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# Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir Henry Vane (junior)

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Sir Henry Vane,
STATESMAN,
Son of the preceding, was the well-known Republican leader under the Commonwealth. He was educated abroad, at Geneva, and there imbibed principles inimical to ecclesiastical and monarchical government. Though once in favour with the King, who knighted him in 1640, and made him joint Treasurer of the Navy, he associated himself with his father in his supposed grievance, and became one of the bitterest enemies of the Court. Upon ​the breaking out of the rebellion, he took up the Parliamentary cause with enthusiastic zeal, and it was he who carried to the House of Lords the articles of impeachment against Archbishop Laud. He was the "great contriver of the solemn League and Covenant," and the chief instrument in carrying the "Self-denying Ordinance" in 1644. Nevertheless he did not approve of the force put upon the Parliament by the army, nor of the execution of the King. In 1648-49 he was appointed one of the Council of State, in which capacity he incurred the special enmity of Cromwell, who, on dismissing it, applied to him the opprobious term of a "juggling fellow." From this time he became as determined an enemy of the Protector as he had been of the King. At the Restoration it was hoped he might have been included in the indemnity to all but regicides; but the part he had taken in the attainder of Strafford, and other considerations, caused him to be brought to trial, and he was condemned and executed on Tower Hill, 14th June, 1662. He died with the same indomitable resolution which had marked his conduct through life. He was undoubtedly one of the ablest and most remarkable men of the period. He was the author of several works, the most remarkable of which is "The Retired Man's Meditations," a treatise on our Saviour's coming to erect a fifth monarchy on earth, which would last 1,000 years. He was buried in the church of Shipborne, his native parish.
[See Wood's "Athenæ Oxon.," "Biographia Britannica," "Collin's Peerage," and "Hasted's Kent."]
# Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir Henry Wotton

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Sir Henry Wotton,
STATESMAN,
Was another member of the same distinguished family, the son of Thomas Wotton, of Boughton Hall, where he was born in 1568. He was educated at Winchester and Oxford where "he became well-versed in logic and philosophy," and proceeded Master of Arts at nineteen years of age. On leaving Oxford he travelled in France, Germany, and Italy. On his return he became secretary to Robert, Earl of Essex, on whose fall he again went to Italy, where he obtained the confidence of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, who employed him as a private envoy to James VI. of Scotland. On James becoming King of Scotland, Wotton was taken into his service and charged with many important embassies. He obtained no other reward, however, for his services than the Provostship of Eton, which he held till his death in 1689. On his tomb in the College Chapel he caused to be engraved this ​curious inscription, expressive of hatred of controversy—"Hie jacet hujus sententiæ primus auctor—Disputandi pruritus ecclesiæ scabies. Nomen alias quærere." He was the author of several works, including poems, some of them very beautiful. He was a friend of Isaac Walton, by whom his Life has been written.
[See his Life by Isaac Walton, and by Sir E. Brydges, "Biographia Britannica," etc.]
# Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir John Baker

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Sir John Baker,
Statesman,
Is said to have been born in Kent, but at what place is not stated, though it may have been at Sissinghurst, where he afterwards had an estate. He was bred for the law, and in 1526 was employed on an embassy to Denmark. Soon afterwards he was elected Speaker of the House of Commons, and in 1545 became Chancellor of the Exchequer, in which office he continued till death his in 1558.
[See "Lodge's Illustrations of British History," and "Wood's Athenæ Oxon." by Bliss.]
# Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir John Fineau

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Sir John Fineau,
JUDGE,
Was born "by all probablity" (Fuller says) at Swingfield, a place said to have been bestowed on one of his ancestors by Nicholas Criol, for saving his life at the Battle of Poictiers. He was twenty-eight years old, the same authority adds, when he took to the study of the law; he followed the profession another twenty-eight years before he became a judge, and he continued a judge the same number of years, so that he must have lived eighty-four years. He owed his elevation to the bench to his bold opposition to the payment of tenths to the Pope. He was a great benefactor of the Church of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, and according to Fuller, deserves all the praise bestowed upon him by the monks. He had a house at Canterbury and at Heme, where he died in 1525,
[See Fuller's "Worthies," "Foss's Lives of the Judges."]
# Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir John Finet

