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# On the Sublime and Beautiful/Part I/Chapter 8

THE OTHER head under which I class our passions, is that of society, which may be divided into two sorts. I. The society of the sexes, which answers the purposes of propagation; and next, that more general society, which we have with men and with other animals, and which we may in some sort be said to have even with the inanimate world. The passions belonging to the preservation of the individual turn wholly on pain and danger: those which belong to generation have their origin in gratifications and pleasures; the pleasure most directly belonging to this purpose is of a lively character, rapturous and violent, and confessedly the highest pleasure of sense; yet the absence of this so great an enjoyment scarce amounts to an uneasiness; and, except at particular times, I do not think it affects at all. When men describe in what manner they are affected by pain and danger, they do not dwell on the pleasure of health and the comfort of security, and then lament the loss of these satisfactions: the whole turns upon the actual pains and horrors which they endure. But if you listen to the complaints of a forsaken lover, you observe that he insists largely on the pleasures which he enjoyed, or hoped to enjoy, and on the perfection of the object of his desires; it is the loss which is always uppermost in his mind. The violent effects produced by love, which has sometimes been even wrought up to madness, is no objection to the rule which we seek to establish. When men have suffered their imaginations to be long affected with any idea, it so wholly engrosses them as to shut out by degrees almost every other, and to break down every partition of the mind which would confine it. Any idea is sufficient for the purpose, as is evident from the infinite variety of causes, which give rise to madness: but this at most can only prove, that the passion of love is capable of producing very extraordinary effects, not that its extraordinary emotions have any connexion with positive pain.
# On the Sublime and Beautiful/Part I/Chapter 9

THE FINAL cause of the difference in character between the passions which regard self-preservation, and those which are directed to the multiplication of the species, will illustrate the foregoing remarks yet further; and it is, I imagine, worthy of observation even upon its own account. As the performance of our duties of every kind depends upon life, and the performing them with vigour and efficacy depends upon health, we are very strongly affected with whatever threatens the destruction of either: but as we are not made to acquiesce in life and health, the simple enjoyment of them is not attended with any real pleasure, lest, satisfied with that, we should give ourselves over to indolence and inaction. On the other hand, the generation of mankind is a great purpose, and it is requisite that men should be animated to the pursuit of it by some great incentive. It is therefore attended with a very high pleasure; but as it is by no means designed to be our constant business, it is not fit that the absence of this pleasure should be attended with any considerable pain. The difference between men and brutes, in this point, seems to be remarkable. Men are at all times pretty equally disposed to the pleasures of love, because they are to be guided by reason in the time and manner of indulging them. Had any great pain arisen from the want of this satisfaction, reason, I am afraid, would find great difficulties in the performance of its office. But brutes, who obey laws, in the execution of which their own reason has but little share, have their stated seasons; at such times it is not improbable that the sensation from the want is very troublesome, because the end must be then answered, or be missed in many, perhaps for ever; as the inclination returns only with its season.
# On the Sublime and Beautiful/Part II/Chapter 11

TO the sublime in building, greatness of dimension seems requisite; for on a few parts, and those small, the imagination cannot rise to any idea of infinity. No greatness in the manner can effectually compensate for the want of proper dimensions. There is no danger of drawing men into extravagant designs by this rule; it carries its own caution along with it. Because too great a length in buildings destroys the purpose of greatness, which it was intended to promote; the perspective will lessen it in height as it gains in length; and will bring it at last to a point; turning the whole figure into a sort of triangle, the poorest in its effect of almost any figure that can be presented to the eye. I have ever observed, that colonnades and avenues of trees of a moderate length, were, without comparison, far grander, than when they were suffered to run to immense distances. A true artist should put a generous deceit on the spectators, and effect the noblest designs by easy methods. Designs that are vast only by their dimensions, are always the sign of a common and low imagination. No work of art can be great, but as it deceives; to be otherwise is the prerogative of nature only. A good eye will fix the medium betwixt an excessive length or height, (for the same objection lies against both,) and a short or broken quantity; and perhaps it might be ascertained to a tolerable degree of exactness, if it was my purpose to descend far into the particulars of any art.
# On the Sublime and Beautiful/Part II/Chapter 13

ANOTHER source of greatness is Difficulty. When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand. Stonehenge, neither for disposition nor ornament, has anything admirable; but those huge rude masses of stone, set on end, and piled each on other, turn the mind on the immense force necessary for such a work. Nay, the rudeness of the work increases this cause of grandeur, as it excludes the idea of art and contrivance; for dexterity produces another sort of effect, which is different enough from this.

