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# Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1839/Colgong on the Ganges

See under Kahalgaon
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* ROCKS AT COLGONG ON THE GANGES.
* Artist: J. M. W. Turner R. A. - Engraved by: E. Goodall
COLGONG ON THE GANGES.
A lonely tomb,—and who within it sleepeth
 None knows: old Time hath many secret things.
But there her rosy tears the Evening weepeth,
 And there the Morn her early sunshine flings.
For ever glideth on that lovely river;  Laden with early wreaths the creepers twine, While, like the arrows from a royal quiver,  Golden the glancing sunbeams o’er them shine.
Oh, outward world, how beautiful thy seeming!  How lavish in thy luxury! how fair! A thousand blossoms light the thickets, teeming  With future glories for the kindling air.
Yet less the prodigal loveliness enchanteth,  With all the passing hours from summer win; Less is the human spirit by it haunted  Than by some link that wakes the world within.
The Hindoo gathered of the purple flowers—  What needed he?—A garland for his head?— Not so—he asketh from the summer hours  A tribute for the unforgotten dead.
And not in vain that fragrant wealth is scattered:  For lofty thoughts and noble, haunt the grave. The selfish chain of actual life is shattered,  And higher thoughts higher existence crave.
It is the past that maketh the ideal,  Kindling the future with its onward ray, And o’er a world that else would be too real,  Flinging the glory of the moral day.
The melancholy marking the Hindoo character is especially shown in the picturesque sites chosen for their tombs. Strangers will scatter flowers over the dust that, for them, has not even a name. The tomb on the summit of the rocks at Colgong is treated with that tender respect which in India is always the portion of the dead.—"These picturesque rocks, the occasional habitation of a Fakeer, occur at about a day’s journey below Jangbera, on the Ganges, in the midst of romantic and varied scenery. They are esteemed sacred by the Hindoo devotees, and have been sculptured with rude effigies of their gods."
# Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1839/Crossing the River Tonse by a Jhoola

Note the mimicking of the three-stranded rope in the form of this poem
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* CROSSING THE RIVER TONSE BY A JHOOLA.
* Artist: W. Purser - Engraved by: H. Jorden
CROSSING THE RIVER TONSE BY A JHOOLA.
Light is the bridge across the dark blue river, Gracefully swinging, far more like a shadow Flung from a cloud, than the work of man and labour.
Formed of twisted grasses, fragile is the structure—
Seems it as meant to bear no other burden
Than sunbeams and moonbeams, dreams, thoughts, and fancies.
Light is the line it traces on the water,
Light is the line it traces on the air—
Made to carry over yellow flowers from the champac.
Yet must it bear the weight of many burthens; Winding around it passes the dark Hindoo—
Often does it bend, though it breaks not with its freightage.
Airy bridge! thou art of airy youth the symbol—
So does its hope bind the present and the future;
So slight is the structure which its heart carries onwards.
Hope’s fairy arches cross human life’s dark river;
Frail the support—while over it there hastens
All the sweet beliefs that make the morning fair.
Soon the noontide comes, and the hurried hours grow busy
Morning has passed like a bright and sudden vision, Day has other freightage than its blushes and its dews.
Slight as is the bridge, yet it can well sustain them;
Hope carries on life’s passage to the last,
Aiding in its labour, as it aided in its fancies.
The natives in this part of India perform the operation of crossing their rivers by means of the jhoola, or rope-bridge; holding on with the hands and feet, and making a loop of their bodies: but, for those unaccustomed to their exercises, there is a wooden slide attached to the rope. On the left bank of the Tonse, which is rather more elevated than the opposite one, a three-stranded rope is attached to a log of wood, secured among the rocks. The rope being stretched across the river, (which is here eighty yards in width) is passed between the prongs of a wooden fork, planted firmly in the ground; and being again divided into three strands, is secured to the trunk of a tree, steadied by a heavy weight. The slide, of hollowed wood, hangs like a moveable scale from the rope, having two handles, and a loop to which a thin cord is attached; by means of the latter, the two-handled chair, or slide, is drawn from the lower to the higher bank, the weight of the passenger being sufficient to accomplish the transit in the opposite direction.
# Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1839/Hindoo Temples on the Mountain-Lake of Aboo

