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# Acts of Faith, Hope, and Charity

Traditional Catholic prayers invoking the three theological virtues of Faith, Hope, and Charity; popularly used in morning prayer. Pope Benedict XIV in 1756 attached an indulgence to these prayers, stating that no particular form of words or expressions is necessary, but that any one may use any form they please, provided "that it expresses and explains the particular motives of each one of these three theological virtues."
* "Acts of Faith, Hope, and Charity", in The Raccolta, by the Sacred Congregation of Indulgences and Holy Relics, translated by Ambrose St. John (1857).
* Quoted in "Morning Prayers" in The Little Book of the Most Holy Child Jesus, by John Priestly Warmoll (1876).
* Quoted in "Morning Prayer" in The Catholic Prayer Book and Manual of Meditations, by Patrick Francis Moran (1883).
* Quoted in "Morning Prayers" in A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity, by Clarence E. Woodman (1889).

## See also

* Act of Contrition
# Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts/1851/Statutes

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GENERAL AND SPECIAL
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* Chapter 1: An Act To Change the Name of the Coasters Marine Insurance Company
* Chapter 305: An Act to Authorise the city of Boston to establish a Public Library
# Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts/1851

* General and Special Statutes
* Resolves
* Governor's Address
* Messages
* List of the Civil Government
* Certification
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# Acts of Pilate

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Commonly referred to by its Latin name, Acta Pilati, this work went through many revisions and conflations with other ancient works. In the Middle Ages the work was most often called the Gospel of Nicodemus (Evangelium Nicodemi), often with additions, including the Descensus Christi ad Inferos. The Report of Pilate to the Emperor Claudius, also included in the Acts of Peter and Paul, is included as an appendix in many manuscripts. The entire work was completed by the 4th century, with sections written in both Greek and Latin between the late 2nd and early 4th centuries.
English-language translations of Acts of Pilate include:
* Gospel of Nicodemus (Jeremiah Jones translation), 18th century, reprinted in The Suppressed Gospels and Epistles, 19th century
* Acts of Pilate: Latin Form (Alexander Walker translation), from Ante-Nicene Fathers, 19th century
* "The Gospel of Nicodemus, or Acts of Pilate" in The Apocryphal New Testament (1924) by M. R. James
# Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts/1848/Statutes/Chapter 52

Chap 52.An Act to authorize the city of Boston to establish a Public Library.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Public library in Boston;Section 1. The city of Boston is hereby authorized to establish and maintain a public library, for the use of the inhabitants of the said city; and the city council of the said city may, from time to time, make such rules and regulations, for the care and maintenance thereof, as they may deem proper:no appropriations to exceed $5,000 annually. provided, however, that no appropriations for the said library shall exceed the sum of five thousand dollars in any one year.
Act to be accepted by city council within 60 days.Section 2. This act shall be null and void, unless it shall be accepted by the city council of the said city of Boston, within sixty days from its passage. [Approved by the Governor, March 18, 1848.]
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wilson, John (orientalist)

​Wilson, John (1804-1875).—Missionary and orientalist, b. at Lauder, Berwickshire, and ed. at Edin. for the ministry of the Church of Scotland, went in 1828 to India as a missionary, where, besides his immediate duties, he became a leader in all social reform, such as the abolition of the slave-trade and suttee, and also one of the greatest authorities on the subject of caste, and a trusted adviser of successive Governors-General in regard to all questions affecting the natives. He was in addition a profound Oriental scholar as to languages, history, and religion. He was D.D., F.R.S., and ​Vice-Chancellor of Bombay Univ. Among his works are The Parsi Religion (1812), The Lands of the Bible (1847), India Three Thousand Years Ago, and Memoirs of the Cave Temples of India.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wingate, David

​Wingate, David, (1828-1892).—Poet, was employed in the coal-pits near Hamilton from the time he was 9. He pub. Poems and Songs (1862), which was favourably received, and followed by Annie Weir (1866). After this he studied at the Glasgow School of Mines, became a colliery manager, and devoted his increased leisure to study and further literary work. Lily Neil appeared in 1879, followed by Poems and Songs (1883), and Selected Poems (1890). W. was a man of independent character. He was twice m., his second wife being a descendant of Burns.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wither, George

