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# The Cantonese Made Easy Vocabulary/K
## K
### Kaleidoscope,

    n.
   * 萬花筒, mán꜅ ꜀fá $_⊆$t‘ung*, or ꜁t‘ung. Class. 個, ko꜄.

### Keep,

    v.
   * (to detain), 留, ꜁laú; 留翻, ꜁laú ꜀fán; 留住, ꜁laú chü꜅.
   * (to put by), 收埋, ꜀shaú ꜁mái.
   * (to always have), 常有, ꜁shöng ꜃yaú; 時時有, ꜁shí ꜁shí ꜃yaú.
   * (as a feast day, or birthday), 做, tsò꜅. To keep a feast, 做節, tsò꜅ tsit˳ To keep New Year, 做年, tsò꜅ ꜁nín. To keep a birthday, tsò꜅ ꜀sháng (or ꜀shang) yat꜇.
   * (to retain, to file.), 存, ꜁ts‘ün.
   * (to rear, as pigs, poultry, etc.), 養, ꜃yöng.
   * (to observe), 守, ꜂shaú. To keep the sabbath, 守安息, ꜂shaú ꜀on sik꜆. Keep quiet, 咪出聲, ꜃mai ch‘ut꜆ ꜀sheng†. To keep on the person, 擠身上, ꜀chai ꜀shan shöng꜅; 擠身嚟, ꜀chai ꜀shan ꜁lai.
   * (to watch sheep), 牧(羊), muk꜇ (꜁yöng), 看, ꜀hòn; 睇, ꜂t‘ai.
   * (a woman), 包女人, ꜀páú ꜃nui $_⊆$yan* Are you a kept woman? 你係有人包你嘅冇呢? ꜃Néi hai꜅ ꜃yaú ꜁yan ꜀páú ꜃néi ke꜄ ꜃mò ꜀ni?

### Kernel,

    n.
   * 核, wat꜇; 仁, ꜁yan, or, ꜁ngan. Class. 個, ko꜄.

### Kerosene,

    n.
   * 火水, ꜂fo ꜂shui.

### Kettle,

    n.
   * 煲, ꜀pò. Tea kettle, 茶煲, ꜁ch‘á ˳pò* Class. 個, ko꜄.

### Key,

    n.
   * (of a lock), 鎖匙, ꜂so ꜁shí. Sometimes 匙, ꜁shí, is used alone. Class. 條, t‘íú.
   * (in music), 首音, ꜂shaú ˳yam*.

### Key-hole,

    n.
   * 鎖匙眼, ꜂so ꜁shí ꜃ngán. Class. 個, ko꜄.

### Kick,

    n.
   * 踢, t‘ek˳†. To give him a kick, 踢佢一踢, t‘ek˳ ꜃kui yat꜆ t‘ek˳.

### Kick,

    v.
   * 踢, t‘ek˳†. Kick back again, 踢翻, t‘ek˳ ꜀fán.

### Kid,

    n.
   * 山羊仔, ꜀shán ꜁yöng ꜂tsai. Class. 隻, chek˳.

### Kidnap,

    v.
   * 拐帶(人口), ꜂kwái tái꜄ (꜁yan ꜂haú).

### Kidnapper,

    n.
   * 拐帶(人)嘅, ꜂kwái tái꜄ (꜁yan) ke꜄; or 拐帶人, ꜂kwái tái꜄ ꜁yan.

### Kidney,

    n.
   * (of men), 內腎, noi꜅ shan꜅.
   * (of animals), 腰子, ꜀yíú ꜂tsz Class. 個, ko꜄.

### Kill,

    v.
   * (generally), 打死, ꜂tá ꜂sz; 整死, ꜂ching ꜂sz.
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## Purpose,

    n.
   * 主意, . Purpose, For the, of, 所以, . Purpose, On, or Purposely, 特登, .

## Purse,

    n.
   * (Chinese), 荷包, .
   * (Foreign), 銀鈒, . Class. 個, .
# The Cantonese Made Easy Vocabulary/Q
## Q
### Quake,

    v.
   * 振動, chan꜄ tung꜅.

