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# The Lucy/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
75 U.S. 307
The Lucy
At the time when the District Court for the Southern District of Florida was established, the act of 1803 governed appeals from the District to the Circuit Courts, and from the Circuit Courts to this court. No appeal in admiralty could be taken directly from the District Court to this court, except when, as in the case of the Southern District of Florida, the District Court exercised the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court as well as that of the District Court.
If this state of the law had undergone no change at the date of the decree of condemnation in this case, the allowance of an appeal to this court would have been quite regular.
But the effect of the act of July, 1862, was to vest in the Circuit Court for that circuit the whole appellate jurisdiction exercised by other Circuit Courts in respect to decrees in admiralty. It left the original jurisdiction in admiralty of the District Court, untouched.
It was in virtue of this original jurisdiction that the District Court had cognizance of the case of the Lucy. The appellate jurisdiction of the case was vested by the act in the Circuit Court.
It follows that, when the decree was pronounced in August, no appeal could be taken to this court, but only to the Circuit Court, and that the allowance of an appeal to this court was a nullity.
This objections to the jurisdiction is decisive; but, if it were otherwise, the fact that no transcript of the record was filed at the next term, would be fatal to the appeal.
No consent of counsel can give jurisdiction. Appellate jurisdiction depends on the Constitution and the acts of Congress. When these do not confer it, courts of the United States cannot exercise it.
We cannot take cognizance of a case not brought before us in conformity with the law.
The case at bar, therefore, must be DISMISSED.

## Notes

* ↑ 2 Stat. at Large, 244.
* ↑ 12 Id. 576.
* ↑ § Castro v. United States, 3 Wallace, 47; Insurance Company v. Morde cai, 21 Howard, 195.
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# The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

This work, often abbreviated to Rasselas, is a 1759 novella, originally published anonymously in two volumes, of which this is a transcription. In it, Rasselas leaves his home in company with his sister, Nekayah, and a philosopher, Imlac, to seek adventure. His observation of other kinds of people eventually leads to the conclusion that there is no easy path to happiness. In the second volume, most of the chapters are misnumbered. The first three (chapters 26-28) are correct, but Chapter 29 is incorrectly numbered 28, and chapter numbers from there on are one out. This error occurs in both the table of contents and the chapter headings.
THE
PRINCE
OF
ABISSINIA.
A
TALE.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; and W. Johnston, in Ludgate-Street.
MDCCLIX.
Volume 1
CONTENTS
OF THE
FIRST VOLUME.
Volume 2
CONTENTS
OF THE
SECOND VOLUME.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia/V

CHAP. V. The prince meditates his escape.
HE now found that it would be very difficult to effect that which it was very easy to suppose effected. When he looked round about him, he saw himself confined by the bars of nature which had never yet been broken, and by the gate, through which none that once had passed it were ever able to return. He was now impatient as an eagle in a grate. He passed week after week in clambering the mountains, to see if there was any aperture which the bushes might conceal, but found all the summits inaccessible by their prominence. The iron ​gate he despaired to open; for it was not only secured with all the power of art, but was always watched by successive sentinels, and was by its position exposed to the perpetual observation of all the inhabitants.
He then examined the cavern through which the waters of the lake were discharged; and, looking down at a time when the sun shone strongly upon its mouth, he discovered it to be full of broken rocks, which, though they permitted the stream to flow through many narrow passages, would stop any body of solid bulk. He returned discouraged and dejected; but, having now known the blessing of hope, resolved never to despair.
​In these fruitless searches he spent ten months. The time, however, passed cheerfully away: in the morning he rose with new hope, in the evening applauded his own diligence, and in the night slept sound after his fatigue. He met a thousand amusements which beguiled his labour, and diversified his thoughts. He discerned the various instincts of animals, and properties of plants, and found the place replete with wonders, of which he purposed to solace himself with the contemplation, if he should never be able to accomplish his flight; rejoicing that his endeavours, though yet unsuccessful, had supplied him with a source of inexhaustible enquiry.
But his original curiosity was not yet abated; he resolved to obtain some ​knowledge of the ways of men. His wish still continued, but his hope grew less. He ceased to survey any longer the walls of his prison, and spared to search by new toils for interstices which he knew could not be found, yet determined to keep his design always in view, and lay hold on any expedient that time should offer.
# The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia/III