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Sir John Finet
COURTIER AND WIT,
Was born at Soulton, near Dover, in 1571. He was a gentleman of wit and ingenuity among the courtiers of James I., and Charles I., and wrote a work on the precedency, treatment, audience, and punctilios to be ​observed towards foreign ambassadors at the English Court, under the title of "Fineti Philoxenus," published in 1656. He died in 1641.
[See Wood's "Fasti," by Bliss.]
# Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir John Mennes

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Sir John Mennes,
TRAVELLER AND POET,
This "great traveller and noted seaman," as Wood calls him, belonged to an old family settled at Sandwich, where he was born 11th May, 1598. He was educated at the free school there, and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In the reign of James I. he was made Comptroller of the navy. In the time of the Civil War he adhered to the royal cause, and served both on land and sea, being in 1641 made a vice-admiral and knighted at Dover. After the fall of the king he joined Prince Rupert, harassing the king's enemies by sea and taking part in the Kentish insurrection in 1668, but finally joined Charles II. in his exile. At the Restoration he was made Governor of Dover Castle and chief Comptroller of the navy, appointments which he held to his death in ​1671. "He was accounted by all who knew him an honest and strict man, generous and religious, and well skilled in physic and chymistry." He was the author of a poem entitled "Epsom Wells," and of a greater part of a book entitled "Musarum Deliciæ." He is also said to have assisted Sir John Suckling in the composition of some of his poetry, and to have been the author of the scoffing poem on that knight, entitled "Sir John Suckling's Campaign," and beginning:—
Sir John he got him an ambling nag,  To Scotland for to ride-a,
to be seen in Percy's "Reliques of Ancient Poetry."
[See "Wood's Athenæ Oxon." by Bliss, "Brydge's Censura Literaria."]
# Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir John Burroughs

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Sir John Burroughs.
HERALD,
Or Boroughs, was born at Sandwich, the son, it is said, of a gardener or brewer; who, however, gave his son a liberal education, He studied law in Gray's Inn, and, in 1623, was appointed, on account of his antiquarian knowledge, keeper of the records in the Tower. He was made Mowbray Herald by Queen Elizabeth, and knighted by James I. He attended Charles I, when he went to Scotland to be crowned, and in 1633 he was made Garterking-at-Arms. During the Civil War he accompanied the king on his campaigns, and died October 21st, 1643, at Oxford, where he lies buried in Christ Church Cathedral. He was the author of the following works (1) "Impetus ​Juveniles et quædam selectiores aliquantulum Animi Epistolæ," (2) "The Sovereignty of the British Seas, proved by Records, etc." He is said to have also made a collection of the Records in the Tower.
[See "Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses," by Bliss, "Noble's College of Arms" "Allibone's Dictionary of Authors."]
# Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir Henry Vane (senior)

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Sir Henry Vane,
STATESMAN,
Was the eldest son of Henry Fane, of Hadlow, and grandson of Henry Fane, who took part in the rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyatt. He was born Feb. 18th, 1589. He assumed the name of Vane, as the ancient one of his ancestors, and in the 17th year of James I., was knighted by that King at Whitehall, from which time he acted a conspicuous part in public affairs. Charles I. entrusted him with several embassies, and made him a Privy Councillor, a commissioner of Admiralty, and finally Secretary of State. Being offended, however, with the Earl of Strafford for assuming the title Baron Raby, which appertained to his house, and with the king for supporting the Earl's pretention, he retired to his seat at Raby Castle, and henceforth became a bitter enemy of the King. He died in 1654.
[See "Biographia Britannica," "Collin's Peerage," and "Hasted's Kent."]
# Meyer v. Nebraska

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Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390 (1923), was a U.S. Supreme Court case which held that a 1919 Nebraska law prohibiting the teaching of modern foreign languages to grade school children unconstitutionally violated the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Supreme Court of the United States
262 U.S. 390
Meyer v. Nebraska
Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Nebraska
No. 325 Argued: February 23, 1923 --- Decided: June 4, 1923
A state law forbidding, under penalty, the teaching in any private, denominational, parochial or public school, of any modern language, other than English, to any child who has not attained and successfully [p391] passed the eighth grade, invades the liberty guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment and exceeds the power of the State. P. 399.
So held where the statute was applied in punishment of an instructor who taught reading in German, to a child of ten years, in a parochial school.
ERROR to a judgment of the Supreme Court of Nebraska affirming a conviction for infraction of a statute against teaching of foreign languages to young children in schools. [p396]
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# Meyer v. United States

