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# There's my thumb (My sweetest May, let love incline thee)

The original words to the old Scottish song "There's my thumb" appear to be lost; these lyrics were first published in the Tea-Table Miscellany in 1724. Another set of lyrics, believed to also be Ramsay's, can be seen at There's my thumb (Betty, early gone a Maying).
* "There's my Thumb I'll ne'er beguile Thee" in A New Garland (1780)
* "There's my thumb I'll ne'er beguile thee" in Lovely Molly of the county of Down (1790)
* "There's my thumb" in The Book of Scottish Song (1843)
# There Is No Rank in Sacrifice

The story of the deeds of heroism performed by men of the navy in this war will glow with a light that never was on sea or land. Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father. Two of these young heroes have recently received high honor. One a graduate of Annapolis, the other an enlisted man. There is no rank in sacrifice. Many years ago when the first destroyers were built, they were given the names of John Paul Jones and Perry and Farragut and Decatur. All illustrious names, not born to die. The custom is continued. Two of the latest destroyers were named Cork and Ingram.
The torpedoing of the Jacob Jones gave us more than one naval hero, some of them spared for future achievement. He was game to the last, was the report of the spirit of Lieutenant F. S. Cork. During the early part of the evening, in a weakened condition, this gallant young officer swam through the chilly waters, from one raft to another, in his effort to distribute the weight and make safe the men who had found rescue. Young, without fame, in the hour of dire peril he thought not of himself, but of others. We have given Corky the distinction that goes alone to those who put devotion to duty above love of life. The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last.
The deed of Osmond J. Ingram ranks with those that gives splendor to our humanity. He was gunners-mate on the intrepid [Cassin]. When the captain, searching for submarines, spied one, he started full speed ahead toward the enemy. Suddenly he cited a torpedo about four hundred yards away. Realizing the situation, the crew captain rang for emergency speed on both engines. In that critical moment an enlisted man of the Navy rose to the heroic demand of the peril. Seeing the torpedo coming toward the stern of the ship where the gun was located, Gunner Ingram, with rare presence of mind, realized the danger if the weapon struck where the ammunition was stored. He speedily ran aft and threw the ammunition into the sea before the torpedo struck. He saved the [Cassin] and the lives of his shipmates. He lost his own life. He was the only man who did not answer to the roll call of the ship, but he answered to the roll call of the immortal, and soon a destroyer bearing his name will proudly sail the seas.
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# There's a Star in the West

from "The Poetical Works of Eliza Cook"
1. THERE'S a star in the West that shall never go down
Till the records of Valour decay ;
We must worship its light, though it is not our own,
For liberty burst in its ray.
Shall the name of a Washington ever be heard
By a freeman and thrill not his breast ?
Is there one out of bondage that hails not the word,
As the Bethlehem Star of the West ?
2. " War, war to the knife ! be enthralled or ye die,"
Was the echo that woke in his land ;
But it was not his voice that promoted the cry ;
Nor his madness that kindled the brand.
He raised not his arm, he defied not his foes,
While a leaf of the olive remained ;
Till goaded with insult, his spirit arose,
Like a long-baited lion unchained.
3. He struck with firm courage the blow of the brave,
But sighed o'er the carnage that spread :
He indignantly trampled the yoke of the slave,
But wept for the thousands that bled.
Though he threw back the fetters and headed the strife
Till Man's charter was fairly restored ;
Yet he prayed for the moment when Freedom and Life
Would no longer be pressed by the sword.
4. Oh, his laurels were pure ; and his patriot name In the page of the Future shall dwell ;
And be seen in all annals, the foremost in fame,
By the side of a Hofer and Tell.
The truthful and honest, the wise and the good,
Among Britons have nobly confessed
That his was the glory and ours was the blood
Of the deeply-stained field of the West.
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# There's a Thing That Bears a Well-known Name

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Appeared in the December 1880 edition of The Pearl
There's a thing that bears a well-known name, Though it is but a little spot; Its smell sets my heart and my brain in a flame, And its touch makes my prick grow hot, 'Tis the sweetest thing this world can show, To praise it can't be wrong; 'Twill set your blood in a fervid glow, Make your prick grow stiff and long. 'Tis a woman's cunt. Her glorious fan, Oh, a cunt is the pride of an Englishman. That cunt will not be treated with shame, But calls for proper respect; And though mostly fit for a fucking game, Yet it sometimes in mourning is decked. Then beware how you go with the darling then, Or perhaps sorely punished you'll be; For cunt won't be the sport of men, When it wants its privacy. For caprice is part of cunt's own plan To enhance its joys to an Englishman. But when cunt is ready, I give you the tip, No half-hearted play can it stand; It likes to be fondled with tongue and with lip, And shuns not the touch of your hand. But the glorious Prick sets Miss Cunt in a thrill, She loves a prick, long, thick, and firm. And she'll wriggle and pant till you madly fill Her bang full of glowing sperm. You may frig and gamahuche and try every plan, But fair fucking's the pride of an Englishman.
# The letters of John Hus/Letter 19, To the People of Prague

