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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Stephenson, Thomas

​STEPHENSON, THOMAS (1552–1624), jesuit, was born in 1552 of catholic parents at Windlestone in the parish of St. Andrews, Auckland, Durham. He studied his humanities in England, and went through the higher course at the English College of Douay, then temporarily settled at Rheims, where he arrived on 22 June 1581. He was ordained priest there on 21 Dec. 1581, and was sent to the English mission on 13 April 1583. He was arrested on 13 Feb. 1583–4, committed to the Tower of London, and tried for high treason, but made so bold a defence that his life was spared, and after a year's confinement in the Tower he was sent into banishment, arriving at Rheims with seventy-one fellow-priests on 3 March 1584–1585. On seeking admission to the Society of Jesus he was sent to the novitiate at Brünn in Moravia on 11 Dec. 1585, and he was made a spiritual coadjutor on 3 June 1597. He spent twelve years at Prague and Olmütz as professor of Hebrew and Greek, and then became secretary to Robert Parsons [q. v.] in Rome. He was again sent to the English mission in 1605, being stationed for some time in the Suffolk district. He retired to Liège in 1621, and died at Watten on 23 March 1624.
He has been credited with the authorship of translations into Latin of several of Father Parsons's works, as well as of:
* ‘A large Catechism for the Instruction of the Ignorant.’
* ‘Historia Sacra ab Orbe Condito usque ad Christi Salvatoris Adventum,’ St. Omer, 1622.
* ‘The Life of Thomas Pounde.’
None of his works are in either the British Museum or the Bodleian library.
[De Backer's Bibl. des Écrivains de la Compagnie de Jésus (1876), iii. 940; Dodd's Church History, ii. 418; Douay Diaries; Foley's Records, i. 471, vii. 739; More's Hist. Prov. Anglican. Soc. Jesu, p. 19; Oliver's Jesuit Collections, p. 198; Sochero's Hist. Prov. Austriæ Soc. Jesu, viii. 355; Southwell's Bibl. Scriptorum Soc. Jesu, p. 768; Tanner's Societas Jesu Apostolorum Imitatrix.]
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Stephenson, Henry Palfrey

​Stephenson, Henry Palfrey (1826–1890), civil engineer, son of Major John Stephenson of the 6th dragoon guards, was born at Portobello, near Edinburgh, on 27 March 1826. He was educated at a private school at Twickenham, and in 1842 became a student at the college of civil engineers, Putney. The then principal was Dean Cowie of Exeter; Sir Guilford Molesworth, and several other well-known engineers were his fellow students. He founded the Putney Club, which was afterwards converted into the Society of Engineers. His early professional work consisted mainly of the design of iron railway bridges, and of arbitration work. In 1858 he turned his attention to gas lighting for towns; he designed and carried out several important gas undertakings on the continent, and was connected as a director with a large number of similar undertakings both in England and abroad. He was elected an associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1853, and a full member in 1864. About 1882 his health began to fail, and he gradually retired from active professional pursuits; he died on 30 April 1890.
[Obituary Notices in Proc. Inst. Civil Eng. ci. 303.]
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Sterling, James

​STERLING, JAMES (fl. 1718–1755), playwright, a native of Ireland, son of James Sterling, entered Trinity College, Dublin, as a scholar in 1718, and graduated B.A. in 1720 and M.A. in 1733. In that year he came to London with his friend Matthew Concanen [q. v.], and it is stated that on their arrival, having come to the conclusion that political writing alone would prove remunerative, they settled by the toss of a halfpenny that Concanen should defend and Sterling abuse the ministry. Sterling caused to be printed in London his weak tragedy ‘The Rival Generals, as it was acted at the Theatre Royal, Dublin’ (five acts, verse, London, 8vo and 12mo), but he failed to get it accepted by a London manager. In 1724 he made three contributions to Concanen's ‘Poems,’ signed ‘J. S.’ In 1728 he issued a version of ‘The Loves of Hero and Leander’ from the Greek of Musæus, and this was reissued with a few minor pieces as ‘Poetical Works of the Rev. James Sterling’ (Dublin, 1734, 8vo); and in 1736 he published ‘The Parricide: a tragedy’ (London, 8vo, five acts, verse). This wretched production was given five times at Goodman's Fields in December 1735. Sterling's work as a journalist and pamphleteer seems to have likewise proved a failure, and about 1740 he migrated to Maryland, where he settled as a preacher in Kent County. One of his sermons on ‘Zeal against the enemies of our country’ was printed at the Annapolis press in 1755, small 4to.
[Cibber's Lives of the Poets, v. 27; Trinity College (Dublin) Register; O'Donoghue's Poets of Ireland, p. 236; Baker's Biogr. Dram. 1812, i. 687; Genest's Hist. of the Stage, iii. 484; Notes and Queries, 8th ser. ix. 23, 195, 286.]
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Stephenson, James

