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When he returned to New York in April, after an extended tour throughout the country, he had still better cause to be pleased with the young Republic. Says Forster in his "Life": "In New York, where there were five farewell nights, $3,298 were the receipts of the last, on the 20th. of April; those of the last at Boston, on the eighth, having been $3,456.
The increase in the mail transportation within the last three years has been 5,378,310 miles, whilst the expenses were reduced $456,738, making an increase of service at the rate of 15 per cent and a reduction in the expenses of more than 15 per cent.
So terminated the bloody battle of the Monongahela; a scene of carnage which has been truly described as unexampled in the annals of modern warfare. Of the 1460 souls, officers and privates, who went into the combat, 456 were slain outright and 421 were wounded; making a total of 877 men. Of 89 commissioned officers, 63 were killed or wounded; not a solitary field-officer escaping unhurt.
This policy has received its most signal and beneficent illustration in the recent enactment granting homesteads to actual settlers. Since the 1st day of January last the before-mentioned quantity of 1,456,514 acres of land have been taken up under its provisions.
Garrick would desire it of him, to be the editor of his works and the historian of his life. Murphy's Johnson, p. 145. Garrick and his profession have been equally indebted to each other. See ante, i. 456. See Boswell's Hebrides, Oct. 23. The anniversary of the death of Charles I. See ante, i. 211. He sent a set elegantly bound and gilt, which was received as a very handsome present.
It appears from the report of the Commissioner of Pensions that there were on the 1st day of July, 1885, 345,125 persons borne upon the pension rolls, who were classified as follows: Army invalids, 241,456; widows, minor children, and dependent relatives of deceased soldiers, 78,841; navy invalids, 2,745; navy widows, minor children, and dependents, 1,926; survivors of the War of 1812, 2,945; and widows of those who served in that war, 17,212.
The deviation from those plans, perhaps the greatest error of his life, and all that was done in the spirit of them the servant of the Gospel, which requires kindness, patient correction of a straying brother, and in civil life the sacred observance of treaties, he and Zurich must mourn over. Fridolin, in the cantonal seal of Glarus. Vol. II. Part 2. pp. 453, 455, 456.
But at the bidding of Ricimer, who had become the most powerful general, the senate deposed Avitus; he fled to his country Auvergne, and was killed on the way in September, 456. All power now lay in the hands of Ricimer. He was by his father a Sueve; by his mother, grandson of Wallia, the Visigothic king at Toulouse.
Subjoined however is a list of the odes in their probable chronological order so far as it can be obtained. Pythian 10 -B.C. 502. " 12 " 494 or 490. " 3 " 486 or 482. Isthmian 5 Nemean 5 Isthmian 7 " 480. Isthmian 3 Pythian 8 " 478. Olympian 14 " 476. Pythian 1 Nemean 1 " 473. Olympian 1 " 472. Nemean 9 Isthmian 2 Olympian 6 " 468. Nemean 7 " 3 " 4 " 6 " 8 Olympian 9 " 456.
In fine I'll justifie it to be as grand to the eye every whit, I gad, as that great Scene in Harry the Eight. p. 203 Joan Sanderson. See note Vol. I, p. 456: Joan Sanderson. p. 204 Haunce in Kelder. Literally Jack-in-the-Cellar, i.e. the unborn babe in the womb. cf. Davenant and Dryden's alteration of The Tempest, Act iv, sc.
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