United States or South Africa ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
France: Emerson's first visit, 62, 63; philosophers, 76; Revolution, 80; tired of Napoleon, 207, 208; realism, 326; wrath, 385, 386. Francis, Convers, at a party, 149. Franklin, Benjamin: birthplace, 37; allusion, 184; characteristics, 189; Poor Richard, 231; quoted, 236; maxims, 261; fondness for Plutarch, 382; bequest, 407. Fraunhofer, Joseph, optician, 230, 324.
Veracious is perhaps one of the 'four or five words' which Johnson added, or thought that he added, to the English language. Ante, i. 221. He gives it in his Dictionary, but without any authority for it. It is however older than his time. See Johnson's Works, vii. 134, 212, and viii. 386. Ib. p. 508. Works, vii. 108.
See ante, i. 49, for Johnson's fondness for the old romances. Boswell, ante, i. 386, implies that Sheridan's pension was partly due to Wedderburne's influence. See ante, i. 386. 'For not imprudent of my loss to come, I saw from Contemplation's quiet cell His feet ascending to another home, Where public praise and envied greatness dwell. He had, however, no misgivings, for he thus ends:
If such a wheel is constructed with 16 blades and 16 buckets, one between each blade, then 386 / 16 = 24 pounds for each bucket, or 38 / 100 of a cubic foot. The spill from this capacity of bucket being sufficient to compensate for the friction of the shaft journals. To remove paint and varnishes, which resist the action of strong lye, Dr.
+ + | NUMBER OF EMIGRANTS SINCE 1829. | | + + + + + | | |'29 to '33|'34 to '38|'39 to '43|'44 to '45| Total. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |England. | 43,386 | 28,624 | 30,318 | 16,531 | 119,354 | |Ireland. | 102,264 | 54,898 | 74,981 | 24,201 | 256,344 | |Scotland. | 20,143 | 10,998 | 16,289 | 4,408 | 51,838 | |British American| | | | | | | Prov. &c. | 1,904 | 1,831 | 1,777 | 377 | 5,589 | | | + + + + | | | 167,697 | 96,351 | 123,860 | 45,517 | 433,425 | + + + + + + +
The probable expenditures of the remaining three quarters to 30th June, 1858, are $51,248,530.04, including interest on the public debt, making an aggregate of $74,963,058.41, leaving an estimated balance in the Treasury at the close of the present fiscal year of $426,875.67. The amount of the public debt at the commencement of the present fiscal year was $29,060,386.90.
Niles' Weekly Register, vol. XXVII., p. 386. Niles' Weekly Register, vol. XXVIII., p. 71. General Jackson was deeply mortified and irritated by Mr. Clay's preference of Mr. Adams, and still more by his avowal of the motives on which it was founded.
'His ear was well-tuned, and his diction was elegant and copious, but his devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory. The paucity of its topicks enforces perpetual repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well. Ib. viii. 386. See ante, i. 312. Mrs.
Just before his departure he was elected to the Senate for a second term, and in 1863 was re-elected for a third term ending in 1869. 15, 26, 28, 99, 108, 373, 374, 380, 386, 392, 406, 413, 435, 453, 483, 499, 540, 541, 563, 571. STEPHEN TABER, whose father, Thomas Taber, was a Member of Congress, was born in Dover, Dutchess County, New York.
Carlyle, Thomas: meeting Emerson, 63; recollections of their relations, 78-80, 83; Sartor Resartus, 81, 82, 91; correspondence, 82, 83, 89, 90, 127, 176, 177, 192, 315, 317, 374, 380, 381, 406, 407; Life of Schiller, 91; on Nature, 104, 105; Miscellanies, 130; the Waterville Address, 136-138; influence, 149, 150; on Transcendentalism, 156-158; The Dial, 160-163; Brook Farm, 164; friendship, 171; Chelsea visit, 194; bitter legacy, 196; love of power, 197; on Napoleon and Goethe, 208; grumblings, 260; tobacco, 270; Sartor reprinted, 272; paper on, 294; Emerson's dying friendship, 349; physique, 363; Gallic fire, 386; on Characteristics, 387; personality traceable, 389.
Word Of The Day