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# The Law of Lombardy/Prologue

PROLOGUE to the LAW of LOMBARDY, Written by the AUTHOR. Spoken by Mr. FARREN.
HARD is the task, in modern days to choose, Congenial subjects for the tragic muse: The historian's page, the fertile epic store, Were known, and ransack’d centuries before: Like luscious gardens, unenclos'd they lay, To ev'ry saunt'ring bard an easy prey. The enter’d, and, as taste impell'd, they fed On Homer some, and some on Hollingshead. From loftiest numbers, or from humblest prose, At each conspir’d, the artless structures rose. Thus one great labour of their work was o'er, They found a fable, and they sought no more. Careless were they of action, place, or time, Whose only toil was dialogue and rhyme. “Rules which the rigid Sragyrite devis'd, “Our fathers knew not, or, if known, despis'd. Whilst side by side, were mingled in the scene, A laughing rustic, and a weepinh queen. Space was obedient to the boundless piece, That op'd in Mexico, and clos'd in Greece. Then thick with plots the crowded tale was sown, 'Till the divided bosom felt for none; “They fear’d no censures of a frowning pit, “That judg'd as loosely as the authors writ.” But we, who posted in time's tardy rear, Before a learn'd tribunal now appear; With anxious art a lable must design, Where probability, and interest join: Where time, and place, and action, all agree To violate no sacred unity. And thus each candid critic must confess The labour greater, and indulgence less; When such the task, the wonder is to meet, Not many pieces bad, but one complete. Nor let presumptious poets fondly claim From rules exemption, by great Shakespeare's name; Though comets move with wild excentric force, Yet humbler planets keep their stated course. But now, a bard, who touch'd your hearts before, Again salutes you from a neighbouring shore. Fir'd by the applause you gave his early lays, He stands again a candidate for praise; Nor from your former favour dares foresee To worthles strains a partial destiny. $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$But if his virgin palm was fairly won, And this next course with equal vigour’s run, Now join to bind his fresher laurels on. He fears no jaundic'd rival's envious breath, The hands which twin'd, shall still preserve the wreath.
# The Law of Population: Its Consequences, and Its Bearing upon Human Conduct and Morals

THE
LAW OF POPULATION:
ITS CONSEQUENCES,
AND
Its Bearing upon Human Conduct and Morals.
BY
ANNIE BESANT.
LONDON:
FREETHOUGHT PUBLISHING COMPANY,
28, Stonecutter Street, E.C.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY ANNIE BESANT AND CHARLES BRADLAUGH,
28, STONECUTTER STREET, E.C.
TO THE
POOR
IN GREAT CITIES AND AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS,
DWELLERS IN STIFLING COURT OR CROWDED HOVEL,
IN THE HOPE
THAT IT MAY POINT OUT A PATH FROM POVERTY,
AND MAY MAKE EASIER THE LIFE OF BRITISH MOTHERS,
TO THEM
I DEDICATE THIS ESSAY
* Chapter 1
* Chapter 2
* Chapter 3
* Chapter 4
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# The Law of Torts

Later editions renamed to Clerk & Lindsell On Torts. Certain editions of this work are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before 1929.
By John Frederic Clerk and William Harry Barber Lindsell
* The Law of Torts (1st edition, 1889)
* The Law of Torts (2nd edition, 1896) IA
With revisions by Wyatt Wyatt-Paine:
* The Law of Torts (3rd edition, 1904)
* The Law of Torts (4th edition, 1906)
* The Law of Torts (5th edition, 1909)
* The Law of Torts (6th edition, 1912)
* The Law of Torts (7th edition, 1921) IA
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# The Law of the Four Just Men

Book 4 in The Four Just Men series. US title: Again the Three Just Men. Many of the short stories were first individually published in The Strand Magazine, in 1921. For more details and for the striking illustrations (from the Strand Magazine) accompanying some of the stories see Project Gutenberg (Aus.)
THE LAW OF THE FOUR JUST MEN
By
Edgar Wallace

## Contents

* The Man Who Lived at Clapham
* The Man With the Canine Teeth
* The Man Who Hated Earthworms
* The Man Who Died Twice
* The Man Who Hated Amelia Jones
* The Man Who Was Happy
* The Man Who Loved Music
* The Man Who Was Plucked
* The Man Who Would Not Speak
* The Man Who Was Acquitted
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# The Koran (Rodwell)/VI

