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# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Tattnall, Josiah

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​TATTNALL, JOSIAH (1795–1871), American naval officer, was born near Savannah, and was educated in England. He entered the United States navy in 1812, and was actively employed till the beginning of the Civil War. He may be said to have gained a world-wide reputation by his use of the phrase “blood is thicker than water” to justify his intervention on behalf of the British squadron engaged in the operations against the Peiho Forts. Tattnall’s flagship the Toeywan had grounded shortly before, and had been helped off by the British squadron. He was in the Peiho river when the unsuccessful attack of the 25th of June 1859 was made. Tattnall not only brought the Toeywan under fire, but lent the aid of his boats to land detachments to turn the Chinese defences. When the Civil War began he took the side of the Confederacy. He was put in command of its naval forces when Franklin Buchanan resigned after he was wounded in the action with the Federal squadron in Hampton Roads. The Confederate States were never able to form a sea-going squadron, and Tattnall had no chance to do more than make a struggle with insufficient resources on its rivers. He died on the 14th of June 1871.
# A Blind-Born's Song

A
BLIND-BORN'S SONG.
OSay ! what is that Thing call'd Light,
 Which I must ne'er enjoy?
What are the Blessings of the Sight,
 Tell your poor blind Boy?
You talk of wond'rous Things you see,
 You say the Sun shines bright;
I feel him warm, but how can he  Then make it Day or Night?
My Day or Night myself I make,  When e'er I wake or play, And could I ever keep awake,
 With me 'twere always Day.
With heavy Sighs, I often hear,  You mourn my hopeless Woe;
But sure , with Patience I may bear
 A Lost I ne'er can know.
  Then let not what I cannot have,
 My Cheer of Mind destroy;
Whilst thus I sing, I am a King,
 Altho' a poor blind Boy.
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# A Book of Czech Verse

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A BOOK OF CZECH VERSE
Edited and Translated by
A. FRENCH
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Comparative Philology at the University of Adelaide
LONDON
MACMILLAN & CO LTD
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1958
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# A Blighted Life/Supplemental Notes
### Supplemental Notes.

* THE CASE OF LADY BULWER LYTTON.
** Section 1
** Section 2
** Section 3
* SKETCH OF LORD LYTTON.
** Section 1
** Section 2
* LORD LYTTON THE FIRST.
* MR. JOHN FORSTER.
* THE LATE DUKE OF ATHOL.
# A Blighted Life/Supplemental Notes/Lord Lytton the First
### LORD LYTTON THE FIRST.

This man was once called by his admirers (who were probably well paid for it) "The modern Shaspere." We neow know in what estimation his writings are held. But his private character was so vile and detestable, that it will cause almost incredulity if it ever should be exposed in its true colours to the world. Labouchere, in Truth has a paragraph upon him, which is truth itself. Here it is:--"A man may be endowed with genius and with numerous amiable qualities, and yet be a Snob. Few of those who have lived during the present century have been gifted with more genius than Lord Lytton, and yet few have been so arrant a Snob. In his works of fiction he has frequently sought to portray gentlemen, and these gentlemen, each of whom has a family likeness to his creator, are the beau-ideals of Snobs--clever, pushing, conceited, florid Snobs, with Brummagem manners, Brummagem morals, a Brummagem varnish of philosophy, and a Brummagem varnish of poetry." In Friday's Times we read this advertisement, anything meaner than which we never perused:--
HERTS, Knebworth-park, with 1,500 acres of capital Shooting, three miles from Stevenage and Welwyn Stations (G.N.R.)--A handsome FURNISHED baronial MANSION, surrounded by a fine park and splendid gardens and grounds. Particulars of &c., &c.
Is the son as mean a fellow as the father? Lord Lytton left him about £300,000; and he is paid as Viceroy of India £100,000 a year, with "pickings," and he offers to let his family mansion. Would he not do better to let his Mother, that noble, injured Lady, into Knebworth, than hire it out to some stranger?
# A Blighted Life/Supplemental Notes/Mr. John Forster
### MR. JOHN FORSTER.

