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Edward III, King of England (1312-77), eldest son of Edward II and Isabella, daughter of Philip IV of France; b. at Windsor Castle, November 13, 1312; d. at Sheen, June 21, 1377. He succeeded to the throne in his fifteenth year through the deposition of his father in January, 1327, Edward II being forced to agree to his own deposition, as the son refused to accept the crown without his father's consent. His marriage to Philippa, daughter of the Count of Hainault, took place at York, January 24, 1328. In person Edward was graceful, strong, and active; he was fond of hunting, hawking, and all knightly pastimes, especially war. Ambition seems the most prominent point in his character, and his life, characterized throughout by selfishness and extravagance, was spoilt in later years by indulgence in a shameful passion. As a king, though he won great renown by his wars, he seems to have cared neither to maintain the royal prerogatives nor to follow any policy which would benefit his people.

For the first four years of his reign all power was in the hands of the queen-mother and Mortimer, and not till their overthrow in November, 1331, can Edward be said to have begun to rule. His first warlike experience was inglorious. In 1327 the Scots, led by Robert Bruce, bent on recovering their independence, invaded the North of England. Edward marched to meet them; but so quick and active were the Scots that Edward marched from York to Durham without gaining any definite news of their position, and, when he tried to cut them off and force them to fight, was completely out manoeuvred by them. The "Shameful Peace" of Northampton, made in 1328, by which Scotland's independence was again recognized, was one of the causes which brought about the downfall of Mortimer and Isabella. Edward renewed his struggle with Scotland in 1333, supporting Edward Baliol in an attempt on the Scottish throne. He defeated the Scots under Sir Archibald Douglas at Halidon Hill, and set Baliol on the throne. But the Scots quickly expelled Baliol, and, though Edward restored him, the quarrel with France prevented Edward from continuing the struggle. Further contests with Scotland took place during the Crecy campaign, when David Bruce, after securing his rightful place as king, took advantage of Edward's absence in France to invade England, only to be defeated and captured at Neville's Cross, October, 1346. David remained a prisoner for eleven years, but the Scottish raids continued. In 1355 the Scots took Berwick; Edward retook it in the following year, but, though he ravaged the Lothians in the campaign known as "Burnt Candlemas", he was unable to bring the Scots to terms. When David was released, in 1357, and found himself unable to pay the stipulated ransom, he agreed to make Edward heir to the Scottish throne. But David died, in 1371, and left Edward in a position which prevented him from prosecuting his claim or interfering with Scotland's independence.

Partly caused by the war with Scotland in 1333 and 1334 was the great war between England and France known as the Hundred Years War. The Scots had been helped by money from Philip VI of France, and Edward's anger at this was increased through the presence at his court of a French exile, Robert of Artois, who did all in his power to stir up enmity between the English and the French kings. Edward and Philip had been rival claimants for the French throne in 1328, and after Philip had been chosen king there was much dispute over the homage owed by Edward for his French fiefs. Philip, too, was anxious to be king over all France, a claim which involved the annexation of Guienne and Gascony, the parts still held by England. Thus personal and national rivalry combined to cause war. Edward's personal share in the war which lasted from 1338 to 1360 was a distinguished one. The first campaigns, however, were more remarkable for the concessions won by Parliament out of the king's needs than for successes in battle. By the end of 1339 he had agreed not to take a tallage of any kind without the consent of Parliament; and in 1341, to obtain further supplies, he submitted to his accounts being audited by a board chosen in Parliament, and promised not to choose ministers without the consent of his council. But, having received the money, Edward shamefully broke his promises, saying that he had "dissembled in order to avoid greater perils". The campaign of 1340 is noted for Edward's naval victory at Sluys over a fleet of five hundred French ships which attempted to prevent his landing; and this, taken with his victory off Winchelsea, in 1350, over the Spanish fleet, goes some way towards justifying his claim to the sovereignty of the seas.

The next campaign in which Edward took an important part was that of 1346. The Earl of Derby had been appointed to command in Gascony, and in 1346 Edward was about to lead an army to help him, when he was persuaded to attack, instead, the unprotected northern part of France. Landing near Cherbourg, he marched through Normandy, doing as much mischief as he could, and advanced almost to Paris. Then, crossing the Seine, he retreated towards Calais, pursued closely by Philip; and at Crecy, August 24, he won a complete victory over the French force. Continuing to Calais, he began a lengthy siege which ended in the surrender of the town, August, 1347. Truces frequently signed after this were as frequently broken till open war broke out again in 1355. Edward himself had small part in the warfare which followed till the campaign of 1359-60, when, after trying to take Reims, he concluded a treaty with the regent of France at Bretigny, May 8, 1360, by which all the ancient province of Aquitaine with Calais, Guines, and Ponthieu was ceded to him, and he renounced his claim to the French crown and to all French provinces except Brittany. The period between 1347 and 1355 was remarkable for the Black Death, a plague which in England swept off about half the people. Decrease in population caused increase in laborers' wages. And in 1350 the king attempted to deal with the difficulty by proclaiming that laborers must work for the same wages as before the plague, under penalty fixed by statute. (See Gasquet, The Black Death, new ed., London, 1908.)

Ecclesiastically, Edward's reign was marked by some legislation directed against the pope. The difficulties were caused partly by the heavy taxation levied by the pope on the clergy, and partly by the appointment of foreigners to English benefices by the pope; while the irritation of Englishmen at these grievances was increased by the pope's residence at Avignon, under the influence of the French king. In 1351 the Statute of Provisors was passed. The king had, in 1344, complained to the pope against reservations and provisions by which English benefices were given to foreigners, and the rights of patrons were defeated; and this proving ineffectual, the statute now made all who procured papal provisions for benefices liable to fine and imprisonment. But the statute can hardly have benefited patrons, for preferments filled by provisions were declared forfeit to the Crown for that turn. In 1353, by the Statute of Praemunire, all subjects of the king were forbidden to plead in a foreign court in matters which the King's Court could decide, and in 1365 the papal courts were expressly included under this. Urban V in 1366 demanded the annual tribute promised by King John, which was then thirty-three years in arrear; but, on Parliament refusing to pay, nothing more was heard of the claim.

The last years of Edward's reign were a time of failure and disappointment. In France he had lost, by 1374, all possessions but Calais, Bordeaux, and Bayonne; at sea the English were badly beaten by the Spaniards in 1372; the king himself after the death of his wife, in 1369, was completely under the influence of Alice Perrers; the court became more extravagant than before, and ministers were suspected of corruption. The Commons, supported by the Prince of Wales and William of Wykeham, attacked some of these evils in the "Good Parliament" of 1376. Lord Latimer, the king's chamberlain, and Richard Lyons, his financial agent, were impeached and imprisoned; and though Edward sent a message begging Parliament to deal gently with Alice Perrers for the sake of his love and his honor, she was banished from court. But the death of the Black Prince immediately afterwards was a great blow to the Commons. John of Gaunt was able, on Parliament's dismissal, to recall the impeached ministers, and by Edward's wish Alice Perrers returned. The struggle between the anti-ecclesiastical party, led by John of Gaunt, in alliance with John Wyclif, and the clergy, led by William of Wykeham, is scarcely connected with Edward personally, except in so far as this and other evils were due to Edward's neglect of the affairs of his kingdom. Discontent and conflicts at home, and failure abroad brought his reign to a close. He died deserted by all except one priest who attended him out of compassion. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.

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Rh to him rather some sense of pleasure than of pain or discomfort." Assuming that this holds generally good, in well-constituted frames, we point out a notable example in the case of the incarcerated Paul; for, although that youth was in no agreeable situation at the time present,—and although nothing very encouraging smiled upon him from the prospects of the future, yet, as soon as he had recovered his consciousness, and given himself a rousing shake, he found an immediate source of pleasure in discovering, first, that several ladies and gentlemen bore him company in his imprisonment; and, secondly, in perceiving a huge jug of water within his reach, which, as his awaking sensation was that of burning thirst, he delightedly emptied at a draught. He then, stretching himself, looked around with a wistful earnestness, and discovered a back turned towards him, and recumbent on the floor, which, at the very first glance, appeared to him familiar. "Surely," thought he, "I know that frieze coat, and the peculiar turn of those narrow shoulders." Thus soliloquizing, he raised himself, and, putting out his leg, he gently kicked the reclining form.

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130 "Muttering strange oaths," the form turned round, and, raising itself upon that inhospitable part of the body in which the introduction of foreign feet is considered any thing but an honour, it fixed its dull blue eyes upon the face of the disturber of its slumbers, gradually opening them wider and wider, until they seemed to have enlarged themselves into proportions fit for the swallowing of the important truth that burst upon them, and then from the mouth of the creature issued—

"Queer my glims, if that ben't little Paul!"

"Ay, Dummie, here I am!—Not been long without being laid by the heels, you see!—Life is short; we must make the best use of our time!"

Upon this, Mr. Dunnaker—(it was no less respectable a person)—scrambled up from the floor, and, seating himself on the bench beside Paul, said, in a pitying tone—

"Vy, Laus-a-me! if you ben't knocked o' the head!—your poll's as bloody as Murphy's face ven his throat's cut!"

