OpenLLM-France/wikimedia huggingface dataset:
# Louisiana Ordinance of Secession

* related portals: Louisiana, Confederate States of America.
* sister projects: Wikidata item.
Adopted January 26, 1861. This edition is from the official journal of the convention.
An ORDINANCE to dissolve the union between the State of Louisiana and other States, united with her under the compact entitled "The Constitution of the United States of America."
We, the people of the State of Louisiana, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the ordinance passed by us in Convention on the 22d day of November, in the year 1811, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America and the amendments of the said Constitution were adopted; and all laws and ordinances by which the State of Louisiana became a member of the Federal Union, be and the same are hereby repealed and abrogated; and that the union now subsisting between Louisiana and other States, under the name of "The United States of America," is hereby dissolved.
We do further declare and ordain, That the State of Louisiana hereby resumes all rights and powers heretofore delegated to the Government of the United States of America; that her citizens are absolved from all allegiance to said Government; and that she is in full ​possession and exercise of all those rights of sovereignty which appertain to a free and independent State.
We do further declare and ordain, That all rights acquired and vested under the Constitution of the United States, or any act of Congress, or treaty, or under any law of this State, and not incompatible with this ordinance, shall remain in force, and have the same effect as if this ordinance had not been passed.
# Louisiana Navigation Company v. Oyster Commission of Louisiana

* related portals: Supreme Court of the United States.
* sister projects: Wikidata item.
United States Supreme Court
226 U.S. 99
Louisiana Navigation Company v. Oyster Commission of Louisiana
Argued: November 6, 1912. --- Decided: December 2, 1912
Messrs. Thomas Gilmore, Edward N. Pugh, and J. C. Gilmore for plaintiff in error.
The court declined to hear Mr. Ruffin G. Pleasant, Attorney General of Louisiana, for Conservation Commission, and Mr. John Dymond, Jr., for E. C. Joullian Canning Company and Dunbars, Lopez, & Dukate Company.
Mr. Walter Guion, former Attorney General of Louisiana, and Mr. John C. Wickliffe for the Oyster Commission of Louisiana.
Mr. Chief Justice White delivered the opinion of the court:

## Notes

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
# Louisiana Power & Light Company v. City of Thibodaux

* related portals: Supreme Court of the United States.
* sister projects: Wikipedia article, Wikidata item.

## Concurring Opinion

    Stewart

## Dissenting Opinion

    Brennan
United States Supreme Court
360 U.S. 25
Louisiana Power & Light Company v. City of Thibodaux
Argued: April 2, 1959. --- Decided: June 8, 1959
Mr. J. Raburn Monroe, New Orleans, La., for petitioner.
Mr. Louis Fenner Claiborne, New Orleans, La., for respondent.
Mr. Justice FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

## Notes

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
# Louisiana Company v. Gardiner

* related portals: Supreme Court of the United States.
* sister projects: Wikidata item.
United States Supreme Court
273 U.S. 280
Louisiana Company v. Gardiner
Argued: Jan. 12, 1927. --- Decided: Feb 21, 1927
Messrs. Harry McCall, of New Orleans, La., Philip S. Pugh, of Crowley, La., and George Denegre, Victor Leovy, Henry H. Chaffe, and James Hy. Bruns, all of New Orleans, La., for plaintiff in error.
Mr. Justice McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

## Notes

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
# Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses/The Wanderer

THE WANDERER
THERE is nobody on the road But I, And no beseeming abode I can try For shelter, so abroad I must lie.
The stars feel not far up, And to be The lights by which I sup Glimmeringly, Set out in a hollow cup Over me.
They wag as though they were Panting for joy Where they shine, above all care, And annoy, And demons of despair— Life's alloy.
Sometimes outside the fence Feet swing past, Clock-like, and then go hence, Till at last There is a silence, dense, Deep, and vast.
A wanderer, witch-drawn To and fro, To-morrow, at the dawn, On I go, And where I rest anon Do not know!
Yet it's meet—this bed of hay And roofless plight; For there's a house of clay, My own, quite, To roof me soon, all day And all night.
# Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses/The Wedding Morning