This man, who was one of Lord Lytton's tools, and who also played today for the greater part of his life to a congenial evil spirit, Sir Alexander Cockburn, is thus described by Lady Lytton. Under the name of Janus Allpuff, she alludes to her accomplished husband:--"The chief Macænas of this Fudgester (Forster) is a Sir Janus Allpuff, who not content with having hunted his unhappy Wife nearly to death, and reduced to the lowest ebb of pecuniary destitution, from defending herself against his infamous Conspiracies, also prevents her in every possible way fromearning her bre: and who so useful in this way as Fudgester? I should tell you, in order to show you the astuteness and diabolical cunning of this Infamous Gang, and the tortuous sneaking measures they adopt to prevent their dirty work being brought home to them, by always employing others, as far a-field as possible, to do it; this Fudgester, from being a known tool and toady of that vile old profligate, Sir Janus Allpuff, and declared enemy of his Victim, never reviews her books, or mentions her name in any way, in his own particular paper, The Excruciator (The Examiner), but merely sets on the ramifications of the Gang to attack and malign her in every possible way: and from the wording of some of these attacks, it is quite clear that Sir Janus gives the substance of what he wishes them to do, as the same internal evidence exists of such being the case, that does as to his furnishing the pith of the puffs about himself to those organs of his myrmidons. But after all there is nothing so silly as your over-cunning people; which the very bungling way in which Sir Janus gets his dirty work done, will ultimately prove: and indeed some of the anonymous letters which his infamous Literary Myrmidons are set to write to his Victim, strongly resemble, in their little mean cramped characters, his own, or his Jackal Fudgester's writing."
# A Book of the Cevennes/Advert

BY THE SAME AUTHOR
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# A Book of the Cevennes/Frontpiece

THE TAMAGUE FROM LA SOUCHE
# A Book of Saints and Wonders/notes

The Irish text of the greater number of the hymns and legends in this book has been published in the Revue Celtique, Irische Texte, Zeitschrift Celtische Phiologie, Eriu, and elsewhere. From this text I have worked, making my own translation as far as my scholarship goes, and when it fails taking the meaning given by better scholars. The Old Woman of Beare and the verses taken from the Hymn of Marbhan differ very slightly from the translations published by Professor Kuno Meyer. I and my readers are indebted to the work of Mr. Whitley Stokes, especially in the Voyage of Maeldune (Revue Celtique) and the Ever-Living Tongue (lately published in full in Eriu). and to Mr. Standish Hayes O'Grady's inexhaustible Silva Gaedelica.
Among other Irish scholars and editors of texts to whom we owe thanks are O'Curry, O'Donovan, Reeves, Todd, Henebry, O'Donoghue, O'Beirne Crowe. Also to M. d'Arbois de Jubainville (Cycle Mythologique), Dr. Atkinson, and Rev. Dr. Bernard (Liber Hymnorum), Mr. Edward Gwynn (The Priest and the Bees), the Rev. M. O'Riordan (Voyage of Brendan), and to An Craoibhin.
I am grateful to these as well as to those men and women I have met in workhouses or on roadsides or by the hearth, who have kept in mind through many years the great wonders done among the children of the Gad.

