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# A Channel Passage and Other Poems/The Centenary of the Battle of the Nile

Previously printed in The Anglo-Saxon Review, Vol. i, 1899, pp. 186-187.
THE CENTENARY OF THE BATTLE OF THE NILE
August 1898
'Horatio Nelson—Honor est a Nilo
A hundred years have lightened and have waned
Since ancient Nile by grace of Nelson gained
A glory higher in story now than time
Saw when his kings were gods that raged and reigned.
The day that left even England more sublime
And higher on heights that none but she may climb
Abides above all shock of change-born chance
Where hope and memory hear the stars keep chime.
The strong and sunbright lie whose name was France
Arose against the sun of truth, whose glance Laughed large from the eyes of England, fierce as fire
Whence eyes wax blind that gaze on truth askance.
A name above all names of heroes, higher Than song may sound or heart of man aspire, Rings as the very voice that speaks the sea To-day from all the sea's enkindling lyre.
The sound that bids the soul of silence be Fire, and a rapturous music, speaks, and we Hear what the sea's heart utters, wide and far: "This was his day, and this day's light was he."
O sea, our sea that hadst him for thy star, A hundred years that fall upon thee are Even as a hundred flakes of rain or snow: No storm of battle signs thee with a scar.
But never more may ship that sails thee show, But never may the sun that loves thee know, But never may thine England give thee more, A man whose life and death shall praise thee so.
The Nile, the sea, the battle, and the shore, Heard as we hear one word arise and soar, Beheld one name above them tower and glow— Nelson: a light that time bows down before.
# 1949 Amendments to the Persian Constitution

This is the UK Foreign Office's translation of Law amending Article 48 of the Iranian Constitution and Law adding an additional article to the Supplementary Constitutional Laws of Iran, as published in British and Foreign State Papers, vol 155 (1958).
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# 1947 Amendment to the Constitution of the Philippines

Source: Special Number of the Official Gazette. Vol. 42, No. 11-A. Manila. Bureau of Printing. 1946. p. 206.
Related documents: Tydings–McDuffie Act – Constitution of the Philippines (1935) – Constitution of the Philippines (1935, amended) – 1939 amendments – 1940 amendments – 1947 amendment – Rejected 1967 amendments (Resolution of Both Houses No. 1 – Resolution of Both Houses No. 3)
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FIRST CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
First Session
Begun and held at the City of Manila on Saturday, the twenty-fifth day of May, nineteen hundred and forty-six
[Resolution of Both Houses]
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in joint session assembled, by a vote of not less than three-fourths of all the Members of each House voting separately, To propose, as they do hereby propose, the following amendment to the Constitution of the Philippines to be appended as an Ordinance thereto:
"ORDINANCE APPENDED TO THE CONSTITUTION
"Notwithstanding the provisions of section one, Article Thirteen, and section eight, Article Fourteen, of the foregoing Constitution, during the effectivity of the Executive Agreement entered into by the President of the Philippines with the President of the United States on the fourth of July, nineteen hundred and forty-six, pursuant to the provisions of Commonwealth Act Numbered Seven hundred and thirty-three, but in no case to extend beyond the third of July, nineteen hundred and seventy-four, the disposition, exploitation, development, and utilization of all agricultural, timber, and mineral lands of the public domain, waters, minerals, coal, petroleum, and other mineral oils, all forces and sources of potential energy, and other natural resources of the Philippines, and the operation of public utilities, shall, if open to any person, be open to citizens of the United States and to all forms of business enterprise owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by citizens of the United States in the same manner as to, and under the same conditions imposed upon, citizens of the Philippines or corporations or associations owned or controlled by citizens of the Philippines."
This amendment shall be valid as a part of the Constitution when approved by a majority of the votes cast in an election at which it is submitted to the people for their ratification pursuant to Article XV of the Constitution.
Adopted, September 18, 1946.
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# 1932 Royal Christmas Message

The first of the Royal Christmas Messages, written by Rudyard Kipling and broadcast live over radio from Sandringham House by King George V in 1932.
Through one of the marvels of modern Science, I am enabled, this Christmas Day, to speak to all my peoples throughout the Empire. I take it as a good omen that Wireless should have reached its present perfection at a time when the Empire has been linked in closer union. For it offers us immense possibilities to make that union closer still.
It may be that our future may lay upon us more than one stern test. Our past will have taught us how to meet it unshaken. For the present, the work to which we are all equally bound is to arrive at a reasoned tranquillity within our borders; to regain prosperity without self-seeking; and to carry with us those whom the burden of past years has disheartened or overborne.
My life's aim has been to serve as I might, towards those ends. Your loyalty, your confidence in me has been my abundant reward.
I speak now from my home and from my heart to you all. To men and women so cut off by the snows, the desert or the sea, that only voices out of the air can reach them; to those cut off from fuller life by blindness, sickness, or infirmity; and to those who are celebrating this day with children and their grand-children. To all—to each—I wish a Happy Christmas. God Bless You!
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# A Chinese and English vocabulary, in the Tie-chiu dialect/Kong
### Kong.
#### 功$^1$

    Meritorious service; merit; praise; service; work.

