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# Evelina, or: a Young Lady's Entrance into the World/Volume 1/Letter I

EVELINA.
LETTER I.
Lady Howard to the Rev. Mr. Villars.
Howard Grove.
Can there, my good Sir, be any thing more painful to a friendly mind, than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relator or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.
I have just had a letter from Madame Duval; she is totally at a loss in what manner to behave; she seems desirous to repair the wrongs she has done, yet wishes the world to believe her blameless. She ​would fain cast upon another the odium of those misfortunes for which she alone is answerable. Her letter is violent, sometimes abusive, and that of you!—you, to whom she is under obligations which are greater even than her faults, but to whose advice she wickedly imputes all the sufferings of her much-injured daughter, the late Lady Belmont. The chief purport of her writing I will acquaint you with; the letter itself is not worthy your notice.
She tells me that she has, for many years past, been in continual expectation of making a journey to England, which prevented her writing for information concerning this melancholy subject, by giving her hopes of making personal enquiries; but family occurrences have still detained her in France, which country she now sees no prospect of quitting. She has, therefore, lately used her utmost endeavours to obtain a faithful account of whatever related to her ill-advised daughter; the result of which giving her some reason to apprehend that, upon her death-bed, she bequeathed an infant orphan to the world, she most graciously says that if you, with whom she understands the child is placed, will procure authentic proofs of its relationship to her, you may send it to Paris, where she will properly provide for it.
​This woman is, undoubtedly, at length, conscious of her most unnatural conduct: it is evident, from her writing, that she is still as vulgar and illiterate as when her first husband, Mr. Evelyn, had the weakness to marry her; nor does she at all apologise for addressing herself to me, though I was only once in her company.
This letter has excited in my daughter Mirvan, a strong desire to be informed of the motives which induced Madame Duval to abandon the unfortunate Lady Belmont, at a time when a mother's protection was so peculiarly necessary for her peace and her reputation. Notwithstanding I was personally acquainted with all the parties concerned in that affair, the subject always appeared of too delicate a nature to be spoken of with the principals; I cannot, therefore, satisfy Mrs. Mirvan otherwise than by applying to you.
By saying that you may send the child, Madame Duval aims at conferring, where she most owes obligation. I pretend not to give you advice; you, to whose generous protection this helpless orphan is indebted for every thing, are the best and only judge of what she ought to do; but I am much concerned for the trouble and uneasiness which this unworthy woman may occasion you.
with great regard, Your most obedient servant and friend,
M. Howard.
# Evelina, or: a Young Lady's Entrance into the World/Volume 1/Inscription

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# Evelina, or: a Young Lady's Entrance into the World/Volume 1/Letter VI

LETTER VI.
Lady Howard to the Rev. Mr. Villars.
Howard Grove.
Dear and Rev. Sir,
The solemn manner in which you have committed your child to my care, has in some measure dampt the pleasure which I receive from the trust, as it makes me fear that you suffer from your compliance, in which case I shall very sincerely blame myself for the earnestness with which I have requested this favour; but remember, my good Sir, she is within a few days summons, and be assured I will not detain her a moment longer than you wish.
You desire my opinion of her.
She is a little angel! I cannot wonder that you sought to monopolize her. Neither ought you, at finding it impossible.
Her face and person answer my most refined ideas of complete beauty: and this, though a subject of praise less important to you, or to me, than any other, is yet so striking, it is not possible to pass it unnoticed. Had I not known from whom she received her education, I should, at first sight of so perfect a face, have been in pain ​for her understanding; since it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.
She has the same gentleness in her manners, the same natural grace in her motions, that I formerly so much admired in her mother. Her character seems truly ingenuous and simple; and, at the same time that nature hus blessed her with an excellent understanding, and great quickness of parts, she has a certain air of inexperience and innocency that is extremely interesting.
You have no reason to regret the retirement in which she has lived; since that politeness which is acquired by an acquaintance with high life, is in her so well supplied by a natural desire of obliging, joined to a deportment infinitely engaging.
I observe with great satisfaction a growing affection between this amiable girl and my grand-daughter, whose heart is as free from selfishness or conceit, as that of her young friend is from all guile. Their attachment may be mutually useful, since much is to be expected from emulation, where nothing is to be feared from envy. I would have them love each other as sisters, and reciprocally supply the place of that tender and happy relationship to which neither of them have a natural claim.
​Be satisfied, my good Sir, that your child shall meet with the same attention as our own. We all join in most hearty wishes for your health and happiness, and in returning our sincere thanks for the favour you have conferred on us.
I am, Dear Sir,
Your most faithful servant,
M. Howard.
# Epitaph on an Infant