First published in 1861; second edition 1876; this edition first issued March 1909; this 4th printing issued September 1915.
[VI.] SURA CXIII.–THE DAYBREAK Mecca or Medina.–5 Verses
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Say: I betake me for refuge to the Lord of the DAY-BREAK
Against the mischiefs of his creation;
And against the mischief of the night when it overtaketh me; And against the mischief of weird women; And against the mischief of the envier when he envieth.
# The Koran (Rodwell)/VIII

First published in 1861; second edition 1876; this edition first issued March 1909; this 4th printing issued September 1915.
[VIII.]
SURA I.
Mecca.—7 Verses
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Praise be to God, Lord of the worlds!
The compassionate, the merciful!
King on the day of reckoning!
Thee only do we worship, and to Thee do we cry for help.
Guide Thou us on the straight path,
The path of those to whom Thou hast been gracious;—with whom thou art not angry, and who go not astray.
* ↑ This Sura, which Nöldeke places last, and Muir sixth, in the earliest class of Meccan Suras, must at least have been composed prior to Sura xxxvii. 182, where it is quoted, and to Sura xv. 87, which refers to it. And it can scarcely be an accidental circumstance that the words of the first, second, and fifth verses do not occur in any other Suras of the first Meccan period as given by Nöldeke, but frequently in those of the second, which it therefore, in Nöldeke's opinion, immediately precedes. But this may be accounted for by its having been recast for the purposes of private and public devotion by Muhammad himself, which is the meaning probably of the Muhammadan tradition that it was revealed twice. It should also be observed that, including the auspicatory formula, there are the same number of petitions in this Sura as in the Lord's Prayer. It is recited several times in each of the five daily prayers, and on many other occasions, as in concluding a bargain, etc. It is termed “ the Opening of the Book,” “ the Completion,” “ the Sufficing Sura,” “ the Sura of Praise, Thanks, and Prayer,” “ the Healer,” “ the Remedy,” “ the Basis,” “ the Treasure,” “ the Mother of the Book,” “ the Seven Verses of Repetition.” The Muhammadans always say “ Amen ” after this prayer, Muhammad having been instructed, says the Sonna, to do so by the Angel Gabriel.
* ↑ Islam.
* ↑ The following transfer of this Sura from the Arabic into the corresponding English characters may give some idea of the rhyming prose in which the Koran is written: Bismillahi ’rahhmani ’rrahheem. El-hamdoo lillahi rabi ’lalameen. Arrahhmani raheem. Maliki yowmi-d-deen. Eyaka naboodoo, waéyaka nestäeen. Ihdina ’ssirat almostakeem. Sirat alezcena anhamta aleihim, gheiri-’l mugbdoobi aleihim, wala dsaleen.Ameen.
# The Lioness and the Vixen

Perry index 257
* "A Lyoneſs and a Fox", translated by Roger L'Estrange, in Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists (1692)
* "The Lioness", translated by George Fyler Townsend, in Three Hundred Æsop's Fables (1867)
* "The Lioness and the Vixen", translated by Vernon Stanley Jones, in Æsop's fables: A New Translation (1912)
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# The Liquefaction of Gases

* Alembic Club Reprint—No. 12.
THE
LIQUEFACTION OF GASES.
PAPERS
BY
MICHAEL FARADAY, F.R.S.
(1823-1845.)
WITH AN APPENDIX
CONSISTING OF
PAPERS BY THOMAS NORTHMORE
ON THE COMPRESSION OF GASES.
(1805-1806).
EDINBURGH: WILLIAM F. CLAY, 18 Teviot Place.
LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT, & CO. LTD. 1896.
* On Fluid Chlorine
* On the Condensation of Several Gases into Liquids
* Historical Statement Respecting the Liquefaction of Gases
* On the Liquefaction and Solidification of Bodies Generally Existing as Gases
* Note-Additional Remarks Respecting the Condensation of Gases
* Appendix
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PREFACE.
THE papers by Faraday on the Liquefaction of Gases, here reprinted, give an account of the earliest work carried out at the Royal Institution on that most interesting and important subject, with which the Institution has been more or less intimately associated for three-quarters of a century. The extreme beauty and simplicity of Faraday's experiments, as well as the peculiarly felicitous manner in which his various experiments are described, render these papers especially instructive, and suitable for reproduction in the series to which this little volume belongs.
It was considered advisable to reprint Faraday's Historical Statement respecting the Liquefaction of Gases, and, for the sake of greater completeness, to include, in the form of an Appendix, the papers of Mr Northmore which are particularly referred to in that Statement.
L. D.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Creagh, General Sir O’Moore

