"Question (number five hundred and seventeen thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine): If I understand you, these forms of practice indisputably occasion delay?

Bush : Sixty-nine percent of the Texans said overwhelmingly, `you're the man!' Forbes : Six out of ten districts in Texas never saw the tax cuts.

His chief volumes are Prometheus (Oxford, 1883, privately printed), a "mask in the Greek Manner", Eros and Psyche (1885), a version of Apuleius, The Growth of Love, a series of sixty-nine sonnets printed for private circulation in 1876 and 1889, Shorter Poems (1890), Nero (1885), a historical tragedy, the second part of which appeared in 1894, Achilles in Scyros (1890), a drama, Palicio (1890), a romantic drama in the Elizabethan man One hundred and fifteen men and officers out of 300 on the Greif were saved, and the British lost five officers and sixty-nine men.

Of these Germany lost sixty-nine vessels, aggregating 238,904 tons, and consisting of one battle cruiser, five armored cruisers, ten protected cruisers and fifty smaller craft.

Astruc was sixty-nine years old when he published his "Conjectures," the first attempt, we are told, to decide the authorship of the Pentateuch showing anything like a discerning criticism.

This fresh water was procured at the expence of sixty-nine pounds of coals, and nine pounds of wood.

him to the struggles of his own good temperament-and it has surmounted! surmounted an explosion and discharge of thirty-two pieces of stone, a constant and vast effusion of blood for five days, a fever of three weeks, a perpetual flux of water, and sixty-nine years, already (one should think) worn down with his vast fatigues! Government, it is pretended, could borrow this capital at three per cent. interest, and, by taking the management of the bank into its own hands, might make a clear profit of two hundred and sixty-nine thousand five hundred pounds a-year.

A Greek cross, inscribed in a quadrangle, represents the form of the edifice; the exact breadth is two hundred and forty-three feet, and two hundred and sixty-nine may be assigned for the extreme length from the sanctuary in the east, to the nine western doors, which open into the vestibule, and from thence into the _narthex_ or exterior portico.

The one hundred and sixty-nine sentences of Ali (translated by Ockley, London, 1718) afford a just and favorable specimen of Arabian wit. * Note: Compare the Arabic proverbs translated by Burckhardt.

134] and variable practice till the middle of the thirteenth century: the code was restored by the pen of John d'Ibelin, count of Jaffa, one of the principal feudatories; [135] and the final revision was accomplished in the year thirteen hundred and sixty-nine, for the use of the Latin kingdom of Cyprus. [136] [Footnote 132: The Assises de Jerusalem, in old law French, were printed with Beaumanoir's Coutumes de Beauvoisis, (Bourges and Paris, 1690, in folio,) and illustrated by Gaspard Thaumas de la Thaum But their advantage was of no great duration; for the very next day, the amendment was rejected on the report by a majority of ninety-five to sixty-nine, in consequence, principally, of the private exertions of Mr. Pitt.

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