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Reprinted in Montgomery, James, editor. The Christian Poet; or, Selections in Verse, on Sacred Subjects. 3rd ed. Page 429.
Beneath, a sleeping infant lies,  To earth whose ashes lent, More glorious shall hereafter rise,  Though not more innocent.
When the arch-angel's trump shall blow,  And souls and bodies join, What crowds will wish, their lives below  Had been as short as thine!
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# Epitaph to a Dog

See also: "Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog"
Near this Spot are deposited the Remains of one Who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, And all the virtues of Man without his Vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery If inscribed over human Ashes, Is but a just tribute to the Memory of Boatswain, a Dog, who was born in Newfoundland May 1803 and died at Newstead, Nov. 18th, 1808.
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# Epitaph on Major André

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This was a poem written for André that was published anonymously in the Scots Magazine in 1781.
"Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, and bravely die?" Yes, sure there is, and Heav'n, with loud acclaim, On orient stars shall 'grave thy deathless name. Each patriot chief now hails thy glorious ghost, And bids thee welcome to th'Elysian coast. What tho' no laurell'd urn thy bones inshrine? Unfading wreaths shall round thy temples twine. What boots it, then, unmanly tears to shed, Or mourn for thee as for the vulgar dead? Britannia cries, "My sons, restrain your woe; Let Andre's name each gen'rous bosom warm, String every nerve, prompt ev'ry hand to arm, 'Till the fell foes bewail their guilty deed, And slaughter'd thousands round their victim bleed!"
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# Epitaph on Salathiel Pavy

Salathiel Pavy was a chorister and child actor who died at the age of 13.
* "Epitaphium," in The Complete Poems of Richard Barnfield, (ed.) by Alexander B. Grosart (1876).
* "On Salathiel Pavy," in Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900, (ed.) by Arthur Quiller-Couch (1931).
# Epitaph on the World

From The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau Volume 1 p. 82.
EPITAPH ON THE WORLD
Here lies the body of this world, Whose soul, alas! to hell is hurled. Its golden youth long since was past, Its silver manhood went as fast, An iron age drew on at last; 'Tis vain its character to tell, The several fates which it befell, What year it died, when 'twill arise, We only know that here it lies.
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# Epitaph on Mrs Clerke

For a detailed, annotated version of this poem, visit The Thomas Gray Archive
Lo! where this silent marble weeps, A friend, a wife, a mother sleeps: A heart, within whose sacred cell The peaceful virtues loved to dwell. Affection warm, and faith sincere, And soft humanity were there. In agony, in death, resigned, She felt the wound she left behind. Her infant image, here below, Sits smiling on a father's woe: Whom what awaits, while yet he strays Along the lonely vale of days? A pang, to secret sorrow dear; A sigh; an unavailing tear; Till time shall every grief remove, With life, with memory, and with love.
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# Epitaph on a Beloved Friend

* "Epitaph on a Friend", in Hours of Idleness (1803)
* "Epitaph on a Beloved Friend" in The Works of Lord Byron (ed. Coleridge, Prothero), Volume 1 (1904)
# Epitaphs for Country Churchyards

Epitaphs
FOR COUNTRY CHURCHYARDS.
COLLECTED AND ARRANGED
BY AUGUSTUS J. C. HARE, OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD.
OXFORD, AND 377, STRAND, LONDON: JOHN HENRY AND JAMES PARKER. M DCCC LVI.
PRINTED BY MESSRS. PARKER, CORN-MARKET, OXFORD.
To all Christian Mourners This Volume is Dedicated, in the hope that it may help them to find the fulfilment of the promise, "Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted."
* Preface
* Texts
* Sentences
* Verses
* Appendix
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# Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period/Ho T'êng-chiao