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​Creagh, General Sir O’Moore G.C.B., (1909) 2nd class, 1903; ​K.C.B., V.C.; (1903) C.B. (1902); b. Cahirbane. Co. Clare, 1848; 6th s. of Captaih Creagh, R.N.: Educ.: privately and at Royal Military Coll. Sandhurst; Ensign, 95th Foot, 1866; Capt. Indian Army, 1878. Brevet Major 1879 Lieut. Col. 1892; Col. 1896; Major. General. 1908; Comd. Merwara Batt. 1882; Capt., Comd. 2nd Baluchis, and Hon’ble Colonel 44th Merwara Infantry, 1889; Assistant, Quartermaster-General Bombay Command, 1895; Political Resident and General Officer Commanding Aden, 1898-1900; served Afghan War, 1878-80 (despatches, medal, Brevet-Major, V.C.); Zhob Valley Expedition, 1890 (despatches); China Expedition, 1900-1901 (despatches); first in Command of 2nd Birg. and subsequently in Command of China Field force (despatches, K.C.B.); was in command of a 2nd class district in India and was Political Resident at Aden, 1898-1900; Commanded British Forces in N. China, 1901-3; 2nd Division N. Command, India, 1903-07; Military Secretary, India office, 1907-09; Commander-in-Chief in India and Member of Viceroy’s Council 1909-1913; Col. 4 Merwara Infantry, 1904; 2nd class order of Rising Sun of Japan; m. 1st 1874, his cousin, Lititi Longfield d. 1795: of 2nd 1891, Elizabeth, d. of late E. Reade, C.B. 1902; K.C.B. 1903, G.C.B. 1909; United Service Club.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Creasy, Leonard

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​Creasy, Leonard, I.S.O. (1905); M.Inst.C.E.; 3rd s. of late Sir Edward Creasy, Chief Justice of Ceylon; b. 1854; m. 1890, Ellen Maud, d. of late Sir George Elvey, Windsor; Educ; University College School, London; Served in Public Works Department, Ceylon, 1874-1905. Address: Hurstleigh, Windsor Forest.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Crewe Milnes, Robert Offley Ashburton

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​Crewe, Earl; First Marqies of; Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe Milnes, K.G., P.C.M.A., F.C.A., LL.D., Created Earl, 1895; Marquis, 1911; Earl of Madeley, 1911; Lord Privy Seal Since 1912; His Majesty’s Lieutenant, County of London; Secretary of State for India, Since 1910; b. in Upper-brook Street, West, 1858; s. of First Baron Houghton; educ. Harrow Trinity College, Cambridge; Assitant Private Secretary to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs 1883-84; Lord in waiting to the Queen, 1886; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1892-95; Lord President of the Council 1905-08; Lord Privy Seal 1908; Secretary of Stae for the Colonies, 1908-10; has a Library of 32,000 volumes and a large Collection of autographic letters, Owns 25,000 acres, m. 1st. 1880; Sibyl Marcia, d. of Sir Fredesick ulric Graham, 3rd Bt.; 2nd.; Lady Margaret Etrenne Hannah Crimrose, d. of 5th Earl of Rosebery, Publication: stray, verses. Recreations; Hunting, Shooting, Collection of Books; Heir, Earl Madeley; Addreess: Crewe Hall, Crewe; and Crewe House, Curzon Street, London.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Cox, Percy Zachariah

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​Cox, Percy Zachariah, Lieut-Col F.R.G.S., F.Z.S.; C.S.I. (1909) C.I.E. (1902) s. Arthur Zachariah Cox; b. 1864; educ, at Harrow and at Roy. Mil. Coll., Sandhurst; joined the Army, 1884; became Cap. Indian Staff Corps (now Indian Army, 1879; Major, 1902; Lieut-Col, 1910: Vice-Consul at Zaila, Somali coast, 1893; at Berbera, 1894; Counsel and Political Agent, Muscat, 1899: Resident and Consul-General for Persian Gulf, 1904; Address: The Residency Burkshire, Persia.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Coxe, Mr. Justice, H. R. H.

