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# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Memphis (Egypt)

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MEMPHIS (Coptic, Menfi or Menofre, “good abode” or “the abode of the good one,” supposed to refer to Osiris; in hieroglyphic inscriptions, according to some, Ma-en-Ptah, abode of Ptah; in Scripture, Noph or Moph), an ancient capital of Egypt, on the W. bank of the Nile, 10 m. S. of the modern city of
Cairo. Its foundation is ascribed to Menes, the first king of Egypt; it was certainly very ancient, and was the first capital of the united kingdom of Upper and Lower Egypt. Its situation commanded the S. entrance to the delta, and it was protected by a dike from the inundations of the Nile. According to Diodorus, Memphis was about 17 m. in circuit, but probably this included much open ground. It was remarkable for its fine climate and the beauty of the view from its walls. It controlled the inland trade of Egypt, ascending or descending the Nile. It was the chief seat of learning and of religion, the principal place of the worship of the god Ptah, and the chosen residence of the sacred bull Apis, whose temple here was celebrated for its colonnades through which the great processions were conducted. The other great temples were: that of Isis, commenced at a very early period, and completed by Amasis, 564 B. C.; the temple of Serapis, to which was attached a Nilometer, in the western quarter of the city; the temple of Phra or the sun; and the temple of Ptah, the most ancient of all, and the largest and most superb.—Memphis was the seat of successive dynasties, the 3d, 4th, 5th, 7th, and 8th of Egyptian history, who (according to Mariette) reigned, with one interval of 203 years, from 4449 to 3358 B. C. By the 4th dynasty the great pyramids were built. It was also the capital during the supremacy of the shepherd kings. It suffered severely from the Persians, who avenged the murder of their herald by the Memphians. They made it the headquarters of a Persian garrison; and Cambyses compelled Psammetik III., the last of the Pharaohs, to kill himself, slew the sacred Apis with his own hand, massacred the priests, and profaned the temple of Ptah. The Persians made it the metropolis of their African possessions, and it continued to be the chief city of Egypt until the foundation of Alexandria, after which it gradually declined, and in the course of ages sunk into such utter decay that its very site, overwhelmed with drifted sand, was a matter of dispute among antiquaries. Modern researches have proved that the village of Mitrahenny or Mitranieh, S. of Gizeh, marks the site of Memphis. Its remains extend over many hundred acres of ground, and include ruins of temples and of palaces, and statues, bass reliefs, and inscriptions, to the number of several thousand.
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Mayer, Brantz

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MAYER, Brantz, an American author, born in Baltimore, Sept. 27, 1809. His father was a merchant of German birth, engaged in trade with the East Indies and Mexico, and for many years consul general of Würtemberg in the United States. After graduating at St. Mary's college, Baltimore, he sailed for the East, visiting Java, Sumatra, and China, and returned in 1828. He practised law from 1832 till 1841, when he was appointed secretary of legation to Mexico, where he remained a year, and on his return edited for a short time the "Baltimore American" newspaper. In 1867 he was appointed a paymaster in the
United States army, a post which he still held in 1874. Among his works are: “Mexico as it was and as it is” (1844; 3d ed., 1847); “History of the War between Mexico and the United States” (1848); “Mexico, Aztec, Spanish, and Republican” (1852); “Calvert and Penn, or the Growth of Civil and Religious Liberty in the United States” (1852); “Captain Canot, or Twenty Years in an African Slaver” (1854); “Observations on Mexican History and Archæology,” in “Smithsonian Contributions” (1857); “Mexican Antiquities” (1858); and “Baltimore as it was and as it is” (1871). He has also contributed to the Maryland historical society the “Journal of Charles Carroll of Carrollton during his Mission to Canada,” and “Tah-gah-jute, or Logan and Captain Michael Cresap.”
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Meissner, Alfred

