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# A Discourse upon the Institution of Medical Schools in America

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A
Discourse
Upon the Institution of
Medical Schools
In America;
With a
Preface
Containing, amongst other things,
The Author's
Apology
For attempting to introduce the regular mode of practising Physic in Philadelphia:
By John Morgan M.D.
Philadelphia:
Printed and fold by William Bradford, at the Corner of Market and Front-Streets, MDCC,LXV.
* To Samuel Powel, Esquire, Of Philadelphia
* Preface
* Discourse
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# Account of the particular soliloquies and covenant engagements, of Mrs. Janet Hamilton (1801)

AN
ACCOUNT
OF THE PARTICULAR
SOLILOQUIES
AND
COVENANT ENGAGEMENTS,
OF
Mrs. JANET HAMILTON,
The deceased Lady of Alex. Gordon of Earlston.
Taken from a Glasgow Copy, Printed in the Year 1754.
Paisley, printed by J. Neilson, Cumberland, For John Glen, Port-Glasgow. 1801.
* First covenant
* Second covenant
* Third covenant
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# Account of the Storming of Tredagh

Shortly before his death in 1650 Thomas Wood then a captain in the New Model Army (and previously an Royalist officer who had fought for King Charles I and had been a defender during the siege of Basing House), returned to England from the Irish Wars and while staying with his family told the following tale as related by his brother Antony Wood.

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[Thomas] would tell [his family] of the most terrible assaulting and storming of Tredagh, wherein he himself had been engaged. He told them that 3000 at least, besides some women and children, were, after the assailants had taken part, and afterwards all the towne, put to the sword on the 11 and 12 of Sept. 1649; at which time Sir Arthur Aston the governour had his braines beat out, and his body hack'd and chop'd to pieces. He told them, that when they were to make their way up to the lofts and galleries in the church and up to the tower where he enimy had fled, each of the assailants would take up a child and use it as a buckler of defence, when they ascended the steps, to keept hemselves from being shot or brain'd. After they had kil'd all in the church, they went into the vaults underneath where all the flower and choicest of the women and ladies had hid themselves. One of these, a most hansome virgin and arrai'd in costly and gorgeous apparel, kneel'd downe to Tho. Wood with teares and prayers to save her life: and being strucken with a profound pitie, took her under his arme, went with her out of the church, with intentions to put her over the works and to let her shift for her self; but then a soldier perceiving his intentions, he ran his sword up her belly or fundament. Whereupon Mr. Wood seeing her gasping, took away her money, Jewells &,c. and flung her downe over the works, &c.
* ↑ Wood 510 (8) is "Letters from Ireland relating to the taking of Drogheda," Lond. 1649.
* ↑ the Harl. MS. has "in churches and up the towers"
* ↑ "churches," in the Harl. MS.
* ↑ "with a deep remorse," in the Harl. MS.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields

A SHEAF
GLEANED IN FRENCH FIELDS
Ich bringe Blumen mit und Fruchte, Gereift auf einer andern Flur, In einem andern Sonnenlichte, In einer glucklichern Natur
Schiller
A SHEAF
GLEANED IN FRENCH FIELDS
BY
TORU DUTT
A NEW EDITION
LONDON C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., 1 PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1880
(The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved)
DÉDICACE.
À MADAME GOVIN C. DUTT.
Le fond du lac n'est pas toujours limpide; Qu'un Voyageur, qu'un téméraire enfant Jette une pierre en son cristal humide, Un noir limon s'en élève à l'instant. Mais, par degrés plus tranquille et plus claire, On voit bientôt la vague s'aplanir, Et, tout brillant de sa splendeur première, L'azur du ciel revient s'y réfléchir.
Souvent ainsi le tourbillon du monde, De mes pensers troublant la douce paix, Vient y mêler comme une fange immonde, Qui dans mon sein voile un moment tes traits. Mais lorsqu'a fui la foule murmurante, Lorsque le calme en mes sens est rentré, Le voile tombe et ta forme charmante Se peint encore sur mon cœur épuré!
X. Labenski (Polonius.)
The lake's fair surface is not always clear. If but a traveller, or a rash child near, At random throw a stone upon its glass, A dark ooze rises in a vapoury mass; But by degrees more tranquil and serene, The wave disturbed gets smooth as it had been, And pure, austere, resplendent as before, The blue, blue sky reflects itself once more.
Thus oft alas! the discords of the earth Troubling the sweet peace of my thoughts, give birth To unclean slime, that in dense spirals roll To mar thy gracious image in my soul. But when the murm'ring crowd away has fled, And the calm enters in my sense instead, The veil is gone; thy loving face again Gleams in my heart, as sunlight after rain.
T. D.
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# A Shattered Lute

