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# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Anathema

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Anathema Anything laid up or suspended; hence anything laid up in a temple or set apart as sacred. In this sense the form of the word is anath(ee)ma, once in plural used in the Greek New Testament, in Luke 21:5, where it is rendered "gifts." In the LXX. the form anathema is generally used as the rendering of the Hebrew word herem, derived from a verb which means (1) to consecrate or devote; and (2) to exterminate. Any object so devoted to the Lord could not be redeemed (Num. 18:14; Lev. 27:28, 29); and hence the idea of exterminating connected with the word. The Hebrew verb (haram) is frequently used of the extermination of idolatrous nations. It had a wide range of application. The anathema_ or _herem was a person or thing irrevocably devoted to God (Lev. 27:21, 28); and "none devoted shall be ransomed. He shall surely be put to death" (27:29). The word therefore carried the idea of devoted to destruction (Num. 21:2, 3; Josh. 6:17); and hence generally it meant a thing accursed. In Deut. 7:26 an idol is called a herem = anathema, a thing accursed.
In the New Testament this word always implies execration. In some cases an individual denounces an anathema on himself unless certain conditions are fulfilled (Acts 23:12, 14, 21). "To call Jesus accursed" [anathema] (1 Cor. 12:3) is to pronounce him execrated or accursed. If any one preached another gospel, the apostle says, "let him be accursed" (Gal. 1:8, 9); i.e., let his conduct in so doing be accounted accursed.
In Rom. 9:3, the expression "accursed" (anathema) from Christ, i.e., excluded from fellowship or alliance with Christ, has occasioned much difficulty. The apostle here does not speak of his wish as a possible thing. It is simply a vehement expression of feeling, showing how strong was his desire for the salvation of his people.
The anathema in 1 Cor. 16:22 denotes simply that they who love not the Lord are rightly objects of loathing and execration to all holy beings; they are guilty of a crime that merits the severest condemnation; they are exposed to the just sentence of "everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord."
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Ancient of Days

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Ancient of Days An expression applied to Jehovah three times in the vision of Daniel (7:9, 13, 22) in the sense of eternal. In contrast with all earthly kings, his days are past reckoning.
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Andronicus

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Andronicus Man-conquering, a Jewish Christian, the kinsman and fellowprisoner of Paul (Rom. 16:7); "of note among the apostles."
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Aner

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Aner A boy. (1.) A Canaanitish chief who joined his forces with those of Abraham in pursuit of Chedorlaomer (Gen. 14:13, 24).
(2.) A city of Manasseh given to the Levites of Kohath's family (1 Chr. 6:70).
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Anchor

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Anchor From Acts 27:29, 30, 40, it would appear that the Roman vessels carried several anchors, which were attached to the stern as well as to the prow. The Roman anchor, like the modern one, had two teeth or flukes. In Heb. 6:19 the word is used metaphorically for that which supports or keeps one steadfast in the time of trial or of doubt. It is an emblem of hope.
"If you fear, Put all your trust in God: that anchor holds."
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Andrew

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Andrew Manliness, a Greek name; one of the apostles of our Lord. He was of Bethsaida in Galilee (John 1:44), and was the brother of Simon Peter (Matt. 4:18; 10:2). On one occasion Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/John the BaptistJohn the Baptist, whose disciple he then was, pointing to Jesus, said, "Behold the Lamb of God" (John 1:40); and Andrew, hearing him, immediately became a follower of Jesus, the first of his disciples. After he had been led to recognize Jesus as the Messiah, his first care was to bring also his brother Simon to Jesus. The two brothers seem to have after this pursued for a while their usual calling as fishermen, and did not become the stated attendants of the Lord till after John's imprisonment (Matt. 4:18, 19; Mark 1:16, 17). Very little is related of Andrew. He was one of the confidential disciples (John 6:8; 12:22), and with Peter, James, and John inquired of our Lord privately regarding his future coming (Mark 13:3). He was present at the feeding of the five thousand (John 6:9), and he introduced the Greeks who desired to see Jesus (John 12:22); but of his subsequent history little is known. It is noteworthy that Andrew thrice brings others to Christ, (1) Peter; (2) the lad with the loaves; and (3) certain Greeks. These incidents may be regarded as a key to his character.
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Anathoth

