text:
Page:Language and the Study of Language.djvu/70

48 and growing organism, or pronounce linguistics a physical science, because zoölogy and geology are such. The point is one of essential consequence in linguistic philosophy. We shall never gain a clear apprehension of the phenomena of linguistic history, either in their individuality or in their totality, if we mistake the nature of the forces which are active in producing them. Language is, in fact, an institution—the word may seem an awkward one, but we can find none better or more truly descriptive—the work of those whose wants it subserves; it is in their sole keeping and control; it has been by them adapted to their circumstances and wants, and is still everywhere undergoing at their hands such adaptation; every separate item of which it is composed is, in its present form—for we are not yet ready for a discussion of the ultimate origin of human speech—the product of a series of changes, effected by the will and consent of men, working themselves out under historical conditions, and conditions of man's nature, and by the impulse of motives, which are, in the main, distinctly traceable, and form a legitimate subject of scientific investigation.

These considerations determine the character of the study of language as a historical or moral science. It is a branch of the history of the human race and of human institutions. It calls for aid upon various other sciences, both moral and physical: upon mental and metaphysical philosophy, for an account of the associations which underlie the developments of signification, and of the laws of thought, the universal principles of relation, which fix the outlines of grammar; upon physiology, for explanation of the structure and mode of operation of the organs of speech, and the physical relations of articulate sounds, which determine the laws of euphony, and prescribe the methods of phonetic change; upon physical geography and meteorology, even, for information respecting material conditions and climatic aspects, which have exerted their influence upon linguistic growth. But the human mind, seeking and choosing expression for human thought, stands as middle term between all determining causes and their results in the development of language. It is only as they affect man himself, in his desires and


text:
Page:Language and the Study of Language.djvu/71

II.] or in his capacities, that they can affect speech: the immediate agent is the will of men, working under the joint direction of impelling wants, governing circumstances, and established habits. What makes a physical science is that it deals with material substances, acted on by material forces. In the formation of geological strata, the ultimate cognizable agencies are the laws of matter; the substance affected is tangible matter; the product is inert, insensible matter. In zoölogy, again, as in anatomy and physiology, the investigator has to do with material structures, whose formation is dependent on laws implanted in matter itself, and beyond the reach of voluntary action. In language, on the other hand, the ultimate agencies are intelligent beings, the material is—not articulated sound alone, which might, in a certain sense, be regarded as a physical product, but—sound made significant of thought; and the product is of the same kind, a system of sounds with intelligible content, expressive of the slowly accumulated wealth of the human race in wisdom, experience, comprehension of itself and of the rest of creation. What but an analogical resemblance can there possibly be between the studies of things so essentially dissimilar?

There is a school of modern philosophers who are trying to materialize all science, to eliminate the distinction between the physical and the intellectual and moral, to declare for naught the free action of the human will, and to resolve the whole story of the fates of mankind into a series of purely material effects, produced by assignable physical causes, and explainable in the past, or determinable for the future, by an intimate knowledge of those causes, by a recognition of the action of compulsory motives upon the passively obedient nature of man. With such, language will naturally pass, along with the rest, for a physical product, and its study for a physical science; and, however we may dissent from their general classification, we cannot quarrel with its application in this particular instance. But by those who still hold to the grand distinction of moral and physical sciences, who think the action of intelligent beings, weighing motives and selecting courses of conduct, seeing ends and seeking means

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/


text: Portal talk:Turkey

title: Portal talk:Turkey


text: Portal talk:Tibet

title: Portal talk:Tibet


text: Portal talk:Thailand

title: Portal talk:Thailand


text: Portal talk:Tanzania

title: Portal talk:Tanzania


text:
Wanting is—what?

Wanting is—what? Summer redundant, Blueness abundant, —Where is the blot? Beamy the world, yet a blank all the same —Framework which waits for a picture to frame: What of the leafage, what of the flower? Roses embowering with nought they embower! Come then, complete incompletion, O comer, Pant through the blueness, perfect the summer! Breathe but one breath Rose-beauty above, And all that was death Grows life, grows love, Grows love!

title: Wanting is—what?


text:
Page:Language and the Study of Language.djvu/72

50 to their attainment, to be fundamentally and essentially different from that of atoms moved by gravity, chemical affinity, and the other immutable forces of nature, as we call them—by such, the study of language, whose dependence upon voluntary action is so absolute that not one word ever was or ever will be uttered without the distinct exertion of the human will, cannot but be regarded as a moral science; its real relationship is with those branches of human knowledge among which common opinion is accustomed to rank it—with mental philosophy, with philology, with history.

While, however, we are thus forced to the acknowledgment that everything in human speech is a product of the conscious action of human beings, we should be leaving out of sight a matter of essential consequence in linguistic investigation if we failed to notice that what the linguistic student seeks in language is not what men have voluntarily or intentionally placed there. As we have already seen, each separate item in the production or modification of language is a satisfaction of the need of the moment; it is prompted by the exigencies of the particular case; it is brought forth for the practical end of convenient communication, and with no ulterior aim or object whatsoever; it is accepted by the community only because it supplies a perceived want, and answers an acknowledged purpose in the uses of social intercourse. The language-makers are quite heedless of its position and value as part of a system, or as a record with historical content, nor do they analyze and set before their consciousness the mental tendencies which it gratifies. A language is, in very truth, a grand system, of a highly complicated and symmetrical structure; it is fitly comparable with an organized body; but this is not because any human mind has planned such a structure and skilfully worked it out. Each single part is conscious and intentional; the whole is instinctive and natural. The unity and symmetry of the system is the unconscious product of the efforts of the human mind, grappling with the facts of the world without and the world within itself, and recording each separate result in speech. Herein is a real language fundamentally different from the elaborate and philosophical structures


text: Pacchiarotto/Magical Nature

title: Pacchiarotto/Magical Nature


text: Portal talk:Uganda

title: Portal talk:Uganda


text: Portal talk:Zimbabwe

title: Portal talk:Zimbabwe


text:
User talk:What is your name questionmark

--Eliyak T · C 18:48, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
 * deleted. — billinghurst  sDrewth  09:46, 30 December 2010 (UTC)


text: Pacchiarotto/Pisgah-Sights

title: Pacchiarotto/Pisgah-Sights


text:
Page:Language and the Study of Language.djvu/73

II.] with which ingenious men have sometimes thought to replace them. These are indeed artful devices, in which the character and bearing of each part is painfully weighed and determined in advance: compared with them, language is a real growth; and human thought will as readily exchange its natural covering for one of them as the growing crustacean will give up its shell for a casing of silver, wrought by the most skilful hands. Their symmetry is that of a mathematical figure, carefully laid out, and drawn to rule and line; in language, the human mind, tethered by its limited capacities in the midst of creation, reaches out as far as it can in every direction and makes its mark, and is surprised at the end to find the result a circle.

In whatever aspect the general facts of language are viewed, they exhibit the same absence of reflection and intention. Phonetic change is the spontaneous working out of tendencies which the individual does not acknowledge to himself; in their effects upon organs of whose structure and workings he is almost or wholly ignorant. Outward circumstances, historical conditions, progress of knowledge and culture, are recorded in speech because its practical uses require that they should be so, not because any one has attempted to depict them. Language shows ethnic descent, not as men have chosen to preserve such evidence of their kindred with other communities and races, but as it cannot be effaced without special effort directed to that end. The operations of the mind, the development of association, the laws of subjective relation, are exhibited there, but only as they are the agencies which govern the phenomena of speech, unrecognized in their working, but inferrible from their effects.

Now it is this absence of reflection and conscious intent which takes away from the facts of language the subjective character that would otherwise belong to them as products of voluntary action. The linguistic student feels that he is not dealing with the artful creations of individuals. So far


text:
User talk:Cloud2clarity

--Eliyak T · C 18:49, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

title: User talk:Cloud2clarity


text: Pacchiarotto/Natural Magic

title: Pacchiarotto/Natural Magic


text: Pacchiarotto/Appearances

title: Pacchiarotto/Appearances


text:
Page:Language and the Study of Language.djvu/74

52 as concerns the purposes for which he examines them, and the results he would derive from them, they are almost as little the work of man as is the form of his skull, the outlines of his face, the construction of his arm and hand. They are fairly to be regarded as reflections of the facts of human nature and human history, in a mirror imperfect, indeed, but faithful and wholly trustworthy; not as pictures drawn by men's hands for our information. Hence the close analogies which may be drawn between the study of language and some of the physical sciences. Hence, above all, the fundamental and pervading correspondence between its whole method and theirs. Not less than they, it founds itself upon the widest observation and examination of particular facts, and proceeds toward its results by strict induction, comparing, arranging, and classifying, tracing out relations, exhibiting an inherent system, deducing laws of general or universal application, discovering beneath all the variety and diversity of particulars an ever-present unity, in origin and development, in plan and purpose. Beyond all question, it is this coincidence of method which has confused some of the votaries of linguistic science, and blinded their eyes to the true nature of the ultimate facts upon which their study is founded, leading them to deny the agency of man in the production and change of language, and to pronounce it an organic growth, governed by organic forces.

