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# Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth/Volume 2/Letter 54

To MRS. RUXTON.
EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Dec. 19, 1825.
I wish you to have a letter from Dr. Holland before it gets stale: therefore you must forgive me for writing on this thin paper, for no other would waft it to you free.
Your observations about the difficulties of "Taking for Granted" are excellent: I "take for granted" I shall be able to conquer them. If only one instance were taken, the whole story must turn upon that, and be constructed to bear on one point; and that pointing to the moral would not appear natural. As Sir Walter said to me in reply to my observing, "It is difficult to introduce the moral without displeasing the reader," "The rats won't go into the trap if they smell the hand of the ratcatcher." *** "Taking for Granted" was laid aside by Miss Edgeworth for ten years after this. When Mr. Ticknor was at Edgeworthstown in 1835, he says: *** Miss Edgeworth was anxious to know what instances I had ever witnessed of persons suffering from "taking for granted" what proved false, and desired me quite earnestly, and many times, to write to her about it; "for," she added, "you would be surprised if you knew how much I pick up in this way." "The story," she said, "must begin lightly, and the early instances of mistake might be comic, but it must end tragically." I told her I was sorry for this. "Well," said she, "I can't help it, it must be so. The best I can do for you is, to leave it quite uncertain whether it is possible the man who is to be my victim can ever be happy again or not." *** On her father's death, Miss Edgeworth had resigned the management of his estates to their new owner, her half-brother Lovell, but, in the universal difficulties which affected the money market in 1826, she was induced to resume her post, acting in everything as her brother's agent, but taking the entire responsibility. By consummate care and prudence she weathered the storm which swamped so many in this financial crisis. The great difficulty was paying everybody when rents were not to be had; but she undertook the whole, borrowing money in small sums, paying off encumbrances, and repaying the borrowed money as the times improved; thus enabling her brother to keep the land which so many proprietors were then obliged to sell, and yet never distressing the tenants.
The second part of Harry and Lucy was published this year, having been written at various intervals since 1813. Like its predecessor, it had as its object to induce children to become their own instructors.
# Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth/Volume 2/Letter 57

To C.S. EDGEWORTH.
EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Dec. 26, 1826.
I send your account, and have done my best. I have not read Boyne Water, but have got Lindley Murray's Memoir, and thank you for mentioning it. Harriet and Mr. Butler come to-morrow. Sophy Fox and Barry, and their beautiful and amiable little Maxwell, are here. How you will like that child, and make it see "upper air!" How long since those times when you used to show its mother and Harriet upper air! Do you remember how you used to do it to frighten me, and how I used to shut my eyes when you threw them up, and you used to call to me to look? Ah! le bon temps! But we are all very happy now, and it is delightful to hear a child's voice cooing, or even crying again in this house. Never did infant cry less than Maxwell: in short, it is the most charming little animal I ever saw. "Animal yourself, sir!"
Pakenham ornamented the library yesterday with holly, and crowned plaster-of-Paris Sappho with laurels, and Mrs. Hope's picture with myrtle (i.e. box), and perched a great stuffed owl in an ivy bush on the top of a great screen which shades the sofa by the fire from the window at its back. I am excessively happy to be at home again, after my four months' absence at Black Castle.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Mr. Edgeworth, admiring a baby in a nurse's arms, called it "a fine little animal." To which the nurse indignantly replied, "Animal yourself, sir!"
# Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth/Volume 2/Letter 6

MRS. MARCET to MARIA EDGEWORTH.
MALAGNY, Nov. 15, 1820.
I cannot make up my mind, my dear friend, to take my departure for a still more distant country without again bidding you adieu. I have hesitated for some time past, "Shall I or shall I not write to Miss Edgeworth?" for I felt that I could not write without touching on an article in the Quarterly—a subject which makes my blood boil with indignation, and which rouses every feeling of contempt and abhorrence. I might indeed refrain from the expression of these sentiments, but how could I restrain all those feelings of the warmest interest, the tenderest sympathy, and the softest pity for your wounded feelings? I well remember the wish you one day so piously expressed to me that your father could look down from heaven and see the purity and zeal of your intentions in writing his Memoirs; I am sure your HEAVENLY FATHER does see them. And I feel that this unjust, unchristian, inquisitorial attack will not only develop fresh sentiments of the tenderest nature in your friends, but also rally every human being of sound sense around you.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Mrs. Marcet was just setting out for Italy.
# Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth/Volume 2/Letter 56

