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# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily VI/Chapter 1

Homily VI.
Chapter I.—Clement Meets Appion.
And on the third day, when I came with my friends to the appointed place in Tyre, I found Appion sitting between Anubion and Athenodorus, and waiting for us, along with many other learned men. But in no wise dismayed, I greeted them, and sat down opposite Appion. And in a little he began to speak:—
“I wish to start from the following point, and to come with all speed at once to the question. Before you, my son Clement, joined us, my friend Anubion here, and Athenodorus, who yesterday were among those who heard you discourse, were reporting to me what you said of the numerous false accusations I brought against the gods when I was visiting you in Rome, at the time you were shamming love, how I charged them with pæderasty, lasciviousness, and numerous incests of all kinds. But, my son, you ought to have known that I was not in earnest when I wrote such things about the gods, but was concealing the truth, from my love to you. That truth, however, if it so please you, you may hear from me now.
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily VI/Chapter 12

Chapter XII.—Epitome of Appion’s Explanation.
And I answered: “I shall not at present speak particularly of that living egg, which was conceived by a happy combination out of infinite matter, and from which, when it was broken, the masculo-feminine Phanes leaped forth, as some say. I say little about all that, up to the point when this broken globe attained coherency, there being left in it some of its marrow-like matter; and I shall briefly run over the description of what took place in it by the agency of this matter, with all that followed. For from Kronos and Rhea were born, as you say—that is, by time and matter—first Pluto, who represents the sediment which settled down; and then Poseidon, the liquid substance in the middle, which floated over the heavier body below; and the third child—that is, Zeus—is the æther, and is highest of all. It was not devoured; but as it is a fiery power, and naturally ascends, it flew up as with a bound to the very highest æther.

## Footnotes

* ↑ [Comp. Recognitions, x. 17–19, 29–36, 41, for statements similar to those in chaps. 12–19.—R.]
* ↑ This is Wiesler’s conjecture.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Woodhouse, James

Edition of 1889.
​WOODHOUSE, James, chemist, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 17 Nov., 1770; d. there, 4 June, 1809. He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1787, and at its medical department in 1792. In 1791 he served as a surgeon in Gen. Arthur St. Clair's expedition against the western Indians. When Joseph Priestley declined to accept the chair of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania in 1795, Dr. Woodhouse received the appointment, which he held until his death. He is said to have been the first to demonstrate the superiority of the Lehigh anthracite coal in Northampton county, Pa., over the bituminous coals of Virginia for intensity and regularity of heating power. He was a member of the American philosophical society, and contributed to its transactions, to Dr. Samuel L. Mitchell's “Medical Repository,” and to Dr. John R. Coxe's “Medical Museum.” Besides editing Parkinson's “Chemical Pocket-Book” (Philadelphia, 1802) and Chaptal's “Elements of Chemistry” (4th ed., 2 vols., 1807), he published “Dissertation on the Chemical and Medical Properties of the Persimmon-Tree” (1792); “Observations on the Combinations of Acids, Bitters, and Astringents” (1793); “Answer to Dr. J. Priestley's Considerations on the Doctrine of Phlogiston and the Decomposition of Water” (1794); “Young Chemist's Pocket-Companion” (1797); and “Experiments and Observations in the Vegetation of Plants” (1802).
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Worman, James Henry

Edition of 1889.
​WORMAN, James Henry, author, b. in Prussia, 28 Feb., 1835. He was educated at the University of Berlin and at the Sorbonne, Paris, taking his degree in both institutions in 1864, came to the United States in 1865, and became professor of modern languages in Knox college, Galesburg, Ill. In 1867 he was appointed librarian and instructor in Drew theological seminary, Madison, N. J., and on the death of Dr. John McClintock he became one of the editors of “McClintock and Strong's Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature.” He was a teacher in Adelphi academy, Brooklyn, N. Y., from 1877 till 1883, and then a professor in Vanderbilt university till 1886. He officiated at the same time as professor in Chautauqua university from 1878 till 1885, and since that date has been director of the Southern Chautauqua and Round Lake branch. In 1886 he edited the “Saratogian,” and since 1887 he has been editor of “Outing.” Dr. Worman published a school-book on universal history before coming to this country (Berlin, 1862), and has since published many books for language instruction. He was the first to introduce the method of writing books of instruction entirely in the language to be learned, interpreting the meaning by means of illustrations, and has applied it to German, French, Spanish, and Latin.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Woodward, Calvin Milton

