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# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Fort Royal

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​ FORT ROYAL, or Fort de France, a seaport of the French West Indies, capital of Martinique, situated on a deep and well sheltered bay on the W. side of the island; pop. about 12,000. It is defended by a fort which commands both the town and the harbor, is the residence of the French governor and of a bishop, and contains, besides the parish church and government offices, a prison, hospital barracks, and an arsenal. The streets are straight and spacious, and the houses in general well built. The town was founded in 1672. In 1839 it was almost wholly destroyed by an earthquake, in which more than 500 lives were lost.
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Fliedner, Theodor

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FLIEDNER, Theodor, a German clergyman and philanthropist, born at Eppstein, Rhenish Prussia, Jan. 21, 1800, died at Kaiserswerth, Oct. 4, 1864. In 1822 he became pastor of the congregation at Kaiserswerth, to which his father had ministered until his death in 1813. Soon after his settlement his parishioners were suddenly impoverished by the failure of a manufacturing firm which had employed most of them. Refusing to take another church, he set himself the task of relieving his people, and visited the philanthropic institutions of other countries, particularly those of England. On his return he founded at Kaiserswerth an institution for the relief of the sick, the poor, and the fallen. In 1826 he founded a German society for the improvement of prison discipline, and in 1833 an asylum for discharged female convicts. This asylum at first consisted only of a summer house in his garden, which soon proved too small, and was exchanged for a more substantial edifice. His next idea was to reëstablish the ministry of women in the Protestant church, and in 1836 he inaugurated the institution of deaconesses which is still flourishing at Kaiserswerth. “We had no money wherewith to buy the house,” writes Fliedner; “my wife had been confined only three days before; but nevertheless she laid it upon me, in the name of the Lord, to buy the house, and the sooner the better. I bought it cheerfully on the 20th of April, 1836. The money was to be paid before Martinmas of the same year.” The money was paid before that time, although the price was more than $1,600—a large sum for that country and class. Two friends, single women, who offered themselves for nursing in the hospital, were the first Kaiserswerth deaconesses. In 1838 Fliedner first sent out deaconesses to work in other places. In 1849 he visited the United States, and established a “mother house” at Pittsburgh, Pa. (See Deaconess.) He also established at Kaiserswerth a lunatic asylum, a boys' school, and training colleges for schoolmasters and schoolmistresses, training his deaconesses as teachers in all of them. He himself frequently taught in them, and is said to have been fond of striking and often laughable illustrations, such as falling on the floor when telling the story of Goliah, or suddenly sending a boy under the table to represent the fall of a traveller over a precipice. De Liefda says that when he visited the Kaiserswerth establishment in 1864 it took him three hours to walk over the premises and peep into the principal apartments. From 1836 Fliedner published a monthly called Der Armen- und Krankenfreund, and was the author of Buch der Martyrer und anderer Glaubenszeugen der evangelischen Kirche von den
Aposteln bis auf unsere Zeit (4 vols., 1852-'60).—See Winkworth's “Life of Pastor Fliedner” (London, 1867).
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Florian, Saint

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FLORIAN, Saint, a German martyr, born at Zeiselmauer, Lower Austria, about the year 190, served as a captain in the Roman army, and was drowned for his adherence to Christianity, near Lorch on the Enns, in 230. According to a legend, he presented himself immediately after his death to a pious woman, whom he requested to bury his remains on the site of the present Augustinian monastery near the village of St. Florian, in the vicinity of Linz. His bones were sent to Rome, and in 1183 to Poland, of which country he became the patron saint. His anniversary is celebrated Aug. 4; and on account of the emblems by which he is represented, his protection is often
invoked against conflagrations. The monastery of St. Florian, said to have been founded in 455 by St. Severin, contains a magnificent church, organ, and bell, a library of 40,000 volumes, a numismatic and other collections, and a pleasant garden and horticultural school. The adjoining Tilly castle has belonged to it since 1636.
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Fort Madison