To MISS HONORA EDGEWORTH.
BLACK CASTLE, Sept. 3, 1826.
Thank you for wishing to be with me, but I am sure it will be better for you to be at the sea. Here, though I am obliged to think of actual business between-times, I have every motive and means for diversion for myself, both on my own account and on my aunt's. We run in and out, and laugh and talk nonsense; and every little thing amuses us together: the cat, the dog, the hog, Mr. Barry, or a parachute blown from the dandelion.
Nov. 19.
Bess Fitzherbert has written an entertaining letter to Mrs. Barry, in which she mentions one of the dishes they had just had at dinner at Pozzo, between Modena and Bologna: cold boiled eels, with preserved pears, a toothpick or skewer stuck in each to take them up by, instead of a fork. My aunt's friend, Madame Boschi, near Bologna, offered to send a garden-chair drawn by bullocks for Bess, the road not being passable for common cattle.
# Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth/Volume 2/Letter 58

To MRS. RUXTON.
EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Dec. 28, 1826.
After spending four months with you, it is most delightful to me to receive from you such assurances that I have been a pleasure and a comfort to you. I often think of William's most just and characteristic expression, that you have given him a desire to live to advanced age, by showing him how much happiness can be felt and conferred in age, where the affections and intellectual faculties are preserved in all their vivacity. In you there is a peculiar habit of allowing constantly for the compensating good qualities of all connected with you, and never unjustly expecting impossible perfections. This, which I have so often admired in you, I have often determined to imitate; and in this my sixtieth year, to commence in a few days, I will, I am resolved, make great progress. "Rosamond at sixty," says Margaret.
We are all a very happy party here, and I wish you could see at this moment sitting opposite to me on sofa and in arm-chair the mother and daughter and grand-child.
# Liberato v. Royer

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United States Supreme Court
270 U.S. 535
Liberato v. Royer
Argued: March 15, 1926. --- Decided: April 12, 1926
Messrs. Wm. Hamlin Neely, Paul A. Kunkel, and George Ross Hull, all of Harrisburg, Pa., for plaintiffs in error.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 535-537 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Arthur H. Hull, of Harrisburg, Pa., for defendants in error.
Mr. Justice HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Liberalism/Index

INDEX
Association, right of, 37-8
Authoritarian rule, 8-10, 18, 21, 47, 54
Birth rate, 181
Charity, State, and Justice, 182
Church and State, 12
City States, 10-13, 16
Civil liberty, 21
Coercion, where justified, 139-154
Colonies, 41-4, 106, 216, 240
Conservatism, 88, 176, 217
Democracy, future of, 227-236, 242-51
Economic liberty, 34-8, 157
Education, 32, 40, 154
Feudalism, 15-18
Fiscal liberty, 25-6, 34, 78-81
Foreign policy, 41, 104-5
Freedom, conditions of, 23-4, 28, 31, 58, 91-2, 140, 146
Gladstone, W. E., 102-6
Greece, ancient, 10-13
Habeas Corpus Act, 23
Imperialism, 215, 221-4, 239
Industry, regulation of, 35-6, 82-8, 93
Inequality, the defence of, 131
Inherited wealth, 197-9
Ireland, 41, 103, 219, 224
Laissez-faire, 78-101
Land question, 82, 95-8, 175-6, 192-3
Liberalism, beginning of, 19, 51
Manchester school, 57
Militarism, 8, 45, 80, 148, 237-9
Mill, J. S., 107-15, 116
Monopolies, 97-100
National liberty, 40-4
Natural order, theory of, 54-64
Old Age Pensions, 156, 177
Opinion, Liberty and, 116-23
Organic Concept of Society, 125-30, 135
Peace, International, 80-1, 225, 237
Personal liberty, 26-31
Petition of Right, 22
Poor Law, 155, 177-9, 184
​Popular sovereignty, 45-8, 64, 112
Poverty line, 162
Progress, nature of, 137
Property, rights of, 94-5, 100, 168, 186, 188
Proportional representation, 114, 243
Referendum, 245-6
Religious liberty, 29-31
Revolutionary Declarations, 60-2
Rome, ancient, 13-14
Second Chamber, the, 242-8
Socialism, 165, 167-72, 191, 211, 215, 219
Social liberty, 31-3, 140
Speculation, 195
Super-tax, 199-201
Temperance, 180, 226
Trade unions, 38, 84, 161, 220, 223
Unemployed, 160
Utilitarianism, 57, 65-77, 107
Wage,” “living, 159, 163-4, 177, 205-8
Wealth, social basis of, 187-91, 194
Women, rights of, 33, 39, 86, 112, 114, 179
Work, right to, 159
# Liberalism/front matter