CHAP. III. The wants of him that wants nothing.
ON the next day his old instructor, imagining that he had now made himself acquainted with his disease of mind, was in hope of curing it by counsel, and officiously sought an opportunity of conference, which the prince, having long considered him as one whose intellects were exhausted, was not very willing to afford: "Why, said he, does this man thus intrude upon me; shall I be never ​suffered to forget those lectures which pleased only while they were new, and to become new again must be forgotten?" He then walked into the wood, and composed himself to his usual meditations; when, before his thoughts had taken any settled form, he perceived his persuer at his side, and was at first prompted by his impatience to go hastily away; but, being unwilling to offend a man whom he had once reverenced and still loved, he invited him to sit down with him on the bank.
The old man, thus encouraged, began to lament the change which had been lately observed in the prince, and to enquire why he so often retired from the pleasures of the palace, to loneliness and silence. " I fly from pleasure, said the ​prince, because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others." "You, Sir, said the sage, are the first who has complained of misery in the happy valley. I hope to convince you that your complaints have no real cause. You are here in full possession of all that the emperour of Abissinia can bestow; here is neither labour to be endured nor danger to be dreaded, yet here is all that labour or danger can procure. Look round and tell me which of your wants is without supply: if you want nothing, how are you unhappy?"
"That I want nothing, said the prince, or that I know not what I want, is the cause of my complaint; if I had any ​known want, I should have a certain wish; that wish would excite endeavour, and I should not then repine to see the sun move so slowly towards the western mountain, or lament when the day breaks and sleep will no longer hide me from myself. When I see the kids and the lambs chasing one another, I fancy that I should be happy if I had something to persue. But, possessing all that I can want, I find one day and one hour exactly like another, except that the latter is still more tedious than the former. Let your experience inform me how the day may now seem as short as in my childhood, while nature was yet fresh, and every moment shewed me what I never had observed before. I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire."
​The old man was surprised at this new species of affliction, and knew not what to reply, yet was unwilling to be silent. "Sir, said he, if you had seen the miseries of the world, you would know how to value your present state." "Now, said the prince, you have given me something to desire; I shall long to see the miseries of the world, since the sight of them is necessary to happiness."
# The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia/VII

CHAP. VII. The prince finds a man of learning.
THE prince was not much afflicted by this disaster, having suffered himself to hope for a happier event, only because he had no other means of escape in view. He still persisted in his design to leave the happy valley by the first opportunity.
His imagination was now at a stand; he had no prospect of entering into the world; and, notwithstanding all his endeavours to support himself, discontent by degrees preyed upon him, and he began again to lose his thoughts in sadness, ​when the rainy season, which in these countries is periodical, made it inconvenient to wander in the woods.
The rain continued longer and with more violence than had been ever known: the clouds broke on the surrounding mountains, and the torrents streamed into the plain on every side, till the cavern was too narrow to discharge the water. The lake overflowed its banks, and all the level of the valley was covered with the inundation. The eminence, on which the palace was built, and some other spots of rising ground, were all that the eye could now discover. The herds and flocks left the pastures, and both the wild beasts and the tame retreated to the mountains.
​This inundation confined all the princes to domestick amusements, and the attention of Rasselas was particularly seized by a poem, which Imlac recited, upon the various conditions of humanity. He commanded the poet to attend him in his apartment, and recite his verses a second time; then entering into familiar talk, he thought himself happy in having found a man who knew the world so well, and could so skilfully paint the scenes of life. He asked a thousand questions about things, to which, though common to all other mortals, his confinement from childhood had kept him a stranger. The poet pitied his ignorance, and loved his curiosity, and entertained him from day to day with novelty and instruction, so that the prince regretted the necessity of sleep, ​and longed till the morning should renew his pleasure.
As they were sitting together, the prince commanded Imlac to relate his history, and to tell by what accident he was forced, or by what motive induced, to close his life in the happy valley. As he was going to begin his narrative, Rasselas was called to a concert, and obliged to restrain his curiosity till the evening.
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# The New Church; What, How, Why