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MEISSNER, Alfred, a German poet, born at Teplitz, Oct. 15, 1822. He is a grandson of the voluminous miscellaneous author August Gottlieb Meissner (1753-1807). He studied medicine, taking his degree at Prague in 1846. To elude the Austrian censorship, he published in the same year at Leipsic his famous epic poem Ziska (10th ed., 1867). He long resided chiefly in Paris, and returned to Prague in 1850, where he and Moritz Hartmann were the principal representatives of the liberal school
of German poetry in Bohemia, a 10th edition of his Gedichte appearing in 1867. Some of his effusions, especially Der Sohn des Atta Troll (1850), abound with the peculiar sarcasm and pathos in which Heine excelled, and he published Erinnerungen an Heine (1854). Among his novels are Zwischen Fürst und Volk (3 vols., 2d ed., 1861), illustrating the revolution of 1848; Zur Ehre Gottes (2 vols., 1861); and Schwarzgelb (8 vols., Berlin, 1864; popular edition, 1 vol., 1866). His other writings include Charaktermasken (3 vols., Leipsic, 1861-'3); Novellen (2 vols., Leipsic, 1864); Die Kinder Rom's (4 vols., Berlin, 1870); and Rococo-Bilder (Gumbinnen, 1871).
# The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Memphremagog, Lake

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MEMPHREMAGOG, Lake, a body of water, about 35 m. long from N. to S. and from 2 to 5 m. wide, situated partly in Vermont and partly in Quebec, Canada. It discharges through Magog river into the St. Francis, and thence into the St. Lawrence. The surrounding scenery is picturesque. Along the W. shore are several mountains, prominent among which are Owl's Head, Elephantis, and the Sugar Loaf; the E. shore presents a pleasing contrast. The lake is studded with islands, and abounds in fine fish. Near its head is the
village of Newport, and at its outlet Magog, between which a steamer plies in summer, accommodating the numerous visitors.
# Tam Samson's Elegy

* "Tam Samson's Elegy", in The Beauties of Burn's Poems (1819), a chapbook printed in Falkirk
* "Tam Samson's Elegy", in The Poetical Works of Robert Burns (1887), edited by Alexander Smith
# Tam o' the Scoots

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The "Scoots" are not people who scoot at the slightest sign of trouble, but rather what our hero, the not-so-dour Scotchman Tam, calls the flying Scouts, the fighters of the Royal Flying Corps. (In 1918, they were to merge with the Royal Naval Air Service, forming the Royal Air Force). A story of World War I.
Tam o' the Scoots
Tam's two guns flamed for four seconds and then the German dropped straight for earth See page 187
TAM O' THE SCOOTS
BY EDGAR WALLACE
Author of "The Clue of the Twisted Candle," "Kate Plus
10," "The Man Who Knew," etc
ILLUSTRATED BY
L. A. SHAFER
BOSTON
SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1919
By SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
(incorporated)
To
QUENTIN ROOSEVELT
and all airmen, friend and foe
alike, who have fallen in clean fighting
The world was a puddle of gloom and of shadowy things,
He sped till the red and the gold of invisible day
Was burnish and flames to the undermost spread of his wings,
So he outlighted the stars as he poised in the grey.
Nearer was he to the knowledge and splendour of God,
Mysteries sealed from the ken of the ancient and wise—
Beauties forbidden to those who are one with the clod—
All that there was of the Truth was revealed to his eyes.
Flickers of fire from the void and the whistle of death,
Clouds that snapped blackly beneath him, above and beside,
Watch him, serene and uncaring—holding your breath,
Fearing his peril and all that may come of his pride.
Now he was swooped to the world like a bird to his nest,
Now is the drone of his coming the roaring of hell,
Now with a splutter and crash are the engines at rest—
All's well!
E. W.
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| I | The Case of Lasky | 1 |
| II | Puppies of the Pack | 21 |
| III | The Coming of Müller | 40 |
| IV | The Strafing of Müller | 58 |
| V | Annie—the Gun | 76 |
| VI | The Law-Breaker and Frightfulness | 100 |
| VII | The Man Behind the Circus | 130 |
| VIII | A Question of Rank | 157 |
| IX | A Reprisal Raid | 191 |
| X | The Last Load | 220 |
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# The American Democrat/On Deportment

