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# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume XIV/Additional Canons 3/The Canons of Carthage/Canons/Canon LXX

Canon LXX. (Greek lxxiii.)
What clerics should abstain from their wives.
Moreover since incontinence has been charged against some clergymen with regard to their own wives it has seemed good that bishops, presbyters, and deacons should according to the statutes already made abstain even from their own wives; and unless they do so that they should be removed from the clerical office. But the rest of the clergy shall not be forced to this but the custom of each church in this matter shall be followed.
Notes.
Ancient Epitome of Canon LXX.
Bishops, presbyters and deacons shall abstain for their wives or else be removed from the ecclesiastical order. But the rest of the clergy shall not be forced to the same: but let the custom be observed.
This is Canon iv. of Carthage, September, a.d. 401.
Johnson.
A repetition of Canon 25 (28).
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume XIV/Additional Canons 3/The Canons of Carthage/Canons/Canon LXIII

Canon LXIII. (Greek lxvi.)
Of players who have become Christians.
And of them also it must be sought that if anyone wishes to come to the grace of Christianity from any ludicrous art (ludicra arte) and to remain free of that stain, it be not lawful for anyone to induce him or compel him to return to the performance of the same things again.
Notes.
Ancient Epitome of Canon LXIII.
Whoever has turned away from the stage to adopt an honest life, shall not be led back thereto.
This is Canon vij. of the Synod of Carthage, June 15 (or 16), a.d. 401.
Johnson.
This canon is probably to be understood of slaves bought by their masters for the service of the Circ, or Theatre.
# Ningpo to Shanghai in 1857/Mai-chee to Hoo-chow-foo

​The distance from Mai-chee Ferry to Hoo-chow is said to be 90 lé. It is in excess of this, but the channel, from 50 to 200 feet wide, winds a good deal—S.S.E.—E.S E.—N.E.—E S. E.—S. E. E.N.E. and East, all being noted within a three hours' run, the general direction being due East. Thirty lē from Hoo-chow is Yuen-tong-jow—Ten lē east of which is Ne-cha-veng—and as far farther on Yah-co-chaong; the ground on both sides, a continued level, being cultivated in the proper season with Indian wheat;—Mulberry trees luxuriating in all directions.
At Hoo-chow the stream deepens, and Junks of three and four hundred tons burthen discharge their cargoes close to the banks.—But though of such tonnage, these vessels are flat bottomed, and do not draw at the outside more then six feet of water.
Hoo-chow, the Foo or Chief city of the department, is a place of considerable importance, and judging from the busy habits of the people, no doubt a desirable abode. It is from Hoo-chow that much of the Silk for the Shanghae market is taken, though little of the manufacture of it within the walls is seen. Wide and deep canals run through the city, crossed in various places by handsome and capacious bridges. The walls, which are in very excellent condition, 30 feet wide and 20 feet high, are upwards of six miles in circuit, and from the ​numbering and allotment of the lofty battlements into sections, it does not appear likely that the place would be found unprepared should a visit be paid to it by the expected rebels. Hills on the south of the city are crowned with defensible barracks; and whilst these remained in the hands of the city's holders would prevent successful assault in that direction. On the other hand, if in the possession of assailants, attempt at defence would be unavailing. A lofty seven storied Pagoda on a hill south of the city commands, in a clear day, a view of the Tae-hoo, or great Lake. and the country adjacent. Very much of the interior of the City is unbuilt on or appropriated for archery ground.—An avenue near the south gate is lined with upwards of a dozen Memorial columns, of finished antique workmanship.
At Hoo-chow and the country near are manufactories of the Japan varnish used in the south A knowledge of this preparation would be prized in Europe, and, with time and opportunity, a skilful inquirer might obtain some useful infor mation regarding it. The preparation, whatever it is, is wrung out in cloths by men working near a slow fire. Rice, still the chief article of food among the people, is dear here—viz, from 5,800 to 5,000 cash a picul, on at Shanghae currency a little short of three pence a pound.
# Ningpo to Shanghai in 1857/Sze-tche-sah to Ane-chee

