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# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Nadab

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Nadab, liberal, generous.
* The eldest of Aaron's four sons Ex 6:23 Nu 3:2 He with his brothers and their father were consecrated as priests of Jehovah Ex 28:1 He afterwards perished with Abihu for the sin of offering strange fire on the altar of burnt-offering Le 10:1,2 Nu 3:4 26:60
* The son and successor of Jeroboam, the king of Israel 1Ki 14:20 While engaged with all Israel in laying siege to Gibbethon, a town of southern Dan Jos 19:44 a conspiracy broke out in his army, and he was slain by Baasha 1Ki 15:25-28 after a reign of two years (B.C. 955-953). The assassination of Nadab was followed by that of his whole house, and thus this great Ephraimite family became extinct 1Ki 15:29
* One of the sons of Shammai in the tribe of Judah 1Ch 2:28,30
# Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing

This work also contains as an insert The Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case, which Carroll discusses in the first chapter.
EIGHT OR NINE
WISE WORDS
ABOUT
Letter-Writing
BY
LEWIS CARROLL
EMBERLIN AND SON 4, MAGDALEN STREET OXFORD
FIRST PUBLISHED
1890.
Contents.
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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# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Beth-aven

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Beth-aven : House of nothingness; i.e., "of idols", a place in the mountains of Benjamin, east of Bethel (Josh. 7:2; 18:12; 1 Sam. 13:5). In Hos. 4:15; 5:8; 10:5 it stands for "Bethel" (q.v.), and it is so called because it was no longer the "house of God," but "the house of idols," referring to the calves there worshipped.
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Beth-car

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Beth-car : Sheep-house, a place to which the Israelites pursued the Philistines west from Mizpeh (1 Sam. 7:11).
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Beth-dagon

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Beth-dagon : House of Dagon.
(1.) A city in the low country or plain of Judah, near Philistia (Josh. 15:41); the modern Beit Degan, about 5 miles from Lydda.
(2.) A city near the south-east border of Asher (Josh. 19:27). It was a Philistine colony. It is identical with the modern ruined village of Tell D'auk.
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Beth

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Beth : Occurs frequently as the appellation for a house, or dwelling-place, in such compounds as the words immediately following:
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Beth-aram

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Beth-aram : House of the height; i.e., "mountain-house", one of the towns of Gad, 3 miles east of Jordan, opposite Jericho (Josh. 13:27). Probably the same as Beth-haran in Num. 32:36. It was called by king Herod, Julias, or Livias, after Livia, the wife of Augustus. It is now called Beit-haran.
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Beth-arbel

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Beth-arbel : House of God's court, a place alluded to by Hosea (10:14) as the scene of some great military exploit, but not otherwise mentioned in Scripture. The Shalman here named was probably Shalmaneser, the king of Assyria (2 Kings 17:3).
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Beth-barah

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Beth-barah : House of crossing, a place south of the scene of Gideon's victory (Judg. 7:24). It was probably the chief ford of the Jordan in that district, and may have been that by which Jacob crossed when he returned from Mesopotamia, near the Jabbok (Gen. 32:22), and at which Jephthah slew the Ephraimites (Judg. 12:4). Nothing, however, is certainly known of it. (See BETHABARA.)
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Beth-anoth

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Beth-anoth: House of answers, a city in the mountainous district of Judah (Josh. 15:59). It has been identified with the modern Beit-`Anun, about 3 miles northeast of Hebron.
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Beth-arabah

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Beth-arabah : House of the desert, one of the six cities of Judah, situated in the sunk valley of the Jordan and Dead Sea (Josh. 18:22). In Josh. 15:61 it is said to have been "in the wilderness." It was afterwards included in the towns of Benjamin. It is called Arabah (Josh. 18:18).
# Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Beth-anath

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Beth-anath : House of response, one of the fenced cities of Naphtali (Josh. 19:38). It is perhaps identical with the modern village `Ainata, 6 miles west of Kedesh.
# Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period/Chang Tsung-yüan

