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# The Practice of the Presence of God/Sixth Letter

SIXTH LETTER
(To the Same)
I have received from Mrs. ——— the things which you gave her for me. I wonder that you have not given me your thoughts of the little book I sent to you, and which you must have received. Pray set heartily about the practice of it in your old age; it is better late than never.
I cannot imagine how religious persons can live satisfied without the practice of the presence of Gob. For my part, I keep myself retired with Him in the fund or center of my soul as much as I can; and while I am so with Him I fear nothing, but the least turning from Him is insupportable.
This exercise does not much fatigue the body; it is, however, proper to deprive it sometimes, nay, often, of many little pleasures which are innocent and lawful, for God will not permit that a soul which desires to be de​voted entirely to Him should take other pleasures than with Him: that is more than reasonable.
I do not say that therefore we must put any violent constraint upon ourselves. No, we must serve God in a holy freedom; we must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquillity, as often as we find it wandering from Him.
It is, however, necessary to put our whole trust in God, laying aside all other cares, and even some particular forms of devotion, though very good in themselves, yet such as one often engages in unreasonably, because these devotions are only means to attain to the end. So when by this exercise of the presence of God we are with Him who is our end, it is then useless to return to the means; but we may continue with Him our commerce of love, persevering in His holy presence, one while by an act of praise, of adoration, or of desire; one while by an act of resignation or thanksgiving; and in all the ways which our spirit can invent.
Be not discouraged by the repugnance which you may find in it from nature; you must do yourself violence. At the first one often thinks it lost time, but you must go on, and resolve to persevere in it to death, notwithstanding all the difficulties that may occur. I recommend myself to the prayers of your holy society, and yours in particular. I am, in our Lord,
Yours, etc.
# The New York Times/1915

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# The New York Times/1915/10/04

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Articles
* Germany Restricts Acts of Socialists
* Mrs. Kelly Hints at Action
* Correction by Mr. Tesla
# The New York Times/1914/06/07

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# The New York Times/1914/06/07/English Soccer Transfers

Published June 7, 1914, Sunday. Archive of the New York Times
LONDON, June 6. – Woolwich Arsenal football made the soccer capture of the season during the week by securing the transfer of Buckley, the famous centre half back, from Aston Villa. The big fee of $12,500 was placed upon him. and the Arsenal, who just missed promotion last season by the smallest margin of goal average, has secured one of the greatest players in the country. A surprise was caused, through Chelsea parting with Downing, for whom it paid Queen's Park Rangers $5,000 to Croyden Common, who gained promotion to the first division of the Southern League. It also transferred Hewitt, the Welsh international, who will assist Swansea Town next season. West Ham has secured the services of Appleby from Boston Town, who scored 59 goals last season. Bolton Wanderers made a fine bargain, getting hold of Wallace from Manchester City for the low price of $1,250. while Hull City paid West Bromwich Albion $5,000 for Deacey, who will greatly strengthen its defense next season. Liverpool is building up a strong team, and has obtained Kelly from Motherwell and Bratley and Bartrop from Barnsley.
The Scottish clubs are also very busy improving their teams, St. Mirren doing well to secure the services of McGrory from Blackburn Rovers, Davidson from Celtic, and Clark from Morton.
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# The New York Times/1915/10/04/Correction by Mr. Tesla

Page 4, column 3.
CORRECTION BY MR. TESLA
Of Wireless Apparatus He meant to Say "Ineffective," not "Inefficient."
The Times received last night from Nikola Tesla a letter saying the inventor wished to correct a statement in his forecast of the possibilities of wireless, published in The Times of yesterday morning, when he was quoted as saying that the apparatus used by the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. to talk from Arlington to Hawaii was "inefficient." The inventor wrote that he wished to say that the apparatus was "ineffective."
"Although I can guess the character of the apparatus which was employed in projecting the human voice through 4,600 miles of space," Mr. Tesla wrote, "I am unable to judge of its efficiency, but from the technical particulars available I know that the plants are ineffective, inasmuch as they would have furnished currents of much greater volume and tension had they been differently designed. Incidentally, they would then have been immune against static disturbances, unfailing in their operation and adapted to secure secrecy of messages.
"In calling attention to this fact I have meant to give testimony to the excellence of the means of control and magnification resorted to by the experimenters. Had the same devices been used in connection with plants designed for maximum effect the results would have been such as to cause a most profound sensation and to stir great commercial interests all the world over, perhaps to the point of powerfully affecting and hastening the finish of the awful struggle in which nations of the earth are now engaged."
# The New Student's Reference Work/Swift

