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Ans. 4,660,210,253,138,204,000; or 2,527,570,733 times as many as are living now. At the above rate of increase, how many human beings would have survived in the 5177 years since Noah? Ans. 9. How many Jews, in the 3850 years since Jacob's marriage? Ans. 5. Ans. 1,804,187,000, just what it is. Ans. 15,393,815, just the number reported. What guess of man's age can stand the test of mathematics?
The total receipts of the Patent Office during the past year were $1,253,948.44. The expenditures were $1,081,633.79, leaving a surplus of $172,314.65. The public lands disposed of by the Government during the year reached 8,453,896.92 acres, an increase of 614,780.26 acres over the previous year.
State the case fairly, and the maritime superiority of Liverpool will be found to be as decided as is its commercial. We ought also to add, that while the Custom-house returns for 1850 give Liverpool only 3,262,253 tons of shipping, the payment of rates to the Liverpool Dock Estate in the twelve months ending June 25, 1851, gives 3,737,666 tons, or nearly 500,000 tons more.
Verrall's cross-correspondences, which gives a vision, two months and a half before their accomplishment, of the most insignificant actions of a traveller in an hotel bedroom; and many others. Light, 1907, p. 219. The crime was committed in Paris and made a great stir at the time. Lady Burton: The Life of Captain Sir Richd. F. Burton, K.C.M.G., vol.i., p.253.
Branch, in a letter dated May 31st, 1831, addressed to certain citizens of Bertie County, North Carolina, declared that "discord had been introduced into the ranks of the administration by the intrigues of selfish politicians." See Niles' Weekly Register, vol. XL., pp. 129-145. Ibid., pp. 152-3. Niles' Register, vol. XL., p. 201. Ibid., p. 220. Ibid., p. 253. The Attorney-General, Mr.
253 They were asked: “Are ye of the party of the Seceders?” He replied: “Nay, by the Lord Almighty. We are but servants who have believed in God and in His verses. Through us the countenance of faith hath beamed with joy. Through us the sign of the All-Merciful hath shone forth.
This lady lived all her life in her native county, and died at a great age at a house on the Tweed, named Springhill, in 1876. Ante, vol. i. p. 253. The Murder Hole, a story founded on the tradition and under this name, was printed in Blackwood's Mag., vol. xxv. p. 189: 1829. Written by Gerald Griffin St. Valentine's Eve, or The Fair Maid of Perth. Coriolanus, Act VI. Sc. 6. Ante, p. 40.
But by the progress of the king's arms, the defeat of Sir William Waller, the taking of Bristol, the siege of Gloucester, a cry for peace was renewed, and with more violence than ever. * Rush. vol. vi. p. 325. Clarendon, vol. ii. p. 255. Whitlocke, p. 66. Rush. vol. vi. p. 330. Clarendon, vol. iii p. 253, 254, etc. * Rush. vol. vi. p. 357. Whitlocke, p. 67. v Rush. vol. vi. p. 290.
Besides, the locomotives on the fast trains are changed every 120 to 150 miles, while the entire run of 1,253 miles was made by one auto which had already run 7,500 miles in ordinary service before it was entered in the race. Unfortunately for the automobile, it has achieved so many remarkable speed records that its name is suggestive of swiftness.
Peabody, Andrew Preston, literary rank, 34. Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer: her Aesthetic Papers, 88; letter to Mr. Ireland, 317. Peirce, Benjamin, mathematician, 223. Pelagianisin, 51. Pepys, Samuel, allusion, 12. Pericles, 184, 253. Persia, poetic models, 338. Pessimism, 286. Philadelphia, Pa., society, 184. Philanthropy, activity in 1820, 147. Philolaus, 199. Pie, fondness for, 269.
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