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 Rh "Dear Robin, do not grieve; I will give you my breakfast, if my mother will let me." "Oh," said Robin, "I do not want any breakfast; if I may not be served first, I will have none." "Shall I ask my mother to forgive you?" said Pecksy. "I do not want any of your intercessions," replied he; "if you had not been a parcel of ill-natured things, I should not have been pushed about as I am."

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 has been mentioned, he found time to do something for the better administration of justice (the codification of ordinances, the diminishing of the number of judges, the reduction of the expense and length of trials for the establishment of a superior system of police) and even for the improvement of the breed of horses and the increase of cattle. As superintendent of public buildings he enriched Paris with boulevards, quays and triumphal arches; he relaid the foundation-stone of the Louvre, and brought Bernin from Rome to be its architect; and he erected its splendid colonnade upon the plan of Claude Perrault, by whom Bernin had been replaced. He was not permitted, however, to complete the work, being compelled to yield to the king’s preference for residences outside Paris, and to devote himself to Marly and Versailles.

Amid all these public labours his private fortune was never neglected. While he was reforming the finances of the nation, and organizing its navy, he always found time to direct the management of his smallest farm. He died extremely rich, and left fine estates all over France. He had been created marquis de Seignelay, and for his eldest son he obtained the reversion of the office of minister of marine; his second son became archbishop of Rouen; and a third son, the marquis d’Ormoy, became superintendent of buildings.

To carry out his reforms, Colbert needed peace; but the war department was in the hands of his great rival Louvois, whose influence gradually supplanted that of Colbert with the king. Louis decided on a policy of conquest. He was deaf also to all the appeals against the other forms of his boundless extravagance which Colbert, with all his deference towards his sovereign, bravely ventured to make. Thus it came about that, only a few years after he had commenced to free the country from the weight of the loans and taxes which crushed her to the dust, Colbert was forced to heap upon her a new load of loans and taxes more heavy than the last. Henceforth his life was a hopeless struggle, and the financial and fiscal reform which, with the great exception of the establishment of the navy, was the most valuable service to France contemplated by him, came to nought.

Depressed by his failure, deeply wounded by the king’s favour for Louvois, and worn out by overwork, Colbert’s strength gave way at a comparatively early age. In 1680 he was the constant victim of severe fevers, from which he recovered for a time through the use of quinine prescribed by an English physician. But in 1683, at the age of sixty-four, he was seized with a fatal illness, and on the 6th of September he expired. It was said that he died of a broken heart, and a conversation with the king is reported in which Louis disparagingly compared the buildings of Versailles, which Colbert was superintending, with the works constructed by Louvois in Flanders. He took to bed, it is true, immediately afterwards, refusing to receive all messages from the king; but his constitution was utterly broken before, and a post-mortem examination proved that he had been suffering from stone. His body was interred in the secrecy of night, for fear of outrage from the Parisians, by whom his name was cordially detested.

Colbert was a great statesman, who did much for France. Yet his insight into political science was not deeper than that of his age; nor did he possess any superiority in moral qualities. His rule was a very bad example of over-government. He did not believe in popular liberty;, the parlements and the states-general received no support from him. The technicalities of justice he never allowed to interfere with his plans; but he did not hesitate to shield his friends. He trafficked in public offices for the profit of Mazarin and in his own behalf. He caused the suffering of thousands in the galleys; he had no ear, it is said, for the cry of the suppliant. There was indeed a more human side to his character, as is shown in his letters, full of wise advice and affectionate care, to his children, his brothers, his cousins even. Yet to all outside he was “the man of marble.” Madame de Sévigné called him “the North.” To diplomacy he never pretended; persuasion and deceit were not the weapons he employed; all his work was carried out by the iron hand of authority. He was a great statesman in that he conceived a magnificent yet practicable scheme for making France first among nations, and in that he possessed a matchless faculty for work, neither shrinking from the vastest undertakings nor scorning the most trivial details.

Numerous vies and éloges of Colbert have been published; but the most thorough student of his life and administration was Pierre Clément, member of the Institute, who in 1846 published his Vie de Colbert, and in 1861 the first of the 9 vols. of the Lettres, instructions, et mémoires de Colbert. The historical introductions prefixed to each of these volumes have been published by Mme. Clément under the title of the Histoire de Colbert et de son administration (3rd ed., 1892). The best short account of Colbert as a statesman is that in Lavisse, Histoire de France (1905), which gives a thorough study of the administration. Among Colbert’s papers are Mémoires sur les affaires de finance de France (written about 1663), a fragment entitled Particularités secrètes de la vie du Roy, and other accounts of the earlier part of the reign of Louis XIV.

 COLBERT DE CROISSY, CHARLES, (1625–1696), French diplomatist, like his elder brother Jean Baptiste Colbert, began his career in the office of the minister of war Le Tellier. In 1656 he bought a counsellorship at the parlement of Metz, and in 1658 was appointed intendant of Alsace and president of the newly-created sovereign council of Alsace. In this position he had to re-organize the territory recently annexed to France. The steady support of his brother at court gained for him several diplomatic missions—to Germany and Italy (1659–1661). In 1662 he became marquis de Croissy and président à mortier of the parlement of Metz. After various intendancies, at Soissons (1665), at Amiens (1666), and at Paris (1667), he turned definitely to diplomacy. In 1668 he represented France at the conference of Aix-la-Chapelle; and in August of the same year was sent as ambassador to London, where he was to negotiate the definite treaty of alliance with Charles II. He arranged the interview at Dover between Charles and his sister Henrietta of Orleans, gained the king’s personal favour by finding a mistress for him, Louise de Kéroualle, maid of honour to Madame, and persuaded him to declare war against Holland. The negotiation of the treaty of Nijmwegen (1676–1678) still further increased his reputation as a diplomatist and Louis XIV. made him secretary of state for foreign affairs after the disgrace of Arnauld de Pomponne, brought about by his brother, 1679. He at once assumed the entire direction of French diplomacy. Foreign ambassadors were no longer received and diplomatic instructions were no longer given by other secretaries of state. It was he, not Louvois, who formed the idea of annexation during a time of peace, by means of the chambers of reunion. He had outlined this plan as early as 1658 with regard to Alsace. His policy at first was to retain the territory annexed by the chambers of reunion without declaring war, and for this purpose he signed treaties of alliance with the elector of Brandenburg (1681), and with Denmark (1683); but the troubles following upon the revocation of the edict of Nantes (1685) forced him to give up his scheme and to prepare for war with Germany (1688). The negotiations for peace had been begun again when he died, on the 28th of July 1696. His clerk, Bergeret, was his invaluable assistant.

—His papers, preserved in the Archives des affaires étrangères at Paris, have been partially published in the Recueil des instructions données aux ambassadeurs et ministres de France (since 1884). See especially the volumes:—Autriche (t. i.), Suède (t. ii.), Rome (t. vi.), Bavière (t. viii.), Savoie (t. xiv.), Prusse (t. xvi.). Other documents have been published in Mignet’s Négociations relatives à la succession d’Espagne, vol. iv., and in the collection of Lettres et négociations pour la paix de Nimègue, 1676–1677 (La Haye, 1710). In addition to the Mémoires of the time, see Spanheim, Relation de la cour de France en 1690, ed. E. Bourgeois (Paris and Lyons, 1900); Baschet, Histoire du depôt des affaires étrangères; C. Rousset, Histoire de Louvois (4 vols., Paris, 1863); E. Bourgeois, “Louvois, et Colbert de Croissy,” in the Revue historique, vol. xxxiv. (1887); A. Waddington, Le Grand Électeur et Louis XIV (Paris, 1905); G. Pagis, Le Grand Électeur et Louis XIV (Paris, 1905).

 COLBURN, HENRY (d. 1855), British publisher, obtained his earliest experience of bookselling in London at the establishment of W. Earle, Albemarle Street, and afterwards as an assistant at Morgan’s Library, Conduit Street, of which in 1816 he became

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 COLBURN, ZERAH (1804–1840), American mathematical prodigy, was born at Cabot, Vermont, on the 1st of September 1804. At a very early age he developed remarkable powers of calculating with extreme rapidity, and in 1810 his father began to exhibit him. As a performing prodigy he visited Great Britain and France. From 1816 to 1819 he studied in Westminster school, London. After the death of his father in 1824 he returned to America, and from 1825 to 1834 he was a Methodist preacher. As he grew older his extraordinary calculating powers diminished. From 1835 until his death, on the 2nd of March 1840, he was professor of languages at the Norwich University in Vermont. He published a Memoir of his life in 1833.

His nephew, also named (1832–1870), was a well-known mechanical engineer; the editor successively of the Railroad Advocate, in New York, The Engineer, in London, and Engineering, in London; and the author of a work entitled The Locomotive Engine (1851).

 COLBY, THOMAS FREDERICK (1784–1852), British major-general and director of ordnance survey, was born at St Margaret’s, Rochester, on the 1st of September 1784, a member of a South Wales family. Entering the Royal Engineers he began in 1802 a life-long connexion with the Ordnance Survey department. His most important work was the survey of Ireland. This he planned in 1824, and was engaged upon it until 1846. The last sheets of this survey were almost ready for issue in that year when he reached the rank of major-general, and according to the rules of the service had to vacate his survey appointment. He was the inventor of the compensation bar, an apparatus used in base-measurements. He died at New Brighton on the 9th of October 1852.