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Anathoth The name of one of the cities of refuge, in the tribe of Benjamin (Josh. 21:18). The Jews, as a rule, did not change the names of the towns they found in Palestine; hence this town may be regarded as deriving its name from the goddess Anat. It was the native place of Abiezer, one of David's "thirty" (2 Sam. 23:27), and of Jehu, another of his mighty men (1 Chr. 12:3). It is chiefly notable, however, as the birth-place and usual residence of Jeremiah (Jer. 1:1; 11:21-23; 29:27; 32:7-9). It suffered greatly from the army of Sennacherib, and only 128 men returned to it from the Exile (Neh. 7:27; |Ezra 2:23). It lay about 3 miles north of Jerusalem. It has been identified with the small and poor village of `Anata, containing about 100 inhabitants.
# Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Travancore

See also Travancore on Wikipedia; Travancore in the 11th Edition; and the disclaimer.
TRAVANCORE, a native state in Madras presidency, India, between 8° 4′ and 10° 22′ N. lat. and between 76° 12′ and 77° 38′ E. long., with an area of 6730 square miles. It is bounded on the N. by the native state of Cochin, on the E. by the British districts of Madura and Tinnevelli, and on the S. and W. by the Indian Ocean. This state is described as one of the most picturesque portions of southern India. Its most marked physical feature is furnished by the Western Gháts, which rise to an elevation of 8000 feet and are clothed with magnificent primeval forest; they throw out spurs towards the coast, along which there is a belt of flat country of about 10 miles in width, covered with an almost unbroken mass of cocoanut and areca palms, which to a great extent constitute the wealth of the country. The whole surface is undulating, and presents a series of hills and valleys traversed from east to west by many rivers, the floods of which, arrested by the peculiar action of the Arabian Sea on the coast, spread themselves out into lagoons or backwaters, connected here and there by artificial canals, and forming an inland line of smooth-water communication for nearly the whole length of the coast. The chief river is the Periyar, which is navigable for 60 miles; other important rivers are the Pambai and its tributary the Achinkoil, the Kallada, and the Western Támbraparni. Iron is abundant. Elephants are numerous, and tigers, leopards, bears, bison, elk, and various kinds of deer abound in the forests. The state possesses some good roads, and, on the whole, internal communication is tolerably complete. Travancore has an abundant rainfall, with every variety of climate and temperature.
In 1881 the population of Travancore was found to number 2,401,158 (males 1,197,134, females 1,204,024), of whom 1,755,610 were Hindus, 146, 909 Mohammedans, and 498,542 Christians. The chief towns are Trivandrum (q.v.), the capital, Aleppi, the commercial centre and chief seaport of the state, and Quilon, another seaport and military headquarters. Among the principal articles which the state produces are rice, cocoa-nut palm, pepper, arecanut, cardamoms, tamarind, coffee, timber, &c. The manufactures comprise cocoa-nut, gingelly, lemon-grass, and laurel oils, jaggery and molasses, salt, arrack, cotton cloths and yarns, pottery, and coir yarn, rope, and matting. Its revenue in 1884-85 was estimated at 640,548. Travancore state is in subsidiary alliance with the British Government, to which it pays a tribute of 80,000 a year. It is one of the few states which have never turned against the British. Under the enlightened rule of the late maharajah the country made great progress, and it now stands very high among native states. It is free from debt, and has a surplus of revenue over expenditure. The sovereignty as well as the inheritance of property passes in the female line.
# Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Tredegar

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TREDEGAR, a town of Monmouthshire, England, is situated on the Sirhowy river, and on the London and North Western Railway system, 7 miles east-north-east of Merthyr Tydvil and 249 west of London. The town owes its existence to the establishment in the beginning of the century of the works of the Tredegar Iron and Coal Company, who lease the soil and minerals from Lord Tredegar. The iron-works, chiefly for the smelting of iron and the manufacture of iron and steel rails, are of enormous extent, and employ upwards of 4000 men. The town is also surrounded by iron and coal mines, the property of the company. It consists chiefly of workmen's houses, but is built with regularity and neatness, the principal streets diverging from an open space called the Circle, in the centre of the town, where there are a number of good shops. The church of St George is a tasteful modern building in the Norman style. The temperance hall, union workhouse, and literary institute and library deserve notice. The population of the urban sanitary district (area 7029 acres), a small portion of which is in Brecknockshire, in 1871 was 16,989 and in 1881 it was 18,771.
# Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Trawling