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Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/St. Edward the Confessor

Edward the Confessor,, King of England, b. in 1003; d. January 5, 1066. He was the son of Ethelred II and Emma, daughter of Duke Richard of Normandy, being thus half-brother to King Edmund Ironside, Ethelred's son by his first wife, and to King Hardicanute, Emma's son by her second marriage with Canute. When hardly ten years old he was sent with his brother Alfred into Normandy to be brought up at the court of the duke his uncle, the Danes having gained the mastery in England. Thus he spent the best years of his life in exile, the crown having been settled by Canute, with Emma's consent, upon his own offspring by her. Early misfortune thus taught Edward the folly of ambition, and he grew up in innocence, delighting chiefly in assisting at Mass and the church offices, and in association with religious, whilst not disdaining the pleasures of the chase, or recreations suited to his station. Upon Canute's death in 1035 his illegitimate son, Harold, seized the throne, Hardicanute being then in Denmark, and Edward and his brother Alfred were persuaded to make an attempt to gain the crown, which resulted in the cruel death of Alfred who had fallen into Harold's hands, whilst Edward was obliged to return to Normandy. On Hardicanute's sudden death in 1042, Edward was called by acclamation to the throne at the age of about forty, being welcomed even by the Danish settlers owing to his gentle saintly character. His reign was one of almost unbroken peace, the threatened invasion of Canute's son, Sweyn of Norway, being averted by the opportune attack on him of Sweyn of Denmark; and the internal difficulties occasioned by the ambition of Earl Godwin and his sons being settled without bloodshed by Edward's own gentleness and prudence. He undertook no wars except to repel an inroad of the Welsh, and to assist Malcom III of Scotland against Macbeth, the usurper of his throne. Being devoid of personal ambition, Edward's one aim was the welfare of his people. He remitted the odious "Danegelt", which had needlessly continued to be levied; and though profuse in alms to the poor and for religious purposes, he made his own royal patrimony suffice without imposing taxes. Such was the contentment caused by "the good St. Edward's laws", that their enactment was repeatedly demanded by later generations, when they felt themselves oppressed.

Yielding to the entreaty of his nobles, he accepted as his consort the virtuous Editha, Earl Godwin's daughter. Having, however, made a vow of chastity, he first required her agreement to live with him only as a sister. As he could not leave his kingdom without injury to his people, the making of a pilgrimage to St. Peter's tomb, to which he had bound himself, was commuted by the pope into the rebuilding at Westminster of St. Peter's abbey, the dedication of which took place but a week before his death, and in which he was buried. St. Edward was the first King of England to touch for the "king's evil", many sufferers from which disease were cured by him. He was canonized by Alexander III in 1161. His feast is kept on the 13th of October, his incorrupt body having been solemnly translated on that day in 1163 by St. Thomas of Canterbury in the presence of King Henry II.

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Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/St. Edwin

Edwin, .—the first Christian King of Northumbria, (b. about 585, son of Aella, King of Deira, the southern division of Northumbria; d. October 12, 633. Upon Aella's death in 588, the sovereignty over both divisions of Northumbria was usurped by Ethebric of Bernicia, and retained at his death by his son Ethelfrid; Edwin, Aella's infant son, being compelled until his thirtieth year to wander from one friendly prince to another, in continual danger from Ethelfrd's attempts upon his life. Thus when he was residing with King Redwald of East Anglia, Ethelfrid repeatedly endeavored to bribe the latter to destroy him. Finally, however, Redwald's refusal to betray his guest led in 616 to a battle, fought upon the river Idle, in which Ethelfrid himself was slain, and Edwin was invited to the throne of Northumbria. On the death of his first wife, Edwin, in 625, asked for the hand of Ethelburga, sister to Eadbald, the Christian King of Kent, expressing his own readiness to embrace Christianity, if upon examination he should find it superior to his own religion. Ethelburga was accompanied to Northumbria by St. Paulinus, one of St. Augustine's fellow missionaries, who thus became its first apostle. By him Edwin was baptized at York in 627, and thenceforth showed himself most zealous for the conversion of his people. In instance of this, Venerable Bede tells how, at their royal villa of Yeverin in Northumberland, the king and queen entertained Paulinus for five weeks, whilst he was occupied from morning to night in instructing and baptizing the crowds that flocked to him. By Edwin's persuasion, moreover, Eorpwald, King of East Anglia, son of his old friend Redwald, was led to become a Christian. In token of his authority over the other kings as Bretwalda, Edwin used to have the tufa (a tuft of feathers on a spear, a military ensign of Roman origin) borne publicly before him, and he received tribute from the Welsh princes. Under him the law was so respected, that it became, as the Venerable Bede attests, a proverb that "a woman might travel through the island with a babe at her breast without fear of insult". St. Edwin was slain on October 12, 633, in repelling an attack made on him by Penda, the pagan King of Mercia, who, together with the Welsh prince Cadwallon (a Christian only in name), had invaded his dominion. Perishing thus in conflict with the enemies of the Faith, he was regarded as a martyr and as such was allowed by Gregory XIII to be depicted in the English College church at Rome. His head was taken to St. Peter's church at York, which he had begun. His body was conveyed to Whitby. Churches are said to have been dedicated to him at London and at Breve in Somerset.

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Rh "'Tis only the fortune of war, Dummie, and a mere trifle: the heads manufactured at Thames Court are not easily put out of order.—But tell me, how come you here?"

"Vy, I had been lushing heavy vet"

"Till you grew light in the head, eh? and fell into the kennel."

"Yes."

"Mine is a worse business than that, I fear:" and therewith Paul, in a lower voice, related to the trusty Dummie the train of accidents which had conducted him to his present asylum. Dummie's face elongated as he listened: however, when the narrative was over, he endeavoured such consolatory palliatives as occurred to him. He represented, first, the possibility that the gentleman might not take the trouble to appear; secondly, the certainty that no watch was found about Paul's person; thirdly, the fact that, even by the gentleman's confession, Paul had not been the actual offender; fourthly, if the worst came to the worst, what were a few weeks' or even months' imprisonment?

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Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Edwy

Edwy (or ), King of the English, eldest son of Edmund and St. Aelfgifu, b. about 940; d. 959. Though but fifteen years old at the death of his uncle Edred, he was unanimously chosen king, and was crowned at Kingston in January, 956. Too young, almost, to know his own mind, and surrounded by counsellors who pandered to all that was worst in him, his reign was of short duration. Despite the exhortations of St. Dunstan and Archbishop Odo, both of whom fell under his displeasure, he put imposition after imposition upon his subjects. His relatives were removed from court, honest thanes were despoiled of their lands and inheritances, and his grandmother Eadgive, who, by her piety and dignity, had endeared herself to the entire nation, was deprived of all her possessions.

At length, in 957, the Mercians and Northumbrians, who felt his course most keenly, rose against him. Edgar, Edwy's younger brother, withdrew from the court with Archbishop Odo and put himself at the head of the insurgents. Edwy advanced to meet him but was defeated at Gloucester and obliged to flee for his life. Unwilling to prolong a civil war, the men of Kent and Wessex assented to a general meeting of the thanes from North and South to arrange for peace. It was decided that the country should be divided in half at the Thames, and that each brother should rule over a part. To Edwy was allotted the southern portion, and to Edgar the northern. Taught prudence by his reverses, Edwy governed his portion from that time forward with commendable justice and moderation, but died, prematurely, in 959.

His relations with St. Dunstan were not the happiest, and constitute the chief interest of Edwy's career. His opposition to the saint dated from the refusal of the latter to countenance his relations with Ethelgive, by some presumed to be his foster mother, and her daughter. Seeing that he was in disfavor, Dunstan withdrew for a time to his cloister, but the anger of the king, kept alive by Ethelgive, followed him into that sanctuary. The monks were incited to revolt, the abbey was plundered. Dunstan fled and, though hotly pursued, managed to escape to the Continent, where he remained until after Edwy's death. Osbern's story to the effect that Edwy engaged in a general persecution of the monks may, however, be safely rejected, as the revolt against him was not concerned with the dispute between the regulars and seculars which began only after Edwy's death. On the other hand, Edwy's dislike for Dunstan may have helped to impede the saint's monastic reforms.

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132 ben't as good a vay of passing the time as a cove as is fond of snuggery need desire!"

This observation had no comfort for Paul, who recoiled, with all the maiden coyness of one to whom such unions are unfamiliar, from a matrimonial alliance with the snuggery of the House of Correction. He rather trusted to another source for consolation; in a word, he encouraged the flattering belief, that Long Ned, finding that Paul had been caught instead of himself, would have the generosity to come forward and exculpate him from the charge. On hinting this idea to Dummie, that accomplished "man about town" could not for some time believe that any simpleton could be so thoroughly unacquainted with the world, as seriously to entertain so ridiculous a notion; and, indeed, it is somewhat remarkable that such a hope should ever have told its flattering tale to one brought up in the house of Mrs. Margaret Lobkins. But Paul, we have seen, had formed many of his notions from books; and he had the same fine theories of your "moral rogue," that possess the minds of young patriots when they first leave college for the House of Commons, and think integrity a prettier thing than office.

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Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Boetius Egan

Egan,, Archbishop of Tuam, b. near Tuam, Ireland, 1734; d. near Tuam, 1798. He belonged to a family owning large estates in the County Galway. In the eighteenth century they were reduced in position and means. The penal laws made it then difficult for an Irish Catholic to receive Catholic education at home; nor do we know where young Egan received his early education. Neither is it certain at what age he went to France to be trained for the priesthood. This training he received at the College of Bordeaux, founded by Irish exiles and endowed by Anne of Austria in the seventeenth century. After his ordination he returned to Ireland and labored in the ministry for some years till, in 1785, he was appointed Bishop of Achonry. Two years later he became Archbishop of Tuam. Accustomed during his whole life in Ireland to the barest toleration of his religion, he joyfully welcomed the Catholic Relief Act of 1793, and hastened to express his gratitude to George III. When Maynooth College was founded in 1795, he was named one of its trustees. One of his last public acts was to sign an address to the Irish viceroy, Lord Camden, condemning the revolutionary associations then in Ireland. In this address George III was described as "the best of kings", and the Irish Parliament as "our enlightened legislature". It was strange language to use of such a king and of such a parliament.