#### 攻$^1$

    To attack; assault; rouse; apply closely to; put in order.

#### 公$^1$

    Public; not selfish; just; a title of nobility; male.

#### 蚣$^1$

    A poisonous insect; a medicine made of the centipede.

#### 貢$^{3-}$

    Tribute; offerings to one's services; merit; to offer.
# A Chinese and English vocabulary, in the Tie-chiu dialect/Ku
### Ku.
#### 劬$^{-1}$

    Labor; travail; distress; fatigue.

#### 拘$^{-1}$

    To hook or take; to sweep or draw together.

#### 朐$^{-1}$

    Dried meat; hams.

#### 駒$^{-1}$

    A colt; fine young horse.

#### 煦$^{-1}$

    To boil; to heat; genial warmth; kind; benevolent.

#### 龜$^{-1}$

    A tortoise.

#### 骷$^{-1}$

    Bones of the knee; loins and shoulder.

#### 辜$^{-1}$

    Fault; crime; guilt; to monopolize.

#### 俱$^1$

    All; together; prepared.

#### 舊$^1$

    Old; not new; a long time; formerly.

#### 賈$^2$

    To buy and sell; a merchant.

#### 久$^2$

    A long time. ​

#### 盬$^2$

    Any vessel or utensil.

#### ⿱艹⿱⿰臣古皿$^2$

    Name of a plant.

#### 𦍩$^2$

    A sheep with black and white wool; a ram.

#### 嘏$^2$

    Great; remote; stable; happy; blessed; propitious.

#### 具$^{-3}$

    Arranged; prepared; to present to; a utensil.

#### 颶$^{-3}$

    A whirlwind; typhoon; a sea storm.

#### 舅$^{-3}$

    The brothers of a mother or wife; father of a husband.

#### 懼$^{-3}$

    Fear; apprehension.

#### 句$^{3-}$

    A sentence; period; to mark off; reject.

#### 故$^{3-}$

    A cause; reason; therefore; old; ancient; to die.

#### 固$^{3-}$

    Certainly; firm; solid; impervious; obstinate.

#### 婟$^{3-}$

    Excessive attachment to.

#### 痼$^{3-}$

    A chronic, deep rooted, obstinate disease.

#### 錮$^{3-}$

    To close or stop up firmly; to shut up a way.

#### 顧$^{3-}$

    To look to with care and regard; to protect.
# A Chinese and English vocabulary, in the Tie-chiu dialect/Kun
### Kun.
#### 裙$^{-1}$

    A petticoat; lower part of a dress.

#### 軍$^1$

    Many persons; an army; 12,500 men.

#### 君$^1$

    A chief; prince; king; to rule; honorable; virtuous.

#### 袞$^2$

    Imperial raiment; court dresses.

#### 滾$^2$

    Flowing water; moving rapidly; rolling; to roll.

#### 鯀$^2$

    A large fish.

#### 郡$^{-3}$

    A principality.

#### 棍$^{3-}$

    A stick; a staff; a rod.
# A Chinese and English vocabulary, in the Tie-chiu dialect/Kut
### Kut.
#### 崛$^{-4}$

    A solitary mountain-top standing out singly.

#### 掘$^{-4}$

    To dig into the ground; to hollow out; to spread out.

#### 滑$^{-4}$

    Smooth; slippery; sharp; soap-stone.

#### 骨$^4$

    A bone; hard and smooth parts of the body; fibres of plants.

#### 猾$^4$

    Artful; crafty; tricky; deceitful; to gnaw.

#### 汨$^4$

    Flowing along; waves; agitated; confusion.
# A Chinese and English vocabulary, in the Tie-chiu dialect/Ko
### Ko.
#### 姑$^1$

    A father's sister; a husband's mother and sisters.

#### 枯$^1$

    Rotten wood; a dead tree; decayed; putrid.

#### 沽$^1$

    Name of a river; to buy; sell; abridge; retrench.

#### 骷$^1$

    Bones of the knee, loins and shoulder.

#### 鴣$^1$

    A partridge.

