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The second book of Kings concludes with the Babylonish captivity, 588 years before Christ 'till which time the kingdom of Judah had descended uninterruptedly in the line of David. Of Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther.
A letter from Mill in the University College MSS. describes a misunderstanding about borrowed books, a fertile, but hardly adequate, cause of quarrel. Bowring's religious principles prevented him from admitting some of Bentham's works to the collective edition. Works, x. 471-72. Ibid. x. 576. Ibid. x. 588. Works, xi. 37.
In Skye he said, 'Depend upon it, no woman is the worse for sense and knowledge. Boswell's Hebrides, Sept. 19. See ante, iii, 240. Nos. 588, 601, 626 and 635. The first number of the Spectator was written by Addison, the last by Grove. See ante, iii. 33, for Johnson's praise of No. 626. Sterne is of a direct contrary opinion.
MS. Archives at Brussels. State Papers, Vol. VII. pp. 584, 585. Ibid. This is Cromwell's paraphrase. Francis is not responsible for the language. State Papers, Vol. VII. pp. 584-590. See the long and curious correspondence between the English and Spanish courts in the State Papers, Vol. State Papers, Vol. VII. pp. 587, 588. Ibid. p. 587.
From returns received at the Navy Department it appears that more than 1,000 vessels have been captured since the blockade was instituted, and that the value of prizes already sent in for adjudication amounts to over $13,000,000. The naval force of the United States consists at this time of 588 vessels completed and in the course of completion, and of these 75 are ironclad or armored steamers.
The social condition of Germany may be partially realized if one remembers that the death-rate was over 28 per mille, as compared with 17 per mille to-day; that only a start had been made with railway construction; that the country, with its not very generous soil, depended wholly upon agriculture; that savings-bank deposits were not one-twelfth of what they are now; that there were 60 training schools where there are 221 to-day, and 338 evening classes as against 4,588 in 1910; that many of the principal towns were still lighted by oil; that there was practically no navy; and that the bulk of the aristocracy lived on about the same scale as the contemporary English yeoman farmer.
About the same time the German losses, as compiled from official lists, were estimated at 2,588,000, including over 500,000 killed and 350, taken by the Allies as prisoners of war.
At the election Nov. 3, 1914, the amendment received 41,302 ayes; 37,588 noes, a majority of 3,714, and women were enfranchised on equal terms with men. The various suffrage societies merged into Good Government Clubs with the avowed purpose of obtaining political action on many needed measures.
Of the receipts there were derived from customs $102,316,152.99, from lands $588,333.29. from direct taxes $475,648.96, from internal revenue $109,741,134.10, from miscellaneous sources $47,511,448.10, and from loans applied to actual expenditures, including former balance, $623,443,929.13.
The receipts into the Treasury during the same year were $29,769,133.56, of which there were derived from customs $27,528,122.70, from sales of public lands $2,077,022.30, and from incidental and miscellaneous sources $163,998.56. The expenditures for the same period were $29,968,206.98, of which $8,588,157.62 were applied to the payment of the public debt.
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