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TRAWLING.See Fisheries.
# Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Tree-Fern

See also Tree fern on Wikipedia; Tree-Fern in the 11th Edition; and the disclaimer.
Tree-ferns are of course cultivated for their beauty alone; a few, however, are of some economic applications, chiefly as sources of starch. Thus the beautiful Alsoyhila excelsa of Norfolk Island is said to be threatened with extinction for the sake of its sago-like pith, which is greedily eaten by hogs; Cyathca inedullaris also furnishes a kind of sago to the natives of New Zealand, Queensland, and the Pacific islands. A Javanese species of Dicksonia (D. chrysotricha) furnishes silky hairs, which have been imported as a styptic, and the long silky or rather woolly hairs, so abundant on the stem and frond-leaves in the various species of Cibotium, have not only been put to a similar use, but in the Sandwich Islands furnish wool for stuffing mattresses and cushions, which was formerly an article of export. The "Tartarian lamb," or Agnus scythicus of old travellers' tales in China and Tartary, is simply the woolly stock of C. Barometz, which, when dried and inverted and all save four of its frond-stalks cut away, has a droll resemblance to a toy sheep.
See Fern; J. Smith, Historia Filicum; Luerssen, Med. Pharm. Botanik; and for the structure of the stem, De Bary's Vergleich. Anatomie d. Phanerog. u. Farne.
# Dreams of Heaven

* Dreams of Heaven, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Volume 30, 1831.
* Dreams of Heaven, in Poetical Remains of the Late Mrs Hemans, 1836.
# Dreams of a Spirit-Seer

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DREAMS OF A SPIRIT-SEER
ILLUSTRATED BY
DREAMS OF METAPHYSICS
BY IMMANUEL KANT
TRANSLATED BY EMANUEL F. GOERWITZ AND EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BY FRANK SEWALL
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The difficulties which Kant's style presents to the translator into English need not be dwelt upon with those who are familiar with his works. My main endeavour has been to produce a readable translation. I have, therefore, laid stress on the faithful and lucid representation of the author's thought, while the preservation of the periodic constructions of the original was of secondary interest. I am, however, conscious that I have not in all places succeeded in sailing with even keel between the extremes of strictly literal translation and paraphrase.
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# Dreams (Brontë)

While on my lonely couch I lie, I seldom feel myself alone, For fancy fills my dreaming eye With scenes and pleasures of its own. Then I may cherish at my breast An infant's form beloved and fair, May smile and soothe it into rest With all a Mother's fondest care.
How sweet to feel its helpless form Depending thus on me alone! And while I hold it safe and warm What bliss to think it is my own!
And glances then may meet my eyes That daylight never showed to me; What raptures in my bosom rise, Those earnest looks of love to see,
To feel my hand so kindly prest, To know myself beloved at last, To think my heart has found a rest, My life of solitude is past!
But then to wake and find it flown, The dream of happiness destroyed, To find myself unloved, alone, What tongue can speak the dreary void?
A heart whence warm affections flow, Creator, thou hast given to me, And am I only thus to know How sweet the joys of love would be?
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# Dreams (Daley poem)

I have been dreaming all a summer day
Of rare and dainty poems I would write;
Love-lyrics delicate as lilac-scent,
Soft idylls woven of wind, and flower, and stream,
And songs and sonnets carven in fine gold.
The day is fading and the dusk is cold;
Out of the skies has gone the opal gleam,
Out of my heart has passed the high intent
Into the shadow of the falling night
Must all my dreams in darkness pass away?
I have been dreaming all a summer day:
Shall I go dreaming so until Life's light
Fades in Death's dusk, and all my days are spent?
Ah, what am I the dreamer but a dream !
The day is fading and the dusk is cold.
My songs and sonnets carven in fine gold
Have faded from me with the last day-beam
That purple lustre to the sea-line lent,
And flushed the clouds with rose and chrysolite;
So days and dreams in darkness pass away.
I have been dreaming all a summer day
Of songs and sonnets carven in fine gold;
But all my dreams in darkness pass away;
The day is fading, and the dusk is cold.
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# Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 2, The Second Edition/Sonnet XCI

