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# Gems of Chinese Literature/Han Fei-Circumstances Alter Cases

HAN FEI
[Died 233 b.c. A student of criminal law and procedure, who rose to distinction but incurred the enmity of a rival and was thrown into prison where he committed suicide. Fifty-five of his essays, in a more or less corrupt state, are still extant, and are especially valuable as containing many of the sayings attributed to Lao Tzŭ, woven later on, sometimes with portions of his own commentary, into the spurious work known as the Tao Tê Ching.]
OF old Mi Tzŭ-hsia was much attached to the Prince of the Wei State, where there was a law that any one who should furtively ride in one of the royal chariots would be punished by having his feet cut off. Now when Mi’s mother was ill and her illness was reported to him, he went boldly off in one of the Prince’s chariots to see her. On hearing of this, the Prince entirely approved, saying, “Filial piety! For the sake of his mother he risked the loss of his feet.”
On another occasion, Mi was strolling with the Prince in a fruit-garden; and finding that a peach, of which he had partly eaten, was unusually sweet, he offered the remaining piece to the Prince. The Prince said, “Love for me! He forgets himself.” Mi’s face fell, and his attachment abated. The Prince added, “He furtively rode off in one of my chariots, and now he wants to feed me with the balance of his peach.” Mi’s second act was inconsistent with his first. By the first he showed himself to be a good man, and by the second he incurred punishment, thus illustrating the extreme difference between love and hate. Thus, when there is love for a ruler, wisdom steps in and familiarity is increased; but when there is hatred of a ruler, there comes cause for punishment and the result is alienation. So that when admonishing a ruler, it becomes necessary to consider the question of love or hatred before offering advice. A dragon is a deadly reptile which, however, can be trained to be fit for riding; but if a fishbone a foot long should stick in its throat and a man should try to remove it, there would be an end of the man. Now rulers, too, have fishbones sticking in ​their throats, and what is the fate of those who try but fail to remove them?
# Gems of Chinese Literature/Han Wên-Kung-A Taoist Priest

HAN WÊN-KUNG.
768-824 a.d.
[From Mr. Watters’ invaluable Guide to the Tablets in a Confucian Temple, I learn that we should wash our hands in rose-water before taking up the works of Han Wên-kung, whose official name was Han Yü, Wên-kung being his title by canonisation. Known as the “Prince of Literature,” and generally regarded as the most striking figure in the Chinese world of letters, he certainly ranks high as poet, essayist, and philosopher. In official life, he got himself into trouble by his outspoken attacks upon Buddhism, at that time very fashionable at Court, and was banished to the then barbarous south, where he gained great kudos by his wise and incorrupt administration. It was there that he issued his famous manifesto to the crocodile, at which we might well smile if it were not quite clear that to the author superstition was simply, as elsewhere, an instrument of political power. Han Wên-kung was ultimately recalled from his quasi-exile, and died loaded with honours. His tablet has been placed in the Confucian temple, which is otherwise strictly reserved for exponents of the doctrines of Confucius, “because,” as Mr. Watters states, “he stood out almost alone against the heresy of Buddhism which had nearly quenched the torch of Confucian truth.”]
Of the five famous mountains of China, Hêng-shan is farthest off; and of all the myriad great and lofty eminences of the south, Hêng-shan is chief. That its influences are divine, follows therefore as a matter of course.
Three or four hundred miles to the south, the ground rises still higher, the mountains become more precipitous, the streams clearer and of swifter flow. The highest point is on a range running east and west, and about two-thirds of the way up is situated the town of Pin-chou. The pure pellucid atmosphere of China ends here. And ending here, in already transcendent purity, it sweeps round, and doubling back upon itself with tortuous course, enwraps the mountain in a two-fold coil.
Thus, if Hêng-shan is divine, how much more so must be Pin-chou, where perfection itself becomes more perfect still!
And as it cannot be that this wealth of nature, these heavenly influences, are lavished upon material products,―upon silver, mercury, cinnabar, crystal, stalactites, the glory of the orange and the pumelo, the beauty of the straight bamboo, the lofty growth of fine trees,―one would naturally conclude that such a spot must be the birthplace of genius, the home of loyal and honourable and virtuous men. But I never saw any; for the people there are sunk, alas! in superstition, in the worship of Lao Tzŭ and Fo.
However, there is my friend Liao, a priest of the religion of Tao. He is a native of these parts, and a man of infinite learning and goodness of heart. How can I class him among those who ​grovel in superstitious depths? He is one who has an eye for talent in others; and thus, though not available himself, men of action may be looked for in the ranks of his friends.
I asked him concerning this strange paradox, but he would not discuss the question, and I must await a more favourable opportunity.
# Gems of Chinese Literature/Han Wên-Kung-In Memoriam (Liu Tsung-yüan)

