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# Young Lochinvar (3)/The Rose of Dunmore

THE ROSE OF DUNMORE.
As I went a walking out early, Bright Phebus most sweetly did shine, And the nightingale warbled melodious As the lusin that falls from the glen. It's down thro' a grove where I walked, A while to condole in a shade, On my destiny for to ponder, It's there I beheld a sweet maid.
I cast forth my eyes for to view her, And thus unto her I did say, You fair has ny heart ensnared, How far thro' the grove dost thou stray ? She answered, sir, I will tell you, The truth unto you I'll explore, Of a matter that lately befell me, My dwelling lies near Dunmore.
Once I did love a brave hero, Till my tender heart he did gain, No mortal I ever lov'd dearer, But now he is ploughing the main, All under brave Neilson for battle, And our English Navy so brave, Where cannons and guns loudly rattle, Against the proud French on the main.
He says, now my fair, so ensnaring, Perhaps your true-love he is slain, As many a man fell a victim, And fell by the French on the main ; So it might happen with your love, As it hath done with many before,
​I pray come with me to Rathfriland, And bid a farewell to Dunmore,
How could I be thus so inconstant, And promised so much to be true, To leave my old sweetheart lamenting, And venture all fortune with you ; The people would call me hard hearted, For fidelity to him I've swore, That our loves should never be parted, But wait for the youth in Dunmore.
Since it is so now decreed, That I now a victim must fall, I cannot refrain now but mourn, Tho I am no better at all. I still live in expectation, Of that charming youth I adore, I hope to my great consolation, To meet him with joy in Dunmore.
Cheeks like the fair beauties blown, Your summer will soon be o'er, October winds will be blown, And blast the sweet rose of Dunmore. I found that her heart was failing, As many had done before, I hoist up my sails for Rathfriland, And gained the sweet rose of Dunmore.
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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# Young Lochinvar (3)

Young Lochinvar,
To which are added,
The Rose of Dunmore,
Scottish Whisky,
Blythe was She but and ben,
Sleepin' Maggy,
Shepherds, I have lost my love.
STIRLING :
Printed for the Booksellers.
* Young Lochinvar
* The Rose of Dunmore
* Scottish Whisky
* Blythe Was She
* Sleepin' Maggy
* Banks of Banna
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# Young Lochinvar (3)/Blythe Was She

BLYTHE WAS SHE.
Blythe, blythe and merry was she, Blythe was she but and ben : Blyth by the banks of Earn, And blythe in Glenturit glen.
​By Ochtertyre grows the aik. On Yarrow braes the birken shaw ; But Phemie was a bonnier lass, Than braes o Yarrow ever saw. Blythe &c.
Her looks were like a flower in May, Her smile was like a simmer morn; She tripped by the banks o' Earn, As light's a bird upon a thorn. Blythe, &c.
Her bonny face it was as meek, As onie lamb upon a lee; The ev'ning sun was ne'er sae sweet As was the blink o' Phemie's e'e. Blythe, &c.
The Highland hills I ve wander'd wide, And o'er the Lowlands I hae been ; But Phemie was the blythest lass, That ever trod the dewy green. Blythe, &c.
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# 'And so ad infinitum' (The Life of the Insects)/Prologue

