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# Poetry Taken from The Edinburgh Magazine And Literary Miscellany June 1822

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Poetry
By
Felicia Hemans
Taken from The Edinburgh Magazine And Literary Miscellany June 1822 Pages 755-757
by Peter J. Bolton
| The Spartan's March | Page 755 |
| The Meeting of the Bards | Page 756 |
# Poetry Taken from The Edinburgh Magazine And Literary Miscellany June 1822/The Meeting of the Bards

THE MEETING OF THE BARDS.
Where met our bards of old—the glorious throng,
They of the mountain and the battle song?
They met–oh! not in kingly hall or bower,
But where wild Nature girt herself with power!
They met—where streams flash'd bright from rocky caves,
They met—where woods made moan o'er warrior's graves;
And where the torrent's rainbow-spray was cast,
And where dark lakes were heaving to the blast,
And 'midst the eternal cliffs, whose strength defied
The crested Roman, in his hour of pride:
And where the Carnedd*, on its lonely hill,
Bore silent record of the mighty still;
And where the Druid's ancient Cromlech† frown'd,
And the oaks breath'd mysterious murmurs round.
There throng'd th' inspir'd of yore!—on plain or height,
In the sun's face, beneath the eye of light,
And, baring unto heaven each noble head,
Stood in the circle, where none else might tread.
Well might their lays be lofty!—soaring thought,
From Nature's presence, tenfold Nature caught!
Well might bold Freedom's soul pervade the strains,
Which startled eagles from their lone domains;
And, like a breeze, in chainless rapture went
Up thro' the blue, majestic firmament!
Whence came the echoes to those numbers high?
—'Twas from the battle-fields of days gone by! And from the tombs of heroes, laid to rest,
With their good swords, upon the mountain's breast;
And from the watch-towers on the heights of snow,
Sever'd, by cloud and storm, from all below;
And the turf-mounds, once girt by ruddy spears,
And the rock-altars of departed years!
Thence, deeply mingling with the torrent's roar,
The winds a thousand wild responses bore;
And the green land, whose every vale and glen
Doth shrine the memory of heroic men,
On all her hills awakening to rejoice,
Sent forth proud answers to her children's voice!
For us, not ours the festival to hold,
'Midst the stone-circles, hallow'd thus of old;
Not where great Nature's majesty and might,
First broke, all-glorious, on our wandering sight;
Not near the tombs, where sleep our free and brave,
Not by the Mountain Llyn* , the ocean wave:
In these late days we meet!—dark Mona's shore,
Eryri's† cliffs resound with harps no more!
But as the stream, (though time or art may turn
The current, bursting from its cavern'd urn,
To bathe soft vales of pasture and of flowers,
From Alpine glens, or shadowy forest bowers,)
Alike, in rushing strength or sunny sleep,
Holds on its course to mingle with the deep; Thus, though our paths be chang'd, still warm and free,
Land of the bard! our spirit flies to thee!
To thee, our thoughts, our hopes, our hearts belong,
Our dreams are haunted by thy voice of song!
Nor yield our souls one patriot feeling less,
To the green memory of thy loveliness,
Than theirs, whose harp-notes peal'd from every height,
In the sun's face, beneath the eye of light!
* ↑ * Carnedd, the Welsh name for a stone barrow, or cairn.
* ↑ † Cromlech, a druidical monument or altar. The word means, a stone of covenant.
* ↑ *Llyn, a lake or pool.
* ↑ † Eryri, the Welsh name for Snowdon.
# Poetry Taken from The Edinburgh Magazine And Literary Miscellany June 1822/The Spartan's March