### Quaker,

    n.
   * 規格, ꜀k‘wai kák˳. Class. 個, ko꜄; 位, wai$^⊇$*.

### Quality,

    n.
   * 性質, n. sing꜄ chat꜆. ​

### Quantity,

    n.
   * 多少, ꜀to ꜂shíú. A large quantity, 多, . A small quantity, 少, .

### Quarantine,

    n.
   * 因傳染病拘留, .

### Quarantine office

    n.
   * 查染症局, .

### Quarrel,

    n.
   * ⿰口隘交, . To have idle quarrels, 爭閒氣, .

### Quarry,

    n.
   * 石礦, . Class. 個, .

### Quarry, To,

    v.
   * (stone), v. 採石, .

### Quarter,

    n.
   * (generally), 四分之一, .
   * (the quarter of a year), 季, kwai꜄.
   * (of an hour), 嗗, kwat꜆. A quarter past eight o'clock, 八㸃一個嗗, , or 八㸃過一(個)嗗, .

### Quarters,

    n.
   * (arch.) 間木企身, . Class. 條, .

### Queen,

    n.
   * 皇后, . Class. 個, ko꜄; 位, .

### Queen-post,

    n.
   * (arch.), 小工字, . Class. 個, ko꜄.

### Queen-post truss,

    n.
   * (arch.), 金字架, . Class. 個, ko꜄.

### Quell,

    v.
   * 滅, mít꜇.

### Quench,

    v.
   * 滅, mít꜇; 救熄, kaú꜄ sik꜆. 2. (thirst), 解, ꜂kái.

### Quest, To go in,

    v.
   * 尋, .

### Question,

    v.
   * 問, ; 問話, .
   * (to doubt), 思疑, .

### Queue,

    n.
   * 辮, . Class. 條, . To plait the queue, 捹辮, .

### Quick,

    n.
   * 生, .

### Quick,

    adj.
   * 快, ; 急, . 急急, ; 急速, .

### Quicken,

    v.
   * (in the womb), 胎動, .

### Quicker,

    adj.
   * 快啲, . The quicker the better, 越快越好, . Still quicker, 重快, ; 越快, .

### Quickly,

    adv.
   * 快啲, ; 急啲, . Come quickly, 快啲嚟, . He has come quickly, or he has come more quickly, (than another, or others understood), 佢嚟得快, . Go quickly, 快去, . Quickly take me to see it, 快帶我去睇, . Still quicker, 重快, ; 越快.

### Quicksand,

    n.
    浮沙, . Class. 笪, ; 處, . ​

### Quicksilver,

    n.
   * 水銀, .

### Quiet,

    adj.
   * 靜, .
   * (as the sea), 平, . Be quiet, 咪嘈, ; 咪出聲, ; 靜靜, .

### Quietly,

    adv.
   * 靜靜, . To sleep quietly, 安睡, .

### Quietness,

    n.
   * 平安, .

### Quill pen,

    n.
   * 鵝毛筆, . Class. 支, .

### Quilt,

    n.
   * 棉胎, . Class. 張, .

### Quilted,

    adj.
   * 衲, .

### Quilted coat,

    n.
   * 棉衲, ; 夾衲, , or some . Class. 件, .

### Quinine,

    n.
   * 金鷄納霜, .

### Quire of paper,

    n.
   * 刀, .

### Quite,

    adj.
   * 十分, . Not quite, 爭啲, .

### Quorum,

    n.
   * 成會數, .