THE WEDDING MORNING
ΤΑBITHA dressed for her wedding:— "Tabby, why look so sad?" "—O I feel a great gloominess spreading, spreading, Instead of supremely glad! . . .
"I called on Carry last night, And he came whilst I was there, Not knowing I'd called. So I kept out of sight, And I heard what he said to her:
"'—Ah, I'd far liefer marry You, Dear, to-morrow!' he said, 'But that cannot be.'—O I'd give him to Carry, And willingly see them wed,
“But how can I do it when His baby will soon be born? After that I hope I may die. And then She can have him. I shall not mourn!'
# Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses/The West-of-Wessex Girl

THE WEST-OF-WESSEX GIRL
A VERY West-of-Wessex girl, As blithe as blithe could be, Was once well-known to me, And she would laud her native town, And hope and hope that we Might sometime study up and down Its charms in company.
But never I squired my Wessex girl In jaunts to Hoe or street When hearts were high in beat, Nor saw her in the marbled ways Where market-people meet That in her bounding early days Were friendly with her feet.
Yet now my West-of-Wessex girl, When midnight hammers slow From Andrew's, blow by blow,
As phantom draws me by the hand To the place—Plymouth Hoe— Where side by side in life, as planned, We never were to go!
Begun in Plymouth, March 1913.
# Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses/The Woman I met

THE WOMAN I MET
A STRANGER, I threaded sunken-hearted A lamp-lit crowd; And anon there passed me a soul departed, Who mutely bowed. In my far-off youthful years I had met her, Full-pulsed; but now, no more life's debtor, Onward she slid In a shroud that furs half-hid.
“Why do you trouble me, dead woman, Trouble me; You whom I knew when warm and human? —How it be That you quitted earth and are yet upon it Is, to any who ponder on it, Past being read!" "Still, it is so," she said.
"These were my haunts in my olden sprightly Hours of breath; Here I went tempting frail youth nightly To their death; But you deemed me chaste—me, a tinselled sinner! How thought you one with pureness in her Could pace this street Eyeing some man to greet?
"Well; your very simplicity made me love you Mid such town dross, Till I set not Heaven itself above you, Who grew my Cross; For you'd only nod, despite how I sighed for you; So you tortured me, who fain would have died for you! —What I suffered then Would have paid for the sins of ten!
"Thus went the days. I feared you despised me To fling me a nod Each time, no more: till love chastised me As with a rod
That a fresh bland boy of no assurance Should fire me with passion beyond endurance, While others all I hated, and loathed their call.
"I said: 'It is his mother's spirit Hovering around To shield him, maybe!' I used to fear it, As still I found My beauty left no least impression, And remnants of pride withheld confession Of my true trade By speaking; so I delayed.
“I said: 'Perhaps with a costly flower He'll be beguiled.' I held it, in passing you one late hour, To your face: you smiled, Keeping step with the throng; though you did not see there A single one that rivalled me there! . . . Well: it's all past. I died in the Lock at last."
So walked the dead and I together The quick among, Elbowing our kind of every feather Slowly and long;
Yea, long and slowly. That a phantom should stalk there With me seemed nothing strange, and talk there That winter night By flaming jets of light.
She showed me Juans who feared their call-time, Guessing their lot; She showed me her sort that cursed their fall-time, And that did not. Till suddenly murmured she: “Now, tell me, Why asked you never, ere death befell me, To have my love, Much as I dreamt thereof?”
I could not answer. And she, well weeting All in my heart, Said: "God your guardian kept our fleeting Forms apart!" Sighing and drawing her furs around her Over the shroud that tightly bound her, With wafts as from clay She turned and thinned away.
London, 1918.
# Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses/To a Lady playing and singing in the Morning

TO A LADY PLAYING AND SINGING IN THE MORNING
JOYFUL lady, sing! And I will lurk here listening, Though nought be done, and nought begun, And work-hours swift are scurrying.
Sing, O lady, still! Aye, I will wait each note you trill, Though duties due that press to do This whole day long I unfulfil.
"—It is an evening tune; One not designed to waste the noon," You say. I know: time bids me go— For daytide passes too, too soon!
But let indulgence be, This once, to my rash ecstasy: When sounds nowhere that carolled air My idled morn may comfort me!
# Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses/Two Serenades