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Egan,, first Bishop of Philadelphia, U.S.A., b. in Ireland, most probably in Galway, in 1761; d. at Philadelphia, July 22, 1814. Entering the Order of St. Francis he was rapidly advanced to important offices. In his twenty-sixth year he was appointed Guardian of St. Isidore's, the house of the Irish Franciscans, at Rome, and held this position for three years, when he was transferred to Ireland. After laboring for several years as a missionary in his native land, he responded to an earnest appeal of the Catholics of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and went to the United States. Though lacking the constitution demanded by the pastoral duties of that pioneer age, and suffering often from sickness, Father Egan's priestly zeal and his eloquence in the pulpit gained universal recognition, and, in April, 1803, he was appointed by Bishop Carroll one of the pastors of St. Mary's church in Philadelphia. On April 8, 1808, Pope Pius VII erected this city into an episcopal see, with Michael Egan as first bishop. Archbishop Carroll describes him to the Roman authorities as "a man of about fifty who seems endowed with all the qualities to discharge with perfection all the functions of the episcopacy, except that he lacks robust health, greater experience and a greater degree of firmness in his disposition. He is a learned, modest, humble priest who maintains the spirit of his Order in his whole conduct." Owing to the Napoleonic troubles, the papal Bulls did not reach America until the year 1810. On October 28 Bishop Egan was consecrated by Archbishop Carroll in St. Peter's church, Baltimore. His brief episcopate was embittered and his health shattered by the contumacious behavior of the lay trustees of St. Mary's church, which he had chosen for his cathedral. These trustees, who were tainted with the irreligious notions of the times, without any legal right, and contrary to the canons of the Church, claimed the privilege of electing and deposing their pastors and of adjusting their salaries. This un-Catholic contention that "the laity own the churches and the clergy are their hired servants" disturbed the peace, retarded the progress, and threatened the existence of the Catholic religion in Pennsylvania during two episcopates. Bishop Egan's troubles were aggravated by the insubordination of two Irish priests whom he had admitted to the diocese, James Harold and his better-known nephew, William Vincent Harold. Bishop Egan died worn out by his struggles to maintain his episcopal authority.

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Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/St. Egbert

Egbert,, a Northumbrian monk, born of noble parentage c. 639; d. 729. In his youth he went for the sake of study to Ireland, to a monastery, says the Venerable Bede, "called Rathmelsigi", identified by some with Mellifont in what is now County Louth. There, when in danger of death from pestilence, he prayed for time to do penance, vowing amongst other things to live always in exile from his own country. In consequence he never returned to England, though he lived to the age of ninety, and always fasted rigorously. Having become a priest, he was filled with zeal for the conversion of the still pagan German tribes related to the Angles, and would himself have become their apostle, if God had not shown him that his real calling was to other work. It was he, however, who dispatched to Friesland St. Wigbert, St. Willibrord, and other saintly missionaries. St. Egbert's own mission was made known to him by a monk, who, at Melrose, had been a disciple of St. Boisil. Appearing to this monk, St. Boisil sent him to tell Egbert that the Lord willed him instead of preaching to the heathen to go to the monasteries of St. Columba, "because their ploughs were not going straight", in consequence of their schismatic practice in the celebration of Easter. Leaving Ireland therefore in 716, Egbert crossed over to Iona, where the last thirteen years of his life were spent. By his sweetness and humility he induced the Iona monks to relinquish their erroneous mode of computation; in 729 they celebrated Easter with the rest of the Church upon April 24, although their old rule placed it that year upon an earlier day. On the same day, after saying Mass and joining joyfully in their celebration, the aged Egbert died. Though he is now honored simply as a confessor, it is probable that St. Egbert was a bishop. By Alcuin he is expressly called antistes and episcopus, and an Irish account of a synod at Birra names him "Egbert Bishop", whilst the term sacerdos used by the Venerable Bede, is sometimes applied by him to bishops.

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Rh Mr. Dunnaker urged Paul, seriously, to dismiss so vague and childish a fancy from his breast, and rather to think of what line of defence it would be best for him to pursue. This subject being at length exhausted, Paul recurred to Mrs. Lobkins, and inquired whether Dummie had lately honoured that lady with a visit.

Mr. Dunnaker replied that he had, though with much difficulty, appeased her anger against him for his supposed abetment of Paul's excuses, and that of late she had held sundry conversations with Dummie respecting our hero himself. Upon questioning Dummie farther, Paul learnt the good matron's reasons for not evincing that solicitude for his return which our hero had reasonably anticipated. The fact was, that she, having no confidence whatsoever in his own resources independent of her, had not been sorry of an opportunity effectually, as she hoped, to humble that pride which had so revolted her; and she pleased her vanity by anticipating the time when Paul, starved into submission, would gladly, and penitently, re-seek the shelter of her roof, and, tamed as it were by experience, would never again kick

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134 against the yoke which her matronly prudence thought it fitting to impose upon him. She contented herself then with obtaining from Dummie the intelligence, that our hero was under Mac Grawler's roof, and therefore, out of all absolute evil; and, as she could not foresee the ingenious exertions of intellect by which Paul had converted himself into the 'Nobilitas' of the Asinæum, and thereby saved himself from utter penury, she was perfectly convinced, from her knowledge of character, that the illustrious Mac Grawler would not long continue that protection to her rebellious protegé, which, in her opinion, was his only preservative from picking pockets or famishing. To the former decent alternative she knew Paul's great and jejune aversion, and she consequently had little fear for his morals or his safety, in thus abandoning him for a while to chance. Any anxiety too that she might otherwise have keenly experienced was deadened by the habitual intoxication now increasing upon the good lady with age, and which, though at times she could be excited to all her characteristic vehemence, kept her senses for the most part plunged into a lethæan stupor, or,

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Rh to speak more courteously, in a poetical abstraction from the things of the external world.

"But," said Dummie, as by degrees he imparted the solution of the Dame's conduct to the listening ear of his companion—"But I opes as ow ven you be out of this ere scrape, leetle Paul, you vill take varning, and drop Meester Pepper's acquaintance, (vich, I must say, I vas alvays a sorry to see you hencourage,) and go home to the Mug, and fam grasp the old mort, for she has not been like the same cretur ever since you vent. She's a delicate-arted oman, that Piggy Lob!"

So appropriate a panegyric on Mrs. Margaret Lobkins might, at another time, have excited Paul's risible muscles; but at that moment he really felt compunction for the unceremonious manner in which he had left her, and the softness of regretful affection imbued in its hallowing colours even the image of Piggy Lob.

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136 of before his own, and among others Mr. Dummie Dunnaker obtained his release, though not without a severe reprimand for his sin of inebriety, which no doubt sensibly affected the ingenuous spirit of that noble character. At length Paul's turn came. He heard, as he took his station, a general buzz. At first he imagined it was at his own interesting appearance, but raising his eyes, he perceived that it was at the entrance of the gentleman who was to become his accuser.

"Hush," said some one near him, "'tis Lawyer Brandon. Ah, he's a 'cute fellow! It will go hard with the person he complains of."

There was a happy fund of elasticity of spirit about our hero, and though he had not the good fortune to have "a blighted heart," a circumstance which, by the poets and philosophers of the present day, is supposed to inspire a man with wonderful courage, and make him impervious to all misfortunes; yet he bore himself up with wonderful courage under his present trying situation, and was far from overwhelmed, though he was certainly a little damped, by the observation he had just heard.

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Rh Mr. Brandon was, indeed, a barrister of considerable reputation, and in high esteem in the world, not only for talent, but also for a great austerity of manners, which, though a little mingled with sternness and acerbity for the errors of other men, was naturally thought the more praiseworthy on that account; there being, as persons of experience are doubtless aware, two divisions in the first class of morality: imprimis, a great hatred for the vices of one's neighbour; secondly, the possession of virtues in one's self.

Mr. Brandon was received with great courtesy by Justice Burnflat, and as he came, watch in hand, (a borrowed watch) saying that his time was worth five guineas a moment, the Justice proceeded immediately to business.

Nothing could be clearer, shorter, or more satisfactory, than the evidence of Mr. Brandon. The corroborative testimony of the watchman followed; and then Paul was called upon for his defence. This was equally brief with the charge;—but, alas! it was not equally satisfactory. It consisted in a firm declaration of his innocence. His comrade, he confessed, might have stolen the watch, but

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138 he humbly suggested that that was exactly the very reason why he had not stolen it.

"How long, fellow," asked Justice Burnflat, "have you known your companion?"

"About half a year!"

"And what is his name and calling?"

Paul hesitated, and declined to answer.

"A sad piece of business!" said the Justice, in a melancholy tone, and shaking his head portentously.

The lawyer acquiesced in the aphorism; but with great magnanimity observed, that he did not wish to be hard upon the young man. His youth was in his favour, and his offence was probably the consequence of evil company. He suggested, therefore, that as he must be perfectly aware of the address of his friend, he should receive a full pardon, if he would immediately favour the magistrate with that information. He concluded by remarking, with singular philanthropy, that it was not the punishment of the youth, but the recovery of his watch that he desired.

Justice Burnflat, having duly impressed upon our hero's mind the disinterested and Christian

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Rh mercy of the complainant, and the everlasting obligation Paul was under to him for its display, now repeated, with double solemnity, those queries respecting the habitation and name of Long Ned, which our hero had before declined to answer.

Grieved are we to confess, that Paul, ungrateful for, and wholly untouched by, the beautiful benignity of Lawyer Brandon, continued firm in his stubborn denial to betray his comrade, and with equal obduracy he continued to insist upon his own innocence and unblemished respectability of character.