HAN WÊN-KUNG.
768-824 a.d.
[From Mr. Watters’ invaluable Guide to the Tablets in a Confucian Temple, I learn that we should wash our hands in rose-water before taking up the works of Han Wên-kung, whose official name was Han Yü, Wên-kung being his title by canonisation. Known as the “Prince of Literature,” and generally regarded as the most striking figure in the Chinese world of letters, he certainly ranks high as poet, essayist, and philosopher. In official life, he got himself into trouble by his outspoken attacks upon Buddhism, at that time very fashionable at Court, and was banished to the then barbarous south, where he gained great kudos by his wise and incorrupt administration. It was there that he issued his famous manifesto to the crocodile, at which we might well smile if it were not quite clear that to the author superstition was simply, as elsewhere, an instrument of political power. Han Wên-kung was ultimately recalled from his quasi-exile, and died loaded with honours. His tablet has been placed in the Confucian temple, which is otherwise strictly reserved for exponents of the doctrines of Confucius, “because,” as Mr. Watters states, “he stood out almost alone against the heresy of Buddhism which had nearly quenched the torch of Confucian truth.”]
Alas! Tzŭ-hou, and hast thou come to this pass?―fool that I am! is it not the pass to which mortals have ever come? Man is born into the world like a dream: what need has he to take note of gain or loss? While the dream lasts, he may sorrow or may joy; but when the awakening is at hand, why cling regretfully to the past?
’Twere well for all things an they had no worth. The excellence of its wood is the bane of the tree. And thou, whom God released in mid-career from earthly bonds, weaver of the jewelled words, thou wilt be remembered when the imbeciles of fortune and place are forgot.
The unskilful bungler hacks his hands and streams with sweat, while the expert craftsman looks on with folded arms. O my friend, thy work was not for this age; though I, a bungler, have found employment in the service of the State. Thou didst know thyself above the common herd; but when in shame thou didst depart, never to return, the philistines usurped thy place.
Alas! Tzŭ-hou, now thou art no more. But thy last wish, that I should care for thy little son, is still ringing sadly in my ears. The friendships of the day are those of self-interest alone. How can I feel sure that I shall live to carry out thy behest? I did not arrogate to myself this duty. Thou thyself hast bidden me to the task; and, by the Gods above, I will not betray thy trust.
Thou hast gone to thy eternal home, and wilt not return. With these sacrifices by thy coffin’s side, I utter an affectionate farewell.
* ↑ In memory of his dear friend Liu Tsung-yüan (see p. 131), whose literary name was Tzŭ-hou.
* ↑ In memory of his dear friend Liu Tsung-yüan (see p. 131), whose literary name was Tzŭ-hou.
# Gems of Chinese Literature/English-Chinese Index to Names