#### 孤$^1$

    Fatherless; an orphan; alone; destitute; poor.

#### 菰$^1$

    Name of a plant.

#### 觚$^1$

    A wine cup; a rule of law; a title of office.

#### 古$^2$

    Ancient; remote ages.

#### 估$^2$

    Tax; duty; custom paid to government; to reckon; to value; price.

#### 牯$^2$

    A bullock; also the male of swine and dogs.

#### 詁$^2$

    To explain; explanations.

#### 酤$^2$

    Liquor for drinking; to buy or sell wine.

#### 苟$^2$

    If; but; uncertainty; carelessly; illicitly; plants.

#### 耉$^2$

    An old person; very old.

#### 股$^2$

    The thighs; a branch of a stream; a division of; strong.

#### 皷$^2$鼓$^2$

    To beat a drum; strike a sonorous body; to rouse or excite; a drum.

#### 瞽$^2$

    Blind; the master of a band of music.

#### 蠱$^2$

    Worms in the abdomen; poison; ghost. ​

#### 靠$^{-3}$

    To rely on; depend on.

#### 詬$^{-3}$

    To revile.

#### 垢$^{3-}$

    Dirt; filth; mire; mud; a disgrace; reproach.

#### 姤$^{3-}$

    Meeting together; contact; union of the sexes.

#### 冓$^{3-}$

    To connect together as the beams of a house; one hundred millions.

#### 媾$^{3-}$

    Love; conjugal union; marriage; sexual intercourse.

#### 搆$^{3-}$

    To draw; to pull; drag; to plot.

#### 構$^{3-}$

    Wooden frame of a house; to join together; complete.

#### 篝$^{3-}$

    A bamboo basket or utensil.

#### 覯$^{3-}$

    To meet one's eye; to see; to happen; to effect; complete.

#### 購$^{3-}$

    To buy; to seek to obtain for money.

#### 遘$^{3-}$

    To meet; occur; happen; to bolt upon accidentally.

#### 僱$^{3-}$

    To hire; borrow for money.

#### 殼$^{3-}$

    To stretch a bow; an archer; enough; adequate.

#### 轂$^{3-}$

    The name of a wheel; a wheel carriage.

#### 够$^{3-}$

    Much collected together; satisfied; enough.
# A Chinese and English vocabulary, in the Tie-chiu dialect/Kok
### Kok.
#### 峪$^{-4}$

    A pool of water in a valley.

#### 國$^4$

    A nation; country; kingdom.

#### 嘓$^4$

    Chattering; troublesome loquacity.

#### 幗$^4$

    A woman's head-dress; a cap.

#### 咯$^4$

    Cackling of a fowl; coughing; wrangling. ​

#### 谷$^4$

    The channel of a stream; a valley; a cavern.

#### 綌$^4$

    Coarse hempen cloth.

#### 穀$^4$

    Grain of all sorts; real; good; substantial; wealthy.
# A Chinese and English vocabulary, in the Tie-chiu dialect/Kui
### Kui.
#### 圭$^1$

    A gem or sceptre carried by officers as a badge of authority.

#### 奎$^1$

    Between the legs; striding.

#### 跬$^1$

    A pace or step; to step with one foot.

#### 閨$^1$

    Solitary apartments for women and children. ​

#### 規$^1$

    Compasses; a rule; custom; to rule; regulate; to play.

#### 窺$^1$

    To spy; look; peep out of a cavern.

#### 闚$^1$

    To peep out at a door; to spy; observe narrowly.

#### 歸$^1$

    To return; go back; to attach one's self to; to send back.

#### 鬼$^2$

    Spirit of a dead man; ghost; demon; devil.

#### 傀$^2$

    Great; excellent; extraordinary; strange.

#### 憒$^{-3}$

    Disquietude of mind; stupidity of sickness.

#### 潰$^{-3}$

    Opposing currents clashing; in disorder; enraged.

#### 瞶$^{-3}$

    To glance hastily; a dull eye; without a pupil.

#### 蕢$^{-3}$

    Name of a vegetable; a clod of earth; utensil made of straw.

#### 饋$^{-3}$

    Food; to prepare food; to offer it to superiors; to present to.

#### 跪$^{-3}$

    To kneel as in worship.

#### 桂$^{3-}$

    Name of a medicine; the laurus cassia.

#### 癸$^{3-}$

    The last of the ten astronomical characters in the cycle.

#### 季$^{3-}$

    Young; small; slender; the last of a series.

#### 貴$^{3-}$

    Lofty; noble; costly; desirable valuable.
# A Chinese and English vocabulary, in the Tie-chiu dialect/Koi
### Koi.
#### 街$^1$

    A street; path; market.