"Your name, young man?" quoth the Justice. "Your name, you say, is Paul,—Paul what? you have many an alias, I'll be bound."

Here the young gentleman again hesitated: at length he replied—

"Paul Lobkins, your Worship."

"Lobkins!" repeated the Judge—"Lobkins! come hither, Saunders—have not we that name down in our black books?"

"So please your Worship," quoth a little stout man, very useful in many respects to the Festus of the Police, "there is one Peggy Lobkins,

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140 who keeps a public-house, a sort of flash ken, called the Mug, in Thames Court, not exactly in our beat, your Worship."

"Ho, ho!" said Justice Burnflat, winking at Mr. Brandon, "we must sift this a little. Pray, Mr. Paul Lobkins, what relation is the good landlady of the Mug, in Thames Court, to yourself?"

"None at all, Sir," said Paul, hastily,—"she's only a friend!"

Upon this there was a laugh in the court.

"Silence," cried the Justice, "and I dare say, Mr. Paul Lobkins, that this friend of yours will vouch for the respectability of your character, upon which you are pleased to value yourself."

"I have not a doubt of it, Sir," answered Paul; and there was another laugh.

"And is there any other equally weighty and praiseworthy friend of yours who will do you the like kindness?"

Paul hesitated; and at that moment, to the surprise of the court, but above all to the utter and astounding surprise of himself, two gentlemen dressed in the height of the fashion pushed

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Rh forward, and, bowing to the Justice, declared themselves ready to vouch for the thorough respectability, and unimpeachable character of Mr. Paul Lobkins, whom they had known, they said, for many years, and for whom they had the greatest respect. While Paul was surveying the persons of these kind friends, whom he never remembered to have seen before in the course of his life, the lawyer, who was a very sharp fellow, whispered to the magistrate, and that dignitary nodding as in assent, and eyeing the new comers, inquired the names of Mr. Lobkins' witnesses.

"Mr. Eustace Fitzherbert, and Mr. William Howard Russell," were the several replies.

Names so aristocratic produced a general sensation. But the impenetrable Justice calling the same Mr. Saunders he had addressed before, asked him to examine well the countenances of Mr. Lobkins' friends.

As the Alguazil eyed the features of the memorable Don Raphael and the illustrious Manuel Morales, when the former of those accomplished personages thought it convenient to assume the travelling dignity of an Italian Prince,

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142 son of the Sovereign of the vallies which lie between Switzerland, the Milanese, and Savoy, while the latter was contented with being servant to Monseigneur le Prince; even so, with far more earnestness than respect, did Mr. Saunders eye the features of those high-born gentlemen, Messrs. Eustace Fitzherbert, and William Howard Russell; but, after a long survey, he withdrew his eyes, made an unsatisfactory and unrecognizing gesture to the magistrate, and said,—"Please your Worship, they are none of my flock; but Bill Troutling knows more of this sort of genteel chaps than I does."

"Bid Bill Troutling appear!" was the laconic order.

At that name, a certain modest confusion might have been visible in the faces of Mr. Eustace Fitzherbert and Mr. William Howard Russell, had not the attention of the court been immediately directed to another case. A poor woman had been committed for seven days to the House of Correction on a charge of disrespectability. Her husband, the person most interested in the matter, now came forward to disprove the charge; and by help of his neighbours he succeeded.

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Rh "It is all very true," said Justice Burnflat; "but as your wife, my good fellow, will be out in five days, it will be scarcely worth while to release her now."

So judicious a decision could not fail of satisfying the husband; and the audience became from that moment enlightened as to a very remarkable truth—viz.; that five days out of seven bear a peculiarly small proportion to the remaining two; and that people in England have so prodigious a love for punishment, that though it is not worth while to release an innocent woman from prison five days sooner than one would otherwise have done, it is exceedingly well worth while to commit her to prison for seven!

When the husband, drawing his rough hand across his eyes, and muttering some vulgar impertinence or another, had withdrawn, Mr. Saunders said,—

"Here be Bill Troutling, your Worship!"

"Oh, well," quoth the Justice,—"and now Mr. Eustace Fitz—Hollo, how's this! where are

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144 Mr. William Howard Russell, and his friend Mr. Eustace Fitzherbert!"

Those noble gentlemen, having a natural dislike to be confronted with so low a person as Mr. Bill Troutling, had, the instant public interest was directed from them, silently disappeared from a scene where their rank in life seemed so little regarded. If, reader, you should be anxious to learn from what part of the world the transitory visitants appeared, know, that they were spirits sent by that inimitable magician, Long Ned, partly to report how matters fared in the court; for Mr. Pepper,—in pursuance of that old policy which teaches that the nearer the fox is to the hunters, the more chance he has of being overlooked,—had, immediately on his abrupt departure from Paul, dived into a house in the very street where his ingenuity had displayed itself, and in which oysters and ale nightly allured and regaled an assembly that, to speak impartially, was more numerous than select: there had he learnt how a pickpocket had been seized for unlawful affection to another man's watch, and there,

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Rh while he quietly seasoned his oysters, had he, with his characteristic acuteness, satisfied his mind, by the conviction that that arrested unfortunate was no other than Paul. Partly therefore as a precaution for his own safety, that he might receive early intelligence, should Paul's defence make a change of residence expedient, and partly (out of the friendliness of fellowship) to back his companion with such aid as the favourable testimony of two well-dressed persons, little known "about town," might confer, he had dispatched those celestial beings, who had appeared under the mortal names of Eustace Fitzherbert, and William Howard Russell, to the imperial court of Justice Burnflat. Having thus accounted for the apparition, (the disapparition requires no commentary)—of Paul's 'friends,' we return to Paul himself.

Despite of the perils with which he was girt, our young hero fought out to the last, but the Justice was not by any means willing to displease Mr. Brandon; and observing that an incredulous and biting sneer remained stationary on that gentleman's lip, during the whole of Paul's defence, he could not but shape his decision

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Author:George Edward Phillips

Works

 * The Extinction of the Ancient Hierarchy (1905)
 * Loreto and the Holy House (1917)
 * The Ancient Church & Modern India (1920)

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146 to the well-known acuteness of the celebrated lawyer. Paul was accordingly sentenced to retire for three months to that country-house situated at Bridewell, to which the ungrateful functionaries of justice often banish their most active citizens.

As soon as the sentence was passed, Brandon, whose keen eyes saw no hope of recovering his lost treasure, declared that the rascal had perfectly the Old-Bailey-cut of countenance, and that he did not doubt but, if ever he lived to be a judge, he should also live to pass a very different description of sentence on the offender.

So saying, he resolved to lose no more time, and very abruptly left the office, without any other comfort than the remembrance that, at all events, he had sent the boy to a place where, let him be ever so innocent at present, he was certain to come out as much inclined to be guilty, as his friends could desire; joined to such moral reflection as the tragedy of Bombastes Furioso might have afforded to himself in that sententious and terse line—

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Rh Meanwhile, Paul was conducted in state to his retreat, in company with two other offenders, one a middle-aged man, though a very old 'file,' who was sentenced for getting money under false pretences, and the other a little boy, who had been found guilty of sleeping under a colonnade: it being the especial beauty of the English law, to make no fine-drawn and nonsensical shades of difference between vice and misfortune; and its peculiar method of protecting the honest being, to make as many rogues as possible in as short a space of time.

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text: Paul Clifford/Volume 1/Chapter 7

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Author:Daniel

Works
The following works are traditionally attributed to Daniel:
 * Daniel, a book in the Bible

Works about Daniel

 * "Daniel" in The Lost Apocrypha of the Old Testament by Montague Rhodes James, 1920.

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Author:Jacob (Hebrew patriarch)

Works
The following works are attributed to Jacob according to one or more religious traditions:
 * Ladder of Jacob
 * Testament of Jacob

Works about Jacob

 * Genesis
 * "Jacob" by Arthur Hugh Clough
 * "Jacob" in The Lost Apocrypha of the Old Testament by Montague Rhodes James, 1920.
 * "Jacob (IV)," in A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon, by George Reynolds
 * "Jacob" in The Lost Apocrypha of the Old Testament by Montague Rhodes James, 1920.
 * "Jacob (IV)," in A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon, by George Reynolds
 * "Jacob (IV)," in A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon, by George Reynolds

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 So I hold out my arms to my Redeemer, who, having been foretold for four thousand years, has come to suffer and to die for me on earth, at the time and under all the circumstances foretold. By His grace, I await death in peace, in the hope of being eternally united to Him. Yet I live with joy, whether in the prosperity which it pleases Him to bestow upon me, or in the adversity which He sends for my good, and which He has taught me to bear by His example.

The prophecies having given different signs which should all happen at the advent of the Messiah, it was necessary that all these signs should occur at the same time. So it was necessary that the fourth monarchy should have come, when the seventy weeks of Daniel were ended; and that the sceptre should have then departed from Judah. And all this happened without any difficulty. Then it was necessary that the Messiah should come; and Jesus Christ then came, who was called the Messiah. And all this again was without difficulty. This indeed shows the truth of the prophecies.

The prophets foretold, and were not foretold. The saints again were foretold, but did not foretell. Jesus Christ both foretold and was foretold.

Jesus Christ, whom the two Testaments regard, the Old as its hope, the New as its model, and both as their centre.

The two oldest books in the world are those of Moses and Job, the one a Jew and the other a Gentile. Both of them look upon Jesus Christ as their common centre and object: Moses in relating the promises of God to Abraham, Jacob, &c., and his prophecies; and Job, Quis mihi det ut, &c. Scio enim quod redemptor meus vivit, &c.