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​ FORT MADISON, a city and the capital of Lee co., Iowa, on the Mississippi river, 12 m. above the lower rapids, and 17 m. S. W. of Burlington, on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy, and the Burlington and Southwestern railroads; pop. in 1850, 1,509; in 1860, 2,886; in 1870, 4,011. It is built on ground rising gradually from the river. The houses are for the most part of brick, and are surrounded by grounds tastefully arranged, and shaded by ornamental trees. The city is the site of the Iowa state prison, a limestone structure containing 318 cells, and furnished with extensive workshops. The number of convicts in 1873 was 264. The court house and county jail are substantial structures. The river is crossed by ferries. Fort Madison is a place of considerable trade, and its manufactures are important, including hardware and machinery, lumber, flour, brick, woollens, wine, &c. There are five hotels, four public halls, a public library, a theatre, and a national bank. The Fort Madison academy has an average attendance of 100 pupils. The city contains five public schools, two weekly newspapers, and nine churches.—Fort Madison was first settled in 1832, and was incorporated as a town in 1836. It derives its name from a fort erected in 1808, and named in honor of James Madison.
# The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/Number 1/La Cantatrice

LA CANTATRICE.
By day, at a high oak desk I stand, And trace in a ledger line by line; But at five o'clock yon dial's hand Opens the cage wherein I pine; And as faintly the stroke from the belfry peals Down through the thunder of hoofs and wheels, I wonder if ever a monarch feels Such royal joy as mine!
Beatrice is dressed and her carriage waits; I know she has heard that signal-chime; And my strong heart leaps and palpitates, As lightly the winding stair I climb To her fragrant room, where the winter's gloom Is changed by the heliotrope's perfume, And the curtained sunset's crimson bloom, To love's own summer prime.
She meets me there, so strangely fair That my soul aches with a happy pain;— A pressure, a touch of her true lips, such As a seraph might give and take again; A hurried whisper, "Adieu! adieu! They wait for me while I stay for you!" And a parting smile of her blue eyes through The glimmering carriage-pane.
Then thoughts of the past come crowding fast On a blissful track of love and sighs;— Oh, well I toiled, and these poor hands soiled, That her song might bloom in Italian skies!— The pains and fears of those lonely years, The nights of longing and hope and tears,— Her heart's sweet debt, and the long arrears Of love in those faithful eyes!
O night! be friendly to her and me!— To box and pit and gallery swarm The expectant throngs;—I am there to see;— And now she is bending her radiant form To the clapping crowd;—I am thrilled and proud; My dim eyes look through a misty cloud, And my joy mounts up on the plaudits loud, Like a sea-bird on a storm!
She has waved her hand; the noisy rush Of applause sinks down; and silverly Her voice glides forth on the quivering hush, Like the white-robed moon on a tremulous sea! And wherever her shining influence calls, I swing on the billow that swells and falls,— I know no more,—till the very walls Seem shouting with jubilee!
Oh, little she cares for the fop who airs His glove and glass, or the gay array Of fans and perfumes, of jewels and plumes, Where wealth and pleasure have met to pay Their nightly homage to her sweet song; But over the bravas clear and strong, Over all the flaunting and fluttering throng, She smiles my soul away!
Why am I happy? why am I proud? Oh, can it be true she is all my own?— I make my way through the ignorant crowd; I know, I know where my love hath flown. Again we meet; I am here at her feet, And with kindling kisses and promises sweet, Her glowing, victorious lips repeat That they sing for me alone!
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# The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/Number 1/Beatrice

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BEATRICE.
How was I worthy so divine a loss,  Deepening my midnights, kindling all my morns?  Why waste such precious wood to make my cross,  Such far-sought roses for my crown of thorns?
 And when she came, how earned I such a gift?  Why spend on me, a poor earth-delving mole,  The fireside sweetnesses, the heavenward lift,  The hourly mercy of a woman's soul?
 Ah, did we know to give her all her right,  What wonders even in our poor clay were done!  It is not Woman leaves us to our night,  It is our earth that grovels from her sun.
 Our nobler cultured fields and gracious domes  We whirl too oft from her who still shines on  To light in vain our caves and clefts, the homes  Of night-bird instincts pained till she be gone.
 Still must this body starve our souls with shade;  But when Death makes us what we were before,  Then shall her sunshine all our depths invade,  And not a shadow stain heaven's crystal floor.
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# The Astral Plane/Chapter V