### Quote,

    v.
   * 引, ; 引述, .
# The Boys' Life of Mark Twain/Chapter 47

XLVII
the high-tide of fortune
THAT summer at Quarry Farm was one of the happiest they had ever known. Mark Twain, nearing fifty, was in the fullness of his manhood and in the brightest hour of his fortune. Susy, in her childish "biography," begun at this time, gives us a picture of him. She begins:
We are a happy family! We consist of Papa, Mama, Jean, Clara, and me. It is Papa I am writing about, and I shall have no trouble in not knowing what to say about him, as he is a very striking character. Papa's appearance has been described many times, but very incorrectly; he has beautiful, curly, gray hair, not any too thick or any too long, just right; a Roman nose, which greatly improves the beauty of his features, kind blue eyes, and a small mustache; he has a wonderfully shaped head and profile; he has a very good figure—in short, is an extraordinarily fine-looking man. . . .
He is a very good man, and a very funny one; he has got a temper, but we all have in this family. He is the loveliest man I ever saw, or ever hope to see, and oh, so absent-minded!
We may believe this is a true picture of Mark Twain at fifty. He did not look young for his years, ​but he was still young in spirit and body. Susy tells how he blew bubbles for the children, filling them with tobacco smoke. Also, how he would play with the cats and come clear down from his study to see how a certain kitten was getting along.
Susy adds that "there are eleven cats at the farm now," and tells of the day's occupations, but the description is too long to quote. It reveals a beautiful, busy life.
Susy herself was a gentle, thoughtful, romantic child. One afternoon she discovered a wonderful tangle of vines and bushes, a still, shut-in corner not far from the study. She ran breathlessly to her aunt.
"Can I have it—can Clara and I have it all for our own?"
Looking back now, Mark Twain at fifty would seem to have been in his golden prime. His family was ideal—his surroundings idyllic. Favored by fortune, beloved by millions, honored now even in the highest places, what more had life to give? When November 30th brought his birthday, one of the great Brahmins, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, wrote him a beautiful poem. Andrew Lang, England's foremost critic, also sent verses, while letters poured in from all sides.
And Mark Twain realized his fortune and was disturbed by it. To a friend he said: "I am frightened at the proportions of my prosperity. It seems to me that whatever I touch turns to gold."
# The Boys' Life of Mark Twain/Chapter 45

XLV
"the adventures of huckleberry finn"
MEANTIME, Mark Twain had really become a publisher. His nephew by marriage, Charles L. Webster, who, with Osgood, had handled the Mississippi book, was now established under the firm name of Charles L. Webster & Co., Samuel L. Clemens being the company. Clemens had another book ready, and the new firm were to handle it throughout.
The new book was a story which Mark Twain had begun one day at Quarry Farm, nearly eight years before. It was to be a continuation of the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, especially of the latter as told by himself. But the author had no great opinion of the tale and presently laid it aside. Then some seven years later, after his trip down the river, he felt again the inspiration of the old days, and the story of Huck's adventures had been continued and brought to a close. The author believed in it by this time, and the firm of Webster & Co. was really formed for the purpose of publishing it.
Mark Twain took an active interest in the process. From the pages of Life he selected an artist—a ​young man named E. W. Kemble, who would later become one of our foremost illustrators of Southern character. He also gave attention to the selection of the paper and the binding—even to the method of canvassing for the sales. In a note to Webster, he wrote:
Get at your canvassing early and drive it with all your might. . . . If we haven't 40,000 subscriptions we simply postpone publication till we've got them.
Mark Twain was making himself believe that he was a business man, and in this instance, at least, he seems to have made no mistake. Some advanced chapters of Huck appeared serially in the Century Magazine, and the public was eager for more. By the time the Century chapters were finished the forty thousand advance subscriptions for the book had been taken, and Huck Finn's own story, so long pushed aside and delayed, came grandly into its own. Many grown-up readers and most critics declared that it was greater than the Tom Sawyer book, though the younger readers generally like the first book the best, it being rather more in the juvenile vein. Huck's story, in fact, was soon causing quite grown-up discussions—discussions as to its psychology and moral phases, matters which do not interest small people, who are always on Huck's side in everything, and quite willing that he should take any risk of body or soul for the sake of Nigger Jim. Poor, vagrant Ben Blankenship, hiding his runaway negro in an Illinois swamp, could not dream that his ​humanity would one day supply the moral episode for an immortal book!
As literature, the story of Huck Finn holds a higher place than that of Tom Sawyer. As stories, they stand side by side, neither complete without the other, and both certain to live as long as there are real boys and girls to read them.
# The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage/Plate XLIX

Orcolobus pectinatus Hook. fil.
# The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage/Plate XLVIII