see Nakki Lake and Mount Abu
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* MOUNTAIN TEMPLES, LAKE OF ABOO.
* Artist: H. Melville - Engraved by: E. Benjamin
HINDOO TEMPLES ON THE MOUNTAIN-LAKE OF ABOO.
Aboo Gurgh is a mountain-lake in the province of Guzerat, 5000 feet above the level of the sea, in which the Suruswuttee river has its source. It is surrounded by numerous marble temples, of high antiquity, the principal of which is dedicated to Mahadeo, and the district itself is held in the utmost veneration by the Hindoos. "The Olympus of India, the celebrated Aboo, is the source of the tribe of Chohaun Rajpoots. There are no temples in India which can for a moment compete with these, either in costliness of materials or beauty of design."
Grindlay’s India
From the hills they descend, as wild as the river Which spring hath unloosed, like a shaft from its quiver; With light on its waters, and foam on its banks, So gather these free waves—so gather these ranks.
There is gold on the housings, and gold on the rein That checks the bold courser they guide to the plain. More precious by far to the warriors are The matchlock they carry, the sabre they bear.
Red, red is the turban that girdles their brow— More redly the blood of their foemen shall flow. Free the wing of the heron, that wave white at its side, More free are the Rajpoots to battle who ride.
They have kept their old hills unsubdued by a foe— There is death and defeat in the country below; But the Rajpoots have kept their ancestral hills Untrod, like their snows—and unchained, like their rills.
The Moslem sweeps on with his banner of green, And ruins have marked where the crescent has been; But here the sole crescent that ruleth on high Is where the young moon first appears in the sky.
Sail down by the Jumna, and what will ye find But the horsetail and crescent, that sweep on the wind? The Ottoman conqueror rules to the sea, But not o’er these mountains— the fearless and free.
No prayer writ in gold from the wall is effaced— No altar is levelled—no shrine is defaced: The sons of Mahomet all else may subdue, Bur safe, ‘mid their clouds, are the heights of Aboo.
# Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1839/Contents

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
| The Farewell | 4 |
| Agnes | 7 |
| The Gathering of the Chieftains at Beteddein | 12 |
| Thomas Moore, Esq. | 14 |
| Jacob Blessing Ephraim and Manasseh | 16 |
| The Sisters | 18 |
| Colgong on the Ganges | 20 |
| Louise, Duchess of la Valliere | 22 |
| Hindoo Temples on the Mountain-Lake of Aboo | 26 |
| Court of a Turkish Villa | 28 |
| Village of Koghera | 31 |
| Ode to Retirement | 35 |
| Prince Charles Edward | 37 |
| The Keepsake | 39 |
| Queen Elizabeth's Entrance into Kenilworth | 41 |
| Crossing the Choor Mountains | 46 |
| The Sailor’s Bride, or, The Bonaventure | 49 |
| The Last Request | 52 |
| Sir Thomas Tyldesley | 54 |
| Crossing the River Tonse by a Jhoola | 56 |
| The Fair Maid of Perth | 58 |
| A Society of Antiquaries | 60 |
| Lines Suggested on Visiting Newstead Abbey | 62 |
| The Poet's Grave | 65 |
| Matlock | 68 |
| To Marguerite, Countess of Blessington | 72 |
| Ruins at Balbec | 75 |
| The Death of Heber | 77 |
| The Village Bells | 79 |
| Dunstanburgh Castle | 82 |
# Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1839/Court of a Turkish Villa

