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# Ancient India as described by Megasthenês and Arrian/Frag. XXV.

BOOK II.
Fragm. XXV.
Strab. XV. i. 35. 36,—p. 702.
Of the city Pataliputra.
According to Megasthenês the mean breadth (of the Ganges) is 100 stadia, and its least depth 20 fathoms. At the meeting of this river and another is situated Palibothra, a city eighty stadia in length and fifteen in breadth. It is of the shape of a parallelogram, and is girded with a wooden wall, pierced with loopholes for the discharge of arrows. It has a ditch in front for defence and for receiving the sewage of the city. The people in whose country this city is situated is the most distinguished in all India, and is called the Prasii. The king, in addition to his family ​name, must adopt the surname of Palibothros, as Sandrakottos, for instance, did, to whom Megasthenês was sent on an embassy. [This custom also prevails among the Parthians, for all are called Arsakai, though each has his own peculiar name, as Orodês, Phraatês, or some other.]
Then follow these words:-
All the country beyond the Hupanis is allowed to be very fertile, but little is accurately known regarding it. Partly from ignorance and the remoteness of its situation, every thing about it is exaggerated or represented as marvellous : for instance, there are the stories of the gold-digging ants, of animals and men of peculiar shapes, and possessing wonderful faculties; as the Sêres, who, they say, are so long-lived that they attain an age beyond that of two hundred years. They mention also an aristocratical form of government consisting of five thousand councillors, each of whom furnishes the state with an elephant.
According to Megasthenês the largest tigers are found in the country of the Prasii, &c. (Cf. Fragm. XII.)
* ↑ Conf. Epit. 36.
* ↑ This was not the name of any particular nation, but was vaguely used to designate the inhabitants of the region producing silk, of which Sêr is the name in Chinese and in Japanese. The general opinion places this region (Sèrica) in Eastern Mongolia and the north-east of China, but it has also been sought for in Eastern Turkestin, in the Himalaya towards the sources of the Ganges, in Assam, and even in Pegu. The name is first met with in Ktêsias.
# Ancient India as described by Megasthenês and Arrian/Frag. XXVI.

Fragm. XXVI.
Arr. Ind. 10.
Of Pataliputra and the Manners of the Indians.
It is farther said that the Indians do not rear monuments to the dead, but consider the ​virtues which men have displayed in life, and the songs in which their praises are celebrated, sufficient to preserve their memory after death. But of their cities it is said that the number is so great that it cannot be stated with precision, but that such cities as are situated on the banks of rivers or on the sea-coast are built of wood instead of brick, being meant to last only for a time,—so destructive are the heavy rains which pour down, and the rivers also when they overflow their banks and inundate the plains,—while those cities which stand on commanding situations and lofty eminences are built of brick and mud; that the greatest city in India is that which is called Palimbothra, in the dominions of the Prasians, where the streams of the Erannoboas and the Ganges unite,—the Ganges being the greatest of all rivers, and the Erannoboas being perhaps the third largest of Indian rivers, though greater than the greatest rivers elsewhere; but it is smaller than the Ganges where it falls into it. Megasthenês informs us that this city stretched in the inhabited quarters to an extreme length on each side of eighty stadia, and that its breadth was fifteen stadia, and that a ditch encompassed it all round, which was six hundred feet in breadth and thirty cubits in depth, and that the wall was crowned with 570 towers and had four-and-sixty gates. The same writer tells us farther this remarkable fact about India, that all the ​Indians are free, and not one of them is a slave. The Lakedæmonians and the Indians are here so far in agreement. The Lakedæmonians, however, hold the Helots as slaves, and these Helots do servile labour; but the Indians do not even use aliens as slaves, and much less a countryman of their own.
# The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge

* The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge (1929, 1st trade edition) (transcription project)
* The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge (1929, 2nd trade edition) (transcription project)
# With how sad steps, O Moon thou climb'st the sky

* "With how sad Steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the Sky", in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807)
* "With how sad steps", in Poems (1815)
# Alice Fell

* "Alice Fell", in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807)
* "Alice Fell", in Poems (1815)
# Poems (Wordsworth, 1815)/Volume 1/Alice Fell