 COLCHAGUA, a province of central Chile, bounded N. by Santiago and O’Higgins, E. by Argentina, S. by Curicó, and W. by the Pacific. Its area is officially estimated at 3856 sq. m.; pop. (1895) 157,566. Extending across the great central valley of Chile, the province has a considerable area devoted to agriculture, but much attention is given to cattle and mining. Its principal river is the Rapel, sometimes considered as the southern limit of the Inca empire. Its greatest tributary is the Cachapoal, in the valley of which, among the Andean foothills, are the popular thermal mineral baths of Cauquenes, 2306 ft. above sea-level. The state central railway from Santiago to Puerto Montt crosses the province and has two branches within its borders, one from Rengo to Peumo, and one from San Fernando via Palmilla to Pichilemu on the coast. The principal towns are the capital, San Fernando, Rengo and Palmilla. San Fernando is one of the several towns founded in 1742 by the governor-general José de Manso, and had a population of 7447 in 1895. Rengo is an active commercial town and had a population of 6463 in 1895.

 COLCHESTER, CHARLES ABBOT, (1757–1829), born at Abingdon, was the son of Dr John Abbot, rector of All Saints, Colchester, and, by his mother’s second marriage, half-brother of the famous Jeremy Bentham. From Westminster school Charles Abbot passed to Christ Church, Oxford, at which he gained the chancellor’s medal for Latin verse as well as the Vinerian scholarship. In 1795, after having practised twelve years as a barrister, and published a treatise proposing the incorporation of the judicial system of Wales with that of England, he was appointed to the office previously held by his brother of clerk of the rules in the king’s bench; and in June of the same year he was elected member of parliament for Helston, through the influence of the duke of Leeds. In 1796 Abbot commenced his career as a reformer in parliament by obtaining the appointment of two committees—the one to report on the arrangements which then existed as to temporary laws or laws about to expire, the other to devise methods for the better publication of new statutes. To the latter committee, and a second committee which he proposed some years later, it is owing that copies of new statutes were thenceforth sent to all magistrates and municipal bodies. To Abbot’s efforts were also due the establishment of the Royal Record Commission, the reform of the system which had allowed the public money to lie for some time at long interest in the hands of the public accountants, by charging them with payment of interest, and, most important of all, the act for taking the first census, that of 1801. On the formation of the Addington ministry in March 1801 Abbot became chief secretary and privy seal for Ireland; and in the February of the following year he was chosen speaker of the House of Commons—a position which he held with universal satisfaction till 1817, when an attack of erysipelas compelled him to retire. In response to an address of the Commons, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Colchester, with a pension of £4000, of which £3000 was to be continued to his heir. He died on the 8th of May 1829. His speeches against the Roman Catholic claims were published in 1828.

He was succeeded by his eldest son (d. 1867), postmaster-general in 1858; and the latter by his son  (b. 1842), as 3rd baron.

 COLCHESTER, a market town, river port and municipal and parliamentary borough of Essex, England; 52 m. N. E. by E. from London by the Great Eastern railway. Pop. (1901) 38,373. It lies on the river Colne, 12 m. from the open sea. Among numerous buildings of antiquarian interest the first is the ruined keep of the castle, a majestic specimen of Norman architecture, the largest of its kind in England, covering nearly twice the area of the White Tower in London. It was erected in the reign of William I. or William II., and is quadrangular, turreted at the angles. As in other ancient buildings in Colchester there are evidences of the use of material from the Roman town which occupied the site, but it is clearly of Norman construction. Here is the museum of the Essex Archaeological Society, with a remarkable collection of Roman antiquities, and a library belonging to the Round family, who own the castle. Among ecclesiastical buildings are remains of two monastic foundations—the priory of St Botolph, founded early in the 12th century for Augustinian canons, of which part of the fine Norman west front (in which Roman bricks occur), and of the nave arcades remain; and the restored gateway of the Benedictine monastery of St John, founded by Eudo, steward to William II. This is a beautiful specimen of Perpendicular work, embattled, flanked by spired turrets, and covered with panel work. The churches of Holy Trinity, St Martin and St Leonard at Hythe are of antiquarian interest; the first has an apparently pre-Norman tower and the last preserves some curious frescoes.

The principal modern buildings are the town hall, corn exchange, free library, the Eastern Counties’ asylum, Essex county hospital and barracks. The town has long been an important military centre with a large permanent camp. There are a free grammar school (founded 1539), a technical and university extension college, a literary institute and medical and other societies. Castle Park is a public ground surrounding the castle. Colchester is the centre of an agricultural district, and has extensive corn and cattle markets. Industries include founding, engineering, malting, flour-milling, rose-growing and the making of clothing and boots and shoes. The oyster fisheries at the mouth of the Colne, for which the town has been famous for centuries, belong to the corporation, and are held on a ninety-nine years’ lease by the Colne Fishery Company, incorporated

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12 individualism rebelled against the primitive treatment of women as rather chattels than persons; partly their lofty conception of the divine character rendered them increasingly insistent that no conduct could be fitting in man which ran counter to the righteousness of his Creator. The prophets were also poets, and they invested the marriage-relationship with the moral dignity which made it the favourite and most eloquently suggestive symbol of Israel’s relation to Jehovah. And when once they had established that train of religious associations in connection with marriage, polygamy was in every devout Israelite’s mind bound up with polytheism and stricken with the fatal character of apostasy. Jehovah is represented as Israel’s husband; the worship of other gods is a violation of the marriage covenant, devotion to Jehovah alone is as the chastity and faithfulness of a pure wife.

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N foreign shores, in distant climes, the dreaming stranger allows his unbridled fancy to brood fondly over the scenes that emit the fascinating kaleidoscopic rays of gold. Focus his imagination as he may, he cannot in his sublime and blissful ignorance of its nature draw a striking likeness on his mental canvas. Beauteous, nay gorgeous, visions of burnished gold, lying glittering beneath a torrid sun; nuggets strewn everywhere, kicked sacrilegiously about by supercilious wayfarers; dreams of wealth, more wealth, self-aggrandisement and avarice—these are the fluttering visions of the sanguine; and these are many.

How easy for the initiated, the experienced, to cast a Zolaic gleam over their bright and sunny picture. Without one touch of pessimism or melancholic depression—the result of fitful failure—they can paint a work of realism that, hung side by side with their never-to-be-realised ideal, would make the latter the subject of scoff and mocking derision. Think quietly, yet not phlegmatically, of the progression of bodily suffering, cruel thirst, famine, fevers, and fatigue—then weigh them carefully against a few glorious grains of gold.

Yet these time-honoured calamities are now the reminiscences of the few. Intrepid and steel-couraged pioneers bravely underwent these horrors—as ghastly as the miseries in Dante's Inferno—and made for others the way easy and the burden light. What should be the reward of their heroism? Millions benefit by their consequences, and millions deny one word of praise, one tangible sign of gratitude. Such is the attitude of the world to its benefactors.

This preliminary sketch of the reality and ideality of the goldfields is exceedingly apropos of Warden Finnerty. A name such as his is inseparably associated with the fields. He is the landlord of the golden acreage, with the powers and authority of a monosyllabic dictator. Yet, as he sits now in power of office, he can retrospect on the many hardships that were his only friends, and which have been drawn, and not overdrawn, in the introduction. By reason of his office, by reason of the dignity and ability with which he fills that oflce, his name is green in the history of Western Australia. The many and extended ramifications of his magistracy, the influence which he wields over wide areas, the complex web of the duties of officialdom, the stream of energetic control which percolates through every conduit-pipe of the province, stamp his impress on the areas of "individual option," and consequently on the colony.

Such is the attitude of the world

Mr. Finnerty was born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1853. His father, Colonel Charles Finnerty, originally attached to the 47th Regiment, was in charge of the staff officers of pensioners in Western Australia. The Warden was sent as a pupil to that princeps scholarum, Rugby. This ancient and well-endowed institution is notable for the effectual way in which it combines pleasure with work. A curriculum of study is provided which equals that of many universities, and is superior to some. Well may the Rugby student look back with enviable delight on his youthful days within her walls.

After receiving an education befitting a scholar and a gentleman, he left for Western Australia, arriving in the colony on the 28th September, 1874. For some time after his arrival he engaged in pearling in the north-west. For a certain portion of the year this industry cannot be successfully followed up, and in the interim he traded to the Malay Islands. For four years he combined these two commercial enterprises, and found himself singularly fortunate in his adventures. Pearling has attractions of an unique character. Its rewards, though fluctuating, are generally profitable, and the Warden by industrious attention and energy converted a bare profit into a handsome remuneration.

Feeling desirous of a change of life and a different outlet to his speculative resources, he established, in conjunction with the late Mr. J. H. Monger, an immense station on the Gascoyne in the north-west district, to which Mr. Finnerty proceeded as managing partner. He resided on the station superintending the joint interests and managing successfully their large stock. For two years they were more than satisfied with the returns, but the third year was one of "black death" to his stock. Over the extensive stretch of a million and a half acres of their estate a drought, unparalleled in the annals of the colony, swept with terrific severity, spreading havoc and death among his valuable herds and flocks. Pitiable and lamentable was the destruction, irrecoverable the loss; the accumulations and laborious winnings of their brief pastoral career disappeared before their eyes like a sinking wreck. With a fortitude born of a nil desperandum resolve they left their carcase-strewn station determined to face their fortune once more.