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​HO T'êng-chiao 何騰蛟 (T. 雲從, 雲若, 雲巖), 1592–1649, Mar. 9, Ming loyalist, was a native of Li-p'ing, Kueichow. After taking his chü-jên degree in 1621, he served in various posts. In the winter of 1643 he was appointed governor of Hupeh and Hunan where he made the acquaintance of Tso Liang-yü [q. v.]. When the Prince of Fu (see under Chu Yu-sung) was proclaimed Emperor at Nanking, Ho was made (November 8, 1644) junior vice-president of the Board of War and later (January 4, 1645) governor-general of six provinces—Hunan, Hupeh, Szechwan, Yunnan, Kweichow, and Kwangsi. Early in 1645 he was forced to join Tso Liang-yü in his advance on the Ming court at Nanking. But when Tso's fleet was passing the Han-yang Gate at Wuchang, Hupeh, Ho escaped and fled to Changsha where he soon learned that the Manchus had taken Nanking (June 8, 1645) and had captured the Prince of Fu (June 18, 1645). Two months later the Prince of Tang (see under Chu Yü-chien) was proclaimed Emperor in Fukien and Ho was appointed concurrently president of the Board of War and Grand Secretary of the Tung-ko (東閣) with the hereditary rank of "Earl of Ting-hsing" (定興伯). Meanwhile the remnant forces of Li Tzŭ-ch'êng [q. v.] declared their allegiance to Ho who was able to establish the so-called "Thirteen Military Centers" (十三鎮) in Hunan. Ho requested the Prince of Tang to move his court to Kanchou, Kiangsi, but the prince was captured (October 6, 1646) by the Ch'ing forces at T'ing-chou, Fukien, near the Kiangsi border. On November 24 the Prince of Kuei (see under Chu Yu-lang) was proclaimed Emperor to continue the Ming cause at Chao-ch'ing, Kwangtung, and Ho was made concurrently president of the Board of War and Grand Secretary of the Wu-ying-tien 武英殿. When the Manchus pressed down on Hunan, the so-called “Thirteen Military Centers” were shattered, and Ho fled southward to Wu-kang, Hunan, (July 1647) where he had an audience with Chu Yu-lang [q. v.]. On September 22 Wu-kang fell to the Manchus and Ho was enjoined to help Ch'ü Shih-ssŭ [q. v.] defend Kuei-lin, Kwangsi, while Chu Yu-lang sought safety in Ching-chou, Hunan, and later in Liu-chou, Kwangsi. After defeating the Manchu troops at Ch'üan-chou, Kwangsi (November 28), Ho was raised in rank to "Marquis of Ting-hsing."
The rebellion of Chin Shêng-huan [q. v.] against the Manchus in Kiangsi (June 1648) shifted the center of the Manchu attack and made it possible for Ho to recover a number of cities in Hunan during that winter. Early in the following year (1649) the Manchus initiated a campaign against the Ming forces in Hunan. On March 3 Hsiang-t'an, Hunan, fell and Ho was captured. Failing to win him over to the Manchu cause, the enemy put him to death. The Ming court gave him the title, "Prince of Chung-hsiang" (中湘王) and the posthumous name, Wên-lieh 文烈. In ​1776 Emperor Kao-tsung canonized him as Chung-ch'êng 忠誠.
[M.3/260/1a; M.36/6/1a; M.41/8/14a; 15/1b, 10b, 30a, 16/5a; M.64/辛9/1a; Li-p'ing fu chih (1891) 7上/34b, 119b.]
J. C. Yang
# Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period/Hou T'ung-tsêng