## NAMES OF PLACES STILL IDENTIFIED

Almhuin Hill of Allen, co. Kildare.
Ardmacha Armagh.
Beinn Edair Hill of Howth.
Boinne The Boyne.
Beinn Gulbain Near Sligo.
Bregia Bray.
Carraige Luachra Co. Kerry.
Corca Dubhne Corcaguiny, co. Kerry.
Cenacles Kells, co. Meath.
Cluain Eraird Clonard.
Corcomruadh Near Burren, co. Clare.
Cruachan Rathcroghan, co. Roscommon.
Druimcliab Drumcliff, co. Sligo.
Druim Ceta The Mullagh, near Newtownards
Doire Derry.
Hill of Usnach West Meath.
Laighis Leix.
Loch Lene Killarney.
Loch Febhail Lough Foyle.
Loch Neach, Lough Neagh.
Magh Femen Near Sieve-na-Man.
Magh Breg East Meath.
Moen Moone, east of Athy.
Monaster Boite Monasterboice, co. Louth.
Rathboth Between Donegal and Ballyshannon.
Sord Swords.
Sionnan The Shannon.
Tailltin Telltown.
Toraig Tory Island, co. Done
Uaran Garaid River Cruind
Wood of Fochlad North West of Sligo.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Warner, Seth

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​WARNER, SETH (1743-1784), American Revolutionary soldier, was born in Roxbury, Connecticut, on the 17th of May 1743. He removed with his father to the “New Hampshire Grants” in 1763, and became prominent among the young men who forcibly resisted New York's claim to the territory (see Vermont). At the outbreak of the War of Independence, he led the detachment of “Green Mountain Boys” which captured Crown Point (q.v.) on the 11th of May 1775, and took part in the unsuccessful expedition against Quebec later in the year. In July 1776 he became colonel in the Continental Army, and served throughout the war. He retired in 1782, and returned to Roxbury, where he died in 1784.
See Daniel Chipman. Life (Burlington, Vt., 1858).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Warnsdorf

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​WARNSDORF, a town of Bohemia, Austria, 124 m. N. E. of Prague by rail. Pop. (1900) 21,150. Warnsdorf was formed in 1870 by uniting seven separate village communities, and is now one of the largest towns in Bohemia. It is a great industrial centre, especially for textiles.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Warrant of Attorney

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​WARRANT OF ATTORNEY. A warrant of attorney to confess judgment is a security for money (now practically obsolete) in the form of an authority to a solicitor named by a creditor, empowering him to sign judgment in an action against the debtor for the sum due, with a defeasance, or clause that the warrant shall not be put into force in case of due payment of the money secured. It was often used as a collateral security, either for the payment of an annuity or with mortgages, in ​order that the mortgagee, by entering up judgment, might obtain priority in the administration of the assets of the mortgagor. The Debtors Act 1869 contained various provisions for making known to the debtor the extent of the liability incurred by him, among others that the warrant must be executed in the presence of a solicitor named by the debtor, and that it and the defeasance must be written on the same paper. A warrant of attorney must be duly stamped, generally as a mortgage (q.v.), and must be registered as a judgment in the central office of the Supreme Court.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Warren

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​WARREN, properly an old term of the English forest law, derived from the O. Fr. warenne, varenne, garenne (med. Lat. warenna, warir, to guard, cf. “ward”), and applied to one of the three lesser franchises, together with “chase” and “park,” included under the highest franchise, the “forest,” and ranking last in order of importance. The “beasts of warren” were the hare, the coney (i.e. rabbit), the pheasant and the partridge. The word thus became used of a piece of ground preserved for these beasts of warren. It is now applied loosely to any piece of ground, whether preserved or not, where rabbits breed (see Forest Laws).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Warner, William

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​WARNER, WILLIAM (1558?–1609), English poet, was born in London about 1558. He was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, but left the university without taking a degree. He practised in London as an attorney, and gained a great reputation among his contemporaries as a poet. His chief work is a long poem in fourteen-syllables verse, entitled Albion's England (1586), and dedicated to Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon. His history of his country begins with Noah, and is brought down to Warner's own time. The chronicle is by no means continuous, and is varied by fictitious episodes, the best known of which is the idyll in the fourth book of the loves of Argentille, the daughter of the king of Deira, and the Danish prince, Curan. Here Warner's simple art shows itself at its best. His book, perhaps on account of its patriotic subject, was very popular, but it is difficult to understand how Francis Meres came to rank him with Spenser as the chief heroical poets of the day, and to institute a comparison between him and Euripides. Warner died suddenly at Amwell in Hertfordshire on the 9th of March 1609.
His other works are Pan his Syrinx, or Pipe, Compact of Seven Reedes (1585), a collection of prose tales; and a translation of the Menaechmi of Plautus (1595). Albion's England consisted originally of four “books,” but the number was increased in successive issues, and a posthumous edition (1612) contains sixteen books. It was reprinted (1810) in Alexander Chalmers's English Poets.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Warora