ON DEPORTMENT.
Much of the pleasure of social communication depends on the laws of deportment. Deportment may be divided into that, which, by marking refinement and polish, is termed breeding; and that, which, though less distinguished for finesse and finish, denoting a sense of civility and respect, is usually termed manners. The first can only be expected in men and women of the world, or those who are properly styled gentlemen and ladies; while an absence of the last is a proof of vulgarity and coarseness, that every citizen of a free state should be desirous of avoiding. Breeding is always pleasant, though often arbitrary in its rules; but manners are indispensable to civilization. It is just as unreasonable to expect high breeding in any but those who are trained to it, from youth upward, as it would be to expect learning without education; but a tone of manners, that shall mark equally self-respect and a proper regard for others, is as easily acquired as reading and writing.
The gentleman should aim at a standard of deportment that is refined by sentiment and taste, without the sickliness of overstrained feelings; and those ​beneath him in condition, at a manly humanity, that shall not pretend to distinctions the party does not comprehend, while it carefully respects all the commoner observances of civilized intercourse.
A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.
# Tales of the Thames

From The English Illustrated, Vol 13, 1895.
TALES OF THE THAMES.
By MAX PEMBERTON.

## Contents

* Marygold
* A Ragged Intruder
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# Tales of the Unexpected

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TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED
BY
H. G. WELLS
LONDON: 48 PALL MALL W. COLLINS SONS & CO. LTD. GLASGOW MELBOURNE AUCKLAND
Manufactured in Great Britain.
CONTENTS
* PAGE
* THE REMARKABLE CASE OF DAVIDSON'S EYES7
* THE MOTH20
* THE STORY OF THE LATE MR ELVESHAM33
* UNDER THE KNIFE54
* THE PLATTNER STORY71
* THE CRYSTAL EGG96
* THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES118
* A DREAM OF ARMAGEDDON140
* THE NEW ACCELERATOR172
* THE DOOR IN THE WALL190
* THE APPLE211
* THE TEMPTATION OF HARRINGAY221
* SKELMERSDALE IN FAIRYLAND228
* THE INEXPERIENCED GHOST245
* THE STOLEN BODY261
# Teresa Contarini

A tragedy, in five acts. First performed at the Park Theater, New York, March, 1835

## Dramatis Personae

* Doge of Venice
* Foscarini
* Contarini, Inquisitor of State
* Loredano, Inquisitor of State
* Badoero, Inquisitor of State
* Veniero
* Vincentio
* Leonardo
* Steno, Officer of the Inquisition
* Pascali, Officer of the Inquisition
* Beltramo, the Jailer
* Memmo, Captain of the Guard
* Marco
* Stefano
* Teresa
* Fiorilla
* Matilda
* First Attendant
* Senators---Guards---Attendants, &c

## The Play

* Act I
* Act II
* Act III
* Act IV
* Act V
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# Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Bigger

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United States Supreme Court
239 U.S. 330
Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Bigger
Argued: November 30, 1915. --- Decided: December 13, 1915
Messrs. George Thompson and T. D. Cobbs for plaintiff in error.
Messrs. H. C. Carter and Perry J. Lewis for defendants in error.
Mr. Justice McKenna delivered the opinion of the court:

## Notes

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# Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Bourman

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United States Supreme Court
212 U.S. 536
Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Bourman
Argued: January 6, 7, 1909. --- Decided: February 23, 1909
Messrs. Charles Payne Fenner and William Wirt Howe for plaintiff in error.
Messrs. Aldis B. Browne, Alexander Britton, Oliver S. Livaudais, A. E. Livaudais, and Albert Voorhies for defendant in error.
[Argument of Counsel from page 537 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice Moody delivered the opinion of the court:

## Notes

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# Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Callender

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United States Supreme Court
183 U.S. 632
Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Callender
Argued: December 3, 1901. --- Decided: January 13, 1902
Messrs. Arthur H. Masten and Rush Taggart for plaintiff in error.
Messrs. Treadwell Cleveland, George Richards, and Frederick E. Mygatt for defendants in error.
Mr. Justice Peckham delivered the opinion of the court:

## Notes

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# Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Behymer

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United States Supreme Court
189 U.S. 468
Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Behymer
Argued: March 20, April 6, 1903. --- Decided: April 20, 1903
Messrs. David D. Duncan, John F. Dillon, and Winslow S. Pierce for plaintiff in error.
Mr. Cone Johnson for defendant in error.
The opinion of the court was delivered by Mr. Justice Holmes:

## Notes

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# The American Language/Appendix 14