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​Coxe, Mr. Justice, H. R. H., Bar-at Law, I.C.S., Judge, High Court. Calcutta,; educ.; at Winchester and New College, Oxford, joined I.C.S., 1884; District and Sessions Judge, 1896; transfered to E.B. and A. as Legal Remembrance and Secretary to Legislative Council, 1905; Judge, High Court, Calcutta, 1908; on special duty in Home Department, 1908. Address: Calcutta, India.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Crawford, Henry Leighton

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​Crawford, Henry Leighton, C.M.G. (1906): Controller of Revenue, Ceylon, (Retired); b. 1855; s. of late. Rev. Henry Crawford, of Chelsfield, Kent; Educ.; Clifton College, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Scholar 1876); Entered Ceylon Civil Service, 1877; Police Magistrate, Kalpitiya, 1883; District Judge Badulla, 1889; Asst. Col. Secretary, 1890; Princpal Assistant Colonial Secretary, 1896; Commissioner, Buddhist Temporalities; Principal Collector of Customs; Government Agent, North-West, Province, 1901; Principal Collector of Customs, 1902; Actg. Colonial Treasurer, 1904; Govt. Agent S. Province, 1904; Govt. Agent, W. Province, 1905: Ag. Col. Secretary, 1906; Controller of Revenue, Cylon, 1907; retd. 1911. m. 1385, E. Alba, d. of the Rev. R. Grant-Brown; Address: Winsham Club.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Creasy, Hon. Mr. Harvey

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​Creasy, Hon. Mr. Harvy, European Urban Member Ceylon Legislative Council, since 1913. Address: Colombo.
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# The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Alexander Nevile

Alexander Nevile.
A Young Gentleman, that at sixteen undertook to translate the Oedipus of Seneca, and liv’d in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.
Oedipus, a Tragedy, 4 to. printed 1581. but was Englished by him about twenty Years before, and is dedicated to Dr. Wotton, then one of the Queen’s Majesty’s Privy Council.
# The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Anthony Brewer

Anthony Brewer.
An Author in the Reign of King Charles I. Published these two Plays following (viz.)
The Country Girl, C. 4to. 1647. This Play was Reviv'd just thirty years after its first Publishing, by one Leanard, who gave it a new Title, calling it, Country Innocence, or the Chamber-maid turn'd Quaker. 4to. 1677.
Love-sick King, T.C. 4to. 1655. This Play was also Reviv'd, and Acted at the King's House, under the Title of The Perjured Nun, 4to. 1680. See Speed, Polyd. Virgill, Gu. Malmsb. Ingulfus, Higden, Du Chesne, &c.
# The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Abraham Baily

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Abraham Baily.
A Gentleman of the Honourable Society of Lincolns-Inn, and the Author of a Comedy call'd,
The Spightful Sister; London, Printed in 4to. 1667. which I presume never was Acted, being Printed without Prologue, Epilogue, or Dedication, and with Mr. Langbain, I must acquit him entirely of being a Plagiary, either as to Characters or Language, and if it fall to any ones Chance to read it, and to observe my Lord Occa's and Winifred's Characters, will easily allow that what he has writ is surely all his own.
# The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Alexander Green

Alexander Green.
He liv'd in the Reign of King Charles the Second, and writ a Play, called,
The Polititian Cheated, a Comedy, 4to. 1663. This Play I do not find to be ever Acted.
# The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Alexander Brome

Alexander Brome.
He Liv'd in Charles I. time, and was a Stirring Attorney and Poet in the Royal Cause, during the Government of those Times. He Published but one Play of his own, entituled,
The Cunning Lovers, C. 4to. 1654. The Story of the Cunning Lovers, taken from the 7 Wise Masters. See also the Nov. of the Fortunate Deceived, and Unfortunate Lovers.
​Yet he took care to give the World a Volume of Mr. Richard Bromes after his Decease, Printed in 8vo. This Author has Published also a Volume of Poems, which he writ in the late Troublesome Times, together with Epistles and Epigrams, Translated from divers Authors, Printed about the time of the Restauration of King Charles II. and again 1664. Besides these, we have under his Name Horace, 8vo. tho' not wholly Translated by him.
# The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Abraham Cowley