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text: Portal:Caiaphas

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Author:Pontius Pilate

Works

 * Epistle of Pontius Pilate (apocryphal)

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 not to aim too high. Now if that shot of your's, had been made rather lower, you would have been in a pretty fix, and I should have been out of it."

After recounting all that had befallen him since leaving, Dodge concluded by desiring them, as soon as they had refreshed, to prepare for starting. "Eat plenty of the kangaroo," he said, as he laid several large lumps of the flesh before them, "but be very sparing of the flour." The latter warning was not altogether unnecessary, for their stock of "the staff of life" was grown very slender. A very little flour, just sufficient to make, when mixed with water, about half a pint of rather thin paste, was all either of our friends could afford to expend at a single meal.

Concluding from the quantity of flesh found at the camp that the late occupiers must recently have come from the plains, and that the fright they had experienced in the night would probably induce them to return thither, Dodge determined to adopt the hazardous expedient of following their trail. The party set off in Indian file, Dodge taking the lead. They soon reached a more level and open country. During the afternoon a deep, though not wide, river barred their progress. Choosing a convenient situation to occupy for the night, advantage was taken of the daylight to look about them. Several gum trees were observed to have been denuded of very large sheets of bark, which Dodge was not long in declaring had been done for the purpose of constructing canoes, and that in all probability one might be found by making a careful search along the banks of the river on the opposite shore. For Dodge to strip and plunge in was only the work of a minute, in another he was across and lost amongst the tall reeds which lined the stream. Presently a long sheet of bark, which scarcely floated, was thrust forcibly towards our friends, and Dodge followed and prevented it from sinking.

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The Gospel only speaks of the virginity of the Virgin up to the time of the birth of Jesus Christ. All with reference to Jesus Christ.

Proofs of Jesus Christ.
 * Why was the book of Ruth preserved?
 * Why the story of Tamar?

"Pray that ye enter not into temptation." It is dangerous to be tempted; and people are tempted because they do not pray.

Et tu conversus confirma fratres tuos. But before, conversus Jesus respexit Petrum.

Saint Peter asks permission to strike Malchus, and strikes before hearing the answer. Jesus Christ replies afterwards.

The word, Galilee, which the Jewish mob pronounced as if by chance, in accusing Jesus Christ before Pilate, afforded Pilate a reason for sending Jesus Christ to Herod. And thereby the mystery was accomplished, that He should be judged by Jews and Gentiles. Chance was apparently the cause of the accomplishment of the mystery.

Those who have a difficulty in believing seek a reason in the fact that the Jews do not believe. "Were this so clear," say they, "why did the Jews not believe?" And they almost wish that they had believed, so as not to be kept back by the example of their refusal. But it is their very refusal that is the foundation of our faith. We should be much less disposed to the faith, if they were on our side. We should then have a more ample pretext. The wonderful thing is to have made the Jews great lovers of the things foretold, and great enemies of their fulfilment.

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 "I can't say much for the safety or appearance of the craft at present," he said, scrambling out," but we must tinker her up to serve our turn. We will cruise down the stream tomorrow. We are not far from the plains. See how sluggishly the river runs." The canoe (it scarcely deserved the name,) was drawn out, and after a minute examination, Dodge considered she might be made available by plastering up her two ends with mud and filling several rather serious-looking fractures with the same humble material. When all the repairs possible had been done, and she really kept free of water, Slinger proposed three cheers for their success.

"Steady," said Dodge, clapping his hand before Slinger's mouth, "there's time enough for that when we are out of hearing of the natives; at present I am not quite sure that we are. Make a better use of your time, and sleep two hours in one. My word! we shall not reach home for a few days if all turns out right, and we must be moving sufficiently early tomorrow to get some two miles down the river ere the sun rises."

Long before daybreak Dodge roused his friends, who were most unwilling to respond to the call. So he set to work and boiled some small portions of tea and sugar, which he succeeded in bringing to light from the inmost recesses of the leg of the pair of trousers in which it will be remembered he ingeniously contrived to stow away all his stores. "This kind of beverage requires to be taken hot," Dodge said, as he, accidentally of course, spilt a little upon Slinger's blanket under which he yet remained coiled; "by drinking it then you will not know whether it is double distilled or not. Come, be alive!" he went on to say, shaking his friends and almost lifting them upon their legs; "be alive, my boat is on the shore, and my bark is —where?" he said, casting his eyes in the direction in which he had left the canoe over-night; his bark was not there.

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Rh LILI'S MENAGERIE.

no menagerie, I vow, Excels my Lili's at this minute; She keeps the strangest creatures in it, And catches them, she knows not how. Oh, how they hop, and run, and rave, And their clipped pinions wildly wave,— Poor princes, who must all endure The pangs of love that nought can cure.

What is the fairy's name?—Is it Lili?—Ask not me! Give thanks to Heaven if she's unknown to thee.

Oh, what a cackling, what a shrieking When near the door she takes her stand, With her food-basket in her hand! Oh, what a croaking, what a squeaking! Alive all the trees and the bushes appear, While to her feet whole troops draw near; The very fish within the water clear Splash with impatience and their heads protrude; And then she throws around the food With such a look!—the very gods delighting (To say nought of beasts). There begins, then, a biting, A picking, a pecking, a sipping. And each o'er the legs of another is tripping. And pushing, and pressing, and flapping. And chasing, and fuming, and snapping. And all for one small piece of bread. To which, though dry, her fair hands give a taste. As though it in ambrosia had been placed.

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The Jews were accustomed to great and striking miracles, and so, having had the great miracles of the Red Sea and of the land of Canaan as an epitome of the great deeds of their Messiah, they therefore looked for more striking miracles, of which those of Moses were only the patterns.

The carnal Jews and the heathen have their calamities, and Christians also. There is no Redeemer for the heathen, for they do not so much as hope for one. There is no Redeemer for the Jews; they hope for Him in vain. There is a Redeemer only for Christians. (See Perpetuity.)

In the time of the Messiah the people divided themselves. The spiritual embraced the Messiah, and the coarser-minded remained to serve as witnesses of Him.

"If this was clearly foretold to the Jews, how did they not believe it, or why were they not destroyed for resisting a fact so clear?"

I reply: in the first place, it was foretold both that they would not believe a thing so clear, and that they would not be destroyed. And nothing is more to the glory of the Messiah; for it was not enough that there should be prophets; their prophets must be kept above suspicion. Now, &c.

If the Jews had all been converted by Jesus Christ, we should have none but questionable witnesses. And if they had been entirely destroyed, we should have no witnesses at all.

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224 Would draw Jove's eagle from his throne; Yes, Venus' turtle-doves, I ween, And the vain peacock e'en, Would come, I swear. Soon as that tone had reached them through the air.

E'en from a forest dark had she Enticed a bear, unlicked, ill-bred, And, by her wiles alluring, led To join the gentle company, Until as tame as they was he: (Up to a certain point, be it understood!) How fair, and ah! how good She seemed to be! I would have drained my blood To water e'en her flow'rets sweet.

"Thou sayest: I! Who? How? And where?"— Well, to be plain, good sirs—I am the bear; In a net apron, caught, alas! Chained by a silk thread at her feet. But how this wonder came to pass I'll tell some day if ye are curious; Just now, my temper's much too furious.

Ah, when I'm in the corner placed, And hear afar the creatures snapping, And see the flipping and the flapping, I turn around With growling sound. And backward run a step in haste. And look around With growling sound. Then run again a step in haste. And to my former post go round.

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Rh My inward feelings all revolt. A creature such as thou! a dolt! Pipi, a squirrel able nuts to crack! I bristle up my shaggy back, Unused a slave to be. I'm laughed at by each trim and upstart tree To scorn. The bowling green I fly, With neatly-mown and well-kept grass; The box makes faces as I pass,— Into the darkest thicket hasten I, Hoping to 'scape from the ring, Over the palings to spring!

Vainly I leap and climb; I feel a leaden spell That pinions me as well, And when I'm fully wearied out in time, I lay me down beside some mock-cascade, And roll myself half dead, and foam, and cry, And, ah! no Oreads hear my sigh, Excepting those of china made!

But, ah, with sudden power, In all my members blissful feelings reign! 'Tis she who singeth yonder in her bower! I hear that darling, darling voice again. The air is warm, and teems with fragrance clear, Sings she perchance for me alone to hear? I haste, and trample down the shrubs amain; The trees make way, the bushes all retreat, And so—the beast is lying at her feet.

She looks at him: "The monster's droll enough! He's, for a bear, too mild, Yet, for a dog, too wild, So shaggy, clumsy, rough!" Up in his back she gently strokes her foot; He thinks himself in Paradise.


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Author:David

Works

 * A signigicant portion of the psalms contained in the Book of Psalms are attributed to David.
 * Psalm 23

Ancient texts

 * 1 Samuel
 * 2 Samuel

Reference works

 * "David," in A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon, by George Reynolds
 * "David," in A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon, by George Reynolds

Poetry

 * "Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden (1861–2)
 * "By whom was David taught" by William Cowper (1779)
 * "David to Bathsheba" by Don Marquis (1928)
 * "I took my Power in my Hand —" by Emily Dickinson
 * "Goliath of Gath" by Phillis Wheatley (1773)
 * "When first my soul enlisted" by John Newton
 * "Where is David the next King of Israel?" by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1916)

Other works

 * "David" in Heroes Every Child Should Know by H. W. Mabie (1908)
 * "David" in Legends of Old Testament Characters by Sabine Baring-Gould (1871)
 * Patriarchs and Prophets by Ellen G. White, chapters 62–73

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226 What feelings through his seven senses shoot! But she looks on with careless eyes. I lick her soles, and kiss her shoes, As gently as a bear well may; Softly I rise, and with a clever ruse Leap on her knee.—On a propitious day She suffers it; my ears then tickles she, And hits me a hard blow in wanton play; I growl with new-born ecstasy; Then speaks she in a sweet vain jest, I wot; "Allons tout doux! eh! la menotte! Et faites serviteur Comme un joli seigneur." Thus she proceeds with sport and glee; Hope fills the oft-deluded beast; Yet if one moment he would lazy be, Her fondness all at once hath ceased.