(Alphabetically arranged)
* Anonymous 失名
* Chan kuo ts‘ê 戰國策
* Chang Chih-tung 張之洞
* Chang Yüeh 張說
* Ch‘ao Ts‘o 晁錯
* Chou, Duke of 周公
* Chou Tun-i 周敦頤
* Chu Hsi 朱熹
* Ch‘ü P‘ing 屈平
* Chuang Tzŭ 莊子
* Chung-shan, Prince of 中山靖王
* Fa Hsien 法顯
* Fang Hsiao-ju 方孝孺
* Han Fei 韓菲
* Han Wên-kung 韓文公
* Hsŭ Hsieh 許獬
* Hsün Tzŭ 荀子
* Hu Ch‘ŭan 胡銓
* Huang T‘ing-chien 黃庭堅
* Kao Ti 高帝
* Ku-liang Ch‘ih 榖梁赤
* Ku Yung 谷永
* Kumârajîva 鳩摩羅什婆
* Kung-yang Kao 公羊高
* K‘ung Fu-tzŭ (Confucius) 孔夫子
* Kuo Jo-hsü 郭若虛
* Lan Ting-yüan 藍鼎元
* Lao Tzŭ 老子
* Li Chih 李廌
* Li Hua 李華
* Li Ling 李陵
* Li Ssŭ 李斯
* Liang Ch‘i-ch‘ao 梁啓超
* Lieh Tzŭ 列子
* Lin Tsê-hsü 林則徐
* Liu An 劉安
* Liu Chi 劉基
* Liu Ling 劉伶
* Liu Tsung-yŭan 柳宗元
* Liu Yin 劉因
* Liu Yü-hsi 劉禹錫
* Lo Kuan-chung 羅貫中
* Lu Wên-shu 路溫舒
* Ma Yüan 馬援
* Mêng Tzŭ (Mencius) 孟子
* Ming Ti 明帝
* Mo Ti 墨翟
* Ou-yang Hsiu 歐陽修
* P‘ei Lin 裴潾
* Po Chü-i 白居易
* P‘u Sung-ling 蒲松齡
* Sacred Edict, The 聖諭廣訓
* Shên Kua 沈括
* Shên Shu ch‘i Chang shih 沈束妻張氏
* Shu Kuang 疏廣
* Ssŭ-ma Ch‘ien 司馬遷
* Ssŭ-ma Hsiang-ju 司馬相如
* Ssŭ-ma Kuang 司馬光
* Su Tung-P‘o 蘇東坡
* Sung Tz‘ŭ 宋慈
* Sung Yü 宋玉
* T‘an Kung 檀弓
* T‘ao Yüan-ming 陶淵明
* Têng Ch‘un 登椿
* T‘ang Hou 湯垕
* Tsêng Kuo-fan 曾國藩
* Tso-ch‘iu Ming 左邱明
* Tsung Ch‘ên 宗臣
* Tung-fang So 東方朔
* Wang An-shih 王安石
* Wang Chi 王績
* Wang Ch‘ung 王充
* Wang Su 王肅
* Wang Tao-k‘un 汪道昆
* Wên Ti 文帝
* Wên T‘ien-hsiang 文天祥
* Wu Ti 武帝
* Wu Tsung 武宗
* Yang Chi-shêng ch‘i Chang shih 楊繼盛妻張氏
* Yang Chu 楊朱
* Yo Fei 岳飛
* Yüan Mei 袁枚
* Yüan Shih-k‘ai 袁世凱
# Gems of Chinese Literature/Fa Hsien-A storm at Sea

FA HSIEN.
4th and 5th Centuries a.d.
[The name in religion of a Chinese Buddhist priest who, in the year a.d. 399, walked from Central China to Central India, then on to Calcutta and Ceylon, and back by sea, finally landing near the modern Kiao-chow. His object was to secure Buddhist texts and images for the purpose of spreading the Law of Buddha in China, and in this he was completely successful. He started with quite a number of companions but came home alone, the others having either turned back or died. In his own words: “I spent six years in travelling from Ch‘ang-an to Central India. I stayed there six years, and took three more to reach Kiao-chow. The countries I passed through numbered rather fewer than thirty. Coming home across the sea, I encountered even more difficulties and dangers; but happily I was accorded the awful protection of our holy Trinity, and was thus preserved in the hour of danger. Therefore I wrote down on bamboo slips and silk what I had done, desiring that worthy men should share this information.” The result was a small work, known as “Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms.”]
I remained in Ceylon for two years, and after a prolonged search I obtained copies of several important sacred books, not to be found in China. When I had obtained these in the Pali original, I took passage on board a large merchant-vessel, on which there ​were over two hundred souls, and astern of which there was a small vessel in case of accident at sea and the destruction of the big vessel. Catching a fair wind, we proceeded east for two days when we encountered a heavy gale and the ship sprung a leak. The merchants wished to pass on to the small vessel, but the men there, afraid that too many would come, cut the tow-rope. The merchants were very frightened, for death was close at hand; and fearing that the ship would fill, they immediately took what bulky goods there were and threw them into the sea. I also took my pitcher and ewer with whatever else I could spare and threw them into the sea; but I was afraid that the merchants would throw over my books and images, and accordingly I fixed my whole thoughts on the Goddess of Mercy and prayed to our Church in China, saying, “I have journeyed afar in search of the Law. Oh, that by your awful power you would turn back the flow of the leak that we might reach some resting-place!”
* ↑ Kuan Yin.
* ↑ Which they shortly afterwards did.
# First National Bank of Bay City v. Fellows ex rel Union Trust Company

