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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Thorburn, Robert

​THORBURN, ROBERT (1818–1885), miniature-painter and associate of the Royal Academy, born at Dumfries in March 1818, was the son of a tradesman. He received his early education at Dumfries high school. He soon developed a love of art, and, owing to the kindness of a neighbouring lady, was at the age of fifteen sent to Edinburgh to draw at the academy, where he made rapid progress and gained distinction. About three years later he came to London and entered the classes of the Royal Academy. As a native of Dumfries he enjoyed the special patronage of the Duke of Buccleuch, whereby he obtained many commissions. Thorburn's success as a miniature-painter was soon secured, and for many years he shared the patronage of fashionable society with Sir {[subst:d|William Charles|Ross}} [q. v.] In 1846 he received his first commission from Queen Victoria; many followed. Miniature-portraits of the queen, and of the queen with Edward VII, when Prince of Wales, are reproduced in Sir R. R. Holmes's ‘Queen Victoria’ (1897). Thorburn's miniatures were of a larger size than usual, showing more of the figure and often accompanied by a landscape background. They are painted on large pieces of ivory, sometimes on pieces joined together. Their extreme finish produces a sense of monotony and flatness where the colours have lost their freshness. They were, however, very much admired at the time of their production, and at the Paris International Exhibition in 1855 Thorburn was awarded a gold medal. One of his most widely known miniatures is that of Louise, duchess of Manchester, a reproduction of which is given in Foster's ‘British Miniature Painters’ (1898). The same work contains a portrait of Thorburn from a miniature by himself and a list of Thorburn's principal sitters, comprising most of the beautiful ladies of the time. Thorburn was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1848. When photography began to supersede miniature painting, he took to oil-painting, and exhibited portraits and other subjects at the Royal Academy exhibitions with moderate success. He had a house at Lasswade, near Edinburgh, but died at Tunbridge Wells on 3 Nov. 1885 in his sixty-eighth year, having quite outlived the great reputation of his earlier years.
[Ottley's Dict. of Recent and Living Painters; Graves's Dict. of Artists, 1762–1893; Bryan's Dict. of Painters and Engravers, ed. Graves and Armstrong; Athenæum, 1885, ii. 610.]
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Thorius, Raphael

1904 Errata appended.
​THORIUS, RAPHAEL, M.D. (d. 1625), physician, son of Francis Thorius, M.D., a French physician and Latin poet, was born in the Low Countries. He studied medicine at Oxford, but graduated M.D. at Leyden. He then began practice in London, for which invasion of privilege he was fined by the College of Physicians, but afterwards presented himself for examination, and was admitted a licentiate on 23 Dec. 1596. He resided in the parish of St. Benet Finck in London, and attained considerable practice. He wrote a Latin ode in 1603, exhorting his wife and family to leave London on account of the plague. He was fond of literature, and in 1610 wrote his ‘Hymnus Tabaci.’ The poem, of which there are two books, is in hexameters, and as an elegant composition containing many felicitous expressions deserves a place among the metrical works of physicians beside the ‘Syphilis’ of Hieronymus Frascastorius, to which perhaps the inception of the ‘Hymnus’ is due. He addresses Sir William Paddy, in 1610, president of the College of Physicians, as Frascastorius addresses Peter Bembo in the beginning of his poem. The commencement of the ‘Hymnus,’
Innocuos calices, et amicam vatibus herbam, Vimque datam folio, et læti miracula fumi Aggredior,
not improbably suggested to William Cowper [q. v.] a well-known passage in ‘The Task.’
Thorius completed a revision of the poem with some additions on 18 Feb. 1625 (letter ​to L. a Kinschot), and it was published in that year at Leyden. The first London edition appeared in 1627, and a convenient pocket edition was issued at Utrecht in 1644. On 26 Feb. 1625 he completed a poem of 142 hexameter lines entitled ‘Hyems,’ dedicated to Constantine Hygins, which is sometimes printed with the ‘Hymnus.’ A manuscript volume of his poems in the British Museum (Sloane MS. 1768) contains one copy of Greek verses and numerous Latin poems, of which the most interesting are lines on the execution of Sir Walter Ralegh, an address ‘ad regem Angliæ’ in 1619, ‘De pietate Merici Casauboni,’ an epitaph for William Camden the herald, an epistle to Baudius, verses for the albums of friends, verses on Rondeletius the naturalist and on Lobelius, an epitaph for the heart of Anna Sophia (daughter of Christopher Harley), and what is probably the original copy of Book I of his poem on tobacco. Lobelius the botanist, Nathaniel Baxter [q. v.], the poet, Sir Robert Ayton [q. v.], Meric Casaubon [q. v.], Sir Theodore Mayerne [q. v.], and William Halliday were his friends. He had a son John, besides three other children who died young. He died of the plague in his own house in London in the summer of 1625.
N. M.
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.264 N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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# Dot and the Kangaroo/Introduction