The • New • Church
WHAT
HOW
WHY
George Henry Dole
NEW YORK
THE NEW CHURCH BOARD OF PUBLICATION
3 West Twenty-Ninth Street
1901
Copyright , 1901, by George Henry Dole
PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS BROOKLYN, N. Y.
The object of this publication is not to expound in detail, but merely to proclaim the existence of a New Church and what it is in general, that they who desire a more satisfactory or definite knowledge of spiritual things may be advised where to find it.
The Author.
CONTENTS
page
THE NEW CHURCH
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# The New Colossus

"The New Colossus" is a sonnet by Emma Lazarus (1849-1887), written in 1883 and, in 1903, engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the Statue of Liberty. Warning: template has been deprecated.
Sonnets.
I
The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
1883.
(Written in aid of Bartholdi Pedestal Fund.)
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# The Kural or the Maxims of Tiruvalluvar/Chapter 52

CHAPTER 52
TESTING AND EMPLOYMENT OF MEN
511. Behold the man that seeth the good and seeth the evil also and chooseth only that which is good : employ thou him in thy service.
512. Behold the man that is able to develop the resources of thy kingdom and to cure the ills that may befall it : set him to manage thy affairs.
513. Let him alone be selected for service who is endowed with kindness and intelligence and decision, and who is free from greed.
514. Many are the men that satisfy every test and yet alter in the actual performance of duty.
515. Work should be entrusted to men in consideration of their expert knowledge and capacity for patient exertion, and not of their love towards thy person.
​516. Choose the expert and give him the work for which he is fit : see that the time is ripe for performance and then get him to begin it.
517. Determine first the capacity of the servant and the work for which he is fit : and then leave him in responsible charge of the same.
518. After thou hast decided that a man is fit for an office, make him worthy to fill it.
519. Behold the man who resenteth the friendly advances of the servant who is skilful at his work : Fortune will depart from him.
520. Let the prince oversee everything every day : for there will be nothing wrong with the country so long as there is nothing wrong with the officers of the State.
# The Kural or the Maxims of Tiruvalluvar/Chapter 49

CHAPTER 49
JUDGING THE OPPORTUNE MOMENT
481. The crow triumpheth over the owl when it is day : so opportunity is a great thing to the prince who would vanquish his enemy.
482. To follow closely on the pace of Time : that is the cord that will bind Fortune to thee firmly.
483. Where is the thing called impossible if thou start on thy enterprise with a knowledge of the right season and employ the proper means?
484. Thou canst conquer even the whole world if thou choose the proper time and the proper objectives.
485. Those that are intent on conquests will be quietly watching their opportunity : they will know neither confusion nor hurry.
​486. The ram steppeth back before it delivereth the crushing blow: even such is the inaction of the man of energy.
487. The wise show not their anger on the spot : they will nurse it within their hearts and wait for their opportunity.
488. Bend down before thy adversaries till the day of their decline : when that day is come thou mayest easily throw them down headlong.
489. When thou hast got an unusual chance, hesitate not but straightway attempt even the impossible.
490. When the time is against thee feign inaction like the stork : but when the tide is on, strike with the swiftness of its souse.
# The Kural or the Maxims of Tiruvalluvar/Chapter 55

CHAPTER 55
JUST GOVERNMENT
541. Deliberate well and lean not to either side : be impartial and consult with the men of law: that is the way to administer justice.
542. The world looketh up to the rain-cloud for life : even so do men look up to the sceptre of the prince for protection.
543. The sceptre of the prince is the mainstay of the science of the Brâhmans and of righteousness also.
544. Behold the noble prince who ruleth the people of his dominions with loving care : sovereignty will never depart from him.
545. Behold the prince who wieldeth the sceptre in accordance with the law : seasonal rains and rich harvests have their home in his land.
​546. It is not the lance that bringeth victory unto the prince: it is rather his sceptre, and that provided it is straight and leaneth not to either side.
547. The prince is the protector of all his people : and him his sceptre shall guard, provided he alloweth it not ever to lean to either side.
548. Behold the prince who is not easy of access and who judgeth not causes with care: he will fall from his place and perish, even when he hath no enemy.
549. Behold the prince that guardeth his subjects from enemies both within and without : if he punish them when they go wrong it is not a blemish: it is his duty.
550. Punishing the wicked with death is like the removing of weeds from the corn-field.
# The Kural or the Maxims of Tiruvalluvar/Chapter 56

