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# Letters of Julian/Letter 66

From The Works of the Emperor Julian, volume III (1913) Loeb Classical Library.

## 66. To George, a Revenue Official

Well, let us grant that Echo is a goddess, as you say she is, and a chatterbox, and, if you like, the wife of Pan also; for I shall not object. And even though nature would fain inform me that Echo is only the sound of the voice answering back when the air is struck, and bent back upon that which is opposite the ear that hears it, nevertheless, since I put my faith in the account given by men both ancient and modern, and in your own account no less, I am abashed into admitting that Echo is a goddess. What, in any case, would that matter to me, if only, in my expressions of friendship towards you, I excel Echo in a considerable degree? For she does not reply to all the sounds that she hears, but rather to the last syllables uttered by the voice, like a grudging sweetheart who returns her lover's kisses with the merest touch of her lips. I, on the other hand, in my correspondence with you, lead off sweetly, and then again, in reply to your challenge, I return you like for like as though I threw back a ball. Therefore you cannot be too quick in recognising that your letters put you in default, and that it is yourself, since you receive more and give back very little, whom you consign to the similitude of the figure, and not me, since I am eager to score off you in both ways. However, whether you give in just the same degree as you receive, or not, whatever I am permitted to receive from you is a boon, and is credited as sufficient to balance the whole.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Otherwise unknown. The title Catholicus (cf. our "General") was used of officials in charge of the collection of tribute, especially in Africa; it is equivalent to procurator fisci. George was probably a sophist. This and the following letter are rejected by Schwarz, Cumont and Geffcken, because of their sophistic mannerisms.
* ↑ Moschus, Idyl 6.
* ↑ For this conventional phrase, often used by Julian, cf. To Hecebolius, Letter 63, and To Sarapion, Letter 80.
* ↑ George had evidently used the figure of Echo, and accused Julian of imitating her.
* ↑ i.e. both in sending and receiving letters.
* ↑ Perhaps the last two sentences are a playful allusion to George's profession as a financier.
# Mad as the Mist and Snow

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Bolt and bar the shutter, For the foul winds blow: Our minds are at their best this night, And I seem to know That everything outside us is Mad as the mist and snow.
Horace there by Homer stands, Plato stands below, And here is Tully's open page. How many years ago Were you and I unlettered lads Mad as the mist and snow?
You ask what makes me sigh, old friend, What makes me shudder so? I shudder and I sigh to think That even Cicero And many-minded Homer were Mad as the mist and snow.
# Macready, William Charles

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# Macomb v. Marcus

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35 U.S. 407
Macomb v. Marcus

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# Macon County v. United States

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134 U.S. 332
Macon County v. United States
[Statement of Case from pages 332-336 intentionally omitted]
James Carr and R. G. Mitchell, for plaintiffs in error.
Joseph Shippen, for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice FIELD, after stating the facts as above, delivered the opinion of the court.

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# Macon Grocery Company v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company

