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# Zinzendorff and Other Poems/Death of Beda

DEATH OF BEDA.
"Though the last illness of this learned and venerable man was severe, he spent the evening of his death, in translating the Gospel of St. John into the Saxon language. When told by his amanuensis that there remained but one more chapter, he urged him to proceed rapidly, saying that he had no time to lose.
"'Master, there is now but one sentence wanting.'
"'Haste thee to write it.'
"'Master, it is done.'
"'Thou hast spoken truth—it is done. Take now my head between your hands, and move me, for it pleaseth me to sit over against the place where I was wont to pray, and where now sitting, I would yet invoke the Father.'
"Being seated according to his desire, on the floor of his cell, he said, 'Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.' And, pronouncing the last word, he expired."
Northumbrian breezes freshly blew
Around a cloistered pile,
And Tyne, high-swoln with vernal rains,
Was murmuring near the while;
And there, within his studious cell,
The man of mighty mind,
His cowled and venerable brow
With sickness pale, reclined.
Yet still, to give God's word a voice,
To bless the British Isles,
He labored, while inspiring faith
Sustained the toil with smiles;
Still o'er the loved disciple's page
His fervent spirit hung,
Regardless though the grasp of pain
Each shuddering nerve unstrung.
"Speed on!" Then flew the writer's pen
With grief and fear perplext,
For Death's sure footstep nearer drew
With each receding text.
The prompting breath more faintly came—
"Speed on!—his form I see— That awful messenger of God,
Who may not stay for me."
"Master, 'tis done." "Thou speakest well,
Life with thy lines kept pace"— They bare him to the place of prayer,
The death-dew on his face;
And there, while o'er the gasping breast
The last keen torture stole,
With the high watch-word of the skies,
Went forth that sainted soul.
# Zinzendorff and Other Poems/Child left in a Storm

CHILD LEFT IN A STORM.
Adapted to a painting of Sully.
"The scene is the sea-shore,—a storm has suddenly come up,—the company are all running for shelter,—the little child is forgotten,—and as innocence knows no fear, continues to play with the waves, as they break over its feet."
Why dost thou sport amid these swelling waves,
Child of the frolic brow? The billows roll
Foaming and vexing with a maniac's wrath,
To do unuttered deeds,—and the wild clouds
Muster and frown, as if bold Midnight reared
Her throne at noonday. Hearest thou not the winds
Uttering their ruffian threats? Is this a time
To lave that snowy foot? Away! Away!
—What! have all fled?—and art thou left alone
By those who wandered with thee on the beach
In the fair sun-light of a summer s morn?
Forgotten thus! Hadst thou a mother,—sweet?
Oh!—no—no—no. She had not turned away
Though the strong tempest swelled to tenfold wrath,—
She had not fled without thee, had not breathed
In safety or at ease, save when she heard
Thy murmured tone beside her,—had not slept
Until thy drenched and drooping curls were dried
In her fond bosom. Nature never made
A mother to forget. Why, she had dared
Yon fiercest surge to save thee, or had plunged,
Clasping thee close and closer, down, down, down,
Where thou art going.
 Lo, the breakers rush
Bellowing to demand thee. Shrink not child!
Innocence need not fear. Go to thy sleep
'Mid Ocean's sunless flowers. The lullaby
Of the mermaiden shall be thy requiem,
And the white coral thou didst love to mix
Among thy penciled shells, shall lightly rear
A canopy above thee. Amber drops
Shall gem thy golden tresses, and thy ear
No more the echoes of the warring main
Appalled shall hear. Thy God shall guard thy rest.
# Zinzendorff and Other Poems/Cry of the Corannas