​Chu-ko-lo of two or three houses is N.E. about one mile from Che-che-sah—and a little further on Ho-foo-loong of similar size. Ing-ka-loong is the next village, and after that Sac-a-san, both of them exhibiting a good many tidy looking houses—the winding streams among the wood land giving a picturesque character to the route—the flat slabbed and pebbled path way being in excellent condition. From Sac-a-san to a Ding a short distance ​from San-qua-lee the road takes a sharpish ascent for a for a little distance over steps cut out of the rock. San-qua-lee is a village of 150 families about 10 le from Chung-chow-chune, a hamlet in the suburbs of the district city of Ane-chee.
Ane-chee is not much larger than Haou-foong, but the walls are in better condition, and there are no such wide gaps in them as those told of. The gates are small, not over seven feet square, the houses built principally of wood. But more than half the enclosure is covered with mulberry trees and large pools of water; and the traveller feels repeatedly induced fo put the question—"What on earth can be the use of these walled cities?" Carolus dollars change for 950 cash here, and ten cash pieces are current.
# Ningpo to Shanghai in 1857/Nan-dzing to Jin-zek

​Hoochow stands partly on the Ane-chē (Gnan-keih) District, partly on the District of Wu-Dzing (30) and after leaving by the Canal, the route to Pahledeo, three or four miles from the eastern walls is about E. by S.—Two miles or so East of Pahledeo is Sing-sang and about a mile further Yah-jong-kok.
From this point to Shou-ming fu, a distance of ​ten miles E. by N.—the canal runs by the villages of Tching zu—Sun-quon-deo, Chang-teng and Yat-ling-jow—the low hills around being thickly studded with Firs or Mulberry trees, over Wheat, Beans and Grassicher.—Bridges of excellent workmanship are met at various points where the streams go north or south from the principal Channel A little way beyond Yatling-jow is the Poo-dee-mew; from which Nan-Dzing or Noan-zin, and unwalled town of 40 or 50,000 inhabitants bears N.E. distant about 3 miles. Nan-Dzing is a very busy place, giving employment to many coopers of the lacquered tubs and implements sold in northern China markets, and occasionally seen in the south.
# Ningpo to Shanghai in 1857/Ling-haen to the Woo-ling-sze

​Seven lē W. from Ling-haen is the village of Ching-ka-teo of 25 families and a little farther on Djui-cha of 100 families. Foo-ling-jow, a village of 300 families, is one mile N.W. from it. A Bridge to cost $40,000 was commenced over the stream here (between two or three hundred feet across,) in ​the beginning of the present year, 1856, and contri butions to it are thankfully received from foreigner as well as native passing that way (14).
The contented faces, the garden like country, the absence of beggars, combined with fine weather, render travelling in this part of the route delightful.
Five lē W. by S. from Foo-ling-jow is the Toong-Mew a large temple, and near it, low down at the foot of a hill, may be seen, half a mile from the road, a five storied hexagonal pagoda, white washed, where not decayed and broke away.
Two or three Temples, are to be found at no great distance from a hamlet of 20 families called Shin-chee, at one of which, by a picturesque arched Ding of superior construction, the priests offer excellent accommodation to travellers. Tea bushes may be seen here and there on the hills, but not in large numbers.
One lē W. of Shin-chee is Peau-hing-chak a hamlet of 30 families, and Ten lē W. by N. is Lan-pe of 100 families. The river bed, nearly dry excepting in the rainy season, is very wide here, and is crossed to the right bank by a seven arched Bridge of excellent workmanship.
One mile from Lan-pe is Si-long-ket a village of 100 families, and hence to the Woo-loo-ling Sze (Monastery in the gorge) is Two lē W.N.W.
# Ningpo to Shanghai in 1857/Tai-ye-wan-ling to Tai-chew-fong-ling

PROVINCE OF ANWHUY
From Tai-ye-wan-ling to Tai-chew-fong-ling the general course is about west; but the travelling is all mountainous, down one ascent and up another, through romantic glens and across barren hill sides, sharp pitches and no flag stones, for a distance of about eight miles.
# Ningpo to Shanghai in 1857/Preface

