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# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 8/Chapter 6

CHAP. VI.
I wish my uncle Toby had been a water-drinker; for then the thing had been accounted for, That the first moment Widow Wadman saw him, she felt something stirring within her in his favour—Something!—something.
—Something perhaps more than friendship—less than love—something—no matter what—no matter where—I would not give a single hair off my mule's tail, and be obliged to pluck it off myself (indeed the villain has not many to spare, and is not a little vicious into the bargain) to be let by your worships into the secret———
​But the truth is, my uncle Toby was not a water-drinker; he drank it neither pure nor mix'd, or any how, or any where, except fortuitously upon some advanced posts, where better liquor was not to be had—or during the time he was under cure; when the surgeon telling him it would extend the fibres, and bring them sooner into contact—my uncle Toby drank it for quietness sake.
Now as all the world knows, that no effect in nature can be produced without a cause and as it is as well known, that my uncle Toby, was neither a weaver—a gardener, or a gladiator—unless as a captain, you will needs have him one—but then he was only a captain of foot—and besides the whole is an equivocation—There is nothing left for us to sup​pose, but that my uncle Toby's leg—but that will avail us little in the present hypothesis, unless it had proceeded from some ailment in the foot—whereas his leg was not emaciated from any disorder in his foot—for my uncle Toby's leg was not emaciated at all. It was a little stiff and awkward, from a total disuse of it, for the three years he lay confined at my father's house in town; but it was plump and muscular, and in all other respects as good and promising a leg as the other.
I declare, I do not recollect any one opinion or passage of my life, where my understanding was more at a loss to make ends meet, and torture the chapter I had been writing, to the service of the chapter following it, than in the present case: one would think I took a pleasure in run​ing into difficulties of this kind, merely to make fresh experiments of getting out of 'em—Inconsiderate soul that thou art! What! are not the unavoidable distresses with which, as an author and a man, thou art hemm'd in on every side of thee—are they, Tristram, not sufficient, but thou must entangle thyself still more?
Is it not enough that thou art in debt, and that thou hast ten cart-loads of thy fifth and sixth volumes still—still unsold, and art almost at thy wit's ends, how to get them off thy hands.
To this hour art thou not tormented with the vile asthma thou gattest in skating against the wind in Flanders? and is it but two months ago, that in a ​fit of laughter, on seeing a cardinal make water like a quirister (with both hands) thou brakest a vessel in thy lungs, whereby, in two hours, thou lost as many quarts of blood; and hadst thou lost as much more, did not the faculty tell thee—it would have amounted to a gallon?———
# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 8/Chapter 7

CHAP. VII.
—But for heaven's sake, let us not talk of quarts or gallons—let us take the story straight before us; it is so nice and intricate a one, it will scarce bear the transposition of a single tittle; and some how or other, you have got me thrust almost into the middle of it—
—I beg we may take more care.
# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 9/Chapter 11

CHAP. XI.
———" Now what can their two noddles be about?" cried my father - - &c.----
I dare say, said my mother, they are making fortifications———
———Not on Mrs. Wadman's premises! cried my father, stepping back———
I suppose not: quoth my mother.
I wish, said my father, raising his voice, the whole science of fortification at the devil, with all its trumpery of saps, mines, blinds, gabions, fausse-brays and cuvetts———
———They are foolish things———said my mother.
​Now she had a way, which by the bye, I would this moment give away my purple jerkin, and my yellow slippers into the bargain, if some of your reverences would imitate—and that was never to refuse her assent and consent to any proposition my father laid before her, merely because she did not understand it, or had no ideas to the principal word or term of art, upon which the tenet or proposition rolled. She contented herself with doing all that her godfathers and godmothers promised for her—but no more; and so would go on using a hard word twenty years together—and replying to it too, if it was a verb, in all its moods and tenses, without giving herself any trouble to enquire about it.
​This was an eternal source of misery to my father, and broke the neck, at the first setting out, of more good dialogues between them, than could have done the most petulant contradiction—the few which survived were the better for the cuvetts———
—"They are foolish things;" said my mother.
———Particularly the cuvetts; replied my father.
'Twas enough—he tasted the sweet of triumph—and went on.
—Not that they are, properly speaking, Mrs. Wadman's premises, said my father, partly correcting himself—because she is but tenant for life———
​———That makes a great difference—said my mother———
—In a fool's head, replied my father———
Unless she should happen to have a child—said my mother———
———But she must persuade my brother Toby first to get her one—
———To be sure, Mr. Shandy, quoth my mother.
———Though if it comes to persuasion—said my father—Lord have mercy upon them.
Amen: said my mother, piano.
Amen: cried my father, fortissimè.
​Amen: said my mother again—but with such a sighing cadence of personal pity at the end of it, as discomfited every fibre about my father—he instantly took out his almanack; but before he could untie it, Yorick's congregation coming out of church, became a full answer to one half of his business with it—and my mother telling him it was a sacrament day—left him as little in doubt, as to the other part—He put his almanack into his pocket.
The first Lord of the Treasury thinking of ways and means, could not have returned home, with a more embarrassed look.
# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 8/Chapter 5

