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# The Essays of Montaigne/Book I/Chapter XIV
### Chapter XIV. That men are justly punished for being obstinate in the defence of a fort that is not in reason to be defended.

Valour has its bounds as well as other virtues, which, once transgressed, the next step is into the territories of vice; so that by having too large a proportion of this heroic virtue, unless a man be very perfect in its limits, which upon the confines are very hard to discern, he may very easily unawares run into temerity, obstinacy, and folly. From this consideration it is that we have derived the custom, in times of war, to punish, even with death, those who are obstinate to defend a place that by the rules of war is not tenable; otherwise men would be so confident upon the hope of impunity, that not a henroost but would resist and seek to stop an army.
The Constable Monsieur de Montmorenci, having at the siege of Pavia been ordered to pass the Ticino, and to take up his quarters in the Faubourg St. Antonio, being hindered by a tower at the end of the bridge, which was so obstinate as to endure a battery, hanged every man he found within it for their labour. And again, accompanying the Dauphin in his expedition beyond the Alps, and taking the Castle of Villano by assault, and all within it being put to the sword by the fury of the soldiers, the governor and his ensign only excepted, he caused them both to be trussed up for the same reason; as also did the Captain Martin du Bellay, then governor of Turin, with the governor of San Buono, in the same country, all his people having been cut to pieces at the taking of the place.
But forasmuch as the strength or weakness of a fortress is always measured by the estimate and counterpoise of the forces that attack it --for a man might reasonably enough despise two culverins, that would be a madman to abide a battery of thirty pieces of cannon--where also the greatness of the prince who is master of the field, his reputation, and the respect that is due unto him, are also put into the balance, there is danger that the balance be pressed too much in that direction. And it may happen that a man is possessed with so great an opinion of himself and his power, that thinking it unreasonable any place should dare to shut its gates against him, he puts all to the sword where he meets with any opposition, whilst his fortune continues; as is plain in the fierce and arrogant forms of summoning towns and denouncing war, savouring so much of barbarian pride and insolence, in use amongst the Oriental princes, and which their successors to this day do yet retain and practise. And in that part of the world where the Portuguese subdued the Indians, they found some states where it was a universal and inviolable law amongst them that every enemy overcome by the king in person, or by his lieutenant, was out of composition.
So above all both of ransom and mercy a man should take heed, if he can, of falling into the hands of a judge who is an enemy and victorious.
# The Essays of Montaigne/Book I/Chapter VIII
### Chapter VIII. Of idleness.

As we see some grounds that have long lain idle and untilled, when grown rich and fertile by rest, to abound with and spend their virtue in the product of innumerable sorts of weeds and wild herbs that are unprofitable, and that to make them perform their true office, we are to cultivate and prepare them for such seeds as are proper for our service; and as we see women that, without knowledge of man, do sometimes of themselves bring forth inanimate and formless lumps of flesh, but that to cause a natural and perfect generation they are to be husbanded with another kind of seed: even so it is with minds, which if not applied to some certain study that may fix and restrain them, run into a thousand extravagances, eternally roving here and there in the vague expanse of the imagination--
 "Sicut aqua tremulum labris ubi lumen ahenis,  Sole repercussum, aut radiantis imagine lunae,  Omnia pervolitat late loca; jamque sub auras  Erigitur, summique ferit laquearia tecti."
 ["As when in brazen vats of water the trembling beams of light,  reflected from the sun, or from the image of the radiant moon,  swiftly float over every place around, and now are darted up on  high, and strike the ceilings of the upmost roof."--  AEneid, viii. 22.]
--in which wild agitation there is no folly, nor idle fancy they do not light upon:--
 "Velut aegri somnia, vanae  Finguntur species."
 ["As a sick man's dreams, creating vain phantasms."--  Hor., De Arte Poetica, 7.]
The soul that has no established aim loses itself, for, as it is said--
 "Quisquis ubique habitat, Maxime, nusquam habitat."
 ["He who lives everywhere, lives nowhere."--Martial, vii. 73.]
When I lately retired to my own house, with a resolution, as much as possibly I could, to avoid all manner of concern in affairs, and to spend in privacy and repose the little remainder of time I have to live, I fancied I could not more oblige my mind than to suffer it at full leisure to entertain and divert itself, which I now hoped it might henceforth do, as being by time become more settled and mature; but I find--
 "Variam semper dant otia mentem,"
 ["Leisure ever creates varied thought."--Lucan, iv. 704]
that, quite contrary, it is like a horse that has broke from his rider, who voluntarily runs into a much more violent career than any horseman would put him to, and creates me so many chimaeras and fantastic monsters, one upon another, without order or design, that, the better at leisure to contemplate their strangeness and absurdity, I have begun to commit them to writing, hoping in time to make it ashamed of itself.
# The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 10/Ballad Airs from Manuscript/Ballad 9