DOT and the KANGAROO
By ETHEL C. PEDLEY
WITH 19 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS By FRANK P. MAHONY
THE BOOKMAN (London):—"Miss Pedley has written a story for Australian children, but children of all countries will be the better for reading it.... In the end a double joy is waiting for the reader, for Dot finds again her home and her loving mother, and the faithful kangaroo finds its lost baby. Quite the right ending for Christmas-tide."
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD:—"'Dot and the Kangaroo' is without doubt one of the most charming books that could be put into the hands of a child. It is admirably illustrated by Frank P. Mahony, who seems to have entered thoroughly into the animal world of Australia. The story is altogether Australian.... It is told so simply, and yet so artistically, that even the 'grown-ups' amongst us must enjoy it."
DAILY MAIL (Brisbane):—"A more fascinating study for Australian children is hardly conceivable, and it endows the numerous bush animals with human speech, and reproduces a variety of amusing conversations between them and Dot, the little heroine of the book.... Adults may read it with pleasure."
FREEMAN'S JOURNAL (Sydney):—"Miss Pedley brings much of graceful fancy and happy descriptive faculty to her narrative of 'Dot and the Kangaroo.'... The volume furnishes excellent reading for young folk."
to the children of Australia in the hope of enlisting their sympathies for the many beautiful, amiable, and frolicsome creatures of their fair land, is being surely accomplished

## List of illustrations

* (front cover)
* The Playtypus sings of the antediluvian days
* The Kangaroo finds Dot
* The fight between the Kookoburra and the Snake
* Dot and the Kangaroo on their way to the Platypus
* The prehistoric creatures of the song
* Dot dances with the native companions
* Dot, the Native Bear, and the Opposum
* The corroboree
* A leap for life
* The Bittern helps Dot
* The bower birds
* The Emus hunting the sheep
* The Court of animals
* The Cockatoo Judge
* The Pelican opens the case
* The Kangaroo carries Dot out of Court
* Dot's father about to shoot the Kangaroo
* Dot waving adieu to the Kangaroo
* By the lake (evening)
* (back cover)
# Dotson v. Milliken

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United States Supreme Court
209 U.S. 237
Dotson v. Milliken
Argued: March 4, 5, 1908. --- Decided: March 23, 1908
Messrs. R. Burnham Moffat and A. S. Worthington for plaintiff in error.
Mr. J. J. Darlington for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice Holmes delivered the opinion of the court:

## Notes

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# Dot and the Kangaroo/Finale

Before putting away the pen and closing the inkstand, now that Dot has said all she wishes to be recorded of her bewildering adventures, the writer would like to warn little people, that the best thing to do when one is lost in the bush, is to sit still in one place, and not to try to find one's way home at all. If Dot had done this, and had not gone off in the Kangaroo's pouch, she would have been found almost directly. As the more one tries to find one's way home, the more one gets lost, and as helpful Kangaroos like Dot's are very scarce, the best way to get found quickly, is to wait in one place until the search parties find one. Don't forget this advice! And don't eat any strange berries in the bush, unless a Kangaroo brings them to you.
# Doty v. Love

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United States Supreme Court
295 U.S. 64
Doty v. Love
Argued: March 11, 12, 1935. --- Decided: April 1, 1935
Messrs. Charles S. Mitchell, of Tupelo, Miss., and Elmer C. Sharp, of Booneville, Miss., for appellants.
Messrs. H. H. Creekmore, of Jackson, Miss., and C. R. Bolton, of Tupelo, Miss., for appellee.
Mr. Justice CARDOZO delivered the opinion of the Court.