CHAP. V.
Why weavers, gardeners, and gladiators—or a man with a pined leg (proceeding from some ailment in the foot)—should ever have had some tender nymph breaking her heart in secret for them, are points well and duely settled and accounted for, by ancient and modern physiologists.
A water-drinker, provided he is a profess'd one, and does it without fraud or covin, is precisely in the same predicament: not that, at first sight, there is any consequence, or shew of logic in it, "That a rill of cold water dribbling through my inward parts, should light up a torch in my Jenny's— ​———The proposition does not strike one; on the contrary it seems to run opposite to the natural workings of causes and effects———
But it shews the weakness and imbecility of human reason.
———"And in perfect good health with it?"
—The most perfect—Madam, that friendship herself could wish me———
—"And drink nothing!—nothing but water?"
—Impetuous fluid! the moment thou presses against the flood-gates of the brain—see how they give way!———
​In swims Curiosity, beckoning to her damsels to follow—they dive into the centre of the current———
Fancy sits musing upon the bank, and with her eyes following the stream, turns straws and bulrushes into masts and bowsprits—And Desire, with vest held up to the knee in one hand, snatches at them, as they swim by her, with the other———
O ye water-drinkers! is it then by this delusive fountain, that ye have so often governed and turn'd this world about like a mill-wheel—grinding the faces of the impotent—be-powdering their ribs—be-peppering their noses, and changing sometimes êven the very frame and face of nature———
​—If I was you, quoth Yorick, I would drink more water, Eugenius.—And, if I was you, Yorick, replied Eugenius, so would I.
Which shews they had both read Longinus———
For my own part, I am resolved never to read any book but my own, as long as I live.
# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 9/Chapter 10

CHAP. X.
My mother had gone with her left arm twisted in my father's right, till they had got to the fatal angle of the old garden wall, where Doctor Slop was overthrown by Obadiah on the coach-horse: as this was directly opposite to the front of Mrs. Wadman's house, when my father came to it, he gave a look across; and seeing my uncle Toby and the Corporal within ten paces of the door, he turn'd about———"Let us just stop a moment, quoth my father, and see with what ceremonies my brother Toby and his man Trim make their first entry———it will not detain ​us, added my father, a single minute:"—No matter, if it be ten minutes, quoth my mother.
—It will not detain us half a one; said my father.
The Corporal was just then setting in with the story of his brother Tom and the Jew's widow: the story went on—and on—it had episodes in it—it came back, and went on—and on again; there was no end of it—the reader found it very long———
—G— help my father! he pish'd fifty times at every new attitude, and gave the corporal's stick, with all its flourishings and danglings, to as many devils as chose to accept of them.
​When issues of events like these my father is waiting for, are hanging in the scales of fate, the mind has the advantage of changing the principle of expectation three times, without which it would not have power to see it out.
Curiosity governs the first moment; and the second moment is all œconomy to justify the expence of the first—and for the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth moments, and so on to the day of judgment—'tis a point of Honour.
I need not be told, that the ethic writers have assigned this all to Patience; but that Virtue methinks, has extent of dominion sufficient of her own, and enough to do in it, without invading the ​few dismantled castles which Honour has left him upon the earth.
My father stood it out as well as he could with these three auxiliaries to the end of Trim's story; and from thence to the end of my uncle Toby's panegyrick upon arms, in the chapter following it; when seeing, that instead of marching up to Mrs. Wadman's door, they both faced about and march'd down the avenue diametrically opposite to his expectation—he broke out at once with that little subacid soreness of humour which, in certain situations, distinguished his character from that of all other men.
# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 8/Chapter 4

