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To this the man objected, that his business was to drive, not to run on errands. See ante, ii. 241, for Johnson's contempt of puns. 'He left not faction, but of that was left. Absalom and Achitophel, l. 568. Boswell wrote of Gibbon in 1779: 'He is an ugly, affected, disgusting fellow, and poisons our Literary Club to me. Letters of Boswell, p.242. See ante, ii.443, note 1.
Letter of the Secretary of War, transmitting Report on the Organization of the Army of the Potomac, and of the Campaigns in Virginia and Maryland under the Command of Major-General George B. McClellan, from July 26, 1861, to November 7, 1862. Washington: Government Printing-Office. 1864. 8vo, pp. 242.
Discouraged by this succession of disasters, the Senate at first resolved to renounce the sea; but, observing that the power of Sicily and Spain resulted from their maritime superiority, it concluded to arm its fleets again, and in the year 242 Lutatius Catullus set out with three hundred galleys and seven hundred transports for Drepanum, and gained the battle in the Ægates Islands, in which the Carthaginians lost one hundred and twenty vessels.
Prior's "Popular Names of British Plants," p. 134. See Kelly's "Indo-European Tradition Folk-lore," 1863, pp. 193-198; Ralston's "Russian Folk-Songs," 1872, p. 98. "Mystic Trees and Flowers," Mr. D. Conway, Frasers Magazine, Nov. 1870, p. 608. The "receipt," so called, was the formula of magic words to be employed during the process. See Grindon's "Shakspere Flora," 1883, p. 242.
'A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth: he will always love it better than inquiry; and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it. Johnson's Works, ix. 116. See ante, ii. 311. See ante, p. 164. See ante, p. 242. See ante, iv. 253. Lord Chief Baron Geoffrey Gilbert published in 1760 a book on the Law of Evidence.
Emile, IV. 181, 182. In this letter he asks also, with the same magnanimous security as the Savoyard Vicar, "of what concern the destiny of the wicked can be to him." Emile, IV. 241, 242. Emile, IV. 243. Condorcet's Progrès de l'Esprit Humain . Oeuv., vi. 276.
'To oppose the customs of heathens, who made their chief gates towards the west, that these stupid worshippers, drawing nigh to their blind, deaf, and dumb deities, might have their idols, as it were, arising upon them out of the east. Lee's Solomon's Temple, p. 242. Ed.
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The Times first appeared under that title on the 1st January, 1788, but bore the Number 941, it being a continuation, under a new name, of the Universal Register, of which 940 numbers had been published. The Morning Chronicle must have commenced in 1769, as a correspondent, F.B., writes to tell us that he possesses No. 242. dated Monday, 12th March, 1770.
See Galt, Canada from 1849 to 1859, and his memorandum of 25 October, 1859. See a despatch from Lord Lyons respecting the Reciprocity Treaty, Washington, 28 February, 1862: enclosing a copy of the report of the committee of the House of Representatives on the Reciprocity Treaty. See Dent, The Last Forty Years, ii. p. 426. Pope, Life of Sir John Macdonald, i. p. 242.
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