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* COURT OF A TURKISH VILLA NEAR DAMASCUS.
* Artist: W. H. Bartlett - Engraved by: J. Tingle
COURT OF A TURKISH VILLA.
NEAR DAMASCUS.
In the midst a fountain,
 Singeth day and night,
Each small wave a mirror
 For the changing light.
Now the golden sunshine,
 Softened by the boughs,
Which a doubtful passage
 To the light allows:
Or the moon seems lingering near,
As she paused the words to hear
Of the tales Arabian,
The old Arabian Nights.
On the wind a murmur
 Seems to float along,
Soft as is the music
 Of remembered song.
Bringing at the moment
 All that dwelt apart
In the lone recesses
 Of the haunted heart.
So upon her twilight wings
Memory beareth graceful things
From the tales Arabian,
From the old Arabian Nights.
I can see the garden
 Treasured from the day,
Where the young Aladdin
 Took his wondering way.
Pale the lamp was burning
 Which the genie swayed; Would that at this moment
 I could have its aid!
All my fancies, now so vain, I might with a wish obtain;
From the tales Arabian,
The old Arabian Nights.
Far away the island
 Rises on the deep,
Where the fated Agib
 Found the boy asleep.
Soon the old fond father
 Came with songs and joy
Ah! what bears he with him
 But his murdered boy!
Still does Fate in some dark shape,
Mock our efforts to escape,
As in the tales Arabian,
The old Arabian Nights.
Next a summer palace
 Gleams with sudden light,
But the lovely Persian
 Makes it yet more bright.
I can hear her singing
 In the lonely tower,
Mournful—oh, how mournful!
 Of a happier hour.
Still the same star rules above,
Sorrow still companions love,
As in the tales Arabian,
The old Arabian Nights.
Pleasantly these fancies
 Haunt that fountain's fall,
Making its low music
 Yet more musical.
Still around its waters
 Are adventures told,
Wonderful as any
 That I read of old.
Never will their charm depart,
Still a portion of the heart
Dwells with the tales Arabian,
The old Arabian Nights.
# Letters from India Volume I/Preface

'Up the Country' became so popular a book, that the authoress was repeatedly urged to publish more of her Letters from India.
Unfortunately, her health was for many years before her death, in so precarious a state that she was quite unequal to the task of preparing these Letters for the press.
I had indeed begun to arrange them during her life-time and under her directions, but from various circumstances was unable to accomplish this.
My Aunt frequently, however, expressed her desire that I should continue the work at some future period.
It is therefore, with the feeling that I am simply carrying out her intentions, that I offer ​these volumes to the public, hoping that a sequel to her former work will not be unacceptable to those who read and liked ‘Up the Country.’
I fear that many mistakes in spelling the Hindustani words and names may have arisen from my ignorance of that language.
I have endeavoured as much as possible to omit all remarks of a personal nature which might be painful to any of Miss Eden’s former friends in Calcutta; and in order to render the narrative more complete, I have inserted several letters written by my aunt, Frances Eden, to one of her oldest friends, who has kindly lent them to me for this purpose.
Some of these Letters, relating to the voyage out, and the first arrival in Calcutta, have already appeared in the ‘Temple Bar Magazine,’ but they have since been revised and corrected.
Eleanor Eden.
Bournemouth : November, 1871.
# Louisville Nashville Railroad Company v. Deer

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United States Supreme Court
200 U.S. 176
Louisville Nashville Railroad Company v. Deer
Argued: December 14, 1905. --- Decided: January 2, 1906
Mr. George W. Jones for plaintiff in error.
No counsel for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice Holmes delivered the opinion of the court:

## Notes

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# Louisville Nashville Railroad Company v. Deer/Opinion of the Court

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* Opinion of the Court
United States Supreme Court
200 U.S. 176
Louisville Nashville Railroad Company v. Deer
Argued: December 14, 1905. --- Decided: January 2, 1906
This is an action to recover a debt admitted to have been due to the plaintiff, the defendant in error. But it was agreed in the trial court that a suit was brought by one Brock against the plaintiff in Florida, in which the railroad company, the present plaintiff in error, was summoned as garnishee, judgment was recovered against the latter as such for the sum now in suit, and the sum paid by it into court, all before the present suit was begun. The proceedings in Florida were strictly in accordance with the laws of that state. The railroad company did business there, and was permanently liable to service and suit, and the defendant, the present defendant in error, was notified by such publication as the statutes of Florida prescribed. He was not, however, a resident of the state, but lived in Alabama, and the supreme court of the latter state affirmed a judgment in his favor on the ground that the Florida court had no jurisdiction to render the judgment relied on as a defense. 142 Ala. --, 40 South. 1037.
Whatever doubts may have been felt when this case was decided below are disposed of by the recent decision in Harris v. Balk, 198 U.S. 215, 49 L. ed. 10, 23, 25 Sup. Ct. Rep. 625. There the garnishee was only temporarily present in Maryland, where the first judgment was rendered, and the defendant in that judgment was absent from the state, and served only as the defendant in error was served in Florida. Yet the Maryland judgment was held valid, and a decision by the supreme court of North Carolina, denying the jurisdiction of the Maryland court, was reversed. In the present case the railroad company was permanently present in the state where it was served. In view of the full and recent discussion in Harris v. Balk, we think it unnecessary to say more.
Judgment reversed.