She doth a flask of balsam fire possess, Sweeter than honey bees can make, One drop of which she'll on her finger take, When softened by his love and faithfulness. Wherewith her monster's raging thirst to slake; Then leaves me to myself, and flies at last, And I, unbound, yet prisoned fast By magic, follow in her train. Seek for her, tremble, fly again. The hapless creature thus tormenteth she, Regardless of his pleasure or his woe; Ha! oft half-opened does she leave the door for me, And sideways looks to learn if I will fly or no; And I—O gods! your hands alone Can end the spell that's o'er me thrown; Free me, and gratitude my heart will fill; And yet from heaven ye send me down no aid— Not quite in vain doth life my limbs pervade: I feel it! Strength is left me still.


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text: Author:Herod the Great

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What do the prophets say of Jesus Christ? That He will be clearly God? No; but that He is a God truly hidden; that He will be slighted; that none will think that it is He; that He will be a stone of stumbling, upon which many will stumble, &c. Let people then reproach us no longer for want of clearness, since we make profession of it.

But, it is said, there are obscurities.—And without that, no one would have stumbled over Jesus Christ, and this is one of the formal pronouncements of the prophets: Excæca.

Moses first teaches the Trinity, original sin, the Messiah.

David: a great witness; a king, good, merciful, a beautiful soul, a sound mind, powerful. He prophesies, and his wonder comes to pass. This is infinite.

He had only to say that he was the Messiah, if he had been vain; for the prophecies are clearer about him than about Jesus Christ. And the same with Saint John.

Herod was believed to be the Messiah. He had taken away the sceptre from Judah, but he was not of Judah. This gave rise to a considerable sect.

Curse of the Greeks upon those who count three periods of time.

In what way should the Messiah come, seeing that through Him the sceptre was to be eternally in Judah, and at His coming the sceptre was to be taken away from Judah?

In order to effect that seeing they should not see, and hearing they should not understand, nothing could be better done.

Homo existens te Deum facit.

Scriptum est, Dii estis, et non potest solvi Scriptura.

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256 ROYAL PRAYER.

 HUMAN FEELINGS.

within his workshop here. On Sundays stands our master dear; His dirty apron he puts away, And wears a cleanly doublet to-day;


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text: The Works of J. W. von Goethe/Volume 9/Human Feelings


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A Parable

 * A Parable, a poem by Arthur Conan Doyle
 * A Parable, a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

title: A Parable


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Another

 * Another (Letter to her Husband: Phoebus make haste), a poem by Anne Bradstreet
 * Another (Letter to her Husband: As loving hind that (hartless) wants her deer), a poem by Anne Bradstreet
 * Another (Abel's Blood), a poem by Robert Herrick
 * Another (Another to the Maids), a poem by Robert Herrick
 * Another (Confusion of Face), a poem by Robert Herrick
 * Another (Charms: Let the superstitious wife), a poem by Robert Herrick
 * Another (Charms: If ye fear to be affrighted), a poem by Robert Herrick
 * Another (Charms: In the morning when ye rise), a poem by Robert Herrick
 * Another (God's Presence), a poem by Robert Herrick
 * Another (Of God), a poem by Robert Herrick
 * Another (On Love), a poem by Robert Herrick
 * Another (Predestination), a poem by Robert Herrick, a poem by Robert Herrick
 * Another (Sin: Sin is an act so free), a poem by Robert Herrick
 * Another (Sin: Sin is the cause of death), a poem by Robert Herrick
 * Another (The Virgin Mary), a poem by Robert Herrick
 * Another (To His Book: To read my book the virgin shy), a poem by Robert Herrick
 * Another (To His Book: Who with thy leaves shall wipe, at need), a poem by Robert Herrick
 * Another (To His Ever-Loving God), a poem by Robert Herrick
 * Another (Upon Himself), a poem by Robert Herrick
 * Another (Upon M. Ben. Jonson), a poem by Robert Herrick
 * Another, a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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By the River

 * By the River ("Flow on, ye lays so loved, so fair"), a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 * By the River ("When by the broad stream thou dost dwell"), a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

title: By the River


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Early Spring

 * "Early Spring", a poem by Alfred Tennyson
 * "Early Spring", a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

title: Early Spring


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In Absence

 * "In Absence", a poem by Phoebe Cary
 * "In Absence", a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 * "In Absence", a poem by Sidney Lanier

title: In Absence


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In Summer

 * In Summer, a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar
 * In Summer, a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

title: In Summer


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Nemesis

 * Nemesis, a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * Nemesis, a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 * Nemesis, a poem by H. P. Lovecraft
 * Nemesis, a short story by Alice Brown
 * Nemesis, a short story by Dornford Yates

title: Nemesis


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Old Age

 * Old Age, a story by Anton Chekhov
 * Old Age, a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

title: Old Age


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Rh (c) The Governor may remove any member of the board in case of incompetency, neglect of duty, gross immorality or malfeasance in office. (d) The board shall conduct an annual training program to familiarize new board members with their duties. (e) Each member of the board is entitled to receive compensation in the amount paid to members of the Legislature for interim duties for each day or substantial portion that he or she is engaged in the work of the board or of its committees. Members are entitled to be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred in carrying out his or her duties.   '''ARTICLE 23. RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGISTS.''' §30-23-5. Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Technology Board of Examiners. (a) The West Virginia Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Technology Board of Examiners is continued. The members of the board in office, unless sooner removed, continue to serve until their respective terms expire and until their successors have been appointed and qualified. (b) The board shall consist of the following nine members, appointed by the Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Senate: (1) Three licensed practitioners, two of whom shall be Radiologists; (2) Three licensed Radiologic Technologists, one of whom shall be an active medical imaging educator;


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Enr. Com. Sub. for H. B. 4012] (3) One licensed Nuclear Medicine Technologist; (4) One licensed Magnetic Resonance Imaging; and (5) One citizen member, who is not licensed under the provisions of this article and does not perform any services related to the practice licensed under the provisions of this article. (c) Each member shall be appointed for a term of three years and may not serve more than two consecutive full terms. A member having served two consecutive full terms may not be appointed for one year after completion of his or her second full term. A member continues to serve until a successor has been appointed and has qualified. The terms shall be staggered in accordance with the initial appointments under prior enactments of this article. (d) Each member of the board shall be a resident of West Virginia during the appointment term. (e) The Radiologic Technologists, Nuclear Medicine Technologists and the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists serving on the board shall maintain an active license with the board. (f) A vacancy on the board shall be filled by appointment by the Governor for the unexpired term of the member whose office is vacant. (g) The Governor may remove any member from the board for neglect of duty, incompetency or official misconduct. (h) A licensed member of the board immediately and automatically forfeits membership to the board if his or her license to practice has been suspended or revoked. A


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Resolve

 * Resolve, a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
 * Resolve, a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

title: Resolve


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The Coquette

 * The Coquette, a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 * The Coquette, a poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834)
 * The Coquette, a poem by John Cornelius O'Callaghan ("Gracchus") from The Spirit of the Nation (1843)
 * The Coquette, a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox in Poems of Passion
 * The Coquette, a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox in Maurine And Other Poems
 * The Coquette (1797), a novel by Hannah Webster Foster

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Rh member of the board immediately and automatically forfeits membership to the board if he or she is convicted of a felony under the laws of any state or the United States, or becomes a nonresident of this state. (i) The board shall designate one of its members as chairperson and one member as secretary who shall serve at the will of the board. (j) Each member of the board shall receive compensation and expense reimbursement in accordance with article one of this chapter. (k) A majority of the members serving on the board shall constitute a quorum. (l) The board shall hold at least two annual meetings. Other meetings shall be held at the call of the chairperson or upon the written request of two members, at such time and place as designated in the call or request. (m) Prior to commencing his or her duties as a member of the board, each member shall take and subscribe to the oath required by section five, article four of the Constitution of this state.