​Wither, George (1588-1667).—Poet, b. near Alton, Hampshire, was at Oxf. for a short time, and then studied law at Lincoln's Inn. In 1613 he pub. a bold and pungent satire, Abuses Stript and Whipt, with the result that he was imprisoned for some months in the Marshalsea. While there he wrote The Shepheard's Hunting, a pastoral. Withers Motto, Nec Habeo, Nec Careo, Nec Curo (I have not, want not, care not) was written in 1618, and in 1622 he coll. his poems as Juvenilia. The same year he pub. a long poem, Faire Virtue, the Mistress of Philarete, in which appears the famous lyric, "Shall I wasting in despair." Though generally acting with the Puritans he took arms with Charles I. against the Scotch in 1639; but on the outbreak of the Civil War he was on the popular side, and raised a troop of horse. He was taken prisoner by the Royalists, and is said to have owed his life to the intercession of a fellow-poet, Sir John Denham. After the establishment of the Commonwealth he was considerably enriched out of sequestrated estates and other spoils of the defeated party; but on the ​Restoration was obliged to surrender his gains, was impeached, and committed to the Tower. In his later years he wrote many religious poems and hymns, coll. as Hallelujah. Before his death his poems were already forgotten, and he was referred to by Pope in The Dunciad as "the wretched Withers." He was, however, disinterred by Southey, Lamb, and others, who drew attention to his poetical merits, and he has now an established place among English poets, to which his freshness, fancy, and delicacy of taste well entitle him.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wilson, John (poet)

​Wilson, John ("Christopher North") (1785-1854).—Poet, essayist, and miscellaneous writer, s. of a wealthy manufacturer in Paisley, where he was b., was ed. at Glas. and Oxf. At the latter he not only displayed great intellectual endowments, but distinguished himself as an athlete. Having succeeded to a fortune of £50,000 he purchased the small estate of Elleray in the Lake District, where he enjoyed the friendship of Wordsworth, Southey, Coleridge, and De Quincey. In 1812 he pub. The Isle of Palms, followed four years later by The City of the Plague, which gained for him a recognised place in literature, though they did not show his most characteristic gifts, and are now almost unread. About this time he lost a large portion of his fortune, had to give up continuous residence at Elleray, came to Edinburgh, and was called to the Scottish Bar, but never practised. The starting of Blackwood's Magazine brought him his opportunity, and to the end of his life his connection with it gave him his main employment and chief fame. In 1820 he became Prof. of Moral Philosophy in the Univ. of Edin. where, though not much of a philosopher in the technical sense, he exercised a highly stimulating influence upon his students by his eloquence and the general vigour of his intellect. The peculiar powers of W., his wealth of ideas, felicity of expression, humour, and animal spirits, found their full development in the famous Noctes Ambrosianæ, a medley of criticism on literature, politics, philosophy, topics of the day and what not. Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life and The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay are contributions to fiction in which there is an occasional tendency to run pathos into rather mawkish sentimentality. In 1851 W. received a Government pension of £300. The following year a paralytic seizure led to his resignation of his professorial chair, and he d. in 1854. He was a man of magnificent physique, of shining rather than profound intellectual powers, and of generous character, though as a critic his strong feelings and prejudices occasionally made him unfair and even savage.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wilson, Sir Daniel

​Wilson, Sir Daniel (1816-1892).—Archaeologist and miscellaneous writer, b. and ed. in Edin., and after acting as sec. of the Society of Antiquaries there, went to Toronto as Prof. of History and English Literature. He was the author of Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time, The Archæology and Pre-historic Annals of Scotland (1851), Civilisation in the Old and the New World, a study on "Chatterton," and Caliban, the Missing Link, etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wodrow, Robert

