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# Page's Administrators v. The Bank of Alexandria.

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United States Supreme Court
20 U.S. 35
Page's Administrators v. The Bank of Alexandria.
ERROR to the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, for the county of Alexandria. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by the defendants in error, the Bank of Alexandria, against the plaintiffs in error, the administrators of William Byrd Page, deceased. The declaration contained two counts. The first was on a promissory note, which was set forth, as made by William Hodgson, and payable on demand to the intestate, Page, who endorsed it to the Bank of Alexandria, where it was discounted, and the money paid to Hodgson. In support of this count, a note was given in evidence, drawn by Hodgson, in favour of, and endorsed by Page, payable fifty-four days after date.
The other counts were for money lent and advanced by the plaintiffs below to the intestate, Page, and for money had and received by him for their use. Evidence was also given to show, that the Bank had used due diligence in demanding payment of the maker, and in giving notice of non-payment to the endorser; and that Page, in his life time, frequently promised the Bank payment of the note, after it became due. Judgment was given for the plaintiffs below, on a demurrer to the evidence, and the cause was brought to this Court by writ of error.
This cause was argued by Mr. Swann, and Mr. Lee,a for the plaintiffs in error, and by Mr. Taylor,b for the defendants in error.
Mr. Justice LIVINGSTON delivered the opinion of the Court, and after stating the case, proceeded as follows:

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# Page's Administrators v. The Bank of Alexandria./Opinion of the Court

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Whether due diligence were used by the holder of the note, is immaterial now to inquire, as this Court is of the opinion, that a note payable any number of days after date, could not be applied to a count describing it as one payable on demand.
The only remaining question is, whether this note were sufficient proof of the count for money lent and advanced, and for money had and received. There are certainly cases in which a promissory note or an endorsement of such note, may be offered in
There was also proof in the cause that 'Page, in his lifetime, frequently promised the Bank payment of the said note, after it became due. This promise must be regarded as applying exclusively to the note which was offered in evidence, and was payable in fifty four days after date: and if that note had been declared on, its influence on the cause would deserve serious consideration; but it cannot be used in support of the other count, for the testimony, in terms, confines this promise to payment of then be, and says not a word of his undertaking to repay the money which the Bank had loaned to him, or which he had received for their use.
The opinion of the Court then is, that the Bank can only recover from the administrators of Page, if at all, on his endorsement; but that, having set forth the note incorrectly, and there not being sufficient evidence to support the second count, the present action cannot be sustained. The judgment of the Circuit Court is therefore reversed; and judgment is to be entered for the defendants below.

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# Page Company v. Macdonald

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United States Supreme Court
261 U.S. 446
Page Company v. Macdonald
Argued: March 13, 1923. --- Decided: April 9, 1923
Mr. Asa P. French, of Boston, Mass., for plaintiff in error.
Mr. Weld A. Rollins, of Boston, Mass., for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice McKENNA delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Piers Ploughman (Wright)

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THE VISION AND CREED
OF
PIERS PLOUGHMAN.
EDITED,
FROM A CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT,
WITH A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION,
NOTES, AND A GLOSSARY,
BY THOMAS WRIGHT, M.A. F.S.A. &c.
Corresponding Member of the Imperial Institute of France,
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
SECOND AND REVISED EDITION.
LONDON: REEVES AND TURNER, 196 STRAND. 1887.
Contents
Introduction Prologue to the Vision Passus 1 Passus 2 Passus 3 Passus 4 Passus 5 Passus 6 Passus 7 Passus 8 (Prologue to Do-wel) Passus 9 (1st of Do-wel) Passus 10 (2nd of Do-wel) Passus 11 (3rd of Do-wel) Passus 12 (4th of Do-wel) Passus 13 (5th of Do-wel) Passus 14 (6th of Do-wel) Passus 15 (Prologue to Do-bet) Passus 16 (1st of Do-bet) Passus 17 (2nd of Do-bet) Passus 18 (3rd of Do-bet) Passus 19 (Prologue to Do-best) Passus 20 (1st of Do-best) The Creed Notes Glossary
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# Poems (Harper, 1898)/Dedication Poem