The Corannas are a tribe of Hottentots living near the Orange River in South Africa
CRY OF THE CORANNAS.
"Missionaries are going far beyond us, but they come not to us. We have been promised a Missionary, but can get none. God has given us plenty of corn, but we are perishing for want of instruction. Our people are dying every day. We have heard there is another life after death, but we know nothing of it."
We see our infants fade. The mother clasps
The enfeebled form, and watches night and day
Its speechless agony, with tears and cries,
But there's a hand more strong than her despair
That rends it from her bosom. Our young men
Are bold and full of strength, but something comes
We know not what, and so they droop and die.
Those whom we lov'd so much, our gentler friends,
Who bless our homes, we gaze and they are gone.
Our mighty chiefs, who in the battle's rage
Tower'd up like Gods, so fearless, and return'd
So loftily, behold! they pine away
Like a pale girl, and so, we lay them down
With the forgotten throng who dwell in dust.
They call it death, and we have faintly heard
By a far echo o'er the distant sea
There was a life beyond it. Is it so?
If there be aught above this mouldering mound
Where we do leave our friends,—if there be hope
So passing strange, that they should rise again
And we should see them, we who mourn them now,
We pray you speak such glorious tidings forth
In our benighted clime. Ye heaven-spread sails
Pass us not by! Men of the living God!
Upon our mountain heights we stand and shout
To you in our distress. Fain would we hear
Your wondrous message fully, that our hearts
May hail its certainty before we go,
Ourselves to those dark caverns of the dead,
Where everlasting silence seems to reign.
# Zinzendorff and Other Poems/Death's Chosen Ally

DEATH'S CHOSEN ALLY.
The shadowy Monarch frown'd upon his throne,
O'erwearied and displeased.—"Behold, my task,
Since him of Eden felt a brother's hate,
Down to the brow that blanches as I speak,
Hath known no respite. Would that there were one
With whom to trust my cares awhile, and snatch
One moment of repose. Ho! ye who wait!
Give notice, that with him most worthy found
By previous deeds to waste the race of man,
The King of Terrors will delight to share
The glory of his kingdom."
 Mighty winds
Swollen up to earthquake violence, and tones
Of many waters, like wild, warring seas,
Clamor'd the edict, while the lightning's spear
Wrote it in flame on every winged cloud:
Yea, with such zeal the elements conspir'd
To publish the decree, methought there lurk'd
In each, some latent, lingering hope, to win
The promis'd regency.
 The Passions came,
Thron'd on their storm-clouds, and with varied voice,
Thundering or eloquent, as best beseem'd
Their several natures, boasted how to staunch
Life's countless springs. But to their claims pale Death
Gave credence cold.
 Next, fleshless Famine rose
Up like a charnel-ghost, while Pestilence
Came stalking on, with quiver ever full;
And ever in her ears a mournful sound,—
The weeping of the nations.
 Loudly shriek'd
A martial trump, and on his banner'd car
War like a sovereign came. Unnumber'd spoils
Were strew'd around him, and the blood of men
Flow'd as a river, 'neath his chariot wheels.
His eagle eye the promis'd honor scann'd,
As an undoubted right. But still stern Death
Ponder'd, and spake not, till, with haughty pride,
The candidate withdrew, and trembling Earth
Shrank at his kindled rage.
 There was a pause,
As if none dare in that foil'd champion's steps
Essay to tread. At length, a bloated form
Mov'd slowly on, with mix'd and maddening bowl;
But ere the footstool of the throne he press'd,
Death, with a father's fondness, hasting down,
Embraced, and in the seat of empire plac'd.
Great was the wonder, but none dare gainsay;
And with a fearful shout all Nature's foes,
Diseases, passions, wars and sins, pronounced
Intemperance their king; and at his feet
Their boasted, time-cemented trophies cast.
# Zinzendorff and Other Poems/Christian Settlements in Africa

CHRISTIAN SETTLEMENTS IN AFRICA.
Winds! what have ye gather'd from Afric's strand,
As ye swept the breadth of that fragrant land?
The breath of the spice-bud, the rich perfume
Of balm and of gum and of flowret's bloom?
"We have gather'd nought, save a pagan prayer,
And the stifling sigh of the heart's despair."
Waves! what have ye heard on that ancient coast
Where Egypt the might of her fame did boast,
Where the statue of Memnon saluted the morn,
And the pyramids tower in their giant scorn?
"We have heard the curse of the slave-ship's crew,
And the shriek of the chain'd as the shores withdrew."
Stars! what have ye seen with the glancing eye
From your burning thrones in the sapphire-sky!
"We have mark'd young hope as it brightly glow'd;
On Afric's breast whence the blood-drop flow'd,
And we chanted the hymn which we sang at first,
When the sun from the midnight of chaos burst."
# Zinzendorff and Other Poems/Death