CHAPTER 56
TYRANNY
551. Behold the prince who oppresseth his subjects and doth iniquity: he is worse than an assassin.
552. A request from him who holdeth the sceptre is like the stand and deliver of the highway robber.
553. Behold the prince who doth not oversee his administration every day and remove the irregularities therein : his sovereignty will wear away day by day.
554. Behold the thoughtless prince whose rule swerveth from the ways of justice : he will lose his kingdom and his substance also.
555. Verily it is the tears of those groaning under oppression that wear away the prosperity of the prince.
​ 556. It is just rule that bringeth renown unto princes : and an unjust government darkeneth their glory.
557. How fareth the earth under a rainless sky ? even so fare the people under the rule of a cruel prince.
558. The condition of the rich man is more galling than that of the poor under the rule of the tyrant prince.
559. The heavens will not send showers in their season if the prince swerveth from justice and right.
560. The udders of the cow will be dried up and the Brâhman will forget his science if the prince ruleth not with justice.
# The Kural or the Maxims of Tiruvalluvar/Chapter 54

CHAPTER 54
GUARDING AGAINST INSOUCIANCE
531. Worse than excessive rage is the unguardedness that cometh of self-complacency.
532. A false sense of security killeth glory even as indigence cursheth the understanding.
533. Glory is not for the unwatchful: that is the conclusion of every school of thinkers in the world.
534. Of what use are fortresses to the cowardly? or abundance of resources to the incautious ?
535. He who faileth to guard against everything beforehand will deplore his negligence when he is surprised by disaster.
​536. If thou relax not in thy vigilance at all times and against all men, there is nothing like it.
537. Nothing is impossible to the man who can bring unto his work a mind that is ever wakeful and cautious.
538. The prince shall devote himself assiduously to works that are commended by the wise: if he neglect them he will suffer in all his future births.
539. When thou art tempted to be self-complacent and elated, call to thy kind those that have perished by their supineness.
540. Verily it is easy for a man to achieve all that he desireth, provided he keepeth his purpose constantly before his mind.
# The Kural or the Maxims of Tiruvalluvar/Chapter 57

CHAPTER 57
ABSTAINING FROM DEEDS THAT CAUSE TREPIDATION
561. The prince shall measure the guilt of the offender and punish him so that he offend not again : but the punishment shall not be excessive.
562. Those that desire that their power shall last, let them brandish the rod smartly but lay it on soft.
563. Behold the prince who ruleth with a rod of iron and causeth anguish unto his people: he shall stand without a friend and perish forthwith.
564. Behold the prince whose cruelty is a by-word among his people : his days will be shortened and he will perish forthwith.
565. Behold the dour-faced prince who is inaccessible to his people : the wealth in his hands is like treasure guarded by a demon.
​566. If the prince is harsh of word and unforgiving, his prosperity, be it ever so great, will come to an end quickly.
567. Words that are harsh and punishments that are excessive are the files that file away the iron of power.
568. Behold the prince who will not take counsel with his councillors but who falleth into a passion when his projects fail : his prosperity will wane away.
569. Behold the prince who looketh not to his defences while yet there is time : when he is surprised by a war be will be seized with trembling and perish quickly.
570. The tyranny that yoketh to itself charlatans is the only burden under which the earth groaneth : there is none other beside.
# The Kural or the Maxims of Tiruvalluvar/Chapter 50

CHAPTER 50
JUDGING OF PLACE
491. Provoke no war and begin no operation except after making a thorough reconnaissance of the theatre of operations.
492. It is an immense advantage even to the powerful and the strong to be based on fortified places.
493. Even the weak can hold their own and triumph over a powerful foe if they choose the proper theatre and operate cautiously.
494. The plans of thy adversaries will be baffled if thou fall back on strong positions and base thyself on them.
495. All-powerful is the crocodile in deep water : but out of it, it is the plaything of its foes. ​496. The strong-wheeled chariot runneth not on the sea : nor saileth the oceangoing ship on dry land.
497. Behold the prince that hath planned everything beforehand and striketh at the proper objective : he wanteth no other ally than his own valour.
498. If the prince whose army is weak only betaketh himself to a proper theatre of war, all the endeavours of his strong foe would be vain against him.
499. Even if they have no proper defences and other advantages it is hard to beat a people on their own soil.
500. Behold the high-mettled elephant that hath faced without wincing a whole multitude of lancers : even a jackal will triumph over him when he is entangled in marshy ground.