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# Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Green Bay

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​GREEN BAY, a city of the United States, capital of Brown county, Wisconsin, is situated at the head of Green Bay, an inlet on the west shore of Lake Michigan. The bay is 100 miles long, from 15 to 35 miles wide, and of considerable depth. The city stands near the mouth of Fox River, with a small stream known as the East River on the other side, its situation affording it a secure harbour. It is 242 miles N. of Chicago, 114 N. of Milwaukee, and 120 N.E. of Madison, the capital of the State. By the completion of a canal connecting the Fox and Wisconsin rivers at Portage City, Green Bay has become the terminus of the inland water-system which unites the great lakes with the Mississippi and the Gulf of St Lawrence with the Gulf of Mexico. The nearness of Green Bay to the forests of the State makes it a centre of the lumber trade, and it exports annually large quantities of planks, boards, shingles, staves, and headings. It has several other manufactories, an iron furnace, a foundry, machine-shops, tanneries, planing-mills, and breweries. The fishing interests, especially in white-fish and lake-trout, are important. Three lines of railway and the largest lake steamers minister to its commerce. Though the French formed settlements on the bay as early as 1745, the site of the present city was not laid out until ​and 1835, when the villages of Navarino and Astor were founded. In 1839 these we re incorporated under the name of Green Bay, and in 1854 a city charter was granted. It was in 1868 created a bishop s see by Tins IX., and a handsome cathedral church in the Romanesque style has been erected since. The growth of the place has been rapid even for an American city. The population in I860 numbered 2275, and 46G6 in 1870, exclusive of Fort Howard across the river, with its population of 2462, which commercially may well be regarded as part of the city. In 1875 the State census gave 8037 to Green Bay and 3610 to Fort Howard.
# Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Greenshank

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​GREENSHANK, one of the largest of the birds com monly known as Sandpipers, the Totanus glottis of most ornithological writers. Some exercise of the imagination is however needed to see in the dingy olive-coloured legs of this species a justification of the English name by which it goes, and the application of that name, which seems to be due to Pennant, was probably by way of distinguishing it from two allied but perfectly distinct species of Totanus (T. calidris and T. fuscus), having red legs and usually called Redshanks. The Greenshank is a native of the northern parts of the Old World, but in winter it wanders far to the south, and occurs regularly at the Cape of Good Hope, in India, and thence throughout the Indo-Malay Archipelago to Australia. It has also been recorded from North America, but its appearance there must be considered accidental. Almost as bulky as a Woodcock, it is of a much more slender build, and its long legs and neck give it a graceful appearance, which is enhanced by the activity of its actions. Disturbed from the moor or marsh, where it has its nest, it rises swiftly into the air, conspicuous by its white back and rump, and uttering shrill cries flies round the intruder. It will perch on the topmost bough of a tree, if a tree be near, to watch his proceedings, and the cock exhibits all the astounding gesticulations in which the males of so many other Limicolce indulge during the breeding- season with certain variations, however, that are peculiarly its own. It breeds in no small numbers in the Hebrides, and parts of the Scottish Highlands from Argyllshire to Sutherland, as well as in the more elevated or more north ern districts of Norwaj 7 , Sweden, and Finland, and probably also from thence to Kamchatka. In North America it is represented by two species, Totanus semipalmatus and T. melanoleucus, there called Willets, Telltales, or Tattlers, which in general habits resemble the Greenshank of the
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# Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Greek Fire

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For further details see Recepta varia de præparatione ignis Græci, Sloane MS. 232; also Arundel MS. 164; Beckmann, Gesch. der Erfindungen; Dufresne L'Esprit des Croissades, Amsterdam, 1780; Gibbon; Grose, Mil. Antiq.; Hoefer, Hist. de la Chimie; Joinville, Memoirs, 1807; Libri, Hist. des sciences math. en Italie; Mechanics' Magazine, 18th August 1844; Napoleon III., Études sur . . . . l'Artillerie; Poggendorff, Gesch. d. Physik, 1879; Roy. Instit. Quart. Journ., xiv.; Scoffern, Projectile Weapons, 1858; and the writings of the Byzantine historians.
# Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Greenfinch

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​GREENFINCH (German Grünfink) or Green Linnet, as it is very often called, a common European bird, the FringitLa chloris of Linnaeus, ranked by many systematists with one section of Hawfinches, Coccothraustes, but appar ently more nearly allied to the other section Ilesperiphona (cf. FINCH, vol. ix. p. 192), and perhaps justifiably deemed the type of a distinct genus, to which the name Chloris or Ligurinus has been applied. The cock, in his plumage of green and gold, is one of the most finely coloured of our common birds, but he is rather heavily built, and his song is hardly commended. The hen is much less brightly tinted. Throughout Britain, as a rule, this species is one of the most plentiful birds, and is found at all seasons of the year, It pervades almost the whole of Europe, and in Asia reaches the river Ob, It visits Pales tine, but is unknown in Egypt. It is, however, abundant in Mauritania, whence specimens are so brightly coloured that they have been deemed to form a distinct species, the Ligurinus aurantiiventris of Dr Cabanis, but that view is now generally abandoned. In the north-east of Asia and its adjacent islands occur two allied species the Fringilla sinica of Linnaeus, and the F. kawarahiba of Temminck.
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# Down the Coast of Barbary