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# Meyer v. United States (364 U.S. 410)

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## Dissenting Opinion

    Douglas
United States Supreme Court
364 U.S. 410
Meyer v. United States
Argued: Oct. 12, 1960. --- Decided: Nov 21, 1960
Mr. Donald S. Day, Buffalo, N.Y., for petitioners.
Mr. I. Henry Kutz, Washington, D.C., for respondent.
Mr. Justice WHITTAKER delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet/Volume 1/Tsagan Balgas

TSAGAN BALGAS.
P. 106.
The Tsagan Balgassu, noticed in Mr. Morgan's footnote, is a different place, being the Chagan-nor of Marco Polo, some 45 miles NW. of Kalgan. Chaghan Balghassun, or 'White Town,' is a term applied by the Mongols to all royal residences.
The place mentioned in the text was on the banks of the Shandu- (or Shangtu-) gol, immediately north of the town of Dolon-nor ; and one at first supposes that it must have been Kublai's famous summer palace of 'Xanadu' or Shangtu, which almost occupies such a position, but is nearer NW. than N. of Dolon-nor. Moreover, the place stands on the left bank of the river, whereas we find Prejevalsky's Tsagan Balgas by his map to be on the right bank. I have little doubt that the site seen by Prejevalsky was that of another of Kublai's foundations, called in his day Langting, of which Dr. Bushell wrote to me: 'The ruins of the city are marked on a Chinese map in my possession, Pai-dzeng-tzu, i.e. "White City," implying that it was formerly an Imperial Residence. The remains of the wall are seven or eight li in diameter (qy. circumference?), of stone, and situated about forty li NNW. from Dolon-nor.' All the points named do not correspond, but the name and position do seem to answer.—[Y.]
# Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet/Volume 2/Red and Yellow Lamas

RED AND YELLOW LAMAS. P. 151.
Col. Prejevalsky's definition of the radical difference between these would better have been described as loose, than as 'not to be relied on.' Some notion of the distinction may be obtained by reading what is said about Tsong-kaba's reform of Lamaism, in the Introduction. Marriage of the clergy was admitted by the Red, or unreformed. Lamas in some cases, and under some restrictions. But it does not appear that it is by any means a general or present characteristic of them. Ladak, Bhutan, and Sikkim are nurseries of the Red Sect, since the predominance of the Yellow in Tibet Proper.—[Y.]
# Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet/Volume 2/Siling and Tonkir

SILING AND TONKIR.
Pp. 107 and 119.
What the footnote at p. 107 refers to is this:—
Certain textures of shawl-wool, or resembling it, are imported from the eastward into Kashmír and Ladak under the name of S'ling. And certain other manufactures were found by Mr. R. B. Shaw in the markets of Kashgar, which were stated to come from a region called Zilm. Knowing from P. della Penna, and other sources, that Sining-fu was called by the Tibetans Ziling or Jiling, and by the Mongols Seling Khoto, it seemed to me almost certain that both the S'ling of Ladák and the Zilm of Kashgar, referred to the same place. Mr. Shaw doubted, from the particulars given him, if Zilm could be so far east; but I see by a recent letter that he now accepts the identity.
In the footnote at p. 119, it is indicated that the Tonkir of the Russian traveller is Huc's Tang-keu-eul. The latter calls it 'a small city, but very populous, and with very ​great trade. It is a regular Babel' (ii. 54). The place is mentioned in P. Orazio della Penna's account of Tibet as Tongor {J. Asiat. 2nd S. xiv. 195). And in the Chinese 'Itinerary' already quoted, we find under the first march out of Sining-fu: 'Between this and Sining there is a large lamasery, Denger. In (1727) this became a trade-centre for all the Mongols west of the Hoang-ho.'—[Y.]
# Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet/Volume 2/The Dungans

