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# A Library Primer (1899)/Chapter XXXVII

Library patrons may be roughly divided into classes, thus: First—The adult student who, on rare occasions, calls to supplement the resources of his own collection of books with the resources of the public institution. This class is very small. Second—The dilettante, or amateur, who is getting up an essay or a criticism for some club or society, and wishes to verify his impression as to the color of James Russell Lowell's hair, or the exact words Dickens once used to James T. Fields in speaking of a certain ought-to-be-forgotten poem of Browning's. This class is large, and its annual growth in this country is probably an encouraging sign of the times. It indicates interest. Third—The serious-minded reader who alternately tackles Macaulay, Darwin, and Tom Jones with frequent and prolonged relapses—simply to rest his mind—into Mrs Wistar and Capt. King. This class is quite large, and though in too large a measure the victims of misplaced confidence in Sir John Lubbock and Frederick Harrison, they make excellent progress and do much to keep up the reading habit. Fourth—The "Oh, just-anything-good-you-know" reader. Her name is legion. She never knows what she has read. Yet the social student who failed to take into account the desultory, pastime reader, would miss a great factor in the spread of ideas. Fifth—The person who does not read. He is commoner than most suppose. He is often young, more often boy than girl, oftener young man than young woman. He commits eternally what Mr Putnam aptly calls the great crime against the library of staying away from it. He is classed among the patrons of the library somewhat as the western schoolma'am brought in knowledge of the capital of Massachusetts as part of her mental baggage: "Well, I know I ought to know it." He ought to be a library patron. How make him one? There are many methods, and all should be tried. The Pears' soap plan of printers' ink is one of the finest and best.
If a library has or is a good thing for the community let it so be said, early, late, and often, in large, plain type. So doing shall the library's books enter—before too old to be of service—into that state of utter worn-out-ness which is the only known book-heaven. Another way, and by some found good, is to work the sinfully indifferent first up into a library missionary, and then transform him into a patron. A library is something to which he can give an old book, an old paper, an old magazine, with no loss to himself. Having given, the library is at once his field, a Timbuctoo for his missionary spirit, is in part his creation. Ever after he is its interested friend. He wants to know about it. He goes to see it. He uses it.
# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Amulonites

​AMULONITES. The descendants of Amulon and his associates, the corrupt priests of king Noah. They were Nephites on their fathers' side and Lamanites on their mothers', but by association and education were of the latter race. Many of them, however, were displeased with the conduct of their fathers, and took upon them the name of Nephites, and were considered among that people ever after. Of those who remained Amulonites, many became followers of Nehor, and were scattered in the lands of Amulon, Helam and Jerusalem, all of which appear to have been limited districts in the same region of country. In later years the sons of Mosiah and their fellow-missionaries preached to them, but not one repented and received the gospel message; to the contrary, they became leaders in the persecutions carried on against the suffering people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi, and were those who, with the Amalekites, slew the greater number of that unoffending people who suffered martyrdom. In the succeeding war with the Nephites (B. C. 81), when Ammonihah was destroyed, nearly all the Amulonites were killed in the battle in which Zoram, the ​Nephite general, defeated the Lamanites. The remainder of the Amulonites fled into the east wilderness, where they usurped power over the people of Laman, and in their bitter hatred to the truth caused many of the latter to be burned to death because of their belief in the Gospel. These outrages aroused the Lamanites and they in turn began to hunt the Amulonites and to put them to death. This was in fulfilment of the words of Abinadi, who, as he suffered martyrdom by fire at the hands of Amulon and his associates, told them, What ye shall do unto me, shall be a type of things to come, by which he meant that many should suffer death by fire as he had suffered.
“And he said unto the priests of Noah, that their seed should cause many to be put to death, in the like manner as he was, and that they should be scattered abroad and slain, even as a sheep having no shepherd is driven and slain by wild beasts; and now behold, these words were verified, for they were driven by the Lamanites, and they were hunted, and they were smitten.” (Alma ch. 25.)
# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Amulon, Land of

​AMULON, LAND OF. A portion of the great wilderness tying between the lands of Zarahemla and Nephi, settled by Amulon and his associate priests of Noah. Amulon was made its tributary ruler by the reigning monarch of the Lamanites, whose sovereignty he was compelled to acknowledge. This land afterwards became a stronghold for Nephite apostates. [See Alma chapter 24:1.]
# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Anathoth

