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...Excerpt: ACT I. An October night on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman computation, afterwards reckoned by Christian computation as 48 B.C. A great radiance of silver fire, the dawn of a moonlit night, is rising in the east. The stars and the cloudless sky are our own contemporaries, nineteen an...

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...r of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman computation, afterwards reckoned by Christian computa- tion as 48 B.C. A gr...

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... the Jalali era (so called from Jalal-ud-din, one of the king’ s names)—’a computation of time,’ says Gibbon, ‘which surpasses the Julian, and approac... ...d care to fathom, I was never deep in anything but—Wine. LVII. Ah, by my Computations, People say, Reduce the Year to better reckoning?—Nay, ’T ...

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...which, seen from this depth, had lost all scin- tillation, and which by my computation should be 46; Ursa Minor. Then I fell fast asleep. CHAPTER XVI... ... narrowest part. And it is a curious circum- stance,” I added, “that if my computations are right, and we are nine hundred leagues from Rejkiavik, we ...

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...ly; but, allowing for all the doublings and head- ings back of the dog, by computation for about 24; and fi- 96 Thomas de Quincey nally, in a state o... ... of T rajan. It has long been a settled opinion amongst scholars, that the computations of Lipsius, on this point, were prodigiously overcharged; and ... ...ur daily conversation. Secondly, even for the Rome within these limits the computations are not commensurate, by not allowing for the prodigious heigh...

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...f the sound, the smoke flowed over our heads, and the geese rose in num- ber beyond computation or belief. To hear their screaming and to see the twin... ...t the most part of the time they were deep in herring and chintzes and linen, or in computations of the slowness of the passage, and left us to our ow...

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.... Pretty often I have found, when any opening has existed for mak- ing the computation, that, in a library containing a fair pro- portion of books ill... ...mences, the eighth of that month, or, in 241 Thomas de Quincey our modern computation, the eighteenth; long after which date it had been customary of... ...d for a long time undisturbed, this calculation once made, left no further computation necessary, than simply to take the account of all who stood oth... ...adict him? Phæd. O, no matter for his merits, which doubtless are past all computation, but generally as a point of hospitality. For I am of the same ... ...man of feeling, whether you ought to inflict upon me this alarming pile of computations; which, by your gloomy countenance, I see that you are meditat...

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...aban- don this necessary term of the comparison, and I confine myself to a computation of the actual amount of taxation, without investigating the rel... ...ngerous to attempt this comparison; for when statistics are not based upon computations which are strictly accu- rate, they mislead instead of guiding... ...xpenditure. I conclude, therefore, without having recourse to inaccu- rate computations, and without hazarding a comparison which might prove incorrec... ...205,000,000 of inhabitants. (“Malte Brun,” liv. 114. vol. vi. p. 4.) [This computation is given in French leagues, which were in use when the author w...

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...the sea, made a shift to get clear of the ship and the rock. We rowed, by my computation, about three leagues, till we were able to work no longer, be... ...rently from the hardness of the floor, that was of smooth stone. By the same computation, they provided me with sheets, blankets, and coverlets, toler... ...time, deliver in an exact survey of the circumference of our dominions, by a computation of his own paces round the coast. “Lastly, That, upon his sol... ... as he was pleased to call it, “in reckoning the numbers of our people, by a computation drawn from the several sects among us, in religion and politi... ... captain, “how far he reckoned we might be from land?” He said, “by the best computation he could make, we were at least a hundred leagues.” I assured... ...t he had emptied the whole vocabulary into his frame, and made the strictest computation of the general proportion there is in books between the numbe...

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...ossible to put them in execution? It is likewise urged, that there are, by computation, in this kingdom, above ten thousand parsons, whose revenues, a... ... be one man at least of abilities to read and write. Then it seems a wrong computation that the revenues of the Church throughout this island would be...

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... Centaur; and the heedful slave Is wander’d forth, in care to seek me out By computation and mine host’s report. I could not speak with Dromio since a...

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...d to use language which was a medley of commonplaces mixed with maxims and computations served up in flowing phrases mildly put forth, which sounded t... ...tion to the other without observing any difference. His head spun with his computations, and he took the lively activity of its emptiness for the subs...

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...ts, one by one, And scann’d them with a fix’d and serious look Of idle computation. In the sun, Upon the second step of that small pile, Surro...

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...cruti- nised closely and a little contemptuously a sheet of math- ematical computations the stranger had left. When retiring for the night he instruct...

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...s book,—just as Judge Douglas says, after he had made his calculations and computations, he took Toombs’s state- ment. I have no doubt that after Judg...

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...as beaten off, another took its place. She endured, according to Raleigh’s computation, “eight hun- dred shot of great artillery, besides many assault... ...ight is a period of multiplied and intense experi- ences, and, by Nelson’s computation, worth “thousands” to any one who has a heart under his jacket....

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... “but a house like this will cost more than fifty dollars.” The man made a computation. “I am sorry you have no more,” said he, “for it may raise you ... ...hole affair. The architect put many questions, and took his pen and made a computation; and when he had done he named the very sum that Keawe had inhe...

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...though he had been in the Heavens, and this had made me overlook him in my computations, he more than any of the other planets had kept the Heavens—wh...

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...d: but, on the whole, we may take it as settled, upon various collat- eral computations, that the year now assigned is the true one. The place is less...

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...appened to-day.” He waited. Phoebe had begun to figure at a fresh sheet of computations. Miriam bent her head closer over her work, as though she winc...

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...following the demonstration of the correctness of his intricate tracery of computations and guesses. ‘I thought I should not sleep,’ he writes—the wor...