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# Louisville Nashville Railroad Company v. Central Stock Yards Company

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United States Supreme Court
212 U.S. 132
Louisville Nashville Railroad Company v. Central Stock Yards Company
Argued: December 10, 11, 1908. --- Decided: January 25, 1909
Messrs. Helm Bruce, Henry L. Stone, James P. Helm, and Kennedy Helm for plaintiff in error.
[Argument of Counsel from page 133 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. Joseph C. Dodd and John L. Dodd for defendant in error.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 134-137 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice Holmes delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Letters to Mothers/Preface

PREFACE,
ADDRESSED TO MOTHERS.
You are sitting with your child in your arms. So am I. And I have never been as happy before. Have you? How this new affection seems to spread a soft, fresh green over the soul. Does not the whole heart blossom thick with plants of hope, sparkling with perpetual dew-drops? What a loss, had we passed through the world, without tasting this purest, most exquisite fount of love.
Now, how shall we bring up this babe, which Heaven bath lent us? Great need have we to repeat the question of the father of Samson, to the angel who announced his birth, "how shall we order the child?" Surely, we shall unite with fervour in his supplication to the Father of Angels, "teach us what we shall do unto the child?"
Are you a novice? I am one also. Let us learn together. The culture of young minds, in their more advanced stages, has indeed been entrusted to me, and I have loved the office. But never before, have I been so blest, as to nurture the infant, when as a ​germ quickened by Spring, it opens the folding-doors of its little heart, and puts forth the thought, the preference, the affection, like filmy radicles, or timid tendrils, seeking where to twine.
Ah! how much have we to learn, that we may bring this beautiful and mysterious creature, to the light of knowledge, the perfect bliss of immortality! Hath any being on earth, a charge more fearfully important, than that of the Mother? God help us to be faithful, in proportion to the immensity of our trust.
The soul, the soul of the babe, whose life is nourished by our own! Every trace that we grave upon it, will stand forth at the judgment, when the "books are opened." Every waste-place, which we leave through neglect, will frown upon us, as an abyss, when the mountains fall, and the skies shrivel like a scroll. Wherever we go, let us wear as a signet-ring, "the child! the child!" Amid all the musick of life, let this ever be the key-tone, "the soul of our child."
L. H. S.
# Letters to Mothers/Letter XXI

Part of this text was imported from the Letters to Mothers page at Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture hosted by the University of Virginia.
# Letters to Various Persons

LETTERS
TO VARIOUS PERSONS.
BY
HENRY D. THOREAU,
AUTHOR OF "A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS," "WALDEN," ETC., ETC.
BOSTON:
TICKNOR AND FIELDS.
1865.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by
TICKNOR AND FIELDS,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co.
Cambridge.
CONTENTS.
| | Page |
| LETTERS | 1 |
| POEMS. | |
| Sympathy | 211 |
| "Romans, Countrymen, and Lovers" | 214 |
| Inspiration | 218 |
| The Fisher's Boy | 220 |
| Mountains | 221 |
| Smoke | 225 |
| Smoke in Winter | 226 |
| Mist | 228 |
| Haze | 229 |
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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# Letters of John Huss Written During His Exile and Imprisonment/Preliminary notice