​Wodrow, Robert (1679-1734).—Church historian, s. of James W., Prof. of Divinity in Glasgow. Having completed his literary and theological education there, he entered the ministry of the Church of Scotland, and was ordained to the parish of Eastwood, Renfrewshire. Here he carried on the great work of his life, his History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland 1660 to 1688. W. wrote when the memory of the persecutions was still fresh, and his work is naturally not free from partisan feeling and credulity. It is, however, thoroughly honest in intention, and is a work of genuine research, and of high value for the period with which it deals. It was pub. in two folio vols. in 1721 and 1722. W. made large collections for other works which, however, were not pub. in his lifetime. The Lives of the Scottish Reformers and Most Eminent Ministers and Analecta, or a History of Remarkable Providences, were printed for the Maitland Club, and 3 vols. of his correspondence in 1841 for the Wodrow Society. The Analecta is a most curious miscellany showing a strong appetite for the marvellous combined with a hesitating doubt in regard to some of the more exacting narratives.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Winthrop, Theodore

​Winthrop, Theodore (1828-1861).—Novelist, b. at New Haven, Conn., descended through his f. from Governor W., and through his mother from Jonathan Edwards, ed. at Yale, travelled in Great Britain and on the Continent, and far and wide in his own country. After contributing to periodicals short sketches and stories, which attracted little attention, he enlisted in the Federal Army, in 1861, and was killed in the Battle of Great Bethel. His novels, for which he had failed to find a publisher, appeared posthumously—John Brent, founded on his experiences in the far West, Edwin Brothertoft, a story of the Revolution War, and Cecil Dreeme. Other works were The Canoe and Saddle, and Life in the Open Air. Though somewhat spasmodic and crude, his novels had freshness, originality, and power, and with longer life and greater concentration he might have risen high.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wilson, Alexander

​Wilson, Alexander (1766-1813). Poet and ornithologist, b. at Paisley, where he worked as a weaver, afterwards becoming a pedlar. He pub. some poems, of which the best is Watty and Maggie, and in 1794 went to America, where he worked as a pedlar and teacher. His skill in depicting birds led to his becoming an enthusiastic ornithologist, and he induced the publisher of Rees's Cyclopaedia, on which he had been employed, to undertake an American ornithology to be written and illustrated by him. Some vols. of the work were completed when, worn out by the labour and exposure entailed by his journeys in search of specimens, he ​succumbed to a fever. Two additional vols. appeared posthumously. The work, both from a literary and artistic point of view, is of high merit. He also pub. in America another poem, The Foresters.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wilson, Thomas

​Wilson, Thomas (1525?-1581).—Scholar and statesman, b. in Lincolnshire, was at Camb., and held various high positions under Queen Elizabeth. He was the author of The Rule of Reason containing the Arte of Logique (1551), and The Arte of Rhetorique (1553), and made translations from Demosthenes. He endeavoured to maintain the purity of the language against the importation of foreign words.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wolcot, John

​Wolcot, John (1738-1819).—Satirist, b. near Kingsbridge, Devonshire, was ed. by an uncle, and studied medicine. In 1767 he went as physician to Sir William Trelawny, Governor of Jamaica, and whom he induced to present him to a Church in the island then vacant, and was ordained in 1769. Sir William dying in 1772, W. came home and, abandoning the Church, resumed his medical character, and settled in practice at Truro, where he discovered the talents of Opie the painter, and assisted him. In 1780 he went to London, and commenced writing satires. The first objects of his attentions were the members of the Royal Academy, and these attempts being well received, he soon began to fly at higher game, the King and Queen being the most frequent marks for his satirical shafts. In 1786 appeared The Lousiad, a Heroi-Comic Poem, taking its name from a legend that on the King's dinner plate there had appeared a certain insect not usually found in such exalted quarters. Other objects of bis attack were Boswell, the biographer of Johnson, and Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller. W., who wrote under the nom-de-guerre of "Peter Pindar," had a remarkable vein of humour and wit, which, while intensely comic to persons not involved, stung its subjects to the quick. He had likewise strong intelligence, and a power of coining effective phrases. In other kinds of composition, as in some ballads which he wrote, an unexpected touch of gentleness and even tenderness appears. Among these are The Beggar Man and Lord Gregory. Much that he wrote has now lost all interest owing to the circumstances referred to being for ​forgotten, but enough still retains its peculiar relish to account for his contemporary reputation.
# A Taste for Foreigners