1904 Errata appended.
​STEPHENSON, JAMES (1808–1886), engraver, born at Manchester on 26 Nov. 1808, was the son of Thomas Stephenson, boot and shoe maker, of Stable Street, near Oldham Street, in that town. James was educated at a school kept by Thomas Rain, adjoining Oldham Street chapel, and before the end of his schooldays was apprenticed to John Fothergill, an engraver, of Prince's Court, Market Street. While there he made the acquaintance of the artist, Henry Liverseege [q. v.], and, probably by his advice, he came to London at the expiry of his apprenticeship and entered the studio of William Finden [q. v.] While there he gained the silver medal of the Society of Arts for an original design of a figure engraved in line.
About 1838 he returned to Manchester and established himself as an historical and landscape engraver in Ridgefield, and afterwards in a studio in St. Ann Street. Besides furnishing illustrations for ‘Manchester as it is’ (1839), for Charles Swain's ‘Mind and other Poems,’ and for other books, he engraved the members' card for the Anti-Corn-law League, and executed for Agnew & Sons portraits of prominent members, among others of Sir John Bowring [q. v.], Edward Baines [q. v.], and John Heyworth. During this period he also engraved Du Val's portrait of Richard Cobden, George Putten's portrait of John Frederick Foster, and John Boston's portrait of Daniel Grant, one of the original ‘Cheeryble Brothers.’ In 1842, for the British Association, which met in that year in Manchester, he executed a portrait of John Dalton (1766–1844) [q. v.], the chemist.
About 1847 Stephenson took up his permanent abode in London, and from 1856 exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy. Among his later engravings were ‘The Day of Wrath,’ ‘The Last Judgment,’ and ‘The ​Plains of Heaven,’ after John Morton; ‘The Highland Whiskey Still,’ the ‘Taming of the Shrew,’ and ‘The Queen at Osborne,’ after Landseer; ‘Ophelia,’ after Millais; and the ‘Portrait of Lord Tennyson,’ after George Frederick Watts. He also engraved pictures by Maclise, Gilbert Stuart Newton, Thomas Faed, and Sir John Watson Gordon. Stephenson died at his residence in Dartmouth Park Road, London, on 28 May 1886. Among his contemporaries he was regarded as one of the finest line engravers in the country, and in vignette engraving he was probably unsurpassed.
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Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.258 N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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# District of Columbia v. Pace

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United States Supreme Court
320 U.S. 698
District of Columbia v. Pace
Argued: Dec. 13, 1943. --- Decided: Jan 10, 1944
Mr. Glenn Simmon, of Washington, D.C., for petitioner.
Mr. Elmer E. Hazard, of Jacksonville, Fla., for respondent.
Mr. Justice JACKSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# District of Columbia v. R. P. Andrews Paper Company

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United States Supreme Court
256 U.S. 582
District of Columbia v. R. P. Andrews Paper Company
Argued: April 22 and 25, 1921. --- Decided: June 1, 1921
Mr. F. H. Stephens, of Washington, D. C., for petitioner.
Messrs. M. D. Rosenberg and Charles L. Frailey, both of Washington, D. C., for respondents.
MR. JUSTICE CLARKE delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# District of Columbia v. Petty

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229 U.S. 593
District of Columbia v. Petty
Argued: May 8, 1913. --- Decided: June 9, 1913
Mr. Edward H. Thomas for plaintiff in error.
Mr. J. J. Darlington for defendants in error Charles W. Church and George T. Deering.
Mr. W. C. Sullivan for defendant in error James T. Petty.
Messrs. Jackson H. Ralston, Frederick L. Siddons, and William E. Richardson for defendant in error Jesse B. Wilson.
Mr. Justice Pitney delivered the opinion of the court:

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# District of Columbia v. Robinson

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United States Supreme Court
180 U.S. 92
District of Columbia v. Robinson
Argued: November 7, 8, 1900. --- Decided: January 7, 1901
Messrs. Andrew B. Duvall and C. A. Brandenburg for plaintiff in error.
Messrs. Conway Robinson, Walter D. Davidge, and Leigh Robinson for defendants in error.
Mr. Justice McKenna delivered the opinion of the court:

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# District of Columbia v. Talty

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182 U.S. 510
District of Columbia v. Talty
Argued: April 12, 15, 1901. --- Decided: May 27, 1901
Messrs. Robert A. Howard and Assistant Attorney General Pradt for appellant.
Mr. V. B. Edwards for appellee.
Mr. Justice McKenna delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Dixilyn Drilling Corporation v. Crescent Towing and Salvage Company

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## Concurring Opinion

    Harlan
United States Supreme Court
372 U.S. 697
Dixilyn Drilling Corporation v. Crescent Towing and Salvage Company
Argued: March 21, 1963. --- Decided: April 15, 1963
E. D. Vickery, Houston, Tex., for petitioner.
Charles Kohlmeyer, Jr., New Orleans, La., for respondent.
PER CURIAM.