Dedication Poem
# Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands

PLEASANT MEMORIES
OF
PLEASANT LANDS.
BY
MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY.
"In a strange land, Kind things, however trivial, reach the heart, And through the heart the head, clearing away The narrow notions that grow up at home, And in their place, grafting Good-will to All.”
Roger's Italy
THIRD EDITION.
BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE: JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY. M DCCC LVI.
Abbotsford
Obelisk of Luxor at Paris
BOSTON PUBLISHED BY JAMES MUNROE & C$^o$. 1856
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by James Munroe and Company, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.
TO THE
HON. S. G. GOODRICH,
WHOSE PEN HAS MADE HIM KNOWN IN MANY LANDS,
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED,
AS A PLEASANT MEMORY OF EARLY FRIENDSHIP,
BY THE AUTHOR.
PUBLISHER'S NOTICE.
A new edition of "Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands" having been called for, its Publishers think proper to say, that it has had not only the careful revision of the Author, but numerous additions from her Journal, which they think will not fail to increase its interest with the public, by whom it was received with such marked favor at its first appearance.
Boston, December, 20, 1855.
CONTENTS.
Page
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# Plea of False Judgment Act 1267

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Statutes made at Marlborough, alias Marleberge, 18 Novemb. Anno 52 HEN. III. andA nno Dom. 1267.
Plea of False Judgment Act 1267
1267 (52 Hen. 3) C A P. XIX.
IN the Year of Grace, One thousand two hundred sixty eight, the two and fiftieth Year of the Reign of King HENRY, Son of King JOHN, in the Utas of St. Martin, the said King our Lord providing for the better Estate of his Realm of England, and for the more speedy Ministration of Justice, as belongeth to the Office of a King, the more discreet Men of the Realm being called together, as well of the higher as of the lower Estate: It was provided, agreed, and ordained, that whereas the Realm of England of late had been disquieted with manifold Troubles and Dissensions; for Reformation whereof Statutes and Laws be right necessary, whereby the Peace and Tranquillity of the People must be observed:Wherein the King, intending to devise convenient Remedy, hath made these Acts, Ordinances, and Statutes underwritten, which he willeth to be observed for ever firmly and inviolably of all his Subjects, as well high as low.
None but the King shall hold Plea of false Judgement.
NONE from henceforth (except our Lord the King) shall hold in his Court any Plea of false Judgement, given in the Court of his Tenants; for such Plea specially belongeth to the Crown and Dignity of our Lord the King.'
Fitz. Faux. Judgment, 7, 8, 10, 14. See 1 Ed. 3. stat. 1. c. 4. of Averment on his Writ. Regist. 15. Rast. 342. Co. Ent. 305.
Note : this act is listed in the Chronological Table of Statutes as the Plea of False Judgment Act, 1267
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# Plead for Me

"Oh, thy bright eyes must answer now"
* "Plead for Me" in Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846)
* "Plead for Me" in The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë (1908)
# Poems (Piatt)/Volume 1/Dedication

TO
MY NEAREST NEIGHBOUR.
# Perfect Sight Without Glasses

The Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment Without Glasses, also known as Perfect Sight Without Glasses (1920). See also Bates Method.
* The Fundamental Principle
* Preface
* Chapter 1 - Introductory
* Chapter 2 - Simultaneous Retinoscopy
* Chapter 3 - Evidence for the accepted theory of accommodation
* Chapter 4 - The truth about accommodation as demonstrated by experiments on the eye muscles of fish, cats, dogs, rabbits and other animals
* Chapter 5 - The truth about accommodation as demonstrated by a study of images reflected from the lens, cornea, iris and sclera
* Chapter 6 - The truth about accommodation as demonstrated by clinical observations
* Chapter 7 - The variability of the refraction of the eye
* Chapter 8 - What glasses do to us
* Chapter 9 - The cause and cure of errors of refraction
* Chapter 10 - Strain
* Chapter 11 - Central fixation
* Chapter 12 - Palming
* Chapter 13 - Memory as an aid to vision
* Chapter 14 - Imagination as an aid to vision
* Chapter 15 - Shifting and swinging
* Chapter 16 - The illusions of imperfect and of normal sight
* Chapter 17 - Vision under adverse conditions a benefit to the eyes
* Chapter 18 - Optimums and pessimums
* Chapter 19 - The relief of pain and other symptoms by the aid of the memory
* Chapter 20 - Presbyopia: Its cause and cure
* Chapter 21 - Squint and amblyopia: their cause
* Chapter 22 - Squint and amblyopia: their cure
* Chapter 23 - Floating specks: their cause and cure
* Chapter 24 - Home treatment
* Chapter 25 - Correspondence treatment
* Chapter 26 - The prevention of myopia in schools: Methods that failed
* Chapter 27 - The prevention and cure of myopia and other errors of refraction in schools: A method that succeeded
* Chapter 28 - The story of Emily
* Chapter 29 - Mind and vision
* Chapter 30 - Normal sight and the relief of pain for soldiers and sailors
* Chapter 31 - Letters from patients
* Chapter 32 - Reason and authority
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# Poems (E. L. F.)/Lines—"I ne'er a happy moment feel"