## Notes

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# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Supplement/Architecture

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Edition of 1802.
​ARCHITECTURE.—To the list of publications on this subject, already enumerated, we may add Mr. Taylor's Collection of "Essays on Gothic Architecture," (8vo. pp. 149, 1800); which are written by the most able adepts in this branch of science, and are illustrated with elegant engravings.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Supper

Edition of 1802.
​SUPPER is the evening refreshment, or the last meal which is usually taken, shortly before retiring to rest.
Since late dinners have, within these few years, become fashionable, suppers are in a great measure relinquished; but, as many persons still retain the latter practice, it should be remarked, that all flatulent and heavy food ought to be avoided; for, as digestion is more slowly effected during sleep, the stomach will become oppressed, and often troubled with nausea, eructations, accompanied with headach, &c. in the morning, consequent on excess in eating. Where, however, a healthy person is obliged to labour at the desk, or in any other sedentary manner, during the greater part of the night, it will be advisable to take a slight repast, such as bread-pudding, water-gruel, or milk with biscuit, toasted bread, and the like, at least one or two hours previously to bed-time. Nevertheless, to convalescents, it may, under certain circumstances, be allowable to eat an egg, or partake of a few oysters, or similar shell-fish, that atford a more solid ​nutriment than any of the dishes before mentioned; provided they agree with their digestive organs.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Supplement/Acacia, the False

Edition of 1802.
​ACACIA, the False, or Robinia pseudo-acacia, L. is a native of North America, and the northern parts of Asia. This beautiful and valuable tree flourishes best in sandy soils, mixed with light black earth, especially in the vicinity of brooks, springs, or rivers; where it grows with uncommon rapidity. It may be propagated by setting the seeds; and, when it is once introduced, numerous plants may be obtained, by cutting its roots near the surface of the ground.
The leaves and tender shoots of the False Acacia are eagerly eaten by cattle, particularly by sheep; and they also afford a wholesome fodder. Being very hardy, this tree retains its verdure during the severest winters. As the roots extend rapidly along the surface of the earth, and shoot up numerous suckers, the Acacia may be advantageously planted on the banks of rivers, for consolidating and securing the soil from the encroachments of the current: farther, its wood is eminently adapted to ship-building; and, though inferior in point of durability to the oak, it is perhaps preferable to any other timber for barges, and similar vessels of a small size.
The sweet and succulent roots of the False Acacia are well calculated for fattening hogs; and the leguminous seeds, after being divested of their acrid taste, by infusing them in different waters, and afterwards ground into meal, are by the Tongusian Tartars converted into a wholesome bread: these seeds are also eagerly eaten by poultry, which may thus be speedily fattened.
It has been ascertained by experiments, that the leaves of this tree, when prepared in the same manner as indigo, may with great advantage be substituted for that expensive dyeing drug. The foliage of the smaller variety of the False Acacia, however, is reputed to be better adapted for such purpose: its culture corresponds with that above stated; and it certainly merits to be more generally cultivated in ornamental shrubberies, where it thrives rapidly, and produces elegant odoriferous yellow flowers, which abundantly supply bees with honey.—The seeds of both varieties also afford a large proportion of expressed oil.—It deserves to be noticed, that the yellowish wood of these trees, though hard and tough, is very brittle while the plants are young, and they ought, therefore, in exposed situations, to be supported by stakes. Lastly, it is remarkable, that no part of the Acacia is subject to the depredations of vermin or insects.—Dr. Medicus, a prolific, though esteemed German ​author, has published several volumes ou the culture and useful properties of the Acacia.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Supplement/Art

Edition of 1802.
​ART.—Those of our readers, who wish to trace the rise and progress of the arts of architecture, sculpture, and painting, in this country, will meet with ample information, illustrated with appropriate rules, in Mr. Dallaway's "Anecdotes of the Arts in England," &c. 8vo. pp. 526, 1800; a work which forms an useful and amusing introduction to the study of the arts.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Supplement/Acre

