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# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume VIII/Prolegomena
## Contents

* Life
* Works
# Notes on the Ornithology of Oxfordshire, Aplin 1899-1900

'Notes on the Ornithology of Oxfordshire' was published in The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 3 (1899) and vol 4 (1900) in two parts:
* Part 1, in: issues 700 (October, 1899), p. 433–442
* Part 2, in: issues 703 (January, 1900), p. 11–28
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# Notes on the Firth

NOTES ON THE FIRTH.
* I. — FROM A FOURTH-PAIR WINDOW.
* The sky is dappled blue with clouds that stray.
* Like frozen waves the roofs go rolling down
* The valley steeps, but weatherworn and brown
* Steeple and stack shoot mastlike toward the day.
* Pandean pipes whereon the winds would play,
* Long rows of chimney-pots the ridges crown;
* And black on slates and skylights flicker and frown
* Shadows of smoke that streams and wings that sway.
* The city's monstrous voices surge to me,
* The mist afar its fantasies arranges,
* And sudden windows twinkle joyously.
* A blue grey streak, a fixed uncertainty,
* A fallen slip of sky that shifts and changes,
* The Forth beyond them broadens into sea.
* II. — AT QUEENSFERRY.
* The blackbird sang, the skies were clear and clean.
* We bowled along a road that curved its spine
* Superbly sinuous and serpentine
* Thro' silent symphonies of glowing green.
* Sudden the Firth came on us — sad of mien.
* No cloud to colour it, no breeze to line,
* A sheet of dark, dull glass, without a sign
* Of life and death, two shelves of sand between.
* Water and sky merged blank in mist together.
* The fort loomed spectral, and the guard-ship's spars
* Traced vague, black shadows on the shimmery glaze.
* We felt the dim strange years, the grey strange weather,
* The still strange land unvexed of sun or stars,
* Where Lancelot rides clanking thro' the haze.
* III. — RAIN.
* The sky saggs low with convoluted cloud.
* Heavy and imminent, rolled from rim to rim.
* And wreaths of mist beveil the further brim
* Of the leaden sea, all spiritless and cowed.
* The rain is falling sheer and strong and loud.
* The strand is desolate, the distance grim
* With stormful threats, the wet stones glister dim.
* And to the wall the dank umbrellas crowd.
* At home! — the soaked shrubs whisper dismal-mooded.
* The rails are strung with drops, and steeped the grasses,
* Black chimney-shadows streak the shiny slates.
* A draggled fishwife screeches at the gates,
* The baker hurries dripping on, and hooded
* In her stained skirt a pretty housemaid passes.
* IV. — TWILIGHT.
* The sunset's roses faint and fain decline.
* Inshore the still sea shimmers scale on scale,
* Like an enormous coat of magic mail —
* Sheet silver shot with tremulous opaline.
* Rare boats traverse it, glidingly supine.
* The Inchkeith light by moments flashes pale.
* The distance darkles, and a far grey sail
* Melts vague into the solemn evenshine.
* The thickening dusk is quick with pattering feet
* And swishing dresses, and the airs of June
* With broad sea-scents and blown cigars are sweet;
* And over yonder, where the ripples beat,
* Sweethearts are wandering, while the yellowing moon
* Sails the blue lift, and wide stars glance and greet.
* William Ernest Henley.
* Macmillan's Magazine.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume VIII/The Letters/Letter 134

Letter CXXXIV.
To the presbyter Pœonius.
You may conjecture from what it contains, what pleasure you have given me by your letter. The pureness of heart, from which such expressions sprang, was plainly signified by what you wrote. A streamlet tells of its own spring, and so the manner of speech marks the heart from which it came. I must confess that an extraordinary and improbable thing has happened to me. For deeply anxious as I always was to receive a letter from your excellency, when I had taken your letter into my hand and had read it, I was not so much pleased at what you had written, as annoyed at reckoning up the loss I had suffered in your long silence. Now that you have begun to write, pray do not leave off. You will give me greater pleasure than men can give by sending much money to misers. I have had no writer with me, neither caligraphist, nor short-hand. Of all those whom I happen to employ, some have returned to their former mode of life, and others are unfit for work from long sickness.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Placed in 373.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume VIII/The Letters/Letter 137