​ANATHOTH. A priest's city, belonging to the tribe of Benjamin, supposed to have been situated about three miles north of Jerusalem. It is only mentioned in the Book of Mormon (II Nephi 20:30) in a quotation from the prophet Isaiah.
# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Amos

​AMOS. The father of Isaiah, the prophet. He is mentioned twice by Nephi in quotations from Isaiah. (II Nephi, 12:1, 23:1.)
# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Angola

​ANGOLA. A city occupied by the Nephites under Mormon (A. C. 327-8), when retreating before the forces of the Lamanites. The Nephites made vigorous efforts to fortify it, but did not succeed in preventing its capture by the Lamanites. It is only once mentioned in the Book of Mormon and appears to have been situated near the northern extremity of the Southern Continent.
# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Amos, the elder

​AMOS, THE ELDER. Amos was the son of Nephi, the son of Nephi, the Apostle. For eighty-four years (from A. C. 110 to A. C. 194) he was the custodian of the sacred records and the other holy things. He lived in the days of the Nephites' greatest prosperity and happiness. The perfect law of righteousness was still their only guide. But before he passed away to his heavenly home, a small cloud had appeared upon the horizon, fatal harbinger of the approaching devastating hurricane. A few, weary of the uninterrupted bliss, the perfect harmony, the universal love that everywhere prevailed, seceded from the Church and took upon them the name of Lamanites, which ill-boding name had only been known to the Nephites by tradition for more than a hundred years.
There is one thing very noteworthy with regard to the descendants of Alma at this period, it is their longevity. Amos and his two sons (Amos and Ammaron) kept the records for the space of two hundred and ten years. This is a testimony to all believers in the Book of Mormon, to the highly beneficial results arising to the body as well as to the soul of every one who gives undeviating, continued obedience to the laws of God. ​No people since the deluge, of whom we have any record, lived nearer to the Lord than did the Nephites of this generation; no people have had the average of their earthly life so marvelously prolonged.
# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Amulon

​AMULON. One of the most prominent of the degraded priests of king Noah. He undoubtedly took an active part in the martyrdom of the Prophet Abinadi, though not mentioned by name. (About B. C. 150). When king Noah was burned to death by his enraged subjects, they would have killed his priests also, but the latter fled before them into the depths of the wilderness. Here the priests hid for a lengthened period, both afraid and ashamed to return to their families. In this dilemma, being without wives, they surprised and carried off a number of Lamanite maidens, who had gathered to a much-frequented spot in the land of Shemlon, on mirth and pleasure intent. This act led to a war between the Lamanites and the Nephites in the land of Lehi-Nephi, which was soon put to an end when the trouble was understood. Amulon and his associates with their Lamanite wives settled in and commenced to cultivate the land of Amulon. There they were discovered by the Lamanite soldiery who were searching for the people of Limhi, but as they plead most abjectly for mercy, in which petitions they were joined by their Lamanite companions, the Lamanites had compassion on them and did not destroy them, because of their wives (B. C. 121). Amulon and his brethren then joined the Lamanites, and soon after the king made Amulon the ruler, under his supreme authority, of the lands of Amulon and Helam. By this appointment Amulon and his associates became the overseers of the people of Alma, and right brutally did they use their authority in oppressing the people of God, until the ​day that the Lord delivered them. Amulon and his brethren were also made teachers and educators of the Lamanites by king Laman. These ex-priests instructed the people in the learning of the Nephites, but they taught them nothing concerning the Lord or the law of Moses. Of Amulon's death we have no record.
# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Amoron

​AMORON. A Nephite military officer or messenger, who conveyed to Mormon the tidings of the horrible atrocities committed by the Lamanites on the Nephite prisoners—men, women, and children—captured by them in the tower of Sherrizah. This event took place about the middle of the fourth century after Christ. Amoron's name is mentioned but once, in Mormon's second epistle to his son Moroni.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Wittingau