Edition of 1802.
​ACRE.—The English statute acre comprises 160 square poles, each of which contains 16 1/2 feet. The same measure of land, in Scotland, is regulated by the Scotch ell, which is 372-10ths English inches: thus, 36 square ells make 1 fall; 40 falls, 1 rood; and 4 roods constitute an acre; so that the proportion of a Scotch to an English acre is nearly as that of 5 to 4.—The acre, employed in the Principality of Wales, is equivalent to 2 English ones; and the Irish acre is equal to 1 acre, 2 roods, and 19 perches 27-121 of English statute measurement.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Sun-spurge

Edition of 1802.
​Sun-spurge. See Wartwort.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Supplement

Edition of 1802.
​The Domestic Encyclopædia being now arrived at the conclusion of the Alphabet, various motives have induced the Editor to offer an Appendix, or Supplement, with a view to render this Dictionary of Facts as complete as the extent of the work, and diligent research would admit. Among these, will occur numerous articles of greater or less importance: the propriety of inserting them, however, was not sufficiently evident, till their respective connexion with the subsequent parts of the arrangement, could be more clearly ascertained. Others again, being of a more recent date than the commencement of this publication; and containing many new, and valuable hints, for the advancement of Rural and Domestic Economy, the Reader will probably meet with information, alike curious and useful.—In consulting the Domestic Encyclopædia, therefore, he is requested to avail himself of the annexed Supplement; by which he may be enabled to form a tolerably correct idea of the various improvements suggested in the course of this pcactical work.
* Acacia, the False — Guinea Corn
* Gum-secretion — Yellow
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Supplement/Acids

Edition of 1802.
​ACIDS.—The citric acid is a concrete juice obtained principally from lemons: it has also been discovered in the red whortleberry, cranberry, bird-cherry, as well as in the fruits of the woody nightshade, and the dog-rose.
In order to divest this acid of the mucilaginous or other foreign particles, with which it is frequently combined, the juice obtained by pressure from lemons, or similar fruit, should first be heated, then strained, filtred, and afterwards saturated with pulverized chalk, or the carbonate of lime, till all effervescence cease. The precipitate, formed by this process, is called citrate of lime; and, being insoluble, it must be separated from the liquor, washed with cold water till it become tasteless and perfectly white: next, it ought to be decomposed in a gentle heat, by adding half its weight of sulphuric acid diluted with six parts of water. As soon as the mixture becomes cool, it should be filtred; when the pure citric acid will be disengaged from the sulphate of lime.—Such acid may also be obtained in a crystalline form, by previously filtering, and then evaporating it to the consistence of a clear syrup, which concretes on exposing it to a cold temperature.
Dr. Brugnatelli has lately published a new method of preserving and concentrating the acid of lemons. He directs the newly expressed juice to be strained through fine linen, a small portion of rectified spirit of wine to be added, and the whole to be deposited for several days in a bottle closely stopped: thus, a considerable mucilaginous sediment will be formed, but which may be easily separated, by passing the liquor through blotting-paper. If the quantity of spirit employed be considerable, it may be drawn off by distillation in a glass retort: in the contrary case, the juice may be exposed for some time in a warm temperature, and the alkohol will readily evaporate, leaving a very clear acid of peculiar strength.
The citric acid affords an agreeable lemonade, by dissolving half a dram in two pints of water; adding a sufficient quantity of sugar, and bitter-sweet, which is prepared by rubbing the latter substance on fresh lemon-peels, till the essential oil be absorbed.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Supplement/Antispasmodics

Edition of 1802.
​ANTISPASMODICS are those medicines, which are calculated to relieve persons afflicted with cramps, spasms, or convulsions: such are opium, Peruvian balsam, and the essential oils of different vegetables. The most speedy antispasmodic, with respect to its immediate effects, is doubtless the juice of the poppy; but the Peruvian balsam produces more permanent benefit, and has frequently been of eminent service, after opium had failed to afford any relief.
Essential oils act principally on some particular part, rather than on the system in general; and are seldom attended with any soporific effects. But, beside these internal medicines, there are some which instantly remove spasmodic contractions by contact; for instance, cream, oil of almonds, and asses'-milk; while sulphur, sal ammoniac, nitre, &c. mitigate these painful complaints, by diminishing heat. Where, however, spasms originate from inanition, and a defect of vital heat, the best antispasmodics are, valerian, musk, and castor; because these medicines tend to restore the animal spirits, and at the same time operate as corroborants.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Supplement/Arithmetic