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PROLOGUE
Lepidopterist. There they go, there they go! Fine specimens! Apatura Iris—Apatura Clythia—light-blue butterflies and the Painted Lady. Wait a minute—I’ll get you! That ’s just it—they won’t wait, the silly creatures. Off again . . . Hullo—somebody here. They’re settling on him. Now! Carefully. Slowly. Tiptoe! One, two, three!
Lepidopterist. Don’t move! Careful now! They’re settling again. Funny creatures—they’ll settle on mud, on any sort of garbage, and now they’re settling on you.
Tramp. Let ’em go. They’re ’appy.
Lepidopterist. Idiot! I’ve lost them, confound you! There they go, there they go!
Tramp. It ’s a shime—it is, reely.
Enter the Lepidopterist, r.
Lepidopterist. Two,—splendid Nymphalidae!
Tramp. No offence, mister, but why’jer catch them when they’re all so ’appy playing?
Lepidopterist. Playing, you call it. I’m afraid you haven’t the scientific mind, my friend. It ’s the overture to the natural system by which Nature keeps up the balance of the population—that ’s what you call ‘playing’. The male pursues the female; the female allures, avoids—selects—the eternal round of sex!
Tramp. What will you do with them when you catch them?
Lepidopterist. What shall I do? Well, each insect must be identified, recorded and assigned a place in my collection. The butterfly must be carefully killed, and then carefully pinned, and properly dried, and care must be taken that the ​powder is not rubbed off. And it must be protected against dust and draught. A little cyanide of potassium.
Tramp. And what ’s it all for?
Lepidopterist. Love of nature—if you loved nature as much as I did, my man—Careful—didn’t I tell you—they’re off again. Never mind, I’ll get you, see if I don’t.[Exit.
Tramp. ’E’s clever, that there bloke. And as for me,
P’raps I am screwed; but if I am, ’oo cares? That ain't the only reason why I see Everythink double, everythink in pairs.
Them little birds up there . . . I see yer plain! Tweet-weety-weet . . . Lord! ’ow they bill and coo, As yer might say. Them butterflies again, What sport they ’ave—’ow prettily they woo!
Love ’s what they want. Some day they’ll get it, p’raps: Everythink does—or mostways everythink . . . (S’pose you’d a girl who loved all kinds of chaps— Wouldn’t you damn yerself, and take to drink?)
Well, ’ere ’s the world, and though I’m down and out, It ’s worth while learnin’ what it ’s all about.
# 'Birth of Burns' programme, 1859

Programme for an 1859 'Birth of Burns' event, held at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, celebrating Robert Burns.
Centenary Anniversary
of the
Birth of Burns,
New Town Hall;
Tuesday, January 25, 1859.
Sir John Fife, Chairman.
Joseph Cowen, Sen., Esq., Vice-Chairman.
Programme.
Printed by M. & M. W. Lambert, 42-50, Grey Street, Newcastle.
This work was published in 1859 and is anonymous or pseudonymous due to unknown authorship. It is in the public domain in the United States as well as countries and areas where the copyright terms of anonymous or pseudonymous works are 164 years or less since publication.
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# 1862 Territory of Dakota Session Laws/Chapter 3

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APPORTIONMENT.
CHAPTER 3.
AN ACT TO APPORTION THE REPRESENTATION TO THE RED RIVER DISTRICT.
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota:
Apportioned one councilman and two representatives.Section 1. That all that portion of territory lying on the Red River, including the settlements of Pembina and St. Joseph, shall constitute the seventh council district of Dakota, and shall be entitled to one councilman, and two representatives in the legislative assembly of this territory.
Take effect, when.Sect. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the governor.
    Approved April 21, 1862.
W. JAYNE, Governor.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Ambient

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​AMBIENT (from Lat. ambi, on both sides, and ire, to go), surrounding; a word implying a moving rather than a stationary encircling. It is used mostly in the phrase the “ambient air,” though Bacon applied it as an adjective to the clergy, suggesting “ambition.” In astrology it means the sky.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Ambigu

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​AMBIGU, a French game of cards, composed of the characteristic elements of whist, bouillotte and piquet. A whist pack with the court cards deleted is used, and from two to six persons may play. Each player is given an equal number of counters, and a limit of betting is agreed upon. Two cards are dealt, one at a time, to each player, after each has placed two counters in a pool. Each player then either keeps his hand, saying “Enough,” or takes one or two new cards from the top of the stock, after which the stock is reshuffled and cut, and each player receives two more cards, one at a time. The players then either “play” or “pass.” If a person “plays,” he bets a number of counters and the others may equal this bet or raise it. Should no player meet the first bet, the bettor takes back his bet, leaving the pool intact, and receives two counters from the last player who refuses to play. When two or more bet the same number, they again draw cards and “pass” or “play” as before. If all “pass,” each pays a counter to the pool and a new deal ensues. The player betting more than the others call wins the pool. He then exposes his hand and is paid by each adversary according to its value. The hands rank as follows:—“Point,” the number of pips on two or more cards of a suit (one counter). “Prime,” four cards of different suits (two counters). “Grand Prime,” the same with the number of pips over 30 (three counters). “Sequence,” a hand containing three cards of the same suit in sequence (three counters). “Tricon," three of a kind (four counters). “Flush,” four cards of the same suit (five counters). “Doublet,” a hand containing two counting combinations at once, as 2, 3, 4 and 7 of spades, amounting to both a “sequence” and a “flush” (eight counters). “Fredon,” four of a kind (the highest possible hand), ten or eleven counters, according to the number of pips. Ties are decided by the number of pips.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Ambert