Another motive—a less important one, and in great part, doubtless, unconscious in its action—impelling certain students of language to claim for their favourite branch of investigation a place in the sisterhood of physical sciences, has been, as I cannot but think, an apprehension lest otherwise they should be unable to prove it entitled to the rank of a science at all. There is a growing disposition on the part of the devotees of physical studies—a class greatly and rapidly increasing in importance, and influence—to restrict the honourable title of science to those departments of knowledge which are founded on the unvarying laws of material nature, and to deny the possibility of scientific method and scientific results where the main element of


text: Portal talk:Vatican City

title: Portal talk:Vatican City


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/407

Rh

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest contriv'd a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. | author = Goldsmith | work = The Deserted Village. L. 227. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Greene)


text: Portal talk:Yemen

title: Portal talk:Yemen


text:
Page:Language and the Study of Language.djvu/75

II.] action is the varying and capricious will of man. The considerations adduced above, it is hoped, will remove this apprehension. Nor was it ever otherwise than needless, as the tendency which called it forth is mistaken and unjustifiable. The name "science" admits no such limitation. The vastness of a field of study, the unity in variety of the facts it includes, their connection by such ties that they allow of strict classification and offer fruitful ground for deduction, and the value of the results attained, the truth deduced—these things make a science. And, in all these respects, the study of language need fear a comparison with no one of the physical sciences. Its field is the speech of all mankind, cultivated or savage; the thousands of existing dialects, with all their recorded predecessors; the countless multitudes of details furnished by these, each significant of a fact in human history, external or internal. The wealth of languages is like the wealth of species in the whole animal kingdom. Their tie of connection is the unity of human nature in its wants and capacities, the unity of human knowledge, of existing things and their relations, to be apprehended by the mind and reflected in speech—a bond as infinite in its ramifications among all the varieties of human language, and as powerful in its binding force, as is the unity of plan in vegetable or animal life. The results, finally, for human history, the history of mind, of civilization, of connection of races, for the comprehension of man, in his high endowments and in his use of them, are of surpassing interest. To compare their worth with that of the results derivable from other sciences were to no good purpose: all truth is valuable, and that which pertains to the nature and history of man himself is, to say the least, not inferior in interest to that which concerns his surroundings. Linguistic science, then, has in itself enough of dignity and true scientific character not to need to borrow aught of either from association with other branches of inquiry, which differ from it in subject and scope, while yet they seek by corresponding methods the same ultimate object, the increase of knowledge, and the advancement of man in comprehension of himself and of the universe.


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/184

146

COWSLIP Primula


text:
Page:Language and the Study of Language.djvu/76

54 We return, now, from this necessary digression, to follow onward our leading inquiry, "Why we speak as we do?" And we have to push the question a step further than in the last lecture, asking this time, not simply how we ourselves came into possession of the signs of which our mother-tongue is made up, but also how those from whom we learned them came into possession of them before us; how the tradition from whose hands we implicitly accepted them got them in the form in which it passed them on to us; why our words, in short, are what they are, and not otherwise. We have seen that every part and particle of every existing language is a historical product, the final result of a series of changes, working themselves out in time, under the pressure of circumstances, and by the guidance of motives, which are not beyond the reach of our discovery. This fact prescribes the mode in which language is to be fruitfully studied. If we would understand anything which has become what it is, a knowledge of its present constitution is not enough: we must follow it backward from stage to stage, tracing out the phases it has assumed, and the causes which have determined the transition of one into the other. Merely to classify, arrange, and set forth in order the phenomena of a spoken tongue, its significant material, usages and modes of expression, is grammar and lexicography, not linguistic science. The former state and prescribe only; the latter seeks to explain. And when the explanation is historical, the search for it must be of the same character. To construct, then, by historical processes, with the aid of all the historical evidences within his reach, the history of development of language, back to its very beginning, is the main task of the linguistic student; it is the means by which he arrives at a true comprehension of language, in its own nature and in its relations to the human mind and to human history.

Furthermore, it is hardly necessary to point out that the history of language reposes on that of words. Language is made up of signs for thought, which, though in one sense parts of a whole, are in another and more essential sense isolated and independent entities. Each is produced for its


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/185

 Rh
 * 1) CREATION ##

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = You own a watch the invention of the mind, Though for a single motion 'tis designed, As well as that which is with greater thought With various springs, for various motions wrought. Blackmore—The Creation. | place = Bk. III. The creation and the watch. Hallam—Literatwe of Europe. II. 385, traces its origin to Cicero—De Natura Deorum. Found also in Herbert op Cherbury's treatise De Religions GentUium. Hales—Primitive Origination of Mankind. Boltngbroke, in a letter to Poutlly. Paley used the illustration, which he took from Nidwentyt. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Voltaire) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 1 | text = Are we a piece of machinery that, like the .53olian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident? Or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod? Burns—Letter to Mrs. Dwnhp. New YearDay Morning, 1789. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 147 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Creation is great, and cannot be understood. Caklyle—Essays. Characteristics. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 147 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = [This saying of Alphonso about Ptolemy's astronomy, that] "it seemed a crank machine; that it was pity the Creator had not taken advice." Carlyle—History of Frederick the Great. | place = Bk. II. Ch.VII. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Alphonso}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the soul of each, and God of all? Coleridge—The Eolian Harp. (1795) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony, to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. Dryden—A Song for St. Cecilia's Day. L. 11. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 147 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil, one, and one of good. | author = Homer | work = Iliad. Bk.24. L. 663 | note = {{sc|Pope}}'s trans. | topic = | page = 147 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nature they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote. | author = Lowell | work = Ode at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865. VI. n Though to recount almighty works What words of tongue or seraph can suffice, Or heart of man suffice to comprehend? | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. VII. L. 112. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 147 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Open, ye heavens, your living doors; let in The great Creator from his work return'd Magnificent, his six days' work, a world! | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. VII. L. 566. What cause Moved the Creator in his holy rest Through all eternity so late to build In chaos, and, the work begun, how soon Absolved. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. VII. L. 90. u I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Psalms. CXXXrX. 14. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 147 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Wie aus Duft und Glanz gemischt Du mich schufst, dir dank ich's heut. As thou hast created me out of mingled air and glitter, I thank thee for it. RuCKERT—Die Sterbende Blume. St. 8. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 147 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = No man saw the building of the New Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink of trowel and pickaxe; it descended out of heaven from God. Seeley—Ecce Homo. Ch. XXIV. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Heber}} under {{sc|Architecture}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = When I consider everything that grows Holds in perfection but a httle moment; That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows, Whereon the stars in secret influence comment; Then the conceit of this inconstant stay Sets you most rich in youth before my sight. Shakespeare—Sonnets. XV. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 147 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Vitality in a woman is a blind fury of creation. Bernard Shaw—Man and Superman. Act I. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 147 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Through knowledge we behold the world's creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature's cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass. Spenser—Tears of the Muses. Urania. L. 499. Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram'd This scale of beings; holds a rank which, lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue. Benjamin Stillingfleet—Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Natural History. P. 127. (Ed. 1762) | seealso = (See also {{sc|Waller}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = One God, one law,, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves. | author = Tennyson | work = InMemoriam. Conclusion. Last Stanza. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 147 }}


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/186

 148

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends. Edmund Waller—Of the Danger His Majesty Escaped. L. 68. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Sttllingfleet) CREDIT Private credit is wealth; public honor is security; the feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth. Juntos—Affair of the Falkland Islands. Vol. I. Letter XLII. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 148 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly. | author = Pope | work = Moral Essays. Ep. 3. L. 39. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 148 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. Daniel Webster—Speech on Hamilton, March , 1831. Vol. I. P. 200. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Yelverton}} under {{sc|Law}}) | topic = | page = 142 }}

