India Horse, Lieutenant Harley of the 14th Sikhs, Surgeon Captain Whitchurch, Captain Baird of the 24th Punjaub Infantry, and Lieutenant Gurdon, who was acting as political officer before Dr Robertson's arrival; the troops consisted entirely of natives, there being eventually shut up in the fort, in addition to those named, 543 persons, of whom 460 were combatants, namely 361 Kashmirs and 99 Sikhs.
Japan has promised to relinquish all the sovereign rights which were acquired by Germany for the remaining 78 of the 99 years of the lease, and to retain only what other governments have in many other parts of China, namely, the right to build and operate the railway under a corporation and to exploit the mines in the immediate neighbourhood of that railway.
You desire me to consider what turn you should give to your speech in honour of the emperor,98 upon your being appointed consul elect.99 It is easy to find copies, not so easy to choose out of them; for his virtues afford such abundant material.
West Cuba produces the best tobacco, the famous Vuelta abajo, 400,000 cwt. at from $14.28 to $99,96 the cwt.; picked sorts being valued at from $571.20 to $714.00 per cwt. Cuba produces 640,000 cwt. The cigars exhibited in the Paris Exhibition of 1867 were worth from $24.99 to $405.98 per thousand. The number of cigars annually exported is estimated at about 5,000,000.
By this method I brought my strain within two years up to an average of nearly 90% of the seedlings with a divided primary leaf. Around this average the real numbers fluctuated between the maximum of 99% and the minimum of 70% or thereabouts.
The train of the latter was numerous and splendid; and the Spaniards, it is said, were extremely surprised when they beheld the blooming countenances and graceful appearance of the English, whom their bigotry, inflamed by the priests, had represented as so many monsters and infernal demons. Vol. i. p. 81. Parl. Hist. vol. v. p. 98, 99, 100. * See note UU, at the end of the volume.
See the passage quoted from the Lettere de Principi, Rome, March 17, 1523, by Burckhardt, p. 99, note. Great was the rejoicing when another Medici was made Pope in 1523. People hoped that the merry days of Leo would return. But things had gone too far toward dissolution.
It looks inaccessible, but in fact can be attained by rude zigzags of a thousand steps of rock, some natural, others roughly hewn, getting worse and worse as they rise higher, till the later zigzags suggest the difficulties of the ascent of the Great Pyramid. The day was fearfully hot, 99 degrees in the shade, and the naked, shining surfaces of purple rock with a metallic lustre radiated heat.
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