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United States Supreme Court
215 U.S. 501
Macon Grocery Company v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
Argued: October 20, 21, 1909. --- Decided: January 17, 1910
Messrs. William A. Wimbish and Edgar Watkins for appellants.
Messrs. Henry L. Stone and Claudian B. Northrop for appellees.
Mr. Justice White delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Macon County v. United States/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
134 U.S. 332
Macon County v. United States
According to the law of Missouri under which the bonds of Macon county were issued to the Missouri & Mississippi Railroad Company, in payment of its subscription of stock to that company, as stated above, the balance due upon the judgment of the relator, after application of the moneys raised by the special tax of one-twentieth of 1 per cent. upon the assessed value of taxable property, stood on the same footing as any other liability of the county to be paid out of its general funds. To raise revenue to meet its expenses, which included that liability, the county was authorized to levy a tax of 50 cents on every $100 of valuation of taxable property in the county. U.S. v. County of Clark, 96 U.S. 211; County Court v. U.S., 109 U.S. 229, 3 Sup. Ct. Rep. 131. In this case it appears that for the year 1885 the county had levied only 30 cents on every $100 of property; but it set up in its answer that t had levied 50 cents, treating the 20 cents which had been levied by the boards of townships for township and bridge purposes as part of the 50 cents. The township is a separate organization from that of the county, with authority to purchase and hold real estate and make contracts and control its corporate property, and its taxes levied for those purposes over which it has control can in no just sense be termed taxes for county purposes. There can be therefore no valid objection to the county's levy of an additional 20 cents on the $100 to make up the 50 cents which it is authorized to levy to meet its expenses and liabilites. The apportioning of the funds collected to distinct and separate purposes does not affect the question presented. The proceeding is to obtain a further levy and the appropriation of its proceeds upon the judgment of the relator among other debts of the county. That the surplus remaining in the treasury over the payment of the warrant for the school fund, which is of prior registration, should be appropriated, pro rata, upon all the warrants of even date and registration, is a simple measure of justice. All the warrants were issued and registered on the same day, and if they could only be paid in the order of their registration, and a payment could not be made on anyone without its surrender, as contended, the treasurer would be obliged to retain the funds in his possession until he had a sufficient amount to pay them all before applying any portion thereof. As the circuit court said, this is an absurd position, and it held that whenever any reasonable amount has accumulated it should be distributed, and added that the order of the court would be a full protection to the officer. In that respect, as well as in other particulars, concurring with the court, we affirm its judgment.

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# Mad Song

a poem by William Blake, first published in Poetical Sketches.
* Mad Song in Life of William Blake (1880), Volume 2. Edited by D,G. Rossetti
* Mad Song in Poetical sketches by William Blake now first reprinted from the original edition of 1783 (1868) edited by Richard Herne Shepherd.
* Mad Song, J Sampson, ed., (variorum reading, notes and preface), 1905 The poetical works of William Blake; a new and verbatim text from the manuscript engraved and letterpress originals, Oxford. 'Poems from the Poetical Sketches' p. 14.
# Macomb v. Marcus/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
35 U.S. 407
Macomb v. Marcus
IN error to the court of appeals for the territory of Florida.
Mr Mason, counsel for the defendant in error, having stated to the court that the plaintiffs in error, in this cause, had lodged with the clerk of this court a transcript of the record in the cause, but had failed to have said transcript filed, or the cause docketed, in pursuance of the rules of this court; moved the court to docket and dismiss this writ of error, under the nineteenth rule of this court for February term 1806, and to dispense with the certificate required by said rule, but to substitute the transcript for and as a certificate. On consideration, the court was of opinion, that the defendant in error, to entitle himself to the benefit of the rule, must produce the certificate of the clerk, as required by the rule. Whereupon it was ordered by the court, that the said motion be, and the same was overruled.

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# Littell's Living Age/Volume 140/Issue 1811/A Borrower

[An answer to F. W. ⁠Bourdillon's "Two Robbers.]
* A BORROWER.
* AN ANSWER TO MR. BOURDILLON.
* While Time, the cunning, mars
* Surely all loveliness.
* The sculptor's chisel mars
* The marble's spotless snow;
* But by those cruel scars
* New loveliness doth grow.
* A form of ideal grace
* Slept in the smooth white stone;
* The steel's relentless-trace,
* That nobler charm has won.
* Time's chisels, hard and stern,
* May youthful beauty slay;
* But beauty they return
* More perfect every way.
* We cared not for the stone,
* Nor for its faultless white;
* But on the statue grown,
* We gaze in fixed delight.
* W. P. A..
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 140/Issue 1813

LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.
| Fifth Series, Volume XXV. | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | No. 1813. — March 15, 1879. | $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ | From Beginning Vol. CXL. |
CONTENTS. :
| I. | Virgil. By Frederick W. H. Myers, | Fortnightly Review, | 643 |
| II. | A Doubting Heart. By Miss Keary, author of "Castle Daly," "Oldbury," etc. Part XIII., | Advance Sheets | 663 |
| III. | On the Migration of Birds. By August Weissman, | Contemporary Review, | 673 |
| IV. | Sir Gibbie. By George MacDonald, author of "Malcolm," "The Marquis of Lossie," etc. Part XVII., | Advance Sheets | 686 |
| V. | Etna, | Spectator, | 701 |
| VI. | A Diary of Milton's Age, | Athenæum, | 704 |
POETRY. :
| Skating, | 642 | Mortality, | 642 |
| A Flower, | 642 | A Reproach, and its Answer, | 642 |
| "More Sweet than Smiles", | 642 | |
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 140/Issue 1813/"More Sweet than Smiles"

Published in "Medusa and other poems" (1878) under the title "Gleams of Light".
* More sweet than smiles are tears which rise unbidden
* When some fair scene first dawns upon our eyes,
* A gift of joy, by nature long kept hidden,
* That thrills us with the rapture of surprise.
* But dearer yet and deeper is our feeling
* When some fair deed by one we love is wrought,
* Some unexpected grace of soul revealing,
* The lovely blossom of some secret thought.
* Oh! in those moments of divine emotion
* The darkening veil of doubt is rent apart;
* More near us seems the God of our devotion,
* The heaven we hope for dwells within our heart.
* Spectator.Lady Charlotte Elliott.
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 140/Issue 1811/"No More Sea"

* "NO MORE SEA."
* Ay, artists come to paint it; and writers to put in a book,
* How grand in storm, and fair in calm, the old North Sea can look.
* I've wondered to hear them talking, how to mimic in music or song,
* The voice that thrills the brooding air with its thunder low and long;
* Since never aught but itself, I wot, could sound like its angry roar,
* When its breakers rise to the east winds' call, to crash on the rocky shore.
* But rough or smooth, in shade or shine, the face of the mighty main
* Can speak of little else to me, but memory, fear or pain.
* Father and husband, and bold, bright boy, it has taken them one by one;
* I shall lie alone in the churchyard there, when my weary days are done.
* God never sent me a maiden bairn, to stay by me to the last,
* So I sit by the restless tides alone, by the grave of all my past;
* By the waves so strong and pitiless, that have drowned life's joy for me,
* And think of "the land where all shall meet, the land where is no more sea."
* Yet I cannot rest in meadow or fell, or the quiet inland lanes,
* Where the great trees spread their rustling arms over the smiling plains.
* I can't draw breath in the country, all shadowed, and green and dumb,
* The want of the sea is at my heart, I hear it calling, "Come."
* I hearken, and rise and follow; perhaps my men down there,
* Where the bright shells gleam, and the fishes dart 'mid seaweeds' tangles fair,
* Will find me best, if still on earth, when the angel's trump is blown,
* On the sand-reach, or the tall cliff-side, ere we pass to the great white throne.
* So summer and winter, all alone, by the breaker's lip I wait,
* Till I see the red light flush the clouds, as He opens the golden gate;
* And though at the sound of the rising waves I ofttimes tremble and weep,
* When the air is void of their glorious voice I can neither rest nor sleep.
* And the strangest of all the promises writ in the Book, to me,
* Is how on the shores of Paradise, "there shall be no more sea."
* All The Year Round.
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 140/Issue 1811

LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.
| Fifth Series, Volume XXV. | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | No. 1811. — March 1, 1879. | $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ | From Beginning Vol. CXL. |
CONTENTS. :
| I. | Daniel Manin, | British Quarterly Review, | 515 |
| II. | Within the Precincts. By Mrs. Oliphant. Part XXI., | Advance Sheets | 530 |
| III. | America Rediviva, | Macmillan's Magazine, | 546 |
| IV. | Sir Gibbie. By George MacDonald, author of "Malcolm," "The Marquis of Lossie," etc. Part XV., | Advance Sheets | 556 |
| V. | About Lotteries, | Cornhill Magazine, | 561 |
| VI. | The Projected Lotteries, | Economist, | 572 |
| VII. | Didactic Flirts, | Saturday Review, | 574 |
POETRY. :
| "No More Sea", | 514 | A Borrower, | 514 |
| Two Robbers, | 514 | |
| Miscellany, | Miscellany, | Miscellany, | 576 |
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 140/Issue 1812/A Broken String