Extracted from Argosy All-Story Weekly, 21 October 1922, pp. 500–537.
Down the Coast of Barbary
By H. Bedford-Jones
Author of The John Solomon Stories, “Comrade Island,” etc.
* Chapter I
* Chapter II
* Chapter III
* Chapter IV
* Chapter V
* Chapter VI
* Chapter VII
* Chapter VIII
* Chapter IX
* Chapter X
* Chapter XI
* Chapter XII
* Chapter XIII
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# Down by the River Liv'd a Maiden

Published 1863; basis for the 1884 "Clementine" by Percy Montrose.
Down by the river there lived a maiden, In a cottage built just seven by nine, And all around this lubly bower, The beauteous sunflower blossoms twine.
Oh! my Clema, Oh! my Clema, Oh! my darling Clementine, Now you are gone and lost forever, I'm dreadful sorry Clementine.
Her lips were like two luscious beefsteaks Dipp'd in tomato sauce and brine, And like the cashmere goatess covering Was the fine wool of Clementine.
Oh! my Clema, Oh! my Clema, Oh! my darling Clementine, Now you are gone and lost forever, I'm dreadful sorry Clementine.
Her foot, Oh! Golly! Twas a beauty, Her shoes were made of Dig-by pine, Two herring boxes without the tops on Just made the sandals of Clementine.
Oh! my Clema, Oh! my Clema, Oh! my darling Clementine, Now you are gone and lost forever, I'm dreadful sorry Clementine.
One day de wind was blowing awful I took her down some old rye wine, And listened to de sweetest cooings, Ob my sweet sunflower Clementine.
Oh! my Clema, Oh! my Clema, Oh! my darling Clementine, Now you are gone and lost forever, I'm dreadful sorry Clementine.
De ducks had gone done to de riber, To drive dem back she did incline, She stubb'd her toe and Oh! Kersliver, She fell into the foamy brine.
Oh! my Clema, Oh! my Clema, Oh! my darling Clementine, Now you are gone and lost forever, I'm dreadful sorry Clementine.
I see'd her lips above de waters, A blowing bubbles bery fine, But 'turnt no use I want no swimmer, And so I lost my Clementine.
Oh! my Clema, Oh! my Clema, Oh! my darling Clementine, Now you are gone and lost forever, I'm dreadful sorry Clementine.
Now ebry night down by the riber, Her ghostess walks long half past nine I know tis her a kase I tracked her, And by de smell tis Clementine.
Oh! my Clema, Oh! my Clema, Oh! my darling Clementine, Now you are gone and lost forever, I'm dreadful sorry Clementine.
Now all young men by me take warning, Don't gib your ladies too much rye wine, Kase like as not is this wet wedder, Dey'll share de fate ob Clementine.
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# Down in Chattanooga

[1st verse:] Good-bye, I'm leaving town
I've sent my baggage down To the railway station I've had my vacation Before I go away This much I want to say I would like to have you call on me someday
[Refrain:] When you're down in Tennessee Stop at Chattanooga Stop at Chattanooga Don't forget to call on me Down in Chattanooga Down in Chattanooga
Accept my invitation You can make yourself at home I'll meet you at the station With a "giddy-ap, giddy-ap" Napoleon You'll find hospitality Down in Chattanooga Down in Chattanooga
You're just as welcome as you can be You'll find a menu, a menu With a lot of things you can eat up on it
When you come to Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee
[2nd verse:] What's mine you'll find is yours My folks keep open doors Anyone who will come is entirely welcome And you'll be glad to stay Where happy chickens lay Sixty cents a dozen eggs The live long day.
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# Down Old New England Way

A six-stanza qautrain (verses aa·b·cc·b, chorus aa·a·bb·a) written as lyrics with music by Emily Smith.
There's a couple old and gray, who are longing day by day, And waiting for their boy's return again, Little does he know the farm that to him had many a charm, Must soon be sold to pay another's claim.
There's a mother, oft to cheer, says, "If Ned were only here, Things would be quite different, John, today. Yet there's something tells me plain he is coming back again, He's coming back down old New England way."
Down old New England way, 'mid sun-shines brightest ray, There stands the little home so dear today, And a mother's prayer each night is to guide her boy a-right, And turn his steps down old New England way.
'Twas a cold December day, when an auctioneer did say, "What am I bid for home and farm complete?" Ah, the cruel words he said filled the old folks' souls with dread, And made the tears course down each dear old cheek.
Then a stranger took the floor, said "I'll give a thousand more," A thousand more than any here today. "'Tis our boy," the mother cried, "Yes, 'tis I," the son replied, I'll save the home down old New England way."
Down old New England way, 'mid sun-shines brightest ray, There stands the little home so dear today, And a mother's prayer each night is to guide her boy a-right, And turn his steps down old New England way.
# Down Time's quaint stream