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​HOU T'ung-tsêng 侯峒曾 (T. 豫瞻, H. 廣成), 1591–1645, Aug. 25, official and martyr to the Ming cause, was a native of Chia-ting, Kiangsu. A chin-shih of 1625, he served in various posts in Kiangsi and Chekiang and was commended as one of the five best local administrators in the empire. He was associated with the Fu-shê 復社, politico-literary party, of which his younger brother, Hou Ch'i-tsêng 侯𡸷曾, was a member. In 1644 he was appointed vice-governor of Peking but before he assumed office the city fell. When the Ming Prince of Fu (see Chu Yu-sung) assigned him a post he pleaded illness and retired to his native Chia-ting. At this time the turncoat general, Li Ch'êng-tung [q. v.], was stationed at Wusung and oppressing the people. The latter chose Hou T'ung-tsêng as their leader and prepared to hold Chia-ting against the government forces. Cooperating with Huang Ch'un-yüeh [q. v.], Hou defeated Li in two engagements, but on August 25, 1645, after the walls had been washed away by a flood, the Ch'ing forces entered the city and started the first of the three wholesale massacres of the district in that year, known as Chia-ting san-t'u 嘉定三屠. Hou Tung-tsêng threw himself into the pool behind the family ancestral hall, but before he was dead soldiers dragged him out, decapitated him, and exposed his head on the city wall.
The Ming Prince of T'ang (see Chu Yü-chien) gave him the posthumous rank of president of the Board of War; in 1722 the district built a hall in honor of him, his brother and his father; and in 1776 he was given the group name Chung-chieh 忠節. He left a commentary on the Classic of Changes, entitled 易解 I-chieh, 4 chüan, and a collection of prose (文集) in 40 chüan. His literary collection, entitled 仍貽堂集 Jêng-i t'ang chi 2 chüan, was printed in the collectanea, Ch'ien-k'un chêng-ch'i chi (see under Huang Tao-chou).
[M.277/15a; Chia-ting-hsien chih (1882) 17/6a, 2/25b; M.59/46/19a; 南疆逸史 Nan-chiang i-shih 25/1a; 嘉定縣乙酉紀事 Chia-ting-hsien i-yu chi-shih, in 痛史 T'ung-shih XI, 1a; 明季南略 Ming-chi nan-lüeh 9/15a.]
Earl Swisher
# Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period/Hohori

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​HOHORI 何和禮 (or 和和理), 1561–1624, Sept. 2, was the chieftain of a small group of Warka 瓦爾喀 Jurjen who had moved westward to Donggo 棟鄂 and adopted the place-name as the designation for their clan. Hohori's grandfather, Kece bayan 克徹巴顏, came into conflict with the ancestors of Nurhaci [q. v.], then known as the ningguta (six) beile, who lived in the neighborhood of Hetu ala to the northwest. The frequent raids which the Donggo clan made on the six beile led them to seek the aid of the Hada with whom several matrimonial alliances were formed, including the marriage of a son of Socangga 索長阿, grand-uncle of Nurhaci, to a daughter of Wan [q. v.]. In 1588 the Hada chieftain gave his sister in marriage to Nurhaci; and Hohori, who had become chieftain in his own clan two years previously, led a group of thirty horsemen as escort for the maiden on her journey. Hohori decided upon Nurhaci's invitation to join forces with him. He married Nurhaci's eldest daughter and in 1601 was given a prominent place in the Red Banner. In 1608 he took part in the expedition against the Ula tribe (see under Bujantai) and in 1611 accompanied Eidu and Hûrhan [qq. v.] in the campaign against the Weji 渥集 tribe. Two years later he helped with the final conquest of the Ula. In 1615 he became commander of the Plain Red Banner and concurrently one of the Five Councilors, the others being Eidu, Hûrhan, Fiongdon, and Anfiyanggû [qq. v.]. He led his troops with distinction in the battle against the armies sent by Yang Hao [q. v.] in 1619 and in the capture of Shên-yang and Liao-yang two years later. For reward he was given the hereditary rank of a third class viscount. In 1624 he died, having outlived the other four members of Nurhaci's original council. Deeply mourned, he was posthumously elevated under T'ai-tsung to the rank of duke of the third class. In 1655 he was canonized as Wên-shun 温順 and in 1731 there was added to his hereditary rank the designation "Courageously Diligent" (勇勤 Yung-ch'in).
Of Hohori's six sons the fourth, Hošotu 和碩圖 (1594–1633), married a daughter of Daišan [q. v.] and was commander of the Plain Red Banner until his death in 1633. Dojiri 多積理, second son of Hohori, had a brilliant military career and died in 1648. The fifth son, Dulei 都類 (d. 1656), whose mother was Nurhaci's eldest daughter, became commander of the Plain Red Banner. He was given a second class earldom. A great-grandson of Hohori, and sixth inheritor of his dukedom, was General Pengcun [q. v.] who fought against the Russians on the Amur in the 1680's.
[1/231/5b; 3/262/1a; 4/3/13a; 11/1/19b; 34/164/1a.]
George A. Kennedy
# Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period/Howqua