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​AMBERT, a town of central France, capital of an arrondissement of the department of Puy-de-Dôme, on the Dore, 52 m. E.S.E. of Clermont-Ferrand by rail. Pop. (1906), town, 3889; commune, 7581. The town has a church of the 15th and 16th centuries and carries on the manufacture of paper, lace, ribbon, rosaries, &c., and trade in cheese. It is the seat of a sub-prefect, and the public institutions include tribunals of first instance and of commerce, a chamber of arts and manufactures, and a communal college.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Amberg

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​AMBERG, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Bavaria, formerly the capital of the Upper Palatinate, situated on both sides of the Vils, 42 m. E. of Nuremberg by rail. Pop. 22,089. It has a town hall with handsome rooms, a library, a gymnasium, a lyceum, elementary schools, an arsenal, and eleven churches, the finest of which is St Martin’s, of the 15th century, with many excellent paintings and a tower 300 ft. high. A former Jesuit monastery is now used for a grammar school and seminary. There are also a pilgrimage church on a hill 1621 ft. high, a large convict prison for men, an industrial, commercial and other schools. The principal manufactures are firearms, ironmongery, earthenware, woollen cloth, beer, stoneware, zinc goods, colours and salt; in the neighbourhood are iron and coal mines. The French under Jourdan were defeated by the Austrians under the Archduke Charles near Amberg in 1796.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Amblygonite

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​AMBLYGONITE, a mineral usually found as cleavable or columnar, and compact masses; it is translucent and has a vitreous lustre, and the colour varies from white to pale shades of violet, grey, green or yellow. There are good cleavages in two directions. The hardness is 6 and the specific gravity 3·0. The mineral is thus not unlike felspar in general appearance, but it is readily distinguished from this by its chemical characters, being an aluminium and lithium fluophosphate, Li(AlF)PO$_4$, with part of the lithium replaced by sodium and part of the fluorine by hydroxyl. Crystals, which are rarely distinctly developed, belong to the anorthic system, and frequently show twin lamellae.
The mineral was first discovered in Saxony by A. Breithaupt in 1817, and named by him from the Greek ἀμβλύς, blunt, and γωνία, angle, because of the obtuse angle between the cleavages. Later it was found at Montebras, dep. Creuse, France, and at Hebron in Maine; and on account of slight differences in optical character and chemical composition the names montebrasite and hebronite have been applied to the mineral from these localities. Recently it has been discovered in considerable quantity at Pala in San Diego county, California, and at Cáceres in Spain. Amblygonite occurs with lepidolite, tourmaline and other lithia-bearing minerals in pegmatite-veins. It contains about 10% of lithia, and, since 1886, has been utilized as a source of lithium salts, the chief commercial sources being the Montebras deposits, and later the Californian. (L. J. S.)
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Ambiguity