CONCLUSION
IT is hoped that any reader who has been sufficiently interested to follow this treatise thus far, may by this time have a general idea of the astral plane and its possibilities, such as will enable him to understand and fit into their proper places in its scheme any facts in connection with it which he may pick up in his reading. Though only the roughest sketch has been given of a great subject, enough has perhaps been said to show the extreme importance of astral perception in the study of biology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, medicine, and history, and the great impulse which might be given to all these sciences by its development.
Yet its attainment should never be regarded as an end in itself, since any means adopted with that object in view would inevitably lead to what is called in the East the laukika method of development — a system by which certain psychic powers are indeed acquired, but only for the present personality; and since their acquisition is surrounded by no safeguards, the student is extremely likely to misuse them. To this class belong all systems which involve the use of drugs, invocation of elementals, or the practices of Hatha Yoga.
The other method, which is called the lokottara, consists of Raja Yoga or spiritual progress, and though it may be somewhat slower than the other, whatever is acquired along this line is gained for the permanent individuality, and never lost again, while the guiding care of a Master ensures perfect safety from misuse of power as long as His orders are scrupulously obeyed. The opening of astral vision must be regarded then only as a stage in the development of something infinitely nobler — merely as a step, a very small step, on that great Upward Path which leads men to the sublime heights of Adeptship, and beyond even that through glorious vistas of wisdom and power such as our finite minds cannot now conceive.
Yet let no one think it an unmixed blessing to have the wider sight of the astral plane, for upon one in whom that vision is opened, the sorrow and misery, the evil and the greed of the world press as an ever-present burden, until he often feels inclined to echo the passionate adjuration of Schiller: "Why hast thou cast me thus into the town of the ever-blind, to proclaim thine oracle with the opened sense? Take back this sad clear-sightedness; take from mine eyes this cruel light! Give me back my blindness — the happy darkness of my senses; take back thy dreadful gift!" This feeling is perhaps not unnatural in the earlier stages of the Path, yet higher sight and deeper knowledge soon bring to the student the perfect certainty that all things are working together for the eventual good of all — that <poem> Hour after hour, like an opening flower, Shall truth after truth expand; For the sun may pale, and the stars may fail, But the LAW of GOOD shall stand. Its splendour glows and its influence grows As Nature's slow work appears, Front the zoophyte small to the LORDS of all, Through kalpas and crores of years.
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# The Astrea/Opinion of the Court

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APPEAL from the circuit court for the district of Georgia. This was an enemy's vessel, captured by the privateer Ultor, in sight of Surinam, on the 17th of May, 1813; and on the 13th of June, 1813, recaptured by an enemy's vessel of war, about two leagues from the coast of Georgia, and, on the same day, recaptured by the privateer Midas, and brought into the port of Savannah, for adjudication. The prize was adjudged to the last captors, by the decree of the court below, from which the first captors appealed to this court.
Charleton, for the appellants, contended, that the prize interest vested in the first captors. He argued, that the opinions of eminent civilians, and the practice of the continental nations of Europe, ought to prevail, rather than the decisions of the British courts of prize; which last are founded on reasons of commercial and naval policy, peculiar to England. Sir William Scott himself admitted, that there is no general rule,a but adopted the rule of condemnation, as most convenient for his own country; because, by protracting the period for the devesture of British interests, it places the property of British subjects upon a better and more secure footing than the rule adopted by any other nation. It gives a wider range to the jus postliminii, and enlarges the probability of recapture; a probability, which is converted almost into a certainty, by the maritime strength of Great Britain. Other nations, not having the same means of giving protection and security to captures, have adopted rules requiring a less firm and shorter possession, in order to devest the property. These rules are, 1st. That of immediate possession. 2d. That of pernoctation and twenty-four hours possession. 3d. The bringing infra proesidia.b The first is held sufficient by Azuni;c and though his own opinion is entitled to but little weight, it deserves consideration how far he is supported by authorities. It is the maxim of the civil law, that things taken from the enemy immediately become the property of the captors. Quoe ex hostibus capientur STATIM capientium funt. Grotius and Vattel are guilty of great inconsistencies in expounding the rule in question. Burlamaqui is clear and explicit, that mere possession immediately vests a title.d Bynkershoek does not require a sentence of condemnation
Harper, contra, was stopped by the court.
March 4th.
MARSHALL, Ch. J.
An interest acquired by possession, devested by the loss of possession from the very nature of a title acquired in war. The law of
Sentence of the circuit court affirmed.