TWO SERENADES
I
On Christmas Eve
LATE on Christmas Eve, in the street alone, Outside a house, on the pavement-stone, I sang to her, as we'd sung together On former eves ere I felt her tether.— Above the door of green by me Was she, her casement seen by me; But she would not heed What I melodied In my soul's sore need— She would not heed.
Cassiopeia overhead, And the Seven of the Wain, heard what I said As I bent me there, and voiced, and fingered Upon the strings. . . . Long, long I lingered:
Only the curtains hid from her One whom caprice had bid from her; But she did not come, And my heart grew numb And dull my strum; She did not come.
II
A Year Later
I SKIMMED the strings; I sang quite low; I hoped she would not come or know That the house next door was the one now dittied, Not hers, as when I had played unpitied; —Next door, where dwelt a heart fresh stirred, My new Love, of good will to me, Unlike my old Love chill to me, Who had not cared for my notes when heard: Yet that old Love came To the other's name As hers were the claim; Yea, the old Love came
My viol sank mute, my tongue stood still, I tried to sing on, but vain my will:
I prayed she would guess of the later, and leave me; She stayed, as though, were she slain by the smart, She would bear love's burn for a newer heart. The tense-drawn moment wrought to bereave me Of voice, and I turned in a dumb despair At her finding I'd come to another there. Sick I withdrew At love's grim hue Ere my last Love knew; Sick I withdrew.
From an old copy.
# Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses/They would not come

THEY WOULD NOT COME
I TRAVELLED to where in her lifetime She'd knelt at morning prayer, To call her up as if there; But she paid no heed to my suing, As though her old haunt could win not A thought from her spirit, or care.
I went where my friend had lectioned The prophets in high declaim, That my soul's ear the same Full tones should catch as aforetime; But silenced by gear of the Present Was the voice that once there came!
Where the ocean had sprayed our banquet I stood, to recall it as then: The same eluding again! No vision. Shows contingent Affrighted it further from me Even than from my home-den.
When I found them no responders, But fugitives prone to flee From where they had used to be, It vouched I had been led hither As by night wisps in bogland, And bruised the heart of me!
# Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses/The Two Houses

THE TWO HOUSES
IN the heart of night, When farers were not near, The left house said to the house on the right, "I have marked your rise, O smart newcomer here.”
Said the right, cold-eyed: "Newcomer here I am, Hence haler than you with your cracked old hide, Loose casements, wormy beams, and doors that jam.
"Modern my wood, My hangings fair of hue; While my windows open as they should, And water-pipes thread all my chambers through.
"Your gear is gray, Your face wears furrows untold." "—Yours might," mourned the other, "if you held, brother, The Presences from aforetime that I hold.
"You have not known Men's lives, deaths, toils, and teens; You are but a heap of stick and stone: A new house has no sense of the havebeens.
"Void as a drum You stand: I am packed with these, Though, strangely, living dwellers who come See not the phantoms all my substance sees!
"Visible in the morning Stand they, when dawn drags in; Visible at night; yet hint or warning Of these thin elbowers few of the inmates win.
"Babes new-brought-forth Obsess my rooms; straight-stretched Lank corpses, ere outborne to earth; Yea, throng they as when first from the 'Byss upfetched.
"Dancers and singers Throb in me now as once; Rich-noted throats and gossamered flingers Of heels; the learned in love-lore and the dunce.
“Note here within The bridegroom and the bride, Who smile and greet their friends and kin, And down my stairs depart for tracks untried.
"Where such inbe, A dwelling's character Takes theirs, and a vague semblancy To them in all its limbs, and light, and atmosphere.
"Yet the blind folk My tenants, who come and go In the flesh mid these, with souls unwoke, Of such sylph-like surrounders do not know."
"—Will the day come,” Said the new one, awestruck, faint,
“When I shall lodge shades dim and dumb— And with such spectral guests become acquaint?"
“—That will it, boy; Such shades will people thee, Each in his misery, irk, or joy, And print on thee their presences as on me."
# Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses/The Two Wives

THE TWO WIVES (SMOKER'S CLUB-STORY)
I WAITED at home all the while they were boating together— My wife and my near neighbour's wife: Till there entered a woman I loved more than life, And we sat and sat on, and beheld the uprising dark weather, With a sense that some mischief was rife.
Tidings came that the boat had capsized, and that one of the ladies Was drowned—which of them was unknown: And I marvelled—my friend's wife?—or was it my own Who had gone in such wise to the land where the sun as the shade is? —We learnt it was his had so gone.
Then I cried in unrest: “He is free! But no good is releasing To him as it would be to me!" "—But it is," said the woman I loved, quietly. "How?" I asked her. "—Because he has long loved me too without ceasing, And it's just the same thing, don't you see."
# Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses/The Wood Fire