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
MORALS IN EVOLUTION (2nd edition, 1908.) Chapman & Hall. 21s.
MIND IN EVOLUTION (Macmillan.) 10s.
First printed, May 1911 Reprinted, May 1919
The following volumes of kindred interest have already been published in the Home University Library:
1. Parliament. By Sir C. P. Ilbert, G.C.B.
4. History of War and Peace. By G. H. Perris.
6. Irish Nationality. By Mrs. J. R. Green.
10. The Socialist Movement. By J. R. MacDonald, M.P.
11. Conservatism. By Lord Hugh Cecil, M.P.
23. History of Our Time (1885-1911). By G. P. Gooch.
24. The Evolution of Industry. By Prof. D. H. Macgregor, M.A.
33. The History of England. By Prof. A. F. Pollard.
77. Shelley, Godwin, and their Circle. By H. N. Brailsford.
# Kepler/Appendix 1

APPENDIX I.
LIST OF DATES.
Johann Kepler, born 1571; school at Maulbronn, 1586; University of Tübingen, 1589; M.A. of Tübingen, 1591; Professor at Gratz, 1594; "Prodromus," with "Mysterium Cosmographicum," published 1596; first marriage, 1597; joins Tycho Brahe at Prague, 1600; death of Tycho, 1601; Kepler's optics, 1603; Nova, 1604; on Comets, 1607; Commentary on Mars, including First and Second Laws, 1609; Professor at Linz, 1612; second marriage, 1613; Third Law discovered, 1618; Epitome of Copernican Astronomy, 1618-1621; Rudolphine Tables published, 1627; died, 1630.
# Kepler/Appendix 2

APPENDIX II.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
For a full account of the various systems of Kepler and his predecessors the reader cannot do better than consult the "History of the Planetary Systems, from Thales to Kepler," by Dr. J. L. E. Dreyer (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1906). The same author's "Tycho Brahe" gives a wealth of detail about that "Phœnix of Astronomers," as Kepler styles him. A great proportion of the literature relating to Kepler is German, but he has his place in the histories of astronomy, from Delambre and the more modern R. Wolfs "Geschichte" to those of A. Berry, "History of Astronomy" (University Extension Manuals, Murray, 1898), and Professor G. Forbes, "History of Astronomy" (History of Science Series, Watts, 1909).
# Keokuk Hamilton Bridge Company v. United States