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​WITTINGAU (Czech, Třeboň), a town of Bohemia, 95 m. S. of Prague by rail. Pop. (1900) 5467, mostly Czech. The parish church is a Gothic edifice of the 14th century, with fine cloisters; and the Lušnic château, once belonging to the family of Rosenberg, and now to Prince Schwarzenberg, dating from the 15th century, is reputed to contain the most extensive and valuable archives in Bohemia. The artificial cultivation of fish, now chiefly carp, in the numerous ponds that surround the town dates from the 14th century.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Woad

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​WOAD, a herbaceous plant, known botanically as Isatis tinctoria (natural order Cruciferae), which occurs sporadically in England in fields, on banks and chalk-pits. The erect branched Stem, 1 to 3 ft. in height, bears sessile leaves and terminal clusters of small yellow flowers; the brown pendulous pods are 1/2 in. long. The ancient Britons stained themselves with this plant. It is still cultivated in Lincolnshire.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Wittgenstein, Ludwig Adolf Peter, Count

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​WITTGENSTEIN, LUDWIG ADOLF PETER, Count, prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Ludwigsburg (1769–1843), Russian soldier, was descended from a family of formerly independent counts in Westphalia. His father had settled in Russia, and he entered the army, distinguishing himself in the Polish War of 1794–95, and then serving in the Caucasus. In 1805 he fought at Austerlitz, in 1806 against the Turks and in 1807 against Napoleon at Friedland and against the Swedes in Finland. In the war of 1812 he commanded the right wing army of the Russians. In the campaign of 1813 in January he took over the command of the Russian army after Kutúzov’s death. But after the defeats of the Spring campaign he laid down this command and led an army corps during the Dresden and Leipzig campaigns, and at Bar-sur-Aube in the 1814 campaign he was severely wounded. In 1823 he was promoted field-marshal, and in 1828 he was appointed to command the Russian army in the war against Turkey. But ill health soon obliged him to retire. In 1834 the king of Prussia gave him the title of prince. He died on the 11th of June 1843.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Wiveliscombe

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​WIVELISCOMBE (pronounced Wilscomb), a market town in the western parliamentary division of Somersetshire, England, 91/2 m. W. of Taunton by the Great Western railway. Pop. (1901), 2246. It stands on a picturesque sloping site in a hilly district, and has some agricultural trade and a brewing industry, while in the neighbourhood are slate quarries.
Traces of a large Roman camp may still be seen to the south-east of Wiveliscombe (Wellescombe, Wilscombe, Wiviscombe), which is near the line of a Roman road, and hoards of Roman coins have been discovered in the neighbourhood. The town probably owed its origin to the suitability of its position for defence, and it was the site of a Danish fort, later replaced by a Saxon settlement. The overlords were the bishops of Bath and Wells, who had a palace and park here. They obtained a grant of free warren in 1257. No charter granting self-government to Wiveliscombe has been found, and the only evidence for the traditional existence of a borough is that part of the town is called “the borough,” and that until the middle of the 19th century a bailiff and a portreeve were annually chosen by the court leet. A weekly market on Tuesdays, granted to the bishop of Bath and Wells in 1284, is still held. During the 17th and 18th centuries the town was a centre of the woollen manufacture.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Wittenberge

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​WITTENBERGE, a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Brandenburg, on the Elbe, near the influx of the Stepenitz into that river, 77 m. N.W. from Berlin by the main line of railway to Hamburg, and at the junction of railways to Stendal, Lüneburg and Perleberg. Pop. (1905) 18,501. The magnificent bridge here spanning the Elbe, one mile in length, was built in 1851 at a cost of £237,500. The chief industries are the manufacture of railway plant, cloth, wool, soap, shoddy, furniture, bricks and cement.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Witu