THE SPARTAN'S MARCH.
"It was at once a delightful and terrible sight," says Plutarch, "to see them (the Spartans) marching on to the tunes of their flutes, without ever troubling their order, or confounding their ranks; their music leading them into danger with a deliberate hope and assurance, as if some Divinity had sensibly assisted them. See Campbell on the Elegiac Poetry of the Greeks.
'Twas morn upon the Grecian hills,
 Where peasants dress'd the vines,
There was sunlight on Cithaeron's rills,
 Arcadia's rocks and pines.
And brightly through his reeds and flowers
 Eurotas wander'd by,
When a sound arose from Sparta's towers
 Of solemn harmony.
Was it the shepherds' choral strain,
 That hymn'd the forest-god?
Or the virgins, as to Pallas' fane,
 With their full-ton'd lyres they trod?
But helms were glancing on the stream,
 Spears rang'd in close array,
And shields flung back its glorious beam
 To the morn of a fearful day!
And the mountain-echoes of the land
 Swell'd through the deep-blue sky,
While to soft strains mov'd forth a band
 Of men that mov'd to die.
They march'd not with the trumpet's blast,
 Nor bade the horn peal out,
And the laurel-woods, as on they pass'd,
 Rung with no battle shout!
They ask'd no Clarion's voice to fire
 Their souls with an impulse high;
But the Dorian reed, and the Spartan lyre,
 For the sons of Liberty!
And still sweet flutes their path around
 Sent forth Eolian breath; They needed not a sterner sound,
 To marshal them for death!
So mov'd they calmly to their field,
 Thence never to return,
Save bearing back the Spartan shield,
 Or on it proudly borne.
# Pollock v. Williams

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United States Supreme Court
322 U.S. 4
Pollock v. Williams
Argued: Feb. 10, 1944. ---
Decided April 10,1944.
Appeal from the Supreme Court of the State of Florida.
Mr. Raymer F. Maguire, of Orlandc, Fla., for appellant.
Mr. John C. Wynn, of Tallahassee, Fla., for appellee.
Mr. Justice JACKSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company

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Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Company, 157 U.S. 429 (1895), aff'd on reh'g, 158 U.S. 601 (1895), with a ruling of 5–4, was a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the unapportioned income taxes on interest, dividends and rents imposed by the Income Tax Act of 1894 were, in effect, direct taxes, and were unconstitutional because they violated the provision that direct taxes be apportioned. The decision was nullified in 1913 by Amendment XVI to the US Constitution. Warning: template has been deprecated.

## Dissenting Opinions

    Harlan
    Brown
    Jackson
    White
United States Supreme Court
158 U.S. 601
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan Trust Company Hyde
[Syllabus from pages 601-607 intentionally omitted]
Jos. H. Choate and W. D. Guthrie, for appellants.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 607-613 intentionally omitted]
Atty. Gen. Olney and Asst. Atty. Gen. Whitney, for appellees.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 613-617 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Chief Justice FULLER delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Polly Believed in Preparedness

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Song from the musical Have a Heart.
[Verse]
    Ev'ry maiden today should know men thru and thru,
    And it's never to soon to begin.
    To study their ways for each year nowadays,
    It gets harder to gather them in.
    I once knew a girl who was prudence itself,
    For she always was looking ahead;
    She practiced each glance and left nothing to chance
    "Be prepared was her motto, she said.
[Refrain]
    Polly believed in Preparedness,
    So when she put on a new dress,
    She paid attention to things we won't mention
    You don't know they're there, but you guess
    Though her efforts were frequently wasted,
    Still no trouble and forethought, she spared,
    For she said "You can't know when the wind's going to blow.
    She liked to be prepared.
[Verse]
    Now and then, some young man would drop in at her home
    For a nice cozy afternoon chat
    She made preparations for such conversations
    Before he had hung up his hat.
    Young men, as you know, often let themselves go,
    And are apt to say more than they mean;
    So she felt the fitness of having a witness
    to take a few notes of the scene.
[Refrain]
    Polly believed in preparedness,
    She knew what these meetings can be;
    So she'd deposit her aunt in a closet,
    And father behind the settee
    When men talked indiscreetly, how sweetly
    she'd smile, as their fervor she shared.
    In a corner, alone, stood a small dictaphone
    She liked to be prepared.
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# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Abaris