#### 雞$^1$鷄$^1$

    A fowl; the fowl genus.

#### 堦$^1$

    To rub with the hand; to dust.

#### 階$^1$

    Stairs; steps; degrees; rank.

#### 改$^2$

    To change; alter; an alteration.

#### 解$^2$

    To cut open; unloose; explain; lay open; liberate.

#### 易$^3$

    Easy; not difficult; negligent; idle.

#### 計$^{3-}$

    A complete number; to reckon; plan; devise; a plan.

#### 解$^{3-}$

    To deliver up to an officer; to escort.

#### 廨$^3$

    An apartment near a yamun; a magastrate's lodging.
# A Chinese and English vocabulary, in the Tie-chiu dialect/Kue
### Kue.
#### 瓜$^1$

    A cucumber; melon; the cucumis genus.

#### 粿$^2$

    Clean rice; rice food.

#### 菓$^2$

    Fruit of trees; really; truly.

#### 過$^{3-}$

    To pass; exceed; transgress; error; fault; crime; past.

#### 䯻$^{3-}$

    Hair braided in a tuft on the top of the head.

#### 郭$^4$

    Waste land outside of cities.
# A Chinese and English vocabulary, in the Tie-chiu dialect/Kwa
### Kwa.
#### 寡$^2$

    Few; little; single; a widow; I, used by princes.

#### 果$^2$

    To surpass; overcome; really; truly.

#### 割$^4$

    To cut; cut off; divide; wound; injure.

#### 葛$^4$

    Creeping plants; plants of which thin cloth is made.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Rosa, Carl August Nicholas

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​ROSA, CARL AUGUST NICHOLAS (1843-1889), English musical impresario, was born at Hamburg, his family name (which he subsequently changed) being Rose. He started as a solo violinist, studying at Leipzig and Paris, and also had considerable success as a conductor both in England and America; and it was at New York in 1867 that he met and married the famous operatic soprano Madame Parepa (1836-1874), at whose death he afterwards' endowed a Parepa-Rosa scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 1875 he started the Carl Rosa Opera Company, for producing the best operas in English versions, and both during his own life and after his death this company had much to do with popularizing good music in England, encouraging native composers and training a number of excellent singers. Carl Rosa married a second time in 1881, and died in Paris on the 30th of April 1889.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Roquelaure

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​ROQUELAURE, a title derived from a small commune in France (dep. of Gers), and borne by a French family of Armagnac, one member of which was Antoine, baron de Roquelaure (1544–1625), who was in the service of Henry IV. before he became king, and after his accession was made master of the wardrobe, lieutenant-general in Auvergne (1576) and Guienne (1610), and marshal of France in 1614. His son, Gaston Jean Baptiste de Roquelaure (1617–1683), a celebrated wit, was created duke and peer of France in 1652, and was appointed governor of Guienne in 1679. Gaston’s son, Antoine Gaston Jean Baptiste de Roquelaure (1656–1738), carried on the family reputation for wit, and, in spite of his military incapacity, received the marshal’s bâton in 1724.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Rorschach

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​RORSCHACH, a busy commercial town in the Swiss canton of St Gall, situated on the south-west shore of the Lake of Constance, and by rail 62 m. N.E. of Zürich, 10 m. S.E. of Romanshorn and 57 m. N. of Coire. In 1900 its population was 9140, mostly German-speaking, while there were 5935 Romanists to 3139 Protestants. From 1408 to 1798 it belonged to the abbot of St Gall, and then to the canton Säntis (named canton of St Gall in 1803) of the Helvetic Republic. It has always been a great commercial centre, though now superseded by Romanshorn as regards the corn trade. It has many industrial establishments, of which the chief is one for the manufacture of lace and ​muslin. Above the town is the old convent of Mariaberg, originally built in the 15th century as a refuge for the monks of St Gall against the turbulent citizens of that town, but now a seminary for teachers. From Rorschach a cogwheel railway runs south-east in 4¼ m. up to Heiden, a village in the Canton of Appenzell well known for its goats' whey cure. (W. A. B. C.)
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Ropes, John Codman

