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# The New Student's Reference Work/Wilson, John

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​Wilson, John, famous as the “Christopher North” of Blackwood's Magazine, was born May 18, 1785, at Paisley, Scotland, where his father was a rich manufacturer. Sir Daniel Wilson (q. v.) of Canada was his brother. After being privately tutored, he spent four years at Glasgow University and then four more at Oxford, where he led both in scholarship and in athletics. On leaving Oxford he settled in the beautiful lake-country of Cumberland, where he soon became a close friend of Wordsworth, Southey, Coleridge and De Quincey, and amused himself by measuring his strength against that of the far-famed Cumberland wrestlers, the very sturdiest of whom said that he was “a vera bad un to lick.” After writing his first two poems, Isle of Palms and The City of the Plague, most of his fortune was lost through the rascality of a relation, and Wilson went to Edinburgh and became a lawyer. In 1817 Blackwood's Magazine was founded, for which, during its earlier years, Wilson and Lockhart, his friend, were the writers who gave it its success. In 1820 Wilson was made professor of moral philosophy in Edinburgh University. Here he had almost unexampled power of rousing the enthusiasm of his students. He, however, cared little for dignity, and on more than one occasion the professor of moral philosophy took off his coat in the public market-place to punish some ruffian. The amount of his writings in Blackwood's was enormous; from this mass he selected and published The Recreations of Christopher North (1842). The power of his genius is best seen, perhaps, in the series of table-talks called Noctes Ambrosianæ. As a writer and a man the Scotch idolized him almost as much as they did Burns and Scott. He died at Edinburgh, April 3, 1854. Consult the Memoir by Mrs. Gordon, his daughter.
# The Princess and Curdie

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"Come in, Curdie," said the voice.Page 65.
THE PRINCESS AND CURDIE BY GEORGE MACDONALD, LL.D
WITH ELEVEN ILLUSTRATIONS BY JAMES ALLEN PHILADELPHIA:
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# The Platonist/Volume 2/Number 8

* Front matter
* Boethius, from his De Consolatione Philosophiæ, translated by Thomas Taylor
* The Trismegisti, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
* Life of Plotinos; or, the Life of Plotinos and the Arrangements of his Books, by Porphyrios
* Elements of Theology, by Proklos
* Iamblichos: on the Mysteries, Part IV, translated by Alexander Wilder
* The Taro
* Back matter
# The Plattner Story

* "The Plattner Story" in The Plattner Story and Others (1897)
* "The Plattner Story" in The Country of the Blind and Other Stories (1913)
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# The Plattner Story and Others

THE PLATTNER STORY AND OTHERS
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
The Stolen Bacillus The Wonderful Visit The Wheels of Chance The Island of Doctor Moreau The Time Machine
THE
PLATTNER STORY
AND OTHERS
BY H. G. WELLS
METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET, W.C. LONDON 1897
TO
MY FATHER
CONTENTS
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# The Platonist/Volume 2

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# The New York Times/1916/03/07

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# The New York Times/1916/03/02/Tesla's Portrait Shown

TESLA'S PORTRAIT SHOWN.
Painted by Princess Under Light Arranged by Inventor.
Nikola Tesla, inventor in the realm of electricity, has had his portrait painted under a special man-made north light and last night it was shown for the first time by the artist, the Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy, at a reception which she gave at her new studio, 109 East Thirthy-ninth Street, especially to exhibit it.
It was one of the beliefs of Mr. Tesla that there was something unlucky about posing for a picture and so he never sat to any before he entered the studio of the Princess. The room which she had chosen did not have a skylight in it and the much desired north exposure was missing. So it was that at the suggestion of Mr. Tesla, a cluster of powerful incandescents was put up in the corner of the apartment and the rays, filtered through blue glass, were just of the right quality. The portrait was shown under the same illumination.
Mr. Tesla having solved the problem of the artificial sun fell to thinking about other parts of the universe, and there he sat oblivious to his surroundings. So it was that the painter was able to produce a likeness in which there is no evidence that the subject was conscious that anybody was even watching him, much less studying his features from the other side of an easel.
Among those who attended the reception were Mrs. C. B. Alexander, Henry P. Davidson, the Countess de Ritterberg, and Mrs. E. T. Isham.