Letter CXXXVII.
To Antipater, on his assuming the governorship of Cappadocia.
I do now really feel the loss which I suffer from being ill; so that, when such a man succeeds to the government of my country, my having to nurse myself compels me to be absent. For a whole month I have been undergoing the treatment of natural hot springs, in the hope of drawing some benefit from them. But I seem to be troubling myself to no purpose in my solitude, or indeed to be deservedly a laughing stock to mankind, for not heeding the proverb which says “warmth is no good to the dead.” Even situated as I am, I am very anxious to put aside everything else, and betake myself to your excellency, that I may enjoy the benefit of all your high qualities, and through your goodness settle all my home affairs here in a proper manner. The house of our reverend mother Palladia is my own, for I am not only nearly related to her, but regard her as a mother on account of her character. Now, as some disturbance has been raised about her house, I ask your excellency to postpone the enquiry for a little while, and to wait till I come; not at all that justice may not be done, for I had rather die ten thousand times than ask a favour of that kind from a judge who is a friend of law and right, but that you may learn from me by word of mouth matters which it would be unbecoming for me to write. If you do so you will in no wise fail in fealty to the truth, and we shall suffer no harm. I beg you then to keep the individual in question in safe custody under the charge of the troops, and not refuse to grant me this harmless favour.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Placed in 373.
* ↑ Compare Letters clxxxvi. and clxxxvii.
* ↑ Possibly the person to whom the disturbance at Palladia’s house was due.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume VIII/The Letters/Letter 136

Letter CXXXVI.
To Eusebius, bishop of Samosata.
1. In what state the good Isaaces has found me, he himself will best explain to you; though his tongue cannot be tragic enough to describe my sufferings, so great was my illness. However, any one who knows me ever so little, will be able to conjecture what it was. For, if when I am called well, I am weaker even than persons who are given over, you may fancy what I was when thus ill. Yet, since disease is my natural state, it would follow (let a fever have its jest) that in this change of habit, my health became especially flourishing. But it is the scourge of the Lord which goes on increasing my pain according to my deserts; therefore I have received illness upon illness, so that now even a child may see that this shell of mine must for certain fail, unless perchance, God’s mercy vouchsafe to me, in His long suffering, time for repentance, and now, as often before, extricate me from evils beyond human cure. This shall be, as it is pleasing to Him and good for myself.
2. I need hardly tell you how deplorable and hopeless is the condition of the Churches. Now, for the sake of our own safety, we neglect our neighbour’s, and do not even seem able to see that general disaster involves individual ruin. Least of all need I say this to one who, like yourself, foresaw the future from afar, and has foretold and proclaimed it and has been among the first to be roused, and to rouse the rest, writing letters, coming yourself in person, leaving no deed undone, no word unspoken. I remember this in every instance, but yet we are none the better off. Now, indeed, were not my sins in the way, (first of all, my dear brother the reverend deacon Eustathius fell seriously ill and detained me two whole months, looking day by day for his restoration to health; and then all about me fell sick; brother Isaaces will tell you the rest; then last of all I myself was attacked by this complaint) I should long ago have been to see your excellency, not indeed thereby to try to improve the general state of affairs, but to get some good for myself from your society. I had made up my mind to get out of the reach of the ecclesiastical artillery, because I am quite unprepared to meet my enemies’ attacks. May God’s mighty hand preserve you for all of us, as a noble guardian of the faith, and a vigilant champion of the Churches; and grant me, before I die, to meet you for the comfort of my soul.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Placed in 373.
* ↑ On his own sickness and the troubles of the Church. On his bad health, cf. Letters ix., xxvii., cxcviii., ccii., cciii., and ccxvi. The translation of the first section is Newman’s.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume VIII/The Letters/Letter 131

Letter CXXXI.
To Olympius.
1. Truly unexpected tidings make both ears tingle. This is my case. These compositions against me, which are being carried about, have fallen upon ears by this time pretty well seasoned, on account of my having formerly received the letter, appropriate enough to my sins, but which I should never have expected to be written by those who sent it. Nevertheless what followed did seem to me so extraordinarily cruel as to blot out all that had gone before. How could I fail to be driven almost out of my senses when I read the letter addressed to the reverend brother Dazinas, full of outrageous insults and calumnies and of attacks against me, as though I had been convicted of much pernicious designs against the Church? Moreover proofs were forthwith offered of the truth of the calumnies against me, from the document of whose authorship I am ignorant. Parts I recognise, I own, as having been written by Apollinarius of Laodicea. These I had purposely not even ever read, but I had heard of them from the report of others. Other portions I found included, which I had never either read or heard of from any one else; of the truth of this there is a faithful witness in heaven. How then can men who shun lies, who have learnt that love is the fulfilling of the law, who profess to bear the burdens of the weak, have consented to bring these calumnies against me and to condemn me out of other men’s writings? I have often asked myself this question, but I cannot imagine the reason, unless it be, as I have said from the beginning, that my pain in all this is a part of the punishment which is due to my sins.
2. First of all I sorrowed in soul that truths were lessened by the sons of men; in the second place I feared for my own self, lest in addition to my other sins, I should become a misanthrope, believing no truth and honour to be left in any man; if indeed those whom I have most greatly trusted are proved to be so disposed both to me and to the truth. Be sure then, my brother, and every one who is a friend of the truth, that the composition is not mine; I do not approve of it, for it is not drawn up according to my views. Even if I did write, a good many years ago, to Apollinarius or to any one else, I ought not to be blamed. I find no fault myself if any member of any society has been cut off into heresy (and you know perfectly well whom I mean though I mention nobody by name), because each man will die in his own sin.
This is my reply to the document sent me, that you may know the truth, and make it plain to all who wish not to hold the truth in unrighteousness. If it prove necessary to defend myself more at length on each separate count, I will do so, God being my helper. I, brother Olympius, neither maintain three Gods, nor communicate with Apollinarius.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Placed in 373.
* ↑ cf. Letters xii. and xiii.
* ↑ cf. Letter cxxv. and Greg. Naz., Orat. i. and xxix.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume VIII/The Letters/Letter 132