VIII.
ALICE FELL;
Or Poverty.
The Post-boy drove with fierce career, For threatening clouds the moon had drowned; When suddenly I seemed to hear A moan, a lamentable sound.
As if the wind blew many ways I heard the sound,—and more and more: It seemed to follow with the Chaise, And still I heard it as before.
At length I to the Boy called out; He stopped his horses at the word; But neither cry, nor voice, nor shout, Nor aught else like it could be heard.
​The Boy then smacked his whip, and fast The horses scampered through the rain; And soon I heard upon the blast The voice, and bade him halt again.
Said I, alighting on the ground, "What can it be, this piteous moan?" And there a little Girl I found, Sitting behind the Chaise, alone.
"My Cloak!" the word was last and first, And loud and bitterly she wept, As if her very heart would burst; And down from off her seat she leapt.
"What ails you, Child?" she sobb'd, "Look here!" I saw it in the wheel entangled, A weather-beaten Rag as e'er From any garden scare-crow dangled.
'Twas twisted betwixt nave and spoke; Her help she lent, and with good heed Together we released the Cloak; A wretched, wretched rag indeed!
​"And whither are you going, Child, To night along these lonesome ways?" "To Durham" answered she half wild— "Then come with me into the chaise."
She sate like one past all relief; Sob after sob she forth did send In wretchedness, as if her grief Could never, never, have an end.
"My Child, in Durham do you dwell?" She check'd herself in her distress, And said, "My name is Alice Fell; I'm fatherless and motherless.
And I to Durham, Sir, belong." And then, as if the thought would choke Her very heart, her grief grew strong; And all was for her tattered Cloak!
The chaise drove on; our journey's end Was nigh; and, sitting by my side, As if she'd lost her only friend She wept, nor would be pacified.
​Up to the Tavern-door we post; Of Alice and her grief I told; And I gave money to the Host, To buy a new Cloak for the old.
"And let it be of duffil grey, As warm a cloak as man can sell!" Proud Creature was she the next day, The little Orphan, Alice Fell!
# Poems, in Two Volumes (Wordsworth, 1807)/Volume 1/Alice Fell

4.
ALICE FELL.
# Poems, in Two Volumes (Wordsworth, 1807)/Volume 1/Resolution and Independence

5.
RESOLUTION AND INDEPENDENCE.
# Resolution and Independence

* "Resolution and Independence", in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807)
* "Resolution and Independence", in Poems (1815)
# The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier/Calef in Boston

Calef in Boston
1692
In the solemn days of old, Two men met in Boston town, One a tradesman frank and bold, One a preacher of renown.
Cried the last, in bitter tone: “Poisoner of the wells of truth! Satan’s hireling, thou hast sown With his tares the heart of youth!”
Spake the simple tradesman then, “God be judge ’twixt thee and me; All thou knowest of truth hath been Once a lie to men like thee.
“Falsehoods which we spurn to-day Were the truths of long ago; Let the dead boughs fall away, Fresher shall the living grow.
“God is good and God is light, In this faith I rest secure; Evil can but serve the right, Over all shall love endure.
“Of your spectral puppet play I have traced the cunning wires; Come what will, I needs must say, God is true, and ye are liars.”
When the thought of man is free, Error fears its lightest tones; So the priest cried, “Sadducee!” And the people took up stones.
In the ancient burying-ground, Side by side the twain now lie; One with humble grassy mound, One with marbles pale and high.
But the Lord hath blest the seed Which that tradesman scattered then, And the preacher’s spectral creed Chills no more the blood of men.
Let us trust, to one is known Perfect love which casts out fear, While the other’s joys atone For the wrong he suffered here.
# Poems, in Two Volumes (Wordsworth, 1807)/Volume 1/Prefatory Sonnet ('Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room')

SONNETS.
PREFATORY SONNET.
# Poems (Wordsworth, 1815)/Volume 2/Prefatory Sonnet

MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS.
I.
PREFATORY SONNET.
Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room; And Hermits are contented with their Cells; And Students with their pensive Citadels: Maids at the Wheel, the Weaver at his Loom, Sit blithe and happy; Bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest Peak of Furness Fells, Will murmur by the hour in Foxglove bells: In truth, the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison is: and hence to me, In sundry moods, 'twas pastime to be bound Within the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground: Pleased if some Souls (for such there needs must be) Who have felt the weight of too much liberty, Should find short solace there, as I have found.
# Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room

* "Prefatory Sonnet ('Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room')", in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807)
* "Prefatory Sonnet", in Poems (1815)
# Poems, in Two Volumes (Wordsworth, 1807)/Volume 1/Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne

16.
# Poems (Wordsworth, 1815)/Volume 2/To Raisley Calvert

XXXVII.
TO THE MEMORY
OF
RAISLEY CALVERT.
Calvert! it must not be unheard by them Who may respect my name that I to thee Owed many years of early liberty. This care was thine when sickness did condemn Thy youth to hopeless wasting, root and stem: That I, if frugal and severe, might stray Where'er I liked; and finally array My temples with the Muse's diadem. Hence, if in freedom I have loved the truth, If there be aught of pure, or good, or great, In my past verse,—or shall be, in the lays Of higher mood, which now I meditate,— It gladdens me, O "Worthy, short-lived Youth! To think how much of this will be thy praise.
# To Raisley Calvert