CHAP. IV.
" It is with Love as with Cuckoldom"—the suffering party is at least the third, but generally the last in the house who knows any thing about the matter: this comes, as all the world knows, from having half a dozen words for one thing; and so long, as what in this vessel of the human frame, is Love—may be Hatred, in that—Sentiment half a yard higher— ——— —and Nonsense—no Madam,—not there—I mean at the part I am now pointing to with my forefinger—how can we help ourselves?
Of all mortal, and immortal men too, if you please, who ever soliloquized upon ​this mystic subject, my uncle Toby was the worst fitted, to have push'd his researches, thro' such a contention of feelings; and he had infallibly let them all run on, as we do worse matters, so see what they would turn out—had not Bridget's pre-notification of them to Susannah, and Susannah's repeated manifesto's thereupon to all the world, made it necessary for my uncle Toby to look into the affair.
# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 8/Chapter 8

CHAP. VIII.
My uncle Toby and the corporal had posted down with so much heat and precipitation, to take possession of the spot of ground we have so often spoke of, in order to open their campaign as early as the rest of the allies; that they had forgot one of the most necessary articles of the whole affair; it was neither a pioneer's spade, a pick-ax, or a shovel—
—It was a bed to lie on: so that as Shandy Hall was at that time unfurnished; and the little inn where poor Le Fever died, not yet built; my uncle Toby was constrained to accept of a bed at Mrs. Wadman's, for a night or two, ​till corporal Trim (who to the character of an excellent valet, groom, cook, sempster, surgeon and engineer, super-added that of an excellent upholsterer too) with the help of a carpenter and a couple of taylors, constructed one in my uncle Toby's house.
A daughter of Eve, for such was widow Wadman, and 'tis all the character I intend to give of her—
—"That she was a perfect woman;"
had better be fifty leagues off—or in her warm bed—or playing with a case-knife—or any thing you please—than make a man the object of her attention, when the house and all the furniture is her own.
​There is nothing in it out of doors and in broad day-light, where a woman has a power, physically speaking, of viewing a man in more lights than one—but here, for her soul, she can see him in no light without mixing something of her own goods and chattels along with him—till by reiterated acts of such combinations, he gets foisted into her inventory———
—And then good night.
But this is not matter of System; for I have delivered that above—nor is it matter of Breviary—for I make no man's creed but my own—nor matter of Fact—at least that I know of; but 'tis matter copulative and introductory to what follows.
# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 9

THE
LIFE
AND
OPINIONS
OF
TRISTRAM SHANDY, Gentleman.
VOL. IX.
LONDON:
Printed for T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, in the Strand. MDCCLXVII.
* Dedication
* Chapter I.
* Chapter II.
* Chapter III.
* Chapter IV.
* Chapter V.
* Chapter VI.
* Chapter VII.
* Chapter VIII.
* Chapter IX.
* Chapter X.
* Chapter XI.
* Chapter XII.
* Chapter XIII.
* Chapter XIV.
* Chapter XV.
* Chapter XVI.
* Chapter XVII.
* Chapter XVIII.
* Chapter XIX.
* Chapter XX.
* Chapter XXI.
* Chapter XXII.
* Chapter XXIII.
* Chapter XXIV.
* Chapter XXV.
* Chapter XXVI.
* Chapter XXVII.
* Chapter XXVIII.
* Chapter XXIX.
* Chapter XXX.
* Chapter XXXI.
* Chapter XXXII.
* Chapter XXXIII.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# The Maid of Brakel

* "Dat Mäken von Brakel". Brothers Grimm. Kinder- und Haus-märchen
* "The Maid of Brakel". Margaret Hunt Grimm's Household Tales, Volume 2. 1884
# The Maid Freed from the Gallows