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Published in The Pearl
To the French, to the Germans and Swedes, Easy Harriet, you give up your charms; Italians and Russians besides Have all had their turns in your arms;
You despise not the Dutch, nor the Danes, Mulattoes, or Negroes, or Finns; In you they may all quench their flames. Whatever the tint of their skins.
You reject the capless concerns, Or the circumcised Turk or the Jew; In short, every nation by turns. Has had an erection in you;
Your fancy is truly uncommon, The reason I wish I could find; While by birth you're a true Englishwoman, That no true English prick's to your mind.
# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/Bayard Taylor's German

BAYARD TAYLOR'S GERMAN
"No, I haven't got an ounce of envy in me. I once tried hard to get envious, but happily my wife interfered. I had to forget about it and turn my mind into other, cleaner channels. That was on our first trip to Europe, in 1878. On the ship we met Bayard Taylor, the poet, bound for Berlin, as ambassador to Bismarck. That, I believe, states the case more correctly than the official 'ambassador to the Court of Berlin.'
"Well, Bayard made me feel pretty cheap by his display of German. That fellow was forever talking, thinking and writing German. Compared with his, my own miserable German vocabulary was an ant-hill facing Chimborazo. And when I heard him recite whole acts of his metric translation of Faust, I wished myself in his shoes, for I certainly did envy the man his Teuton knowledge. However, when I told Livy about it, she warned me and made me promise to suppress the nasty habit. Well done, for Bayard Taylor died within five or six months, at the age of fifty-three."
# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/Artist or Photographer

ARTIST OR PHOTOGRAPHER
Mr. Clemens had met Lenbach, the eminent German painter, in Vienna, and when, a year or two afterwards, I ran across Mark in Munich, he proposed that we call at Lenbach's studio. So to Akademie Strasse we went, and duly admired Lenbach's collections. "Mostly painted kaisers, kings, and kinglets, also one man, W. K. Vanderbilt," was Mark's estimate. I saw Lenbach eye Clemens with business in his heart. Mark saw it too. "Wonder if he intends to throw me on the linen, I mean the canvas," he whispered, while Lenbach was busy in another part of the shop.
"It would increase his popularity immensely," I sotto voce'ed back.
Lenbach returned—with a camera, and as Mark looked puzzled, Lenbach explained: "I always get every possible angle I can of the persons I want to paint. Now, if you will just stand still, Mr. Clemens, for a little while, I will be ever so much obliged."
And Lenbach made the rounds of Clemens, who had taken off his overcoat, more than once, photographing every important bit of anatomy, back, sides, front, arms, legs, ear, full face, back of head, cheeks, hands, eyes, etc.
"They told me in Vienna that Lenbach was an artist," commented Mark when we gained the sidewalk. "As you saw, he is merely a ​photographer. Glad I never went to pieces over his art with a capital A."
Whether the painting was ever undertaken by Lenbach I don't know, but it would be immensely interesting to get those plates from the "photographer's" studio.
# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/Breaking the News Gently