Luzula crinata Hook. fil.
# The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage/Plate XV

Plate XV
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Coprosma cuneata Hook. fil.
# The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage/Plate XVI

Plate XVI
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Coprosma repens Hook. fil.
# The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage/Plate XVIII

Plate XVIII
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Ceratella rosulata Hook. fil.
# The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage/Plate XLIV.XLV

Chrysobactron Rossii Hook. fil.
# The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage/Plate XLVI

Juncus antarcticus Hook. fil.
# The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage/Plate XLVII

Rostkovia gracilis Hook. fil.
# The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage/Plate XVII

Plate XVII
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Trineuron spathulatum Hook. fil.
# The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage/Plate XX

Plate XX.
Fitch del et lith. prel lith. Linn. imp.
Leptinella plumosa Hook. fil.
# The Catholic Prayer Book and Manual of Meditations/To the Sacred Heart

TO THE SACRED HEART.
HYMN FOR IRELAND.
O Sacred Heart! Our home lies deep in Thee, On earth Thou art an exile’s rest, In heaven the glory of the blest, O Sacred Heart.
O Sacred Heart! Thou fount of contrite tears, Where’er those living waters ﬂow, New life to sinners they bestow, O Sacred Heart.
O Sacred Heart! Bless our dear Fatherland, May Erin’s sons to truth e’er stand, With Faith’s bright banner still in hand, O Sacred Heart.
O Sacred Heart! Watch o'er our Sister Isle, Till Faith, ere long, return once more, And find a home on England’s shore, O Sacred Heart.
O Sacred Heart! Our trust is all in thee; For though earth’s night be dark and drear, Thou breathest rest, when Thou art near, O Sacred Heart.
O Sacred Heart! When shades of death shall fall, Receive us ’neath Thy gentle care, And save us from the tempter’s snare, O Sacred Heart.
O Sacred Heart! Lead exiled children home, Where we may ever rest near Thee, In peace and joy eternally, O Sacred Heart.
# The Catholic Prayer Book and Manual of Meditations/Universal Prayer

Universal Prayer
FOR ALL THINGS NECESSARY FOR SALVATION.
O MY God, I believe in thee; do thou strengthen my faith. All my hopes are in thee; do thou ​secure them. I love thee with my whole heart; teach me to love thee daily more and more. I am sorry that I have offended thee; do thou increase my sorrow.
I adore thee as my first beginning; I aspire after thee as my last end; I give thee thanks as my constant benefactor; I call upon thee as my sovereign protector.
Vouchsafe, O my God, to conduct me by thy wisdom, to restrain me by thy justice, to comfort me by thy mercy, to defend me by thy power.
To thee I desire to consecrate all my thoughts, words, actions, and sufferings; that henceforward I may think of thee, speak of thee, willingly refer all my actions to thy greater glory, and suffer willingly whatever thou shalt appoint.
Lord, I desire that in all things thy will may be done, because it is thy will, and in the manner thou wiliest.
I beg of thee to enlighten my understanding, and to inflame my will : to purify my body, and to sanctify my soul.
Give me strength, O my God, to expiate my offences, to overcome my temptations, to subdue my passions, and to acquire virtues proper for my state.
Fill my heart with a tender affection for thy goodness, a hatred for my faults, a love for my neighbour, and a contempt for the world.
Let me always remember to be submissive to my superiors, condescending to my inferiors, faithful to my friends, and charitable to my enemies.
Assist me to overcome sensuality by mortification, avarice by alms-deeds, anger by meekness, and tepidity by devotion. ​O my God, make me prudent in my undertakings, courageous in dangers, patient in afflictions, and humble in prosperity.
Grant that I may be ever attentive at my prayers, temperate at my meals, diligent in my employment, and constant in my resolutions.
Let my conscience be ever upright and pure, my exterior modest, my conversation edifying, and my comportment regular.
Assist me, that I may continually labour to overcome nature, to correspond with thy grace, to keep thy commandments, and to work out my salvation.
Discover to me, O my God, the nothingness of this world, the greatness of heaven, the shortness of time, and the blessedness of eternity.
Grant that I may prepare for death, that I may fear thy judgments, that I may escape hell, and in the end obtain heaven: through Jesus Christ. Amen.
# The Civil Service and the Patronage/Appendix C

