Fagg, you have come to the fifty-first copy of the book.

Do it twenty or fifty times, and there is nothing special in your doing it the twenty-first or fifty-first.

txt Fifty-First State?

On the fifty-first it was again put off; but On the fifty-sixth day, being read a second time, it was, after some opposition, referred to a committee of the whole house, to sit five days after.

March 24, 1742. (26) Sir Walter Scott is in error when he says that Walpole retired from the House of Commons in 1758, "at the active age of forty-one." This event occurred, as is here stated, in March, 1768, and when Walpole was consequently in his fifty-first year. (27) Letter, dated Arlington Street, March 12th, 1768.

the celebrated "Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times." He had the misfortune to labour under a constitutional dejection of spirits; and in September 1766, in an interval of deprivation of reason, put a period to his existence, in his fifty-first year.-E. (535) No. 92, Reflections on the Drinking Club; No. 98, On the Italian Opera; No. 100, On Dr.

The siege and sack of Otranto by the Turks diffused a general consternation; and Pope Sixtus was preparing to fly beyond the Alps, when the storm was instantly dispelled by the death of Mahomet the Second, in the fifty-first year of his age. [96] His lofty genius aspired to the conquest of Italy: he was possessed of a strong city and a capacious harbor; and the same reign might have been decorated with the trophies of the New and the Ancient Rome. [97] [Footnote 93: See Yet the Ursini would disdain the nephews of a _modern_ pope.] [Footnote 107: In his fifty-first Dissertation on the Italian Antiquities, Muratori explains the factions of the Guelphs and Ghibelines.] [Footnote 108: Petrarch (tom. i. p. 222--230) has celebrated this victory according to the Colonna; but two contemporaries, a Florentine (Giovann He permitted me frequently to pray with him, as a friend and minister; and when I used the confessional in the communion service of our church, and some of the verses of the fifty-first psalm, he appeared to unite devoutly in those acts of penitence, and afterwards added, "I thank you heartily." With emphasis did I hear him utter the memorable words, "I know that my Redeemer liveth, &c." and on my reminding him that Job exclaimed a ike what Milton might have used, had he died a Catholic), that "this was the chariot upon which he hoped to go crowned, not with laurel as a poet into the capitol, but with glory as a saint to heaven"--and expired on the 25th of April, 1575, and the fifty-first year of his age, closely embracing the crucifix, and imperfectly uttering the sentence beginning, "Into thy hands, O Lord!"[32] Even after death, success mocked him; for the coronation took place on the senseless dead body.

So begins the reign of Phaidrig O'Neil, of the fifty-first of the name.

The latter portion he achieved in three volumes more, which he gave to the world on his fifty-first birthday, in 1788.

In the midst of this choral dance, at the fifty-first pulsation, the inhabitants of the Universe pause in full career, and each individual sends forth his richest, fullest, sweetest strain.

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