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# The Essays of Francis Bacon/XXXI Of Suspicion

XXXI. Of Suspicion.
Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight. Certainly they are to be repressed, or at the least well guarded: for they cloud the mind; they leese friends; and they check with business, whereby business can not go on currently and constantly. They dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, wise men to irresolution and melancholy. They are defects, not in the heart, but in the brain; for they take place in the stoutest natures; as in the example of Henry the Seventh of England. There was not a more ​suspicious man, nor a more stout. And in such a composition they do small hurt. For commonly they are not admitted, but with examination, whether they be likely or no? But in fearful natures they gain ground too fast. There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not to keep their suspicions in smother. What would men have? Do they think those they employ and deal with are saints? Do they not think they will have their own ends, and be truer to themselves than to them? Therefore there is no better way to moderate suspicions, than to account upon such suspicions as true and yet to bridle them as false. For so far a man ought to make use of suspicions, as to provide, as if that should be true that he suspects, yet it may do him no hurt. Suspicions that the mind of itself gathers are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished, and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings. Certainly, the best mean to clear the way in this same wood of suspicions, is frankly to communicate them with the party that he suspects; for thereby ​he shall be sure to know more of the truth of them than he did before; and withal shall make that party more circumspect not to give further cause of suspicion. But this would not be done to men of base natures; for they, if they find themselves once suspected, will never be true. The Italian says, Sospetto licentia fede; as if suspicion did give a passport to faith; but it ought rather to kindle it to discharge itself.
* ↑ Leese. Lose.
* ↑ Check. Intransitive, to clash or interfere.
* ↑ Currently. In the manner of a flowing stream, smoothly.
* ↑ Stout. Proud, stubborn.
* ↑ Composition. Mental constitution, or constitution of mind and body combined. "O, how that name befits my composition! Old Gaunt, indeed; and gaunt in being old." Shakspere. King Richard II. ii. I.
* ↑ Buzz. A rumor or report. "That, on every dream, Each buz, each fancy, each complaint, dislike, He may enguard his dotage with their powers, And hold our lives in mercy." Shakspere. King Lear. i. 4.
* ↑ Would for should, as frequently in Elizabethan English.
* ↑ Suspicion gives license to faithlessness, that is, justifies breaking faith.
# The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries/Volume 18/Nekropolis

ISOLDE KURZ (1853-)
NEKROPOLIS
CITY is standing in the waves
That rose from deepest lair,
There each of the houses the water laves
And kisses each marble stair;
There palaces stand in their glory's pride
And gilded is pillar and wall,
But over the battlements far and wide
Destruction is brooding for all.
No sound of wheel or of hoof is known
The lion to wake from his dream.
But low from the Lido the night-winds moan
And sea-gulls ocean-wards scream.
The moon makes silver the silent tide,
The gondolas glide their way,
And sea-weeds on the water ride —
Like storm-tossed corpses stray.
Oh pearl, thou of all in the deep most fair,
Thou beauty out of the sea,
Where are thy daughters with golden hair
Thy sons oh where may they be?
And where is thy splendor, the gleam of thy gold.
That all the earth would dread?
The arts that so many a heart would hold?
Where is thy realm? With the dead.
​By night, though, the greatest canal along Where flickering night-lights play Rise sounds like whisp'ring and amorous song Of shades that deserted stray. Frolicking swarms of masks whirl round Upon the piazza near by, And clashing swords on the Riva resound; The masts are dark'ning the sky.
It seems as if from the night and deep Had risen the Venice of old. The sea-wind wakes and the wave from sleep, Her corpse to rock and to hold. The sea is rising, with passionate arms There by the canal-bed to cling. As if the young spouse with his kisses and charms To beauty new life should bring.
ISOLDE KURZ
# The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries/Volume 18/Talk in a Gondola