APPENDIX C.
REMOVALS UNDER TYLER AFTER WEBSTER'S RESIGNATION
| | Removals mentioned. | Name of last occupant, but not cause of vacancy. | Failure to reappoint. | Appointment vice non-acting appointee. | Total. |
| Ministers | 1 | | | | 1 |
| Chargé's d'affaires | 3 | | | | 3 |
| Secretaries of legation | 1 | | | | 1 |
| Consuls | 17 | | | 1 | 18 |
| Attorneys | 5 | | | | 5 |
| Marshals | 15 | | | | 15 |
| Collectors | 28 | | 1 | | 29 |
| Surveyors | 18 | 1 | 1 | | 20 |
| Naval officers | 2 | | 1 | | 39 |
| Appraisers | 3 | | | | 3 |
| General land officers | 2 | | | | 2 |
| Surveyors of land | 1 | | | | 1 |
| Registers of land offices | 7 | | 2 | | 9 |
| Receivers of public money | 9 | | 1 | | 10 |
| Governors of territories | | | 2 | | 2 |
| Secretaries of territories | 2 | | | | 2 |
| Indian agents | 4 | 1 | | | 5 |
| Mint officials | 2 | | | | 2 |
| Postmasters | 21 | | | | 21 |
| Special commissioners | 2 | | | | 2 |
| Total | 144 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 155 |
| Military and naval | 10 | | | | 10 |
| Grand total | 154 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 165 |
# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 1/Appeal of Bohemian pastors

APPEAL OF BOHEMIAN PASTORS
Fathers and Brethren:
Through the Providence of God our nation has been called to sit in council and put its spirit and heritage to weigh in the formation of the future tendencies of humanity. Our President, almost in prophetical uplift, expressed the aspirations of the humble of the world: “to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world; the right of nations, great and small, and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their ways of life and obedience.”
This land of ours, consecrated before God to freedom of body, mind and soul, has been to these lowly men the beacon light of a new day in their lives and destinies. Here they came, breathed in the spirit of the free. Some have returned and brought back new strength and new visions. The others have said, “Your God, my God, your people, my people, your country, my country.”
Of the last are your petitioners. We know only one country, the country over which wave the Stars and Stripes.
However, our cradles stood in the land of John Hus, in Bohemia. Still all our own is united in this common wealth of the ideals of America. Only a short prayer we carry, that looks back to the place of our cradles, a prayer, that we learned from the lips of our mothers ,the prayer of the last bishop of the Bohemian Brethren, John Amos Comenius: “I trust in God, that when the storm of wrath has passed, which our sins have called upon our heads, that the rule of thy things shall return again unto thee, O Czech people.”
Fathers and Brethren, in this time when God through fire unites the hearts of men, we would not offend against our brother. But it must be said. When the spiritual and church autocracy was supreme, God through John Hus gathered around the “Book and the Cup” and around the liberty of the sons of God—the whole Bohemian nation. In the defense of this privilege the Bohemian Nation almost bled to death. In 1648 when, after the Thirty Years War, the destinies of Europe were established in the treaty of Westphalia, the sacrifical service of Bohemia was forgotten by the mighty and of all countries Bohemia alone was left to the mercies of the Hapsburg and the Jesuit.
God in His great mercy, however, did not forget. In the resurrection of nations at the beginning of last century, He called Bohemia to stand for justice of small nations. That was ever the program and the struggle of Czech in Austria. In religious matters the Czechs and the Slovaks are the only Slavic nations south of Russia that have any large Protestant body to speak of.
In view of the above facts the undersigned respectfully petition through the General Assembly the Presbyterian Church, that in the prayers for freedom of nations the Czechs and Slovaks be included and that in the councils, in which representatives of the United States shall sit, the Czechs and Slovaks be not forgotten, as they were in the year 1648.
In the free world, that under God’s Providence is to come, let the CZECHS and the SLOVAKS be free also.