'''ARTICLE 26. HEARING-AID DEALERS AND FITTERS.''' §30-26-3. West Virginia board of hearing-aid dealers created; members; qualifications; term; oath; salary and expenses; powers and duties. (a) There is continued the West Virginia board of hearing-aid dealers, which is composed of five members to be


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Enr. Com. Sub. for H. B. 4012] appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate. The members of the board shall be residents of this state. One member shall be a person licensed to practice medicine in this state and one member shall hold a degree in audiology from an accredited college or university. The remaining three members shall be persons having no less than five years' experience as hearing-aid dealers or fitters and shall hold a valid license under the provisions of this article. (b) The terms of office of each member of the board shall be four years, staggered in accordance with initial appointments under prior enactments of this act. A board member shall serve until his or her successor has been appointed and qualified and any vacancy in the office of a member shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired term of such member. Any member of the board shall be eligible for reappointment. (c) The board shall annually at its meeting first succeeding May 1 elect from its own members a chairman and vice chairman. (d) Each member of the board is entitled to receive for each day actually engaged in the duties of his or her office, an amount not to exceed the amount paid to legislators for their interim duties, and is entitled to be reimbursed for all reasonable and necessary expenses actually incurred in the performance of his or her duties as a member of such board. (e) All fees and other moneys collected by the board, pursuant to the provisions of this article, shall be kept in a separate fund and shall be expended solely for the purposes of this article. The compensation for the members of the board and all expenses incurred under this article shall be paid from this special fund and no such compensation or expenses shall be paid from the General Revenue Fund of this


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The Goblet

 * The Goblet, a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 * The Goblet, a short story by Ludwig Tieck

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Rh state. All disbursements of funds necessary to carry out the provisions of this article shall be so disbursed only upon the authority of the board. (f) The board shall regulate and control the practice of dealing in or fitting of hearing aids in this state, and shall administer qualifying examinations in accordance with the provisions of this article to test the knowledge and proficiency of all prospective licensees or trainees. (g) The board may purchase and maintain or rent audiometric equipment and other facilities necessary to carry out the examination of applicants as provided in this article and may purchase such other equipment and supplies and employ such persons as it deems appropriate to carry out the provisions of this article. (h) The board shall propose rules for legislative approval in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code: (1) For the proper performance of its duties; (2) To define and prescribe the ethical practice of dealing in or fitting of hearing aids for the safety, protection and welfare of the public; (3) To govern the time, place and manner of conducting the examinations required by this article and the standard, scope and subject of such examinations, which examinations shall, as a minimum, conform with the standards, scope and subjects set forth in section six of this article and manner, and the form in which applications for such examinations shall be filed;


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The Misanthrope

 * The Misanthrope, a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 * The Misanthrope, a play by Menander
 * The Misanthrope, a play by Molière

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Enr. Com. Sub. for H. B. 4012] (4) To establish procedures for determining whether persons holding similar valid licenses from other states or jurisdictions shall be required to take and successfully pass the appropriate qualifying examination as a condition for such licensing in this state; and (5) To establish such fees for such examinations, permits, licenses and renewals as may be necessary to cover the costs of administration.  '''§30-26-4. Administrative duties; examinations; register; use of fees.''' (a) Effective July 1, 2012, the administrative work of the board shall be performed by the board. The board shall keep full and complete records of all of their proceedings and accounts, which said records and accounts shall be open to public inspection at all reasonable times. (b) The board is authorized to conduct, supervise, and administer the qualifying examinations authorized and required by this article, to maintain for a register or record of persons who apply for a license or a temporary trainee permit as well as a register or record of the name and last-known business address of all persons to whom a license or trainee permit is issued pursuant to this article. (c) Effective July 1, 2012, the board shall bear the costs of carrying out the powers and duties granted to it by this article from the fees collected by it for these purposes.


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Warning

 * "Warning", a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 * "The Warning", a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 * Warning, a poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
 * "The Warning", 1842 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 * "Warning", 1910 poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
 * "A warning", 1915 poem by Covington Hall
 * "The Warning", 1908 short story by Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

title: Warning


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The Wedding Night

 * The Wedding Night, an anonymous poem that appeared in The Pearl
 * The Wedding Night, a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Rh The Joint Committee on Enrolled Bills hereby certifies that the foregoing bill is correctly enrolled. undefined
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Originating in the House. To take effect from passage.
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Blindman's Buff

 * Blind-man's Buff, a poem by William Blake
 * Blindman's Buff (Blinde Kuh), a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 * Blindman's Buff, a short story by Seabury Quinn

title: Blindman's Buff


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West Virginia Senate Bill 418 (2012)

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That §62-12-12 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

'''ARTICLE 12. PROBATION AND PAROLE.'''

§62-12-12. Parole board generally.

(a) The West Virginia Parole Board is continued. The board shall consist of nine members, each of whom shall have been a resident of this state for at least five consecutive years prior to his or her appointment. No more than five of the board members may at any one time belong to the same political party. The board shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.

(b) Appointments shall be made in such a manner that each congressional district is represented and so that no more than four and no less than two members of the board reside in any one congressional district. No more than two members of the board may reside in any one county.

(c) Any person initially appointed to the board on or after July 1, 2012, shall have a degree from an accredited college or university or at least five years of actual experience in the fields of corrections, law enforcement, sociology, law, education, psychology, social work, medicine or a combination thereof and shall be otherwise competent to perform the duties of his or her office. The members shall be appointed for overlapping terms of six years. Members are eligible for reappointment. The members of the board shall devote their full time and attention to their board duties. The Governor shall appoint one of the nine appointed members to serve as chairperson at the Governor’s will and pleasure.

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The firt early Martagons flower in the end of May, or beginning of Iune, and that is a moneth at the leat before thoe that come from Contantinople, which is the econd kinde. The two firt yellow Martagons flower omewhat more early, then the early red Martagons, and ometimes at the ame time with them. But the third yellow Martagon, as is aid, flowreth a moneth later or more, and is in flower when the red Martagon of Contantinople flowreth. And although the early red and yellow Martagons, pring later then the other Martagons or Lillies, yet they are in flower before them.

The firt early red Lillies or Martagons haue beene ent vnto vs by euerall names, as Martagon Pomponeum, and thereafter are called Martagon of Pompony, and alo Lilium or Martagon Macedonicum, the Lilly or Martagon of Macedonia. They are alo called by Cluius Lilium rubrum præcox, the one angutiore folio, the other latiore folio. And the lat of this kinde hath the title flore phæniceo added or giuen vnto it, that is, the Martagon or Lilly of Macedonia with gold red flowers. The Martagons of Contantinople haue beene ent by the Turkih name Zufiniare, and is called Martagon, or Lilium Byzantinum by ome, and Hemerocallis Chalcedonica by others; but by the name of the Martagon of Contantinople they are mot commonly receiued with vs, with the distinction of maculatum to the one, to ditinguih the orts. The lat kinde in this clasis, hath his name in his title, as it hath been ent vnto vs.

The Yellow Martagons are ditinguihed in their euerall titles, as much as is conuenient for them.

Here are yet ome other kindes of red Lillies to bee decribed, which differ from all the former, and remaine to be poken of in this place. Some of them grow high, and ome lowe, ome haue mall knots, which wee call bulbes, growing vpon the talkes, at the ioynts of the leaues or flowers, and ome haue none: all which hall be intreated of in their euerall orders.

The dwarfe red Lilly hath a caly roote, omewhat like vnto other Lillies, but white, and not yellow at all, and the cloues or cales thicker, horter, and fewer in number, then in mot of the former: the talke hereof is not aboue a foote and a halfe high, round and greene, et confuedly with many faire and hort greene leaues, on the toppe of which doe tand ometimes but a few flowers, and ometimes many, of a faire purplih red colour, and a little paler in the middle, euery flower tanding vpright, and not hanging downe, as in the former, on the leaues whereof here and there are ome blacke pots, lines or markes, and in the middle of the flower a long pointell, with ome chiues about it, as is in the ret of thee Lillies. This kinde is ometimes found to yeeld double flowers, as if all the ingle flowers hould grow into one, and o make it conit of many leaues, which notwithtanding Rh


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(Ⅰ. Mecca.)

In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.

Praise belongs to God, the Lord of the worlds, the merciful, the compassionate, the ruler of the day of judgment! Thee we serve and Thee we ask for aid. Guide us in the right path, the path of those Thou art gracious to ; not of those Thou art wroth with; nor of those who err.

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text: The Qur'an (Palmer)/Fatihah

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 complete control over them during the voyage. The master of the ship and the owners signed a Charter-party whereby the master was bound to hand over the convicts in safety to the Governor at the end of the voyage and was liable to heavy penalties if he did not. He was also bound by Instructions from the Board to fit up the ship in particular ways for the reception of the convicts, to allow them on deck as much as possible, and to note in his log-books all that happened on the voyage. The log-book was submitted to the Governor's inspection at Sydney, and if he was satisfied that the master had carried out his contract satisfactorily, treating the convicts fairly, serving out their rations regularly and in the right amounts, he gave him a certificate to that effect. If no certificate were given, or if the Governor gave a bad report of the master's behaviour, he might be prosecuted in England or lose part of the payment for his services. If the certificate were in order, however, he received an honorarium from the Treasury. The owner or master of the transport was under the further obligation of providing a surgeon, whose duty it was to care for the health of the prisoners, and to keep a full and particular diary of the voyage. This diary also was submitted to the Governor, who might, if he felt any suspicion of its genuineness, require the surgeon to make an oath on the subject.

The duty of the surgeon was to keep the convicts in good health just as that of the master was to keep them "safe," and the surgeon received a reward if the Governor's certificate was satisfactory. It was, of course, a very difficult thing to decide whether illness on board was or was not the fault of the surgeon. On the General Hewitt there was an outbreak of fever and great mortality, but Macquarie, after an inquiry held in Sydney, did not consider himself justified in withholding the surgeon's certificate. The Home Office, however, refused to recommend him for a gratuity to the Treasury, and the Under-Secretary wrote to Goulburn asking that Macquarie should be more strict in future. In 1815 a change was made and the Government


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 placed the convicts in the charge of a surgeon-superintendent appointed by the Transport Board from the naval surgeons. This officer was responsible, not to the master of the ship, but to the Board. The guard of soldiers who always accompanied the transports, and were usually under the command of a young officer of the rank of lieutenant, was under the joint control of the surgeon and the captain. The naval surgeon was a great improvement on former transport doctors, and the death-rate fell considerably. At the same time the system introduced a new difficulty by dividing the power between surgeon and master. This difficulty was in no way lessened by the new and more detailed Instructions issued by the Board in 1819.

"The two points," wrote Bigge in his first Report, "on which such a collision of authority have most frequently occurred are the admission of the convicts to the deck, and the taking off their irons at an early period after leaving England; both, it has been observed, of considerable importance to the maintenance of their health and discipline.