{{Hoyt topic|Crime}}
 * 1) CRIME ##

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Non nella pena, . Nel delitto e la infamia. S^ Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. Alfieri—Antigone. I. 3. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ilreo D'un delitto 6 chi'l pensa: a chi 1' ordisce v La pena spetta. The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. Alfieri—Antigone. II. 2. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Oh! ben prowide il cielo, Ch' uom per delitto mai lieto non sia. Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime. Alfieri—Oreste. I. 2. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = There's not a crime But takes its proper change out still in crime If once rung on the counter of this world. E. B. Browning—Aurora Leigh. | place = Bk. III. L. 870. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A man who has no excuse for crime, is indeed defenceless! Bulwer-Lytton—The Lady of Lyons. Act IV. Sc. 1. Nor all that heralds rake from ,coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime. | author = Byron | work = Childe Harold. Canto I. St. 3. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 148 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'eehafaud. N The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame. Corneille—Essex. IV. 3. Quoted by Charlotte Corday in a letter to her father after the murder of Marat. | topic = | page = 148 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd. | author = Cowper | work = The Task. | place = Bk. VI. L. 439. | topic = | page = 148 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute. It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder. Joseph Fouche. As quoted by himself in his Memoires, original Ed., 1824. Referring to the murder of the Due Enghien. Fouche's sons deny that it originated with thenfather. Quoted by others as "C'est pis qu'un crime," and "C'estoit pire qu'un crime." (See Notes and Queries, Aug. 14, 1915. P. 123. Aug. 28. P. 166) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society. Froude—Short Studies on Great Subjects. Reciprocal Duties of State and Subjects. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 148 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Every crime destroys more Edens than our own. Hawthorne—Marble Faun. Vol. I. Ch. XXIII. Deprendi miserum est. It is grievous to be caught. Horace—Satires. | place = Bk. I. 2. . A crafty knave needs no broker. Ben Jonson. Quoted in Every Man in his Humour; also in Taylor's London to Ham'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been. Ben Jonson—Volpone. Act III. Sc. 6. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 148 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur. By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. Juvenal—Satires. XIII. 2. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 148 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato; Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hie diadema. v Many commit the same crimes with a very ^Hifferent result. One bears a cross for bis crime; another a crown. Juvenal—Satires. XIII. 103. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 148 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nam scelus intra se taciturn qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet. For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. Jwwaij—Satires. XIII. 209. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 148 }}


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/187

 CRIME CRITICISM


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/508

 470 LOVE


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/481

 LIFE


text: Our American Holidays - Christmas/A Christmas Carol (Holland)


text: Our American Holidays - Christmas/An Offertory


text: Our American Holidays - Christmas/Christmas Song (Ward)


text:
Author talk:Robert Haven Schauffler

Works

 * Thanksgiving -
 * Arbor Day -
 * Flag Day -
 * Independence Day -
 * Washington's Birthday -

title: Author talk:Robert Haven Schauffler


text: Our American Holidays - Christmas/God Rest You Merry Gentlemen


text: Our American Holidays - Christmas/Old Christmas Returned


text: Our American Holidays - Christmas/As Joseph Was A Waukin'


text: Our American Holidays - Christmas/In Excelsis Gloria


text: Our American Holidays - Christmas/The Boar’s Head Carol


text:
Page:Dictionary of National Biography volume 06.djvu/394

 Sarah third daughter of Benjamin Collins of Milford, Salisbury, who died 7 Jan. 1847. He early chose law as a profession, but in consequence of an asthmatic complaint from which he suffered, he devoted himself to conveyancing, and became a pupil of the well-known Charles Butler. He was ultimately called to the bar at the Inner Temple on 5 May 1815. He soon obtained a considerable share of business, and it increased so as to place him in a few years amongst the most eminent conveyancers of the time. One of the drafts by which he was earliest known was that of the Rock Life Assurance Company, 1806, which has ever since been considered the best model for similar instruments, and only departed from where some variation is rendered necessary, as in the charter of King's College, London, which he also drew in 1829. With the history of law amendment Brodie's name is intimately connected. He was one of the real property commissioners in 1828, and took a very leading part in their important labours. Their first report, which was made in May 1829, examined, amongst others, the important subjects of fines and recoveries. This part of the report was drawn up by Brodie, as was also the portion of the second report, June 1830, relating to the probate of wills, and the very able and learned part of the third report, May 1832, relating to copyhold and ancient demesne. The fourth report was made in April 1833, and no part of this was prepared by him. Soon after the presentation of the first report it was determined to bring in bills founded upon its recommendations, and Brodie prepared the most important of these, that for abolishing fines and recoveries, which was brought in at the end of the session 1830, and became law in 1838. Lord St. Leonards, in his work on the 'Real Property Statutes,' declares this act to be 'a masterly performance, reflecting great credit on the learned conveyancer by whom it was framed.' The preparation of his part of the reports, and especially of the bills, for a time almost deprived Brodie of his private business; but he recovered his practice by degrees, so as ultimately to have it fully restored. He was the author of a work entitled 'A Treatise on a Tax on Successions to Real as well as Personal Property, and the Removal of the House-tax, as Substitutes for the Income-tax, and on Burdens on Land and Restrictions on Commerce and Loans of Money,' 1850. He died at 49 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, on 8 Sept. 1854. He was twice married: first, on 16 March 1810, to Elizabeth Mary, daughter of Sutton Thomas Wood of Oxford—she died on 9 May 1825; secondly, on 1 June 1826, to Susan Mary, daughter of John Morgan. She died in London on 4 Dec. 1870. The elder Sir was his brother.

 BRODIE, WILLIAM (d. 1788), deacon of the Incorporation of the Edinburgh Wrights and Masons, and burglar, was the only son of Convener Francis Brodie, who carried on an extensive business as wright and cabinet-maker in the Lawnmarket, Edinburgh, and was for many years a member of the town council. On his father's death Brodie succeeded to the business, and in the following year was elected one of the ordinary deacon councillors of the city. At an early age he acquired a taste for gambling, and almost nightly frequented a disreputable gambling-house in the Fleshmarket Close. In 1786 he became acquainted with three men of the lowest character, George Smith, Andrew Ainslie, and John Brown. With Brodie for their leader, these men formed themselves into a gang of burglars, and at the latter end of 1787 a number of robberies were committed by them in and around Edinburgh. No clue could be discovered to the perpetrators. On 5 March 1788 the gang broke into the excise office in Chessel's Court, Canongate. This undertaking had been wholly suggested and most carefully planned by Brodie. Though disturbed in their operations, they managed to get off with their booty undiscovered. Brown, however, who was under sentence of transportation for a crime committed in England, turned king's evidence. Brodie fled, and for a long time evaded pursuit. Through the means of some letters which he had incautiously written, he was at length traced to Amsterdam, where he was apprehended on the eve of his departure for America. He and Smith were tried at the high court of justiciary on 27 Aug. 1788, before the lord justice clerk and Lords Hailes, Eskgrove, Stonefield, and Swinton, and on the following morning the jury returned a verdict of guilty against both of them. In accordance with the sentence, they were hanged at the west end of the Luckenbooths on 1 Oct. 1788. Notwithstanding his profligate habits Brodie contrived almost to the last to preserve a fair character among his fellow-citizens. It is also a curious fact that he sat in the same court as a juryman in a criminal case only a few months previously to his own appearance there in the dock. A play written by Messrs. R. L. Stevenson and W. E. Henley, and founded upon the incidents of his life, was produced at the Prince's Theatre, London, on 2 July 1884, under the name of


text:
User:Christine (WMF)

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Mead

Who I Am
I work in Reader Relations for the Wikimedia Foundation. I have a background in online community management, and am currently a Master's candidate at San Jose State University in Applied anthropology. My thesis topic revolves around stakeholder relations in Web 2.0, using LiveJournal as my fieldsite. I am analyzing how communications occur, how they break down, and where the failures in communication occur. I hope to use this information to be able to assist organizations with interfacing better with their online communities; not seeing them as simple consumers to be sold a product to, but instead as partners and true stakeholders in their operations.

My volunteer account is Kethryvis, which I use sporadically usually on small edits on interesting subjects that generally have nothing to do with my scholarly interests. It's what keeps me sane.

I also have an alternate account, Kheff in order to see what the registration process is like for new editors. This account will make few, if any, edits and will be abandoned once this research is complete.

If you'd like to find me on IRC, I hang out under the nick ChristineM. Very original, I know.

You can email me with any questions or comments to readerswikimedia.org

What I'm Thinking About
I'm thinking about how to make the new editor process easier. I'm fairly new at editing myself, and it's rather daunting. There's an awful lot to wade through. There's gotta be an easier way! (one of my mantras)

I'm thinking about the line between WMF staff and Wiki-volunteers. Where they cross, where they clash, where they come together. Hey wait, that sounds familiar.

I'm thinking about all the on-Wiki and off-Wiki reading I need to do to get up to speed!

title: User:Christine (WMF)


text:
Page:Dictionary of National Biography volume 06.djvu/395

 'Deacon Brodie, or the Double Life.' Two etchings of him by Kay will be found in the first volume of 'Original Etchings,' Nos. 105 and 106.