THE DUNGANS. P. 122.
There is no need to add to what has been written about these Tungani, whom Russian ears apparently transform into Dungans. The name does not seem to be applied in any sense of race, but simply to be the popular name by which Chinese Mahommedans are known among the Turki-speaking people of Central Asia, and on the Russian frontier.
The earliest mention of it that I have met with is in 'Izzat Ullah's 'Itineraries,' published in the seventh volume of the 'Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society' (p. 310). The name also occurs thus in Burnes:—
' These soldiers (of the Chinese garrisons in Kashgar) are drawn from the tribe of Toonganee, who claim relationship to the army of Alexander; they are Mahommedans from the adjacent provinces, but dress as Chinese. '
And in Mr. Wathen's 'Notes on Chinese Tartary,' derived from certain pilgrims who passed through Bombay to Mecca in 1835, we find the following:—
​'The Tungani live in the country, the chief towns of which are Salar and Sairam. Alexander the Great is said to have penetrated as far as Salar, and to have left a colony of his soldiers in the country, from whom the Tunganis are descended. They derive the name from several Turkish and Persian words signifying "left behind," "looking back," &c.' This shows how old is the question of the obscure etymology of the name. The most probable seems to be that assigned by Vámbéry, from a Turki word signifying 'a convert.'—[Y.]
* ↑ Travels to Bokhara, 1834; ii. 229.
* ↑ Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, iv. 655.
# Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet/Volume 2/The Manul

THE MANUL (FELIS MANUL OF PALLAS).
P. 187.
This species is intermediate between the cats and the lynxes, but its tail is much longer than that of the lynx and its ears are not pencillated. It is said to possess one tearing tooth fewer than the typical cats; but still it belongs to the genus Felis. In its general habits it differs from all its congeners, being found in bleak and exposed places, generally among rocks, where it seeks its food by chase rather than by stratagem. That food consists chiefly of hares and other rodent animals; but, true to the habits of the genus, it preys during the night. It does not climb trees or enter forests, and, according to all the accounts we have of it, it differs greatly from the rest of the genus. It combines with the characters of the cats and lynxes some at least of the habits of the fox.'
# Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet/Volume 2

MONGOLIA,
THE TANGUT COUNTRY,
AND THE
SOLITUDES OF NORTHERN TIBET:
BEING A
Narrative of Three Years' Travel in Eastern High Asia.
BY
LIEUT.-COLONEL N. PREJEVALSKY,
OF THE RUSSIAN STAFF CORPS: MEM. OF THE IMP. RUSS. GEOG. SOC.
TRANSLATED BY
E. DELMAR MORGAN, F.R.G.S.
WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY
COLONEL HENRY YULE, C.B.
LATE OF THE ROYAL ENGINEERS (BENGAL).
IN TWO VOLUMES—VOL. II.
With Maps and Illustrations.
LONDON:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON,
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188 FLEET STREET.
1876
All rights reserved.
LONDON: PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
AND PARLIAMENT STREET
CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
CHAPTER I.
RETURN TO KALGAN.
CHAPTER II.
RETURN TO ALA-SHAN.
CHAPTER III.
THE PROVINCE OF KAN-SU.
CHAPTER IV.
THE TANGUTANS AND DUNGANS.
CHAPTER V.
KOKO-NOR AND TSAIDAM.
CHAPTER VI.
NORTHERN TIBET.
CHAPTER VII.
SPRING ON LAKE KOKO-NOR AND AMONG THE KAN-SU MOUNTAINS.
CHAPTER VIII.
RETURN TO ALA-SHAN. ROUTE TO URGA BY THE CENTRAL GOBI.
TABLE OF NOTES TO VOLUME II.
TABLE OF NOTES BY MR. MORGAN.
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES BY COL. YULE.
# Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet/Volume 2/Difficulty as to Fires at Great Altitudes

DIFFICULTY AS TO FIRES AT GREAT ALTITUDES. P. 183.
Marco Polo notices this in his account of Pamir; and a note on that passage (2nd ed. i. p. 187) gives some remarks on the subject by Humboldt, and some of the experience of my friend Col. Montgomerie, R.E.—[Y.]
# Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet/Volume 1/The Obo