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* ↑ Part IV. sect. 4&#150;6.
# On the Sublime and Beautiful/Part I/Chapter 7

WHATEVER is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling. I say the strongest emotion, because I am satisfied the ideas of pain are much more powerful than those which enter on the part of pleasure. Without all doubt, the torments which we may be made to suffer are much greater in their effect on the body and mind, than any pleasure which the most learned voluptuary could suggest, or than the liveliest imagination, and the most sound and exquisitely sensible body, could enjoy. Nay, I am in great doubt whether any man could be found, who would earn a life of the most perfect satisfaction, at the price of ending it in the torments, which justice inflicted in a few hours on the late unfortunate regicide in France. But as pain is stronger in its operation than pleasure, so death is in general a much more affecting idea than pain; because there are very few pains, however exquisite, which are not preferred to death: nay, what generally makes pain itself, if I may say so, more painful, is, that it is considered as an emissary of this king of terrors. When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and are simply terrible; but at certain distances, and with certain modifications, they may be, and they are, delightful, as we every day experience. The cause of this I shall endeavour to investigate hereafter.
# Northern Pacific Railway Company v. McComas

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United States Supreme Court
250 U.S. 387
Northern Pacific Railway Company v. McComas
Argued: Jan. 22, 1919. --- Decided: June 9, 1919
Messrs. Charles Donnelly, of St. Paul, Minn., Charles H. Carey, James B. Kerr, and Charles A. Hart, all of Portland, Or., and C. W. Bunn, of St. Paul, Minn., for petitioners.
Mr. Harvey M. Friend, of Washington, D. C., for respondent.
Mr. Justice VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Northern Pacific Railway Company v. Hasse/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
197 U.S. 9
Northern Pacific Railway Company v. Hasse
Argued: January 6, 1905. --- Decided: February 20, 1905
This was an action of ejectment brought in the superior court of Kittitas county, Washington, to recover possession of part of its right of way, the land being partly within and partly without a right of way of 200 feet in width. Defendants asserted title by virtue of a homestead application, filed May 24, 1883, final proof July 12, 1888, and patent September 27, 1889; and adverse possession for the period named in the statute of limitations. Judgment was entered in favor of the railway company, and defendants carried the case by appeal to the supreme court of Washington, which held the statute of limitations applicable, reversed the judgment below, and remanded the case with directions to dismiss the action. 28 Wash. 353, 92 Am. St. Rep. 840, 68 Pac. 882.
The grant of right of way, unlike the land grant, was effective from the date of the act, and the fact that the railroad was not built until after defendants' entry does not affect the disposition of the case. St. Joseph & D. C. R. Co. v. Baldwin, 103 U.S. 426, 26 L. ed. 578; Bybee v. Oregon & C. R. Co. 139 U.S. 663, 679, 35 L. ed. 305, 308, 11 Sup. Ct. Rep. 687.
The judgment must be reversed on the authority of Northern P. R. Co. v. Townsend, 190 U.S. 267, 47 L. ed. 1044, 23 Sup. Ct. Rep. 671, and remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with the opinion of this court in Northern P. R. Co. v. Ely, 197 U.S. 1, 25 Sup. Ct. Rep. 302, 49 L. ed.--.
Judgment reversed.
Mr. Justice Harlan dissented.