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Manuscript drafts of six texts reconstructed by Chang Tsung-yüan later came into the possession of Sun Hsing-yen [q. v.], who with Yen K'o-chün [q. v.] and other scholars edited and printed them in Sun's P'ing-ching kuan ts'ung-shu. Among them is the 漢官儀 Han kuan i, 2 chüan, a 'lost' history of governmental organization in the Han dynasty, written about 197 A.D. by Ying Shao 應劭 (T. 仲遠[瑗]), ​an official and scholar of the Later Han dynasty. The most important single contribution by Chang Tsung-yüan is the 隋書經籍志考證 Sui-shu ching-chi chih k'ao-chêng, in which he criticized the bibliographical section of the Sui Dynastic History. Only a part of the manuscript drafts of this voluminous work was preserved by Ho Yüan-hsi (see under Chang Hai-p'êng) and also by Ch'ien I-chi and Ch'ien T'ai-chi [qq. v.]. The part dealing with the section on historical works in the above-mentioned bibliography was printed in 1877 in 13 chüan, and this part seems to have some relation to the lost Shih-chi k'ao of Chang Hsüeh-ch'êng. It is reported by some that Ma Kuo-han [q. v.], in compiling his Yü-han shan fang chi-i shu, made use of the manuscript drafts of Chang Tsung-yüan, but this seems to be an error.
[1/490/14b; 2/72/41b; 4/134/20a; 10/23/20b; Wang Chung-min 王重民, 清代兩個大輯佚書家評傅 in 輔仁學志 Fu-jên hsüeh-chih, vol. III, no. 1 (1932).]
Hiromu Momose
# Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period/Chang T'ing-shu

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[1/270/6a; 2/13/5a; 3/60/28a; 4/21/18b; 12/14/40b.]
Dean R. Wickes
# Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period/Chang Ts'un-jên

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In 1645 he served under Bolo [q. v.] in the subjugation of Chekiang, and he became governor-general of that province. He recommended that opportunity for an official career be given to scholars by renewal of the civil service examinations and that agricultural taxes be lightened. Both of these suggestions were decreed by the emperor. He was successful in resisting the attacks of the Southern Ming armies under Fang Kuo-an (a brigade-general for Prince Lu, see under Chu I-hai) and Ma Shih-ying [q. v.]. In December 1645 he was made governor-general of Chekiang and Fukien. He continued to be successful in defeating supporters of Ming princes, not only in Chekiang but in Honan and Kiangnan which he "pacified" in 1646. Pleading illness, he resigned about the end of 1647; but as his successor had not arrived, he continued in office for some months during which his forces regained three more districts and captured Southern Ming leaders. In 1649 he was made governor-general of Chihli, Shantung, and Honan. In 1652 he was given the hereditary title of viscount (jinggini hafan 精奇尼哈番) of the first class. He died soon after and was given posthumously the honorary title of Grand Guardian of the Heir Apparent and the name Chung-ch'in 忠勤. He was highly praised by Emperor Shêng-tsu (see under Mêng Ch'iao-fang).
[1/243/11a; 2/78/13a; 4/5/11a; Hauer, E., K'ai-kuo fang-lüeh pp. 277, 281, 294 ff., 575; 1/177/4a; 34/275/4a.]
Dean R. Wickes
# Essays, civil and moral (Harvard Classics)/Of Adversity

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OF ADVERSITY
It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. Bona rerum secundarum optabilia; adversarum mirabilia. Certainly if miracles be the command over nature, they appear most in adversity. It is yet a higher speech of his than the other (much too high for a heathen). It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man, and the security of a God. Vere magnum habere fragilitatem ​hominis, securitatem Dei. This would have done better in poesy, where transcendences are more allowed. And the poets indeed have been busy with it; for it is in effect the thing which figured in that strange fiction of the ancient poets, which seemeth not to be without mystery; nay, and to have some approach to the state of a Christian; that Hercules, when he went to unbind Prometheus (by whom human nature is represented), sailed the length of the great ocean in an earthen pot or pitcher; lively describing Christian resolution, that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh through the waves of the world. But to speak in a mean. The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New; which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job that the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground: judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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* ↑ Dark-colored.
* ↑ Display.
# Essays, civil and moral (Harvard Classics)