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HARDING, WARREN GAMALIEL (1865-), 29th President of the United States, was born at Corsica (then Blooming Grove), Morrow co., Ohio, Nov. 2 1865, son of George Tyron Harding, a farmer and country doctor, and Phebe Elizabeth Dickerson. He studied in the common schools, and from 14 to 17 at the Ohio Central College at Iberia. He taught in a country school for a year, read law for a short time, worked in a newspaper office, and in 1884 became editor and proprietor of the Marion Star. On July 8 1891 he married Florence Kling. Having attracted the notice of Senator Joseph B. Foraker(see 10.628), he was encouraged to enter state politics, and was early recognized as an effective speaker. He served two terms in the Ohio Senate (1900-4), and during the second was influential in securing Senator Foraker's reëlection to the U.S. Senate. From 1904 to 1906 he was lieutenant-governor of Ohio, but in 1910, when nominated for governor by the Republicans, was defeated by a plurality of 100,000. In the campaign of 1912 his paper supported President Taft. In 1914 he defeated Foraker in the Republican primaries as candidate for the U.S. Senate, and was elected with a majority of 100,000 for the term of 1915-21; but his friendship with Foraker remained unabated. In 1916 he was delegate-at-large from Ohio to the Republican National Convention, of which he was chosen permanent chairman. In the Senate he was regarded as a “safe” man, who could be relied upon to support orthodox Republican policies. In 1915 he urged “preparedness” for naval defence. In 1916 he voted against the confirmation of Louis D. Brandeis as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1917 he gave his support to the declaration of war against Germany, and also to all the war measures, including the Selective Draft and Espionage bills. He favoured the death penalty for spies, but after the war advocated amnesty for political prisoners. He opposed the suggested Federal control of food and fuel. He favoured the Prohibition Amendment, and voted for the Volstead Act, enforcing war-time prohibition, over the President's veto. He favoured the anti-strike clause of the Cummins Railway bill, and voted for return of the lines to their owners within a year after the end of the war. He was for exempting American shipping from Panama Canal tolls and also supported woman suffrage. He was opposed to the Covenant of the League of Nations, holding that “either the Covenant involves a surrender of national sovereignty and submits our future destiny to the League, or it is an empty thing, big in name, and will ultimately disappoint all of humanity that hinge its hopes upon it.” He voted for the Lodge reservations and also for the Reed reservation that the United States alone should judge whether matters of direct interest to it should be brought before the League; and finally he voted against ratification of the Treaty as submitted by President Wilson. He maintained that Americans should show chief concern for America, and

opposed all tendencies toward internationalism. He supported the Knox resolution declaring that war with Germany was ended.

At the Republican National Convention in 1920 he was not at first among the prominent candidates for president. On the first ballot he received 65½ votes (493 being necessary for choice), 39 of these being from his own state. On the eighth ballot he received 133½ votes, on the ninth 374½ votes, and on the tenth he secured the nomination with 692½ votes, the result being due largely to the support of certain influential U.S. Senators, delegates to the convention, who hoped that as president he would be amenable to the Senate. He did not “stump” the country, but conducted his campaign from the “front porch” of his own home. Mr. Harding based his campaign chiefly upon criticism of the Wilson administration, denouncing especially the excessive power that, as he maintained, had been exercised by the executive as a result of war centralization; he demanded as speedy as possible a return to normal conditions, political and industrial. While opposing the Covenant of the League of Nations, he gave to many of his supporters the impression that he desired an “association of nations” which, without the characteristics of a super-state (such as he believed the League to be), might safeguard peace. But he retained the political support of many who were opposed, like Senators Borah and Johnson, to any sort of international association. In the November elections he won an overwhelming victory over James M. Cox, the Democratic nominee, also from Ohio; he carried, generally by immense majorities, all the northern states and all but one of the states on the border between North and South, and he cut down materially the Democratic majorities in the South. The electoral vote was 404 for Harding against 127 for Cox. The popular vote was 16,138,000 for Harding against 9,142,000 for Cox. In Ohio the popular vote was 1,182,000 for Harding against 780,000 for Cox. The sweeping character of his victory was due less to his own personal strength or to the weakness of Cox than to the national reaction against the Democratic party and the popular feeling against President Wilson. Mr. Harding resigned from the U.S. Senate in Dec. 1920, and was inaugurated March 4 1921, the sixth President to come from Ohio.

The promise frequently made by Republican campaign leaders that Mr. Harding would surround himself with advisers of capacity and experience, seemed to be fulfilled by his choice of Cabinet members. The outstanding names were those of Charles E. Hughes and Herbert C. Hoover, who became Secretary of State and of Commerce respectively. The distinguished career of the former and the widespread confidence in his ability and political integrity had marked him for the most important position in the Cabinet; and there had been a general demand that the new administration should utilize the organizing ability displayed by Hoover in many fields. Various elements in the Republican party, nevertheless, had stoutly opposed their appointment, so that the President's choice showed that he was prepared to exert his independence of party managers and to insist upon administrative efficiency. The choice of Andrew W. Mellon, a wealthy banker and ironmaster of Pittsburgh, as Secretary of the Treasury, was welcomed by men of business; and though that of Will H. Hays to be Postmaster-General was in the nature of payment of a political debt to the man who had been the successful manager of the Republican campaign, it was early justified by his efficient administration of the postal service. Mr. Harding's inaugural address, and his first message to Congress, delivered in person on April 12, voiced his desire to return to “normalcy,” as he expressed it. Retrenchment in expenditure formed a major item in his programme, together with a prompt and thorough revision of taxation. He advocated the adoption of a national budget system, and, Congress having passed a budget bill similar to that vetoed by Mr. Wilson in 1920, he approved it on June 10 1921; it provided for a Budget Bureau in the Treasury Department and the appointment of a director of the budget, the first being Charles G. Dawes, formerly general purchasing agent of the American Expeditionary Force. President Harding's first budget was presented Dec. 5 1921. The President was insistent upon the need of repealing the excess

profits taxes and reducing transportation taxes and income surtaxes. The need of financial retrenchment led to his opposing the proposal that war veterans should receive a cash bonus. In this matter, as in others, he proved his ability at this early stage to resist political pressure. As regards the tariff he advocated, as a temporary stop-gap, the passing of the emergency tariff, which had been vetoed by President Wilson, but which with slight alteration was approved by Mr. Harding on May 27 1921. He urged the need of adopting a permanent tariff policy, and on Dec. 5 1921 suggested a “flexible tariff” which might provide for the adjustment of rates to meet unusual and changing conditions. Such adjustments might be made, in his opinion, by the executive on the advice of the Tariff Commission. Mr. Harding's interest in agricultural problems was keen; in his first message he asked special protection for agricultural interests, and in his second he declared that something more than protection must be given the farmers, advocating warmly the encouragement of coöperative marketing plans. As regards domestic legislation, the President, in general, assumed the role of moderator. He disclaimed any desire to enlarge the powers and responsibilities of the executive, which, he declared, were already too large; and he aimed at close coöperation with Congress. In marked contrast to his predecessor, he left administrative responsibility to the members of his Cabinet. Foreign policy was largely determined by Hughes, financial by Mellon, and the problem of unemployment was thrown upon Hoover. The President, however, frequently played an active rôle in the conferences necessary to secure general agreement, as on Aug. 9 1921 when an accord was reached between the Treasury and the Representatives on the taxation plan.

The foreign policy of the administration at first seemed likely to emphasize independence of action, in contradistinction to that of President Wilson; the threatened war between Panama and Costa Rica was prevented by a sharp note from Secretary Hughes; the claims of the Japanese to a mandate over Yap were stoutly denied; the administration refused to follow Great Britain in resuming trade relations with Soviet Russia. President Harding made plain in his first message that the United States would not enter the League of Nations. But he expressed himself warmly in favour of active coöperation with other nations of the world, and by accepting the invitation to participate in inter-Allied councils indicated that he would avoid a policy of isolation. In rejecting the League Covenant, he said “we make no surrender of our hope and aim for an association to promote peace, in which we would most heartily join.” The President advocated a declaration of peace with Germany by resolution, and the immediate negotiation of a treaty. This policy was adopted by Congress, which agreed upon a joint peace resolution, signed by him on July 2. On Aug. 25 1921, a treaty with Germany was signed, embodying the President's plan of including most of the stipulations of the Versailles Treaty, but repudiating adherence by the United States to any clause referring to the League of Nations. This treaty and similar pacts with Austria and Hungary were ratified by the Senate, Oct. 18 1921.