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# The Atalanta

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# The Astral Plane/Preface

PREFACE
Few words are needed in sending this little book out into the world. It is the fifth of a series of Manuals designed to meet the public demand for a simple exposition of Theosophical teachings. Some have complained that our literature is at once too abstruse, too technical, and too expensive for the ordinary reader, and it is our hope that the present series may succeed in supplying what is a very real want. Theosophy is not only for the learned; it is for all. Perhaps among those who in these little books catch their first glimpse of its teachings, there may be a few who will be led by them to penetrate more deeply into its philosophy, its science, and its religion, facing its abstruser problems with the student's zeal and the neophyte's ardour. But these Manuals are not written only for the eager student, whom no initial difficulties can daunt; they are written for the busy men and women of the work-a-day world, and seek to make plain some of the great truths that render life easier to bear and death easier to face. Written by servants of the Masters who are the Elder Brothers of our race, they can have no other object than to serve our fellow-men.
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# The Astrea

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# The Astronomer

Perry index 40
* "An Astrologer and a Traveller", part of "Fable XCII, XCIII and XCIV", in Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists (1692)
* "The Astronomer", translated by George Fyler Townsend, in Three Hundred Æsop's Fables (1867)
* "The Astronomer", translated by Vernon Stanley Jones, in Æsop's fables: A New Translation (1912)
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# The Atalanta/Opinion of the Court

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This cause was continued at February term, 1818,a for farther proof, but the farther proof received at the last term being unsatisfactory, it was again continued, on account of some peculiar circumstances in the case, to the present term, when no farther proof being produced, condemnation was pronounced.
Decree reversed.

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# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Munsees

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MUNSEES, Monseys, or Minsis, a tribe of American Indians formerly residing on the upper Delaware and the Minisink. In 1663 they aided the Esopus Indians in attacking the Dutch post, and were chastised by Kregier. They claimed all the land from the Minisink to the Hudson, the head waters of the Delaware and Susquehanna, and south to the Lehigh and Conewago. Settlers began to encroach on them early in the 18th century, and they fell back to the Susquehanna. The Moravians drew some to their missions, but the main body were discontented; moving westward through the Iroquois country, they joined the French at Niagara, and were with difficulty gained over by Sir William Johnson. After the fall of the French, some listened to the Moravians, but in the revolution most of the tribe, under Capt. Pipe, retired to Sandusky and joined the English, and even after the war remained hostile, rejecting terms in 1793, and not making peace till 1805. In 1808 a part settled on Miami land at White river. Some years later they joined the Stockbridge Indians near Green bay. Most of the Munsees, under a treaty in 1839, removed to Kansas. They are now nearly extinct, being represented in Wisconsin by a single family of half a dozen souls, and in Kansas by part of a band of 56 Chippewas and Munsees. Their language was an Algonquin dialect closely allied to the Delaware.
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Munsell, Joel

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MUNSELL, Joel, an American printer, born in Northfield, Mass., April 14, 1808. He went to Albany in 1827, edited and published the “Albany Minerva” in 1828, and was publisher
and editor of the “New York State Mechanic” from 1841 to 1843. He has compiled “Annals of Albany” (10 vols., Albany, 1850-'58); “The Typographical Miscellany” (1850); “Chronology of Paper and Paper Making” (1857); and “Every-Day Book of History and Chronology” (New York, 1858). He has also published “Historical Series” (10 vols.), in great part edited and annotated by himself; “Woodworth's Reminiscences of the City of Troy” and “Collections on the History of Albany” (4 vols., 1865-71), and numerous other works. He has at various times been the publisher of papers and periodicals, among which are the following dailies: the “Unionist,” “Albany Daily State Register,” “Albany Morning Express,” and “Statesman.” He has made the art of printing, in its history and application, a special study, and his collection of works on the subject, the largest ever made in America, has been in part purchased by the state for the New York state library. In 1872 he published a catalogue with full titles of all the books and pamphlets he had printed down to that date, in 191 closely printed brevier pages, 8vo.