The following pages were printed off as they were written, shortly after the writer's return to Hongkong in 1857, and would have been published before, had time allowed the preparation of a map and index which he intended to accompany the itinerary.
Almost the whole of the country travelled over has since fallen into the hands of the rebels, so that, though late, what is now submitted will prove useful to future travellers in affording materials for a contrast.
WILLIAM TARRANT,
Canton, January 21st, 1862.
# Nixon v. Herndon

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Nixon v. Herndon, 273 U.S. 536 (1927), was a United States Supreme Court decision in which the Court struck down a Texas law which forbade blacks from voting in the Texas Democratic primary. Because Texas was a one-party state, the Democratic Party primary was the only competitive process and chance to choose among candidates. This was one of four cases brought to challenge the Texas Democratic Party's all-white primary, all of which were supported by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Warning: template has been deprecated.
United States Supreme Court
273 U.S. 536
Nixon v. Herndon
Argued: and Submitted Jan. 4, 1927. --- Decided: March 7, 1927
Messrs. Louis Marshall, of New York City, F. C.
Knollenberg, of El Paso, Tex., A. B. Spingarn, of New York City, R. J. Channell, of El Paso, Tex., Moorfield Storey, of Boston, Mass., and James A. Cobb, of Washington, D. C., for plaintiff in error.
Messrs. Claude Pollard and D. A. Simmons, both of Austin, Tex., for defendants in error.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 537-538 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

## Notes

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# Nixon v. Long

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September Term, 1762.
Nixon and Harper versus Long and Plumstead.
The Protest of a Master of a Ship, allowed to be given in Evidence.
# Nixon v. Condon

Nixon v. Condon, 286 U.S. 73 (1932), was a voting rights case decided by the United States Supreme Court, which found the all-white Democratic Party primary in Texas unconstitutional. This was one of four cases brought to challenge the Texas all-white Democratic Party primary. All challenges were supported by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Warning: template has been deprecated.
United States Supreme Court
286 U.S. 73
Nixon v. Condon
Argued: March 15, 1932. --- Decided: May 2, 1932
Messrs. James Marshall, Nathan R. Margold, Arthur
Spingarn, all of New York City, and Fred C. Knollenberg and E. F. Cameron, both of El Paso, Tex. (Mr. N. H. Kugelmass, of New York City, on the brief), for petitioner.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 74-78 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. Ben R. Howell and Thornton Hardie, both of El Paso, Tex., for respondents.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 79-81 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. J. Alston Atkins and Carter W. Wesley, both of Houston, Tex. (Messrs. J. M. Nabrit, Jr., and Nabrit, Atkins & Wesley, all of Houston, Tex., and Charles H. Houston, of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for movants.
Mr. Justice CARDOZO delivered the opinion of the Court.

## Notes

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# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume III/Theodoret/Letters/Letter 37

XXXVII. To Salustius the Governor.
When rulers keep the scales of justice true, and let them hang in even balance, they confer all kinds of benefits upon their subjects; if they are also gifted with prudence and further show loving-kindness to him that needs it, manifold advantages accrue from their rule to them that live under it. Having enjoyed these good things through your excellency, and having experienced them in your former administration, they have now been moved with joy at the information that to your munificence the helm of government has been entrusted. I pray that they may gain yet greater good, that your excellency may win still higher praise, and that the encomiums of your eulogists may be vindicated by the addition to all your other honourable titles to fame of that colophon of good things—true religion. As I was compelled to pass several days in Hierapolis I hoped to have the pleasure of meeting your excellency, and persistently enquired of new comers if the insignia of office had been conveyed to you. But I was compelled by the divine feast of salvation to return in haste to the city entrusted to me. Now however that I have received your excellency’s letter, with very great pleasure I return your salutation, and without delay have sent, as you requested, the honourable and pious deacon who is by God’s grace a water-finder. May the Lord in His loving kindness grant him both to do good service to the city and increase your excellency’s glory.