The most important step taken by President Harding during the first year of his administration was the calling of an international conference on the limitation of armaments. On May 25 1921 the Senate had adopted an amendment of Senator Borah to the Navy bill, authorizing and inviting the President to call such a conference. Mr. Harding's preliminary invitations to the principal naval Powers (Great Britain, Japan, France and Italy) were sent July 10, and formal invitations Aug. 11. He made clear his belief that the question was closely connected with the problems of the Pacific and Far East, and invitations were also sent accordingly to China and to the smaller European powers with Far-Eastern interests — Holland, Belgium and Portugal. The invitations were accepted, and the conference assembled at Washington on Nov. 12. President Harding avoided the example set by his predecessor, and did not himself participate as a delegate. He displayed his political tact in the choice of the American delegation, which was led by Secretary Hughes and included, besides Elihu Root, two members of the Senate, Lodge

and Underwood, the Republican and Democratic leaders respectively. The policy drafted by the President and Mr. Hughes was direct and vigorous. They refused to permit the vital problem of limitation of armaments to be side-tracked, and surprised the conference by proposing a ten-year naval holiday and a drastic scrapping of tonnage by the three chief naval Powers. The President made it clear that he regarded the conference merely as a step in securing international understanding and good will; he advocated the convening of succeeding conferences as a possible means of securing an international association for the promotion of peace, and he approved the principle of substituting an understanding between the United States, Great Britain, France and Japan regarding Far-Eastern problems, for the existing Anglo-Japanese Treaty. (See .)

The initiative taken by President Harding in calling the conference, and the extent of its success, intensified the feeling which had been steadily growing during the first session of his administration, that he possessed qualities peculiarly adapted to the political conditions of the moment. He had faced difficult problems with independence and yet he had been able to inaugurate something of an “era of good feeling.” His “gospel of understanding” had proved effective both in domestic and foreign politics. (C. S.)


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Rh little spot of earth, beyond which the ocean, streched again. They began to cry—the first time since their Department had been shut down.

They looked at each other, and each noticed that the other was clad in nothing but his night shirt with his order hanging about his neck.

"We really should be having our coffee now," observed the one Official. Then he bethought himself again of the strange situation he was in and a second time fell to weeping.

"What are we going to do now?" he sobbed. "Even supposing we were to draw up a report, what good would that do?"

"You know what, your Excellency," replied the other Official, "you go to the east and I will go to the west. Toward evening we will come back here again, and, perhaps, we shall have found something."

They started to ascertain which was the east and which was the west. They recalled that the head of their Department had once said to them, "If you want to know where the east is, then turn your face to the north, and the east will be on your right." But when they tried to find out which was the north, they turned to the right and to the left and looked around on all sides. Having spent their whole life in the Department of Records, their efforts were all in vain.

"To my mind, your Excellency, the best thing to do would be for you to go to the right and me to go to the left," said one Official, who had served not only in the Department of Records, but had also been teacher of handwriting in the School for Reserves, and so was a little bit cleverer.

So said, so done. The one Official went to the right. He came upon trees bearing all sorts of fruits. Gladly would he have plucked an apple, but they all hung so high that he would have been obliged to climb up. He tried to climb up in vain. All he succeeded in doing was tearing his night shirt. Then he struck upon a brook. It was swarming with fish.

"Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had all this fish in Podyacheskaya Street!" he thought, and his mouth watered. Then he entered woods and found partridges, grouse and hares.


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 Rh this moment be but a few miles from us make the appearance. The Delaware Chiefs arrived in Camp yesterday and gave an account of their efforts to induce the Prophet to lay aside his hostile designs in presence of all the officers. They were badly received, ill treated and insulted and finally dismissed with the most contemptuous remarks upon them and us. The party which fired upon our Centinels arrived at the Town when the Delawares were there, they were Shawanees and the Prophet's nearest Friends. Nothing now remains but to chastise him and he shall certainly get it. One of the companies which I have ordered on will join me today and another tomorrow. I cannot account for the conduct of the Prophet upon any rational principle. Many of the Potawatimies have left him; from the best accounts I can get he has not more than 450 men. But these are desperadoes wound up to the highest pitch of enthusiasm by his infernal arts. The Delawares left him practising his magic rites and performing their war dances day and night.

I am still in hopes that the Kickapoos will abandon him on our approach. The Sick amongst the Militia have greatly increased since the last report but the regular Troops which are on the sick report are generally better. I am happy to inform you that the whole of the Troops are in fine spirits and eager to come in contact with the Enemy. I have used every exertion in my power to perfect them in the manouvers which they are to perform. I have exercised them myself almost daily, and their progress has been such that I do not hesitate to pronounce them so perfect as Genl. Wayne's army was on the day of his victory over the Indians. I promise you Sir that all the objects intended by the Expedition shall be effected.

[William] Well's account of the manner in which the murders in the Illinois Territory were perpetrated is absolutely false. The truth is that they were directed by the Prophet for the purpose of forcing the Indians of the Illinois River to unite with him. He has determined to commit to the flames the first of our men whom he can take in person.

I have the Honor to enclose herewith a return of the troops under my command.

I am with sincere respect Sir your humble servt.


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Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Harding, Warren Gamaliel

HARDING, WARREN GAMALIEL, an American statesman, elected President of the United States, on Nov. 2, 1920. He was born in the village of Blooming Grove, O., on Nov. 2, 1865, on a farm belonging to his grandfather, Charles Harding, who was one of the pioneers in the settlement of Ohio. The boy was the oldest of eight children. His father, George Tyron Harding, was a village physician and cultivated a small farm to aid in the support of the large family. His mother was Phebe Dickerson, who was descended from an old-time Holland-Dutch family, the Van Kirks. His first education was obtained in the country school of the neighborhood, and at the age of 14 he entered

the Ohio Central College at New Iberia, and completed the course, which was hardly more than a high school course of the present day. He showed considerable aptitude in study and graduated with distinction. As an editor of the college paper, he showed a marked bent for the profession in which he afterward engaged, that of journalism. At about the time of his graduation from college, his father removed to Marion, Hardin co., O., a town of 4,000 people. Young Harding at once secured employment in a newspaper office of the city, and there learned all the practical details of the printer's trade. Although he was not at this time active in politics, he ardently supported James G. Blaine. As the newspaper on which he was working was Democratic in its political preferences, Harding was discharged. He soon found the opportunity for realizing his ambition of owning himself a newspaper, and when the “Star,” published in Marion, was about to be sold by the sheriff, Harding and a friend borrowed the few hundred dollars necessary and began its publication in November, 1884. After several years of financial difficulties, the paper became a success, due in no small measure to the editorial policy of the paper and the editorials contributed by its editor. Harding soon became known as a forceful writer and a man of rapidly developing personality. His first entrance into active politics was his election to the State Senate in 1900. He was re-elected and at the expiration of his second term was chosen lieutenant-governor of Ohio. He declined the renomination for this office. In 1910 he was the Republican candidate for governor, but was defeated. Following this he publicly announced his withdrawal from politics. Two years later found him in the thickest of the political fight in the support of the Republican candidate for the presidency. He declared himself a candidate for the Senate in 1914 and was nominated, defeating Senator Foraker. He was elected to the Senate by over 100,000 majority. He was the first Senator elected from Ohio under the system of direct elections. In the Senate, although not a frequent speaker, he was admitted to be one of the strongest members, and, when he did address the Chamber, he was listened to with closest attention. He supported, on the whole, all the important measures adopted by the progressive element of the party, including the woman's suffrage amendment, the legislation in behalf of labor, child labor law, and measures of like character. He was a member of the Committee on Foreign

Relations, and as such took an important part in the deliberations on the peace treaty, to the ratification of which, in the form in which it appeared before the Senate, he was opposed.

The struggle between the radical and the progressive elements of the Republican party for the nomination for the presidency in June, 1920, naturally brought into consideration Senator Harding, who had not been aggressively identified with either section. He was, moreover, from Ohio, which was considered to be one of the doubtful States. His strength in the Convention grew from the beginning, although he had no organization and had not declared himself to be a candidate before the Convention met. His principal opponents were General Leonard Wood, Governor Lowden of Illinois, and Hiram Johnson of California. The delegates, unable to compromise on any of these, selected Senator Harding. He was elected on November 2 by the largest majority ever given a presidential candidate. For an account of the presidential election, see . Following his election, Senator Harding made a brief trip to the Panama Canal and the Canal Zone, where he was received with great enthusiasm. On his return he devoted himself to the selection of his cabinet officers and to conferences with prominent representatives of the policy to be followed during his administration.


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The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Harding, Warren G.

HARDING, Warren G., American statesman: b. Corsica, Morrow County, Ohio, 2 Nov. 1865. He studied at Ohio Central College, Iberia, in 1879-82; and since 1884 has been engaged in the newspaper business at Marion, Ohio, as president of the Harding Publishing Company, publishers of the Star. In 1900-04 Mr. Harding was a member of the Ohio senate and from 1904 to 1906 was lieutenant-governor. In 1910 he was Republican nominee for governor of Ohio, but failed of election. Subsequently he was elected to the United States Senate for the term 1915-21. Harding has been compared to McKinley as a harmonizer in his own party. In the Senate his course has been that of a “regular,” though not that of a narrow party man. Mr. Harding ia spoken of as the strongest candidate of the Republican party for the Presidency.


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 604  , October, 25th, 1811 Burton, Historical Colletion, 176 Pursuant to the General order of yesterday the Brigade will commence their march on 27th inst. The moment not being distant when they will be called to actual duty enforced it on the commander of Corps to see their arms and ammunition in perfect order and for that purpose a daily inspection will be made and all deficiencies immediately replaced.

In the event of meeting the enemy the Brigade will be ordered to make a vigorous and successful charge, the enemy will retreat in confusion, the horse will pursue and complete the victory.