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# Northern Pacific Railway Company v. Hasse

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United States Supreme Court
197 U.S. 9
Northern Pacific Railway Company v. Hasse
Argued: January 6, 1905. --- Decided: February 20, 1905
Messrs. C. W. Bunn and James B. Kerr for plaintiff in error.
No brief was filed for defendants in error.
Mr. Chief Justice Fuller delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Northern Pacific Railway Company v. Houston/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
231 U.S. 181
Northern Pacific Railway Company v. Houston
Argued: November 11, 1913. --- Decided: December 1, 1913
In Northern P. R. Co. v. Wass, 104 Minn. 411, 116 N. W. 937, it was decided that lands claimed under an indemnity grant, and described in lists of indemnity selections filed in the appropriate United States Land Office, and which were rightfully pending for action by the proper officer, were nevertheless subject to entry by others, to the destruction of the right to select, and to the frustration of te governmental power to approve the selections and award the land under the granting law. The judgment below, which is now under review, was expressly rested by the court on the ruling in the Wass Case. Houston v. Northern P. R. Co. 109 Minn. 273, 123 N. W. 922, 18 Ann. Cas. 325. The identity between the controversies here presented and the one which was passed on in the Wass Case is additionally shown by the fact that it is stated in the printed argument on behalf of the railroad company, the plaintiff in error, there being no argument on behalf of the defendant in error, that the land involved in this case was covered by selections made at the same time the selections which were involved in the Wass Case were made, and were embraced in the identical lists which were the subject of contest in that case. But since this case was decided by the court below, its ruling in the Wass Case was reviewed by this court and it was reversed, thereby destroying the only foundation upon which the judgment in this case could possibly rest. Northern Pacific R. Co. v. Wass, 219 U.S. 426, 55 L. ed. 280, 31 Sup. Ct. Rep. 321. It follows, for the reasons stated in the Wass Case, and upon the authority of that case, the judgment below must be reversed and the case be remanded to the court below for further proceedings not inconsistent with the opinion in the Wass Case, and the action which we now take in applying the decision in that case.
Reversed.

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# Northern Pacific Railway Company v. Meese

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United States Supreme Court
239 U.S. 614
Northern Pacific Railway Company v. Meese
Argued: and submitted December 13, 1915. --- Decided: January 17, 1916
Mr. Charles W. Bunn for petitioner.
Messrs. Govnor Teats, Leo Teats, and Ralph Teats for respondents.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 615-616 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice McReynolds delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Northern Pacific Railway Company v. Ely

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United States Supreme Court
197 U.S. 1
Northern Pacific Railway Company v. Ely
Argued: December 15, 1904. --- Decided: February 20, 1905
Messrs. C. W. Bunn and James B. Kerr for plaintiff in error.
Messrs. Harold Preston, William E. Cullen, F. T. Post, and Samuel R. Stern for defendants in error.
Mr. Chief Justice Fuller delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Northern Pacific Railway Company v. Houston

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United States Supreme Court
231 U.S. 181
Northern Pacific Railway Company v. Houston
Argued: November 11, 1913. --- Decided: December 1, 1913
Mr. Charles W. Bunn for plaintiff in error.
No appearance for defendant in error.
Memorandum opinion by Mr. Chief Justice White, by direction of the court:

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# Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 5/The Foundry at Moorfields

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THE FOUNDRY AT MOORFIELDS.
In a preceding number an account was given of the singular accident through which the Royal Gun Foundry at Moorfields was abandoned by the Government and the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich originated. After its abandonment by the Government, it remained in a ruinous and dilapidated condition for some years, until at length it was repaired and fitted up as a chapel for the Rev. John Wesley, M.A. At that time the doors of most of the churches in London and Bristol were closed against him and his brother Charles. To provide accommodation for the religious “societies” under their care they had to seek separate buildings.
In 1739, the erection of a chapel in Bristol was commenced, and during the same year a lease was taken of the old Ordnance Foundry, at the suggestion of two gentlemen (Messrs. Ball and Watkins), who advanced a portion of the requisite funds for the lease and alterations.
These gentlemen were unknown to Mr. Wesley, and it was owing to their generosity that the first Methodist chapel was opened in London, in a portion of the foundry buildings. The remainder of the buildings were arranged as dwellings for the Rev. J. Wesley and a porter, a “book-room,” day-school, and dispensary.
Although the purpose of the building was changed so materially, the original designation was retained, and when, in 1777, the chapel in City Road was erected, it bore the name of the “New Foundery” for many years. The “Foundery” continued to be the head-quarters of Methodism for nearly forty years. It was there that Wesley lived, and that his mother died. It was there, too, that Thomas Maxfield, the first of Wesley’s “lay helpers,” commenced his labours. In the precincts of the old foundry Charles Wesley composed some of his noblest hymns, while from its “book-room” were issued the almost countless pamphlets, sermons, hymns, and serials of John and Charles Wesley and their helpers. So numerous were the associations connected with it, that it has been deemed one of the starting points of Methodism, and when the Wesleyan body celebrated their centenary the period was calculated from the opening of the foundry in 1739. An account of the history of the “Foundery” Chapel would comprise much of the early history of Methodism itself. Few places are remembered with deeper interest by the Methodist, as being associated with the formation and early growth of that system of ecclesiastical organisation which, weak and despised in its beginning, is now so extensive and so flourishing. And at the same time it furnishes a connecting link between a distinguishing movement of the last century and the history of London, adding one to the thousand links which unite our world-city with everything that is noblest and most precious in our civil and religious liberties.
# Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 5/The Russian as a shopkeeper