## Footnotes

* ↑ i.e. of the Euphratensis.
* ↑ Colophon was one of the twelve Ionian cities founded by Mopsus on the coast of Asia Minor and was one of the claimants for being the birthplace of Homer. To put a colophon to anything became a proverbial expression for to put the crowning touch, to complete—from the fact according to Strabo (C. 643) that the Colophonian cavalry was so excellent as at once to decide and finish a battle in which it appeared. So the place and date of the edition of a book, with the device of the printer, appended to old editions is called a colophon.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume III/Theodoret/Letters/Letter 34

XXXIV. To the Count Patricius.
All kinds of goodness are praiseworthy, but all are made more beautiful by loving kindness. For it we earnestly pray the God of all; through it alone we obtain forgiveness when we err; it makes wealth stoop to the poor, and because I know that your Excellency is richly endowed with it I confidently commend to you the admirable and excellent Celestinianus, once lord of vast wealth and possessions and suddenly stripped of all, but bearing his poverty as easily as few men bear their riches. The subject of the tragedy involving the fall of his fortunes is the barbarian invasion of Libya and Carthage. I have introduced him to your greatness; pray suggest his case to others, and move them to pity. You will win greater gain by giving many a lesson in loving kindness:
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume III/Theodoret/Letters/Letter 35

XXXV. To the Bishop Irenæus.
You are conspicuous, my Lord, for many forms of goodness, and your holiness is beautified in an especial degree by loving-kindness, by contempt of riches, and by a generosity that gushes forth for the help of them that need. I know too that you deem worthy of more than ordinary attention those who have been brought up in prosperity and have fallen from it into trouble. Knowing this as well as I do I venture to make known to you the very admirable and excellent Celestinianus. He was once well known in Carthage for wealth and position, now stripped of these he is favourably known by his piety and philosophy, for he bears what men call misfortune with resignation because it has brought him to the salvation of his soul. He came to me with a letter which described his former prosperity, and after he had passed several days with me I proved the truth of what was said of him by experience. I have therefore no hesitation in commending him to your Holiness, and begging you to make him known to the well-to-do men of the city. It is probable that when they have learnt what has befallen him, in fear of a like fate befalling themselves, they will endeavour to escape judgment by shewing mercy. He has no resource but to go about begging, as he is put to the greater expense because he has with him his wife and children, and the domestics who with him escaped the violence of the barbarians.

## Footnotes

* ↑ i.e. of Tyre.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume III/Theodoret/Letters/Letter 29

XXIX. To Apellion.
The sufferings of the Carthaginians would demand, and, in their greatness, perhaps out-task, the power of the tragic language of an Æschylus or a Sophocles. Carthage of old was with difficulty taken by the Romans. Again and again she contended with Rome for the mastery of the world, and brought Rome within danger of destruction. Now the ruin has been the mere byplay of barbarians. Now dignified members of her far-famed senate wander all over the world, getting means of existence from the bounty of kindly strangers, moving the tears of beholders, and teaching the uncertainty and instability of the lot of man.
I have seen many who have come thence, and I have felt afraid, for I know not, as the Scripture says, “what the morrow will bring forth.” Not least do I admire the admirable and most honourable Celestinianus, so bravely does he bear his misfortune, and makes the loss of his happiness an occasion for philosophy, praising the governor of all, and holding that to be good which God either ordains or suffers to be. For the wisdom of divine Providence is unspeakable. He is travelling with his wife and children, and I beg your excellency to treat him with an hospitality like that of Abraham. With perfect confidence in your benevolence I have undertaken to introduce him to you, and I am telling him how generous is your right hand.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Prov. xxvii. 1
* ↑ The name Celestinianus varies in the mss. with Celestiacus. Theodoret’s letter in his behalf may be placed shortly after the sack of Carthage by Genseric in 439.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume III/Theodoret/Letters/Letter 33

XXXIII. To Stasimus,Count and Primate.
To narrate the sufferings of the most honourable and dignified Celestinianus would require tragic eloquence. Tragic writers set forth fully the ills of humanity, but I can only in a word inform your excellency that his country is Libya, so long on all men’s tongues, his city the far famed Carthage, his hereditary rank a seat in her famous council, his circumstances affluent. But all this is now a tale, mere words stripped bare of realities. The barbarian war has deprived him of all this. But such is fortune; she refuses to remain always with the same men and hastens to change her abode to dwell with others. I beg to introduce this guest to your excellency, and beseech you that he may enjoy your far famed beneficence. I beg also that through your excellency he may become known to all those who are in office and opulence, in order that you may both become a means of advantage to them and win the higher reward from our merciful God.