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​WITU, or Vitu, a sultanate of East Africa included in the Tanaland province of the British East Africa protectorate. It extends along the coast from the town of Kipini at the mouth of the Ozi river (2° 30′ S.) to the northern limit of Manda Bay (2° S.); area 1200 sq. m. The chief town, Witu, is 16 m. N. of Kipini. The state was founded by Ahmed-bin-Fumo Luti, the last Nabhan sultan of Patta (an island off the coast), who was conquered by Seyyid Majid of Zanzibar. Ahmed, about 1860, took refuge in the forest district, and made himself an independent chief, acquiring the title of Simba or the Lion. In 1885 Ahmed was induced to place his country under German protection, and in 1887 the limits of Witu were fixed by international agreement. In 1890 Germany transferred her protectorate to Great Britain. In the September of that year a British naval force under Admiral Sir E. Fremantle was sent against the sultan Bakari, who had succeeded Ahmed in 1887 and by whose orders nine German traders and settlers had been murdered. Disorders continued until 1894, and in the following year Omar-bin-Hamed of the Nabhan dynasty—an ancient race of Asiatic origin—was recognized as sultan. The sultan is guided by a British resident, and the state since the accession of Sultan Omar has been both peaceful and prosperous. The population of the sultanate is over 13,000; of the town of Witu 6000, chiefly Swahilis. The port of Witu is Mkonumbi (pop. 1000).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Woburn (England)

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​WOBURN, a market town in the northern parliamentary division of Bedfordshire, England, with a station (Woburn Sands), on a branch of the London & North-Western railway, 2 m. from the town and 51 m. N. W. by N. from London. Pop. (1901) 1129. It lies in a hollow of a northern spur of the Chiltern Hills, in a finely wooded locality. There is some agricultural trade, and a little straw-plaiting and lace-making are carried on. To the west of the town lies Woburn Park, the demesne of Woburn Abbey, the seat of the dukes of Bedford. The abbey was a Cistercian foundation of 1145, but only scanty remains of the buildings are seen in the mansion which rose on its site. This, with most of the abbey lands, was granted by Henry VIII. to John, Lord Russell, in 1547, who was created earl of Bedford in 1550 (the dukedom dating from 1694). The mansion was begun in 1744; it contains a magnificent collection of paintings and other objects of art.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Cotgrave, Richard

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​COTGRAVE. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
Richard Cotgrave is brother of Commander Edw. Stone Cotgrave, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 30 Oct. 1810; passed his examination in 1819; attained the rank of Lieutenant 28 Feb. 1825; joined, 4 March following, the Cambridge 82, Capt. Thos. Jas. Maling, on the South American station, where he remained two years; and, since 13 Feb. 1839, has been employed in the Coast Guard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Corry, Armar Lowry

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​CORRY. (Captain, 1821. f-p., 1 8; h-p., 24.)
Armar Lowry Corry entered the Navy, 1 Aug. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Diadem 64, Capt. Sir Home Popham; and, after assisting in the operations against the Cape of Good Hope and Buenos Ayres, returned to England in May, 1807, as Midshipman of the Sampson 64, Capt. Wm. Cuming. Joining, then, the Leda 38, Capt. Robt. Honyman, he assisted at the ensuing bombardment of Copenhagen, and was afterwards wrecked, near the entrance of Milford Haven, 31 Jan. 1808. From that period until the receipt of his first commission, 28 April, 1812, Mr. Corry served, on the Home and Mediterranean stations, on board the Warspite 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood; after which he appears to have been successively appointed – 17 June, 1812, and 29 July, 1813, to the Nereus 32, and Montagu 74, both commanded by Capt. Peter Heywood, on the Brazilian station – 28 May, 1814, to the Impregnable 104, flag-ship of H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence, in which he escorted to this country the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia – and 5 Sept. following, to the Tay 24, Capts. Wm. Robilliard and Robt. Bloye. Having been promoted to the rank of Commander 13 June, 1815, and invested, 14 Oct. 1820, with the command of the Satellite 18, he next sailed for the East Indies, where he became, 23 July, 1821, Flag-Captain, in the Leander 60, to his old friend the Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, with whom he continued until Feb. 1822, when he invalided home on board the Samarang 28, Capt. John Norman Campbell. Assuming command, 4 April, 1835, of the Barham 50, we find Capt. Corry conveying the Earl of Durham to Constantinople, and, while subsequently stationed in charge of a squadron on the coast of Spain, receiving the thanks of the Queen, her Ministers, and the Captains-General of the various provinces, for his exertions in landing with the various ships’ companies under his orders, and preserving to her Majesty the towns of Barcelona and Valencia. The Barham being paid off in April, 1839, the subject of this sketch next commissioned, 7 Sept. 1844, the Firebrand steam-frigate, for the purpose of commanding an experimental squadron of brigs; and on his return to port was transferred, 13 Dec. in the same year, to the Superb 80, in which he has since taken part in other trial cruizes.
Capt. Corry married, 10 Sept. 1842, Eliza Massy Dawson, widow of the late Eyre Coote, Esq., of West Park, Fordingbridge, Hants. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Corsbie, Richard