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​ABARIS, a Scythian or Hyperborean, priest and prophet of Apollo, who is said to have visited Greece about 770 B.C., or two or three centuries later. According to the legend, he travelled throughout the country, living without food and riding on a golden arrow, the gift of the god; he healed the sick, foretold the future, worked miracles, and delivered Sparta from a plague (Herod. iv. 36; Iamblichus, De Vit. Pythag. xix. 28). Suidas credits him with several works: Scythian oracles, the visit of Apollo to the Hyperboreans, expiatory formulas and a prose theogony.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Abatis

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​ABATIS, Abattis or Abbattis (a French word meaning a heap ​of material thrown), a term in field fortification for an obstacle formed of the branches of trees laid in a row, with the tops directed towards the enemy and interlaced or tied with wire. The abatis is used alone or in combination with wire-entanglements and other obstacles.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Abattoir

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​ABATTOIR (from abattre, to strike down), a French word often employed in English as an equivalent of “slaughter-house” (q.v.), the place where animals intended for food are killed.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Abauzit, Firmin

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​ABAUZIT, FIRMIN (1679–1767), a learned Frenchman, was born of Protestant parents at Uzès, in Languedoc. His father died when he was but two years of age; and when, on the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685, the authorities took steps to have him educated in the Roman Catholic faith, his mother contrived his escape. For two years his brother and he lived as fugitives in the mountains of the Cevennes, but they at last reached Geneva, where their mother afterwards joined them on escaping from the imprisonment in which she was held from the time of their flight. Abauzit at an early age acquired great proficiency in languages, physics and theology. In 1698 he went to Holland, and there became acquainted with Pierre Bayle, P. Jurieu and J. Basnage. Proceeding to England, he was introduced to Sir Isaac Newton, who found in him one of the earliest defenders of his discoveries. Sir Isaac corrected in the second edition of his Principia an error pointed out by Abauzit, and, when sending him the Commercium Epistolicum, said, “You are well worthy to judge between Leibnitz and me.” The reputation of Abauzit induced William III. to request him to settle in England, but he did not accept the king’s offer, preferring to return to Geneva. There from 1715 he rendered valuable assistance to a society that had been formed for translating the New Testament into French. He declined the offer of the chair of philosophy in the university in 1723, but accepted, in 1727, the sinecure office of librarian to the city of his adoption. Here he died at a good old age, in 1767. Abauzit was a man of great learning and of wonderful versatility. Whatever chanced to be discussed, it used to be said of Abauzit, as of Professor W. Whewell of more modern times, that he seemed to have made it a subject of particular study. Rousseau, who was jealously sparing of his praises, addressed to him, in his Nouvelle Héloïse, a fine panegyric; and when a stranger flatteringly told Voltaire he had come to see a great man, the philosopher asked him if he had seen Abauzit. Little remains of the labours of this intellectual giant, his heirs having, it is said, destroyed the papers that came into their possession, because their own religious opinions were different. A few theological, archaeological and astronomical articles from his pen appeared in the Journal Helvétique and elsewhere, and he contributed several papers to Rousseau’s Dictionnaire de musique (1767). He wrote a work throwing doubt on the canonical authority of the Apocalypse, which called forth a reply from Dr Leonard Twells. He also edited and made valuable additions to J. Spon’s Histoire de la république de Genève. A collection of his writings was published at Geneva in 1770 (Œuvres de feu M. Abauzit), and another at London in 1773 (Œuvres diverses de M. Abauzit). Some of them were translated into English by Dr Edward Harwood (1774).
Information regarding Abauzit will be found in J. Senebier’s Histoire Littéraire de Genève, Harwood’s Miscellanies, and W. Orme’s Bibliotheca Biblica (1824).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Abba Mari