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United States Supreme Court
244 U.S. 416
First National Bank of Bay City v. Fellows ex rel Union Trust Company
Argued: March 22 and 23, 1917. --- Decided: June 11, 1917
[Syllabus from pages 416-417 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. Edward S.C.lark and H. M. Gillett for plaintiff in error.
Messrs. Henry M. Campbell and John G. Johnson for defendant in error.
Solicitor General Davis and Messrs. Milton C. Elliott and Joseph P. Cotton as amici curiae, for the United States, by leave of court.
Mr. Chief Justice White delivered the opinion of the court:

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# First National Bank of Boston v. Maine

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United States Supreme Court
284 U.S. 312
First National Bank of Boston v. Maine
Argued: Dec. 10, 1931. --- Decided: Jan 4, 1932
Messrs. Leonard A. Pierce, Charles L. Hutchinson, and Herbert J. Connell, all of Portland, Me., and Franklin Fisher, of Lewiston, Me. (Messrs. Cook, Hutchinson, Pierce & Connell, of Portland, Me., and Marion H. Fisher, of Jamestown, N. Y., of counsel), for appellant.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 313-315 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. Clement F. Robinson, Atty. Gen., and Nathan W. Thompson, of Portland, Me., for the State of Maine.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 316-320 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. Henry N. Benson, Atty. Gen., and John F. Bonner and William K. Montague, Asst. Attys. Gen., for the State of Minnesota, amicus curiae.
Mr. Seth W. Cole, of Albany, N. Y., for Tax Commission of State of New York, amicus curiae.
Messrs. Russell L. Bradford and Taylor, Blane, Capron & Marsh, all of New York City, for City Bank Farmers' Trust Co., amicus curiae.
Messrs. John M. Perry, of New York City, Samuel W. Fordyce and Thomas W. White, both of St. Louis, Mo., and Henry J. Richardson, of Washington, D. C. (Messrs. Larkin, Rathbone & Perry, of New York City, and Fordyce, Holliday & White and C. P. Fordyce, all of St. Louis, Mo., of counsel), for executors of James N. Jarvie's Estate, amicus curiae.
Mr. Justice SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# First National Bank of Canton Pa v. Williams

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United States Supreme Court
252 U.S. 504
First National Bank of Canton Pa v. Williams
Argued: March 3, 1920. --- Decided: April 19, 1920
Mr. John B. Stanchfield, of New York City, for appellant.
Messrs. Solicitor General King and La Rue Brown, of Boston, Mass., for appellee.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 504-508 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Farley v. Hill