Letter CXXXII.
To Abramius, bishop of Batnæ.
Ever since the autumn I have been quite ignorant of the whereabouts of your reverence; for I kept hearing uncertain rumours, some saying that you were stopping at Samosata, and some in the country, while others maintained that they had seen you at Batnæ. This is the reason of my not writing frequently. Now, on hearing that you are staying at Antioch, in the house of the honourable Count Saturninus, I have been glad to give this letter to our beloved and reverend brother Sanctissimus, our fellow presbyter, by whom I salute you, and exhort you, whereever you be, to remember firstly God, and secondly myself, whom you determined from the beginning to love and to reckon among your most intimate friends.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Placed in 373.
* ↑ cf. Letter xcii. He was present at the Council of Constantinople.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume VIII/The Letters/Letter 13

Letter XIII.
To Olympius.
As all the fruits of the season come to us in their proper time, flowers in spring, corn in summer, and apples in autumn, so the fruit for winter is talk.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Placed with the preceding.
* ↑ μῆλον. But, like the Latin malum, this word served for more than we mean by “apple.” So the malum Cydonium was quince, the malum Persicum, peach, etc.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume VIII/The Letters/Letter 133

Letter CXXXIII.
To Peter, bishop of Alexandria.
The sight of the eyes brings about bodily friendship, and long companionship strengthens it, but genuine regard is the gift of the Spirit, Who unites what is separated by long distances, and makes friends known to one another, not by bodily qualities, but by the characteristics of the soul. The grace of the Lord has granted me this favour, by permitting me to see you with the soul’s eye, and to embrace you with genuine affection, and as it were, to be drawn very near to you, and to come into close union with you in the communion of faith. I am sure that you, disciple as you are of so great a man, and long associated with him, will walk in the same spirit and follow the same doctrines of true religion. Under these circumstances I address your excellency, and beseech you that among the other things in which you have succeeded that great man, you will succeed him in love to me, that you will frequently write me news of you, and will give heed to the brotherhood all over the world with the same affection and the same zeal which that most blessed man always showed to all that love God in truth.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Peter II. succeeded Athanasius in May, 373. Athanasius died May 2.
# O'Dowd v. Russell/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
81 U.S. 402
O'Dowd v. Russell
Several grounds are assigned for dismissing this writ. It will be necessary to notice but three of them.
The first of these is, that the writ of error is prosecuted by O'Dowd without summons and severance of his co-defendants. Formerly this was held to be necessary when one of several defendants desired to prosecute his writ of error alone. But, in the case of Masterson v. Herndon, we held that such a writ of error would be sustained, if it appeared from the record that the defendants, not joined, had been notified in writing, and had refused to join. In this case it appears, by the record, that written notice was given to the co-defendants of O'Dowd, and that they declined to join. This was equivalent to summons and severance.
It is also insisted that the motion to dismiss must be allowed, because the judgment was not final. The judgment against Walker was reversed, because he was held not entitled to the exemption which he claimed under the Bankrupt Act, and the judgment against the sureties was affirmed, because they were held not entitled to the benefit of his discharge. We think that both judgments were final, and that both are brought under review by the writ of error.
Another reason assigned for dismissal is, that the writ of error, the bond, the citation, and the copy of the writ of error for the defendants, were not seasonably served or filed. It appears, from the record, that the judgment of the Supreme Court was rendered on the 31st of October, 1871, and on the 10th of November, 1871, a writ of error was issued returnable on the first Monday in December, and was served by filing in the clerk's office. The writ is dated on the 16th of October, 1871. This was before the judgment was affirmed, and is obviously a mistake. It does not, however, vitiate the writ. The case was removed by service on the 10th of November.
The citation was served on the 3d of February, 1872. This was sufficient to advise the opposite party that the cause had been removed to this court, and was served and returned within the term.
It does not, however, appear, from the record, that any copy of the writ was lodged for the defendants in error in the clerk's office of the Supreme Court. It was necessary that such a copy should be filed within ten days to make the writ of error a supersedeas. #fn-s-s Nor does it appear when the bond was allowed and filed. It bears date of the 10th of November. The allowance is not dated; nor is its filing noted.
We are of opinion, therefore, that a writ of error cannot operate as supersedeas; but the motion to dismiss must be
DENIED.
# O'Hair v. Paine/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
397 U.S. 531
O'Hair v. Paine
The motion to dismiss is granted and the appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction.