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​WARORA, a town of British India, in Chanda district of the Central Provinces, on a branch of the Great Indian Peninsula railway. Pop. (1901) 10,626. Warora gives its name to a coalfield, which was worked by the government from 1871 to 1906; a fire-clay industry under the same management also raised fire-clay for bricks and tiles. The ginning and pressing of cotton is an important industry.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Warrant-Officer

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​WARRANT-OFFICER, in the British navy, the name given to officers who rank next to those who hold commissions, being appointed by warrant. They include the master, purser, surgeon, gunner, boatswain and carpenter, the first three being of “wardroom rank,” i.e. messing with the lieutenants. In the military forces a warrant-officer is appointed by a secretary of state's warrant, and ranks below the commissioned officers and above the non-commissioned officers. A warrant-officer often holds an honorary commission.
# A Compendium of Irish Biography/Barker, Francis

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​Barker, Francis, M.D., a distinguished chemist and physician, was born in Waterford the latter part of the 18th century. He obtained his degree from the University of Dublin in 1793, and completed his medical education in Edinburgh, where he became intimate with Sir Walter Scott. Previous to the discovery of the voltaic battery, he suggested the identity of the nervous fluid with dynamical electricity. Returning to his native city, he practised for five years, and took part in the establishment of what has been said to be the first Irish fever hospital. Afterwards in Dublin, as a chemical lecturer, he became deservedly popular, and started the first medical journal in Ireland. In 1821, in conjunction with Dr. Cheyne, he published a treatise on Epidemic Fevers in Ireland, in two volumes; and in 1826 he edited the Dublin Pharmacopœia. Until 1852 he continued Secretary of the Irish Board of Health. Judging by the omission of his name in Thom's Directory for 1860, he probably died the previous year.
* ↑ Biographical Dictionary, Imperial: Edited by John F. Waller. 3 vols. London, N. D.
* ↑ Graduates of the University of Dublin, to 6th December 1868: Rev. James H. Todd, D.D. Dublin, 1869.
* ↑ Temple, Sir William, Original MS. Depositions used by, in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.
# A Compendium of Irish Biography/Barker, Robert

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​Barker, Robert, was born at Kells in 1739. He was the inventor and patentee of the now well known exhibitions called panoramas, first brought out by him in Edinburgh in 1788. He died 8th April 1806, and was buried at Lambeth. His son married a daughter of Admiral Bligh, and was, with his wife, living near Bath in 1851.$^{(1)}$
* ↑ Gentleman's Magazine. London, 1731–1868
* ↑ Notes and Queries. London, 1850–'78.
* ↑ Painters and Engravers, Dictionary of: Michael Bryan: Edited by George Stanley. London, 1873.
# A Compendium of Irish Biography/Baron, Bonaventure

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​Baron, Bonaventure, a Franciscan writer, nephew to Luke Wadding, was born in Clonmel early in the 17th century. He lived for sixty years in Rome, where he died, old and blind, on 18th March 1696. He was buried at St. Isidore's College, in which he had been for some time Prelector of Divinity. Baron was noted for the purity of his Latin style. Ware enumerates fourteen books written by him in that language.
# A Compendium of Irish Biography/Barrett, Eaton Stannard