PRELIMINARY NOTICE.
The Letters of John Huss were collected by his friend, Peter Maldoniewitz, the notary, and it was the great Reformer of the sixteenth century, Martin Luther, who first published them, rendering justice to the faith, doctrines, and noble character of their author. Luther at first translated into Latin four letters, written by Huss in Bohemia, and published them in 1536, together with those which the nobles of Bohemia and Moravia had addressed to the Council of Constance. Wittemberg was the place where he published them, on the occasion of a general council being convoked by Paul III. He joined to these letters a preface, of which the following is an extract:—“My object in publishing these letters,” said Luther, “is, if God should permit the council to assemble, to warn such persons as might be present to beware of following the example of the Council of Constance, in which the truth was exposed to such lengthened and such ​violent attacks; nevertheless, it triumphs now, and, holding erect its victorious head, shews forth that guilty assembly in its true colours. Undoubtedly, God has sufficiently manifested in that council how he resists the proud, and confounds the haughty, by their own imaginations, without paying any consideration to outward dignity.”
The following year, Luther published a complete edition of the letters of John Huss, and prefixed to it a preface which we subjoin, and in which he enumerates, with great power, the principal claims of Huss to the esteem and admiration of posterity. This preface also contains some interesting and curious details; and Luther even narrates in it the strong impression produced on himself in his youth, at first reading, by chance, some of the writings of that Christian whom he had been taught to execrate as a dreadful heretic. Luther is supposed to have drawn up the summary of contents which are found at the head of most of the letters of John Huss, in the collection of his works, and we have most carefully preserved them.
The letters of John Huss are divided into two series, each of which refers to a different period of his life: the ​first is that of his interdiction and exile from Prague in the years 1410 and 1411; the second comprehends the period which elapsed from his departure from the council till his death.
* ↑ This council, which was first convoked at Mantua for the year 1537, then at Vicenza, did not open until 1542, in the city of Trent.
* ↑ The several editions of this Preface, which will be found at the end of the volume (Note A), present numerous variations. We have considered it best to follow the first edition, which was most kindly communicated to us by M. Frederic Monod, one of the clergymen of the Reformed Church at Paris.
* ↑ Hist. et Monum. Johan. Hus, vol. i. Nuremberg, 1715.
# Letters of John Huss Written During His Exile and Imprisonment/Preface of Martin Luther to the four letters of John Huss, which he caused to be translated into Latin, and which he published separately in Wirtemberg

NOTES.
Note A., p. 2.
Of these four Letters, written by John Huss in the Bohemian tongue, I have procured a Latin translation, with the view of publishing them forthwith, in the same year fixed for a General Council, at the earnest request of our illustrious Emperor Charles. I have not taken this trouble with the view of calling down indignation and contempt upon the Council of Constance. This, on account of its culpable acts, I have done elsewhere, and will always be ready to do, in defence of the interests of the whole Church. My motive in publishing these Letters, is, if God permits the said Council to assemble, to warn the members to take care not to follow the example of the Council of Constance, in which the Truth was exposed to such lengthened and violent attacks; and yet, nevertheless, now triumphs, and, raising its victorious head, shews this unworthy assembly in its naked aspect, and stripped of its tyrannical authority. In this Council, indeed, the cardinals and most distinguished men aimed principally at extinguishing schism; they abandoned the cause of religion as below their notice, and left it to the perverse race of monks and sophists; from whence has sprung, as formerly from Babylon, all the evil which has produced, in Germany and in Bohemia, so many calamities, wars, massacres, and inextinguishable hatreds. The Papacy, freed from schism, did not afterwards behave less cruelly towards the world, filling the churches with false doctrines, indulgences, mercenary masses, and all sorts of inventions of priests and monks. Such are the fruits of this sacred Council; it would, therefore, be dangerous to trust again, at this time, the ​interests of religion to the rage of these perverse men; but it is of consequence that kings, princes, and bishops, combine all their energies, in order that similar calamities, and more frightful ones, be not the result of the new Council now summoned.
Certainly God has sufficiently shewn, in the Council of Constance, how he resists the proud, how he confounds the lofty in their own designs, without regard to the external dignity of any one.