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​CORSBIE. (Lieut., 1809. f-p., 13; h-p., 38.)
Richard Corsbie died 14 Jan. 1846.
This officer entered the Navy, in April, 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Victory 100, Capt. John Knight, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Lord Hood; and, on removing to the Assistance 50, Capt. Henry Mowat, witnessed, as Midshipman, the capture of the French frigate l’Elisabeth, of 36 guns, on the coast of America, 28 Aug. 1796. Until the peace he next served with the Channel fleet on board the Duke and St. George 98’s, Capts. John Holloway, Wm. Wolseley, and Sampson Edwards, and San Josef 110, Capts. Geo. Eyre and Jas. Carpenter. After a lapse of five years, during which period he had commanded a merchant-ship, and had been in French prison, Mr. Corsbie re-entered the service on board the Challenger, Capt. W. B. Ryder, and in May, 1808, was appointed Sub-Lieutenant of the Phosphorus fire-vessel, Lieut.-Commander D. Lancaster. From 25 March, 1809, on which day he attained the full rank of Lieutenant, until he left his ship 19 Oct. 1813, he further served, at Home and in the West Indies, on board the Leyden 64, Capt. Thos. Ussher, Racoon, Capt. Welsh, Shark, Capts. Denman and Ryder, Saracen, Capt. Buckland Stirling Bluett, Duke, Capt. Grant, and Dictator troop-ship, Capt. Hon. Geo. Alfred Crofton. He did not afterwards go afloat. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Cotesworth, Charles

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​COTESWORTH. (Lieutenant, 1814. f-p., 11; h-p., 31.)
Charles Cotesworth, born 11 Aug. 1792, is brother of Commander Wm. Cotesworth, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 12 July, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Acasta 40, Capt. Rich. Dalling Dunn, in which frigate we find him taking part in the action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806, and attaining the rating of Midshipman 22 July following. On accompanying Capt. Dunn into the Royal George 100, flag-ship of Sir John Thos. Duckworth, he attended the expedition to Constantinople in Feb. 1807; served with the boats in an attack on the Turks at Prota; and was wounded at the repassage of the Dardanells. In May, 1809, Mr. Cotesworth removed with the same officers, as Master’s Mate, to the San Josef 110, but was shortly afterwards attached to the armament sent against Walcheren, where he appears, in command of a gun-boat, to have been accidentally run down by one of H.M. brigs. Having accomplished his time with Capt. Dunn in the Hibernia 110, and Armide 38, he passed his examination towards the close of 1811; and then, sailing for Jamaica in the Polyphemus 64, Capt. Peter John Douglas, was promoted, by Vice-Admiral Stirling, from the Brazen 18, Capt. Jas. Stirling, to an Acting-Lieutenancy in the Circe 32, Capt. Edw. Woolcombe, in March, 1813, and, on 10 May following, to a death vacancy in the Argo 44, Capt. Cornelius Quinton. Being, however, superseded in the ensuing Nov. by Sir John Borlase Warren, the new Commander-in-Chief, who claimed a prior right to the bestowal of the appointment, Mr. Cotesworth continued to serve as Midshipman in the Barrosa 36, Capt. Wm. Henry Shirreff, Akbar 50, Capt. Archibald Dickson, and Tonnant 80, Vice-Admiral Sir Alex. Cochrane, until Dec. 1814. At the close of the hostilities against New Orleans, where, as Acting-Lieutenant, he had commanded a gun-vessel, and also one of the boats that crossed the Mississippi, Mr. Cotesworth found that he had been at length officially promoted by commission dated 10 Oct. 1814. He afterwards served, latterly as First-Lieutenant, in the Asia 74 Capt. Alex. Skene, with whom he visited Trieste, and, a second time, Jamaica. He paid the Asia off in Feb. 1816; and has not since been employed. Lieut. Cotesworth is married.