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​Barrett, Eaton Stannard, a writer of considerable merit, was born in Cork towards the end of the 18th century. Although he entered the Middle Temple, he does not appear to have followed the law, but rather to have embraced literature. He was a man of great private worth and attractive manners. Besides Lines on Woman, his best known work is The Heroine, a mock romance of wonderful liveliness and humour. He died in Glamorganshire, of decline, 20th March 1820. Several communications regarding his writings will be found in Notes and Queries, 1st and 2nd Series. His brother, Richard Barrett, editor of The Dublin Pilot, was a fellow prisoner of O'Connell's, and died at Dalkey about 1855.
* ↑ Authors, Dictionary of British and American: S. Austin Allibone. 3 vols. Philadelphia, 1869–'71.
* ↑ Biographical Dictionary, Imperial: Edited by John F. Waller. 3 vols. London, N. D.
* ↑ Notes and Queries. London, 1850–'78.
# A Compendium of Irish Biography/Barber, Mary

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​Barber, Mary, one of Dean Swift's female coterie, was born in Dublin about 1712. She married a woollen-draper, and appears to have been an estimable character. She published a small volume of poems under the patronage of the Dean and Lord Orrery. Mrs. Barber died in 1757. There are numerous references to her in Swift's Life. When she went to London to have her poems published, an anonymous letter to Queen Caroline in her favour drew or led Swift into a serious scrape, as it was generally imputed to him. It is probable that it was really indited by Mrs. Barber herself, if not by some friend. The Dean eventually forgave the annoyance, and on more than one occasion presented her with the copyright of some of his short pieces.
* ↑ Biographical Dictionary: Rev. Hugh J. Rose. 12 vols. London, 1850.
* ↑ Swift, Jonathan, Works, with Notes, and Life: Sir Walter Scott. 19 vols. Edinburgh, 1824.
# A Compendium of Irish Biography/Barnewall, Nicholas, Viscount Kingsland

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​Barnewall, Nicholas, Viscount Kingsland, was born 15th April 1668. The family had been ennobled by King Charles I., 12th September 1645, for loyalty to his cause. Before Nicholas was of age he married a daughter of George, Count Hamilton, by his wife Frances Jennings, afterwards married to the Earl of Tyrconnel. In 1688 he entered King James's Irish army as captain in the Earl of Limerick's Dragoons. After the defeat of the Boyne he was moved to Limerick; and being in that city at the time of its surrender, was included in the articles and secured his estates. In the first Irish Parliament of William III. he took the oath of allegiance, but upon declining to subscribe the declaration according to the English Act, as contrary to his conscience, he was obliged to withdraw with the other ​Catholic lords. In February 1703, he joined with many Irish Catholics in an unavailing petition against the infraction of the Treaty of Limerick. He died 14th June 1725, and was buried at Lusk.
# A Compendium of Irish Biography/Barnewall, John, Lord Trimleston

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​Barnewall, John, Lord Trimleston. His ancestors came over originally with Henry II. and received large grants of land in the County of Cork. On the first favourable opportunity the old proprietors, the O'Sullivans, rose and murdered the whole family save one young man, who was absent studying law in England. He ultimately returned and settled at Drimnagh, near Dublin. The subject of our sketch rose to high office in Ireland under Henry VIII. and received grants of land near Dunleer. In 1536, with Lord-Treasurer Brabazon, he made an incursion into Offaly, and drove back the O'Conor, who was then ravaging the Anglo-Irish settlements. The next year, commissioned by the Privy Council, he treated successfully with the O'Neill. He died 25th July, 1538. He was four times married.
# A Compendium of Irish Biography/Barrett, George

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​Barrett, George, an eminent landscape painter, born in Dublin in 1730. He was one of the originators and first members of the Royal Academy, and was in the latter part of his life, appointed master painter to Chelsea Hospital, through the influence of his friend Edmund Burke. He died at Paddington in 1784. "He was a chaste and faithful delineator of English landscape, which he viewed with the eye of an artist, and selected with the feeling of a man of taste. His colouring is excellent, and there is a freshness and dewy brightness in his verdure, which is only to be met with in English scenery, and which he has perfectly represented."