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# Dixon v. Duffy

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* Dixon v. Duffy (342 U.S. 33)
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# Dixie Pine Products Company v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

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United States Supreme Court
320 U.S. 516
Dixie Pine Products Company v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Argued: Dec. 14, 15, 1943. --- Decided: Jan 3, 1944
Mr. T. J. Wills, of Hattiesburg, Miss., for petitioner.
Mr. Arnold Raum, of Washington, D.C., for respondent.
Mr. Justice ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Dixilyn Drilling Corporation v. Crescent Towing and Salvage Company/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
372 U.S. 697
Dixilyn Drilling Corporation v. Crescent Towing and Salvage Company
Argued: March 21, 1963. --- Decided: April 15, 1963
Respondent Crescent Towing Company contracted with petitioner Dixilyn Drilling Corporation to tow Dixilyn's barge Julie Ann down the Mississippi River. While being towed, the barge collided with a bridge, and the bridge owners filed a libel in the United States District Court claiming damages from the tower and the barge owner. These two jointly paid the claim but continued to litigate, as between themselves, the question of which was liable. The district judge after a full trial found that the collision and the resulting damage were due solely to the negligence of the tower. He also rejected the tower's argument that regardless of which was negligent the barge owner should pay the damages because it had contracted to assume liability for all damages arising out of the towage including 'any damage claims urged by third parties.' The judge held that the barge owner had not agreed to assume liability for damages caused by the tower's own negligence. On review the Court of Appeals held that it need not decide the 'extremely difficult' factual question of who was negligent because, in the court's view, the barge owner had agreed in the towage contract to assume liability for all losses arising out of the towage, including those caused by the tower's negligence. Holding such a contract to be valid, the Court of Appeals reversed the District Court's judgment.
In treating as valid a contract which exempts the tower from liability for its own negligence, the Court of Appeals' holding is squarely in conflict with our holding in Bisso v. Inland Waterways Corp., 349 U.S. 85, 75 S.Ct. 629, 99 L.Ed. 911 (1955), and Boston Metals Co. v. The Winding Gulf, 349 U.S. 122, 75 S.Ct. 649, 99 L.Ed. 933 (1955). The Court of Appeals thought that the present case was distinguishable because the peculiar hazards of towage and other factors brought it within the ambit of Southwestern Sugar & Molasses Co. v. River Terminals Corp., 360 U.S. 411, 79 S.Ct. 1210, 3 L.Ed.2d 1334 (1959). But Southwestern Sugar is not applicable here, for in that case the Court merely preferred to give the Interstate Commerce Commission an opportunity to rule on an exculpatory clause which was part of a tariff filed with the Commission. We adhere to the rule laid down in Bisso and Winding Gulf and hold that the Court of Appeals was in error in failing to follow it. The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded to that court to consider other questions.
Reversed and remanded.

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# Dixie Ohio Express Company v. State Revenue Commission of Georgia

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United States Supreme Court
306 U.S. 72
Dixie Ohio Express Company v. State Revenue Commission of Georgia
Argued: Dec. 16, 1938. --- Decided: Jan 30, 1939
Messrs. Allan Watkins and Edgar Watkins, both of Atlanta, Ga., for appellant.
Messrs. O. H. Dukes, of Valdosta, Ga., and M. J. Yeomans, of Atlanta, Ga., for appellees.
Mr. Justice BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Dixilyn Drilling Corporation v. Crescent Towing and Salvage Company/Concurrence Harlan

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United States Supreme Court
372 U.S. 697
Dixilyn Drilling Corporation v. Crescent Towing and Salvage Company
Argued: March 21, 1963. --- Decided: April 15, 1963
Mr. Justice HARLAN, concurring.
While I would prefer to see Bisso reconsidered, believing, with deference, that it was wrongly decided, I nevertheless join the opinion of the Court. Certainty in the law governing commercial transactions of this kind is an overriding consideration which would not be promoted by opening the Bisso rule to indeterminate exceptions in instances where, unlike Southwestern Sugar, no functions of a regulatory agency are involved.