SONNET XCI.
REFLECTIONS ON SOME DRAWINGS OF PLANTS.
I CAN in groups these mimic flowers compose,  These bells and golden eyes, embathed in dew; Catch the soft blush that warms the early Rose,  Or the pale Iris cloud with veins of blue; Copy the scallop’d leaves, and downy stems,  And bid the pencil's varied shades arrest Spring's humid buds, and Summer's musky gems:  But, save the portrait on my bleeding breast, I have no semblance of that form adored,  That form, expressive of a soul divine,  So early blighted; and while life is mine, With fond regret, and ceaseless grief deplored–  That grief, my angel! with too faithful art  Enshrines thy image in thy Mother's heart.
# Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 2, The Second Edition/Sonnet XCII

SONNET XCII.
WRITTEN AT BIGNOR PARK IN SUSSEX, IN AUGUST, 1799.
LOW murmurs creep along the woody vale,
 The tremulous Aspens shudder in the breeze,
Slow o'er the downs the leaden vapours sail,
 While I, beneath these old paternal trees,
Mark the dark shadows of the threaten'd storm,
 As gathering clouds o'erveil the morning sun;
They pass!—But oh! ye visions bright and warm
 With which even here my sanguine youth begun,
Ye are obscured for ever!—And too late
 The poor Slave shakes the unworthy bonds away
 Which crush'd her!—Lo! the radiant star of day
Lights up this lovely scene anew—My fate
 Nor hope nor joy illumines—Nor for me
Return those rosy hours which here I used to see!
# Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 2, The Second Edition/Stanzas

STANZAS.
FROM THE NOVEL CALLED "The Young Philosopher."
AH! think'st thou, Laura, then, that wealth
Should make me thus my youth, and health,
 And freedom, and repose resign?— Ah no!—I toil to gain by stealth
 One look, one tender glance of thine.
Born where huge hills on hills are piled, In Caledonia's distant wild,
 Unbounded Liberty was mine:
But thou upon my hopes hast smiled,
 And bade me be a slave of thine!
Amid the gloomy haunts of gain,
Of weary hours I not complain,
 While Hope forbids me to repine,
And whispering tells me I obtain
 Pity from that soft heart of thine.
Tho' far capricious Fortune flies,
Yet Love shall bless the sacrifice,
 And all his purer joys combine;
While I my little world comprise
 In that fair form, and fairer soul of thine.
# Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 2, The Second Edition/Sonnet LXXXVIII

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SONNET LXXXVIII.
NEPENTHE.
OH! for imperial Polydamna's art,
 Which to bright Helen was in Egypt taught,
 To mix with magic power the oblivious draught
Of force to staunch the bleeding of the heart,
And to Care's wan and hollow cheek impart
 The smile of happy youth, uncursed with thought.
Potent indeed the charm that could appease
 Affection's ceaseless anguish, doom'd to weep
O'er the cold grave; or yield even transient ease
 By soothing busy Memory to sleep!
—Around me those who surely must have tried
 Some charm of equal power, I daily see,
But still to me Oblivion is denied,
 There's no Nepenthe, now, on earth for me.
# Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 2, The Second Edition/Sonnet XC

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SONNET XC.
TO OBLIVION.
FORGETFULNESS! I would thy hand could close  These eyes that turn reluctant from the day;  So might this painful consciousness decay, And, with my memory, end my cureless woes.  Sister of Chaos and eternal Night! Oblivion! take me to thy quiet reign,  Since robb'd of all that gave my soul delight, I only ask exemption from the pain  Of knowing "such things were"—and are no more; Of dwelling on the hours for ever fled,  And heartless, helpless, hopeless to deplore  "Pale misery living, joy and pleasure dead:" While dragging thus unwish'd a length of days,  "Death seems prepared to strike, yet still delays."