XIX. To the Same
(Without date: October 1412)
To the faithful who are zealous for the Lord Jesus Christ and His word, dwelling in the city of Prague: Master John Hus, a priest unprofitable, yet having a desire for their perseverance in the love of God.
Dear friends, it is because of my strong desire that I beseech you not to draw back from the truth, the knowledge of which the Saviour in His mercy hath generously bestowed upon you. I trust indeed that the Lord will perfect what He hath begun in you the elect, and will grant unto you perseverance when you are tempted. For myself, likewise, I trust in the kindly goodness of our Saviour, although now I can say with the apostle, that to me to live is Christ and to die gain: and if to live in the flesh, this is to me the fruit of labour: and what I shall choose, I know not. But I am straitened between two, having a desire to be dissolved ​and to be with Christ, a thing by far the better. But to abide still in the flesh is needful for you. So wrote the apostle to the Philippians, when confined in a Roman prison. In like manner, dearly beloved, I say to you, though not yet shut up in prison, that I would gladly die for Christ and be with Him; and yet I desire to labour for your salvation and what I shall choose, I know not, awaiting the mercy of God. I fear, however, that much ill may be wrought among you and that the faithful may suffer, while the wicked may lose their souls. The latter are now rejoicing and demanding that not only should the word of God be silenced within me, but also that the place of God’s word—the Bethlehem—should be closed by force. But is it possible that the Lord Almighty will grant them what they are asking for? Even though He suffer them by reason of the crimes of wicked men, as He did in Bethlehem, where He was born, and in Jerusalem, where He redeemed us, let us still sound abroad the praise of His glory, humbling ourselves under His power; He is with those who love Him, and delivers them that suffer in His behalf and reserves His scorners for perpetual fire. Hence it is, dear friends in the Lord, that I beseech you not to fail through weariness, but rather to entreat the Saviour to grant to us perseverance in that which is good. Let us trust His unbounded goodness that He will liberate His word and give us help against Antichrist, against whom by the help of your prayers, please Christ, I will wage war with God's word for my weapon. Peace and love, advancement in all that is good, and hereafter eternal life in glory be unto you from our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
* ↑ Phil. i. 21–4.
* ↑ Ib.
* ↑ Fuste. For the incident, see supra, p. 79.
# The letters of John Hus/Letter 13, To Ladislaus, King of Poland

XIII. To Ladislaus, King of Poland
(June 10, 1412)
May the grace of Jesus Christ be granted to you for the ruling of your people and the attaining of the life of glory!
Most serene prince, it hath brought me great joy and comfort to hear that your Majesty in the providence of Almighty God hath come to an agreement with the most illustrious King Sigismund. The people and myself are united in the prayer that God may direct the lives of both of you in the way of righteousness, and your subjects as well. To this end, most illustrious prince, it appears to be a prior condition alike for your Majesty, for his excellence King Sigismund, and for the other princes, that the heresy of simony should be removed from your dominions. But is it possible to expect its banishment when it hath spread its poison so widely that ​scarcely anywhere can clergy or people be found that have not been laid low by this heresy of simony? Who is honest enough to present to a see for the honour of God, for the salvation of the people, and for one’s own salvation? Who is so disinterested as to accept a see, a parish living, or any other benefice under the constraint of these three motives? I would that there were many to refuse them as a form of bondage and human bribery! But are not the words of Jeremiah fulfilled: From the least of them even to the greatest all follow hard after covetousness, and from the prophet even to the priest all make a lie? Is the disciple of Christ wide of the mark when he says: All seek the things that that are their own, not the things that are Jesus Christ’s? It is the voice of the Church weeping, because the gold is become dim and the finest colour is changed. Once the priesthood was like gold aflame with love and burnished with virtues; but now it hath become earthy and blackened, as Bernard saith. The words of our Saviour are fulfilled: Iniquity shall abound—that is, among the clergy—and charity shall grow cold among the people. Woe, therefore, to him that weeps not for such a time! Most illustrious prince, it is because they hear a message like this that a simoniac, pomp-loving, luxurious, and unrestrained clergy charge me with defamation of their order and heresy-mongerings. But shall I keep silence? God forbid! Woe is me ​if I keep silence! It is better for me to die than not to resist the wickedness which would make me a partner in their crimes and in their hell. May it please the King of glory to preserve your Majesty from these things for the holy government of your people!
Master John Hus, an unprofitable priest of Christ.
* ↑ Marginal note in MS.
* ↑ On this peace of Sigismund, the Poles, and the Teutonic Knights, see Aschbach, Kaiser Sigmund (Hamburg, 1845), i. c. 16, and the letter of Sigismund (March 28, 1412) in ib. i. 437.
* ↑ P.: vita . . . dirigatur; H.: vitam . . . dirigat.
* ↑ Jer. vi. 13.
* ↑ Phil. ii. 21.
* ↑ Lam. iv. 1.
* ↑ P.: ut ait Bernardus; H.: ut ait Bene impletur—i.e., ut ait Jeremias. I cannot put my finger on this passage. But similar statements in St. Bernard abound.
* ↑ Matt. xxiv. 12.
# The letters of John Hus/Letter 16, To the People of Prague