THE OBO.
P. 76.
Of the Obo, or sacred cairn of the Lamas, probably a relic of their primeval superstitions, a representation is given in Kircher's account of the journey of Grueber and Dorville, who characterise it thus: 'Trophæa quæ in summis montium cum adoratione magno Lamæ diriguntur, pro conservatione hominum et equorum.'
Turner describes such a trophæum on the boundary between Bhotan and Tibet.—[Y.]
# Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet/Volume 2/The Kyang and Kulan

THE KYANG AND THE KULAN. P. 146.
Some naturalists have distinguished between the Kulan of West Turkestan, and the Kyang (or Djiggetai of Pallas) of Tibet and Mongolia. But it appears from the text that the Kulan of the Turki-speaking people of Central Asia is the same as the Kyang of the Tibetans, and of our Trans-himalayan sportsmen. And this is confirmed by a passage in Dr. Bellew's 'Kashmir and Kashgar' (p. 400), from which it appears that a place on the Yanghi Dábán Road is called Kulan Uldi, 'The wild horse (ass?) died.' Now I believe there is certainly only one species in the Trans himalayan region; indeed, I see in another place Dr. Bellew says: We came upon a herd of six or seven kyang or culan' (p. 182).—[Y.]
# Mr Cromek to Mr Stothard

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From Notebook c.1808-1811 p.31. See also: Satiric verses and epigrams.

#### Edited text:

FORTUNE favours the brave, old proverbs say; But not with money; that is not the way. Turn back! turn back! you travel all in vain; Turn through the iron gate down Sneaking Lane.
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#### The original text:

Fortune favours the Brave old Proverbs say
But not with Money. that is not the way
Turn back turn back you travel all in vain
Turn thro the iron gate down Sneaking Lane
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## Notes

* ↑ The Poetical Works of William Blake, including the unpublished French Revolution together with the Minor Prophetic Books and Selections from The Four Zoas, Milton & Jerusalem; edited with an introduction and textual notes by John Sampson, Hon. D.Litt. Oxon., 1862–1931. London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1908.
* ↑ "The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake", ed. by David V. Erdman, Anchor Books, 1988, p. 509.
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# Mr Standfast

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the third of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1919. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Greenmantle (1916). The title is taken from John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, which is referenced throughout the novel.
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THAT MOST GALLANT COMPANY THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE SOUTH
AFRICAN INFANTRY BRIGADE ON THE WESTERN FRONT
NOTE
The earlier adventures of Richard Hannay, to which occasional reference is made in this narrative, are recounted in The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle. J.B.
Part I
* Chapter 1: The Wicket Gate
* Chapter 2: 'The Village Named Morality'
* Chapter 3: The Reflections of a Cured Dyspeptic
* Chapter 4: Andrew Amos
* Chapter 5: Various Doings in the West
* Chapter 6: The Skirts of the Coolin
* Chapter 7: I Hear of the Wild Birds
* Chapter 8: The Adventures of a Bagman
* Chapter 9: I Take the Wings of a Dove
* Chapter 10: The Advantages of an Air Raid
* Chapter 11: The Valley of Humiliation
Part II
* Chapter 12: I Become a Combatant Once More
* Chapter 13: The Adventure of the Picardy Chateau
* Chapter 14: Mr Blenkiron Discourses on Love and War
* Chapter 15: St Anton
* Chapter 16: I Lie on a Hard Bed
* Chapter 17: The Col of the Swallows
* Chapter 18: The Underground Railway
* Chapter 19: The Cage of the Wild Birds
* Chapter 20: The Storm Breaks in the West
* Chapter 21: How an Exile Returned to His Own People
* Chapter 22: The Summons Comes for Mr Standfast
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# More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc./Nonsense Botany

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NONSENSE BOTANY.
Enkoopia Chickabiddia.
Washtubbia Circularis.
Nasticreechia Krorluppia.
Minspysia Deliciosa.
Stunnia Dinnerbellia.
Barkia Howlaloudia.
Tigerlillia Terribilis.
Tickia Orologica.
Shoeboctia Utilis.
The Fizzgiggious Fish, who always walked about upon Stilts, because he had no legs.
Arthbroomia Rigida.
Jinglia Tinkettlia.
Sophtsluggia Glutinosa.