"The Maid Freed from the Gallows" is one of many titles of a centuries-old folk song about a condemned maiden pleading for someone to buy her freedom from the executioner. In the collection of ballads compiled by Francis James Child in the late 19th century, it is indexed as Child Ballad number 95; 11 variants, some fragmentary, are indexed as 95A to 95K. In the Roud Folk Song Index it is number 144.
The song may have originated in continental Europe. Francis James Child found the English version "defective and distorted", in that, in most cases, the narrative rationale had been lost and only the ransoming sequence remained. Numerous European variants explain the reason for the ransom: the heroine has been captured by pirates. Of the texts he prints, one (95F) had "degenerated" into a children's game, while others had survived as part of a Northern English cante-fable, The Golden Ball (or Key). Child describes additional examples from the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Russia, and Slovenia, several of which feature a man being ransomed by a woman.
* "The Maid Freed from the Gallows" in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (ed.) Francis James Child (19th Century).
** Variant A
** Variant B
** Variant C
** Variant D
** Variant E
** Variant F
** Variant G
** Variant H
** Variant I
** Variant J
** Variant K
* "The Golden Ball" in A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes ed. by Sabine Baring-Gould (1895).
* "The Golden Ball" in More English Fairy Tales (ed.) by Joseph Jacobs (1918), with prose frame narrative.
# The Maid's Tragedy/Dramatis Personae

​Dramatis Personæ KING. LYSIPPUS, Brother to the King. AMINTOR, a noble Gentleman. NIELANTIUS, DIPHILUS, Brothers to Evadne. CALIANAX, an old humorous Lord, and Father to Aspatia. CLEON, STRATO, Gentlemen. DIAGORAS, a Servant to Calianax.
EVADNE, Sister to Melantius and Wife to Amintor. ASPATIA, The troth-plight Wife to Amintor. ANTIPHILA, OLYMPIAS, Waiting-Gentlewomen to Aspatia. DULA, Waiting-Woman to Evadne. Ladies.
NIGHT, CYNTHIA, NEPTUNE, AEOLUS, Sea Gods, Masquers.
# The Modern Review/Volume 3/Number 6

June, 1908
# The Modern Review/Volume 30

July to December, 1921
* Number 1 (July)
* Number 2 (August)
* Number 3 (September)
* Number 4 (October)
* Number 5 (November)
* Number 6 (December)
# The Modern Review/Volume 30/Number 1

July, 1921
# The Modern Review/Volume 30/Number 3

September, 1921
# The Modern Review/Volume 3/Number 3

March, 1908
# The Modern Review/Volume 3/Number 4

April, 1908
# The Modern Review/Volume 3/Number 5

May, 1908
# The Modern Review/Volume 3/Number 2

February, 1908
# The Modern Review/Volume 30/Number 5

November, 1921
# The New International Encyclopædia/Cow

Edition of 1905. See also the disclaimer.
​COW. See Cattle; Dairying.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Cranberry

Edition of 1905. See also Cranberry on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
CRANBERRY (from crane + berry). A name given to the fruit of a few creeping, vine-like species of the genus Vaccinium, family Ericaceæ. The smaller cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus) grows wild in the peaty bogs and marsh lands of the temperate and colder regions of both Europe and America. The larger
cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) is native in similar situations in the United States, and is extensively cultivated for commercial purposes in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and a few other Northern States. The cranberry is a firm, red, acid berry, of good keeping quality, and is used for sauce, tarts, and the like. In the improved commercial culture of cranberries, natural swamps or bogs are selected which can be drained by open ditches and flooded when desired. The native moss and swamp growth are removed, and the peat covered two to four inches deep with sand. The vines are planted about 14 inches apart, cuttings 6 to 8 inches in length being used. The sand keeps down the weeds, makes cultivation easy, and helps retain the moisture in the soil below. Additional sandings are given every four or five years, which keep the vines short and close. In some localities sanding is omitted altogether. The object of flooding is to protect the vines in winter and from early fall and late spring frosts, to destroy insects, prevent drought, and protect against fire. The berries are gathered preferably by hand, but often with special rakes and combs. There are three principal types of cultivated varieties, determined by the form of the berries—bell-shaped, bugle-shaped, and cherry-shaped—with many varieties of each. In 1900, 987,516 bushels of cranberries were marketed in the United States.
The cowberry or mountain cranberry (Vaccinium vitis-idœa) is common in both Europe and America, and, like Vaccinium oxycoccus, is gathered and sold in considerable quantities, but is not cultivated. The shrub Vibernum opulus is known as the high-bush cranberry. The fruit is tart, but is of little value, and is seldom eaten. The Tasmanian cranberry is the fruit of Astroloma humifusum, of the natural order Epaeridaceæ.
CRANBERRY ETC.
| 1. COSMOS (Cosmos tenuifolius). | 4. CORN COCKLE (Lychnis githago). |
| 2. CRANBERRY (Vaccinium macrocarpon). | 5. COWSLIP (Primula veris). |
| 3. COREOPSIS (Coreopsis lanceolata). | 6. SUNN HEMP (Crotalaria juncea). |
# The New International Encyclopædia/Credner, Hermann