* "Sonnet" in Preludes (1875).
* "A Shattered Lute" in Poems (1921).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Browne, Charles Farrar

​Browne, Charles Farrar (1834-1867).—Humorist (Artemus Ward), b. in Maine, U.S., worked as a compositor and reporter, and became a highly popular humorous writer, his books being Artemus Ward his Book, A.W. His Panorama, A.W. among the Mormons, and A.W. in England.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Browne, Sir Thomas

​Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682).—Physician and miscellaneous and metaphysical writer, s. of a London merchant, was ed. at Winchester and Oxf., after which he studied medicine ​at various Continental univs., including Leyden, where he grad. He ultimately settled and practised at Norwich. His first and perhaps best known work, Religio Medici (the Religion of a Physician) was pub. in 1642. Other books are Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Enquiries into Vulgar Errors (1646), Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial (1658); and The Garden of Cyrus in the same year. After his death were pub. his Letter to a Friend and Christian Morals. B. is one of the most original writers in the English language. Though by no means free from credulity, and dealing largely with trivial subjects of inquiry, the freshness and ingenuity of his mind invest everything he touches with interest; while on more important subjects his style, if frequently rugged and pedantic, often rises to the highest pitch of grave and stately eloquence. In the Civil War he sided with the King's party, and was knighted in 1671 on the occasion of a Royal visit to Norwich. In character he was simple, cheerful, and retiring. He has had a profound if indirect influence on succeeding literature, mainly by impressing master-minds such as Lamb, Coleridge, and Carlyle.
There is an ed. of B.'s works by S. Wilkin (4 vols., 1835-6), Religio Medici by Dr. Greenhill, 1881. Life by Gosse in Men of Letters Series, 1903.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Brown, Thomas Edward

​Brown, Thomas Edward (1830-1897).—Poet, b. at Douglas, Isle of Man, s. of a clergyman, and ed. there and at Oxf., entered the Church and held various scholastic appointments, including a mastership at Clifton. His later years were spent in his native island. He had a true lyrical gift, and much of his poetry was written in Manx dialect. His poems include Fo'c'sle Yarns (1881), The Doctor (1887), The Manx Witch (1889), and Old John (1893). He was also an admirable letter-writer, and 2 vols. of his letters have been pub.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Browne, William

​Browne, William (1590?-1645?).—Poet, b. at Tavistock, ed. at Oxf., after which he entered the Inner Temple. His poems, which are mainly descriptive, are rich and flowing, and true to the phenomena of nature, but deficient in interest. Influenced by Spenser, he in turn had an influence upon such poets as Milton and Keats. His chief works were Britannia's Pastorals (1613), and The Shepheard's Pipe (1614).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Brown, Tom

​Brown, Tom (1663-1704).—Satirist, was ed. at Oxf., and there composed the famous epigram on Dr. Fell. He was for a few years schoolmaster at Kingston-on-Thames, but owing to his irregularities lost the appointment, and went to London, where he wrote satires, epigrams, and miscellaneous pieces, generally coarse and scurrilous.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Browne, Isaac Hawkins

​Browne, Isaac Hawkins (1705-1760).—Is remembered as the author of some clever imitations of contemporary poets on the theme of A Pipe of Tobacco, somewhat analogous to the Rejected Addresses of a later day. He also wrote a Latin poem on the immortality of the soul. B., who was a country gentleman and barrister, had great conversational powers. He was a friend of Dr. Johnson.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Brown, George Douglas