DEATH.
"Death is the night of that day which is given us to work in. Happy the soul which Death finds rich, not in gold, furniture, learning, reputation, or barren purposes and desires, but in good works." Bishop Wilson's Sacra Privata.
Chill'd by the piercing blast,
 Or faint with vertic heat,
The wearied laborer hails the night,
 And finds its slumber sweet,
While they whom idle years
 Of luxury impair,
Toss on the restless couch, or meet
 The dream of terror there.
The rich man moves in pomp,
 To him the world is dear,
And every treasure twists a tie
 To bind him stronger here,
But he whose only gold
 Is in the conscience stor'd
Is richer at the hour of death
 Than with the miser's hoard.
When the short day of life
 With all its work is done,
The faithful servant of the cross
 Doth hail the setting sun,
But they who waste their breath,
 Dread the accusing tomb,
And the time-killer flies from death
 As from a murderer's doom.
So give us, Lord, to find
 When earth shall pass away,
That Sabbath-evening of the mind
 Which crowns a well-spent day,
That entering to thy rest,
 Where toils and cares are o'er,
We, with the myriads of the blest,
 May praise Thee, evermore.
# How to Use Your Mind/Bodily Conditions for Effective Study

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CHAPTER XV BODILY CONDITIONS FOR EFFECTIVE STUDY
It is a truism to say that mental ability is affected by bodily conditions. A common complaint of students is that they cannot study because of a headache, or they fail in class because of loss of sleep. So patent is the interrelation between bodily condition and study that we cannot consider our discussion of study problems complete without recognition of the topic. We shall group our discussions about three of the most important physical activities, eating, sleeping and exercising. These make up the greater part of our daily activities and if they are properly regulated our study is likely to be effective.
READINGS AND EXERCISE
Readings: Patrick (14) Chapters I, II and VII. Stiles (18) and (19). Swift (20) Chapter X.
Exercise 1. With the help of a book on dietetics prepare an ideal day's bill of fare for a student.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Adept

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​ADEPT (if used as a substantive pronounced adept, if as an adjective adept; from Lat. adeptus, one who has attained), completely and fully acquainted with one’s subject, an expert. The word implies more than acquired proficiency, a natural inborn aptitude. In olden times an adept was one who was versed in magic, an alchemist, one who had attained the great secrets of the unknown.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Aderno

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​ADERNÒ, a town of the province of Catania, Sicily, 22 m. N.W. of the town of that name. Pop. (1901) 25,859. It occupies the site of the ancient Adranon, which took its name from Adranos, a god probably of Phoenician origin, in Roman times identified with Vulcan, whose chief temple was situated here, and was guarded by a thousand huge gods; there are perhaps some substructures of this building still extant outside the town. The latter was founded about 400 B.C. by Dionysius I.; very fine remains of its walls are preserved. For a time it was the headquarters of Timoleon, and it was the first town taken by the Romans in the First Punic War (263 B.C.) In the centre of the modern town rises the castle, built by Roger I.; in the chapel are frescoes representing his granddaughter, Adelasia, who founded the convent of St Lucia in 1157, taking the veil. The columns in the principal church are of black lava.
See P. Russo, Illustrazione storica di Adernò (Adernò, 1897).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Adevism

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​ADEVISM, a term introduced by Max Müller to imply the denial of gods (Sans. deva), on the analogy of Atheism, the denial of God. Max Müller used it particularly in connexion with the Vedanta philosophy for the correlative of ignorance or nescience (Gifford lectures, 1892, c. ix.).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Adenès le Roi