BREAKING THE NEWS GENTLY
Returning to Vienna from a flying trip to Budapest, Mark was full of "a yarn that would illustrate like a circus and run for five years, every Sunday a page." He said he heard the story at the archduke Joseph's country place, the same Joseph who, towards the end of the war, tried to make himself King of Hungary and failed, but the probabilities are that the story was Mark's own, with Magyar trimmings. It ran as follows:
A great landowner, after a business trip of several months, returned to Budapest, and was met at the station by his carriage and pair that was to take him to his estate in the country.
"Everything well at home?" he asked the coachman.
"Excellently well," replied the driver, cracking his whip.
After a while the Baron ventured another question:
"Why didn't you bring my dogs along?" he asked.
"Dogs are sick, your Excellency."
"My dogs sick? How did that happen?"
"Ate too much fried horse."
"Fried horse? Where did they get that?"
"Stable burned down."
"My stable burned down, cattle and all? Awful! What about the castle?"
"Oh, the castle is all right."
​The Baron thought it over for the space of a mile, then said:
"You are sure the castle was not hurt by the fire?"
"Sure, only the two wings burned down."
"But the family is safe?"
"Yes, the family is all right."
When the horses entered upon their tenth mile, the Baron resumed his examination:
"Children all well?"
"All well and happy, except Janos and Maritzka, who were burned."
"Burned, oh Lord! And the Baroness, my wife?"
"Oh, she is better off than any of us. God has her in His holy keeping. She was burned to death. Yes, indeed, she died with her mother and in her arms."
"This is what I call breaking the news gently," said Mark.
# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/Dukes and Unborn Car Horses

DUKES AND UNBORN CAR HORSES
I told Mark Twain of the Princes and Dukes of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, "in meeting assembled" at London, who had protested against the expulsion of their kinsman, Dom Pedro, from the throne of Brazil.
"Just as efficacious as if the car horses that remain unbred since the arrival of the trolley sued the Brooklyn Rapid Transit, or the Third Avenue electric line, for murder," snapped Mark.
# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/Assorted Beauties

ASSORTED BEAUTIES
Of the Vienna women Mark Twain used to say that they were so "cussed pretty a man walking out with his wife feels relieved when he meets a plain one."
He was reminded of his visit to the Berlin court and was asked what he thought of the ladies he met there.
"They were so loaded down with tiaras, necklaces, and sets of jewelry, my eyes were too dazzled to get a good view of their faces. I am sure, though, that most of the old ones had enormous backs. And that recalls a story that I heard at an embassy here, which I must not name. The ambassadors were talking of the beauty of the women of their own country, and they all looked with pity on the Korean consular representative, wondering what he would say, but he was a spunky chap, and when his turn came, blurted out: 'Well, gentlemen, as to the fair sex, there isn't much to boast of in my country, but I will admit that the ladies of our court at home are no less ill-favored than the women of the Berlin Schloss, and they are dirtier, too.' That postscript," said Mark, "was the funniest thing I heard in a long time. He said it in a right hearty and well-meaning way, too. He evidently meant it and was proud of it."
# Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field/Democratic Mark and the Austrian Aristocracy

DEMOCRATIC MARK AND THE AUSTRIAN ARISTOCRACY
Mark Twain was essentially a democrat, and the nobles he met in Berlin and other parts of Germany never cured him of that fine habit. But in Vienna he grew less exclusive and in the end actually liked to mix with high aristocrats. "The Prussian noble," he once explained at the Metropole, "walks and acts as if he had swallowed the stick they used to beat him with when a youngster—I stole the simile somewhere, but never mind—however, the Vienna brand of aristocrat is different. Maybe Austrian nobles are just as stuck-up on account of their ancestry, but they have the good sense not to let their pride be seen. They all treat me cordially, talk agreeably and seem to possess at least a stock of superficial information. The Princess Pauline Metternich, in particular, is a bully old girl. If she were to write her memoirs, the world would gain a book as bright as Mme. de Sévigné's Letters. For one thing I would like to have seen her husband's face when he learned that she made him sign his own death warrant.
"Prince Metternich, as Austrian ambassador in Paris, used to sign any and every paper his secretaries put before him, as he was much too indolent to read them. To cure him of this habit, Pauline one fine day laid a document on his desk, ordering that he, the Prince, be taken out and shot at sunrise. Metternich ​promptly put his name to it without reading a line. Next morning at five, several male friends of His Highness rang the bell at the Palace and demanded to be taken up to the bedroom. They wore Austrian uniforms and made an awful racket with their swords. Metternich stormed from his bed to see what the row was and then and there the death warrant was read to him. He fainted. Indeed they had a big time snatching him from the brink of the grave, for he was near frightened to death.
"Some jocular wife, eh?" chuckled Mark.