THE WOOD FIRE
(a fragment)
"THIS is a brightsome blaze you've lit, good friend, to-night!" "—Aye, it has been the bleakest spring I have felt for years, And nought compares with cloven logs to keep alight: I buy them bargain-cheap of the executioners, As I dwell near; and they wanted the crosses out of sight By Passover, not to affront the eyes of visitors.
"Yes, they're from the crucifixions last week-ending At Kranion. We can sometimes use the poles again,
But they get split by the nails, and 'tis quicker work than mending To knock together new; though the uprights now and then Serve twice when they're let stand. But if a feast's impending, As lately, you've to tidy up for the comers' ken.
"Though only three were impaled, you may know it didn't pass off So quietly as was wont? That Galilee carpenter's son Who boasted he was king, incensed the rabble to scoff: I heard the noise from my garden. This piece is the one he was on. . . . Yes, it blazes up well if lit with a few dry chips and shroff; And it's worthless for much else, what with cuts and stains thereon."
# Little Men

Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys, is a children's novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), which was first published in 1871 by Roberts Brothers. The book reprises characters from her 1868–69 two-volume novel Little Women, and acts as a sequel, or as the second book in an unofficial Little Women trilogy. The trilogy ends with Alcott's 1886 novel Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to Little Men. Alcott's story recounts the life of Jo Bhaer, her husband, and the various children at Plumfield Estate School. Warning: template has been deprecated.
The transcription is of the first edition.
​ "These were the boys, and they lived together as happily as twelve lads could; studying and playing, working and squabbling, fighting faults and cultivating virtues, in the good old-fashioned way."—Page 28.
page
Little Men:
LIFE AT PLUMFIELD WITH JO'S BOYS.
BY
LOUISA M. ALCOTT,
Author of "LITTLE WOMEN", "AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL," "HOSPITAL SKETCHES."
BOSTON: ROBERTS BROTHERS. 1871.
page
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by LOUISA M. ALCOTT, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
CAMBRIDGE: PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON.
page
TO
FREDDY AND JOHNNY,
The Little Men
TO WHOM SHE OWES SOME OF THE BEST AND HAPPIEST HOURS OF HER LIFE, THIS BOOK IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED BY THEIR LOVING
"AUNT WEEDY."
page
CONTENTS.
Layout 2
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
# Letters of Julian/Letter 11

From The Works of the Emperor Julian, volume III (1913) Loeb Classical Library.

## 11. To Leontius

[361 From Naissa or Constantinople]
The Thurian historian said that men's ears are less to be trusted than their eyes. But in your case I hold the opposite opinion from this, since here my ears are more trustworthy than my eyes. For not if I had seen you ten times would I have trusted my eyes as I now trust my ears, instructed as I have been by a man who is in no wise capable of speaking falsely, that, while in all respects you show yourself a man, you surpass yourself in your achievements "with hand and foot," as Homer says. I therefore entrust you with the employment of arms, and have despatched to you a complete suit of armour such as is adapted for the infantry. Moreover I have enrolled you in my household corps.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Herodotus.
* ↑ Herodotus 1. 8; cf. Julian Oration 1. 37c, and 4. 145d.
* ↑ An echo of Demosthenes, Olynthiac 2. 17.
* ↑ Cf. Julian, Oration 7. 235b, Letter to Themistius 264d, Caesars 309d, 327c.
* ↑ Odyssey 8. 148; the phrase is there used of the athletic sports of the Phaeacians.
* ↑ i.e. the protectores domestici; cf. Symmachus, Letter 67. In C.I.L. III. 5670a (Dessau 774), a Leontius is mentioned as praepositus militum auxiliarium in 370 A.D.
# Letters of Julian/Letter 13

From The Works of the Emperor Julian, volume III (1913) Loeb Classical Library.