* "To the Memory of Raisley Calvert", in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807)
* "To Raisley Calvert", in Poems (1815)
# Poems, in Two Volumes (Wordsworth, 1807)/Volume 1/To the Memory of Raisley Calvert

20. TO THE MEMORY of RAISLEY CALVERT.
END OF THE FIRST PART.
# Composed by the Sea-side, near Calais, August, 1802

* "Composed by the Sea-side, near Calais, August, 1802", in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807)
* "Composed by the Sea shore near Calais", in Poems (1815)
# Poems (Wordsworth, 1815)/Volume 2/Composed by the Sea shore near Calais

I.
COMPOSED BY THE SEA-SIDE, NEAR CALAIS,
August, 1802.
Fair Star of Evening, Splendor of the West, Star of my Country!—on the horizon's brink Thou hangest, stooping, as might seem, to sink On England's bosom; yet well pleased to rest, Meanwhile, and be to her a glorious crest Conspicuous to the Nations. Thou, I think, Should'st be my Country's emblem; and should'st wink, Bright Star! with laughter on her banners, drest In thy fresh beauty. There! that dusky spot Beneath thee, it is England; there it lies. Blessings be on you both! one hope, one lot, One life, one glory! I, with many a fear For my dear Country, many heartfelt sighs, Among Men who do not love her, linger here.
# Poems, in Two Volumes (Wordsworth, 1807)/Volume 1/Composed by the Sea-side, near Calais, August, 1802

PART THE SECOND.
SONNETS
DEDICATED
TO LIBERTY.
1.
COMPOSED BY THE
SEA-SIDE, near CALAIS,
August, 1802.
# Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony/Index

Index
| | Page |
| Adjustment of circuits | 22 |
| Alternating current | 15 |
| Antenna | 21, 26 |
| Arc light | 64 |
| ‍ | |
| Branly | 41 |
| ‍ | |
| Capacity | 11, 12 |
| Codes | 35-37 |
| Coherer | 41 |
| Condenser | 26 |
| Clerk-Maxwell | 40 |
| Current, Alternating | 14, 15 |
| Unidirectional | 4 |
| Low-frequency | 14, 20 |
| High-pressure | 14, 20 |
| Meter, hot-wire | 25 |
| Detectors | 27-32 |
| Discharge, Oscillatory | 17, 20 |
| High-frequency | 18 |
| Edison | 30 |
| Electrolytic detector | 29 |
| Electromagnetic Waves | 2 |
| Ether | 1 ​ |
| Feddersen | 17 |
| Fessenden | 43 |
| Frequency of oscillations | 16 |
| ‍ | |
| Heat | 3 |
| Helmholtz | 17 |
| Henry | 17 |
| Hertz | 41 |
| ‍ | |
| Inductance | 11 |
| Inductance, the | 12, 20 |
| Induction coil | 14, 19 |
| Inertia, electrical | 20 |
| Interference | 55 |
| ‍ | |
| Kelvin | 17 |
| Keys | 34 |
| ‍ | |
| Leyden jar | 15 |
| Leyden-jar battery | 16, 19 |
| Light | 2 |
| Extreme red | 4 |
| Extreme violet | 4 |
| Ultra-violet | 4 |
| Light waves, speed of | 3 |
| vibration of | 4 |
| Lodge | 41 |
| ‍ | |
| Magnetic detector | 32 |
| Marconi | 43 |
| Mast for antenna | 22 |
| Meter, hot-wire current | 2 |
| Microphone | 28 |
| Muffler | 10 |
| ‍ | |
| Oscillations | 14 |
| Electric | 41 ​ |
| Forced | 13, 38 |
| Frequency of | 16 |
| High-frequency | 14, 63 |
| High-pressure | 14 |
| Oscillator | 41 |
| ‍ | |
| Phelps | 30 |
| Platinum wire | 31 |
| Popoff | 41 |
| Portable outfits | 50 |
| Propagation of waves | 11, 12 |
| Public service | 14 |
| ‍ | |
| Receiver, telephone | 28 |
| Receiving apparatus | 8, 26 |
| Ruhmkortf coil | 13 |
| ‍ | |
| Silicon detector | 32 |
| Spark | 16, 19 |
| Spark-gap | 13 |
| Switching device | 34 |
| ‍ | |
| Telephone receiver | 28 |
| Tesla | 43 |
| Special Article by. “Future of the Wireless Art” | 67-71 |
| Transformer | 15 |
| Transmitting device | 8 |
| Tuning | 10 |
| The transmitting apparatus | 22 |
| ‍ | |
| Vibration in ether | 3, 15 |
| ‍ | |
| Wave length | 5, 25 |
| Wave motion | 2, 6 |
| Waves | 3 |
| Electromagnetic, light, heat, and wireless | 3 ​ |
| Waves, Complex | 4 |
| Ether | 11 |
| Electric | 41 |
| Damped | 65 |
| Sustained | 64 |
| Wireless waves, over water and over land | 11 |
| frequency of | 15 |
# Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony