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​ROPES, JOHN CODMAN (1836–1899), American military historian and lawyer, was born at St Petersburg on the 28th of April 1836, the son of a leading merchant of Boston who was engaged in business in Russia. At the age of fourteen, his family having meantime returned to Massachusetts, he developed an affection of the spine which eventually became a permanent deformity. His courage and energy, however, did not allow him to yield to his affliction. He entered Harvard in 1853, and graduated in 1857. His interests as a young man were chiefly religious, legal and historical, and these remained with him throughout life, his career as a lawyer being conspicuous and successful. But it was the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 which fixed his attention principally on military history. He ceaselessly assisted with business and personal help and friendship the officers and men of the 20th Massachusetts regiment, in which his brother, Henry Ropes, served up to his death at Gettysburg, and after the war he devoted himself to the collection and elucidation of all obtainable evidence as to its incidents and events. In this work his clear and unprejudiced legal mind enabled him to sift the truth from the innumerable public and private controversies, and the ill-informed allotment of praise and blame by the popular historians and biographers. The focus of his work was the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, which he founded in 1876. The work of this society was the collection and discussion of evidence relating to the great conflict. Although practically every member of this society except himself had fought through the war, and many, such as Hancock and W. F. Smith, were general officers of great distinction, it was from first to last maintained and guided by Ropes, who presented to it his military library and his collection of prints and medals. He died at Boston on the 28th of October 1899. His principal work is an unfinished Story of the Civil War, to which he devoted most of his later years; this covers the years 1861–62. The Army under Pope is a detailed narration of the Virginia campaign of August-September 1862, which played a great part in reversing contemporary judgment on the events of those operations, notably as regards the unjustly-condemned General Fitz John Porter. Outside America, Ropes is known chiefly as the author of The Campaign of Waterloo, which is one of the standard works on the subject.
The greater part of his studies of the Civil War appears in the Military Historical Society’s publications. Papers on the Waterloo cam aign appeared in the Atlantic Monthly of June 1881, and in Scribner’s Magazine of March and April 1888. Amongst his miscellaneous works is a paper on “The Likenesses of Julius Caesar” in Scribner’s Magazine (February 1887).
See Memoir of John Codman Ropes (Boston, privately printed. 1901).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Ros, Sir Richard

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​ROS, SIR RICHARD (b. 1429), English poet, son of Sir Thomas Ros, lord of Hamlake (Helmsley) in Yorkshire and of Belvoir in Leicestershire, was born on the 8th of March 1429. In Harl. MS. 372 the poem of "La Belle Dame sanz Mercy," first printed in W. Thynne's Chaucer (1532), has the ascription "Translatid out of Frenche by Sir Richard Ros." "La Belle Dame sanz Mercy" is a long and rather dull poem from the French of Alain Chartier, and dates from about the middle of the 15th century. It is written in the Midland dialect, and is surprisingly modern in diction. The opening lines
"Half in a dreme, not fully wel awaked, "The golden sleep me wrapped under his wing,"
have often been quoted, but the dialogue between the very long-suffering lover and the cruel lady does not maintain this high level.
See W. W. Skeat, Chaucerian and Other Pieces (1897); and Dr. H. Grohler, Ueber Richard Ros' mittelenglische Uebersetzung... (Breslau, 1886).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Rosa, Monte

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​ROSA, MONTE, the name of a great glacier-clad mountain mass (the name comes from the Aostan patois word roëse, meaninga glacier) which rises S.E. of Zermatt, and on the frontier between Switzerland (canton of the Valais) and Italy. Ten summits in this huge mass are distinguished by name, of which four (the Nordend, 15,132 ft., the Zumsteinspitze, 15,004 ft., the Signalkuppe or Punta Gnifetti, 14,965 ft., and the Parrotspitze, 14,643 ft.) rise on the frontier. The five lower summits are on the Italian slope, but the highest of all, the Dufourspitze, 15,217 ft. (so named by the Swiss government in honour of General Dufour, the head of the great survey which first accurately fixed the position of these points), rises W. of the frontier ridge, on a buttress, and is thus entirely in Switzerland, of which it is the culminating peak (and not, as often stated, the Dom, 14,942 ft., in the Mischabel group). The loftiest point of the Dufourspitze was first attained in 1855 by a large English party, which included Messrs G. and C. Smyth, C. Hudson, Birkbeck and Stevenson. The Zumsteinspitze was first climbed in 1820, the Signalkuppe (on top of which there is now a club hut) in 1842, the Nordend in 1861 and the Parrotspitze in 1863. The ascent of all the points named is not difficult from the Swiss side, but excessively dangerous on the east or Italian side. (W. A. B. C.)
# A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/If I had Two Ships

​XXXVI. IF I HAD TWO SHIPS
If I had two ships on the ocean, Both laden with silver and gold, I'd give them both to my sweet William, My sailor so true and so bold. Both to my Willy, both to my Willy, My sailor so true and so bold.
If I had two wings of an angel, To fly o'er the ocean so blue, I'd fly to the arms of sweet William, My sailor so bold and so true. Fly to my William, etc.