​Brown, George Douglas (1869-1902).—Novelist, wrote The House with the Green Shutters, which gives a strongly outlined picture of the harder and less genial aspects of Scottish life and character. It may be regarded as a useful supplement and corrective to the more roseate presentations of the kail-yard school of J.M. Barrie and "Ian Maclaren." It made a considerable impression. The author d. almost immediately after its publication. There is an ed. with a memoir by Mr. Andrew Lang.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Brown, Thomas

​Brown, Thomas (1778-1820).—Metaphysician, s. of the Rev. Samuel B., minister of Kirkinabreck, practised for some time as a physician in Edin., but his tastes and talents lying in the direction of literature and philosophy, he devoted himself to the cultivation of these, and succeeded Dugald Stewart as Professor of Moral Philosophy in the Univ. of Edin., in which position he had remarkable popularity as a lecturer. His main contribution to literature is his Lectures, pub. after his death. B. was a man of attractive character and considerable talents, but as a philosopher he is now largely superseded. He also wrote poetry, which, though graceful, lacked force, and is now forgotten.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Douglas, Sir George Brisbane Scott, Bart.

See also George Brisbane Scott Douglas on Wikipedia.
​Douglas, Sir George Brisbane Scott, Bart. (1856).—Poet and miscellaneous writer. Poems (1880), The Fireside Tragedy (1896), New Border Tales (1892), Poems of a Country Gentleman (1897), History of Border Counties, Lives of James Hogg and General Wauchope, etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/De Morgan, William Frend

See also William De Morgan on Wikipedia.
​De Morgan, William Frend (1839).—Novelist. Joseph Vance: An Ill-written Autobiography (1906), Alice-for-short: A Dichronism (1907), Somehow Good (1908), It Never can Happen Again (1909).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Doughty, Arthur

See also Arthur Doughty on Wikipedia.
​Doughty, Arthur.—Historical and miscellaneous writer. Life and Works of Tennyson (1893), Song Story of Francesca and Beatrice (1896), The Siege of Quebec and Battle of the Plains of Abraham (6 vols. 1901-2), The Fortress of Quebec (1904), The Cradle of New France (1908), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Davis, Richard Harding

See also Richard Harding Davis on Wikipedia.
​Davis, Richard Harding (1864).—American novelist, etc. Soldiers of Fortune, The Princess Aline, In the Fog, Captain Macklin, Real Soldiers of Fortune (1906), The Scarlet Car (1908), also books on his adventures in Venezuela, Cuba, South Africa, etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Dircks, Rudolf

​Dircks, Rudolf.—Novelist, dramatist, etc. Verisimilitudes, The Libretto, Broken Off, In the Corridor, A Mean Advantage, etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Doughty, Charles Montague

See also Charles Montagu Doughty on Wikipedia.
​Doughty, Charles Montague—Traveller and poet. Wanderings in Arabia (1908) (new ed. abridged from Arabia Deserta), The Dawn in Britain, Adam Cast Forth (1906), The Cliffs (1909).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes

See also Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson on Wikipedia.
​Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.—Historical writer. Revolution and Reaction in Modern France, The Development of Parliament in the Nineteenth Century, The Greek View of Life, The Meaning of Good, Letters of John Chinaman, A Modern Symposium, Justice and Liberty (1909), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth, Bart., P.C., LL.D., etc.

See also Sir Charles Dilke, 2nd Baronet on Wikipedia.
​Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth, Bart., P.C., LL.D., etc. (1843).—Political writer. Greater Britain (1868), The Fall of Prince Floristan of Monaco, Problems of Greater Britain (1890), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Dobson, Henry Austin, LL.D.