I am informed by Mr. S. S. Lontos, editor of Atlantis, the Greek newspaper published in New York, that Greek journalists and other writers working in the United States try to avoid the use of Americanisms in their writing, and that the same care is observed by educated Greeks in conversation. But the masses of Greek immigrants imitate the newcomers of all other races by adopting Americanisms wholesale. In most cases the loan-words, as in Italian, undergo changes. Thus, bill-of-fare becomes biloferi, pie changes to pay, sign and shine to saina (there is no sh-sound in Greek), cream to creamy, fruit-store to fruitaria, clams to clammess, steak to stecky, polish to policy, hotel to otelli, stand to stanza, lease to lista, depot to depos, car to carron (=Modern Greek, karron, a cart), picture to pitsa, elevator and elevated to elevata, and so on. The Greeks suffer linguistic confusion immediately they attempt English, for in Modern Greek nay (spelled nai) means yes, P. M. indicates the hours before noon, and the letter N stands for South. To make things even worse, the Greek papoose means grandfather and mammie means grandmother.
So far as I know, no philological study of American Greek has been made. Undoubtedly all the processes of decay that have been going on in Greece itself for centuries will be hastened in this country. Whenever English begins to influence another language it plays havoc with the inflections.
# The American Language/Appendix 2

[I am indebted to Mr. Ring W. Lardner, author of "You Know Me, Al," for the following. It combines the common language with the special argot of the professional baseball-players, a class of men whose speech Mr. Lardner has studied with great diligence.]
[Plot: The enemy has fallen on our pitcher and scored five runs. The side is finally retired and our men come in to the bench, where the manager awaits them.]
MANAGER—What the hell!
PITCHER (indicating the catcher)—Ask him!
CATCHER—Ask yourself, you yella bum! (To the manager) Hes been shakin me off all day.
MANAGER—What was it Peck hit?
PITCHER—I was tryin to waste it.
CATCHER—Waste it! You dinked it up there chest high. He couldnt of got a better cut at it if hed of tooken the ball in his hand.
PITCHER (to the catcher)—You could of got Shawkey at the plate if youd of left Jacks peg hop. He never even hit the dirt.
CATCHER—It would of been a short hop and I couldnt take no chance. You wasnt backin up. You was standin over in back of third base, posin for a pitcher (=picture) or somethin.
MANAGER (to the catcher)—What the hell happened on that ball on Bodie?
CATCHER—He (referring to the pitcher) crossed me up. I ast him for a hook and he yessed me and then throwed a fast one.
PITCHER—It was a curve ball, just like you ast me, only it didnt break good.
MANAGER (to the pitcher)—And what about Ruth? Is that all the more sense you got, groovin one for that big ape! Youd of did better to roll it up there.
PITCHER—The ball he hit was outside.
MANAGER—You mean after he hit it. For Gods sakes, use your head in there! This aint Fort Worth!
PITCHER—I wisht to hell it was!
MANAGER—And youre lible to get your wish!
Glossary
In there: In the pitchers position.
Up there: In the batters position.
Shakin me off: Refusing to pitch the kind of ball I signalled for.
Waste: To pitch a ball so high or so far outside that the batsman cannot reach it.
Dink: To throw a slow ball.
Hook: A curve ball.
Peg: A throw.
Hop: To bound.
Hit the dirt: To slide.

## Notes

* ↑ Or, more likely, the Jesus!
* ↑ Chest-high is a euphemism; the more usual form is titty-high.
# The American Language/Appendix 15

So far as I have been able to discover there is no literature in English upon the philological results of transplanting the Slavic languages, Polish, Czech, Serbian and Bulgarian, to America. Dr. C. H. Wachtel, editor of the Dziennik Chicagoski, the Polish daily newspaper published in Chicago, informs me that the Polish spoken in the United States has taken over a great multitude of English words and phrases, and says that the Rev. B. E. Goral, a priest of Milwaukee, has written several articles in Polish upon the subject and collected a vocabulary. But I have been unable to get into communication with Father Goral. I am likewise informed by the editor of the Svornost, the Bohemian daily of Chicago, that a study of the changes undergone by Czech in the United States has been published by Dr. J. Salaba Vojan, of Chicago, but my inquiries of Dr. Vojan are unanswered. Regarding Serbian and Bulgarian I have been unable to obtain any information whatever. Of late years several chairs of Slavic languages and literatures have been set up in American universities. It is to be hoped that among the students they attract there will be some who will devote themselves to the transplanted living tongues as the scholars of the Middle West have devoted themselves to Dano-Norwegian.
# The Anabasis of Alexander/Book VII/Chapter XIII