This edition was published as part of The Harvard Classics Vol. 3 edited by Charles W. Eliot (New York 1909) (index page); other editions of the same work can be found here: Essays (Francis Bacon).
ESSAYS OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL
   * Introductory Note
   * The Epistle Dedicatory
   * Of Truth
   * Of Death
   * Of Unity in Religion
   * Of Revenge
   * Of Adversity
   * Of Simulation and Dissimulation
   * Of Parents and Children
   * Of Marriage and Single Life
   * Of Envy
   * Of Love
   * Of Great Place
   * Of Boldness
   * Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature
   * Of Nobility
   * Of Seditions and Troubles
   * Of Atheism
   * Of Superstition
   * Of Travel
   * Of Empire
   * Of Counsel
   * Of Delays
   * Of Cunning
   * Of Wisdom for a Man's Self
   * Of Innovations
   * Of Dispatch
   * Of Seeming Wise
   * Of Friendship
   * Of Expense
   * Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates
   * Of Regiment of Health
   * Of Suspicion
   * Of Discourse
   * Of Plantations
   * Of Riches
   * Of Prophecies
   * Of Ambition
   * Of Masques and Triumphs
   * Of Nature in Men
   * Of Custom and Education
   * Of Fortune
   * Of Usury
   * Of Youth and Age
   * Of Beauty
   * Of Deformity
   * Of Building
   * Of Gardens
   * Of Negotiating
   * Of Followers and Friends
   * Of Suitors
   * Of Studies
   * Of Faction
   * Of Ceremonies and Aspects
   * Of Praise
   * Of Vain-glory
   * Of Honor and Reputation
   * Of Judicature
   * Of Anger
   * Of Vicissitude of Things
   * Of Fame
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# Ellen Irwin

* "Ellen Irwin" in Lyrical Ballads Volume II (1800)
* "Ellen Irwin" in Poems Volume I (1815)
# Ellen Glasgow

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# Ellenwood v. Marietta Chair Company

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158 U.S. 105
Ellenwood v. Marietta Chair Company
Edward B. Whitney and Geo. L. Sterling, for plaintiff in error.
A. D. Follett, R. A. Harrison, and Joseph Olds, for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice GRAY.

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# Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period/Yang Su-yün

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​YANG Su-yün 楊素蘊 (T. 筠湄, H. 退菴, 1630–1689), official, was a native of I-chün, Shensi. Made a chin-shih in 1652, he was appointed magistrate of Tung-ming, Chihli, in the following year. Because of his unusual administrative ability he was promoted, in 1660, to the post of provincial censor of Szechwan. He soon afterwards submitted his famous memorial against Wu San-kuei [q. v.] for appointing and transferring officials at will and so encroaching on government authority. Wu protested his innocence and Yang Su-yün was in consequence dismissed. When Wu actually took up arms ​against the Manchu government in 1673 Yang was strongly commended by several officials for his former daring exposure of the rebel and was appointed to the staff of Ts'ai Yü-jung [q. v.] in Hupeh with the rank of intendant of a circuit. But being in mourning for the death of his father, he did not accept the office until 1675. In 1678 he was appointed intendant of the lower Chingnan circuit of Hupeh, and four years later was promoted to the post of director of education of Shansi, which he held until 1685. After several promotions he was, in 1687, appointed governor of Anhwei, and in the following year governor of Hupeh province—which post he held until his death in 1689. His collected prose and verse, 見山樓集, Chien-shan lou chi, and his memorials to the throne, 西臺奏議 Hsi-t'ai tsou-i, were given notice in the Imperial Catalogue (see under Chi Yün).
[1/276/2b; 2/9/6a; 3/154/36a; 4/65/26a; 7/5/11a; 9/4/15b; 12/7/48a; 18/4/21a; Ssŭ-k'u 56/10a, 182/1b; Haenisch, E., T'oung Pao (1913) p. 110.]
J. C. Yang