XVI. To the People of Prague.
(Without date: early in October 1412).
May God be with you, beloved lords and masters! I beg you in the first place to consider God’s cause, to which great injury is being done; for certain persons desire to suppress His holy word, to destroy a chapel that is useful for the preaching of His word, and thus to hinder men from salvation. Secondly, consider the disgrace brought upon your country and nation and race. Thirdly, consider the shame and wrong that are being unjustly done to yourselves. Fourthly, consider and endure it patiently, that the devil is raging against you, and Antichrist is showing his teeth; and yet like a dog chained up he will do you no hurt if you be lovers of God’s truth. Look! he hath been raging against me for a number of years, and hath not yet hurt a hair of my head, but is ever adding to my joy and gladness.
Moreover, you ought to know that to abjure is to be guilty of renouncing what you believe in. Thus, one who abjures either renounces the true faith which he held, or a heresy and an error. It is as if one were a Christian, and through fear or the devil’s enticement were to mix himself up with Jews or pagans and swear that he wished no ​longer to hold Christianity. Vice versâ, if a man holds a heresy—e.g., suppose he believes that the Lord Christ is not very God, as Jews and pagans believe—and then renounces this error, he is said to have abjured. Accordingly, be assured that if any of you abjure, as they suggest in their letters, he will abjure either the true faith and the truth, or—heresy and error. Accordingly, either after abjuring he will hold heresy or error—or before doing so, he will be proved to have held what he abjures. Therefore, understand that in their letters they judge you to be heretics and demand that you abjure the heresy which they suppose you to hold. From this it is evident that a son or friend of yours, if he abjure, can be disgraced for having consorted with a heretical father or friend. Further, it is evident that any other person can rightly say to any one who abjures, “You abjured the heresy which you held and you are not worthy of me.” In the third place, understand that if any one abjures and retains in his mind the truth he abjures, as they bid you do, he will be a perjurer. Let us then consider these matters and give the preference to the truth and to the promise of God. Let us live nobly in love and resist the lie of Antichrist to the end. Let us make the Saviour Almighty our Helper, Whom no man can overcome, and Who will never forsake us so long as we ourselves do not forsake Him. He will give us an eternal reward—to wit, the satisfaction of will, reason, memory, and all the senses of the body without stint. I write this to you (for I cannot conveniently come to you) that the priests may not thwart you in your religious duties and interfere with your good pleasure. Amen.
# The Women of the Caesars

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From a drawing by André Castaigne
Livia, the wife of Augustus, superintending the weaving of robes for her family
THE WOMEN OF THE CÆSARS
BY GUGLIELMO FERRERO
NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. MCMXI
Copyright, 1911, by The Century Co.
Published, October, 1911
The De Vinne Press
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
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# The Works of Thomas Carlyle/Volume 6/Letter 8

To R. Barnard, Esq.; Huntingdon, 17 April 1643
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Meanwhile enter Robert Barnard, Esquire, again. Barnard, getting ever deeper into trouble, has run up to Town; has been persuading my Lord of Manchester and others, That he is not a disaffected man; that a contribution should not be inflicted on him by the County Committee.
TO MY VERY LOVING FRIEND ROBERT BARNARD ESQUIRE: PRESENT THESE
“Huntingdon,” 17th April 1643.
Sir,—I have received two Letters, one from my Lord of Manchester, the other from yourself; much to the same effect: I hope therefore one answer will serve them both.
Which is in short this: That we know you are disaffected to the Parliament;—and truly if the Lords, or any Friends, may take you off from a reasonable Contribution, for my part T should be glad to be commanded to any other employment. Sir, you may, if you will, “come freely into the country about your occasions.” For my part, I have protected you in your absence; and shall do so to you.
This is all,—but that I am ready to serve you, and rest, your loving friend, OLIVER CROMWELL.
Let Barnard return, therefore; take a lower level, where the ways are more sheltered in stormy weather;—and so save himself, and ‘become Recorder after the Restoration.’ Subtlety may deceive him; integrity never will!—
# The Works of Thomas Carlyle/Volume 6/Letter 78