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​AMBIGUITY (Fr. ambiguïté, med. Lat. ambiguitas, from Lat. ambiguus, doubtful; ambi, both ways, agere, to drive), doubtfulness or uncertainty. In law an ambiguity as to the meaning of the words of a written instrument may be of considerable importance. Ambiguity, in law, is of two kinds, patent and latent. (1) Patent ​ambiguity is that ambiguity which is apparent on the face of an instrument to any one perusing it, even if he be unacquainted with the circumstances of the parties. In the case of a patent ambiguity parol evidence is admissible to explain only what has been written, not what it was intended to write. For example, in Saunderson v. Piper, 1839, 5 B.N.C. 425, where a bill was drawn in figures for £245 and in words for two hundred pounds, evidence that “and forty-five” had been omitted by mistake was rejected. But where it appears from the general context of the instrument what the parties really meant, the instrument will be construed as if there was no ambiguity, as in Saye and Sele’s case, 10 Mod. 46, where the name of the grantor had been omitted in the operative part of a grant, but, as it was clear from another part of the grant who he was, the deed was held to be valid. (2) Latent ambiguity is where the wording of an instrument is on the face of it clear and intelligible, but may, at the same time, apply equally to two different things or subject matters, as where a legacy is given “to my nephew, John,” and the testator is shown to have two nephews of that name. A latent ambiguity may be explained by parol evidence, for, as the ambiguity has been brought about by circumstances extraneous to the instrument, the explanation must necessarily be sought for from such circumstances. (See also Evidence.)
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Ambleside

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​AMBLESIDE, a market-town in the Appleby parliamentary division of Westmorland, England, a mile from the head of Windermere. Pop. of urban district (1901) 2536. It is most beautifully situated, for though the lake is hardly visible from the town, the bare, sharply rising hills surrounding the richly wooded valley of the Rothay afford a series of exquisite views. The hills immediately above this part of the valley are Wansfell on the east, Loughrigg Fell on the west, and Rydal Fell and the ridge below Snarker Pike (2096 ft.) to the north. At the head of Windermere is Waterhead, the landing-stage of Ambleside, which is served by the lake steamers of the Furness Railway Company. The chief roads which centre upon Ambleside are—one from the town of Windermere, following the eastern shore of the lake; one from Ullswater, by Patterdale and Kirkstone Pass; one from Keswick, by Dunmail Raise and Grasmere, and the two lovely lakes of Grasmere and Rydal Water; and one from the Brathay valley and the Langdales to the west. Ambleside is thus much frequented by tourists. In its vicinity is Rydal Mount, for many years the residence of the poet Wordsworth. The town has some industry in bobbin-making, and there are slate quarries in the neighbourhood.
Close by the lake side the outlines are still visible of a Roman fort, the name of which is not known. It appears to have guarded a route over the hills by Hardknott and Wrynose Pass to Ravenglass on the coast of Cumberland.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Ambergris

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​AMBERGRIS (Ambra grisea, Ambre gris, or grey amber), a solid, fatty, inflammable substance of a dull grey or blackish colour, the shades being variegated like marble, possessing a peculiar sweet, earthy odour. It occurs as a biliary concretion in the intestines of the spermaceti whale (Physeter macrocephalus), and is found floating upon the sea, on the sea-coast, or in the sand near the sea-coast. It is met with in the Atlantic Ocean; on the coasts of Brazil and Madagascar; also on the coast of Africa, of the East Indies, China, Japan and the Molucca islands; but most of the ambergris which is brought to England comes from the Bahama Islands, Providence, &c. It is also sometimes found in the abdomen of whales, always in lumps of various shapes and sizes, weighing from 1/2 oz. to 100 or more pounds. Ambergris, when taken from the intestinal canal of the sperm whale, is of a deep grey colour, soft consistence and a disagreeable smell. On exposure to the air it gradually hardens, becomes pale and develops its peculiar sweet, earthy odour. In that condition its specific gravity ranges from 0·780 to 0·926. It melts at about 62° C. to a fatty, yellow resinous-like liquid; and at 100° C. it is volatilized into a white vapour. It is soluble in ether, and in volatile and fixed oils; it is only feebly acted on by acids. By digesting in hot alcohol, a substance termed ambrein, closely resembling cholesterin, is obtained, which separates in brilliant white crystals as the solution cools. The use of ambergris in Europe is now entirely confined to perfumery, though it formerly occupied no inconsiderable place in medicine. In minute quantities its alcoholic solution is much used for giving a “floral” fragrance to bouquets, washes and other preparations of the perfumer. It occupies a very important place in the perfumery of the East, and there it is also used in pharmacy and as a flavouring material in cookery. The high price it commands makes it peculiarly liable to adulteration, but its genuineness is easily tested by its solubility in hot alcohol, its fragrant odour, and its uniform fatty consistence on being penetrated by a hot wire.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Ambiorix