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​ADENÈS (Adenez or Adans), surnamed LE ROI, French trouvère, was born in Brabant about 1240. He owed his education to the kindness of Henry III., duke of Brabant, and he remained in favour at court for some time after the death (1261) of his patron. In 1269 he entered the service of Guy de Dampierre, afterwards count of Flanders, probably as roi des ménestrels, ​and followed him in the next year on the abortive crusade in Tunis in which Louis IX. lost his life. The expedition returned by way of Sicily and Italy, and Adenès has left in his poems some very exact descriptions of the places through which he passed. The purity of his French and the absence of provincialisms point to a long residence in France, and it has been suggested that Adenès may have followed Mary of Brabant thither on her marriage with Philip the Bold. He seems, however, to have remained in the service of Count Guy, although he made frequent visits to Paris to consult the annals preserved in the abbey of St Denis. The poems written by Adenès are four: the Enfances Ogier, an enfeebled version of the Chevalerie Ogier de Danemarche written by Raimbert de Paris at the beginning of the century; Berte aus granspiés, the history of the mother of Charlemagne, founded on well-known traditions which are also preserved in the anonymous Chronique de France, and in the Chronique rimée of Philippe Mousket; Bueves de Comarchis, belonging to the cycle of romance gathered round the history of Aimeri de Narbonne; and a long roman d’aventures, Cléomadès, borrowed from Spanish and Moorish traditions brought into France by Blanche, daughter of Louis IX., who after the death of her Spanish husband returned to the French court. Adenès probably died before the end of the 13th century.
The romances of Adenès were edited for the Académie Impériale et Royale of Brussels by A. Scheler and A. van Hasselt in 1874; Berte was rendered into modern French by G. Hecq (1897) and by R. Périé (1900); Cléomadès, by Le Chevalier de Chatelain (1859). See also the edition of Berte by Paulin Paris (1832); an article by the same writer in the Hist. litt. de la France, vol. xx. pp. 679-718; Léon Gautier, Les épopées françaises, vol. iii., &c.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Adhemar de Monteil

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​ADHÉMAR (Adémar, Aimar, Aelarz) DE MONTEIL (d. 1098), one of the principal personages of the first crusade, was bishop of Puy en Velay from before 1087. At the council of Clermont in 1095 he showed great zeal for the crusade, and having been named apostolic legate by the pope, he accompanied Raymond IV., count of Toulouse, to the east. He negotiated with Alexis Comnenus at Constantinople, re-established at Nicaea some discipline among the crusaders, caused the siege of Antioch to be raised and died in that city of the plague on the 1st of August 1098.
See the article by C. Kohler in La Grande Encyclopédie; Bibliographie du Velay (1902), 640-650.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Adiaphorists

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​ADIAPHORISTS (Gr. ἀδιάφορος, indifferent). The Adiaphorist controversy among Lutherans was an issue of the provisional scheme of compromise between religious parties, pending a general council, drawn up by Charles V., sanctioned at the diet of Augsburg, 15th of May 1548, and known as the Augsburg Interim. It satisfied neither Catholics nor Protestants. As head of the Protestant party the young elector Maurice of Saxony negotiated with Melanchthon and others, and at Leipzig, on the 22nd of December 1548, secured their acceptance of the Interim as regards adiaphora (things indifferent), points neither enjoined nor forbidden in Scripture. This sanctioned jurisdiction of Catholic bishops, and observance of certain rites, while all were to accept justification by faith (relegating sola to the adiaphora.) This modification was known as the Leipzig Interim; its advocates were stigmatized as Adiaphorists. Passionate opposition was led by Melanchthon’s colleague, Matth. Flacius, on the grounds that the imperial power was not the judge of adiaphora, and that the measure was a trick to bring back popery. From Wittenberg he fled, April 1549, to Magdeburg, making it the headquarters of rigid Lutheranism. Practically the controversy was concluded by the religious peace ratified at Augsburg (Sept. 25, 1555), which left princes a free choice between the rival confessions, with the right to impose either on their subjects; but much bitter internal strife was kept up by Protestants on the theoretical question of adiaphora; to appease this was one object of the Formula Concordiae, 1577. Another Adiaphorist controversy between Pietists and their opponents, respecting the lawfulness of amusements, arose in 1681, when Anton Reiser (1628–1686) denounced the opera as antichristian.
See arts. by J. Gottschick in A. Hauck’s Realencyklopädie (1896); by Fritz in I. Goschler’s Dict. Encyclop. de la Théol. Cath. (1858); other authorities in J. C. L. Gieseler, Ch. Hist. (N. York ed., 1868, vol. iv.); monograph by Erh. Schmid, Adiaphora, wissenschaftlich und historisch untersucht (1809), from the rigorist point of view.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Adhemar de Chabannes