 BRODIE, WILLIAM (1815–1881), sculptor, eldest son of John Brodie, a shipmaster of Banff, was born at that place on 22 Jan. 1815. About 1821 the Brodie family removed to Aberdeen, where William was apprenticed to a plumber. He devoted his evenings, however, to scientific studies at the Mechanics' Institution, and developed a singular dexterity in making instruments for his own experiments. He amused himself in casting leaden figures of notable personages. He also seems to have painted in oil, and after his marriage in 1841 is said to have produced a considerable number of portraits. His peculiar talent for modelling medallion likenesses on a small scale attracted much attention, and especially that of Sheriff Watson and Mr. John Hill Burton, by the latter of whom he was encouraged to migrate to Edinburgh in 1847. There he studied for four years in the Trustees' School of Design; essayed modelling on a larger scale, and executed a bust of Lord Jeffrey, one of his earliest patrons. About this time Brodie spent some months at Rome, where he modelled a figure of Corinna, the lyric muse, exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy, of which he was elected an associate in 1857, a full member in 1859, and secretary in 1876. He is believed to have executed more portrait busts than any other artist. His ideal works included the 'Blind Girl,' 'Hecamede,' 'Rebecca,' 'Ruth,' 'The Maid of Lorn,' 'Amy Robsart,' 'Sunshine,' 'Storm,' and 'Memory.' Brodie executed four busts of the queen, one of which is in Balmoral Castle, the colossal statue of the prince consort at Perth, and one of the representative groups in bronze for the Scottish memorial to the prince in Edinburgh. Amongst other works are the bronze statue of Dr. Graham, master of the mint at Glasgow, and of Sir James Young Simpson at Edinburgh, and the marble statue of Sir David Brewster in the quadrangle of the university building, Edinburgh, and of Lord Cockburn in the Parliament House of the same city. He executed portrait busts of most of the celebrities of his day. Not long before his death Brodie received a commission for a statue of the Hon. George Brown, a prominent Canadian politician, for the city of Toronto. After two years of decline Brodie died on 30 Oct. 1881 at Douglas Lodge in Edinburgh.

 BRODRICK, ALAN, (1660?–1728), Irish statesman and lord chancellor of Ireland, came of a family which for several generations had been settled in Surrey. He was the second son of St. John Brodrick by Alice, daughter of Sir Randal Clayton of Thelwall, Cheshire, and was born about 1660. The family of Brodrick had greatly profited by the forfeitures in Ireland. Alan, eldest brother of St. John, was on 19 March 1660 appointed one of the commissioners for settling the affairs of Ireland, and shortly afterwards received a grant of 10,759 acres. St. John, who had taken an active part in the civil wars beginning in 1641, received in 1653 a large grant of lands in the barony of Barrymore, Cork, which was supplemented, under the Act of Settlement in 1670, by an additional grant of lands in the baronies of Barrymore, Fermoy, and Orrery, the whole being erected into the manor of Midleton. The wealth, ability, and political activity of the Brodricks gave them an influence in Ireland almost equal to that of the Boyles. Brodrick adopted the profession of law. Having taken an active part in behalf of William of Orange, he was, along with his brother, attainted by the Irish parliament of James II, a circumstance which probably assisted his early promotion under William. On 19 Feb. 1690-1 he was made king's serjeant, and on 6 June 1695 he was appointed solicitor-general for Ireland, an office in which he was continued after the accession of Queen Anne. He entered the Irish House of Commons in 1692 as member for the city of Cork, and on 24 Sept. 1703 he was chosen speaker. On account of his liberal views in regard to 'Toleration,' and of his opposition to the Sacramental Test Act, he lost the favour of the government, and when the house refused to pass some bills promoted by the lord-lieutenant he was removed from the office of solicitor-general. When, however, the appointment of Earl Pembroke to the viceroyalty was determined on, he was, 12 June 1707, appointed attorney-general for Ireland. As Lord Pembroke deemed it impossible to obtain the repeal of the Test Act in the Irish parliament, Brodrick went to England to persuade the government to propose its repeal in the English parliament, but without success. In May


text:
Page:Dictionary of National Biography volume 06.djvu/396

 1710 he was called to the upper house as chief justice of the queen's bench, but his attachment to the principles of the revolution caused his dismissal in 1711. In 1713 he re-entered the Irish parliament as member for the city of Cork, and notwithstanding the opposition of the government he was chosen speaker by a majority of four votes. Having been the principal adviser in the measures taken by the Irish House of Commons to secure the protestant succession, he was appointed by George I, 1 Oct. 1714, lord chancellor of Ireland, and on 13 April 1715 was raised to the peerage as Baron Brodrick of Midleton. On 5 Aug. 1717 he was advanced to the dignity of Viscount Midleton. In the same year that he was made lord chancellor he entered the British parliament as member for Midhurst, Sussex, which he continued to represent till his death. Although he attached himself to the party of Sunderland, he strenuously opposed the Peerage Bill, resisting with equal firmness the solicitations and menaces of Sunderland, and turning a deaf ear even to the urgent requests of the sovereign. Although possibly chargeable with opiniativeness, his sterling honesty, bold independence, and sincere patriotism, entitle him to the highest praise. On the death of Sunderland he attached himself to Carteret in opposition to Townshend and Walpole, against the latter of whom he ultimately cherished a violent antipathy. By his conduct in the famous case, Sherlock v. Annesley, Midleton incurred the serious displeasure of the Irish lords, and as by his opposition to Wood's coinage patent he had rendered himself specially obnoxious to the Duke of Grafton, the lord-lieutenant, Grafton connived at a resolution of the lords 'that through the absence of the lord high chancellor there has been a failure of justice in this kingdom by the great delay in the high court of chancery and in the exchequer chamber.' The resolution was, however, robbed of its sting by a counter resolution in the House of Commons, and Walpole, to win if possible the all-essential support of Midleton for the patent, appointed Carteret lord-lieutenant. Carteret, dreading dismissal from office, exerted all his personal influence on Midleton, but in vain. The result was a personal breach between them, and Midleton, disgusted with his cold reception at the castle, resigned office 25 May 1725. Notwithstanding his strenuous opposition to the patent, Midleton not only refused to accept the dedication to him of Swift's 'Drapier's Letters,' but supported the prosecution of their author, on the ground that they tended to 'create jealousies between the king and the people of Ireland.' He died at his country seat, Ballyanan, Cork, in 1728. He was thrice married: first to Catherine, second daughter of Redmond Barry of Rathcormack, by whom he had one son and one daughter; secondly, to Alice, daughter of Sir Peter Courthorpe of the Little Island, Cork, by whom he had two sons and a daughter; and thirdly, to Anne, daughter of Sir John Trevor, master of the rolls, by whom he had no issue.

BRODRICK, THOMAS (d. 1769), vice-admiral, entered the navy about 1723. In 1739 he was a lieutenant of the Burford, Vernon's flagship at Porto Bello, and commanded the landing party which stormed the Castillo de Fierro. In recompense for his brilliant conduct Vernon promoted him to the command of the Cumberland fireship, in which he in 1741 took part in the expedition to Cartagena. On 25 March he was posted into the Shoreham frigate, and continued actively employed during the rest of that campaign, and afterwards in the expedition to Cuba [see ]. After other service he returned to England in 1743, and early in the following year was appointed to the Exeter of 60 guns. In March of the following year he was appointed to the Dreadnought, which was sent out to the Leeward Islands, and continued there till after the peace in 1748. In May 1756 Brodrick was sent out to the Mediterranean in command of reinforcements for Admiral Byng, whom he joined at Gibraltar just before the admiral was ordered home under arrest. He had meantime been advanced to be rear-admiral, in which rank he served under Sir Edward Hawke till towards the close of the year, when the fleet returned home. In January 1757 he was a member of the courtmartial on Admiral Byng [see ]; and was afterwards, with his flag in the Namur, third in command in the expedition against Rochfort [see ]. Early in 1758 Brodrick was appointed as second in command in the Mediterranean, with his flag on board the Prince George of 90 guns. On 13 April, being then off Ushant, the Prince George caught fire, and out of a complement of nearly 800, some 250 only were saved; the admiral himself was picked up, stark naked, by a merchant-ship's boat, after he had been swimming for about an hour.


text: Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Brodie, William (d.1788)


text:
Page:Dictionary of National Biography volume 06.djvu/397

 Brodrick and the survivors of his ship's company were taken by the Glasgow frigate to Gibraltar, where he hoisted his flag in the St. George. In the following February he was promoted to be vice-admiral, and was shortly afterwards superseded by Admiral Boscawen, under whom he commanded during the blockade of Toulon, and in the action of 18-19 Aug., culminating in the burning or capture of the French ships in Lagos Bay [see ]. When Boscawen returned to England, Brodrick blockaded the French ships at Cadiz so closely, that even the friendly Spaniards could not resist making them the subject of insolent ridicule. They are said to have stuck up a notice in some such terms as 'For sale, eight French men-of-war. For particulars apply to Vice-admiral Brodrick.' The French ships did not stir out till the passage was cleared for them by a gale of wind, which compelled the blockading squadron to put into Gibraltar. Brodrick then returned to England. He had no further employment, and died 1 Jan. 1769 of cancer in the face.