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United States Supreme Court
150 U.S. 572
Farley v. Hill
Statement by Mr. Justice SHIRAS: On December 15, 1881, Jesse P. Farley filed in the circuit court of the United States for the district of Minnesota a bill of complaint against Norman W. Kittson, James J. Hill, and the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Company.
The object of the bill was to enforce the complainant's alleged right to share with Kittson and Hill in the proceeds of certain foreclosure proceedings against the St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Company and the first division of the St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Company, and wherein the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Company, a corporation organized by Kittson and Hill, in connection with other persons, had become the owners of the foreclosed properties.
To this bill the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Company demurred for want of equity, and Kittson and Hill filed a plea denying some of the allegations of the bill, and alleging that Farley, as receiver and manager under appointment by a court, was precluded by reason of public policy from making any valid agreement with Kittson and Hill of the kind set up in the bill.
To this plea a replication was filed, and proofs were taken. The circuit court held that the agreement of the plaintiff with Kittson and Hill was unlawful and void, and on that ground sustained the plea, and dismissed the bill. 4 McCrary, 138, 14 Fed. 114.
The case was proceeded in in the circuit court. The defendants answered, replication was filed, and evidence was taken, and a final decree was rendered dismissing the bill. 39 Fed. 513. From that decree this appeal was taken.
George F. Edmunds, Henry D. Beam, and Edward D. Cooke, for appellant.
M. D. Grover, George B. Young, and John Maynard Harlan, for appellees.
Mr. Justice SHIRAS, after stating the facts in the foregoing language, delivered the opinion of the court.

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# Farley v. United States

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United States Supreme Court
354 U.S. 521
Farley v. United States
Argued: June 24, 1957. ---
PER CURIAM.

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# Farlow v. Kelly/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
108 U.S. 288
Farlow v. Kelly
The questions argued here are those presented by the exceptions below. After examining the testimony reported by the master, we are entirely satisfied with his findings of fact. There can be no doubt whatever of the culpable neglect of the managers of the road in leaving the freight car to stand on the side track so near the main track as to make a collision with the approaching train from the south inevitable, and in our opinion it was not contributory negligence for Kelly, under the circumstances, to ride with his elbow on the sill of the open window.
The judgment is affirmed.

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# Farm Buildings

FARM BUILDINGS WITH PLANS & ESTIMATES
FARM BUILDINGS
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# Frost Company v. Coeur D'Alene Mines Corporation

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United States Supreme Court
312 U.S. 38
Frost Company v. Coeur D'Alene Mines Corporation
Argued: Dec. 18, 19, 1940. --- Decided: Jan 20, 1941
Messrs. Ernest L. Wilkinson, John W. Cragun, and Charles J. Kappler, all of Washington, D.C., for petitioner.
Messrs. W. H. Langroise, of Boise, Idaho, and James A. Wayne, of Wallace, Idaho, for respondent.
Mr. Justice McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Frost at Midnight

Frost at Midnight was written in February 1798, and is one of Coleridge's conversation poems. It was intended to be added to Coleridge's third edition of his collected poems, but was published separately in a small volume along with Fears in Solitude and France, an Ode. The poem was first collected in Sibylline Leaves, published in 1817. It was rewritten many times, and seven different versions were printed.Warning: template has been deprecated.
* Frost at Midnight, in Fears in Solitude (1798)
* Frost at Midnight, in Sibylline Leaves (1817)
# Frost v. Railroad Commission of California

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United States Supreme Court
271 U.S. 583
Frost v. Railroad Commission of California
Argued: April 21, 22, 1926. --- Decided: June 7, 1926
Mr. Max Thelen, of San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs in error.
[Argument of Counsel from page 584 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Carl I. Wheat, of San Francisco, Cal., for defendant in error.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 585-588 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Frost v. Corporation Commission State Oklahoma

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United States Supreme Court
278 U.S. 515
Frost v. Corporation Commission State Oklahoma
Argued: Nov. 26, 1928. --- Decided: Feb 18, 1929
[Syllabus from pages 515-517 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. Robert M. Rainey and Streeter B. Flynn, both of Oklahoma City, Okl., for appellant.
Messrs. E. S. Ratliff, of Oklahoma City, Okl., and Edwin Dabney, Atty. Gen. of Oklahoma, for appellees.
Mr. Justice SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Federal Communications Commission v. Allentown Broadcasting Corp.

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United States Supreme Court
349 U.S. 358
Federal Communications Commission v. Allentown Broadcasting Corp.
Argued: April 20, 21, 1955. --- Decided: June 6, 1955
Mr. Warren E. Baker, Washington, D.C., for petitioner.
Mr. Donald C. Beelar, Washington, D.C., for respondent.
Mr. Justice REED delivered the opinion of the Court.

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