Officers and soldiers will remember what their country expects from them and what a determined body are capable of performing against an inferior number of Indians. Soldiers must be obedient to their officers prompt and resolute in execution of their duty. Lieutenant Colonel [James] Miller's ill health deprives him the honor of leading the Regulars; that duty devolves on Major [Geo. R. C.] Floyd, and by the direction of the Commander in Chief Capt. [William C.] Baen will perform the duty of Major. He will be mounted and lead the left wing of the regulars.

Signed, Col. 4th Regt. Infy. A. C. G.

29th Octr. 1811 Har. Pa. 502, 503

The want of provisions and waiting to know the result of the Delaware mission to the Prophet has detained me here until this time. The Fort has also taken much more work than I had expected and the great deficiency of axes and the bad quality of those which we had had protracted the finishing it to double the time that it would have taken otherwise. It is now however completed and is a very handsome and strong work. The Baggage is now loading and the General will be beaten as soon as a Boat load of Flour which can at


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90 "Good Lord, what an abundance of food!" he cried. His hunger was going up tremendously.

But he had to return to the appointed spot with empty hands. He found the other Official waiting for him.

"Well, Your Excellency, how went it? Did you find anything?"

"Nothing but an old number of the Moscow Gazette, not another thing."

The Officials lay down to sleep again, but their empty stomachs gave them no rest. They were partly robbed of their sleep by the thought of who was now enjoying their pension, and partly by the recollection of the fruit, fishes, partridges, grouse and hares that they had seen during the day.

"The human pabulum in its original form flies, swims and grows on trees. Who would have thought it your Excellency?" said the one Official.

"To be sure," rejoined the other Official. "I, too, must admit that I had imagined that our breakfast rolls came into the world just as they appear on the table."

"From which it is to be deduced that if we want to eat a pheasant, we must catch it first, kill it, pull its feathers and roast it. But how's that to be done?"

"Yes, how's that to be done?" repeated the other Official.

They turned silent and tried again to fall asleep, but their hunger scared sleep away. Before their eyes swarmed flocks of pheasants and ducks, herds of porklings, and they were all so juicy, done so tenderly and garnished so deliciously with olives, capers and pickles.

"I believe I could devour my own boots now," said the one Official.

"Gloves are not bad either, especially if they have been born quite mellow," said the other Official.

The two Officials stared at each other fixedly. In their glances gleamed an evil-boding fire, their teeth chattered and a dull groaning issued from their breasts. Slowly they crept upon each other and suddenly they burst into a fearful frenzy. There was a yelling and groaning, the rags flew about, and the Official who had been teacher of


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Smith v. Richards/Dissent Story

Mr. Justice STRORY dissenting.--

In this case I have the misfortune to differ from a majority of my brethren. The bill seeks to set aside and rescind an executed contract, upon the ground of gross premediated fraud, the contract being confessedly one of great hazard and founded in speculation. The answer fully and pointedly denies every allegation of fraud, and insists upon the most perfect good faith. The decree, by rescinding the contract, affirms the material charges of fraud stated in the bill. After a careful consideration of the evidence in the record, my opinion is, that there is no just foundation for, or proof these charges. I do not propose to review the evidence, though take a very different view of it from what has been expressed in the opinion delivered by my brother Barbour; and there are many facts and circumstances, which have struck my mind with great force, which, I regret to find, are not deemed of equal importance by my brethren. I am not willing, by my silence, to sanction imputations upon the appellant, which cast so deep a shade upon his character, which the record shows has hitherto been without stain or reproach. In my opinion, the appellant stands acquitted of fraud, the victim, if you please, of a heated and deluded imagination, indulging in golden dreams; but in this respect he is in the same predicament with the appellee, and none other.

Mr. Justice M'LEAN dissented, stating that he agreed altogether with Mr. Justice Story.

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 88 18.

To. , 10th May 1801.

,—The necessary application to my duty, as well to my old as new friends, has prevented me from that respect I owe in particular to you. And your accustomed forgiveness of my want of dexterity in certain points emboldens me to hope that forgiveness to be continued to me a little longer, when I shall be enabled to throw off all obstructions to success.

Mr. Hayley acts like a prince. I am at complete ease. But I wish to do my duty, especially to you, who were the precursor of my present fortune. I never will send you a picture unworthy of my present proficiency. I soon shall send you several. My present engagements are in miniature-painting. Miniature has

Cowper, inscribed: From a Portrait in Crayons Drawn from the Life by Romney in 1792: Engraved by W. Blake, 1802. Blake's miniature is now in the possession of Canon Cowper Johnson.


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 Rh become a goddess in my eyes, and my friends in Sussex say that I excel in the pursuit I have a great many orders, and they multiply. Now, let me entreat you to give me orders to furnish every accommodation in my power to receive you and Mrs. Butts. I know my cottage is too narrow for your ease and comfort. We have one room in which we could make a bed to lodge you both; and if this is sufficient, it is at your service. But as beds and rooms and accommodations are easily procured by one on the spot, permit me to offer my service in either way; either in my cottage, or in a lodging in the village, as is most agreeable to you, if you and Mrs. Butts should think Bognor a pleasant relief from business in the summer. It will give me the utmost delight to do my best.

Sussex is certainly a happy place, and Felpham in particular is the sweetest spot on earth; at least it is so to me and my good wife, who

vicinity of Felpham are likely to have been among their number. It is curious to see that in the report of the proceedings of his trial on the charge of sedition in August 1803, Blake is described as a Miniature Painter; and that he himself in the course of his own defence remarks that Scholfield had called him a Military Painter, "I suppose mistaking the words Miniature Painter, which he might have heard me called." There are, doubtless, a fair number of Blake's miniatures in existence remaining for an industrious collector to unearth. The specimens with which I am acquainted, if they lack the delicacy and grace of the finest, compare favourably enough with ordinary work of the period.


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 90 desires her kindest love to Mrs. Butts and yourself. Accept mine also, and believe me to remain your devoted

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To Thomas Butts.

11th September 1801.

,—I hope you will continue to excuse my want of steady perseverance, by which want I am still your debtor, and you so much my creditor; but such as I can be, I will. I can be grateful, and I can soon send some of your designs which I have nearly completed. In the meantime, by my sister's hands, I transmit to Mrs. Butts an attempt at your likeness, which I hope she, who is the best judge, will think like. Time flies faster (as seems to me here) than in London. I labour incessantly. I accomplish not one half of what I intend, because my abstract folly hurries me often away while I am at work, carrying me over mountains and valleys, which are not real, into a land of abstraction where


