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# The New Student's Reference Work/Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet

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Voltaire ( vol-târ' ), Francois Marie Arouet, a famous French writer, was born at Chatenay, France, Nov. 21, 1694. His father's name was Arouet. After studying at Paris and in his father's law office, he began his career as a literary man. He spent a year in the Bastile imprisoned on suspicion of having written some verses which reflected on the government, and there finished his Œdipe. On leaving prison he changed his name to Voltaire, which is probably an anagram on his original name. His tragedy was successfully brought out in 1718, but Artémire was hissed off the stage. On a visit to Holland he met Rousseau, of whom he made an enemy by a sarcastic reply to Rousseau's question: "What is your opinion of my Ode to Posterity?" "It is a letter that will never reach its address" was the answer. His visit to England, which was an exile, introduced him to the literary men and the literature of England. Through the favor of Queen Caroline, who headed the list of subscribers, his Henriade brought him nearly $40,000, making him independent of the great men in France whose patronage had been so injurious to him. In 1729 he was allowed to return to France where Brutus, Ériphile and his best play, Zaïre, were produced at intervals. His English Letters, reflecting on everything in church or state in France, under the pretense of praising England, brought out in 1733, was condemned and burned, he himself being safely out of the way in Lorraine, where he lived for 15 years with Madame du Châtelet, writing and studying Newton's Principia. His Mérope and Mahomet, among his best plays, belong to this period, as does his Age of Louis XIV.
His life at the Prussian court, as the friend of Frederick the Great lasted three years, with the jealousies, squabbles and court-quarrels which Voltaire always succeeded in falling into. Being refused permission to return to France, he bought Ferney, an estate four miles from Geneva, which was his home for the last 20 years of his life. Here he was visited by many of the most celebrated men of Europe, carried on an immense correspondence, rescued from want and educated a niece of Corneille, interfered in several cases of oppression and injustice, and adopted a young girl whom he had rescued from a convent. After the death of Louis XV he was permitted to return to Paris, and on Feb. 10, 1778, he entered the city after 28 years of exile. He was received with enthusiasm, and crowned with laurel at the theater where his new play Irene was produced. He died at Paris, soon after, on May 30, 1778. His works fill about 90 volumes, including the tragedies Zaïre, Mérope and Mahomet, which give him a place with the best French dramatists; historical works, which embrace Charles XII, Louis XIV and Peter the Great; and philosophical works, poems, criticisms and miscellaneous writings. See Life by John Morley.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Voltameter

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Voltam'eter, an electrical instrument, of galvanometer type, for measuring in volts the differences of potential between different points of a circuit of electricity. The various forms of the voltmeter are adaptations, more or less, of the D'Arsonval galvanometer, in portable form; and in experiments with it it will be found that, with a high resistance in the circuit, the current will be proportional to the difference of potential.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Vol V:8

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# The New Student's Reference Work/Volunteers of America, The

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Vol'unteers' of America, The, an organization, on the model of the army of the United States, was founded and incorporated in 1896 by General and Mrs. Ballington Booth for religious and philanthropic work akin to that done by the Salvation Army. The Volunteers seek affiliation with the churches and religious denominations of the country, and many Volunteers are practically engaged with the churches in their good and laudable work in most of the chief cities and larger towns of the Union, which are grouped by the organization into sectional or regimental divisions under the control and oversight of 30 principal staff-officers. The scope of the work undertaken by the Volunteers may be gathered from the fact that they maintain reading-rooms in the chief centers, whence Christian literature is distributed in prisons, hospitals, soldier's and children's homes, besides supplying these with Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. They also maintain boys' fresh-air camps and girls' sewing classes, furnish hospitals with nurses and, where there is need, afford temporary financial relief. For this good work the Volunteers have organized and maintain philanthropic institutions in the principal cities of the United States, in addition to their chief centers of labor in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Pittsburgh, Denver, Chicago and San Francisco. See Salvation Army.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Voodooism

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Voo'dooism, a term referring to beliefs and practices currently considered to prevail among the negroes of the West Indies and the southern United States. But careful research has disproven any organized set of beliefs and ceremonials which could properly be regarded as a voodoo religion. The practices were supposed to have been imported from western Africa. A great snake (Voodoo) was the central figure, communicating with his worshipers only through a priest or priestess, who was held in great veneration by all devotees. Secret nocturnal ceremonies were characterized by prayers to the snake, dancing and the wildest debauchery and indecency. Voodoo doctors among southern negroes were often called to help destroy an enemy, for they were skillful poisoners. Their magic works were performed in secret.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Vol V:9