HERMANN HESSE (1877–)
TALK IN A GONDOLA
HAT I dream, you ask? That yesterday We had died, we two. In fair array — Clad in white, our hair with flowers wound, In our gondola we're seaward bound; Bells from yonder campanile peal, But the water gurgles round the keel. Drowns the distant toll that's gently failing. Onward, onward to the sea we're sailing. Where the ships with masts that tower high, Sombre shadows, rest against the sky. Where on fishing-boats there gleam the moist Deep-stained red and yellow sails they hoist. Where the roaring mighty waves are swelling, Where the sailors lurid tales are telling. Through a gate of bluest water, deeply Downward now our boat is gliding steeply. In the depths we find a wid'ning range Filled with many trees of coral strange. Where in lustrous shells that hidden gleam Pale gigantic pearls with beauty beam. Silvery fishes pass us, glist'ning, shy. Leaving tinted trails as they flit by, In whose furrows other fish instead Gleam with slender tails of golden red. At the bottom, fathoms deep, we dream; As if bells were calling it will seem. Now and then, as if a wind that fanned Sang us songs we cannot understand. ​Songs of narrow streets we long ago Left behind, of things we used to know, Songs so far, far off about the ways That we trod in long forgotten days. And with wonder we'll remember slowly Now a street, now some cathedral holy, Or the shouting of a gondolier, Many names that once we used to hear. Smiling then as children smile in sleep, Moving still our silent lips we keep, And the word will, ere it spoken seems, Fall into oblivion, death in dreams. Over us the mighty vessels float, Sails are bright on many a sombre boat. Snow-white birds in gleaming sunshine fly, Glistening nets upon the water lie, Spanning all, with arches high and true Glows the heavens' vault of sunlit blue.
# The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries/Volume 18/Midnight

MIDNIGHT
By Ricarda Huch.
To this grave of mine
Come not in the morning,
Come on ways of darkness,
Dearest, by the dim moonshine.
For when through the skies
Bells are tolling midnight,
From my earthly prison
To the lovely air I rise.
In my death-dress white
On my grave I linger,
Watch the stars and measure
Time's placid tread at night.
Come and have no fear!
Can you still give kisses?
I forgot them never
While I slept the winters drear.
Kiss me hard and long.
In the east already
Sings the morning sunlight
—Lack-a-day!— its joyful song.
You were mine again!
Go and taste life's sweetness!—
I in deep, deep darkness
Sleep once more with pain.
# The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries/Volume 18/The Fair Agnete

AGNES MIEGEL (1879–)
THE FAIR AGNETE
HEN Sir Ulrich 's widow in church knelt to pray, From the church-yard toward her floated a lay. The organ on high did cease to sound, The priests and the boys all stood spell-bound, The congregation barkened, old man, child and bride To singing like a nightingale so loud, outside: Dear mother, in the church where the sexton's bell rings, Dear mother, hark outside how your daughter sings! For I cannot come to you in the church—I must stay, For before the shrine of Mary I cannot kneel to pray, For I have lost salvation in everlasting time, For I wedded the waterman with all his black, black slime. My children they play in the lake with fishes fleet, They have fins on their hands and fins on their feet, Their little pearly frocks no sunlight ever dries, Not death nor yet a dream can close my children's eyes— Dear mother, oh I beg of thee, Lovingly, longingly, Wilt thou and all thy servants pray For my green-haired water-sprites alway, Will ye pray to the saints and to our Lady kind, By every church and every cross that on the fields ye find! Dearest mother, oh I beseech thee so, Every seven years, poor I may hither go, Unto the good priest tell, The church door he shall open well— That I may see the candle-light And see the golden monstrance bright, ​That my little children may be told, How the gleam of the Cup is like sunlight gold!"
The organ pealed when the voice sang no more, And then they opened wide the door— And while they all inside high mass were keeping, A wave all white, so white, outside the door was leaping.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Pearson, Hon. William