Edition of 1900.
​WOODWARD, Calvin Milton, educator, b. in Fitchburg, Mass., 25 Aug., 1837. He was graduated at Harvard in 1860, and became principal of Brown high-school in Newburyport, Mass. During the civil war he was captain in the 48th Massachusetts volunteers, taking part in the siege and capture of Port Hudson under Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks. In 1865 he was chosen vice-principal of the Smith academy of Washington university, St. Louis, and in 1868 he was appointed assistant professor of mathematics in that university, where since 1870 he has held the chair of mathematics and applied mechanics, also since 1870 he has been dean of its polytechnic school. He planned and organized in 1879 the manual training-school as a subordinate department of the university without resigning his other duties, and has filled the directorship of this school from the first. The St. Louis manual training-school is the pioneer of its kind in America, and has served as the model in organizing other similar schools, in consequence of which Prof. Woodward's expositions of the aims and value of manual training have had the widest influence in shaping the new education both at home and abroad. He was a member of the school board of ​St. Louis in 1878-'80, and president of the St. Louis engineer club in 1883-'4. Prof. Woodward was president of the industrial department of the National educational association in 1882-'4, and vice-president of the American association for the advancement of science in 1888, presiding over the section on mechanical science. In 1885 he was invited to present a paper on “Manual Training” before the educational conference in Manchester, England, and afterward he visited the educational institutions of Europe. He has written a large number of papers on mathematical subjects and manual training, which he has contributed to scientific journals and other periodicals. His books are “History of the St. Louis Bridge” (St. Louis, 1882), and “The Manual Training-School: its Aims, Methods, and Results” (Boston, 1887).
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Worcester, Noah (educator)

Edition of 1889.
​WORCESTER, Noah, educator, b. in Thornton, N. H., in 1812; d. in Cincinnati, Ohio, 4 April, 1847. He was graduated at Harvard in 1832, was afterward a tutor at Dartmouth, became professor of general pathology in Western Reserve college, Ohio, and was eminent as a physician. He published “Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Diseases of the Skin” (Philadelphia, 1844).
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Worthington, Thomas

Edition of 1900. constitutional convention was Nov., 1802.
​WORTHINGTON, Thomas, governor of Ohio, b. near Charlestown, Va. (now W. Va.), 16 July 1773; d. in New York city, 20 June, 1827. He received a good education, but was a common sailor in 1790-'3. In 1797 he removed to Ross county, Ohio, where he was a member of the territorial legislature 1799-1801, and a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1803. He was elected one of the first U.S. senators from Ohio, and as a Democrat, serving from 17 Oct., 1803 till 3 March, 1807, and again elected instead of Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr., who had resigned, serving from 8 Jan., 1811 till 1814 when he resigned. He was governor of Ohio in 1814-'18, a canal commissioner from 1818 till his death, and one of the original vice-presidents of the American Bible society. He contributed greatly to the development of his adopted state.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Wragg, William

Edition of 1889.
​WRAGG, William, lawyer, b. in South Carolina in 1714; d. at sea in September, 1777. He was of Huguenot descent, and was educated in England, where he studied law. After returning to South Carolina, he served for many years in the assembly and in the council. In 1759 he declined the appointment of chief justice of the colony, that he might give evidence to those whose political course he opposed without being charged with acting in hope of official distinction. His sense of duty prevented his espousing the cause of independence, and, on refusing to take the oath prescribed by the Provincial congress, he was banished. He sailed for England in the summer of 1777, but was shipwrecked off the coast of Holland. He possessed a fortune, and was much esteemed. A monument was erected to his memory in Westminster Abbey. He published “Reasons for not concurring in the Non-Importation Resolution” (1769).
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Wormeley, Mary Elizabeth