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Hi, I'm a multi-lingual Kiwi Christian. I'm into languages (Spanish, German, Chinese, Old English, Dutch, Icelandic, Gothic, Koine Greek) and like to think that I'll complete an Old English translation of the Bible, especially the New Testament, that I'm working on here. <!--#1 Hēafodƿeard: Ƿord be þǣre Stōƿe þǣr Olifer Tƿist Ȝeboren Ƿæs and þāra Endebyrdnessa on His Ȝebyrde
 * 1) 2 Hēafodƿeard: Ƿord be Oliferes Tƿistes Ȝeþunȝennesse, Lāre, and Ƿununge
 * 2) Chapter 3: Relates How Oliver Twist Was Very Near Getting A Place Which Would Not Have Been A Sinecure
 * 3) Chapter 4: Oliver, Being Offered Another Place, Makes His First Entry Into Public Life
 * 4) Chapter 5: Oliver Mingles With New Associates. Going To A Funeral For The First Time, He Forms An Unfavourable Notion Of His Master's Business
 * 5) Chapter 6: Oliver, Being Goaded By The Taunts Of Noah, Rouses Into Action, And Rather Astonishes Him
 * 6) Chapter 7: Oliver Continues Refractory
 * 7) Chapter 8: Oliver Walks To London. He Encounters On The Road A Strange Sort Of Young Gentleman
 * 8) Chapter 9: Containing Further Particulars Concerning The Pleasant Old Gentleman, And His Hopeful Pupils
 * 9) Chapter 10: Oliver Becomes Better Acquainted With The Characters Of His New Associates; And Purchases Experience At A High Price. Being A Short, But Very Important Chapter, In This History
 * 10) Chapter 11: Treats Of Mr. Fang The Police Magistrate; And Furnishes A Slight Specimen Of His Mode Of Administering Justice
 * 11) Chapter 12: In Which Oliver Is Taken Better Care Of Than He Ever Was Before. And In Which The Narrative Reverts To The Merry Old Gentleman And His Youthful Friends.
 * 12) Chapter 13: Some New Acquaintances Are Introduced To The Intelligent Reader, Connected With Whom Various Pleasant Matters Are Related, Appertaining To This History
 * 13) Chapter 14: Comprising Further Particulars Of Oliver's Stay At Mr. Brownlow's, With The Remarkable Prediction Which One Mr. Grimwig Uttered Concerning Him, When He Went Out On An Errand
 * 14) Chapter 15: Showing How Very Fond Of Oliver Twist, The Merry Old Jew And Miss Nancy Were
 * 15) Chapter 16: Relates What Became Of Oliver Twist, After He Had Been Claimed By Nancy
 * 16) Chapter 17: Oliver's Destiny Continuing Unpropitious, Brings A Great Man To London To Injure His Reputation
 * 17) Chapter 18: How Oliver Passed His Time In The Improving Society Of His Reputable Friends
 * 18) Chapter 19: In Which A Notable Plan Is Discussed And Determined On
 * 19) Chapter 20: Wherein Oliver Is Delivered Over To Mr. William Sikes
 * 20) Chapter 21: The Expedition
 * 21) Chapter 22: The Burglary
 * 22) Chapter 23: Which Contains The Substance Of A Pleasant Conversation Between Mr. Bumble And A Lady; And Shows That Even A Beadle May Be Susceptible On Some Points
 * 23) Chapter 24: Treats On A Very Poor Subject. But Is A Short One, And May Be Found Of Importance In This History
 * 24) Chapter 25: Wherein This History Reverts To Mr. Fagin And Company
 * 25) Chapter 26: In Which A Mysterious Character Appears Upon The Scene; And Many Things, Inseparable From This History, Are Done And Performed
 * 26) Chapter 27: Atones For The Unpoliteness Of A Former Chapter; Which Deserted A Lady, Most Unceremoniously
 * 27) Chapter 28: Looks After Oliver, And Proceeds With His Adventures
 * 28) Chapter 29: Has An Introductory Account Of The Inmates Of The House, To Which Oliver Resorted
 * 29) Chapter 30: Relates What Oliver's New Visitors Thought Of Him
 * 30) Chapter 31: Involves A Critical Position
 * 31) Chapter 32: Of The Happy Life Oliver Began To Lead With His Kind Friends
 * 32) Chapter 33: Wherein The Happiness Of Oliver And His Friends, Experiences A Sudden Check
 * 33) Chapter 34: Contains Some Introductory Particulars Relative To A Young Gentleman Who Now Arrives Upon The Scene; And A New Adventure Which Happened To Oliver
 * 34) Chapter 35: Containing The Unsatisfactory Result Of Oliver's Adventure; And A Conversation Of Some Importance Between Harry Maylie And Rose
 * 35) Chapter 36: Is A Very Short One, And May Appear Of No Great Importance In Its Place, But It Should Be Read Notwithstanding, As A Sequel To The Last, And A Key To One That Will Follow When Its Time Arrives
 * 36) Chapter 37: In Which The Reader May Perceive A Contrast, Not Uncommon In Matrimonial Cases
 * 37) Chapter 38: Containing An Account Of What Passed Between Mr. And Mrs. Bumble, And Mr. Monks, At Their Nocturnal Interview
 * 38) Chapter 39: Introduces Some Respectable Characters With Whom The Reader Is Already Acquainted, And Shows How Monks And The Jew Laid Their Worthy Heads Together
 * 39) Chapter 40: A Strange Interview, Which Is A Sequel To The Last Chamber
 * 40) Chapter 41: Containing Fresh Discoveries, And Showing That Surprises, Like Misfortunes, Seldom Come Alone
 * 41) Chapter 42: An Old Acquaintance Of Oliver's, Exhibiting Decided Marks Of Genius, Becomes A Public Character In The Metropolis
 * 42) Chapter 43: Wherein Is Shown How The Artful Dodger Got Into Trouble
 * 43) Chapter 44: The Time Arrives For Nancy To Redeem Her Pledge To Rose Maylie. She Fails.
 * 44) Chapter 45: Noah Claypole Is Employed By Fagin On A Secret Mission
 * 45) Chapter 46: The Appointment Kept
 * 46) Chapter 47: Fatal Consequences
 * 47) Chapter 48: The Flight Of Sikes
 * 48) Chapter 49: Monks And Mr. Brownlow At Length Meet. Their Conversation, And The Intelligence That Interrupts It
 * 49) Chapter 50: The Pursuit And Escape
 * 50) Chapter 51: Affording An Explanation Of More Mysteries Than One, And Comprehending A Proposal Of Marriage With No Word Of Settlement Or Pin-Money
 * 51) Chapter 52: Fagin's Last Night Alive
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 Rh spectres of the dead wander. This I endeavour to prevent; I, with my whole might, chain my feet to the world of duty and reality. But in vain! the faster I bind, the better is the ballast; for I, so far from being bound down, take the world with me in my flights, and often it seems lighter than a ball of wool rolled by the windJ Bacon and Newton would prescribe ways of making the world heavier to me, and Pitt would prescribe


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 94 distress for a medicinal potion. But as none on earth can give me mental distress, and I know all distress inflicted by Heaven is a mercy, a fig for all corporeal! Such distress is my mock and scorn. Alas! wretched, happy, ineffectual labourer of Time's moments that I am! who shall deliver me from this spirit of abstraction and improvidence? Such, my dear Sir, is the truth of my state, and I tell it you in palliation of my seeming neglect of your most pleasant orders. But I have not neglected them; and yet a year is rolled over, and only now I approach the prospect of sending you some, which you may expect soon. I should have sent them by my sister; but, as the coach goes three times a week to London, and they will arrive as safe as with her, I shall have an opportunity of enclosing several together which are not yet completed. I thank you again and again for your generous forbearance, of which I have need; and now I must express my wishes to see you at Felpham, and to show you Mr. Hayleys library, which is still unfinished, but is in a finishing way and looks well. I ought also to mention my extreme disappointment at Mr. Johnsons forgetfulness, who appointed to call


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Works

 * Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics (1902)
 * On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances, Part 1, Part 2
 * Scientific Papers of Josiah Willard Gibbs, Volume 1, Volume 2 (1906)

Works about Gibbs

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6 were permitted to a king, though to a private man not more than four or five.

The facility of divorce was very great, for the reigning school of casuists gave the widest interpretation to the ambiguous phrase in the book of Deuteronomy, to which all agreed to appeal. When, as we shall see presently, our Lord decided in favour of the more rigorous view, His words caused astonishment and even consternation among His hearers. "If the case of the man is so with his wife," they said, "it is not expedient to marry." We could not have a more impressive indication of the depravation of the theory of marriage in the common view. Of Hillel’s teaching it would hardly be excessive to say in the words of Gibbon that "the most tender of human connections was degraded to a transient society of profit or pleasure."

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text: Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Lucas, Samuel (1818-1868)


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The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Ramona

RAMONA. ‘Ramona’ (1884), by Helen Hunt Jackson, was written to carry forward an indictment already begun in the author's ‘Century of Dishonor’ (1881) against the treatment of the Indians by their white conquerors. ‘Uncle Tom's Cabin’ comes at once to mind, but the two books have little in common besides an analogous intention. Mrs. Jackson romantically eluded the problem by making Ramona, the heroine, and her Temecula husband, Alessandro, so near to high-caste Mexicans in color and nurture that their wrongs as Indians seem untypical of the real grievances of their unfortunate race. They suffer little more from the invading Yankees than do the full-blooded Mexicans. Indeed, the true conflict and injustice occur between the old Californians, Indian or Spanish, and the predacious vanguard of the Anglo-Saxon conquest. California, for Mrs. Jackson, was a splendid paradise of patriarchal estates in vast fertile valleys, steeped in a drowsy antiquity, and cherished by priests as unworldly as Saint Francis. Against this rich background she set a story which begins in peace, blackens to hard and ugly tragedy and then grows at the end into peace again. The pomp of the setting, the strength of the contrasts, the eloquence, the intensity, the passionate color dominate, almost submerge, the problem stated, but they tend also to lift it into the higher regions of the imagination in which particular acts of injustice take on the large significance of universality.


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RAMPION, a biennial herb (Campanula rapunculus) of the family Campanulaceæ. It grows about 30 inches tall, has a parsnip-like root, obovate leaves, lilac flowers in a spike or raceme, and very small seeds. It is a native of Asia, Europe and northern Africa, where it is cultivated for its roots and leaves, the former of which are used like radishes, the latter like spinach. The plants do best in light, rich loam, partially shaded and well supplied with moisture but not wet. Since early spring sown plants are likely to run to seed, other sowings should be made in early summer. The plant is less popular in America than abroad.


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ACT THREE

__________

Prologue The parlor in the peasant's cottage.

_____.

Machinist Do you really think then that that will do any good?

Playwright I beg you, my honorable gentleman, I implore you, do not deny my request; you are my only hope; my salvation depends upon you.

Leutner Hey, how come we're back here again? What are these people doing in Gottlieb's parlor?

Schlosser I just don't care anymore.

Machinist But, my dear friend, you really are asking too much of me; you want all of this done in such a hurry, and without any rehearsal.

Playwright Must you too persecute me? You are as bad as my enemies down there: you all rejoice in my misfortune.

Machinist Not in the least.

Playwright prostrating himself before him Then prove it to me by complying with my request; if at any point the audience begins to express its displeasure as loudly as before, then at a signal from me set all the machines going! The finale of Act Two has already deviated quite a bit from my original script.

Machinist Hey, What's this? Who raised the curtain?

Playwright Oh, it never rains but it pours! I am undone!

He rushes in embarrassment behind the scenes.

Machinist I have never known as confusing an evening as this one.

Exit machinist. A pause.

Wiesener Was that part of the play?

Wiesener's Neighbor Of course; that scene will help us make sense of the following changes of scene.

Fischer This evening will certainly go down in the annals.

King behind the scenes No, I'm not going out there again; I absolutely refuse; I couldn't bear to have them laugh at me again.