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​ADHÉMAR DE CHABANNES (c. 988–c. 1030), medieval historian, was born about 988 at Chabannes, a village in the French department of Haute-Vienne. Educated at the monastery of St Martial at Limoges, he passed his life as a monk, either at this place or at the monastery of St Cybard at Angoulême. He died about 1030, most probably at Jerusalem, whither he had gone on a pilgrimage. Adhémar’s life was mainly spent in writing and transcribing chronicles, and his principal work is a history entitled Chronicon Aquitanicum et Francicum or Historia Francorum. This is in three books and deals with Frankish history from the fabulous reign of Pharamond, king of the Franks, to A.D. 1028. The two earlier books are scarcely more than a copy of the Gesta regum Francorum, but the third book, which deals with the period from 814 to 1028, is of considerable historical importance. This is published in the Monumenta Germaniae historica. Scriptores. Band iv. (Hanover and Berlin, 1826–1892). He also wrote Commemoratio abbatum Lemovicensium ​basilicae S. Martialis apostoli (848–1029) and Epistola ad Jordanum Lemovicensem episcopum et alios de apostolatu S. Martialis, both of which are published by J. P. Migne in the Patrologia Latina, tome cxli. (Paris, 1844–1855).
See F. Arbellot, Étude historique et littéraire sur Adémar de Chabannes (Limoges, 1873); J. F. E. Castaigne, Dissertation sur le lieu de naissance et sur la famille du chroniqueur Adémar, moine de l’abbaye de St Cybard d’Angoulême (Angoulême, 1850).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Adhesion

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​ADHESION (from Lat. adhaerere, to adhere), the process of adhering or clinging to anything. In a figurative sense, adhesion (like “adherent”) is used of any attachment to a party or movement; but the word is also employed technically in psychology, pathology and botany. In psychology Bain and others use it of association of ideas and action; in pathology an adhesion is an abnormal union of surfaces; and in botany “adhesion” is used of dissimilar parts, e.g. in floral whorls, in opposition to “cohesion,” which applies to similar parts, e.g. of the same whorl.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Adige

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​ADIGE (Ger. Etsch, anc. Athesis), a considerable river in North Italy. The true source of the Adige is in some small lakes on the summit of the Reschen Scheideck Pass (4902 ft.), and it is swollen by several other streams, near Glurns, where the roads over the Ofen and the Stelvio Passes fall in. It thence flows east to Meran, and then south-east to Botzen, where it receives the Eisak (6 ft.), and becomes navigable. It then turns south-west, and, after receiving the Noce (right) and the Avisio (left), leaves Tirol, and enters Lombardy, 13 m. south of Rovereto. After traversing North Italy, in a direction first southerly and then easterly, it falls into the Adriatic at Porto Fossone, a few miles north of the mouth of the Po. The most considerable towns on its banks (south of Botzen) are Trent and Rovereto, in Tirol, and Verona and Legnago, in Italy. It is a very rapid river, and subject to sudden swellings and overflowings, which cause great damage to the surrounding country. It is navigable from the heart of Tirol to the sea. In Lombardy it has a breadth of 200 yds., and a depth of 10 to 16 ft., but the strength of the current renders its navigation very difficult, and lessens its value as a means of transit between Germany and Italy. The Adige has a course of about 220 m., and, after the Po, is the most important river in Italy. In Roman times it flowed, in its lower course, much farther north than at present, along the base of the Euganean hills, and entered the sea at Brondolo. In A.D. 587 the river broke its banks, and the main stream took its present course, but new streams opened repeatedly to the south, until now the Adige and the Po form conjointly one delta.  (W. A. B. C.)
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Akerman, John Yonge

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​AKERMAN, JOHN YONGE (1806–1873), English antiquarian, distinguished chiefly in the department of numismatics, was born in Wiltshire. He became early known in connexion with his favourite study, having initiated the Numismatic Journal in 1836. In the following year he became the secretary of the newly established Numismatic Society. In 1848 he was elected secretary to the Society of Antiquaries, an office which he was compelled to resign in 1860 on account of failing health. Akerman published a considerable number of works on his special subject, the more important being a Catalogue of Roman Coins (1839); a Numismatic Manual (1840); Roman Coins relating to Britain (1844); Ancient Coins—Hispania, Gallia, Britannia (1846); and Numismatic Illustrations of the New Testament (1846). He wrote also a Glossary of Words used in Wiltshire (1842); Wiltshire Tales, illustrative of the Dialect (1853); and Remains of Pagan Saxondom (1855).