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​Pearson, Hon. William, M.L.C., one of the principal patrons of the turf in Australia, is the eldest son of Captain Hugh Pearson, R.N., of Hilton, parish of Kilmany, Fifeshire, Scotland, and was born on Sept. 20th, 1818, at Hilton. Arriving in Victoria in 1841, he commenced squatting in Gippsland, taking up the Lindenow station on the Mitchell river, and after that Kilmany Park, near the junction of the Latrobe and Thomson rivers. Mr. Pearson was returned to the Legislative Assembly as member for North Gippsland on two occasions—in 1868 and 1871—and now represents the Eastern Province in the Legislative Council. He is the largest shareholder in the famous Long Tunnel gold mine, Walhalla. As an owner and breeder of racehorses, he dates back to 1842, since which time he has won several hundred races and bred a large number of winners by Warlock and Vagabond. Mr. Pearson married in August 1859 Eliza Laura, daughter of H. J. Travers, formerly of the H.E.I.C. Civil Service.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Pearson, Right Rev. Josiah Brown

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​Pearson, Right Rev. Josiah Brown, D.D., ex-Bishop of Newcastle, N.S.W., son of Benjamin Pearson, was born at Chesterfield in 1841, and educated at Chesterfield Grammar School and St. John's College, Cambridge, where he took a first class in the Moral Sciences Tripos in 1864, was made M.A. in 1867, LL.M. in 1871, LL.D. in 1876, and D.D. in 1880. Dr. Pearson, who was for some time Fellow and Tutor of St. John's College, was ordained deacon in 1865 and priest in 1866. He was curate of St. Michael's, Cambridge, from 1865 to 1867, of St. Andrew the Great, Cambridge, from 1867 to 1869, vicar of Hormingsea from 1871 to 1874, preacher at Whitehall from 1872 to 1874, Hulsean Lecturer and Ramsden Preacher in 1872, and vicar of Newark from 1874 to 1880, when he was consecrated Bishop of Newcastle. In 1888 he formed the intention of returning to England, and Bishop Moorhouse was desirous of securing his assistance as a suffragan bishop for the diocese of Manchester; but the state of his health made clerical duty impossible and rendered him incapable of resigning his see until 1890, when the formal document was signed and his successor appointed. Bishop Pearson married, in 1880, Ellen, daughter of the late Godfrey Tallents, of Newark. He is the author of "An Essay on the Divine Personality," "Creed or No Creed, "Disciples in Doubt," and other minor publications.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Pedder, Sir John Lewis

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​Pedder, Sir John Lewis, Bart., first Chief Justice of Van Diemen's Land, was born in 1784, and was appointed Chief Justice in 1824. In 1854 he retired on a pension, and shortly afterwards returned to England, where he died in 1859. In 1848 Chief Justice Pedder had a dispute with Governor Sir William Denison over the Dog Act, which the Supreme Court in the previous year had declared to be void, although they had previously failed to exercise their prerogative of pronouncing the Act to be invalid on the ground of repugnancy to the Constitution Act. The Chief Justice declined the suggestion of the Governor that he should take leave of absence in order to admit of the reversal of the judgment, and Sir William Denison then tried to have him removed for neglect of duty in not having originally certified to the repugnancy. The Executive Council, however, acquitted him, and the Home Government ultimately censured the Governor for his conduct in the matter. As, however, the judgment would have voided fifteen Acts and rendered questionable thirty others, a bill was passed validating all Acts not certified by the judges as repugnant within fourteen days after enrolment, and thus the difficulty was got over.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Pennefather, Frederick William

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​Pennefather, Frederick William, B.A., LL.D., younger son of Edward Pennefather, Q.C., of Dublin, was born on April 29th, 1852, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1874, LL.M. 1877, LL.D. 1891. He entered at Lincoln's Inn in Dec. 1874, and was called to the Bar in Nov. 1877. He went the south-eastern circuit, and was called to the Irish Bar in 1878. He was private secretary to the Governor of South Australia from 1881 to 1883, and to the Governor of New Zealand from 1883 to 1886. He was one of the Commissioners for New Zealand at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in 1886; was appointed Lecturer on Laws in the University of Adelaide in 1887, and Professor of Laws in 1890. He is the joint author of "Pennefather and Brown on the Civil Code of New Zealand."
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Paul, George William

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​Paul, George William, second son of G. W. Paul, of Sydney, N.S.W., was born at Penrith in that colony on June 2nd, 1839. He was educated in Sydney, and afterwards in England, and entered at the Middle Temple in March 1858, being called to the English Bar in Jan. 1861. He arrived in Queensland on Dec 25th, 1863, and was appointed Crown Prosecutor in 1866, and Judge of the Southern District Court in August 1874.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Peacock, Hon. Alexander James