Edition of 1889.
​WORMELEY, Mary Elizabeth, author, b. in London, England, 26 July, 1822. Her father, Admiral Ralph Randolph Wormeley, of the British navy, a native of Virginia (1785-1852), had for some time preceding his death resided in Boston, Mass., and was grandson, on the mother's side, of Attorney-General John Randolph. Her mother was a niece of Com. Edward Preble, U. S. navy. The daughter resided several years in Newport, R. I., and, after gaining a reputation as a writer, married Randolph Latimer, of Baltimore. She has contributed to magazines, and published “Forest Hill: a Tale of Social Life in 1830-'1” (3 vols., London, 1846); “Amabel, a Family History” (New York, 1853); “Our Cousin Veronica” (1856); and “Familiar Talks on Some of Shakespeare's Comedies” (Boston, 1887); also translations of Louis Ulbach's “Madame Gosselin” (New York, 1878); “The Steel Hammer” (1888); and “For Fifteen Years” (1888).—Her sister, Katharine Prescott, author, b. in Suffolk, England, 14 July, 1832, took an active interest in the relief of the National soldiers during the civil war, and published “The U. S. Sanitary Commission” (Boston, 1863). A volume of her letters from the headquarters of the U. S. sanitary commission with the Army of the Potomac during the peninsular campaign in 1862 has been published by the Massachusetts commandery of the Loyal legion under the title of “The Other Side of War” (1888). She is best known as the American translator of Honoré de Balzac's novels, of which thirteen volumes have been issued (Boston, 1886-'9), among which the “Magic Skin,” “Louis Lambert,” and “Séraphita,” have introductions by George Frederic Parsons.—Another sister, Ariana Randolph, b. in Suffolk, England, 14 Oct., 1835, married Daniel Sargent Curtis, of Boston. She has published a comedy entitled “The Coming Woman, or the Spirit of '76” (Boston, 1870), that has been acted in public and private both in the United States and in Europe.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Wouwerman, Simon van

Edition of 1889. No confirmation of this person's existence outside of Appletons' and derived sources has as yet been located, but there is also no verifiable source which states the person is one of Appletons' fictitious entries. Use this information with extra caution. There is a reference to the subject serving in the Mississippi company, but Mississippi was not named as such until 1798, i.e. 55 years after the date of the subject's death.
​WOUWERMAN, Simon van, Flemish author, b. in Bruges in 1690; d. in Paris in 1743. Little is known of his early life except that he was in the employ of the West Indian company about 1724, and afterward of the Mississippi company. In 1740 he secured an employment in the latter company's office at Paris, where he died. He wrote two curious works, “Histoire philosophique et morale de la Louisiane” and “Système d'administration de la compagnie des Indes,” which found afterward their way into Holland, where they were ​published (3 vols., Amsterdam, 1752). They contained grave accusations against the Louisiana and West Indian companies, which appear to have secured recruits and immigrants by false promises, and, when these means failed, to have shipped to America young convicts and women of questionable character. Wouwerman's works caused a scandal at the time of their publication, and all available copies were bought and destroyed by order of the officials of the company. Abbé Prévost, in his noted “Manon Lescaut,” mentions that it was the custom of the company to send criminals to the American colonies.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Wrangel, Charles Magnus von