"It is to the interest of the surgeon-superintendent to deliver the number entrusted to him in a good state of health; it is to the interest of the master to deliver them only in safety; and the heavy penalty into which he enters, for the punctual fulfilment of this part of his duty, must naturally outweigh the contingent value of the remuneration that is promised for his general good conduct and humane treatment; or the consideration of prejudice or loss that an opposite line of conduct may occasion to his owners. It is the opinion of Mr. Judge-Advocate Wylde, that to remedy these doubts and discussions which take place between the masters and surgeon-superintendents


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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011 TOP SECRET – Sensitive Ho Chi Minh forwarded to the Secretary of State the D.R.V. Declaration of Independence, Bao Dai's abdication rescript, general DRV foreign policy declarations, and its expressed position on the war in South Vietnam. He cited the Atlantic Charter as the "foundation of future Vietnam" and the San Francisco Charter as eradicating colonial oppression. Ho appealed for "immediate interference" and submitted several requests — the key one being that the United Nations should recognize the full independence of Vietnam. Again, in November, he made three points: (1) the French had ignored all treaties at the end of the war, and attacked Saigon in September; (2) the Vietnamese people were willing to support the United Nations, but would fight any French troops coming into Vietnamese territory; and (3) any bloodshed would be the responsibility of the French. Two weeks later, Ho appealed to President Truman and UNRRA for assistance to combat starvation caused by flood, drought, and French conflict. Also in November, Ho wrote to the Secretary of State asking to establish cultural relations with the U.S. by sending fifty Vietnamese students to the U.S., and to complain of the absence of Vietnamese representation at the Washington Conference for the Far East. Prompted by Truman's appointment of General Marshall as special representative in China, early in 1946 Ho Chi Minh again appealed for direct intervention by the U.S. to provide an immediate solution of the Vietnamese issue. On 16 February 1946, a tone of irritation was introduced: Ho wrote once more to President Truman implying "complicity, or at least, the connivance of the Great Democracies" in the French aggression; but still Ho pleaded with the U.S. to take a "decisive step" in support of Vietnamese independence asking only what had been "graciously granted to the Philippines." Ho then addressed an urgent broadcast appeal to the U.S., China, Russia, and Great Britain for "interference" by the Big Four to stop the bloodshed and to bring the Indochina issue before the United Nations.

It became abundantly clear, however, that the U.S. would do nothing to aid the Viet Minh. Assuming the sincerity of Ho Chi Minh's appeals, the most opportune time for the U.S. to have intervened in Vietnam passed in autumn, 1945, and prospects for U.S. action dimmed as DRV negotiations with the French proceeded in February–March 1946. Paradoxically, it was the possibility of communist accession to power in France that both added to Ho's incentive to negotiate with the French, and stimulated stronger U.S. support for France. Ultimately, the U.S. was deterred from backing Viet Minh anti-colonialism (though the U.S. pressured France for concessions to Viet nationalism) because its interests seemed more directly engaged in shoring up the French as a key part of its assistance to European recovery. On the other hand, Ho Chi Minh continued to hope for a new France, breaking away from its old colonialist policies under a Socialist or Communist government.

Ho Chi Minh's correspondence with the U.S. ceased after the 6 March 1946 Accord with France, although Ho Chi Minh did visit the U.S. Embassy in Paris on 11 September 1946. Rh

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96 "It is Pallura with the candles! It is Pallura coming! Here's Pallura!"

The wagon came screeching over the gravel, drawn at a walk by a heavy gray mare, over whose shoulders hung a great shining brass horn, like a half-moon. When Giacobbe and the others made towards her, the pacific animal stopped and breathed hard. Giacobbe, who reached the wagon first, saw stretched out on its floor the bloody body of Pallura, and screamed, waving his arms towards the crowd, "He is dead! He is dead!"

sad news spread like lightning. People crowded around the wagon, and craned their necks to see, thinking no longer of the threats in the sky, because struck by the unexpected happening and filled with that natural ferocious curiosity which the sight of blood awakens. "He is dead? What killed him?" Pallura lay on his back upon the boards, with a broad wound in the middle of his forehead, with one ear torn, with gashes on his arms, his sides, and one thigh. A warm stream flowed down to his chin and neck, staining his shirt and forming dark, shining clots on his breast, his leathern belt, and even his breeches. Giacobbe hung over the body; all the rest waited around


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Rh him; an auroral flush lighted up their perplexed faces; and at that moment of silence, from the river-bank arose the song of the frogs, and bats skimmed back and forth above the heads of the crowd.

Suddenly Giacobbe, straightening up, with one cheek bloody, cried:

"He is not dead. He still breathes."

A hollow murmur ran through the crowd, and the nearest strained forward to look. The anxiety of those at a distance commenced to break into clamor. Two women brought a jug of water, another some strips of linen. A youth held out a gourd full of wine.

The wounded man's face was washed; the flow of blood from his forehead was checked; his head was raised. Then voices inquired loudly the cause of this deed. The hundred pounds of wax were missing; only a few fragments of candles remained in the cracks of the wagon-bed.

In the commotion their minds grew more and more inflamed, exasperated, and contentious. And as an old hereditary hatred burned in them against the town of Mascálico, on the opposite bank of the river, Giacobbe said venomously, in a hoarse voice:

"What if the candles have been offered to San Gonselvo?"

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98 The spirit of church-rivalry awoke all at once in these people brutalized by many years of blind, savage worship of their own one idol. The fanatic's words flew from mouth to mouth. And beneath the tragic dull-red sky, the raging multitude resembled a tribe of mutinous gypsies.

The name of the saint broke from all throats, like a war-cry. The most excited hurled curses towards the river, and waved their arms and shook their fists. Then all these faces blazing with anger, and reddened also by the unusual light,—all these faces, broad and massive, to which their gold ear-rings and thick overhanging hair gave a wild, barbaric character,—all these faces turned eagerly towards the man lying there, and grew soft with pity. Women, with pious care, tried to bring him back to life. Loving hands changed the cloths on his wounds, sprinkled water in his face, set the gourd of wine to his lips, made a sort of pillow under his head.

"Pallura, poor Pallura, won't you answer?" He lay supine, his eyes closed, his mouth half open, with brown soft hair on his cheeks and chin, the gentle beauty of youth still showing in his features contracted with pain. From beneath the bandage on his forehead a mere thread of blood trickled down over his temples; at the corners of his mouth stood little beads of pale red foam, and from his throat issued a faint


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Rh broken hiss, like the sound of a sick man gargling. About him attentions, questions, feverish glances multiplied. The mare from time to time shook her head and neighed in the direction of the houses. An atmosphere as of an impending hurricane hung over the whole town.

Then from the square rang out the screams of a woman, of a mother. They seemed all the louder for the sudden hushing of all other voices, and an enormous woman, suffocated in her fat, broke through the crowd and hurried to the wagon, crying aloud. Being heavy and unable to climb into it, she seized her son's feet, with sobbing words of love, with such sharp broken cries and such a terribly comic expression of grief, that all the bystanders shuddered and averted their faces.

"Zaccheo! Zaccheo! My heart, my joy!" screamed the widow unceasingly, kissing the feet of the wounded man and dragging him to her towards the ground.

The wounded man stirred, his mouth was contorted by a spasm, but although he opened his eyes and looked up, they were veiled with damp, so that he could not see. Big tears began to well forth at the corners of his eyelids and roll down over his cheeks and neck. His mouth was still awry. A vain effort to speak was betrayed by the hoarse whistling in his throat. And the crowd pressed closer, saying:


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100 "Speak, Pallura! Who hurt you? Who hurt you? Speak! Speak!"

Beneath this question was a trembling rage, an intensifying fury, a deep tumult of reawakened feelings of vengeance; and the hereditary hatred boiled in every heart.

"Speak! Who hurt you? Tell us! Tell us!"

The dying man opened his eyes again; and as they were holding his hands tightly, perhaps this warm living contact gave him a momentary strength, for his gaze quickened and a vague stammering sound came to his lips. The words were not yet distinguishable. The panting breath of the multitude could be heard through the silence. Their eyes had an inward flame, because all expected one single word.

"Ma—Ma—Mascálico—"

"Mascálico! Mascálico!" shrieked Giacobbe, who was bending over him, with ear intent to snatch the weak syllables from his dying lips.

An immense roar greeted the cry. The multitude swayed at first as if tempest-swept. Then, when a voice, dominating the tumult, gave the order of attack, the mob broke up in haste. A single thought drove these men forward, a thought which seemed to have been stamped by lightning upon all minds at once: to arm themselves with some weapon. Towering above the


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Rh of all arose a sort of bloody fatality, beneath the great tawny glare of the heavens, and in the electric odor emanating from the anxious fields.

the phalanx, armed with scythes, billhooks, axes, hoes, and guns, reunited in the square before the church. And all cried: "San Pantaleone!"

Don Cónsolo, terrified by the din, had taken refuge in a stall behind the altar. A handful of fanatics, led by Giacobbe, made their way into the principal chapel, forced the bronze grille, and went into the underground chamber where the bust of the saint was kept. Three lamps, fed with olive oil, burned softly in the damp air of the sacristy, where in a glass case the Christian idol glittered, with its white head surrounded by a broad gilt halo; and the walls were hidden under the wealth of native offerings.

When the idol, borne on the shoulders of four herculean men, appeared at last between the pillars and shone in the auroral light, a long gasp of passion ran through the waiting crowd, and a quiver of joy passed like a breath of wind over all their faces. And the column moved away, the enormous head of the saint oscillating above, with its empty eye-sockets turned to the front.

Now through the sky, in the deep, diffused