"52" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... It was the undoubted desire of a majority in 1840 that the Clergy Reserve system should be ended, the former reserves sold, and the proceeds applied to educational and general purposes; a desire which had been registered in the House of Assembly on fourteen different occasions since 1826.[52] The case for the voluntary principle in Canada had many exponents, but these words of Dr. John Rolph in 1836 express the spirit of the movement in both its strength and its weakness: "Instead of making ...
— British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government - 1839-1854 • J. L. Morison
... range from 8 deg.F above to 30 deg.F below zero, with the usual lower range in the greater portion of the northern states, from zero to 12 deg. below. Lowest known temperatures range all the way from 10 deg. to 52 deg. below, but in most portions from 15 deg. to 35 ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 • Various
... {52} "I want you to find for me in your regiment or in some other," he said, "some young officer to go at once into the British camp, to discover what is going on. The man must have a quick eye, a cool head, and nerves ...
— Hero Stories from American History - For Elementary Schools • Albert F. Blaisdell
... pendant la nuit, un globe de lumiere S'echappa quelquefois de la voute de cieux, Et traca dans sa chute un long sillon de feux, La troupe suspendit sa marche solitaire."[52] ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay
... his lead, the Convention closed the Exchange and finally, on November 13, 1793, under terrifying penalties, suppressed all commerce in the precious metals. About a year later came the abolition of the Maximum itself. [52] ...
— Fiat Money Inflation in France - How It Came, What It Brought, and How It Ended • Andrew Dickson White
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