 BROGHILL,. [See .]

 BROGRAVE, JOHN (d. 1613), lawyer, was the son of Richard Brograve by his wife, daughter of —— Sares. He was probably educated at Cambridge. In 1576 he was autumn reader at Gray's Inn. He was elected one of the treasurers of that society in February 1579-80, and again in February 1583-4. In 1580 he was appointed her majesty's attorney for the duchy of Lancaster, and he continued to hold that office under King James I, who conferred upon him the honour of knighthood. He was nominated one of the counsel to the university of Cambridge in 1581. He resided at Braughing in Hertfordshire, of which county he was custos rotulorum for thirty years. [He was M.P. for Preston 1586, 1597, and 1601, and for Boroughbridge 1592.] He died on 11 Sept. 1613, and was buried at Braughing. By his marriage with Margaret, daughter of Simeon Steward of Lakenheath, Suffolk (she died 5 July, 1593), he had issue three sons and two daughters.

He is the author of 'The Reading of Mr. John Brograve of Grayes Inne, made in Summer 1576, upon part of the Statute of 27 H. 8. C. 10, of Vses, concerning Jointures, beginning at the twelfth Branch thereof.' Printed in 'Three Learned Readings made upon three very usefull Statutes, by Sir James Dyer, Brograve and Tristram Risdon,' London, 1648, 4to. (Cf. MS. Harl. 829, art. 3.)

BROKE. [See also and .]

BROKE or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563), translator, was the author of 'The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Iulieit written first in Italian by Bandell, and nowe in English by Ar. Br. In ædibus Richard Tottelli.' The colophon runs: 'Imprinted at London in Flete Strete within Temble barre at the signe of the hand and starre of Richard Tottill, the XIX. day of Nouember An. do. 1562.' The book was entered in the Stationers' Register late in 1562 as 'The Tragicall History of the Romeus and Juliett with sonettes.' The volume is mainly of interest as the source whence Shakespeare drew the plot of his tragedy of 'Romeo and Juliet.' It is written throughout in rhymed verse of alternate lines of twelve and fourteen syllables. Broke did not (as the title-page states) translate directly from the Italian of Bandello, but from the 'Histoires Tragiques extraictes des Œuvres de Bandel' (Paris, 1559), by Pierre Boaistuau surnamed Launay and François de Belle-Forest. Broke does not adhere very closely to his French original: he developes the character of the Nurse and alters the concluding scene in many important points, in all of which he is followed by Shakespeare. In the address to the reader Broke shows himself a staunch protestant, and deplores the introduction into the story of 'dronken gossyppes and superstitious friers (the naturally fitte instrumentes of unchastitie).' He also notices that the tale had already been acted on the stage with great applause. The popularity of Broke's undertaking is proved not only by Shakespeare's literal adoption of its story, but by two imitations of it, issued almost immediately after its first publication (Bernard Garter's 'Tragical History of two English Lovers,' 1565, and William Painter's 'Romeus and Giuletta' in the 'Palace of Pleasure,' 1566).

Only three copies of the first edition of Broke's translation are now known to be extant: one in the Malone collection at the Bodleian, a second in Mr. Huth's library, and the third—an imperfect copy—among Capell's books at Trinity College, Cambridge.


text:
User:PatGallacher

Pat Gallacher works mainly on Wikipedia, where he has the same name, but he has added a few documents to Wikisource.

title: User:PatGallacher


text: Our American Holidays - Christmas/Listen Lordings, Unto Me


text: Our American Holidays - Christmas/The Night After Christmas


text: Our American Holidays - Christmas/When the Stars of Morning Sang


text: Our American Holidays - Christmas/A Prayer at Bethlehem


text: Our American Holidays - Christmas/The Christmas Fires


text: Page:Poems, Volume 1, Coates, 1916.djvu/184


text: Page:Poems, Volume 1, Coates, 1916.djvu/185


text: Page:Poems, Volume 1, Coates, 1916.djvu/188


text:
Page:U.S. Department of the Interior Annual Report 1877.djvu/8

VI successfully accomplished. While Sitting Bull and the other Sioux chiefs with him, in spite of the unusual effort made by this government, refused to place themselves under the control of the United States, the Canadian authorities have not failed to recognize the friendly spirit which prompted, on our part, so extraordinary a step as the opening of communications with a fugitive enemy on foreign soil in order to prevent any interruption of the relations of good neighborhood, and have, with the most commendable promptness, taken such measures as a high sense of their international obligations suggested. Unofficial information has reached us that Sitting Bull and his bands have been removed to a place more distant from the frontier, and it is expected that the Canadian authorities will be entirely successful in preventing hostile incursions upon the territory of the United States, on the part of these Indians.

THE NEZ PERCÉS

The report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs contains an elaborate statement of the origin, progress, and termination of the Nez Percys war. There seems to be little reason to doubt that this bloody conflict might have been avoided by a more careful regard for the rights of an Indian tribe, whose former conduct had been uniformly peaceable and friendly. The outbreak of hostilities was marked by a number of murders and barbarous outrages on the part of the Indians; but the subsequent conduct of the struggle has become memorable by the extraordinary skill and energy displayed by Chief Joseph, as well as by an almost entire absence of those acts of savage cruelty which ordinarily render Indian warfare so horrible. If any of the perpetrators of the above-mentioned murders have survived, they ought to receive the punishment due to their crimes. It seems at least doubtful whether Chief Joseph can be charged with any responsibility for those atrocities, all of which are reported to have occurred in his absence. His general conduct certainly entitles him to the fullest benefit of the doubt, and to that consideration which is usually accorded to a prisoner of war after an honorable surrender. The captive Nez Perces were, immediately after the termination of the war, moved eastward by the military authorities, and will be held, as long as may be necessary, at a point within easy reach of supplies. The feeling excited among the settlers by the outrages committed at the outbreak of hostilities renders the return of the captives to their old reservation unadvisable. I recommend their settlement in the Indian Territory as soon as circumstances will permit. The defeat of Chief Joseph has undoubtedly had the effect of greatly discouraging the spirit of restlessness, which, during the summer, appeared among other Indian tribes, and of thus lessening the danger of further disturbance.

THE APACHES AND WARM SPRING INDIANS.

After the removal, in June, 1876, of 325 Chiricahua Apaches to San Carlos, the Chiricahua reserve was abolished, and the military com-


text:
Portal talk:Magna Carta

Headline text
What do you feel about the Preamble?

Looks like a typo.
"Since, moveover"? Sounds like a day at my school when someone says "moveover". :p

Source
The current text is from. Just in case anyone is interested? - Mtmelendez 18:47, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

NARA source for Magna Carta confirmed by Edward I in 1297 - - Mtmelendez 13:32, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Redirect from main namespace
I'm a bit confused by this. Is the Portal namespace going to be subsuming disambiguations? Prosody (talk) 07:10, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

 * ... Ditto. To be clear - all I've just done is fix some double/cross-namespace redirects by making them dated soft-redirects instead of the usual deletion. I think it was User:Hesperian who originally created one namespace's content a redirect to another to start this all off. -- George Orwell III (talk) 07:19, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

title: Portal talk:Magna Carta


text:
Page:EB1911 - Volume 19.djvu/274

 a dozen. (This memorable victory is annually commemorated by the Boers as Dingaan’s Day, while the Umslatos, which ran red with the blood of the slain, was renamed Blood river.) Dingaan fled, the victorious Boers entered the royal kraal, gave decent burial to the skeletons of Retief and his party, and regarded themselves as now undisputed masters of Natal. They had recovered from a leather pouch which Retief carried the deed by which Dingaan ceded “to Retief and his countrymen the place called Port Natal together with all the lands annexed as far as the land may be useful and in my possession.” This was the 5th or 6th cession made by Chaka or Dingaan of the same territory to different individuals. In every case the overlordship of the Zulus was assumed.