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​Peacock, Hon. Alexander James, M.L.A., son of James Henry and Mary Jane Peacock, was born at Creswick, Vict., in 1861. After passing the Civil Service ​examination when thirteen years old, he was for five years an assistant teacher at the Creswick Grammar School, and then gave up teaching owing to failing health. He is now the legal manager of the far-famed Madame Berry and Berry Consols Gold Mining Companies, the former being the richest deep alluvial mine in Australia. It was, however, in connection with the Australian Natives Association that he first became prominent in a political sense. In 1883 he was appointed one of the Board of Directors, Vice-President in 1884, and President in 1885 and 1886. At the general election in 1889 he was returned to the Assembly for Clunes and Allendale, defeating Mr. T. Cooper, the veteran chairman of committees; and in Nov. 1890, when the Munro Ministry was formed, Mr. Peacock accepted a seat in the Government without portfolio, and was sworn of the Executive Council. When the Ministry was reconstructed under Mr. Shiels, Mr. Peacock retained his seat in the Cabinet, with the office of Minister of Public Instruction.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Pell, Professor Morris Birkbeck

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​Pell, Professor Morris Birkbeck, M.A. was born in the United States about 1823, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated ​as Senior Wrangler. He was also Fellow of his college. He was appointed to the chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Sydney University at its establishment in 1852, and was a member of the Water and Sewerage and the Hunter River Floods Prevention Commissions, He was also for some time actuary of the Australian Mutual Provident Society. In 1877, in consequence of failing health, he retired from his university employments on a pension, which had been guaranteed him by the Senate. In 1878 he was elected a Fellow of the Senate in conjunction with Sir Alfred Stephen. Professor Pell, who was admitted a barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1863, and was one of the trustees of the Sydney Grammar School, died on May 7th, 1879.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Penn, Lieutenant-Colonel Fitzroy Somerset Lanyon

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​Penn, Lieutenant-Colonel Fitzroy Somerset Lanyon, Assistant Adjutant-General, Victorian Military Forces, was born on Sept. 29th, 1854, and entered the army in August 1873 as sub-lieutenant in the 69th Foot, of which he was also made lieutenant. In Feb. 1881 he became captain in the Welsh Regiment, and adjutant of the regiment in August 1887. In Dec. 1889 (having meantime become major) he was appointed Assistant Adjutant-General of the Victorian Military Forces, with the local rank of lieutenant-colonel.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Patteson, Right Rev. John Coleridge

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​Patteson, Right Rev. John Coleridge, D.D., first Bishop of Melanesia, was the son of the late Right Hon. Sir John Patteson the judge, by his marriage with Frances Duke, only daughter of Lieut.-Colonel James Coleridge, and sister of the late Right Hon. Sir John Taylor Coleridge. He was born in 1827, and educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, becoming Fellow of Merton in 1850. Having laboured from 1855 under Bishop Selwyn in New Zealand and the neighbouring islands, he was, in 1861, consecrated first Bishop of Melanesia in the South Pacific. He spent the rest of his life cruising about among the islands that composed his diocese, working among the natives, by whom he was much beloved. He vainly endeavoured to put a stop to the kidnapping of Polynesians for the purpose of supplying the labour market of Queensland and other colonies, and lost his life in the attempt. Hearing that a vessel was on her way to the Santa Cruz Islands to recruit labourers, he determined to visit the group himself. He arrived at Nukapu on Sept. 20th, 1871, and, at the request of two savages and in order to show confidence, got out of his own boat and went into one of the native canoes in order to land on the island. As soon as he was out of sight, on his way over the reef to the shore, a volley of arrows was let fly at the English boat, wounding some of the sailors and the Bishop's chaplain, who subsequently died of his wounds. Later on the natives on shore were seen by those on the bishop's vessel to turn a canoe adrift, which was found to contain the dead body of the bishop, rolled up in a mat. A small branch of the cocoa-nut palm, with five knots in it, was stuck to the mat, supposed to signify that the bishop's life had been taken in revenge for five lives of the natives who had most likely been shot by the kidnappers. There were also five wounds on his body. A very voluminous memoir of him has been published by Miss Charlotte Yonge. It was afterwards elicited that the bishop on landing was taken into a hut and there treacherously clubbed to death. The majority of the islanders disapproved of the bishop's murder, and the assassins were banished. The man who struck the first blow fled to a neighbouring island, and thence to Santa Cruz, where the chief had him shot. A cross was erected to Bishop Patteson's memory at Nukapu by Bishop (John) Selwyn in 1884.
# The Fallen Subaltern