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Sharpe MS.
# The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 10/Ballad Airs from Manuscript/Ballad 95

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Miss E. M. Backus, North Carolina.
# The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 10/Ballad Airs from Manuscript/Ballad 97

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Abbotsford MS., "Scottish Songs."
# The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 10/Ballad Airs from Manuscript/Ballad 98

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Mrs Harris.
# The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 10/Ballad Airs from Manuscript/Ballad 99

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Abbotsford MS., "Scottish Songs."
Miss M. Macmath.
# The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 10/Ballad Airs from Manuscript/Ballad 84

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Mrs Harris.
# The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 10/Ballad Airs from Manuscript/Ballad 89

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Harris MS.
# The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 2

The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
Edited by Francis James Child
Part II
Boston Houghton, Mifflin and Company New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street The Riverside Press, Cambridge London: Henry Stevens, 4 Trafalgar Square
One Thousand Copies Printed.
No. 233
Copyright, 1884, by F. J. Child.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge: Printed by H. O. Houghton and Company.
I have again to express my obligations and my gratitude to many who have aided in the collecting and editing of these Ballads.
To Sir Hugh Hume Campbell, for the use of two considerable manuscript volumes of Scottish Ballads.
To Mr. Allardyce, of Edinburgh, for a copy of the Skene Ballads, and for a generous permission to print such as I required, in advance of a possible publication on his part.
To Mr. Mansfield, of Edinburgh, for the use of the Pitcairn manuscripts.
To Mrs. Robertson, for the use of Note-Books of the late Dr. Joseph Robertson, and to Mr. Murdoch, of Glasgow, Mr. Lugton, of Kelso, Mrs. Alexander Forbes, of Edinburgh, and Messrs. G. L. Kittredge and G. M. Richardson, former students of Harvard College, for various communications.
To Dr. Reinhold Köhler's unrivalled knowledge of popular fiction, and his equal liberality, I am indebted for valuable notes, which will be found in the Additions at the end of this volume.
The help of my friend Dr. Theodor Vetter has enabled me to explore portions of the Slavic ballad-field which otherwise must have been neglected.
Professors D. Silvan Evans, John Rhys, Paul Meyer, and T. Frederick Crane have lent me a ready assistance in literary emergencies.
The interest and coöperation of Mr. Furnivall and Mr. Macmath have been continued to me without stint or weariness.
It is impossible, while recalling and acknowledging acts of courtesy, good will, and friend-ship, not to allude, with one word of deep personal grief, to the irreparable loss which all who are concerned with the study of popular tradition have experienced in the death of Svend Grundtvig.
F. J. C.
June, 1884
# The Farewell, to the Brethren of St. James's Lodge, Tarbolton

* "The Farewell, to the Brethren of St. James's Lodge, Tarbolton", in Burns's Songs (n.d.), a chapbook printed in Ayr
* "Burns' Farewell", in Burns' Farewell (1816), a chapbook printed in Glasgow
* "Farewell to the Brethren of St. James's Lodge", in The Beauties of Burn's Poems (1819), a chapbook printed in Falkirk
* "Adieu", in The Book of Scottish Song (1843), edited by Alexander Whitelaw
* "The Farewell", in The Poetical Works of Robert Burns (1887), edited by Alexander Smith
# The Farm House by the River

I know a little country place  Where still my heart doth linger, And o'er its fields is every grace  Lined out by memory's finger. Back from the lane where poplars grew  And aspens quake and quiver, There stands all bath'd in summer's glow  A farm house by the river.
Its eaves are touched with golden light  So sweetly, softly shining, And morning glories full and bright  About the doors are twining. And there endowed with every grace  That nature's hand could giver her, There lived the angel of the place  In the farm house by the river.
Her eyes were blue, her hair was gold,  Her face was bright and sunny; The songs that from her bosom rolled  Were sweet as summer's honey. And I loved her well, that maid divine,  And I prayed the Gracious Giver, That I some day might call her mine  In the farm house by the river.
Twas not to be -- but God knows best.  His will for aye be heeded! Perhaps amid the angels' bliss,  My little love was needed. Her spirit from its thralldom torn  Went singing o'er the river, And that sweet life my heart shall mourn  Forever and forever.
She dies one morn at early light  When all the birds are singing, And Heaven itself in pure delight  Its bells of joy seemed ringing. They laid her dust where soon and late  The solemn grasses quiver, And left alone and desolate  The farm house by the river.
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# The Farm and Fruit of Old

THE FARM AND FRUIT OF OLD.
THE
FARM AND FRUIT OF OLD.
A TRANSLATION IN VERSE OF THE
FIRST AND SECOND GEORGICS
OF VIRGIL.
BY A MARKET-GARDENER.
LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, SON, AND CO. 47, LUDGATE HILL. 1862.
* Preface
* Book the First
* Book the Second
* Advert
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# The Farewell (Doyle)