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United States Supreme Court
260 U.S. 125
Keokuk Hamilton Bridge Company v. United States
Argued: and Submitted Oct. 13, 1922. --- Decided: Nov 13, 1922
Mr. Felix T. Hughes, of Keokuk, Iowa, for appellant.
Mr. Solicitor General Beck, of Washington, D. C., for the United states.
Mr. Justice HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Keokuk Hamilton Bridge Company v. United States/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
260 U.S. 125
Keokuk Hamilton Bridge Company v. United States
Argued: and Submitted Oct. 13, 1922. --- Decided: Nov 13, 1922
The appellant had an authorized bridge across the Mississippi River with a pivot pier and draw to permit the passage of vessels. As a necessary incident it maintained what is called a protection pier extending down stream. In consequence of later authorized constructions it became necessary to deepen the channel on the easterly side of the pier and the part of this work with which we are concerned was done by the United States. The bed of the stream by the side of the pier was solid rock and into this the United States drilled and blasted it with dynamite. The work was done in the usual way and with more than ordinary care, but by the action of the water driven upon the pier by the blast; and possibly by the concussion of the blasts themselves, portions of the pier fell into the river, and some damage was inflicted. It could have been repaired for $1,000. The company however rebuilt the bridge to fit it for heavier traffic, and brought this suit alleging that the pier was destroyed and in that way taken by the United States.
An appreciable part of the claimant's argument consists in an attempt to reopen the findings of fact and to maintain that the pier was destroyed, as giving more force to the contention that it was taken. This, of it may be true that deliberate action in some United States, 116 U.S. 154, 6 Sup. Ct. 325, 29 L. Ed. 584; Talbert v. United States, 155 U.S. 45, 15 Sup. Ct. 4, 39 L. Ed. 64. We must assume, as we have stated from the findings of the Court of Claims, that the pier was not destroyed but simply was damaged in a way that could have been repaired for a moderate sum. However small the damage it may be true that deliverate action in some cases might generate the same claim as other forms of deliberate withdrawal of property from the admitted owner. United States v. Cress, 243 U.S. 316, 329, 37 Sup. Ct. 380, 61 L. Ed. 746. But without considering how the line would be drawn when such action took place in the improvement of navigation, it is enough to say that this is an ordinary case of incidental damage which if inflicted by a private individual might be a tort but which could be nothing else. In such cases there is no remedy against the United States. See Bedford v. United States, 192 U.S. 217, 224, 24 Sup. Ct. 238, 48 L. Ed. 414.
Judgment affirmed.

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# Kepler

See also Author:Johannes Kepler.
KEPLER
Pioneers of Progress
Men of Science Edited by S. Chapman, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.
Kepler
By Walter W. Bryant Of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge New York: The Macmillan Company 1920
CONTENTS.
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# Life in the Open Air, and Other Papers

This is an anthology of several of Winthrop's short works, both unfinished and completed. These unrelated works were edited by George William Curtis and published in one volume posthumously in 1863.
LIFE IN THE OPEN AIR,
AND OTHER PAPERS.
BY
THEODORE WINTHROP, AUTHOR OF "CECIL DREEME," "JOHN BEENT," ETC., ETC.
Let me not waste in skirmishes my power, In petty struggles. Rather in the hour Of deadly conflict may I nobly die,— In my first battle perish gloriously. From an unpublished Poem by Theodore Winthrop.
BOSTON: TICKNOR AND FIELDS. 1863.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by TICKNOR AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
University Press: Welch, Bigelow, and Company, Cambridge.
NOTE.
This is the last volume of Theodore Winthrop's works. The reader will be interested to know that, with a very few slight omissions, they are published precisely as he left them. Beside these, which he had himself prepared for the press, there remains manuscript enough for more than another volume, comprising poems, lectures, sketches, the beginning of another novel, and a completed earlier tale; but not in fit form for publication. A man who wrote so much and so well was not of course indifferent to the publication of his works, for the desire of an audience is part of the author's instinct; and that they are first printed after his death is not owing to any want of effort upon his part, but to circumstances which no author can control. He can but do his work. It is for others to receive or decline it.
At the close of a lecture upon the Fine Arts in America, which he wrote in 1856, Winthrop said: ​"This composite people may, in its wide realm, attain to the most varied splendor of success in all pursuits that can make its future rich, refined, noble, and happy. But let us not forget that our march must be sustained by a hearty devotion to the true principles of freedom. If we fail of public or private duty,—if we cleave to any national wrong,—this great experiment of mankind will fail, and our life corrupt away, through slow decaying, to dishonorable death."
In that faith Theodore Winthrop wrote and fought,—he lived and died.
G. W. C.
Staten Island, February, 1863.
The portrait in this volume is engraved from Mr. Rowse's crayon likeness of the author, drawn from life a few years since. The wood-cut of Katahdin is copied from an original sketch in oil by Mr. Church.
CONTENTS.
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# Life in the Open Air, and Other Papers/Brightly's Orphan