Roseneath, 1842.
# Persian Letters/Letter 85
#### Letter 85

Rica to * * *
YESTERDAY I was at the Hotel des Invalides: if I were a king I would rather have founded that establishment than have gained three battles. Throughout it the hand of a great monarch appears. I think it is worthier of respect than any other institution in the world.
What a sight to see assembled within the same walls all those who have suffered for their country, who lived only to defend it; and who, high-hearted as ever, but lacking their old vigour, complain only of their inability to sacrifice themselves again!
What could be worthier of admiration than the sight of these disabled warriors in their retirement, observing a discipline as strict as if they were constrained by the presence of an enemy, seeking their last satisfaction in that semblance of war, and dividing their thoughts and emotions between the duties of religion and those of their profession.
I would have the names of those who die for their country preserved in the temples, and inscribed in registers which should be the fountain-head of glory and honour.
Paris, the 15th of the first moon of Gemmadi, 1715.
# Persian Letters/Letter 77
#### Letter 77

Ibben to Usbek, at Paris
My dear Usbek, it seems to me that, in the eyes of a true Mussulman, misfortunes are not so much punishments as warnings. Those are priceless days upon which we are led to atone for our offences. It is the time of prosperity that ought to be curtailed. To what end is all our impatience, but to show us that we are seeking happiness, independently of Him who gives it, because He is happiness itself?
If a human creature is composed of two beings, and if the acknowledgment of the necessity of preserving their union is the chief mark of submission to the decrees of our Creator, that necessity should be made a religious law; and if the enforced preservation of this union will make men more responsible for their actions, it should be made a civil law.
Smyrna, the last day of the moon of Saphar, 1715.
# Persian Letters/Letter 79
#### Letter 79

Usbek to Rhedi, at Venice
MOST legislators have been men of inferior capacity whom chance exalted over their fellows, and who took counsel almost exclusively of their own prejudices and whims.
It would seem that they had not even a sense of the greatness and dignity of their work: they amused themselves by framing childish institutions, well devised indeed to please small minds, but discrediting their authors with people of sense.
They flung themselves into useless details; and gave their attention to individual interests: the sign of the narrow genius, which grasps things piecemeal and cannot take a general view.
Some of them have been so affected as to employ another language than the vernacular-a ridiculous thing in a framer of laws; for how can they be obeyed if they are not known?
They have often abolished needlessly those which were already established-that is to say, they have plunged nations into the confusion which always accompanies change.
It is true that, by reason of some extravagance springing rather from the nature than from the mind of man, it is sometimes necessary to change certain laws. But the case is rare; and when it happens it requires the most delicate handling; much solemnity ought to be observed, and endless precautions taken, in order to lead the people to the natural conclusion that the laws are most sacred, since so many formalities are necessary to their abrogation.
Often they have made them too subtle, following logical instead of natural equity. As a consequence such laws have been found too severe; and a spirit of justice required that they should be set aside; but the cure was as bad as the disease. Whatever the laws may be, obedience to them is necessary; they are to be regarded as the public conscience, with which all private consciences ought to be in conformity.
It must, however, be admitted that some legislators in their attention to one matter have shown sufficient wisdom; and that is, in giving fathers so much power over their children: nothing is a better lightener of the magistrate’s labours, nothing tends more to keep the courts of justice empty, in short, nothing is more conducive to tranquillity in a state, for morality always makes better citizens than law.
Of all the powers it is that which is least abused; it is the most sacred of all magistracies-the only one which does not spring from a contract, which, indeed, precedes all contracts.
It has been noticed that families are best ruled in those countries where there is a large paternal discretion in matter of reward and punishment; fathers represent the Creator of the universe, who, although able to lead men by His love, does not refrain from binding them to Himself still more closely by motives of hope and fear.
I cannot finish this letter without pointing out the capricious turn of mind of the French. It is said that they have retained many things in the Roman laws which are useless, and even worse than useless; from them, however, they have not derived the paternal power, which they have established as the source of all lawful authority.
Paris, the 18th of the moon of Saphar, 1715.
# Persian Letters/Letter 82
#### Letter 82

Nargum, Persian Envoy in Muscovy, to Usbek, at Paris
OF all the nations of the world, my dear Usbek, none has excelled that of the Tartars in the splendour and magnitude of its conquests. This people is the veritable ruler of the earth: all the others seem to be intended for its service; it is alike that founder and the destroyer of empires; in all times, it has afforded the world signs of its prowess; in every age it has been the scourge of the nations.
Twice the Tartars conquered China, and they still keep it in subjection.
They rule over those vast territories which form the Mogul’s empire.
Masters of Persia, they sit upon the throne of Cyrus and Hystaspes. They have subdued Muscovy. Under the name of Turks, they have made immense conquests in Europe, Asia, and Africa; and they are the dominant power in these three quarters of the earth.
In more remote times, from them issued forth some of those races who overthrew the Roman Empire.
What are the conquests of Alexander compared with those of Zenghis Khan?
Nothing is wanted to this victorious nation except historians to celebrate its achievements.
What immortal deeds have been buried in oblivion! Of how many empires founded by them is the origin unknown to us! This warlike nation, occupied exclusively with its immediate glory, and certain of conquest in every age, gave no thought to the commemoration of its fame.
Moscow, the 4th of the first moon of Rebiab, 1715.
# Persian Letters/Letter 81
#### Letter 81