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Songs of the Road (1922, edition of Doyle's collected poems with added texts) The Farewell
The Soul to the Body
So sorry, dear old friend, you have to die.
We've been such goodly partners, you and I,
Such comrades in our work, and mates at play,
We've lived together many a happy day.
It's only lately that you disappoint.
Sluggish in limb and clogged in every joint;
But that is not your fault, for grim old Time
Has blocked your tiny arteries with lime.
And cut your sap and left its withering trace
In every wrinkle of your dear old face.
No, faithful comrade, I have nought but praise;
If there were fault, 'twas mine. You walked the ways
On which I led you, be they low or high.
Thanks for all services! And so good-bye!
The Body to the Soul
Good-bye, old friend! You've used me many a year.
And, as you say, I'm rather out of gear,
And quite disposed to rest. No doubt you'll find
Some other form congenial to your mind.
And moulded on this wreck you leave behind.
For that, they say, persists. May it be one
That serves you faithfully, as I have done.
Of course its right our partnership to sever
Since I am old and you as young as ever.
I'll find some cancer cell or handy germ
To bring my waning forces to a term
And break the framework of the old machine.
Then down at Woking or at Golder's Green
They'll do the trick. And you, friend, from afar,
Will see the oaken chest or cinder jar,
And know that I have gone without a pang
Back to the elements from which I sprang.
# The Farewell to the Dead

* The Farewell to the Dead, in The New Monthly Magazine Volume 7, 1823.
* The Farewell to the Dead, in The Forest Sanctuary, and Other Poems (Lays of Many Lands), 1825.
# The Gospel in Brief/prologue

THE GOSPEL IN BRIEF
Announcement of welfare by Jesus Christ the Son of God
A PROLOGUE

## THE UNDERSTANDING OF LIFE

Jesus Christ's announcement replaced the belief in an external God by an understanding of life.
THE announcement of welfare by Jesus Christ, the son of God. Mark I. i.
The announcement of welfare consists in this, that all men who believe that they are the sons of God obtain true life. John XX. xxxi. The understanding of life is at the basis and the beginning of all. The understanding of life is God. I. i. And by the announcement of Jesus it has become the basis and beginning of all things. ii.
All things have come to life by understanding, and without it nothing can live. iii. Understanding gives true life. iv. Understanding is the light of truth, and the light shines in the darkness and the darkness cannot extinguish it. v.
The true light has always existed in the world and enlightens every man who is born in the world. ix. It was in the world, and the world only lived because it had that light of understanding.
But the world did not retain it. x. He came unto his own, and his own retained him not. xi.
Only those who understood the enlightenment were able to become like him because they believed in his reality. Jonn I. xii. Those who believed that life lies in the xiii. understanding became no longer sons of the flesh, but sons of understanding.
And the understanding of life, in the person of Jesus Christ, manifested itself in the flesh, and we understood his meaning to be that the son of understanding, man in the flesh, of one nature with the Father the source of life, is such as the Father, the source of life. xiv.
The teaching of Jesus is the full and true faith, xv. for by fulfilling the teaching of Jesus we understand a new faith instead of the former. xvi. Moses gave us a law, but we received the true faith through Jesus Christ. xvii.
No one has seen God or will ever see God, only his son, who is in the Father, has shown us the path of life. xviii.
# The Grapeshot/Opinion of the Court

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* Opinion of the Court
United States Supreme Court
74 U.S. 563
The Grapeshot
The first motion to dismiss this appeal is made upon the ground that the transcript of the record is incomplete, because of the omission of certain papers said to have been used in the court below, but not to be found when the transcript was made.
The motion must be denied. Proof that the papers alleged to be wanting were used in the court below, and have been lost, must be made by affidavit. The certificate of the clerk who made the transcript cannot be received as proper evidence of these facts.
The other motion is made upon the ground that the decree below was rendered by the Provisional Court of Louisiana, established by the military authority of the President, during the late rebellion, from which no appeal could be properly taken. But we find, on looking into the statutes, that when the Provisional Court ceased to exist, its judgments and decrees were directed to be transferred into the Circuit Court, and to stand as the judgments and decrees of that court. And it is from the decree of the Circuit Court that the appeal under consideration was taken. As an appeal from that court it was regular, and the motion to dismiss must be denied.
All questions concerning the validity of judgments and decrees of the Provisional Court will remain open until after final hearing.
MOTIONS DENIED.