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​ARITHMETIC.—Beside the elementary works formerly stated, the following will be found peculiarly serviceable, both to masters and pupils, namely, Mr. Charles Vyse's "Tutor's Guide," 12mo.;—his "Key to the Tutor's Guide," 12mo.—Mr. Ewing's "Institutes of Arithmetic:"—Mr. Molineux's "Question Book, or Practical Introduction to Arithmetic," 12mo.:—his "Scholars' Question Book," also in 12mo.;—Mr. Bonnycastle's "Introduction to Arithmetic," 8vo.;—and, lastly, Mr. Keith's "Complete Practical Arithmetician," &c. 12mo. 2d edit.
# Divers voyages touching the discouerie of America/North-west passage

A verie late and great probabilitie of a passage, by the Northwest part of America in 58. degrees of Northerly latitude.
N excellent learned man of portingale, of singuler grauety, authoritie and experience tolde mee very lately, that one Anus Cortereal, captayne of the yle of Tercera about the yeere 1574, which is not aboue eight yeres past, sent a Shippe to discover the Northwest passage of America, & that the same shippe arriuing on the coast of the saide America in fiftie eyghte degrees of latitude, founde a great entrance exceeding deepe and broade, without all impediment of ice, into whiche they passed aboue twentie leagues, and found it alwaies to trende towarde the South, the lande lying lowe and plaine on eyther side: And that they perswaded them selues verely, that there was a way open into the south sea. But their victailes fayling them, and being but one shippe, they returned backe agayne with ioy. This place seemeth to lie in equal degrees of latitude, with the first entrance of the sounde of Denmark betweene Norway and the head land, called in latin Cimbrorum promontorium, and therefore like to bee open and nauigable a great part of the yeere. And this report may bee well annexed unto the other eight reasons mentioned in my epistle dedicatorie, for proofe of the likelihood of this passage by the Northwest.
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# Divine Comedy (Longfellow 1867)/Volume 1

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THE
DIVINE COMEDY
OF
DANTE ALIGHIERI
TRANSLATED BY
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
I follow here the footing of thy feete That with thy meaning so I may the rather meete
Spenser.
VOL. I.
BOSTON
TICKNOR AND FIELDS
1867
OFT have I seen at some cathedral door A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat, Lay down his burden, and with reverent feet Enter, and cross himself, and on the floor Kneel to repeat his paternoster o'er; Far off the noises of the world retreat; The loud vociferations of the street Become an undistinguishable roar. So, as I enter here from day to day, And leave my burden at this minster gate, Kneeling in prayer, and not ashamed to pray, The tumult of the time disconsolate To inarticulate murmurs dies away, While the eternal ages watch and wait.
HOW strange the sculptures that adorn these towers! This crowd of statues, in whose folded sleeves Birds build their nests; while canopied with leaves Parvis and portal bloom like trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And, underneath, the traitor Judas lowers! Ah! from what agonies of heart and brain, What exultations trampling on despair, What tenderness, what tears, what hate of wrong, What passionate outcry of a soul in pain, Uprose this poem of the earth and air, This mediæval miracle of song!
CONTENTS
OF VOL. I.
INFERNO.
CANTO I.
CANTO II.
CANTO III.
CANTO IV.
CANTO V.
CANTO VI.
CANTO VII.
CANTO VIII.
CANTO IX.
CANTO X.
CANTO XI.
CANTO XII.
CANTO XIII.
CANTO XIV.
CANTO XV.
CANTO XVI.
CANTO XVII.
CANTO XVIII.
CANTO XIX.
CANTO XX.
CANTO XXI.
CANTO XXII.
CANTO XXIII.
CANTO XXIV.
CANTO XXV.
CANTO XXVI.
CANTO XXVII.
CANTO XXVIII.
CANTO XXIX.
CANTO XXX.
CANTO XXXI.
CANTO XXXII.
CANTO XXXIII.
CANTO XXXIV.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co., Cambridge.