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​HOWQUA. See under Wu Ch'ung-yüeh.
# Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period/Hsi-tsung

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​HSI-tsung. Temple name of Chu Yu-chiao.
# Executive Order 1361

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Revokes (in part) unnumbered Executive Order of June 30, 1904
Signed by President William H. Taft Friday, May 26, 1911
General Orders No. 76, War Department, 1911
It is hereby ordered that the following-described portion of the military reservation at Valdez, Alaska, known as cable reservation No. 2, lying southwesterly of McKinley Street and northwesterly of Reservation Avenue, being one of the reservations made for military purposes by Executive Order dated June 30, 1904 (G. O. No. 166, War Department, Washington, Oct. 20, 1904), be, and the same is hereby, withdrawn from reservation and placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior, under the provisions of the act of July 5, 1884 (23 Stat L., 103), the same having become useless for military purposes, for disposition under said act or as may be otherwise provided by law, with a view to incorporating the same in the street system of the town of Valdez, Alaska, viz:
Beginning on the northwesterly side of Reservation Avenue, at a point 137 feet 7.92 Inches from the southwesterly side of McKinley Street; thence and 28° 33′ W., parallel with the southwesterly side of said McKinley Street, 75 feet 2.88 inches to the northwesterly side of the said reservation; thence S. 61° 27′ W., 44 feet 6 inches to the westerly comer of the said reservation; thence S. 28° 33′ E., with the southwesterly side of the reservation to Reservation Avenue; thence with reservation Avenue N. 61° 27′ E., 44 feet 6 inches, to the point of beginning.
The White House, May 26, 1911.
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# Euripides (Mahaffy)

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Part of the Classical Writers series.
Classical Writers
EURIPIDES
J. P. MAHAFFY
Classical Writers. Edited by John Richard Green.
EURIPIDES.
BY
J. P. MAHAFFY, A.M.,
FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE AND PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN.
NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 549 & 551 BROADWAY. 1879.
CONTENTS
Chapter I. :
| | PAGE |
| HIS AGE AND SURROUNDINGS | 5 |
| Chapter II. ||
| THE POET'S LIFE AND STUDIES | 26 |
| Chapter III. ||
| SURVEY OF HIS WORKS | 39 |
| Chapter IV. ||
| HIS PLOTS | 45 |
| Chapter V. ||
| DRAMAS OF CHARACTER AND OF SITUATION—THE CYCLOPS | 65 |
| Chapter VI. ||
| SPECIAL CHARACTERS—HEROINES | 88 |
| Chapter VII. ||
| HEROES, HERALDS, SLAVES | 101 |
| Chapter VIII. ||
| HIS LYRIC POETRY—CHORAL ODES, MONODIES | 111 |
| Chapter IX. ||
| PROLOGUES, EPILOGUES, LESSER CHARACTERISTICS | 120 |
| Chapter X. ||
| THE HISTORY AND FORTUNES OF HIS WORKS | 128 |
CLASSICAL WRITERS
EURIPIDES–J. P. MAHAFFY
Edited by J. R. GREEN
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# Evelina/Volume 2/Letter LVI

WELCOME, thrice welcome, my darling Evelina, to the arms of the truest, the fondest of your friends! Mrs. Clinton, who shall hasten to you with these lines, will conduct you directly hither; for I can consent no longer to be parted from the child of my bosom!-the comfort of my age!-the sweet solace of all my infirmities! Your worthy friends at Howard Grove must pardon me that I rob them of the visit you proposed to make them before your return to Berry Hill, for I find my fortitude unequal to a longer separation.
I have much to say to you, many comments to make upon your late letters, some parts of which give me no little uneasiness; but I will reserve my remarks for our future conversations. Hasten, then, to the spot of thy nativity, the abode of thy youth, where never yet care or sorrow had power to annoy thee.-O that they might ever be banished this peaceful dwelling!
Adieu, my dearest Evelina! I pray but that thy satisfaction at our approaching meeting may bear any comparison with mine! ARTHUR VILLARS.