Usbek to Rhedi, at Venice
SINCE I have been in Europe, my dear Rhedi, I have seen many forms of government. It is not here as in Asia, where the rules of policy are everywhere the same.
I have often inquired which form of government is most conformable to reason. It seems to me that the most perfect is that which attains its object with the least friction; so that the government which leads men by following their propensities and inclinations is the most perfect.
If under a mild government the people are as submissive as under a severe one, the former is to be preferred, since it is more rational, severity being a motive foreign to reason.
Remember, my dear Rhedi, that obedience to the laws in a state is not measured by the degree of cruelty in the punishments. In countries where penalties are moderate, they are dreaded as much as in those where they are atrocious and tyrannical.
Whether a government be mild or cruel, there must be degrees of punishment; the gravity of the chastisement must always be in proportion to the gravity of the crime. Our imagination adapts itself to the customs of the county in which we live. Eight days’ imprisonment, or a lighter punishment, has a greater effect on the mind of a European brought up in a mild-mannered country, than the loss of an arm had upon an Asiatic. A certain degree of dread attaches to a certain degree of punishment, and each feels it in his own way: a punishment which would not rob a Turk of a single quarter of an hour’s sleep, would overwhelm a Frenchman with infamy and despair.
Besides, I do not see that police regulations, justice, and equity, are better observed in Turkey, in Persia, or in the dominions of the Mogul, than in the Republics of Holland, and of Venice, and even in England: it does not appear that fewer crimes are committed there, and that men, intimidated by the greatness of punishments, are more obedient to the laws.
On the contrary, I note a source of injustice and vexation in the midst of these very states.
I find even the prince, who is himself the law, less master there than anywhere else.
I observe that, at times when severe punishments are inflicted, there are always tumults, which nobody commands, and that when once authority depending upon violence is set at nought, there remains with no one sufficient power to restore it;
That the certainty of punishment itself strengthens and increases the disorder;
That in these states a petty revolt never takes place; and that an uprising follows the first murmur of sedition without a moment’s interval;
That in them great events are not necessarily prepared by great causes: on the contrary, the least accident produced a great revolution, often as unforeseen by those who cause it as by those who suffer from it.
When Osman, Emperor of the Turks, was deposed, none of those who committed that crime had any intention of doing so: they simply asked, as suppliants, that justice should be done for some wrong: a voice, which no one knew, issued from the crowd by chance; it pronounced the name of Mustapha, and suddenly Mustapha was Emperor.
Paris, the 2nd of the first moon of Rebiab, 1715.
# Persian Letters/Letter 83
#### Letter 83

Rica to Ibben, at Smyrna
ALTHOUGH the French are great talkers, there is nevertheless among them a sort of silent dervishes, called Carthusians. They are said to cut out their tongues on entering the convent; and it is much to be desired that all other dervishes would deprive themselves in the same way of that which their profession renders useless to them.
Talking of these taciturn people reminds me that there are others who excel them in taciturnity, and who have a very remarkable gift. These are they who know how to talk without saying anything; and who carry on a conversation for two whole hours without its being possible to discover their meaning, to rehearse their talk, or to remember a word of what they have said.
This class of people are adored by the women; but not so much as some others who have received from nature the charming gift of smiling at the proper time, that is to say, every moment; and who receive with delighted approbation everything the ladies say.
But these people carry wit to its highest pitch; for they can detect subtlety in everything, and perceive a thousand little ingenious touches in the merest commonplaces.
I know others of them who are fortunate enough to be able to introduce into conversation inanimate things, and to make a long story about an embroidered coat, a white peruke, a snuff-box, a cane, a pair of gloves. It is well to begin in the street to make oneself heard by the noise of a coach and a thundering rap at the door: such a prologue paves the way for the rest of the discourse; and when the exordium is good, it secures toleration for all the nonsense which follows, but which fortunately, arrives too late to be detected.
I assure you that these little gifts, which with us are of no account, are of great advantage here to those who are happy enough to possess them; and that a sensible man has no chance of shining where they are displayed.
Paris, the 6th of the second moon of Rebiab, 1715.