## Footnotes

* ↑ The title Primas was applied in civil Law to (a) the Decuriones of a municipality, and (b) to the chiefs of provincial governments. Cod. Theod. vii. 18. 13, ix. 40. 16 etc.
* ↑ cf. Horace I. xxxiv. 14 and III. xxix. 52 “nunc mihi nunc alii benigna.”
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume III/Theodoret/Letters/Letter 36

XXXVI. To Pompianus, Bishop of Emesa.
I know very well that your means are small and your heart is great, and that in your case generosity is not prevented by limited resources. I therefore introduce to your holiness the admirable and excellent Celestinianus, once enjoying much wealth and prosperity, but now escaped from the hands of the barbarians with nothing but freedom, and having no means of livelihood except the mercy of men like your piety. And cares crowd round him, for travelling with him are his wife, children and servants, whom he has brought with him from no motives but those of humanity, for he cannot think it right to dismiss them when they refuse to abandon him. I beg you of your goodness to make him known to our wealthy citizens, for I think that, after being informed by your holiness and seeing how soon prosperity may fall away, they will bethink them of our common humanity, and, in imitation of your magnanimity, will give him such help as they can.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume III/Theodoret/Letters/Letter 30

XXX. To Aerius the Sophist.
Now is the time for your Academy to prove the use of your discussions. I am told that a brilliant assemblage collects at your house, of which the members are both illustrious by birth and polished of speech, and that you debate about virtue and the immortality of the soul, and other kindred subjects. Show now opportunely your nobility of soul and wealth of virtue, and receive the most admirable and honourable Celestinianus in the spirit of men who have learnt the rapid changes of human prosperity. He was formerly an ornament of the city of Carthage, where he flung open the doors of his house to many priests, and never thought to need a stranger’s kindness. Be his spokesman, my friend, and aid him in his need of your voice, for he cannot suffer the advice of the poet which bids him that needeth speak though he be ashamed.
Persuade I beg you any of your society who are capable of so doing to emulate the hospitality of Alcinous, to remove the poverty which has unexpectedly befallen him, and to change his evil fortune into good. Let them praise our kindly Lord for making us wise by other men’s calamities, not having sent us to strangers’ houses and having brought strangers to our doors. To men that shew kindness He promises to give what words cannot express and no intelligence can understand.

## Footnotes

* ↑ A Christian Sophist of Cyrus. cf. Letter LXVI.
* ↑ This passage is corrupt, and I cannot discover the quotation. There may not impossibly be a reference to Hom. Od. xvii. 345.
* ↑ Hom. Od. vii.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume III/Theodoret/Letters/Letter 31

XXXI. To Domnus Bishop of Antioch.
The most admirable and honourable Celestinianus is a native of the famous Carthage, and of an illustrious family in that city. Now he has been exiled from it. He is wandering in foreign parts, and has to look to the benevolence of them that love God. He carries with him a burden from which he cannot escape and which increases his care—I mean his wife, his children and his servants, for whom he is at great expense. I wonder at his spirit. For he praises the great Pilot as though he were being borne by favourable breezes, and cares nothing for the terrible storm. From his calamity he has reaped the fruit of piety, and this thrice blessed gain has been brought him by his misfortune; for while he was in prosperity he never accepted this teaching, but when the evil day left him bare, among the rest of his losses he lost his impiety too, and now possesses the wealth of the faith, and for its sake thinks little of his ruin.
I therefore beseech your holiness to let him find a fatherland in these foreign parts, and to charge them that abound in riches to comfort one who once was endowed like themselves, and to scatter the dark cloud of his calamity. It is only right and proper that among men of like nature, where all have erred, they that have escaped chastisement should bring comfort to them that have fallen on evil days, and by their sympathy for these latter propitiate the mercy of God.

## Footnotes

* ↑ cf Epp. 80 - 110 - 112.