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* Nikola Tesla's Famous "Blue Portrait" rediscovered at NordseeMuseum, Husum, Northern Germany
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# The New York Times/1915/12/08

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# The New York Times/1915/7/17/Seventh Day Founder Dies

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Mrs. Ellen G. White, Adventists, Was Regarded as a Prophetess.
St. Helena, Cal. July 16.
Mrs. Ellen G. White, one of the founders of the Seventh Day Adventists, died here today, aged 88. She was widely known among members of that denomination, and by many she was regarded as their prophetess.
She is survived by two sons, James Edson White of Marshall, Mich., and William C. White.
Mrs. White was born in Gorham, Me., and when at the age of 9 she was struck in the face with a stone and disfigured for life she turned to the worship of Christ. In March, 1840, she heard William Miller, a Baptist evangelist, prophesy the second coming of Christ, which was to happen in 1843, and became converted, receiving, as she averred, a vision from God in 1844 showing her the second coming of Christ. She then decided that it was her duty to observe the Seventh-Day Sabbath, as she believed it was so observed by Christ. At about the same time she married James White, a Mayflower descendant, who died in 1881, and who became an active worker in her religion.
She believed in the ultimate annihiliation of the wicked. She traveled extensively and, besides traveling all over this country, spent two years in Europe and nine in Australia, making converts. Mrs. White wrote forty books whose circulation is said to have been more than 1,500,000 copies and her writings were translated into forty languages.
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# The New York Times/1916/03/07/Charles C. Nott dies at 88

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CHARLES C. NOTT DIES AT 88
Ex-Chief Justice of U. S. Court of Claims Was Father of Judge Nott.
Charles Cooper Nott, former Chief Justice of the United States Court of Claims and father of Judge Charles C. Nott of the Special Sessions Court, died yesterday at 151 East Sixty-first Street in his eight-ninth year. President Lincoln, whose close friend he was, appointed Mr. Nott to the Court of Claims in February, 1865, and President Cleveland made him Chief Justice in 1896. When he retired in 1905, he had served forty years in the court.
Mr. Nott was born in Schenectady, N. Y., and was a son of Professor Joel B. Nott and a grandson of Eliphalet Nott, President of Union College, from which Mr. Nott was graduated in 1848. After being admitted to the bar he removed to this city in 1850, and practised here until the beginning of the civil war, when he enlisted and was promoted to a Colonelcy.
President Lincoln appointed him to the Court of Claims two months before his death. Mr. Nott was the author of several books, his last book, "The Mystery of Pinckney Draught, New York," being published in 1909. In addition he was the author of forty-eight volumes of the Court of Claims Reports.
# The New York Times/1915/12/27/British Football Scandal

Published December 28, 1915, Tuesday. Archive of the New York Times.
Eight Players Suspended for Life for Framing Up Game
LONDON, Dec. 27.—A sensation has been caused in football circles in the north of England by a report issued by the Commission of the English Football Association on the result of the game between Liverpool and Manchester United which was decided last April 2. The report shows that the game was pre-arranged between the players for the purpose of betting and winning money.
The committee found that sums of money had changed hands on the result of the game and that the players profited considerably. The football association has premanently suspended four Liverpool players—Sheldon, Purcell, Miller, and Fairfoul—and three Manchester United players professionals—A. Turnbull, Whalley, and West—from taking part in playing football or football management, and they are also barred from entering any football ground in England in the future.
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# The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CCVII

​ⅭⅭⅦ. Edmund Randolph in the Virginia Convention.
June 7, 1788.
The system under consideration is objected to in an unconnected and irregular manner: detached parts are attacked without considering the whole: this, sir, is disingenuous and unreasonable. Ask if the powers be unnecessary. If the end proposed can be obtained by any other means, the powers may be unnecessary. Infallibility was not arrogated by the convention; they included in the system those powers they thought necessary …
As to the mode of paying taxes, little need be said—it is immaterial which way they are to be paid; for they are to be paid only once. I had an objection which pressed heavily on my mind—I was solicitous to know the objects of taxation. I wished to make some discrimination with regard to the demands of congress, and of the states, on the same object. As neither can restrain the other in this case; as the power of both is unlimited, it will be their interest mutually to avoid interferences. It will most certainly be the interest of either to avoid imposing a tax on an article, which shall have been previously taxed by the other. This consideration, and the structure of the government satisfy me.
# The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CCVIII