See also Swift on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
​ Swift or Chim′ney-Swal′low, a small bird abundant in the eastern United States, nesting in chimneys. Notwithstanding its common name, the bird is not a swallow (q. v.), having only a superficial resemblance to the latter birds, while in structure it is very different. It is closely related to the humming-birds and the goat-suckers. The bird is about five and one fourth inches long, of sooty-brown color, with a paler throat. The feathers of the short tail end is sharp bristles, which aid in climbing. There is only one kind in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, but there are about 50 species inhabiting the warmer parts of the world. In most of them the salivary glands are highly developed, and the secretion from them is used as a glue to hold the nest together and to its support. In China one species constructs a nest that is used in making soup.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Tabriz

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Tabriz (tȧ-brēz′), an old city of Persia, on Aji River, 40 miles from Lake Urumiah. A ditch and a brick-wall with seven gates surround the city. Water, a rare thing in the east, is plentiful. The fine ruin of the Blue Mosque is covered in part with arabesqued, blue tiles. The citadel is a brick-building, whose walls have been cracked by earthquakes. The chief manufactures are leather, silk and gold- and silver-smithing. Tabriz is on a caravan-route, and is a city of business importance, doing a large trade with Russia. Tabriz, the ancient Tauris, became the capital of Armenia in 297 A. D. Zobeida, the wife of Haroun-al-Raschid, greatly enlarged it. It was sacked by Timur in 1392, and after being held by the Turkomans was taken by the Persians in 1500. The place has often been damaged by earthquakes, that of 1721 causing, it is said, the death of 80,000 persons. Population 200,000. See Eastwick’s Three Years in Persia.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Sweet Potato

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​ Sweet Pota′to, an edible, sugary vegetable, the tuberous root of a vine-like plant, grown largely in the southern states of the Union and in tropical and semitropical countries. It is also known as the sugar-yam. The sweet potato is rich in food-constituents (sugar and starch), the extent of its cultivation in this country being annually about 50 million bushels. Besides their use, cooked or canned, for the table the sweet potato is also fed to farm-animals; it is grown best in sandy or loose soils, and is a staple crop in the south.
# The New Student's Reference Work/T

See also T on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
T (tē), the twentieth letter, is a nonvocal consonant. From its mode and place of articulation, the tongue touching the gum behind the teeth, it is classed as a voiceless dental or as a palatal, as in tie, it, note. T is silent in some words, as chasten. Unaccented ti before a vowel is sh, as in nation. T before diphthongal u (that of use) is tsh, as nature. T with h forms th; soft as in baths, though; hard as in bath, thin. Th is t in Esther, phthisic, Thames, Thomas, thyme; and is silent in asthma, isthmus,
# The New Student's Reference Work/Sweet Pea

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​ Sweet Pea, (Lathyrus odoratus) a familiar garden-plant much prized for its beautiful perfumed flowers. There are not far short of 100 varieties in cultivation; and to raise them to perfection, the seeds should be planted two inches apart in a rich clay-loam, and it will be well to red-lead them, to protect them from mice and birds. As soon as the plants appear above ground, brush or small twigs should be spread around them for shelter, and later they should be given long stakes for support in their upward climb. Through the growing season occasional shallow cultivation will be required.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Tabor