Returning south, Pretorius and his commando were surprised to learn that Port Natal had been occupied on the 4th of December by a detachment of the 72nd Highlanders sent thither from the Cape. The emigrant farmers had, with the assent of the few remaining Englishmen at Port Natal, in May 1838 issued a proclamation taking possession of the port. This had been followed by an intimation from the governor of the Cape (Major-General Sir George Napier) inviting the emigrants to return to the colony, and stating that whenever he thought it desirable he should take military possession of the port. In sanctioning the occupation of the port the British government of the day had no intention of making Natal a British colony, but wished to prevent the Boers establishing an independent republic upon the coast with a harbour through which access to the interior could be gained. After remaining at the port just over a year the Highlanders were withdrawn, on Christmas Eve 1839. Meantime the Boers had founded Pietermaritzburg and made it the seat of their volksraad. They rendered their power in Natal absolute, for the time, in the following month, when they joined with Panda, Dingaan’s brother, in another attack on the Zulu king. Dingaan was utterly defeated and soon afterwards perished, Panda becoming king in his stead by favour of the Boers.

At this time, had the affairs of the Boer community been managed with prudence and sagacity they might have established an enduring state. But their impatience of control, reflected in the form of government adopted, led to disastrous consequences. Legislative power was vested, nominally, in the volksraad (consisting of twenty-four members), while the president and executive were changed every three months. But whenever any measure of importance was to be decided a meeting was called of het publiek, that is, of all who chose to attend, to sanction or reject it. “The result,” says Theal, “was utter anarchy. Decisions of one day were frequently reversed the next, and every one held himself free to disobey any law that he did not approve of Public opinion of the hour in each section of the community was the only force in the land” (History of South Africa 1834–1854, chap. xliv.). While such was the domestic state of affairs during the period of self-government, the settlers cherished large territorial views. They were in loose alliance with and in quasi-supremacy over the Boer communities which had left the Cape and settled at Winburg and at Potchefstroom. They had declared themselves a free and independent state under the title of “The Republic of Port Natal and adjacent countries," and sought (September 1840) from Sir George Napier at the Cape an acknowledgment of their independence by Great Britain. Sir George, being without definite instructions from England, could give no decisive answer, but he was friendly disposed to the Natal farmers. This feeling was, however, changed by what Sir George (and many of the Dutch in Natal also) thought a wilful and unjustifiable attack (December 1840) on a tribe of Kaffirs on the southern, or Cape Colony, frontier by a commando under Andries Pretorius, which set out, nominally, to recover stolen cattle. Having at length received an intimation from London that the queen “could not acknowledge the independence of her own subjects, but that the trade of the emigrant farmers would be placed on the same footing as that of any other British settlement, upon their receiving a military force to exclude the interference with or possession of the country by any other European power,” Sir George communicated this decision to the volksraad in September 1841. Under the arrangement proposed the Boers might easily have secured the benefits of self-government, subject to an acknowledgment of British supremacy, together with the advantage of military protection, for the British government was then extremely reluctant to extend its colonial responsibilities. The Boers, however, strongly resented the contention of the British that they could not shake off British nationality though beyond the bounds of any recognized British possession, nor were they prepared to see their only port garrisoned by British troops, and they rejected Napier’s overtures. Napier, therefore, on the 2nd of December 1841, issued a proclamation in which he stated that in consequence of the emigrant farmers refusing to be treated as British subjects and of their attitude towards the Kaffir tribes he intended resuming military occupation of Port Natal. This proclamation was answered in a lengthy minute, dated the 21st of February 1842, drawn up by J. N. Boshof (afterwards president of the Orange Free State), by far the ablest of the Dutch who had settled in Natal. In this minute the farmers ascribed all their troubles to one cause, namely, the absence of a representative government, which had been repeatedly asked for by them while still living in Cape Colony and as often denied or delayed, and concluded by a protest against the occupation of any part of their territory by British troops. An incident which happened immediately after these events greatly encouraged the Boers to persist in their opposition to Great Britain. In March 1842 a Dutch vessel sent out by G. G. Ohrig, an Amsterdam merchant who sympathized warmly with the cause of the emigrant farmers, reached. port Natal, and its supercargo, J. A. Smellekamp (a man who subsequently played a part in the early history of the Transvaal and Orange Free State), concluded a treaty with the volksraad assuring them of the protection of Holland. The Natal Boers believed the Netherlands to be one of the great powers of Europe, and were firmly persuaded that its government would aid them in resisting England.

On the 1st of April Captain T. C. Smith with a force of 263 men left his camp at the Umgazi, on the eastern frontier of Cape Colony, and marching overland reached Durban without opposition, and encamped, on the 4th of May, at the base of the Berea hills. The Boers, cut off from their port, called out a commando of some 300 to 400 men under Andries Pretorius and gathered at Congella at the head of the bay. On the night of the 23rd of May Smith made an unsuccessful attack on the Boer camp, losing his guns and fifty men killed and Wounded. On the 26th the Boers captured the harbour and settlement, and on the 31st blockaded the British camp, the women and children being removed, on the suggestion of Pretorius, to a ship in the harbour of which the Boers had taken possession. Meantime, an old Durban resident, Richard (commonly called Dick) King, had undertaken to convey tidings of the perilous position of the British force to the commandant at Graham’s Town. He started on the night of the 24th, and escaping the Boer outposts rode through the dense bush and across the bridgeless rivers of Kaffraria at peril of his life from hostile natives and wild beasts, and in nine days reached his destination—a distance of 360 m. in a direct line, and nearly 600 by the route to be followed. This remarkable ride was accomplished with one change of mount, obtained from a missionary in Pondoland. A comparatively strong force under Colonel A. J. Cloete was at once sent by sea to Port Natal, and on the 26th of June Captain Smith was relieved. The besieged had suffered greatly from lack of food. Within a fortnight Colonel Cloete had received the submission of the volksraad at Pietermaritzburg. The burghers represented that they were under the protection of Holland, but this plea was peremptorily rejected by the commander of the British forces.

The British government was still undecided as to its policy towards Natal. In April 1842 Lord Stanley (afterwards 14th earl of Derby), then secretary for the colonies in the second Peel Administration, wrote to Sir George Napier that the establishment of a colony in Natal would be attended with little prospect of

title: Page:EB1911 - Volume 19.djvu/274


text:
Author:James Stanton Park

Works

 * Christmas Carol in Christmas, edited by Robert Haven Schauffler
 * Ione - A Tale of Ephesus (1892)
 * The Pageant Of Old Detroit (1915)

title: Author:James Stanton Park


text: Portal talk:Northern Ireland

title: Portal talk:Northern Ireland


text: Portal talk:Scotland

title: Portal talk:Scotland


text: Portal talk:England

title: Portal talk:England


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/233

Rh DIPLOMACY (See Statesmanship)

DISAPPOINTMENT


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/284

246

{{Hoyt quote | num = 6 | text = Extremes meet. Mercier—Tableaux de Paris. Vol. IV. Title of Ch. 348. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Emerson) | place = | note = | topic = Extremes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 7 | text = And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. II. 599. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Campbell}}) | place = | note = | topic = Extremes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 8 | text = He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind. Montaigne—Essays. Bk. I. Ch. XXVI. | place = | note = | topic = Extremes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 9 | text = Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much. | author = Pope | work = Essay on Criticism. L. 385. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Cleobulus}}) | topic = Extremes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 10 | text = Extremes in nature equal good produce; Extremes in man concur to general use. | author = Pope | work = Moral Essays. | place = Ep. III. L. 161. | note = | topic = Extremes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Extrema primo nemo tentavit loco. No one tries extreme remedies at first. Seneca—Agamemnon. 153. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Extremes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Like to the time o' the year between the extremes Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry. Antony and Cleopatra. Act I. Sc. 5. L. 51. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Extremes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Not fearing death, nor shrinking for distress, But always resolute in most extremes. Henry VI. Pt. I. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 37. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Extremes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Who can be patient in such extremes? Henry VI. Pt. III. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 215. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Extremes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And where two raging fires meet together, They do consume the thing that feeds their fury: Though little fire grows great with little wind, Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all. Taming of the Shrew. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 133. O brother, speak with possibilities, And do not break into these deep extremes. Titus Andronicus. Act III. Sc. 1. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Extremes | page = 246 }}