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CHAPTER XIII.
The Nisaean Plain.—The Amazons.
* ↑ Cf. Plutarch (Eumenes, 2).
* ↑ The march was from Opis to Media, as we see from the next chapter.
* ↑ Cf. Herodotus (iii. 106; 7ii. 40); Strabo, xi. 7 and 14; Diodor. xvii. 110; Ammianus, xxiii. 6. Sir Henry Eawlinson sajs: " With Herodotus, who was most imperfectly acquainted with the geography of Media, origiaated the error of transferring to that province the Nisea (Nesd) of Khorassan, and all later writers either copied or confounded his statement. Strabo alone has escaped from the general confusion. In his description we recognise the great grazing plains of Khawah, Alishtar, Huru, Silakhur, Burburud, Japalak, and Feridun, which thus stretch in a continuous line from one point to another along the southern frontiers of Media." Alexander probably visited the westernmost of these pastures which stretch from Behistun to Ispahan along the mountain range. The form διαρπαγῆναι is used only by the later writers for διαρπασθῆναι.
* ↑ Cf. Strabo, xi. 5; Diodorus, xvii. 77; Curtius, vi. 19; Justin, xii. 3; Arrian, iv. 15; Homer (Iliad, iii. 189); Aeschylus (Eumenides, 655); Hippocrates (De Aere, Aquis, et Locis, p. 553).
* ↑ The queen is called Thalestris by Diodorus and Curtius.
* ↑ This is a mistake, for Xenophon does mention the Amazons in the Anabasis (iv. 4, 16). For Trapezus and the Phasians see his Anabasis (iv. 8, 22; v. 6, 36.)
* ↑ See Diodorus, iv. 16. This was one of the twelve labours of Hercules.
* ↑ See Plutarch (Theseus, 26).
* ↑ "The Battle of the Amazons" was a celebrated painting in the Stoa Poecile at Athens, executed by Micon, son of Phanichus, a contemporary of Polygnotus about B.C. 460. Cf. Aristophanes (Lysistrata, 678): "Look at the Amazons whom Micon painted on horseback fighting with the men." See also Pausanias (i. 15; viii. 11).
* ↑ Cf. Herodotus, iv. 110-117; ix. 27.
* ↑ See Isocrates (Panegyricus, 19); Lysias (Oratio Funebris, near the beginning).
* ↑ Strabo (xi. 5) declined to believe in the existence of the Amazons altogether. However, even Julius Caesar spoke of them as having once ruled over a large part of Asia. See Suetonius (Life of Julius Caesar, 22). Eustathius, on Dionysius Periegetes, p. 110, derives the name Amazones from ἀ, not, and μᾶζα, barley-bread:—διδ καὶ Ἀμαζόνες ἐκαλοῦντο οἶα μὴ μάζαις ἀλλὰ κρέασι θηρίων ἐπιστρεφόμεναι. This is not the usual derivation of the word.
# The Anabasis of Alexander/Book VII/Chapter XXII

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CHAPTER XXII.
An Omen of Alexander's Approaching Death.
* ↑ The Hebrew name for Babylon is Babel, i.e. Bab-Bel, court of Bel: porta vel aula, civitas Beli (Winer). In Jer. xxv. 26; li. 41, it is called Sbeshach, which Jewish commentators, followed by Jerome, explain by the Canon Atbash, i.e. after the alphabet put in an inverted order. According to this rule the word Babel, which is the Hebrew name of Babylon, would be written Sheshach. Sir Henry Eawlinson, however, says it was the name of a god after whom the city was named; and the word has been found among the Assyrian inscriptions representing a deity.
* ↑ The perfect passive δεδόμημαι is equivalent to the Epic and Ionic form δέδμημαι.
* ↑ σχεθῆναι. See p. 268, note 4.
* ↑ τῶν τὶς ναυτῶν. This position of τίς is an imitation of the usage in Ionic prose. Cf. Herod, i. 85; τῶν τὶς. See Liddell and Scott, sub voce τίς. Cf. Arrian, ii. 26, 4; vi. 9, 3; vii. 3, 4; 22, 5; 24, 2.
* ↑ Cf. Arrian v. 13 supra.