## 13. To Hermogenes, formerly Prefect of Egypt

[361, Dec.? Constantinople]
Suffer me to say, in the language of the poetical rhetoricians, O how little hope had I of safety! O how little hope had I of hearing that you had escaped the three-headed hydra! Zeus be my witness that I do not mean my brother Constantius — nay, he was what he was — but the wild beasts who surrounded him and cast their baleful eyes on all men; for they made him even harsher than he was by nature, though on his own account he was by no means of a mild disposition, although he seemed so to many. But since he is now one of the blessed dead, may the earth lie lightly on him, as the saying is! Nor should I wish, Zeus be my witness, that these others should be punished unjustly; but since many accusers are rising up against them, I have appointed a court to judge them. Do you, my friend, come hither, and hasten, even if it task your strength. For, by the gods, I have long desired to see you, and, now that I have learned to my great joy that you are safe and sound, I bid you come.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Hermogenes had been Prefect of Egypt before 328, since his name does not occur in the list of prefects after that year, which is extant complete.
* ↑ Cf. for Julian's attitude to Constantius, Misopogon 357b.
* ↑ The special commission appointed by Julian to try his enemies sat at Chalcedon in Dec. 361. Its work is described by Ammianus 22. 3; Libanius, Oration 18. 152. Among the judges were Mamertinus the rhetorician and Nevitta the Goth, who were the Consuls designate for 362, and Sallust.
# Letters of Julian/Letter 1

From The Works of the Emperor Julian, volume III (1913) Loeb Classical Library.

## 1. To Priscus

[359 AD from Gaul]
On receiving your letter I at once despatched Archelaus, and gave him letters to carry to you, and the passport, as you wished, for a longer time. If you are inclined to explore the ocean, everything, with the god's help, will be provided for you as you would wish, unless you dread the boorishness of the Gauls and the winter climate. This, however, will turn out as the god sees fit; but I swear to you by him who is the giver and preserver of all my good fortune that I desire to live only that I may in some degree be of use to you. When I say "you," I mean the true philosophers, and convinced as I am that you are one of these, how much I have loved and love you you well know, and how I desire to see you. May Divine Providence preserve you in health for many a year, my dearest and best beloved brother! I salute the admirable Hippia and your children.

## Footnotes

* ↑ For other letters to Priscus, see Letters 2 and 5.
* ↑ Literally "token," a synonym of τὸ σύμβολον. This, like the Latin tessera, could be of various kinds, but here Julian probably refers to a document, the equivalent of the modern passport, which he had visaed for Priscus in order that he might proceed to Gaul.
* ↑ For the life of Priscus, cf. Eunapius, Lives of the Sophists and Philosophers. He visited Julian in Gaul, was summoned to Constantinople not long after Julian's accession, and went with him to Persia. See Introduction, under Priscus.
# Letters of Julian/Letter 10

From The Works of the Emperor Julian, volume III (1913) Loeb Classical Library.

## 10. To Eutherius

[361 About December 1. From Naissa]
I am alive, and have been saved by the gods. Therefore offer sacrifices to them on my behalf, as thank-offerings. Your sacrifice will be not for one man only, but for the whole body of Hellenes. If you have time to travel as far as Constantinople I shall feel myself highly honoured by your presence.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Eutherius, an Armenian eunuch, was a pagan who had been kidnapped, sold into slavery, and finally attained to the office of court chamberlain and confidential adviser to Constans and Julian; see Ammianus 16. 7. 4. He was employed by Julian in Gaul as a trusted messenger to Constantius at Milan; Ammianus 20. 8. 19.
* ↑ In the fourth century this word has lost some of its national meaning, and is used of pagans as opposed to Christians, especially by Julian. The sophists of that period called themselves and all students of rhetoric "Hellenes."
# Letters of Julian/Letter 12

From The Works of the Emperor Julian, volume III (1913) Loeb Classical Library.

## 12. To the philosopher Maximus

[End of 361 or early in 362. From Constantinople]
There is a tradition that Alexander of Macedon used to sleep with Homer's poems under his pillow, in order that by night as well as by day he might busy himself with his martial writings. But I sleep with your letters as though they were healing drugs of some sort, and I do not cease to read them constantly as though they w ere newly written and had only just come into my hands. Therefore if you are willing to furnish me with intercourse by means of letters, as a semblance of your own society, write, and do not cease to do so continually. Or rather come, with heaven's help, and consider that while you are away I cannot be said to be alive, except in so far as I am able to read what you have written.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Plutarch, Alexander 12.
* ↑ Ammianus 22. 7. 3 describes Julian's effusive greeting of Maximus, for which he interrupted a meeting of the Senate.