ossible they should foresee the necessity I was under of writing the 84th chapter of my book, before the 77th, &c? --So I don't take it amiss--All I wish is, that it may be a lesson to the world, 'to let people tell their stories their own way.' The Seventy-seventh Chapter.

He died, aged upwards of eighty, on the 28th May 1743.-D. (822) Prince Charles of Lorraine, the queen of Hungary's general against the French.-D. (823) This distinguished admiral died on the 24th of May, in his seventy-seventh year; at which time he was member for West looe.

Yet so deep was the impression of his glory on the minds of men, that Justinian, in the seventy-seventh year of his age, was encouraged to advance near forty miles from the capital, and to inspect in person the restoration of the long wall.

In the two hundred and seventy-seventh year of the Hegira, and in the neighborhood of Cufa, an Arabian preacher, of the name of Carmath, assumed the lofty and incomprehensible style of the Guide, the Director, the Demonstration, the Word, the Holy Ghost, the Camel, the Herald of the Mess Peter was, in sooth, singularly chop-fallen; and could only defend himself by an incoherent mutter, from which the Squire turned somewhat impatiently, when he heard, louder than the rest, the words "seventy-seventh psalm, seventeenth verse, "The clouds that were both thick and black, Did rain full plenteously." Leaving the Squire to the edification of the pious host, let us follow the steps of Aram, who at the early dawn had quitted his sleepless chamber, and, The chief was Francis Jeffrey, who died in 1850, in the seventy-seventh year of his age, after having passed through a most brilliant career as a practising lawyer and judge, and one still more brilliant, as the conductor, for twenty-seven years, of the celebrated Edinburgh Review.


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