See also Henry Austin Dobson on Wikipedia.
​Dobson, Henry Austin, LL.D. (1840).—Poet and biographer. Poems, Vignettes in Rhyme (1873), Proverbs in Porcelain (1877), Old World Idylls (1883), At the Sign of the Lyre (1885). Prose, Thomas Bewick and his Pupils (1884), Eighteenth Century Vignettes ​(3 series, 1892, 1894, and 1896), Lives of Fielding (1883), Steele (1886), Goldsmith (1888), H. Walpole (1890), Hogarth (1891), Richardson (1892), etc. Ed. Diaries of Madame D'Arblay, J. Evelyn, etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Douglas, James

See also James Douglas (journalist) on Wikipedia.
​Douglas, James (1869).—The Man in the Pulpit (1905), The Unpardonable Sin (1907), Theodore Watts-Dunton, Adventures in London (1909).
# Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays

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ACROSS THE PLAINS
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR
EDINBURGH: PICTURESQUE NOTES
AN INLAND VOYAGE TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN AND BOOKS NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS TREASURE ISLAND THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE PRINCE OTTO THE MERRY MEN KIDNAPPED UNDERWOODS MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS THE BLACK ARROW THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE BALLADS FATHER DAMIEN: AN OPEN LETTER
(WITH MRS. STEVENSON)
THE DYNAMITER
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ACROSS THE PLAINS
WITH OTHER
MEMORIES AND ESSAYS
BY
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
London
CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY
1892
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TO PAUL BOURGET.
Traveller and student and curious as you are, you will never have heard the name of Vailima, most likely not even that of Upolu, and Samoa itself may be strange to your ears. To these barbaric seats there came the other day a yellow book with your name on the title, and filled in every page with the exquisite gifts of your art. Let me take and change your own words: J'ai beau admirer les autres de toutes mes forces, c'est avec vous que je me complais à vivre.
R. L. S.
Vailima, Upolu, Samoa.
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LETTER TO THE AUTHOR
My dear Stevenson,
You have trusted me with the choice and arrangement of these papers, written before you departed to the South Seas, and have asked me to add a preface to the volume. But it is your prose the public wish to read, not mine; and I am sure they will willingly be spared the preface. Acknowledgments are due in your name to the publishers of the several magazines from which the papers are collected, viz. Fraser's, Longman's, the Magazine of Art, and Scribner's. I will only add, lest any reader should find the tone of the concluding pieces less inspiriting than your wont, that they were written under circumstances of especial gloom and sickness. "I agree with you the lights seem a little turned down," so you write to me now; "the truth is I was far through, and came none too soon to the South Seas, where I was to recover peace of body and mind. And however low the lights, the stuff is true. . . ." Well, inasmuch as the South Sea sirens have breathed new life into you, we are bound to be heartily grateful to them, though as they keep you so far removed from ​us, it is difficult not to bear them a grudge; and if they would reconcile us quite, they have but to do two things more—to teach you new tales that shall charm us like your old, and to spare you, at least once in a while in summer, to climates within reach of us who are task-bound for ten months in the year beside the Thames.
Yours ever,
SIDNEY COLVIN.
February, 1892.
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# Acre

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* articles in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
** "Acre (state)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
** "Acre (land measure)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
** "Acre (town)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
* "Acre," in Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
* "Acre," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
* "Acre," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
# Across the Danube