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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Tuke, Thomas

​TUKE, THOMAS (d. 1657), royalist divine, was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. in 1599 and commenced M.A. in 1603. He was ‘minister of God's word’ at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, London, in 1616. On 19 July 1617 he was presented by James I to the vicarage of St. Olave Jewry, and he held that living till 16 March 1642–3, when he was sequestered, plundered, and imprisoned for his adherence to the royalist cause (Mercurius Rusticus, p. 256). In 1651 he was preaching at Tattershall, Lincolnshire. Richard Smyth, in his ‘Obituary’ (p. 45), notes that on 13 Sept. 1657 ‘old Mr. Thomas Tuke, once minister at St. Olave's in the Old Jury, was buried at ye new chapell by the new markett place in Lincoln's Inn Fields.’ His wife Mary was buried at St. Olave's on 17 June 1654.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Tunstall, Marmaduke

​TUNSTALL, MARMADUKE (1743–1790), naturalist, born in 1743 at Burton Constable, Yorkshire, was second son of Cuthbert Constable (who had changed his name from Tunstall on inheriting property in 1718, and who died in 1747), by his second wife, Ely, daughter of George Heneage, of Hainton, Lincolnshire. He was educated at the college of Douai. In 1760 he succeeded to the family estates of Scargill, Hutton Long Villers, and Wycliffe by the death of his uncle, Marmaduke Tunstall, and resumed that family name. Of studious habits, he devoted himself to literature and science, and in 1764, when only twenty-one, was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. After finishing his education he resided for several years in Welbeck Street, London, and there began the formation of a museum. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society on 11 April 1771, and in the same year published anonymously his ‘Ornithologia Britannica’ (fol. London), a rare work, which has been reprinted by the Willughby Society.
In 1776, on his marriage with the daughter and coheiress of Mr. Markham of Roxby, Lincolnshire, he removed to his house at Wycliffe, Yorkshire, and thither his collections were afterwards transferred. Here he was on most intimate terms with a fellow-naturalist, Thomas Zouch, the incumbent of Wycliffe, despite the fact that he had opposed Zouch's presentation to the benefice, of which, although a Roman catholic, Tunstall was patron. He lived a quiet and retired life, corresponding with various naturalists, including Linné.
He died suddenly at Wycliffe Hall on 11 Oct. 1790, leaving no issue, and was buried in the chancel of his own church. His widow died in October 1825.
Besides the ‘Ornithologia Britannica’ he published ‘An Account of several Lunar Iris’ (or rainbows) for the ‘Philosophical Transactions’ in 1783.
His museum was purchased by George Allan [q. v.] of Grange, near Darlington, and passed with the latter's collections into the hands of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1822.
B. B. W.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Lizard

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​LIZARD, or Lacerta, a genus of amphibious animals, consisting of several species; the most remarkable ot which is the Agilis, or Common Green Lizard, a native of Britain. It is extremely nimble; of a green colour; and, though perfectly harmless, its form inspires general disgust.—During the heat of summer, this animal delights to bask on the sides of dry banks, or beneath aged trees; but, as soon as it is noticed, it immediately retreats to its hole.—The food of lizards consists of insects, and they are themselves devoured by birds of prey. But, notwithstanding their terrific appearance, these animals are of real service, especially in gardens; and ought by no means to be destroyed, merely to gratify an unnatural and cruel aversion.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Loading of Goods

Edition of 1802.
​LOADING OF GOODS, the act of removing ponderous substances, such as timber, corn, or other merchandize, to a cart or waggon.
As various accidents happen by the removal of heavy goods, especially on wharfs, and other crowded places, we shall communicate a contrivance which is eminently calculated both to facilitate labour, and to prevent misfortunes. In this respect, we are indebted to Mr. Geo. Davis, of Windsor, Berks, on whom the "Society for the Encouragement of Arts," &c. in 1797, conferred a premium of forty guineas, for his useful invention.
Description of the Plate representing Mr. Davis's "Portable Machine for loading and unloading goods."
A, the winch turning the bar B, on which are two endless screws, or worms, CC, that work in the toothed wheels DD. These wheels are fixed to the barrels EE, round which the ropes FF coil, wind up, or let out the same occasionally: the ropes pass over the pullies GG; are brought round; and their ends, being furnished with hooks for that purpose, are hitched into staples fixed to the front of the cart, or other carriage. Within these ropes, the load H is placed on a common pulley I, that forms an inclined plane, up which, by turning the winch, the ropes are wound upon the barrels; and thus the load is raised into the carriage.
KK, the frame, intended to shew ​the part of the cart, or other carriage, on which the machine is to be occasionally placed.
The whole of the barrels and cogged wheels are contained in an iron box L; the sides of which are represented in the plate, as taken off, in order that the arrangement of the different parts may be better conceived.
The pullies on the stage (GG) may, in most cases, be affixed to the machine itself, which is adapted to every direction, and will suit carriages of every construction.
The model corresponding to the present engraving, is made on the scale of about four inches to a foot; and the inventor states, that it will raise upwards of five cwt.—he is therefore confident, that his machine, when constructed of its intended size, will be capable of loading a ton weight by one man only; and that, even upon this enlarged plan, it does not exceed 112lb. in weight.
Portable Machine for Loading & Unloading Goods.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Liquorice-vetch

Edition of 1802.
​Liquorice-vetch. See Milk-vetch.