Playwright But you my dear friend  it can't be changed now.

Hanswurst Well, I'm willing to chance it.

He steps forward and bows comically to the audience.

Müller Hey, what's Hanswurst doing in the peasant's parlor now?

Schlosser No doubt he is going to deliver a ludicrous soliloquy.

Hanswurst Forgive me if I make bold to say a few words which are not actually in the script.

Fischer If I were you I would save my breath. You're annoying enough as a character in the play; now you're just making things worse

Schlosser A mere jester, and he dares to address us!

Hanswurst Why not? It doesn't worry me if people laugh at me; in fact, there is nothing that would please me more than if you should condescend to laugh at me. No, no, please, don't feel embarrassed; we're all friends here.

Leutner That is pretty funny!

Hanswurst Naturally, that which hardly becomes a king is all the more appropriate for a fool; his majesty, therefore, has declined to appear before you, and so it falls to me to make this important announcement.

Müller We're not interested in anything you have to say!

Hanswurst My dear fellow Germans

Schlosser I believe this play is set in Asia?

Hanswurst Maybe, I don't know. But now, you understand, I am merely an actor speaking to the spectators. I am no longer Hanswurst, but rather an individual addressing the audience, an individual who is not a part of the theatrical illusion but is, as it were, outside the illusion: removed, rational, independent, untouched by the absurdity of art. You get the picture? Do you follow? Can you see the difference?

Schlosser Goodbye! I'm off now. This is driving me bonkers. Just as I predicted.

Müller We don't understand you at all.

Schlosser How can you say such a thing to a clown?

Müller But he just said that he's speaking now as an ordinary man.

Hanswurst Please understand (and this is why I am here) that the scene you have just witnessed is not part of the play at all.

Fischer Not part of the play? What was it doing there then?

Hanswurst The curtain was raised too soon. It was a private conversation which would not have taken place on the stage at all if we had more room backstage. So much the worse if you were deceived, but we can't do anything about that now. You must try and eradicate that scene from your minds; because from this point on, you understand, from the moment I leave the stage, the third act will have really begun. Between ourselves, however, the preceding scene had nothing to do with it at all. Think of it as an extra scene thrown in for good measure, but which we would now like to take back. But fear not: you shall be compensated; in fact there is a lot coming up now which is very relevant to the plot, for I have spoken to the playwright himself and he has assured me of it.

Fischer Yes, your playwright is a fine fellow indeed!

Hanswurst He's useless, isn't he?

Müller Absolutely. I'm glad to see, Hanswurst, that you are not completely lacking in discernment.

Hanswurst And I'm really pleased to see that there is someone else who shares my taste

The Pit All of us, all of us! We all feel the same way.

Hanswurst Your obedient servant; you do me too much honor. Yes, God knows, he is a terrible writer just to give you a simple example: look at the miserable part he has written for me! Where, pray, is the wit, the humor? My character appears in so few scenes, and I believe if I had not stepped forward just now, thanks to a fortunate mishap, I might not have appeared again at all.

Playwright rushing onstage Impudent fellow

Hanswurst You see! He is even jealous of the small part I am playing now.

Playwright on the other side of the stage, bowing Honored friends! I would never have dared give this man a more important part, since I know your taste

Hanswurst on the other side Your taste? Now you see how jealous he is and yet you have all just declared that my taste and your taste were both cast in the same mould.

Playwright I only wished, by means of the present play, to prepare you for still more extravagant products of my imagination.

Everyone in the pit Eh? What's he saying?

Playwright For only by degrees can the mind be taught to love the fantastic and the humorous.

Hanswurst The humorous! He talks big, but it's just a load of hot air. But wait a minute, perhaps he has written good rôles, and we just create very different characters out of them onstage.

Playwright In the meantime, I take my leave of you: the play has been held up long enough as it is. And once again I beg your forgiveness for the interruption.

Exit playwright.

Hanswurst Goodbye, my dear friends, until we meet again.

He goes off, but immediately returns.

Hanswurst By the way! One other thing! The discussion which has just taken place among us is, strictly speaking, not part of the play either.

Exit Hanswurst.

Laughter in the pit.

Hanswurst returning immediately Let us finish this wretched piece today; pretend that you do not notice at all how bad it is, and as soon as I get home I'll sit down and write you a play that you will be sure to like.

Exit Hanswurst to much applause.


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Rh publication of the manuscripts which had for many years been preserved in the family archives of the Montesquieu family. They include the journals of travel which Sainte-Beuve said he would sooner have than the Spirit of Laws, and the three quarto volumes of Pensées in which Montesquieu stored materials for his published works.

The Persian Letters supply a clue to the plan of the Spirit of Laws, and contain the germs of many of the ideas which were subsequently developed in that book. They are the work of a young man. They profess to be written, and were probably composed or sketched, at different dates between 1711 and 1720, that is to say,

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text: The Fables of Florian (tr. Phelps)/The Rhinoceros and the Dromedary


text: Translation:Order of the Chief of the Council for Democratic Reform No 2/2549


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10 during the last four years of Louis XIV's reign, and the first five years of the Regency, and they describe the impressions of three Persians who are supposed to be travelling in Europe at that time. There is an elder, Usbek, who is grave and sedate, a younger, Rica, who is gay and frivolous, and a third, Rhédi, who does not appear to have got further westward than Venice.

The device was not new, but it had never been employed with such brilliancy of style, with such fine irony, with such audacity, with such fertility of suggestion, with such subtlety of observation, with such profundity of thought. And it was admirably adapted for a writer who wished to let his mind play freely on men and manners, to compare and contrast the religious, political and social codes of different countries, to look at his manifold subject from different points of view, to suggest inferences and reflections, and to do all this without committing himself to or making himself responsible for any definite proposition. Any dangerous comment could be easily qualified by a note which explained that it merely represented the Mahommedan or the Persian point of view.

There were a great many dangerous passages. There was the famous letter about the Two Magicians,

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text: The Fables of Florian (tr. Phelps)/The Peacock, Two Goslings, and the Diver


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Translation:Puss in Boots/Act 3/Scene 1

ACT THREE

__________ Scene One

The parlor in the peasant's cottage.

_____ Enter and.

Gottlieb Dear Hinze, it's true you are doing a lot for me, but I still can't see how it is supposed to help me.

Hinze Upon my word, I shall make you happy. I will spare no effort to achieve this aim, no matter what pains I must take, no matter what sacrifices I must make.

Gottlieb My happiness must come soon, very soon, otherwise it will be too late it's already half-past-seven and this comedy ends at eight.

Hinze What the hell do you mean?

Gottlieb Oh, I was just thinking about something else I meant to say: ''Otherwise we're both going to die of thirst. But look at the beautiful sunrise.'' The bloody prompter keeps mumbling; and then if you try to extemporize once in a while, it's sure to fall flat.

Hinze quietly Pull yourself together, man, or this piece will break into a thousand pieces.

Schlosser What did he say about comedy and half-past-seven?

Fischer I don't know; I think we ought to pay closer attention, it should be over soon.

Schlosser Right, concentrate! Thank God we'll be released at eight; if we pay attention, we'll be out of here by eight; but nine? No, no one could hold out till nine; and I'll be a basket case by ten.

Fischer My dear chap, you are beginning to rave just like the characters in the play.

Schlosser I know. Thanks to this play I won't be back to my old self for a long time.

Gottlieb So my fortune will be decided this very day?

Hinze Yes, dear Gottlieb, even before the sun sets. See, I love you so much that I would walk through fire for you and you doubt my sincerity?

Wiesener Did you hear that? He's going to walk through fire. Beautiful! Here we will no doubt have the scene from The Magic Flute with the fire and the water!

Wiesener's Neighbor But cats never go into the water.

Wiesener Why, so much the greater is the cat's love for his master. Don't you see? That's the very point the author is trying to get across.

Hinze Tell me, what would you most like to be in the world?

Gottlieb It's hard to say.

Hinze Perhaps you'd like to be a prince, or a king?

Gottlieb More than anything.

Hinze And do you feel the strength within you to make an entire nation happy?

Gottlieb Why not? Provided I'm happy myself to begin with.

Hinze Well, then, rest assured you shall ascend the throne. I take my oath upon it.

Exit Hinze.

Gottlieb Surely that would take a miracle! But then, of course, so many unexpected things happen in the world.

Exit Gottlieb.

Bötticher Note the untiring refinement with which the cat always holds his cane; so delicately, so courteously.

Fischer You've been a nuisance to us long enough now with your refinements; you are even more boring than the play.

Müller Yes, it's very annoying to have to listen to your analyses and eulogies all the time.

Bötticher But my enthusiasm for art demands expression.

Schlosser Oh, put a sock in it! Here, Leutner, grab a hold of him; and you take his head, Müller; I have a machine here that will keep his mouth shut and prevent him from speaking.

Bötticher But then you will no longer

Schlosser That's it. Now put the gag over his mouth. And you engage the spring, Fischer. That should do the trick.

They gag him.

Bötticher But this is outrageous, I'm a connoiss

Schlosser A connoisseur of art he's trying to say. There, things will be a little quieter over here now. Now we can watch the rest of the play in peace and quiet.

title: Translation:Puss in Boots/Act 3/Scene 1


text: The Fables of Florian (tr. Phelps)/The Miser and His Son


text: Translation:Order of the Chief of the Council for Democratic Reform No 9/2549


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Rh which nearly cost Montesquieu his election to the Academy.