​ⅭⅭⅧ. Edmund Randolph in the Virginia Convention.
June 10. 1788.
Freedom of religion is said to be in danger. I will candidly say, I once thought that it was, and felt great repugnance to the constitution for that reason. I am willing to acknowledge my apprehensions removed—and I will inform you by what process of reasoning I did remove them. The constitution provides, that “the senators and representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath, or affirmation, to support this constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.” It has been said, that if the exclusion of the religious test were an exception from the general power of congress, the power over religion would remain. I inform those who are of this opinion, that no power is given expressly to congress over religion. The senators and representatives, members of the state legislatures, and executive and judicial officers, are bound by oath, or affirmation, to support this constitution. This only binds them to support it in the exercise of the powers constitutionally given it. The exclusion of religious tests is an exception from this general provision, with respect to oaths, or affirmations. Although officers, &c. are to swear that they will support this constitution, yet they are not bound to support one mode of worship, or to adhere to one particular sect. It puts all sects on the same footing. A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office or public trust under the United States. I am a friend to a variety of sects, because they keep one another in order. How many different sects are we composed of throughout the United States? How many different sects will be in congress? We cannot enumerate the sects that may be in congress. And there are so many now in the United States that they will prevent the establishment of any one sect in prejudice to the rest, and will forever oppose all attempts to infringe religious liberty. If such an attempt be made, will not the alarm be sounded throughout America? If congress be as wicked as we are foretold they will, they would not run the risk of exciting the resentment of all, or most of the religious sects in America.
The judiciary is drawn up in terror—here I have an objection of a different nature. I object to the appellate jurisdiction as the greatest evil in it.
# The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CCLXXXIV

The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CCLXXXIV
​ⅭⅭⅬⅩⅩⅩⅣ. James Madison to Thomas Jefferson.
Feby 8, 1799.
The idea of publishing the Debates of the Convention ought to be well weighed before the expediency of it, in a public as well as personal view be decided on. Besides the intimate connection between them the whole volume ought to be examined with an eye to the use of which every part is susceptible. In the Despotism at present exercised over the rules of construction, and [illegible] reports of the proceedings that would perhaps be made out & mustered for the occasion, it is a problem what turn might be given to the impression on the public mind. But I shall be better able to form & explain my opinion by the time, which now approaches when I shall have the pleasure of seeing you. And you will have the advantage of looking into the sheets attentively before you finally make up your own.
# The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CCVI

​ⅭⅭⅥ. Edmund Randolph in the Virginia Convention.
June 6, 1788.
The trial by jury in criminal cases is secured—in civil cases it is not so expressly secured, as I could wish it; but it does not follow, that congress has the power of taking away this privilege which is secured by the constitution of each state, and not given away by this constitution—I have no fear on this subject—congress must regulate it so as to suit every state. I will risk my property on the certainty, that they will institute the trial by jury in such manner as shall accommodate the conveniences of the inhabitants in every state: the difficulty of ascertaining this accommodation, was the principal cause of its not being provided for.
# The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CCLXXXVII

The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CCLXXXVII
​ⅭⅭⅬⅩⅩⅩⅦ. Charles Pinckney in the United States Senate.
March 5, 1800.
The remainder of the clause respecting privilege is so express on the subjects of privilege from arrest, government of members, and expulsion, that every civil officer in the United States, and every man who has the least knowledge, cannot misunderstand them. I assert, that it was the design of the Constitution, and that not only ​its spirit, but letter, warrant me in the assertion, that it never was intended to give Congress, or either branch, any but specified, and those very limited, privileges indeed. They well knew how oppressively the power of undefined privileges had been exercised in Great Britain, and were determined no such authority should ever be exercised here. They knew that in free countries very few privileges were necessary to the undisturbed exercise of legislative duties, and those few only they determined that Congress should possess; they never meant that the body who ought to be the purest, and the least in want of shelter from the operation of laws equally affecting all their fellow citizens, should be able to avoid them; they therefore not only intended, but did confine their privileges within the narrow limits mentioned in the Constitution.
… Let us inquire, why the Constitution should have been so attentive to each branch of Congress, so jealous of their privileges, and have shewn so little to the President of the United States in this respect. … No privilege of this kind was intended for your Executive, nor any except that which I have mentioned for your Legislature. The Convention which formed the Constitution well knew that this was an important point, and no subject had been more abused than privilege. They therefore determined to set the example, in merely limiting privilege to what was necessary, and no more.
… If the opinions of the Federal Convention ought to have weight, they so strongly insisted upon it [the separation of the three departments of government] as even to refuse after repeated trials, associating the Judges with the President in the exercise of his revisionary power.
… I have always been of opinion, that it was wrong to give the nomination of Judges to the President.
# The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CCLXXXV