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# The Grass so little has to do—

* "The Grass" in Poems (1890)
* "The grass so little has to do" in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1924)
# The Grapeshot

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United States Supreme Court
74 U.S. 563
The Grapeshot
UPON two separate motions to dismiss an appeal from the decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana; the decree being one transferred there under act of Congress, from the late so-called 'Provisional Court' of that State; both motions being made by Mr. Durant.
The ground of the first motion was because the transcript was incomplete, 'as appeared by the certificate of the clerk of the lower court, as given in the printed transcript, and because it further appeared by the said certificate, that the missing parts of the record could not be found, so that it was useless to issue a certiorari,' and on the whole impossible for this court to hear and decide the case.
The ground of the second motion was, that the Circuit Court of the United States in Louisiana had rendered no decree from which an appeal could be taken; so that this court was without jurisdiction.
This Provisional Court of Louisiana, as mentioned in the preceding case, had been established by proclamation of the President, in October, 1862, when the war of the rebellion had subverted and swept away the courts of the Union, and, by the terms of its constitution, was to last no longer than till the civil authority was restored.
The CHIEF JUSTICE delivered the opinion of the court.

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# The Grapeshot (76 U.S. 129)

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United States Supreme Court
76 U.S. 129
The Grapeshot
THIS case, which in its original form, was a libel in the District Court of Louisiana, on a bottomry bond, and, as such, involved nothing but the correct presentation of the principles of maritime law relating to that matter, and the examination of a good deal of contradictory evidence, to see how far the particular case came within them, presented subsequently, and in consequence of the rebellion and the occupation by our army of the mere city of New Orleans, while the region surrounding it generally was still held by the Confederate powers and troops, a great question of constitutional law, the question namely, how far, with that clause of the Constitution in force which declares that—
'The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish,'--
the President could establish a Provisional Court, and how far Congress, on the suppression of the rebellion, could, by its enactment, validate the doings of such a court, transfer its judgments, and make them judgments of the now re-established former and proper Federal courts, from one of which, the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana, the cause purported to be brought here.
The case-which in this court consisted accordingly of three parts-to wit:
1. The matter of jurisdiction,
2. That of the principles of maritime law in regard to bottomry bonds,3. The one of their application to the particular case, on the evidence, is all stated in the opinion of the court, not all consecutively in the opening of it, but all completely enough and with distinctness from the opinion itself, in three different parts, as the three respective topics arise to be treated of.
Mr. C. Cushing, for the owners of the ship, appellants; Mr. T. J. Durant, contra.
The CHIEF JUSTICE delivered the opinion of the court.

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# The Grasshopper

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* The Grasshopper (Попрыгунья), a short story by Anton Chekhov, 1892.
* The Grasshopper, a poem by Alfred Tennyson.
* The Grasshopper, a fable by Florian.
* The Grasshopper, a poem by Abraham Cowley
* On The Grasshopper, an ode by Anacreon
# The Grandmothers/MEMORANDUM

A MEMORANDUM for the guidance of THE READER
HENRY TOWER had four brothers and one sister: HARRISON, JOHN, LEANDER, HILARY, and NANCY.
HARRISON TOWER married MARY HARRIS, Who had previously been married to a certain DR. BRANDON and to a man named CLEAVER.
LEANDER TOWER was a bachelor; and HILARY disappeared during the Civil War at the age of sixteen.
NANCY TOWER married JESSE DAVIS, to whom she bore one son, TIMOTHY, adopted after their death by her brother LEANDER.
HENRY TOWER married SERENA CANNON; their only son, OLIVER, died in infancy. After her death he married his brother LEANDER'S former sweetheart, ROSE HAMILTON. They had six children: POLLY and ADA, who did not live to maturity, JAMES, RALPH, EVAN, and FLORA.
JAMES married CAROLINE FIELDING and had no children.
EVAN, who changed his name to JOHN CRAIG, married SUSANNE ORFEO, a woman of French and Italian parentage, by whom he had one son, LEANDER ORFEO CRAIG.
FLORA was unmarried, and died at the age of twenty-nine.
RALPH married MARIANNE, the only daughter of IRA and URSULA DUFF. Their eldest son was named ALWYN.
# The Gardener (Tagore)/11

Come as you are, do not loiter over your toilet. If your braided hair has loosened, if the parting of your hair be not straight, if the ribbons of your bodice be not fastened, do not mind. Come as you are; do not loiter over your toilet.
Come with quick steps over the grass. If the raddle come from your feet because of the dew, if the rings of bells upon your feet slacken, if pearls drop out from your chain, do not mind. Come, with quick steps over the grass.
Do you see the clouds wrapping the sky? Flocks of cranes fly up from the further river-bank and fistful gusts of wind rush over the heath. The anxious cattle run to their stalls in the village. Do you see the clouds wrapping the sky?
In vain you light your toilet lamp-it flickers and goes out in the wind. Who can know that your eyelids have not been touched with lamp black? For your eyes are darker than rain clouds. In vain you light your toilet lamp-it goes out.
Come as you are; do not loiter over your toilet. If wreath is not woven, who cares; if the wrist chain has not been linked, let it be. The sky is overcast with clouds-it is late. Come as you are; do not loiter over your toilet.