Edition of 1889.
WRANGEL, Charles Magnus von, clergyman, b. in Sweden about 1730; d. in Sala, Sweden, in 1786. He was a descendant of an illustrious Swedish general, and was educated at Vestrås and the University of Upsala, in 1757 received the degree of D. D. from Göttingen university, and was then immediately nominated as court preacher to the king of Sweden. In 1759 he was called to the provostship of the Swedish churches in this country, and arrived at Philadelphia in the same year. He at once took charge of the Wicaco parish and the oversight of all the Swedish Lutheran congregations in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He was one of the most zealous and successful laborers in the Swedish churches. According to the instruction of the archbishop of Sweden, he cordially and actively co-operated with the German ministers in the defence of their common faith and the extension of the Lutheran church in America, and under this salutary influence both parties were perfectly united and frequently met in conference for consultation and in synod for the transaction of business pertaining to the welfare of the German and Swedish churches. He was an indefatigable worker and an eloquent preacher. When the weather permitted, he was usually obliged, in consequence of the crowds, to preach in the open air. Besides attending to the duties of his own parish, he built two new churches for the Swedes — one at Kingsessing, under the name of St. James church, the other at Upper Merion, under the name of Christ church — and in 1765 obtained a charter from Richard Thomas Penn for the “United Swedish Lutheran churches of Wicaco, Kingsessing, and Upper Merion.” He also visited the Germans at Lancaster and York. He often preached in English, since he found that the young could understand that language better than either Swedish or German. He also prepared an improved English translation of Luther's small catechism for the use of his young people. The church in which Dr. Wrangel labored is “Gloria Dei Church,” or the “Old Swedes Church,” on Swanson and Christian streets, Philadelphia. The building in which he preached is still in good preservation, and is one of the oldest buildings in Philadelphia. The first house of worship was a block-house, erected in 1669, and was used by Swedish Lutherans both as a defence against the Indians and as a place of worship. On 2 July, 1700, the new Gloria Dei church was dedicated and was used by Lutherans for nearly a hundred years, but in the latter part of the eighteenth century it passed into the hands of Episcopalians. The church is sixty feet long and thirty feet wide, built of brick, every alternate brick being glazed. (See illustration.) After nine years' faithful service, Dr. Wrangel returned to Sweden in 1768, and received from the government the pastorate of Sala, where he died, after a useful and eminently successful career.
# Backblock Ballads and Later Verses/A Song of Rain

A Song of Rain
Because a little vagrant wind veered south from China Sea; Or else, because a sun-spot stirred; and yet again, maybe Because some idle god in play breathed on an errant cloud, The heads of twice two million folk in gratitude are bowed.
 Patter, patter . . . Boolcoomatta,  Adelaide and Oodnadatta,  Pepegoona, parched and dry  Laugh beneath a dripping sky.  Riverina's thirsting plain  Knows the benison of rain.  Ararat and Arkaroola
 Render thanks with Tantanoola
 For the blessings they are gaining,
 And it's raining—raining—raining!
Because a heaven-sent monsoon the mists before it drove; Because things happened in the moon; or else, because High Jove, Unbending, played at waterman to please a laughing boy, The hearts through all a continent are raised in grateful joy.
Weeps the sky at Wipipipee
 Far Farina's folk are dippy
 With sheer joy, while Ballarat
 Shouts and flings aloft its hat.
 Thirsty Thackaringa yells;
 Taltabooka gladly tells
 Of a season wet and windy;
 Men rejoice on Murrindindie;
 Kalioota's ceased complaining;
 For it's raining—raining—raining!
Because a poor bush parson prayed an altruistic prayer,
Rich with unselfish fellow-love that Heaven counted rare
And yet, mayhap, because one night a meteor was hurled
Across the everlasting blue, the luck was with our world.    On the wilds of Winininnie
 Cattle low and horses whinny,
 Frolicking with sheer delight.
 From Beltana to The Bight,
 In the Malice's sun-scorched towns,
 In the sheds on Darling Downs,
 In the huts at Yudnapinna,
 Tents on Tidnacoordininna,
 To the sky all heads are craning—  For it's raining—raining—raining!
Because some strange, cyclonic thing has happened—God knows where— Men dream again of easy days, of cash to spend and spare. The ring fair Clara coveted, Belinda's furs are nigh,
As clerklings watch their increments fall shining from the sky.    Rolls the thunder at Eudunda;
 Leongatha, Boort, Kapunda
 Send a joyous message down;
 Sorrows, flooded, sink and drown.
 Ninkerloo and Nerim South
 Hail the breaking of the drouth;
 From Toolangi's wooded mountains
 Sounds the song of plashing fountains;
 Sovereign Summer's might is waning;
 It is raining—raining—raining!
Because the breeze blew sou'-by-east across the China Sea ;
Or else, because the thing was willed through all eternity
By gods that rule the rushing stars, or gods long æons dead,
The earth is made to smile again, and living things are fed.
 Mile on mile from Mallacoota
 Runs the news, and far Baroota
 Speeds it over hill and plain,
 Till the slogan of the rain
 Rolls afar to Yankalilla;
 Wallaroo and Wirrawilla
Shout it o'er the leagues between,
 Telling of the dawning green.
 Frogs at Cocoroc are croaking,
 Booboorowie soil is soaking,
 Oodla Wirra, Orroroo
 Breathe relief and hope anew.
 Wycheproof and Wollongong
 Catch the burden of the song
 That is rolling, rolling ever
 O'er the plains of Never Never,
 Sounding in each mountain rill,
 Echoing from hill to hill . . .
 In the lonely, silent places
 Men lift up their glad, wet faces,
 And their thanks ask no explaining—  It is raining—raining—raining!
# Backblock Ballads and Later Verses/Langwidge