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Ta′bor, a celebrated mountain of northern Palestine, rising from the plain of Esdraelon to a height of 1,000 feet, commands the widest and finest view in Palestine. It is thickly clad with forests of oak and other trees. It was renowned from early times as the place of Christ’s transfiguration, though it is now believed that at one time a city stood on its summit. In the times of the crusades Tabor was studded with churches and monasteries. Here Deborah and Barak summoned the warriors of Israel before the battle with Sisera; 10,000 Jews were slain near by in a battle against the Romans in 55 B. C.; and at its foot Napoleon gained a great victory over the Turks.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Sweetbrier

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​ Sweet′bri′er or Eg′lantine, a prickly shrub of the rose family, native of the eastern states of the Union and to Canada. It grows densely, yet reaches a height of six or eight feet; about midsummer it bears sweet-scented, pink flowers and later produces a scarlet or orange-red fruit. Its dark-green leaves emit a flagrant odor from their russet-hued glands. The sweetbrier is commonly met with in fields and country byways.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Sévigné, Madame de

See also Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
​Sévigné (sā̇′vē̇n′yā̇′), Madame de, the queen of letter-writers, was born at Paris, as Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Feb. 6, 1626. At 18 she married a spendthrift marquis, whom she forgave and loved. At the death of her husband in 1651, she was brilliant in beauty and fascination. The prince of Conti, Turenne, Rohan and others courted her in vain. But no woman ever knew, as she did, how to change a lover into a friend, and perhaps no one ever had so many and such friends. But as to love, — that was wholly bound up in her son and daughter. The marriage of the daughter to the Count of Grignan, lieutenant-général of Provence, obliged her to live away from Paris. This separation from her daughter was the grief of Madame de Sévigné's life, but it is mainly to it that we owe those letters, extending over the 25 years till her death. These letters tell the inner history of the time in great detail; but are most valuable as mere letters, charming in their good sense, sparkling wit and inbreathed affection. The writer died on April 18, 1696. Consult Amelia Gere Mason's Women of the French Salons. See Letters.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Sévres

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​Sévres (sā̇′vr’), a small town in France, 2½ miles southwest of Paris, celebrated for its porcelain. Sèvres vases are of great value and are known the world over. Painted glass and mosaic are also made. Porcelain has been manufactured under state control since 1756. Population 8,000. See Garnier's Soft Porcelain of Sèvres.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Tabernacle

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Tab′ernacle was the tent first raised by Moses in the desert as a sign of God’s presence among the people. It was divided into the sanctuary proper, which formed the front part, and the holy of holies. A sort of court-yard, formed by curtains hung between columns, ran round the tabernacle. The entrance was toward the rising sun, and was shut in by another costly curtain, into which, as in the first covering, figures of cherubim were woven. The court was much larger on the eastern side, for here the people gathered to worship. Here also stood the altar, made of acacia wood, on which a fire was kept burning, and the brazen laver or basin. The sanctuary contained the gilded table holding the show-bread, the golden candlesticks and, in the center, the golden altar of incense, upon which the high priest burned incense morning and evening. In the holy of holies was kept the ark of the covenant, an acacia box gold-plated and gold-lined, in which were kept the two tables of the Ten Commandments. On top of the ark were the two cherubim, and between them the symbolical presence of Jehovah — the shechinah. Only once a year, on the Day of Atonement, did the high priest enter the holy of holies, while the sanctuary was the ordinary place of the priests, and the court that of the Levites. The Levites had charge of the tabernacle, carrying it from place to place on the march of the Israelites. The tabernacle was permanently set up in Shiloh, and was probably removed to Nob and thence to Gibeon, from which Solomon seems to have carried it away that all the nation might worship at Jerusalem.
# The Princess Casamassima (3 volumes, London & New York: Macmillan & Co., 1886)/Volume 3/Book 6

BOOK SIXTH
* Chapter 43
* Chapter 44
* Chapter 45
* Chapter 46
* Chapter 47
# The Princess Casamassima (3 volumes, London & New York: Macmillan & Co., 1886)/Volume 3/Book 5

BOOK FIFTH
* Chapter 38
* Chapter 39
* Chapter 40
* Chapter 41
* Chapter 42
# The Original Fables of La Fontaine/Love and Folly