Down Time's quaint stream Without an oar We are enforced to sail Our Port a secret Our Perchance a Gale What Skipper would Incur the Risk What Buccaneer would ride Without a surety from the Wind Or schedule of the Tide —
# Down the Burn Davie

* "Down the burn Davie", in Tom and Polly (n.d.), a chapbook printed in Stirling
* "Down the burn Davie", in Soldier's dream (n.d.), a chapbook printed in Stirling
* "Down the burn Davie", in London 'prentice, or, The wanton mistress (n.d.), a chapbook with no printing information
* "Down the Burn Davie", in London 'prentice; or, The wanton mistress (1803), a chapbook printed in
* "Down the Burn Davie", in Crazy Jane (1820), a chapbook printed in Edinburgh
* "Down the Burn Davie", in The Musical Charmer (1819), a chapbook printed in Falkirk
* "Doun the burn, Davie", in The Book of Scottish Song (1843), edited by Alexander Whitelaw
# Essays, civil and moral (Harvard Classics)/Of Nobility

XIV
OF NOBILITY
We will speak of nobility first as a portion of an estate, then as a condition of particular persons. A monarchy where there is no nobility at all is ever a pure and absolute tyranny; as that of the Turks. For nobility attempers sovereignty, and draws the eyes of the people somewhat aside from the line royal. But for democracies, they need it not; and they are commonly more quiet and less subject to sedition, than where there are stirps of nobles. For men's eyes are ​upon the business, and not upon the persons; or if upon the persons, it is for the business' sake, as fittest, and not for flags and pedigree. We see the Switzers last well, notwithstanding their diversity of religion and of cantons. For utility is their bond, and not respects. The united provinces of the Low Countries in their government excel; for where there is an equality, the consultations are more indifferent, and the payments and tributes more cheerful. A great and potent nobility addeth majesty to a monarch, but diminisheth power; and putteth life and spirit into the people, but presseth their fortune. It is well when nobles are not too great for sovereignty nor for justice; and yet maintained in that height, as the insolency of inferiors may be broken upon them before it come on too fast upon the majesty of kings. A numerous nobility causeth poverty and inconvenience in a state; for it is a surcharge of expense; and besides, it being of necessity that many of the nobility fall in time to be weak in fortune, it maketh a kind of disproportion between honor and means.
* ↑ State.
* ↑ Families.
* ↑ Considerations of rank.
* ↑ Excess.
* ↑ Able
# Essays, civil and moral (Harvard Classics)/Of Parents and Children

VII
OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN
The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears. They cannot utter the one; nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labors; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the cares of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity by generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men; which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed. So the care of posterity is most in them that have no posterity. They ​that are the first raisers of their houses are most indulgent towards their children; beholding them as the continuance not only of their kind but of their work; and so both children and creatures.
The difference in affection of parents towards their several children is many times unequal; and sometimes unworthy; especially in the mother; as Solomon saith, A wise son rejoiceth the father, but an ungracious son shames the mother. A man shall see, where there is a house full of children, one or two of the eldest respected, and the youngest made wantons; but in the midst some that are as it were forgotten, who many times nevertheless prove the best. The illiberality of parents in allowance towards their children is an harmful error; makes them base; acquaints them with shifts; makes them sort with mean company; and makes them surfeit more when they come to plenty. And therefore the proof is best, when men keep their authority towards their children, but not their purse. Men have a foolish manner (both parents and schoolmasters and servants) in creating and breeding an emulation between brothers during childhood, which many times sorteth to discord when they are men, and disturbeth families. The Italians make little difference between children and nephews or near kinsfolks; but so they be of the lump, they care not though they pass not through their own body. And, to say truth, in nature it is much a like matter; insomuch that we see a nephew sometimes resembleth an uncle or a kinsman more than his own parent; as the blood happens. Let parents choose betimes the vocations and courses they mean their children should take; for then they are most flexible; and let them not too much apply themselves to the disposition of their children, as thinking they will take best to that which they have most mind to. It is true, that if the affection or aptness of the children be extraordinary, then it is good not to cross it; but generally the precept is good, optimum elige, suave et facile illud faciet consuetudo [choose the best — custom will make it pleasant and easy]. Younger brothers are commonly fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited.
* ↑ Spoiled.
* ↑ Associate.
* ↑ Turns out.
# Essays, civil and moral (Harvard Classics)/Of Nature in Men