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# Across the Lines

published in: Pen Pictures of the War (1864); under Ethel Lynn
Left for dead? I—Charlie Coleman,  On the field we won—and lost, Like a dog; the ditch my death-bed  My pillow but a log across. Helpless hangs my arm beside me,  Drooping lies my aching head; How strange it sounded when that soldier,  Passing, spoke of me as "dead."
Dead? and here—where yonder banner  Flaunts its scanty group of stars, And that rebel emblem binds me  Close within those bloody bars. Dead? without a stone to tell it,  Nor a flower above my breast! Dead? where none will whisper softly,  "Here a brave man lies at rest!"
Help me, Thou, my mother's helper,—  Jesus, Thou who biding here, Loved me like an earthly mother,  Be thou still to aid me near. Give me strength to totter yonder,  Hold me up till o'er me shines The flag of Union—there she promised  To meet me, just beyond the lines.
Well I know how she will wander  Where a woman's foot may stray, Looking with those eyes so tender  Where the poor boys wounded lay. How her hand will bring them water,  For her own boy Charlie's sake, And when dying bid them whisper,  "I pray the Lord my soul to take."
Ah! I stand on foot but feebly,  And the blood runs very fast, Yet by fence and bush I'll stagger  Till the rebel lines be past. "Courage, Charlie! twist it tighter,—  The tourniquet about your arm; Be a man—don't faint and shiver  When the lifetide trickles warm."
Faint and week,—still coming, mother,  Walking some, but creeping more, Fearing lest the watchful sentry  Stops the heart-beat,—slow before Stay—with fingers ruddy dabbled  Loose the belt your waist confines; Write upon it "Charlie Coleman—  Carry him across the lines."
Trembling letters—but some stranger  Chance may read them when I'm gone, And for the sake of love and pity  Bear my lifeless body on. Coming! ah—what means this darkness—  Night too soon is coming on. Mother, are you waiting?—"Jesus,  Tell her that with You I've gone."
Then the head her heart had pillowed,  Drooping laid it down to rest, As calm as when in baby slumber  Its locks were cradled on her breast. Glowed the sunset o'er the meadow,  Lighting up the gloomy pines, Where a body only lingered—  Charlie's soul had crossed the lines.
A passing soldier—foe, yet human—  Stooped to read the words of blood; So pitiful, so sadly earnest;  And bore him onward through the wood. Beneath the white flag bore him safely.  Now, while Indian Summer shines, A mother's tears dew springing myrtle,  O'er Charlie's grave across the lines.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Webster, Noah

​Webster, Noah (1758-1843).—Lexicographer, etc., b. at Hartford, Conn., and ed. at Yale. His long life was spent in unremitting diligence as teacher, lawyer, and man of letters. His great work is his American Dictionary of the English Language (1828), for which he prepared himself by 10 years' study of philology. ​Many abridgments of it have appeared, and in 1866 a new and enlarged ed. was pub. His Elementary Spelling Book is believed to have attained a circulation of 70,000,000 copies. He also pub. A Philosophical and Practical Grammar of the English Language (1807), and many other works.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Webster, John

​Webster, John (1580?-1625?).—Dramatist. Though in some respects he came nearest to Shakespeare of any of his contemporaries, almost nothing has come down to us of the life of W. Even the dates of his birth and death are uncertain. He appears to have been the s. of a London tailor, to have been a freeman of the Merchant Taylor's Company, and clerk of the parish of St. Andrews, Holborn. Four plays are known to be his, The White Devil, or the Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona (1612), Appius and Virginia (1654), The Devil's Law Case (1623), and The Duchess of Malfi (1623), and he collaborated with Drayton, Middleton, Heywood, Dekker, etc., in the production of others. He does not appear to have been much regarded in his own day, and it was only in the 19th century that his great powers began to be appreciated and expounded by such critics as Lamb and Hazlitt, and in later days Swinburne. The first says, "To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till it is ready to drop, and then step in with mortal instruments to take its last forfeit, this only a Webster can do." W. revels in the horrible, but the touch of genius saves his work from mere brutality, and evokes pity and sorrow where, without it, there would be only horror and disgust. His work is extremely unequal, and he had no power of construction, but his extraordinary insight into motives and feelings redeem all his failings and give him a place second only to Marlowe and Ben Jonson among the contemporaries of Shakespeare.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wesley, Charles

​Wesley, Charles (1707-1788).—Hymn-writer, younger brother of John W. (q.v.), was b. at Epworth, and ed. at Westminster School and Oxf. He was all his life closely associated with his elder and greater brother, one of whose most loyal helpers he was, though not agreeing with him in all points. His chief fame is founded upon his hymns, of which he is said to have written the almost incredible number of 6500, many of them among the finest in the language. They include "Jesus, Lover of my Soul," "Love Divine all Loves excelling," "Come, oh Thou Traveller Unknown," "Hark the Herald Angels Sing," and "Come, let us join our Friends above."