 {{Hoyt topic|Eyes}}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = In her eyes a thought Grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn, A mystical forewarning. T. B. AldrichA gray eye is a sly eye, | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Eyes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Arid roguish is a brown one; Turn full upon me thy eye,— Ah, how its wavelets drown one! A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark-sun! A black eye is the best one. W. R. Alger—Oriental Poetry. Schaffy on Eyes. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Eyes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth. Bailey—Festus. Sc. A Drawing Room. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Eyes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Look babies in your eyes, my pretty sweet one. | author = Beaumont and Fletcher | work = The Loyal Subject. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Donne, Herrick, Sidney}}) | topic = Eyes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done. F. W. BouRDrLLON—Light. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Sylvester}}, also {{sc|Bourdillon}} under {{sc|Night}}) | topic = Eyes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies. E. B. Browning—Hector in the Garden. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Eyes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook. Bryant—Oh, Fairest of the Rural Maids. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Eyes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. Bulwer-Lytton—What Will He Do With Itt Bk.VIII. Ch. n. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Eyes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde. | author = Burton—Anat. of Melancholy. Ed. 6. P. 40. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Erasmus}}) | topic = Eyes | page = 246 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Her eye (I'm very fond of handsome eyes) Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise Flash'd an expression more of pride than ire, And love than either; and there would arise, A something in them which was not desire, But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul, Which struggled through and chasten'd down the whole. | author = Byron | work = Don Juan. | place = Canto I. St. 60. | topic = Eyes | page = 246 }}


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/309

 FIDELITY FIG

FIDELITY (See also )


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/210

 172 DEATH

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He whom the gods love dies young. Menander—Dis Exapaton. Same in Dionysius—Ars Rhetorica. Vol. V. P. 364. Reiske's Ed. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Byron) There's nothing certain in man's life but this: That he must lose it. | author = Owen Meredith | cog = (Lord Lytton) | work = Clytemnestra. | place = Pt. XX. | topic = Death | page = 172 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = If I should die to-night, My friends would look upon my quiet face Before they laid it in its resting-place, And deem that death had left it almost fair. Robert C. V. Meyers—// I should Die Tonight. Sec 100 Choice Selections. No. 27. P. 172 | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Death | page = 172 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Aujourd'hui si la mort n' existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer. Today if death did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it. MrLLADD—When voting for the death of Louis XVI. Bismarck used same expression to CHEVALrER Nigra, referring to Italy. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Voltaire}} under {{sc|God}}) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Death | page = 172 }}

DEATH

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. Joaquin Miller—Even So. St. 35. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Death | page = 172 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = O fairest flower; no sooner blown but blasted, Soft, silken primrose fading timelessly. | author = Milton | work = Ode on the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Death | page = 172 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = So spake the grisly Terror. Mn/roN—Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. II. L. 704. I fled, and cried out Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded Death. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. II. L. 787. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Death | page = 172 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Before mine eyes in opposition sits Grim Death, my son and foe. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. II. L. 803. is Death Grinned horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be filled. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. II. L. 845. w Eas'd the putting off These troublesome disguises which we wear. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. IV. L. 739. Behind her Death Close following pace for pace, not mounted yet On his pale horse. MrLTON—Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. X. L. 588. How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible! how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap! | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. X. L. 775. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Death | page = 172 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. XI. L. 491. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Death | page = 172 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nous sommes tous mortels, et chacun est pour soi. We are all mortaL and each one is for himself. Mouere—L'Ecole des Femmes. II. 6. On n'a point pour la mort de dispense de Rome. Rome can give no dispensation from death. Molieres—L'Etourdi. II. 4. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Kempis}}) | topic = Death | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = La mort (diet on) nous acquitte de toutes nos obligations. Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations. | author = Montaigne | work = Essays. | place = Bk. I. Ch. 7. | topic = Death | page = 172 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = La mort est. la recepte a touts maulx. | author = Montaigne | work = Essays. | place = Bk. II. Ch. 111. | topic = Death | page = 172 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = There's nothing terrible in death; 'Tis but to cast our robes away, And sleep at night, without a breath To break repose till dawn of day. Montgomery—In Memory ofE. G. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Death | page = 172 }}


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/235

Rh DISGRACE

(See also )


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/260

 222

) | topic = | page = }}

) | topic = | page = }}

ENGLAND


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/285

Rh


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/310

  Abies


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/211

 DEATH DEATH Weep not for those whom the veil of the tomb In life's happy morning hath hid from our eyes, Ere sin threw a blight o'er the spirit's young bloom Or earth had profaned what was born for the skies. Moore—Song. Weep not for Those. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 173 }}


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/236

 198 DOCTRINE DOG

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn, to the sea, And Wickliff 's dust shall spread abroad Wide as the waters be. Daniel Webster—Quoted in an Address before the Sons of New Hampshire. (1849) | seealso = (See also {{sc|Fuller) u As thou these ashes, little brook! will bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accurst, An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread throughout the world dispersed. Wordsworth—Ecclesiastical Sketches. Pt. II. Wicliffe. (gee also pjj!^ DOG Non stuzzicare il can che dorme. Do not disturb the sleeping dog. Alessandro Allegri—Rime e Prose. (1754) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = II fait mal eveiller le chien qi dort. It is bad to awaken a sleeping dog. From a MS. of 13th Cen. in Le Boux de Ldjcy's Collection, Vol. I. P. 108; Vol. II. P. 392. LaGuerredeGenhe. Poem. (1534) Franck—Sprichwdrter. (1541) An earlier version in Ignaz von Zingerle—Sprichwdrter im Mittdaller. For Earlier idea, with cat substituted; see Gabriel Meurier— Tr4sor des Sentences; Nunez de Guzman— Refranes, Salamanca. Wake not a sleeping lion. Countryman's New Commonwealth. (1647) Wake not a sleeping wolf. Henry IV. Pt.II. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 174. Henry VIII Act I. Sc. I. L. 121. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Chaucer}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He was such a dear little cock-tailed pup. Barham—Mr. Peter's Story. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 198 }}


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/261

 ENGLAND ENGLAND If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. Rupert Brooke—The Soldier. | seealso = (See also under )

) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 'Tis a glorious charter, deny it who can, That's breathed in the words, "I'm an Englishman." Eliza Cook—An Englishman. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Gilbert) England, with all thy faults, I love thee still-^My Country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee. | author = Cowper | work = Task. Bk. II. L. 206. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Churchill) | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose. | author = Cowper | work = To Sir Joshua Reynolds. | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers. Benj. Disraeli—The Young Duke. Bk. I. Ch. XI. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Barbere) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail. Dryden—Astrcea Redux. L. 117. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 223 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = In these troublesome days when the great Mother Empire stands splendidly isolated in Europe. Hon. George Eulas Foster—Speech in the Canadian House of Commons. (Jan. 16, 1896.) | seealso = (See also {{sc|Goschen, Laurier, Potncare) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Us s'amusaient tristement selon la coutume de leur pays. They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as is the custom of their country. Attributed to Froissart. Not found in his works. Same in Due de Sully's Memoirs (1630) ("Fusage" instead of "coutume. | author =  | work =  | place =  | note =  | topic =  | page = 223 }}


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/286

 248 EYES

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak but as the constitution is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am. Speaker Lenthal to Charles I. As quoted EYES by Wendell Phtliips—Under the Flag. Boston, April 21, 1861. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Lincoln) Der Blick des Forschers fand Nicht selten mebr, als er zu finden wunschte. The eye of Paul Pry often finds more than he wished to find. Lessing—Nathan der Weise. II. 8. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 248 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you. Lincoln to the South Carolina Commissioners. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Lenthal}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And thy deep eyes, amid the gloom, Shine like jewels in a shroud. | author = Longfellow | work = Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. IV. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 248 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The flash of his keen, black eyes Forerunning the thunder. | author = Longfellow | work = Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. IV. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 248 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady, lambent light,—are luminous, but not sparkling. | author = Longfellow | work = Hyperion. Bk. III. Ch. IV. | place = | note = | topic = | page = 248 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = O lovely eyes of azure, Clear as the waters of a brook that run Limpid and laughing in the summer sun! | author = Longfellow | work = Masque of Pandora. Pt. I. Within her tender eye The heaven of April, with its changing light. | author = Longfellow | work = Spirit of Poetry. L. 45. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 248 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Since your eyes are so sharpe, that you cannot onely looke through a milstone, but cleane through the minde. LYLY—Euphves and his England. P. 289. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 248 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The light of the body is the eye. Matthew. VI. 22. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 248 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through. Geo. MacDonald—Song in "At the Back of the North Wind." Ch. XXXIII. Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them. | author = Owen Meredith | cog = (Lord Lytton) | work = Lucile. | place = Pt. II. Canto II. St. 3. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Gautter}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns. Andrew Marvel—Description of Holland. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Erasmus}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes. | author = Milton | work = Il Penseroso. L. 39. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Ovid}} under {{sc|God}})

Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence. | author = Milton | work = L'Allegro. L. 121. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 248 }}


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/311

 FIREFLY

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Now, motionless and dark, eluded search Self-shrouded: and anon, starring the sky, Rose like a shower of fire. | author = Southey | work = Madoc. Pt. II. (Confounds the firefly with the lantern-fly.)