Abraham Cowley.
This eminent Author was Born in London, 1618. at Ten Years Old (whilst he was a Westminster Schollar) he writ the Tragical Story of Pyramus and Thisbe; at Twelve that of Constantia and Philetus. By Thirteen he had published several Poetical Pieces. From a Boy he was very Studious, and his Chance lighting on Spencer's Fairy Queen, rous'd his Inclinations to Poetry, which never forsook him till he Died. Whoever would read a just Account of his Life, will find it admirably writ by the present Bishop of Rochester. He Died of a Stoppage in his Breast and Throat, having lain Ill a Fortnight; and was Buried the 30th of August, 1667. in Westminster-Abbey, next Chaucer, and near Spencer and Drayton, with a neat Marble Monument erected (as the Inscription informs us) to him, by the late Duke of Buckingham. He has publish'd Three English Plays, of which in their Order.
Cutter of Coleman-Street, a Comedy, 4to. 1663. This Play was Represented at the Duke's Theatre in Salisbury-Court, with good Applause; yet met with Opposition by some few, who at that time envied the Author for his Loyalty to his Prince, but was afterwards Acted with universal Applause, it being a revis'd Comedy, and much alter'd and enlarg'd from that Mr. Cowly had about Ten Years before hastily drawn up, under the Name of the
Guardian, a Comedy, 4to. 1650. Acted several times privately during the Prohibition of the Stage; as also at Cambridge before Prince Charles, and after the Restauration publickly Acted at Dublin with good Applause.
​Love's Riddle, a Pastoral Comedy, 4to. 1633. This Play was written in the Author's Youth, whilst a King's Schollar at Westminster, first printed with his Poetical Blossoms; and since that, in the Second Volume of his Works.
In any of his Plays he cannot be taxed with borrowing from any other.
The Works of this admirable Author are eminent enough to the Ingenious, so needless to be here characteriz'd. He left Two Volumes in Folio, Verse and Prose, also a Volume in 8vo. Entituled, Poemata Latina. It is a great Pity he liv'd not to finish that incomparable Epick Poem of Davideis, being only Four Books of the Troubles of David; which he design'd to extend in all, to Twelve. For his Life and Works I refer you further, to Dr. Sprat, Bishop of Rochester's Account thereof.
# The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Abraham Fraunce

Abraham Fraunce.
This Poet liv'd in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; in a Book writ by him, call'd, The Countess of Pembroke's Ivy-Church, is one Dramatick Pastoral, entituled,
Amintas Pastoral; 4to. 1591. writ in Hexameters, and is a Translation of Tasso's.
# The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

* The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, published by A. L. Burt Company, New York 1894
* The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (transcription project), published by George Newnes, Ltd., London 1894
# The Mistletoe Bough

The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall; And the baron's retainers were blithe and gay, And keeping their Christmas holiday. The baron beheld with a father's pride His beautiful child, young Lovell's bride; While she with her bright eyes seemed to be The star of the goodly company.
"I'm weary of dancing now," she cried; "Here, tarry a moment-I'll hide, I'll hide! And, Lovell, be sure thou'rt first to trace The clew to my secret lurking place." Away she ran-and her friends began Each tower to search, and each nook to scan; And young Lovell cried, "O, where dost thou hide? I'm lonesome without thee, my own dear bride."
They sought her that night, and they sought her next day, And they sought her in vain while a week passed away; In the highest, the lowest, the loneliest spot, Young Lovell sought wildly-but found her not. And years flew by, and their grief at last Was told as a sorrowful tale long past; And when Lovell appeared the children cried, "See! the old man weeps for his fairy bride."
At length an oak chest, that had long lain hid, Was found in the castle-they raised the lid, And a skeleton form lay moldering there In the bridal wreath of that lady fair! O, sad was her fate!-in sportive jest She hid from her lord in the old oak chest. It closed with a spring!-and, dreadful doom, The bride lay clasped in her living tomb!
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# The New International Encyclopædia/Columbian Exposition

Edition of 1905. See also the disclaimer.
​ COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. See World's Columbian Exposition.