* A BROKEN STRING.
* Sing, and to you! No — no — with one note jarred
* The harmony of life's long chord is broken,
* Your words were light and by light lips were spoken,
* And yet the music that you loved is marred.
* One string, my friend, is dumb beneath your hand,
* Strike and it throbs and vibrates at your will.
* Falters upon the verge of sound, and still
* Falls back as sea waves shattered on the strand.
* Touch it no more, for you shall not regain
* The sweet lost tone. Take what is left, or let
* Life's music sleep to death. Let us forget
* The perfect melody we seek in vain:
* And yet perchance, some day before we die,
* As half in dreams we hear the night wind sweep
* Around our windows, when we fain would sleep,
* Laden with one long sobbing moaning cry,
* One faint, far tone will waken, and will rise
* Above the great wave voice of mortal pain;
* Hand will touch hand and lips touch lips again,
* As in the darkness it recedes and dies;
* Or lingering in the summer evening glow,
* Then, when the passion of the crimson west
* Burning like some great heart that cannot rest,
* Stains as with blood the waters as they flow,
* Some old forgotten tones may rise and wake
* Our dying youth, and set our hearts aflame
* With their old sweetness, — to our lips the name
* Of love steal softly for the old love's sake.
* Cornhill Magazine.
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 140/Issue 1812/Horace's Ghost

* HORACE'S GHOST.
* [book i., ode ix.]
* Helvellyn's height with snows is white,
* The forest branches bow and splinter;
* No ripple breaks the frozen lakes,
* Then shut my door on cold and winter.
* On my hearth-dogs pile up the logs, —
* Pile high, my boy; and down your throttle
* Right freely pour my "thirty-four,"
* And never spare the old man's bottle.
* Leave all the rest to Him who best
* Knows how to still the roar of ocean;
* To calm the wind in wildest mind,
* And hush the leaflets lightest motion.
* Fear not to stay upon the day,
* And count for gain each happy pleasure;
* Be not above the game of love,
* And featly tread the Christmas measure.
* Let blood run cold when life grows old,
* Stick now to skate and tennis-racquet,
* Till westward-ho the sun-wheels go,
* Then join the sports of frock and jacket.
* When bright eyes smile, laugh back the while,
* And find the nook where beauty lingers;
* Steal golden charm from rounded arm,
* Half-given, half-held, by fairy fingers.
* Spectator.H. C. M.
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 140/Issue 1811/Two Robbers

[Some time since we published a poem of Mr. F. W. ⁠Bourdillon's entitled "Two Robbers," which we ⁠now give, together with an answer not heretofor ⁠published.]
* TWO ROBBERS.
* When Death from some fair face
* Is stealing life away,
* All weep save she the grace
* That earth must lose to-day.
* When Time from some fair face
* Steals beauty year by year;
* For her slow-fading grace
* Who gives save she a tear?
* Yet Death not often dares
* To wake the world's distress,
* While Time, the cunning, mars
* Surely all loveliness.
* And though by breath and breath,
* Fades all our fairest prime;
* Men shrink from cruel Death,
* But honor crafty Time.
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 140/Issue 1812

LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.
| Fifth Series, Volume XXV. | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | No. 1812. — March 8, 1879. | $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ | From Beginning Vol. CXL. |
CONTENTS. :
| I. | Mental Physiology, | Edinburgh Review, | 579 |
| II. | Sir Gibbie. By George MacDonald, author of "Malcolm," "The Marquis of Lossie," etc. Part XVI., | Advance Sheets, | 592 |
| III. | The Polish Alps, | Cornhill Magazine, | 602 |
| IV. | Within the Precincts. By Mrs. Oliphant. Part XXII., | Advance Sheets | 614 |
| V. | Robert Dick, the Thurso Baker, | Chambers' Journal, | 630 |
| VI. | Music and Science, | Nature, | 635 |
| VII. | Ebb and Flow, | Saturday Review, | 638 |
POETRY. :
| A Broken String, | 578 | Horace's Ghost, | 578 |
| At the Convent Gate, | 578 | |
| Miscellany, | Miscellany, | Miscellany, | 640 |
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 140/Issue 1812/At the Convent Gate

* AT THE CONVENT GATE.
* Wistaria blossoms trail and fall
* Above the length of barrier wall;
* And softly, now and then,
* The shy, staid-breasted doves will flit
* From roof to gateway-top, and sit
* And watch the ways of men.
* The gate's ajar. If one might peep!
* Ah, what a haunt of rest and sleep
* The shadowy garden seems!
* And note how dimly to and fro
* The grave, grey-hooded sisters go,
* Like figures seen in dreams.
* Look, there is one that tells her beads;
* And yonder one apart that reads
* A tiny missal's page;
* And see, beside the well, the two
* That, kneeling, strive to lure anew
* The magpie to its cage!
* Not beautiful — not all! But each
* With that mild grace, outlying speech,
* Which comes of even blood;
* The veil unseen that women wear
* With heart-whole thought, and quiet care,
* And hope of higher good.
* "A placid life — a peaceful life!
* What need to these the name of wife?
* What gentler task (I said) —
* What worthier — e'en your arts among —
* Than tend the sick, and teach the young,
* And give the hungry bread?"
* "No worthier task!" re-echoes she,
* Who (closelier clinging) turns with me
* To face the road again;
* And yet, in that warm heart of hers,
* She means the doves', for she prefers
* To "watch the ways of men."
* Cornhill Magazine.Austin Dobson.
# Manhattan Transfer

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Manhattan Transfer
By John Dos Passos
One Man's Initiation
Three Soldiers
Rosinante to the Road Again
A Pushcart at the Curb
Manhattan Transfer
Streets of Night
Manhattan Transfer
By
John Dos Passos
Harper & Brothers Publishers New York and London
MANHATTAN TRANSFER
COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY JOHN DOS PASSOS
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.
TENTH PRINTING
C-G
Contents :
| First Section ||
| I | Ferryslip3 |
| II | Metropolis12 |
| III | Dollars49 |
| IV | Tracks78 |
| V | Streamroller112 |
| Second Section ||
| I | Great Lady on a White Horse129 |
| II | Longlegged Jack of the Isthmus144 |
| III | Nine Days' Wonder169 |
| IV | Fire Engine202 |
| V | Went to the Animals' Fair217 |
| VI | Five Statutory Questions237 |
| VII | Rollercoaster249 |
| VIII | One More River to Jordan255 |
| Third Section ||
| I | Rejoicing City That Dwelt Carelessly271 |
| II | Nickelodeon291 |
| III | Revolving Doors305 |
| IV | Skyscraper351 |
| V | The Burthen of Nineveh371 |
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# Manhattan Life Insurance Company v. Broughton

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United States Supreme Court
109 U.S. 121
Manhattan Life Insurance Company v. Broughton
James Otis Hoyt, for plaintiff in error.
[Argument of Counsel from page 122 intentionally omitted]
Erastus F. Brown, for defendant in error.
GRAY, J.

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# Manhattan Properties v. Irving Trust Company

United States Supreme Court
291 U.S. 320
Manhattan Properties v. Irving Trust Company
Argued: Dec. 10, 1933. --- Decided: Feb 5, 1934
[Syllabus from pages 321-325 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. William D. Mitchell and Charles Dickerman Williams, both of New York City, for petitioners.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 321-326 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Frederick H. Wood, of New York City, for respondents.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 326-328 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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