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Many a night I saw the Pleiads rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid. | author = Tennyson | work = Locksley Hall. 9.

FISH

| seealso = (See also {{sc|Angling)

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Wha'll buy my caller herrin'? The're no brought here without brave darin' Buy my caller herrin', Ye little ken their worth. Wha'll buy my caller herrin'? O you may ca' them vulgar farin', Wives and mithers maist despairin' Ca' them lives o' men. Caller Herrin'. Old Scotch Song. Credited to Lady Nairn. Claimed for Neil Gow, who probably only wrote the music. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Scott)

"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail! See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance: They are waiting on the shingle—will you come and join the dance?" Lewis Carroll—Song in Alice in Wonderland. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive; His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow, That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw: Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand, FISH That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand, Far off itself doth cast, so does the salmon vaut. And if at first he fail, his second summersaut He instantly assays and from his nimble ring, Still yarking never leaves, until himself he fling Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap. DR&nas—Poly-Olbion. Sixth Song. L. 45. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 273 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = O scaly, slippery, wet, swift, staring wights, What is 't ye do? what life lead? eh, dull goggles? How do ye vary your vile days and nights? How pass your Sundays? Are ye still but joggles In ceaseless wash? Still nought but gapes and bites, And drinks, and stares, diversified with boggles. Leigh Hunt—Sonnets. The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 273 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Fishes that tipple in the deepe, Know no such liberty. Lovelace—To Allhea from Prison. St. 2. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 273 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Cut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Although my middle's left, there's nothing there! What is my head cut off? A sounding sea; What is my tail cut off? A rushing river; And in their mingling depths P fearless play, Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever. Macaulay—Enigma. On the Codfish. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about. Cotton Mather—Hymn. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 273 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains. | author = Pope | work = Windsor Forest. L. 141. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 273 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 'Tis true, no turbots dignify my boards, But gudgeons, flounders, what my Thames affords. | author = Pope | work = Second Book of Horace. Satire n. L.. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 273 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = We have here other fish to fry. Rabelais—Works. Bk. V. Ch. 12. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 273 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = It's no fish ye're buying—it's men's lives. Scott—The Antiquary. Ch. XI. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Caller Herrin'}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones. Pericles. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 29. | seealso = (See also {{sc|De Morgan, Swift}} under {{sc|Flea}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Blue, darkly, deeply, beautifully blue. Sovthey—Modoc in Wales. Pt. V. (Referring to dolphins.) Byron erroneously quotes this as referring to the sky. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Byron}} under {{sc|Sky)


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/262

 224 ENGLAND ENGLAND


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/287

 EYES


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/312

274

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The meteor flag of England. Campbell—re Mariners of England. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Milton}} under {{sc|War) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Flag | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 5 | text = Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze! Campbell—Ye Mariners of England. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Flag | page = 274 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds Our Country's Banner! Be every bar, and every star, Displayed in full and glorious manner! Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying! Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing! Abraham Coles—The Microcosm and other Poems. P. 191. If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot. John A. Drx—Speeches and Addresses. Vol. II. P. 440. An Official Dispatch. Jan. 29, 1861. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Flag | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. Joseph Rodman Drake—The Croakers. The American Flag. St. 1. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Flag | page = 274 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome; And all thy hues were born in heaven. Joseph Rodman Drake—The Croakers. The American Flag. St. 5. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Flag | page = 274 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole, It does not look likely to stir a man's soul. 'Tis the deeds that were done 'neath the motheaten rag, When the pole was a staff, and the rag was a flag. Gen. Sir E. Hamlet. Referring to the Colors of the 43rd Monmouth Light Infantry. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Flag | page = 274 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky. Holmes—A Metrical Essay. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Flag | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the God of storms, The lightning and the gale. Holmes—A Metrical Essay. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Flag | page = 274 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Oh! say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watch 'd, were so gallantly streaming; And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there! CHORUS Oh! say, does that star spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! F. S. Key—Star-Spangled Banner. To Anacreon in heaven, where he sat in full glee, A few Sons of Harmony sent a petition, That he their inspirer and patron would be. Ralph Tomltnson—To Anacreon in Heaven. Music by John Stafford Smith. Tune of The Star-Spangled Banner (between 1770 and 1775) to which F. S. Key set his words. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Flag | page = 274 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must when our cause it is just. And this be our motto, "In God is our trust!" And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. | author = F. S. Key | work = Star-Spangled Banner. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Morris}}) | topic = Flag | page = 274 }}


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/313

Rh


text: Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/237


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/213

 DEATH DEATH

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Non amittuntur sed prremittuntur. They are not lost but sent before. Seneca—Epistles. LXIII. 16. Early sources in Cyprian—De Mortatitate. S. XX. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Henry) Stultitia est timore mortis mori. It is folly to die of the fear of death. Seneca—Epistles. LXLX. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 175 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Incertum est quo te loco mors expectet: itaque tu illam omni loco expecta. It is uncertain in what place death may await thee; therefore expect it in any place. Seneca—Epistolce Ad Lwalium. XXVI. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 175 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Dies iste, quern tamquam extremum reformidas, Eeterni natalis est. This day, which thou fearest as thy last, is the birthday of eternity. Seneca—Epistolae Ad Lucilium. CII. Interim poena est mori, Sed sa?pe donum; pluribus venie fuit. Sometimes death is a punishment; often a gift; it has been a favor to many. Seneca—H erodes Oettms. CMXXX. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 175 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Eripere vitam nemo non homini potest; At nemo mortem: mille ad hanc aditus patent. Any one may take life from man, but no one death; a thousand gates stand open to it. Seneca—Phamissm. CLII. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 175 }}


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/214

 176 DEATH DEATH

) | topic = | page = }}


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/264

 226 ENTHUSIASM ENVY

) | topic = | page = }}


text: Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/289


text: Observations on Man (6th edition)/Part I/Chapter III/Section I


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/215

 DEATH DEATH


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/290

 252 PACE FAILURE


text:
Page:Observations on Man 1834.djvu/203

 CHAP. III.

Section I
WORDS, AND THE IDEAS ASSOCIATED WITH THEM.

W ORDS may be considered in four lights.

First, As impressions made upon the ear.

Secondly, As the actions of the organs of speech.

Thirdly, As impressions made upon the eye by characters.

Fourthly, As the actions of the hand in writing.

We learn the use of them in the order here set down. For children first get an imperfect knowledge of the meaning of the words of others; then learn to speak themselves; then to read; and, lastly, to write.

Now it is evident, that in the first of these ways many sensible impressions, and internal feelings, are associated with particular words and phrases, so as to give these the power of raising the corresponding ideas; and that the three following ways increase and improve this power, with some additions to and variations of the ideas. The second is the reverse of the first, and the fourth of the third. The first ascertains the ideas belonging to words and phrases in a gross manner, according to their usage in common life. The second fixes this, and makes it ready and accurate; having the same use here as the solution of the inverse problem has in other cases in respect of the direct one. The third has the same effect as the second; and also extends the ideas and significations of words and phrases, by new associations; and particularly by associations with other words, as in definitions, descriptions, &c. The advancement of the arts and

title: Page:Observations on Man 1834.djvu/203


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/939

Rh


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/940

902

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment. Bacon—Advancement of Learning. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Carleton, Dillon, Eliot, Heine, Menander) Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best. Joanna Batt,t,te—Address to Miss Agnes BaiUie on her Birthday. L. 126. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Words | page = 902 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = "lis a word that's quickly spoken, Which being restrained, a heart is broken. | author = Beaumont and Fletcher | work = The Spanish Curate. Act II. Sc. 5. Song.  | author =  | work =  | place =  | note =  | topic = Words | page = 902 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 'Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung. | author = Bidpai | cog = (Pilpay) | work = Anvar-i Suhaili. | note = {{sc|Eastwick}}'s trans. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Jones}}) | topic = Words | page = 902 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = You have only, when before your glass, to keep pronouncing to yourself liimim-pimini; the lips cannot help taking their plie. General Burgoyne—The Heiress. Act III. Sc.2. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Words | page = 902 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words. Burke—Letter. (About 1795) | author = | work = | place = | note = | seealso = (See also {{sc|Dickens}}) | topic = Words | page = 902 }} {{Hoyt quote | num = 22 | text = Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. "Careful with fire," is good advice we know "Careful with words," is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said. | author = Will Carleton | work = The First Settler's Story. | place = St. 21. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Bacon}}) | topic = Words | page = 902 }}


text:
Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/941

Rh