This is an unfinished short story. The author died before he could finish the story. This work was published posthumously in 1863 as part of the anthology Life in the Open Air and other papers.
BRIGHTLEY'S ORPHAN.
A FRAGMENT.
​[The author had only written two chapters of this story when he joined the Army. It was the last thing his hand was engaged upon when the call for volunteers summoned him to the field. He said of it, "I am tired of writing of crime and wrong; this shall be cheerful and sunshiny, if I can make it so." In its unfinished state it has been thought worthy of preservation.]
BRIGHTLY'S ORPHAN.
* Chapter I
* Chapter II
# Life in the Old World/front matter

LIFE IN THE OLD WORLD;
OR,
TWO YEARS IN SWITZERLAND AND ITALY.
BY
FREDRIKA BREMER.
AUTHOR OF
“THE FATHER AND DAUGHTER,” “THE NEIGHBORS,” “THE FOUR SISTERS” “NINA,” “THE HOME,” “HOMES IN THE NEW WORLD,” ETC., ETC.
TRANSLATED BY
MARY HOWITT.
Copyrighted American Edition, from the Translator's Manuscript.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
PHILADELPHIA: T. B. PETERSON AND BROTHERS, 306 CHESTNUT STREET.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by
T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
# Life in the Open Air, and Other Papers/Life in the Open Air

This is an account of the author's adventures in northern Maine and the ascent of Mount Katahdin in the mid-19th century.
LIFE IN THE OPEN AIR.
KATAHDIN AND THE PENOBSCOT.
MOUNT KATAHDIN.
LIFE IN THE OPEN AIR.
* Chapter I. Off
* Chapter II. Gorming and Getting On
* Chapter III. The Pine-Tree
* Chapter IV. Umbagog
* Chapter V. Up the Lakes
* Chapter VI. The Birch
* Chapter VII. Moosehead
* Chapter VIII. Penobscot
* Chapter IX. Chesuncook
* Chapter X. Ripogenus
* Chapter XI. Toward Katahdin
* Chapter XII. Camp Katahdin
* Chapter XIII. Up Katahdin
* Chapter XIV. Homeward
* Chapter XV. Out of the Woods
# Mardi/Volume I/Chapter XV

Like most silent earnest sort of people, my good Viking was a pattern of industry. When in the boats after whales, I have known him carry along a roll of sinnate to stitch into a hat. And the boats lying motionless for half an hour or so, waiting the rising of the chase, his fingers would be plying at their task, like an old lady knitting. Like an experienced old-wife too, his digits had become so expert and conscientious, that his eyes left them alone; deeming optic supervision unnecessary. And on this trip of ours, when not otherwise engaged, he was quite as busy with his fingers as ever: unraveling old Cape Horn hose, for yarn wherewith to darn our woolen frocks; with great patches from the skirts of a condemned reefing jacket, panneling the seats of our "ducks;" in short, veneering our broken garments with all manner of choice old broadcloths.
With the true forethought of an old tar, he had brought along wish him nearly the whole contents of his chest. His precious "Ditty Bag," containing his sewing utensils, had been carefully packed away in the bottom of one of his bundles; of which he had as many as an old maid on her travels. In truth, an old salt is very much of an old maid, though, strictly speaking, far from deserving that misdeemed appellative. Better be an old maid, a woman with herself for a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one. When playing the sempstress, Jarl's favorite perch was the triangular little platform in the bow; which being the driest and most elevated part of the boat, was best adapted to his purpose. Here for hours and hours together the honest old tailor would sit darning and sewing away, heedless of the wide ocean around; while forever, his slouched Guayaquil hat kept bobbing up and down against the horizon before us.
It was a most solemn avocation with him. Silently he nodded like the still statue in the opera of Don Juan. Indeed he never spoke, unless to give pithy utterance to the wisdom of keeping one's wardrobe in repair. But herein my Viking at times waxed oracular. And many's the hour we glided along, myself deeply pondering in the stem, hand upon helm; while crosslegged at the other end of the boat Jarl laid down patch upon patch, and at long intervals precept upon precept; here several saws, and there innumerable stitches.