'The king of France is the most powerful prince in Europe. He has no gold mines, like his neighbour the king of Spain, but he has greater riches because he draws them from an inexhaustible mine—the vanity of his subjects. He has undertaken and carried on great wars without funds except titles of honour to sell, and, through a prodigy of human pride, his troops have found themselves feared, his fortresses built, his fleets equipped. Moreover he is a great magician. His empire extends to the minds of his subjects: he makes them think as he wishes. If he has only one million crowns in his treasure chest and he wants two, he has merely to tell them that one crown is equal to two, and they believe it. If he has a difficult war to carry on and has no money, he has merely to put it into their heads that a piece of paper is money, and they are convinced at once. But this is no such marvel, for there is another still greater magician, who is called the Pope, and the things which he makes people believe are even more extraordinary.'

Then there was the description of the old king, with his minister of eighteen, and his mistress of eighty, surrounded by a swarm of invisible enemies, whom, in spite of his confidential dervishes, he could never discover. There were many references to religion, mostly irreverent, though not with the fierce and bitter irreverence of Voltaire. Usbek finds imperfect and tentative approximations to Mahommedanism in many of the Christian dogmas and rites, and ascribes to the

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12 finger of Providence the way in which the world is being thus prepared for general conversion to the creed of Islam. About diversities of ceremonial belief he has naturally much to say. 'The other day I was eating a rabbit at an inn. Three men who were near me made me tremble, for they all declared that I had committed a grievous sin, one because the animal was impure, and the second because it had been strangled, and the third because it was not a fish. I appealed to a Brahmin, who happened to be there and he said, 'They are all wrong, for doubtless you did not kill the animal yourself.' 'But I did.' 'Then your action is damnable and unpardonable. How did you know that your father's soul has not passed into that poor beast?'

Neither the burning question of the Bull Unigenitus, nor Law and his scheme, is left untouched.

He pursues a somewhat less dangerous path, though still a path paved with treacherous cinders, when he sketches, after La Bruyère's manner, contemporary social types, the 'grand seigneur' with his offensive manner of taking snuff and caressing his lapdog, the man 'of good fortunes,' the dogmatist, the director of consciences who distinguishes between grades of sin, and whose clients are not ambitious of front seats in Paradise, but wish to know how just to squeeze in. There are also national types, such as the Spaniard, whose gravity of character is manifested by his spectacles and his moustache, and who has little forms of politeness which would appear out of place in France. The captain never beats a soldier without

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Rh asking his permission; the inquisitor makes his apology before burning a Jew. In a more serious vein is the description, so often quoted, of the ruin and desolation caused by the trampling of the Ottoman hoof. No law, no security of life or property: arts, learning, navigation, commerce, all in decay. 'In all this vast extent of territory which I have traversed,' says the Persian after his journey through Asia Minor, 'I have found but one city which has any wealth, and it is to the presence of Europeans that the wealth of Smyrna is due.'

The success of the Persian Letters was brilliant and instantaneous, and Montesquieu at once became a leading personage in Parisian society. He took lodgings in the most fashionable quarter, paid his devotions to Mlle de Clermont at Chantilly, was a favourite guest at the salon of the Marquise de Lambert, and through these influences obtained, though not without a struggle, a seat in the Academy. But he was dissatisfied with his reception there, and made up his mind to travel.

In the year 1728, when Montesquicu set out on his travels, the international politics of Europe were in a singularly confused and tangled position. Congress after congress, treaty after treaty, succeeded each other with bewildering rapidity and with little permanent effect. In Germany, Charles VI, the last male

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Rh bit off his colleague's order and swallowed it. However, the sight of blood brought them both back to their senses.

"God help us!" they cried at the same time. "We certainly don't mean to eat each other up. How could we have come to such a pass as this? What evil genius is making sport of us?"

"We must, by all means, entertain each other to pass the time away, otherwise there will be murder and death," said the one Official.

"You begin," said the other.

"Can you explain why it is that the sun first rises and then sets? Why isn't it the reverse?"

"Aren't you a funny man, your Excellency? You get up first, then you go to your office and work there, and at night you lie down to sleep."

"But why can't one assume the opposite, that is, that one goes to bed, sees all sorts of dream figures, and then gets up?"

"Well, yes, certainly. But when I was still an Official, I always thought this way: 'Now it is dawn, then it will be day, then will come supper, and finally will come the time to go to bed.'"

The word "supper" recalled that incident in the day's doings, and the thought of it made both Officials melancholy, so that the conversation came to a halt.

"A doctor once told me that human beings can sustain themselves for a long time on their own juices," the one Official began again.

"What does that mean?"

"It is quite simple. You see, one's own juices generate other juices, and these in their turn still other juices, and so it goes on until finally all the juices are consumed."

"And then what happens?"

"Then food has to be taken into the system again."

"The devil!"

"No matter what topic the Officials chose, the conversation invariably reverted to the subject of eating; which only increased their appetite more and more. So they decided to give up talking altogether, and, recollecting the Moscow


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Translation:Puss in Boots/Act 3/Scene 2

ACT THREE

__________ Scene Two

Open country.

_____ Hinze with knapsack and bag I have become quite accustomed to hunting. Every day I catch partridges, rabbits and the like, and the dear little animals are getting more and more practice at being caught.

He spreads out his bag.

Hinze The season for catching nightingales is over now, I can't hear a single one.

Enter the.

He Go away, I'm fed up with you.

She And I find you repugnant.

He A fine lover you are!

She Miserable hypocrite! You deceived me!

He What happened to your undying affection?

She What about your fidelity?

He Your rapture?

She Your ecstasy?

Both The devil has taken them! That's what comes of marrying.

Hinze My hunting has suffered interruptions before, but never as bad as this. Do you mind; can't you see that this open country is clearly too confined for your sorrows; could you not find some mountain to scale?

He Rogue!

He gives Hinze a box on the ear.

She Churl!

She gives Hinze a box on the other ear.

Hinze snarls.

She I think it would be for the best if we got a divorce.

He I am at your service.

Exeunt lovers.

Hinze Nice people, these so-called humans. Look, two partridges; I'll carry them off right away. Now, Fortune, bestir yourself, for I too am almost out of patience. I no longer have any desire to eat the partridges. It's clear that through mere habit we can accustom our natures to every possible virtue.

He goes off.

Bötticher gagged Heav - heav - n - ly!

Schlosser Relax! You're just wasting your breath.

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text: The Fables of Florian (tr. Phelps)/The Philosopher and the Owl


text: Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Edwin, John (1749-1790)


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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Many a temptation comes to us in fine, gay colours that are but skin deep. Matthew Henry | work = Commentaries. Genesis. Ch. III. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Overbury, Ruskin, Venning | topic = | page = 59 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Beauty draws more than oxen. | author = Herbert | work = Jacula Prudentum. | author = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 59 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom. Holmes | work = Professor at the Breakfast Table. II, A heaven of charms divine Nausicaa lay. Homer | work = Odyssey. | place = Bk. VI. L. 22 | note = {{sc|Pope}}'s trans. O matre pulchra filia pulchrior. O daughter, more beautiful than thy lovely mother. Horacei | work = Carmina. I. 16. 1. | author = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 59 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Nihil est ab omni Parte beatum. Nothing is beautiful from every point of " view. Horace | work = Carmina. II. 16. 27. | author =  | place =  | note =  | topic =  | page = 59 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Sith Nature thus gave her the praise, To be the chiefest work she wrought, In faith, methink, some better ways On your behalf might well be sought, Than to compare, as ye have done, To match the candle with the sun. Henry Howard | work = Sonnet to the Fair Gerall dine. "Hold their farthing candles to the sun." See {{sc|Young}}, under {{sc|Authorship}}. Tell me, shepherds, have you seen My Flora pass this way? In shape and feature Beauty's queen, In pastoral array. The Wreath | work = From The Lyre. Vol. III. P. 27. (Ed. 1824 ) First lines also in a song by Dr. Samuel Howard. | author = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 59 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien. Victor Hugo | work = Eviradnus. V. | author = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 59 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Rara est adeo concordia formse Atque pudicitia. Rare is the union of beauty and purity. JuvENAiP^Saiiresr Xr~297; A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for 1 us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Keats | work = Endymion. | place = Bk. I. L. 1. | author = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 59 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Beauty is truth, truth beauty. Keats | work = Ode on a Grecian Urn. | author = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 59 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = L'air spirituel est dans les hommes ce que la regularite 1 des traits est dans les femmes: c'est le genre de beauts ou les plus vains puissent aspirer. A look of intelligence in men is what regularity of features is in women: it is a style of beauty to which the most vain may aspire. La Bruyère | work = Les Caractères. XII. | author = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 59 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 'Tis beauty calls, and glory shows the way. Nathaniel Lee | work = Alexander the Great; or, The Rival Queens. Act IV. Sc. 2. | note = ("Leads the way" in stage ed.) | topic = | page = 59 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Beautiful in form and feature, Lovely as the day, Can there be so fair a creature Formed of common clay? | author = Longfellow | work = Masque of Pandora. TheWorkshop of Hephosstus. Chorus of the Graces. | author = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 59 }}


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