Langwidge
"The flamin' cows!" 'e sez; 'e did, an' worse;
'Twas 'orrible the langwidge that 'e used.
It made my blood run cold to 'ear 'im curse;
An' me that taken-back-like an' confused;
W'ile them poor beasts 'e belted an' abused.
"They couldn't shift," 'e sez, "a blanky 'earse!
The flamin' cows!"
"The flamin' cows !" You oughter 'eard 'im curse.
You would 'a' bin that shocked. . . . An' the idear!
'Im usin' such remarks about a 'earse;
An' 'is own brother buried not a year.
"Not move a blanky 'earse!" 'e sez. My dear,
You 'ardly could imagine langwidge worse.
"The flamin' cows!"
"The flamin' cows!" Wot would the parson say?
An' 'im so friendly-like with 'im an' 'er.
I pity 'er; I do, 'cos, in 'er way,
She is respectable. But 'im! It's fur
From me, as you well know, to cast a slur
On anyone; but wot I 'eard that day. . . .
"The flamin' cows!"
​"The flamin' cows!" I know quite well that we
Ain't wot you'd call thin-skinned; and nasty pride
Is wot I never 'ad. . . . But 'er! . . . W'y she— She's allus that stuck-up an' full o' side;
A sort o' thing I never could abide.
An' all the time 'er 'usband . . . . Goodness me!
"The flamin' cows!"
"The flamin' cows!" O' course 'e never knowed That I was list'nin' to 'im all the w'ile.
'E muster bin a full hour on the road;
An', Lord, you could 'a' 'eard 'im fer a mile.
Jes' 'cos they stuck 'im in that boggy sile:
"If they ain't blanky swine," 'e sez, "I'm blowed!
The flamin' cows!"
"The flamin' cows!" W'y, if it 'ad occurred
An' me not 'eard, I'd 'ardly think it true.
An', you know well, I wouldn't breathe a word
Against a livin' soul, I don't care 'oo;
Not if the Queen of Hingland arst me to.
But, oh, that langwidge! If you only 'eard!
"The flamin' cows!"
​"The flamin' cows!" 'e sez, an' more besides.
An' fancy. 'Im! To think that 'e would swear!
W'y, "Blarst!" 'e sez. . . . Yes, "Blarst the'r blanky 'ides!"
(Oh, you may well throw up your 'ands an' stare)
Yes—"Blarst" 'e sez, "the'r blanky 'ides an' 'air!
I'll cut the blanky skin clean off the'r sides!
The flamin' cows!"
# Backblock Ballads and Later Verses/My Poor Relation

My Poor Relation
I have a poor relation, but
 He never troubles me.
He's bowed with care; he wears an air
 Of abject misery.
Yet, I am happy to relate
He never is importunate.
I meet him often in the street;
 Sometimes he speaks with me;
I know, indeed, he is in need—  That's very plain to see.
Yet, though he is in want, I own
He never asks me for a loan.
His cuffs are frayed around the edge;
 His hat's a sight to see;
His coat is torn; his pants are worn,
 And baggy at the knee.
Yet, though his need is manifest,
He never brings me one request.
I know he often wants for food,
 His tradesmen are unpaid,
His life's accurst with one large thirst
 That never is allayed.
Yet, ne'er by hint or sign does he
Suggest that it is "up to me."
Is he too proud? Well, truly, no;
 To beg he's not ashamed.
Yet, his neglect in that respect
 Is scarcely to be blamed.
In fact he knows full well, you see,
That I am just as poor as he.