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​AMBIORIX, prince of the Eburones, a tribe of Belgian Gaul. Although Caesar (q.v.) had freed him from paying tribute to the Aduatuci, he joined Catuvolcus (winter, 54 B.C.) in a rising against the Roman forces under Q. Titurius Sabinus and L. Aurunculeius Cotta, and almost annihilated them. An attack on Quintus Cicero (brother of the orator), then quartered with a legion in the territory of the Nervii, failed owing to the timely appearance of Caesar. Ambiorix is said to have found safety across the Rhine.
Caesar, Bell. Gall. v. 26-51, vi. 29-43, viii. 24; Dio Cassius xl. 7-11; Florus iii. 10.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Asperges

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​ASPERGES (“thou wilt sprinkle,” from the Latin verb aspergere), the ceremony of sprinkling the people with holy water before High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church, so called from the first word of the verse (Ps. iv. 9) Asperges me, Domini, hyssopo et mundabor, with which the priest begins the ceremony. The brush used for sprinkling is an aspergill (aspergillum), or aspersoir, and the vessel for this water an aspersorium. The act of sprinkling the water is called aspersion.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Asphyxia

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​ASPHYXIA (Gr. ἀ- priv., σφύξις, a pulse), a term in medicine, literally signifying loss of pulsation, which is applied to describe the arrestment of the function of respiration from some hindrance to the entrance of air into the lungs. (See Respiratory System: Pathology.)
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Asper, Hans

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​ASPER, HANS (1499–1571), Swiss painter, was born and died at Zürich. He wrought in a great variety of styles, but excelled chiefly in flower and fruit pieces, and in portrait-painting. Many of his pictures have perished, but his style may be judged from the illustrations to Gessner’s Historia Animalium, for which he is said to have furnished the designs, and from portraits of Zwingli and his daughter Regula Gwalter, which are preserved in the public library of Zürich. It has been usual to class Asper among the pupils and imitators of Holbein, but an inspection of his works is sufficient to show that this is a mistake. Though Asper was held in high reputation by his fellow-citizens, who elected him a member of the Great Council, and had a medal struck in his honour, he seems to have died in poverty.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Asphodel

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​ASPHODEL (Asphodelus), a genus of the lily order (Liliaceae), containing seven species in the Mediterranean region. The plants are hardy herbaceous perennials with narrow tufted radical leaves and an elongated stem bearing a handsome spike of white or yellow flowers. Asphodelus albus and A. fistulosus have white flowers and grow from 11/2 to 2 ft. high; A. ramosus is a larger plant, the large white flowers of which have a reddish-brown line in the middle of each segment. Bog-asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum), a member of the same family, is a small herb common in boggy places in Britain, with rigid narrow radical leaves and a stem bearing a raceme of small golden yellow flowers.
In Greek legend the asphodel is the most famous of the plants connected with the dead and the underworld. Homer describes it as covering the great meadow (ἀσφόδελος λειμών), the haunt of the dead (Od. xi. 539, 573; xxiv. 13). It was planted on graves, and is often connected with Persephone, who appears crowned with a garland of asphodels. Its general connexion with death is due no doubt to the greyish colour of its leaves and its yellowish flowers, which suggest the gloom of the underworld and the pallor of death. The roots were eaten by the poorer Greeks; hence such food was thought good enough for the shades (cf. Hesiod, Works and Days, 41; Pliny, Nat. Hist. xxi. 17 [68]; Lucian, De luctu, 19). The asphodel was also supposed to be a remedy for poisonous snake-bites and a specific against sorcery; it was fatal to mice, but preserved pigs from disease. The Libyan nomads made their huts of asphodel stalks (cf. Herod. iv. 190). ​No satisfactory derivation of the word is suggested. The English word “daffodil” is a perversion of “asphodel,” formerly written “affodil.” The d may come from the French fleur d’affodille. It is no part of the word philologically.
See Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopädie, s.v.; H. O. Lenz, Botanik der alten Griechen und Römer (1859); J. Murr, Die Pflanzenwelt in der griechischen Mythologie (1890).