Includes a chapter by Nikola Tesla
Cunard S. S. Mauretania at Full Speed. 790 Ft Long, 3200 Tons Gross Weight, Trial Speed 25½ Knots per Hour.Frontispiece
Wireless Telegraphy
and
Telephony
Popularly Explained
By
Walter W. Massie
and
Charles R. Underhill
With special article by Nikola Tesla
New York
D. Van Nostrand Company
23 Murray and 27 Warren Streets
1908
Copyright, 1908,
by
D. Van Nostrand Company
Robert Drummond Company, Printers, New York
Preface
Wireless Telegraph is mentioned in almost every publication of to-day, and enters into conversation between all; yet how few really know what it means.
There have been several books written on the subject for the expert or technical man, but so far nothing has been written that explains it in a way that every one may understand.
In this book the authors use simple expressions, containing no technical words, so that all may obtain a clear idea of the inception and development of this much-talked-of art.
We here describe the substance through which signals are sent, the theory of the propagation of waves, method of generating and receiving the waves, the apparatus used, and, finally, the uses, limitations, and possibilities of wireless telegraphy both commercially and financially.
Providence, R. I. New York.
Walter W. Massie. Charles R. Underhill
    July 15, 1908.
Contents
Chapter I :
| The Secret of Wireless Telegraphy |||
| | | page |
| 1. | Nature’s Wonderful Medium | 1 |
| 2. | Vibrations in the Ether | 3 |
| Chapter II |||
| Principle and Theory of Wireless Telegraphy |||
| 3. | Principle | 6 |
| 4. | Synchronous Wave Motion and Tuning | 8 |
| 5. | Theory | 11 |
| Chapter III |||
| The Apparatus Used |||
| 6. | General Outline | 14 |
| 7. | The Induction Coil | 14 |
| 8. | Leyden-jar Battery | 15 |
| 9. | The Spark-gap | 18 |
| 10. | Production of Oscillatory Discharge | 19 |
| 11. | The Inductance | 20 |
| 12. | The Antenna | 22 ​ |
| 13. | Tuning the Transmitting Apparatus | 22 |
| 14. | The Receiving Apparatus | 26 |
| 15. | Detectors | 27 |
| Chapter IV |||
| Method of Operation |||
| 16. | Switching Device | 34 |
| 17. | Sending the Message | 34 |
| Chapter V |||
| Historical |||
| 18. | Early Attempts | 39 |
| 19. | Development of Wireless | 40 |
| Chapter VI |||
| The Uses of Wireless Telegraphy |||
| 20. | Public Service | 44 |
| 21. | Value to Shipowners | 45 |
| 22. | Telegraphing over Land | 47 |
| Chapter VII |||
| Possibilities and Abuses of Wireless Telegraphy |||
| 23. | Commercial Conditions | 51 |
| 24. | The Present State of the Art | 52 |
| 25. | Interference and Government Regulation | 55 |
| 26. | The Outlook and Prophecy | 61 |
| Wireless Telephony | Wireless Telephony | 63 |
| The Future of the Wireless Art (by Nikola Tesla) | The Future of the Wireless Art (by Nikola Tesla) | 67 |
       Index 73
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# The Knickerbocker/Volume 13/Number 5/The Late Charles Mathews