XLI
LOVE AND FOLLY
(Book XII.—No. 14)
Everything to do with love is mystery. Cupid's arrows, his quiver, his torch, his boyhood: it is more than a day's work to exhaust this science. I make no pretence here of explaining everything. My object is merely to relate to you, in my own way, how the blind little god was deprived of his sight, and what consequences followed this evil which perchance was a blessing after all. On the latter point I will decide nothing, but will leave it to lovers to judge upon.
One day as Folly and Love were playing together, before the boy had lost his vision, a dispute arose. To settle this matter Love wished to lay his cause before a council of the gods; but Folly, losing her patience, dealt him a furious blow upon the brow. From that moment and for ever the light of heaven was gone from his eyes.
Venus demanded redress and revenge, the mother and the wife in her asserting themselves in a way which I leave you to imagine. She deafened the gods with her cries, appealing to Jupiter, Nemesis, the judges from Hades, in fact all who would be importuned. She represented the seriousness of the case, pointing out in ​that her son could now not make a step without a stick. No punishment, she urged, was heavy enough for so dire a crime, and she demanded that the damage should be repaired.
When the gods had each well considered the public interest on the one hand and the complainant's demands upon the other, the supreme court gave as its verdict that Folly was condemned for ever more to serve as a guide for the footsteps of Love.
A guide for the footsteps of love.
# The Original Fables of La Fontaine/The Acorn and the Pumpkin

XXIV
THE ACORN AND THE PUMPKIN
(Book IX.—No. 4)
What God does is done well. Without going round the world to seek a proof of that, I can find one in the pumpkin.
A villager was once struck with the largeness of a pumpkin and the thinness of the stem upon which it grew. "What could the Almighty have been thinking about?" he cried." He has certainly chosen a bad place for a pumpkin to grow. Eh zounds! Now I would have hung it on one of these oaks. That would have been just as it should be. Like fruit, like tree! What a pity, Hodge," said he, addressing himself, "that you were not on the spot to give advice at the ​Creation which the parson preaches about. Everything would have been properly done then. For instance; wouldn't this acorn, no bigger than my little finger, be better hanging on this frail stem? The Almighty has blundered there surely! The more I think about these fruits and their situations, the more it seems to me that it is all a mistake."
Becoming worried by so much reflection our Hodge cast himself under an oak saying, "A man can't sleep when he has so much brain." Then he at once dropped off into a nap.
Presently an acorn fell plump upon his nose. Starting from sleep, he put his hand up to see what had happened and found the acorn caught in his beard, whilst his nose began to pain and bleed. "Oh, oh!" he cried, "I am bleeding. How would it have been if a heavier mass than this had fallen from the tree: if this acorn had been a pumpkin? The Almighty did not intend that, I see. Doubtless he was right. I understand the reason why perfectly now."
So praising God for all things Hodge took his way home.
# The Original Fables of La Fontaine/Democritus and the People of Abdera

XXIII
DEMOCRITUS AND THE PEOPLE OF ABDERA
(Book VIII—No. 26)
How I have always hated the opinions of the mob! To me, a mob seems profane, unjust, and rash, putting false construction on all things, and judging every matter by a mob-made standard.
Democritus had experience of this. His countrymen thought him mad. Little minds! But then, no one is a prophet in his own country! The people themselves were mad, of course, and Democritus was the wise man. Nevertheless the error went so far that the city of Abdera sent a messenger to the great physician Hippocrates, requesting him both by letter and by spoken word to come and restore the sage's reason.
"Our citizen," said the spokesman with tears in his eyes, "has lost his wits, alas! Study has corrupted Democritus. If he were less wise we should esteem ​him much more. He will have it that there is no limit to the number of worlds like ours and that possibly they are inhabited with numberless Democrituses. Not satisfied with these wild dreams, he talks also of atoms—phantoms born only in his own empty brain. Then, measuring the very heavens, though he remains here below to do it, he claims to know the universe; yet admits that he does not know himself. Time was when he could control debates, now he mutters only to himself. So come, thou divine mortal, for the patient's case is a bad one."
Hippocrates, though he had little faith in these people, went nevertheless. Now mark, I beg of you, what strange meetings fate may bring about in this life! Hippocrates arrived just at the time when this man, who was supposed to have neither sense nor reason, happened to be searching into a question as to whether this very reason was seated in the heart or in the head of men and beasts.
Sitting in leafy shade, beside a brook, and with many a volume at his feet, he was occupied wholly with a study of the convolutions of the brain; and thus absorbed, as his manner was, he scarcely noticed the advance of his friend the learned physician. Their greeting was soon over as you may imagine, for the sage is at all times chary of time and speech. So having put aside mere trifles of conversation, they reasoned upon man and his mind, and next fell to talking upon ethics.
It is not necessary that I should here enlarge upon what each had to say to the other on these matters.
The little tale suffices to show that we may rightly take exception to the judgments of the mob. That being so, in what sense is it true, as I have read in a certain passage, that the voice of the people is the voice of God?
# The Original Fables of La Fontaine/Front matter