XXXVIII
OF NATURE IN MEN
Nature is often hidden ; sometimes overcome; seldom extinguished. Force maketh nature more violent in the return; doctrine and discourse maketh nature less importune; but custom only doth alter and subdue nature. He that seeketh victory over his nature, let him not set himself too great nor too small tasks; for the first will make him dejected by often failings; and the second will make him a small proceeder, though by often prevailings. And at the first let him practise with helps, as swimmers do with bladders or rushes; but after a time let him practise with disadvantages, as dancers do with thick shoes. For it breeds ​great perfection, if the practice be harder than the use. Where nature is mighty, and therefore the victory hard, the degrees had need be, first to stay and arrest nature in time; like to him that would say over the four and twenty letters when he was angry; then to go less in quantity; as if one should, in forbearing wine, come from drinking healths to a draught at a meal; and lastly, to discontinue altogether. But if a man have the fortitude and resolution to enfranchise himself at once, that is the best:
Optimus ille animi vindex lædentia pectus Vincula qui rupit, dedoluitque semel.
[Wouldst thou be free ? The chains that gall thy breast With one strong effort burst, and be at rest.]
Neither is the ancient rule amiss, to bend nature as a wand to a contrary extreme, whereby to set it right, understanding it, where the contrary extreme is no vice. Let not a man force a habit upon himself with a perpetual continuance, but with some intermission. For both the pause reinforceth the new onset; and if a man that is not perfect be ever in practice, he shall as well practise his errors as his abilities, and induce one habit of both; and there is no means to help this but by seasonable intermissions. But let not a man trust his victory over his nature too far; for nature will lay buried a great time, and yet revive upon the occasion or temptation. Like as it was with Æsop's damsel, turned from a cat to a woman, who sat very demurely at the board's end, till a mouse ran before her. Therefore let a man either avoid the occasion altogether; or put himself often to it, that he may be little moved with it. A man's nature is best perceived in privateness, for there is no affectation; in passion, for that putteth a man out of his precepts; and in a new case or experiment, for there custom leaveth him. They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations; otherwise they may say, multum incola fuit anima mea [my soul hath been long a sojourner]; when they converse in those things they do not affect. In studies, whatsoever a man commandeth upon himself, let him set hours for it; but whatsoever is agreeable to his nature, let him take no care for any ​set times; for his thoughts will fly to it of themselves; so as the spaces of other business or studies will suffice. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.
# Essays, civil and moral (Harvard Classics)/Of Negotiating

XLVII
OF NEGOTIATING
It is generally better to deal by speech than by letter; and by the mediation of a third than by a man's self. Letters are good, when a man would draw an answer by letter back again; or when it may serve for a man's justification afterwards to produce his own letter; or where it may be danger to be interrupted, or heard by pieces. To deal in person is good, when a man's face breedeth regard, as commonly with inferiors; or in tender cases, where a man's eye upon the countenance of him with whom he speaketh may give him a ​direction how far to go; and generally, where a man will reserve to himself liberty either to disavow or to expound. In choice of instruments, it is better to choose men of a plainer sort, that are like to do that that is committed to them, and to report back again faithfully the success, than those that are cunning to contrive out of other men's business somewhat to grace themselves, and will help the matter in report for satisfaction' sake. Use also such persons as affect the business wherein they are employed; for that quickeneth much; and such as are fit for the matter; as bold men for expostulation, fair-spoken men for persuasion, crafty men for inquiry and observation, froward and absurd men for business that doth not well bear out itself. Use also such as have been lucky, and prevailed before in things wherein you have employed them; for that breeds confidence, and they will strive to maintain their prescription. It is better to sound a person with whom one deals afar off, than to fall upon the point at first; except you mean to surprise him by some short question. It is better dealing with men in appetite, than with those that are where they would be. If a man deal with another upon conditions, the start or first performance is all; which a man cannot reasonably demand, except either the nature of the thing be such, which must go before; or else a man can persuade the other party that he shall still need him in some other thing; or else that he be counted the honester man. All practice is to discover, or to work. Men discover themselves in trust, in passion, at unawares, and of necessity, when they would have somewhat done and cannot find an apt pretext. If you would work any man, you must either know his nature and fashions, and so lead him; or his ends, and so persuade him; or his weakness and disadvantages, and so awe him; or those that have interest in him, and so govern him. In dealing with cunning persons, we must ever consider their ends, to interpret their speeches; and it is good to say little to them, and that which they least look for. In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.
* ↑ Like.
* ↑ Stubborn.
* ↑ Stupid.
* ↑ Justify.
* ↑ Scheming.
* ↑ Reveal.
* ↑ Manage, make use of.