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# O'Gorman Young v. Hartford Fire Insurance Company

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United States Supreme Court
282 U.S. 251
O'Gorman Young v. Hartford Fire Insurance Company
Argued: Oct. 30, 1930. --- Decided: Jan 5, 1931
Mr. Walter Gordon Merritt, of New York City, for appellant.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 252-253 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Ralph E. Lum, of Newark, N. J., for appellees.
Mr. Justice BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# O'Hair v. Paine

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United States Supreme Court
397 U.S. 531
O'Hair v. Paine
James H. Anderson, Jr., for appellants Society of Separationists, Inc., and others.
Solicitor General Griswold, for appellees.
PER CURIAM.

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# O'Hara v. Luckenbach Steamship Company

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United States Supreme Court
269 U.S. 364
O'Hara v. Luckenbach Steamship Company
Argued: Nov. 19, 1925. --- Decided: Jan 4, 1926
Mr. H. W. Hutton, of San Francisco, Cal., for petitioners.
Mr. Peter S.C.arter, of New York City, for respondent.
Mr. Justice SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# O'Hara v. Macconnell

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93 U.S. 150
O'Hara v. Macconnell
APPEAL from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
Submitted on printed arguments by Mr. J. W. Kirker for the appellants. No counsel appeared for the appellees.
MR. JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.

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# Old Reliable in Africa/Foreword

FOREWORD
WHY THEY WENT TO THE SUDAN
OLD RELIABLE never did rightly get the hang of that white man's name—the one with the single-barreled specs who came to visit the Colonel on Sherwood Plantation. And 'twarn't only negroes that couldn't understand; even the white folks had a mighty lot of trouble. Zack heard Doctor Paulding laugh and inquire, "Look here, Colonel, I don't know what to call your English Lord. Can't quite get my tongue twisted around 'Your Lordship' or 'Your Serene Highness.' What's the correct thing, 'My Lord'? or 'Lord Meadowcroft'?"
"Reckon so," chuckled the Colonel. "This 'lord' business kinder got me for a while. I sasshayed around it until he commenced calling me 'Spottiswoode' and I called him 'Meadowcroft.' Fine fellow, isn't he?"
Zack cocked his head on one side and listened to everybody before addressing the distinguished stranger as, "Oh Lordy," and the problem of courtesy bothered Zack no more.
​"Oh Lordy" rambled all over the plantation, horseback and afoot, poking into everything, just like that Health Officer who used to come spying around the Hot Cat Eating House. Oh Lordy would stick up his eyeglass and ask a million questions a minute about cotton and seed, and ginning and picking, and mules and negroes. When he switched off to "soil" and "climate" and "precipitation"—Zack knew there wasn't nothing like that on Sherwood.
"What makes Lord Meadowcroft so inquisitive?" Dr. Paulding asked.
"Business," the Colonel laughed. "He wants to learn how we raise cotton. You see, Doctor, it's this way: the British Cotton Growers' Association is making experiments all over the world, trying to find a soil and climate adapted to cotton culture. Meadowcroft is particularly interested in the Sudan———"
"Where's the Sudan?" for Dr. Paulding had hazy geographical ideas.
"Don't know, exactly—somewhere in Middle Africa. Ask your geography. Anyway, Meadowcroft thinks the Sudan will produce cotton. They've got all kinds of theoretical experts on the ground—and want some experienced planter who understands the practical side of it—just to give them a start, you know. I've agreed to go—for six months."
​"You? Go to Africa?"
"Sure, why not? I've always wanted to see the negro at home—had a curiosity to know if he's like our negro."
"Heavens, Colonel, that's a mighty long trip."
"Yes, I know; but there'll be several British officers at the Concession. Of course, I'll take Zack along, to shave me and look after my baggage, so I won't get lonesome."
Dr. Paulding glanced at Old Reliable, "No, Colonel, you won't get lonesome—not if you have Zack."
Many a time before he got home again Colonel Spottiswoode remembered how Doctor Paulding had laughed and said, "You won't get lonesome—not if you have Zack."