"The starshells float above, the bayonets glisten"
* "The Fallen Subaltern" in The volunteer, and other poems (1916)
* "The Fallen Subaltern" in A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919 (1917)
# The Falling Star

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The struggle for an emperor’s crown.
Talbot Mundy
             in
A Complete Novel
which he calls
An Episode Without a Hero
Tells Us of the Reign of
The Son of Marcus Aurelius
The Falling Star
* I. In the Reign of the Emperor Commodus 132
* II. A Conference at Daphne 139
* III. Maternus—Latro 147
* IV. The Governors of Rome and Antioch 150
* V. Rome—The Thermæ of Titus 154
* VI. The Emperor of Commodus 158
* VII. Marcia 163
* VIII. Narcissus 169
* IX. Stewed Eels 173
* X. “Rome Is Too Much Ruled By Women” 180
* XI. Galen 183
* XII. Long Live Cæsar 188
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# The Fall of the Leaf

"Thank God who seasons thus the year"
* "The Fall of the Leaf" in Poems of Nature (1895)
* "The Fall of the Leaf" in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (1906) Vol. 5
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Cook, Frederick Albert

Edition of 1920. See also Frederick Cook on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
COOK, Frederick Albert, American physician and explorer: b. Callicoon Depot, Sullivan County, N. Y., 10 June 1865. He was graduated at New York University 1890. He was surgeon of the Peary Arctic expedition 1891-92, and of the Belgium Antarctic expedition 1897-99. He has received the decoration of the Order of Leopold, the gold medal of the Belgian Royal Society and the silver medal of the Belgian Royal Geographical Society. He claimed to have reached the North Pole on 21 April 1908. Upon his return in 1909 “from the Pole” — as he said — he was received with great honors at Copenhagen, Denmark, and then, hastening to New York, he at once began making large sums of money by his writings and lectures. Doubts soon began to arise as to the veracity of his story — his companion on the journey he made in 1906 to Mount McKinley, Alaska, made an affidavit that no ascent of that mountain was made as described in Cook's narrative, and the Eskimos who were supposed to have been his companions on the dash to the Pole told the Peary party that they had spent the winter of 1907-08 at Jones Sound. This was followed by the sworn statement of a man who had been hired to prepare for Cook a set of observations for latitudes and longitudes on his journey to the Pole, to send with his other data to the University of Copenhagen for examination. In the meantime Cook disappeared from view, and the learned scientists at Copenhagen decided that his proofs were not sufficient; but the sale of his book ‘My Attainment of the Pole’ (1909; 3d ed., 1913), was very large. In 1913-14 he lectured in England. He has written articles for the leading magazines, describing life in the polar regions, and a valuable account of his Antarctic experiences and scientific observations, entitled ‘Through the First Antarctic Night’ (1900); ‘To the Top of the Continent’ (1906); ‘North Pole and Bradley Land,’ with E. S. Balch (1913).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Corsac

Edition of 1920. See also Corsac fox on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
CORSAC, kôr'săk, or ADIVE (Vulpes corsac), a species of fox or dog found in Central Asia, Siberia and Mongolia, sometimes called the steppe-fox. Its color varies from reddish-yellow in summer to a whitish tinge in winter. The Kirghiz hunt the corsac for its soft, thick, warm fur. About 50,000 pelts come to market annually. It is gregarious, prowls by day, burrows and lives on birds and eggs. The corsac stands captivity well and is often seen in zoological gardens. It is much like the American kit-fox (q.v.) in its habits.