The Russian as a Shopkeeper.—Trade is the proper element of the Russian; it is his favourite pursuit, and should his trade even be confined to hazel nuts, he will devote his time and energy to it, with the same zeal as if he were engaged in commerce on a large scale. He is indefatigable in displaying all his goods before his customers, and is never offended even at the lowest offer. I once entered a hatter’s shop at St. Petersburg, and asked the master to show me a hat. He took up one, turned it round and round on his hand, ejaculating: “Votibi sladitshka na twoya galovitshka,” (here is a pretty neat hat for your pretty neat head), “and you would not mind to give 20 roubles banco (about 16s.) for it.” I offered him 5 roubles, and was about to leave, when he detained me, saying: “Do not run away, we are not so very far asunder. Take a seat, and say really what you mean to give.” I bought it at last, after much amicable bargaining, for half the price asked for. When the Dutch Jews once asked of Peter the Great permission to carry on their trade in Russia, for which privilege they offered him a considerable sum of money, he refused, saying, smilingly: “Keep your money, my friends, you won’t find your account in Russia. One Russian is as cunning as four Jews.”
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# Old Wayne Mutual Life Association of Indianapolis, Indiana v. McDonough

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United States Supreme Court
204 U.S. 8
Old Wayne Mutual Life Association of Indianapolis, Indiana v. McDonough
Argued: October 25, 1906. --- Decided: January 7, 1907
Mr. A. S. Worthington for plaintiff in error.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 9-12 intentionally omitted]
No counsel for defendants in error.
Mr. Justice Harlan delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Old acquaintance well renew

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From Notebook c.1808-1811 p.25. See also: Satiric verses and epigrams.

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 old acquaintance well renew.
Prospero had One Caliban & I have Two.
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#### The original text:

old acquaintance well renew
Prospero had One Caliban & I have Two
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* ↑ "Blake Complete Writings", ed. Geoffrey Keynes, pub. OUP 1966/85, p. 538.
* ↑ "The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake", ed. by David V. Erdman, Anchor Books, 1988, p. 508.
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# Old Wormy Age

A comic panegyric on Coryat’s Crudities.
Old wormy age that in thy musty writs
Of former rules records the present wits, Tell us no more the tale of Apuleius Asse,
Nor Midas ears, nor Io eating grasse.
This work of Tom's so far them all exceeds,
As Phoebus' fiddle did Pan's squeaking reeds.
He writes not of a gnat, nor frog, nor woodcocks bill,
Of steeples, towns, and towers, entreats his goose's quill. Among the rest he of a wondrous tub doth tell,
The wine whereof more Poets made than Tempes Well.
In Odcomb’d Tom's regard the Cyclops' herds were thin,
Our Tom quick cattle fed whole legions on his skin.
So did poor bare Philosophers in former times,
And so do Poets now that make the lowzy rimes.
Five months with this in child-birth lay Tom's lab'ring Muse,
In all which time he seldom chang’d his shirt or shoes.
The care and toil was his, thine are the gains,
Crack then the nut, and take the kernel for thy pains.
Explicit Ludovicus Lewkenor.
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# Old and New

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* "Old and New" (上山採蘼蕪, Shang shan cai mi wu), an anonymous 1st-century Chinese poem
* "Old and New", a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
# Nursery Rhymes (1860)/Taffy was a Welshman

Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief; Taffy came to my house And stole a piece of beef.
I went to Taffy's House, Taffy was from home; Taffy came to my house, And stole a marrow bone.