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​The late Charles Mathews.—In a review, in a late number of 'Blackwood,' of the Memoirs of Mathews, noticed in the Kickerbocker for March, we find the following amusing story of a fantastic English original, one Lord Eardley, whose particular antipathy was, to having attendants about him, and whose still more especial antipathy was, to have them of the class called 'fine gentlemen:'
'During breakfast, one day, Lord Eardley was informed that a person had applied for a footman's place, then vacant. He was ordered into the room, and a double refined specimen of the genus so detested by his lordship made his appearance. The manner of the man was extremely affected and consequential, and it was evident that my lord understood him at a glance; moreover, it was evident be determined to lower him a little.
'Well, my good fellow,' said he, 'what, you want a lackey's place, do you?'
'I came about an upper footman's situation, my lord,' said the gentleman, bridling up his head.
'Oh, do ye, do ye?' replied Lard Eardley; 'I keep no upper servants; all alike, all alike here.'
'Indeed, my lord!' exclaimed this upper footman, with an air of shocked dignity. 'What department then am I to consider myself expected to fill?'
'Department! department!' quoth my lord, in a tone like inquiry.
'In what capacity, my lord?'
My lord repeated the word capacity, as if not understanding its application to the present subject.
'I mean, my lord,' explained the man, 'what shall I be expected to do, if I take the situation?'
'Oh, you mean if you take the place. I understand you now,' rejoined my lord; 'why, you're do every thing but sweep the chimneys and clean the pig-sties, and those I do myself.'
'The gentleman stared, scarcely knowing what to make of this, and seemed to wish himself out of the room; he, however, grinned a ghastly smile, and, after a short pause, inquired what salary his lordship gave."
'Salary, salary?' reiterated his incorrigible lordship, 'don't know the word, don't know the word, my good man.'
Again the gentleman explained: 'I mean what wages?'
'Oh, wages,' echoed my lord: 'what d'ye ask what d'ye ask?'
Trip regained his self-possession at this question, which looked like business, and, considering for a few moments, answered—first stipulating to be found in hair-powder, and (on state occasions) silk stockings, and gloves, bags, and bouquets—that he should expect thirty pounds a-year.
'How much, how much?' demanded my lord, rapidly.
'Thirty pounds, my lord.'
'Thirty pounds!' exclaimed Lord Eardley, in affected amazement; 'make it guineas, and I'll live with you;' then ringing the bell, said to the servant who answered it, 'Let out this gentleman, he's too good for me; and then turning to Matthews, who was much amused, said, as the man made his exit, 'Conceited, impudent, scoundrel! Soon sent him off, soon sent him off, Master Matthews!'
The preceding was placed in type for our last number, and when it was fresh from the other side. It may be so now, indeed, to a large portion of our readers. At all events, it strikes us as too good to be lost.
# The Knickerbocker/Volume 13/Number 5/London Correspondence

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​London Correspondence.—We have a long and entertaining epistle from our London correspondent, from which we regret that we can extract only a few desultory passages. Speaking of autographs, he says: 'I am collecting a famous lot of them. Beside all sent home, I have Wordsworth, Southey, Moore, Campbell, Joanna Baillie, Scott, Lady Blessington, Sir E. Brydges, Lord Durham, Brougham, Wellington, James Montgomery, William Godwin, Mrs. Shelley, Leigh Hunt, Galt, James Hogg, Lockhart, Jeffrey, S. C. Hall, etc. Some of these, let me tell you, cost money. I gave seven dollars and fifty cents for a letter from Sir Walter Scott to Thomas Hood. Most of these are long and interesting letters, and very characteristic. It's a mania, this autograph business, with those who engage in it; and they are not a few, in England. A copy of Montaigne's Essays, with 'William Shakspere' written in it, was sold recently for one hundred pounds. If it had been proved genuine, it would have brought three or four times as much. Five hundred dollars for a name! 'What's in a name?' Upward of considerable. ** I attended a meeting of the famous 'Royal Society' last week; the same that Sir Isaac Newton and the Duke of Sussex presided over. What think you of that? I am not yet proposed as a member, though the ballot-box came to me to vote some body else in; for I was interspersed among all the F.R.S.'s. After meeting, they invited me to tea, in the library. It was most philosophical and highly scientific tea. ** Bulwer's 'Richelieu' is splendidly brought out at Covent Garden, and Macready makes the most of the old Cardinal; but the more judicious critics are far from stamping Bulwer as the great dramatist, after all. 'The Lady of Lyons' wears well, and is often repeated. It is a rich treat to see Macready as 'Melnotte.' The most successful actors, however, by all odds, are Jim Crow and Van Amburgh. The latter has made a little fortune. Only think of a menagerie man giving a dinner to the friends of the drama in Drury Lane Theatre! O tempora! O mores! E Pluribus Unum, and Yankee Doodle! Lord Brougham goes to see Jim Crow, but has not been seen at Covent Garden. And this is a fair specimen. Giants, monkeys, Bayaderes, and 'niggers,' are the order of the day. No, I forget. To-day the order is, 'War with America!' displayed on huge placards, by a posse of twenty or four-and-twenty men, 'all in a row,' up and down the Strand. Heaven preserve us! Vic. will take me captive! Think of me, therefore, as a prisoner of war in the galleys. Do me the favor to 'captivate a Britisher' as an offset!'