Edition of 1905. See also Carl Hermann Credner on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
CREDNER, Hermann (1841—). A German geologist, son of the preceding, born at Gotha, and educated at Clausthal, Breslau, and Göttingen. He has made extensive geological investigations in North and Central America (1864-68), the results of which were published in the Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft, and the Neues Jahrhuch für Mineralogie. In 1870 he became professor of geology at the University of Leipzig, and director of the Geological Commission for the Kingdom of Saxony. In addition to a geological chart of the Kingdom of Saxony (1877 et seq.), and numerous works on the geological formations of that country, his works include Elemente der Geologie (8th ed., 1897).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Credner, Karl Friedrich Heinrich

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CREDNER, krād'nẽr, Karl Friedrich Heinrich (1809-76). A German geologist, born at Waltershausen (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha). He studied at the universities of Freiberg and Göttingen, and in 1836 was appointed by the Ducal Government warden of the mint. In 1839 he became surveyor of mines, in 1850 mining councilor, and in 1854 State and mining councilor. He was in 1858 appointed by the Government of Hanover superior mining councilor and reporting councilor to the Finance Ministry, in which capacity he had under his supervision all the Hanoverian mining works, including the important ones of the Harz. From 1868 until his death, he was mining privy councilor and director of mining in the Halle district. As a scientist, he was known for his study of the geology of those regions of Germany connected with his duties in the mining industry. He discovered a compound of oxides of copper and manganese, called in his honor Crednerite, and published some valuable treatises, including Versuch einer Bildungsgeschichte der geognostischen Verhältnisse des Thüringer Waldes (1855), and Ueber die Gliederung der oberen Juraformation und die Wälder-Bildung im nordwestlichen Deutschland (1863).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Creole Case, The

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CREOLE CASE, The. An incident in American history, which caused some friction between the governments of the United States and Great Britain and was the occasion of an animated debate between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery elements in Congress. In 1841, 19 of the 135 slaves on board the American brig Creole revolted, while being transported coastwise between Hampton Roads and New Orleans, and securing control, after killing the captain and wounding several others, directed the vessel to Nassau, New Providence, where all those who had not been directly concerned in the revolt were immediately liberated by the British authorities, the others being held for trial on a charge of murder, in the local courts. Daniel Webster, who was then Secretary of State, demanded the return of the slaves, on the ground that they were legally property and were on American soil and under the jurisdiction of the United States, so long as they were under the American flag, even when on board a ship. They were never returned, however, by the British Government. The incident caused J. R. Giddings (q.v.) to offer a series of resolutions in the House of Representatives, on March 21, 1842, declaring that slavery could exist only by positive law of the separate States; that these States had delegated no control over slavery to the Federal Government, which alone had jurisdiction on the high seas, and, therefore, that slaves on the high seas became free, and the coastwise slave trade was unconstitutional. The House passed a resolution of censure, and Giddings immediately resigned, but was triumphantly reëlected. His resolutions expressed the basis of one phase of the constitutional anti-slavery agitation. They are given in full in Giddings's History of the Rebellion (New York, 1864). The statute of March 2, 1807, regulating the coastwise slave trade, is in 2 U. S. Statutes at Large 426. See Slavery.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Cow Bay

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​COW BAY. A seaport on an inlet of the same name in the northeast of Cape Breton Isle, Nova Scotia, Canada, 22 miles east of Sydney (Map: Nova Scotia, K 3). A Government breakwater and quay 1800 feet long protect the inlet. Bituminous-coal mines are worked in the vicinity. Estimated population, in 1901, 3000.