FABLES
OF LA FONTAINE
F.C.TILNEY
* COLOURED
* ILLUSTRATIONS
* BY
* FREDERICK
* COLIN TILNEY
J.M.DENT & SONS. Ltd. LONDON
TALES
FOR
CHILDREN
FROM
MANY LANDS
EDITED BY F. C. TILNEY
The heart of Thyrsis left.
THE ORIGINAL
FABLES
OF LA FONTAINE
RENDERED INTO ENGLISH PROSE
BY
FREDK. COLIN TILNEY
WITH COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS
BY THE AUTHOR
LONDON : J. M. DENT & SONS LIMITED
NEW YORK: E. P. BUTTON & COMPANY
PREFACE
If deep wisdom, gentle satire, polite cynicism, and, above all, irresistible humour are qualities which make a book attractive then La Fontaine's Fables should be in the hands of all. Their charm is two-fold; for whilst they induce pleasurable reflection in the reader they delight him by the gaiety of their subject matter,
Notwithstanding the fact that the spell of La Fontaine's verse necessarily disappears when another tongue is employed, his English translators, both Elizur Wright and Walter Thornbury, have courageously attempted to do him justice in prosody. In this little book no such effort has been made, chiefly for the reason that, for any but the unusually gifted, to snatch at rhythm and rhyme is often to let drop the apt and ready word as Æsop's Mastiff dropped his dinner, But there is a further excuse for the present writer. Verse has little attraction for children unless it jingles merrily, and that is a thing as impossible as it is undesirable where the claims of a philosophic original make restrictions. Since the spirit is more likely to survive if the letter is not exacting, it is difficult to see why custom looks askance upon prose versions of poetry. But this little book may escape such censure on the ground of its being but a selection from the complete Fables of La Fontaine. It presents only those of which the great fabulist was himself the ​originator. A selection of some sort being imperative there seemed to be a simple and easy choice in the condition of absolute originality; particularly as the older fables are given in another volume of this series.
This translation (in which I gratefully acknowledge the assistance of my friend Mrs. A. H. Beddoe) is neither "free" nor literal. It sometimes amplifies a thought, much as a musician might amplify the harmonies upon a master's figured bass. But even this is rarely done, and then only with a view to the youthful reader's pleasure and profit. With that view, further, the social and political introductions to the fables have been omitted, as well as the scientific discourses and the allusions to the unfortunate wars of Louis XIV. and other historical matters, all of which would have neither meaning nor interest but for "grown-ups" of a certain class.
F. C. TILNEY.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS :
| The Heart of Thyrsis leapt | Frontispiece |
| "You boasted of being so Swift" | Facing page 14 |
| Over toppled the Milk | "35 |
| The Garret was still a Sibyl's Den | "46 |
| Deliberately swallowed the Oyster | "74 |
| "Why cannot You be silent also?" | "88 |
| Descended by His greater weight | "98 |
| A Guide for the Footsteps of Love | "111 |