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​ABBA MARI (in full, Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph), French rabbi, was born at Lunel, near Montpellier, towards the end of the 13th century. He is also known as Yarhi from his birthplace (Heb. Yerah, i.e. moon, lune), and he further took the name Astruc, Don Astruc or En Astruc of Lunel. The descendant of men learned in rabbinic lore, Abba Mari devoted himself to the study of theology and philosophy, and made himself acquainted with the writing of Moses Maimonides and Nachmanides as well as with the Talmud. In Montpellier, where he lived from 1303 to 1306, he was much distressed by the prevalence of Aristotelian rationalism, which, through the medium of the works of Maimonides, threatened the authority of the Old Testament, obedience to the law, and the belief in miracles and revelation. He, therefore, in a series of letters (afterwards collected under the title Minhat Kenaot, i.e. “Jealousy Offering”) called upon the famous rabbi Solomon ben Adret of Barcelona to come to the aid of orthodoxy. Ben Adret, with the approval of other prominent Spanish rabbis, sent a letter to the community at Montpellier proposing to forbid the study of philosophy to those who were less than thirty years of age, and, in spite of keen opposition from the liberal section, a decree in this sense was issued by ben Adret in 1305. The result was a great schism among the Jews of Spain and southern France, and a new impulse was given to the study of philosophy by the unauthorized interference of the Spanish rabbis. On the expulsion of the Jews from France by Philip IV. in 1306, Abba Mari settled at Perpignan, where he published the letters connected with the controversy. His subsequent history is unknown. Beside the letters, he was the author of liturgical poetry and works on civil law.
Authorities.—Edition of the Minhat Kenaot by M. L. Bislichis (Pressburg, 1838); E. Renan, Les rabbins français, pp. 647 foll.; Perles, Salomo ben Abraham ben Adereth, pp. 15-54; Jewish Encyclopedia, s.v. “Abba Mari.”
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Abated

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​ABATED, an ancient technical term applied in masonry and metal work to those portions which are sunk beneath the surface, as in inscriptions where the ground is sunk round the letters so as to leave the letters or ornament in relief.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Abati, Niccolo

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​ABATI, or Dell’ Abbato, NICCOLO (1512–1571), a celebrated fresco-painter of Modena, whose best works are there and at Bologna. He accompanied Primaticcio to France, and assisted in decorating the palace at Fontainebleau (1552–1571). His pictures exhibit a combination of skill in drawing, grace and natural colouring. Some of his easel pieces in oil are in different collections; one of the finest, in the Dresden Gallery, represents the martyrdom of St Peter and St Paul.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Aislabie, John

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​AISLABIE, JOHN (1670–1742), English politician, was born at Goodramgate, York, on the 7th of December 1670. He was the fourth son of George Aislabie, principal registrar of the archiepiscopal court of York. In 1695 he was elected member of parliament for Ripon. In 1712 he was appointed one of the commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral, and in 1714 became treasurer of the navy, being sworn in two years later as a member of the privy council. In March 1718 he became chancellor of the exchequer. The proposal of the South Sea Company to pay off the national debt was strenuously supported by Aislabie, and finally accepted in an amended form by the House of Commons. After the collapse of that company a secret committee of inquiry was appointed by the Commons, and Aislabie, who had in the meantime resigned the seals of his office, was declared guilty of having encouraged and promoted the South Sea scheme with a view to his own exorbitant profit, and was expelled the House. Though committed to the Tower he was soon released, and was allowed to retain the property he possessed before 1718, including his country estate, to which he retired to pass the rest of his days. He died in 1742.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Aiwan

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​AIWAN, the reception-hall or throne-room of a Parthian or Sassanian palace.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Aisle

