Letter

 1 I    |            forgot very sincerely a hundred texts which made directly
 2 II   |          There might be about four hundred men and three hundred women
 3 II   |         four hundred men and three hundred women in the meeting. The
 4 III  |           corruption about sixteen hundred years. But there were always
 5 IX   |             was trampled upon by a hundred tyrants. The priests soon
 6 IX   |          in England amounts to two hundred thousand livres, and yet
 7 X    |           masters of very near two hundred ships of war. Posterity
 8 XI   |        threescore persons in every hundred have the small-pox. Of these
 9 XI   |        practised inoculation these hundred years, a circumstance that
10 XII  |           pay a fine of about four hundred thousand French livres,
11 XV   |           its mean motion makes an hundred and fourscore and seven
12 XV   |            and seven thousand nine hundred and sixty feet (of Paris)
13 XV   |            must take up above five hundred years in their revolution.~
14 XV   |          remote a distance as five hundred and seventy-five years.
15 XVI  |        transmitted afterwards by a hundred other prisms, will never
16 XVI  |        same effect as another of a hundred feet in length.~~
17 XVII |            that the world was five hundred years younger than chronologers
18 XVII |      history. These computed three hundred and forty-one generations
19 XVII |        generations to consist of a hundred years. In this manner they
20 XVII |     computed eleven thousand three hundred and forty years from Menes'
21 XVII |           generations last about a hundred and twenty years; but three
22 XVII |        error should he allow three hundred years to these nine monarchs.
23 XVII |       added together amount to six hundred and forty-eight years; which,
24 XVII |          that is to say, the three hundred and sixtieth part of the
25 XVII |          one degree eastward every hundred years. In this manner they
26 XVII |      degrees are equivalent to two hundred years; consequently the
27 XVII |          twenty-five thousand nine hundred years. It may be proper
28 XVII | seventy-two years, which make five hundred and four years, and not
29 XVII |          four years, and not seven hundred years, as the Greeks computed.
30 XVII |            to be placed about nine hundred years before Christ, and
31 XVII |             and not about fourteen hundred; and consequently that the
32 XVII |        world is not so old by five hundred years as it was generally
33 XVIII|         length of time (it being a hundred and fifty years since they
34 XX   |  government. There are about eight hundred persons in England who have
35 XXIII|   immortality did not cost him two hundred thousand livres a year.~
36 XXIII|           yearly pension of twelve hundred livres, or else might have
37 XXIII|            prevent his gaining two hundred thousand livres by his excellent
38 XXIV |            the Roman ladies with a hundred or more new curves.~As there