To Hon. W. Lenthall: Dalhousie, 8 Oct. 1648
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A private Note in behalf of ‘this Bearer, Colonel Robert Montgomery,’ now hastening up to Town; with whom we shall make some farther acquaintance, in another quarter, by and by. Doubtless the request was complied with.
FOR THE HONOURABLE WILLIAM LENTHALL, ESQUIRE, SPEAKER OF THE HONOURABLE HOUSE OF COMMONS: THESE
Dalhousie, 8th Oct. 1648.
Sir,—Upon the desire of divers Noblemen and others of the Kingdom of Scotland, I am bold to become a suitor to you on the behalf of this Gentleman, the Bearer, Colonel Robert Montgomery; son-in-law to the Earl of Eglinton. Whose faithfulness to you in the late troubles may render him worthy of a far greater favour than I shall, at this time, desire for him: for I can assure you, that there is not a Gentleman of that Kingdom that appeared more active against the late Invaders of England than himself.
Sir, it is desired that you would please to grant him an Order for Two-thousand of the common Prisoners that were of Duke Hamilton’s Army. You will have very good security that they shall not for the future trouble you: he will ease you of the charge of keeping them, as speedily as any other way you can dispose of them; besides their being in a friend’s hands, so as there need be no fear of their being ever employed against you.
Sir, what favour you shall please to afford the Gentleman will very much oblige many of your friends of the Scottish Nation; and particularly your most humble servant,
OLIVER CROMWELL.
* ↑ Mistake of the Lieutenant-General’s for ‘son’;—‘youngest son,’ say the Peerage Books.
* ↑ Tanner Mss. (in Cary, ii. 32)
# This ev'ning, Delia, you and I

This ev'ning, Delia, you and I, Have manag'd most delightfully,  For with a frown we parted; Having contrived some trifle that We both may be much troubled at,  And sadly disconcerted.
Yet well as each perform'd their part, We might perceive it was but art,  And that we both intended To sacrifice a little ease; For all such petty flaws as these  Are made but to be mended.
You knew, Dissembler! all the while, How sweet it was to reconcile  After this heavy pelt; That we should gain by this allay When next we met, and laugh away  The care we never felt.
Happy! when we but seek t' endure A little pain, then find a cure  By double joy requited; For friendship, like a sever'd bone, Improves and joins a stronger tone  When aptly reunited.
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# This Side the Trenches/Foreword

This book is addressed chiefly to the members of the young peoples' societies of the churches, and has been written at the request of their representatives. It is designed to present the purposes and ideals of Home Service, which the American Red Cross is extending to the families of thousands of our soldiers and sailors.
Home Service is national in scope. In some parts of the country it has been so thoroughly developed that for them the pages that follow are a record of accomplishment. In other places where the work is new or still in process of organization, This Side the Trenches' is rather a statement of ideals to be achieved.
Although Home Service is conducted almost entirely by volunteers, its direction requires a more special training and preparation than other activities of the Red Cross. Its success depends upon the devotion of men and women who are willing to equip themselves through instruction or to work under trained supervision. Home Service is a distinctive enterprise, not duplicating but co-operating with other established agencies.
The writing of this book has been made possible by the generous interest of. The Charity Organization Society of the City of New York, which contributed the services of the author.
W. Frank Persons,
Director General of Civilian Relief
American Red Cross
# This World is not Conclusion

This World is not Conclusion. A Species stands beyond — Invisible, as Music — But positive, as Sound — It beckons, and it baffles — Philosophy — don't know — And through a Riddle, at the last — Sagacity, must go — To guess it, puzzles scholars — To gain it, Men have borne Contempt of Generations And Crucifixion, shown — Faith slips — and laughs, and rallies — Blushes, if any see — Plucks at a twig of Evidence — And asks a Vane, the way — Much Gesture, from the Pulpit — Strong Hallelujahs roll — Narcotics cannot still the Tooth That nibbles at the soul —
# This Store sells at FAIR PRICES as interpreted by U.S. Food Administration

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From the National Archives and Records Administration, Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S); Record Group 4: Records of the U.S. Food Administration, 1917 - 1920; Series: World War I Posters, compiled 1917 - 1919; ARC #512714
THIS STORE SELLS AT
FAIR PRICES
| AS INTERPRETED BY | AS INTERPRETED BY | OFFICIAL FAIR PRICE LIST |
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