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​AISLE (from Lat. ala, a wing), a term which in its primary sense means the wing of a house, but is generally applied in architecture to the lateral divisions of a church or large building. The earliest example is that found in the basilica of Trajan, which had double aisles on either side of the central area; the same number existed in the original church of St Peter’s at Rome, in the basilica at Bethlehem, and according to Eusebius in the church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. The aisles are divided from the nave or central area by colonnades or arcades, and may flank also the transept or choir, being distinguished as nave-aisles, transept-aisles or choir-aisles. If the choir is semi-circular, and the aisles, carried round, give access to a series of Chapels, the whole arrangement is known as the chevet. As a rule in Great Britain there is only one aisle on each side of the nave, the only exceptions being Chichester and Elgin cathedrals, where there are two. Many European cathedrals have two aisles on each side, as those of Paris, Bourges, Amiens, Troyes, St Sernin, Toulouse, Cologne, Milan, Seville, Toledo; and in those of Paris, Chartres, Amiens and Bourges, Seville and Toledo, double aisles flank the choir on each side. The cathedral at Antwerp has three aisles on each side. In some of the churches in Germany the aisles are of the same height as the nave. These churches are known as Hallenkirchen, the principal examples being St Stephen’s, Vienna, the Weissekirche at Soest, St Martin’s, Landshut, Munich cathedral, and the Marienkirche at Danzig. (R. P. S.)
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Aitzema, Lieuwe Van

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​AITZEMA, LIEUWE (Leo) VAN (1600–1669), Dutch historian and statesman, was born at Doccum, in Friesland, on the 19th of November 1600. In 1617 he published a volume of Latin poems under the title of Poemata Juvenilia, of which a copy is preserved in the British Museum. He made a special study of politics and political science and was for thirty years resident for the towns of the Hanseatic League at the Hague, where he died on the 23rd of February 1669. His most important work was the Saken van Staet in Oorlogh in ende omtrent de Vereenigte Nederlanden (14 vols. 4to, 1655–1671), embracing the period from 1621 to 1668. It contains a large number of state documents, and is an invaluable authority on one of the most eventful periods of Dutch history.
Four continuations of the history, by the poet and historian Lambert van den Bos, were published successively at Amsterdam in 1685, 1688, 1698 and 1699. The Derde Vervolg Zijnde het vierde Stuck van het Vervolgh op de Historie, &c. brings the history down to 1697.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Aiton, William

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​AITON, WILLIAM Scottish botanist, was born near Hamilton in 1731. Having been regularly trained to the profession of a gardener, he travelled to London in 1754, and became assistant to Philip Miller, then superintendent of the Physic Garden at Chelsea. In 1759 he was appointed director of the newly established botanical garden at Kew, where he remained until his death on the 2nd of February 1793. He effected many improvements at the gardens, and in 1789 he published Hortus Kewensis, a catalogue of the plants there cultivated. A second and enlarged edition of the Hortus was brought out in 1810–1813 by his eldest son, William Townsend Aiton (1766–1849), who succeeded him at Kew and was commissioned by George IV. to lay out the gardens at the Pavilion, Brighton.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Aivali

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​AIVALI (Gr. Kydonia), a prosperous town on the W. coast of Asia Minor, opposite the island of Mitylene. Pop. 21,000. It stands near the site of the Aeolian Heraclea, on rising ground at the end of a bay which is separated from the Gulf of Adramyttium, and protected from the prevailing winds by the Moschonisi Islands (Hecatonnesoi). In 1821 it was burned to the ground during a fight between the Turks and the Greeks, and a large number of its Greek population killed or enslaved. It is one of the most thriving towns in the Levant, with a purely Greek population distinguished for its commercial, industrial and maritime enterprise. The exports are olive oil, grain and wood, and a fleet of fishing-boats supplies Constantinople and Smyrna with fish; the exports in 1902 were valued at £987,070, and the imports at £336,693.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/'Ashi

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​’ASHI (352–427), Jewish ’amora, the first editor of the Talmud, was born at Babylon. He was head of the Sura Academy, and there began the Babylonian Talmud, spending thirty years of his life at it. He left the work incomplete, and it was finished by his disciple Rabina just before the year 500 A.D. (See Talmud.)