The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CCLXXXV
​ⅭⅭⅬⅩⅩⅩⅤ. Gouverneur Morris: Oration upon Washington.
It is a question, previous to the first meeting, what course shall be pursued. Men of decided temper, who, devoted to the public, overlooked prudential considerations, thought a form of government should be framed entirely new. But cautious men, with whom popularity was an object, deemed it fit to consult and comply with the wishes of the people. AMERICANS!—let the opinion then delivered by the greatest and best of men, be ever present to your remembrance. He was collected within himself. His countenance had more than usual solemnity—His eye was fixed, and seemed to ​look into futurity. ‘It is (said he) too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God.’—this was the patriot voice of WASHINGTON; and this the constant tenor of his conduct.
# The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CCLXXXIX

The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CCLXXXIX
​ⅭⅭⅬⅩⅩⅩⅨ. Gouverneur Morris in the United States Senate.
January 8, 1802.
There are some honorable gentlemen now present, who sat in ​the Convention which formed this Constitution. I appeal to their recollection, if they have not seen the time when the fate of America was suspended by a hair? my life for it, if another convention be assembled, they will part without doing anything. Never, in the flow of time, was there a moment so propitious, as that in which the Convention assembled. The States had been convinced, by melancholy experience, how inadequate they were to the management of our national concerns. The passions of the people were lulled to sleep; State pride slumbered; the Constitution was promulgated; and then it awoke, and opposition was formed; but it was in vain. The people of America bound the States down by this compact.
# The Pennyles Pilgrimage/Epilogue

THE EPILOGUE TO ALL MY ADVENTURERS AND OTHERS.
HUS did I neither spend, or beg, or ask, By any course, direct or indirectly: But in each tittle I performed my task, According to my bill most circumspectly. I vow to God, I have done Scotland wrong, (And (justly) against me it may bring an action) I have not given it that right which doth belong, For which I am half guilty of detraction:
Yet had I wrote all things that there I saw, Misjudging censures would suppose I flatter, And so my name I should in question draw, Where asses bray, and prattling pies do chatter: Yet (armed with truth) I publish with my pen, That there the Almighty doth his blessings heap, In such abundant food for beasts and men; That I ne'er saw more plenty or more cheap. Thus what mine eyes did see, I do believe; And what I do believe, I know is true: And what is true unto your hands I give, That what I give, may be believed of you. But as for him that says I lie or dote, I do return, and turn the lie in's throat. Thus gentlemen, amongst you take my ware, You share my thanks, and I your moneys share.
Yours in all observance and gratefulness, ever to be commanded,
John Taylor.
FINIS.
# The Pennyles Pilgrimage

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THE
PENNYLES
PILGRIMAGE,
OR
The Money-lesse perambulation,
of Iohn Taylor, Alias the Kings Majesties Water-Poet.
HOW HE TRAVAILED ON FOOT from London to Edenborough in Scotland, not carrying any Money to or fro, neither Begging, Borrowing, or Asking Meate, drinke or Lodging.
With his Description of his Entertainment in all places of his lourney, and a true Report of the vnmatchable Hunting in the Brea of Marre and Badenoch in Scotland.
With other Obseruations, some serious and worthy of Memory, and some merry and not hurtfull to be Remembred.
Lastly that (which is Rare in a Trauailer) all is true.
LONDON Printed by Edw: Allde, at the charges of the Author.1618
Dedication To the Reader First poetry section First prose section Second poetry section Second prose section Third poetry section Third prose section Sonnet 1 Sonnet 2 Fourth prose section Epilogue
# The Pendulum

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# The Penitent's Return

* The Penitent's Return, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Volume 29, 1831.
* A Penitent's Return, in Scenes and Hymns of Life, with Other Religious Poems (Miscellaneous Poems), 1834.