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# The New Student's Reference Work/Volga

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Vol′ga, a river in Russia, which rises in the western part of the country in the Valdai Hills, and by a winding course crosses Russia and flows through many mouths into the Caspian Sea. It is the longest river in Europe, being 2,320 miles in length. It is connected by canals with the Baltic and White Seas.
# The New York Times/1918/11/11/Pros in Close Golf Match

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Pros in Close Golf Match.
Professional golfers took part in a fourball match at the Marine and Field Club yesterday. Ted Galligan and Carl Anderson defeating their opponents, A. W. Chiappa of Richmond County and C. B. Jacobus of the home club, by 2 up.
# The New York Times/1918/11/11/Public Notices

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PUBLIC NOTICE.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Notice is hereby given that the AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAFETY, a domestic corporation, having its principal business office in the Borough of Manhattan, City, County and State of New York, do apply to the Supreme Court of the State of New York, at Special Term, held at Part I. thereof, to be held at the County Court House, in the City and County of New York, on the 19th day of November, 1918, at 10:15 o'clock in the forenoon of that day, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, for an order authorizing the said corporation to change its corporate name to the SAFETY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA.
Dated, N.Y., October 25, 1918. AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAFETY. By ARTHUR WILLIAMS, President. WILLIAM J. MORAL, Attorney for Petitioner, 76 William Street, New York, N.Y.
# The New York Times/1918/11/11/Railroads Won't Pay Excise Taxes

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Railroads Won't Pay Excise Taxes.
Special to The New York Times.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 10.—Beginning with Ohio, railroads all over the United States are expected to object to the payment of State excise taxes so long as the Federal Government continues to operate them. Notice already has been served in Ohio that no payment of taxes will be made. Ohio will test the matter in the courts.
# The New York Times/1918/11/11/Reconstruction in Britain

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RECONSTRUCTION IN BRITAIN
Minister Will Announce the Government's Policy Tomorrow.
LONDON, Nov. 10.—The Government tonight issued a statement that the Minister of Reconstruction would announce the Government's general reconstruction policy to Parliament on Tuesday.
In the meantime elaborate instructions have been given for the slowing down of munitions production and the replacement of the workmen, with a scheme of donations for unemployment, to remain in force for six months.
# The New York Times/1918/11/11/Red Cross Prison Work

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RED CROSS PRISON WORK.
Bureau Taking Care of All Americans in German Hands.
An average of 30,000 queries a week are handled by the Bureau of Communication of the American Red Cross, according to an announcement by the organization yesterday. Of this number about 20,000 are from relatives of men in service overseas, the rest being from persons with relatives in cantonments on this side.
Because of the success of the bureau its work has been extended to camps in this country, at the request of the War Department. Queries concerning soldiers who have failed to write home, or who are reported as casualties, are cared for by the bureau. Red Cross searchers—there are 100 of them in France—obtain the desired information, and it is forwarded to the anxious families.
The Bureau of Prisoners' Relief is the only organization authorized to aid American prisoners of war. When a man is officially reported a prisoner, the bureau notifies his family that it will look out for his welfare. In addition to forwarding mail, money, and clothing to the prisoners the bureau sends to each man twenty pounds of food each week. Up to the present only a few of these food parcels have failed to reach their destinations.
# The New York Times/1918/11/11/Reventlow in Flight

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REVENTLOW IN FLIGHT.
Takes Refuge in Denmark―Preducts Anarchy in Germany.
LONDON, Nov. 10.―(British Wireless Service.)―Count Zu Reventlow, whose Pan German writings have appeared during the war in the Tageszeitung of Berlin, has fled to Denmark.
He declared to a correspondent at the frontier that the situation would be much worse in Germany when the soldiers returned from the front, as general anarchy could be expected.
# The North Star (Rochester)/1848/01/14/Western New York Anti-Slavery Society

​Western New York Anti-Slavery Society.—The Executive Committee are requested to meet at the house of Isaac Post, 36, Sophia Street, Rochester, on Tuesday evening, January 18th, at 7 o'clock. A full attendance is specially important.
Per order, W. C. NELL, Sec.
# The North Star and The Ella Warley

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The North Star and The Ella Warley
Benedict, Taft & Benedict, for the owners of the Ella Warley.
Beach & Brown and William Allen Butler, for the owners of the North Star.
BRADLEY, J.

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# The North Star (Rochester)/1848/01/14/The Meeting on Main Street

THE MEETING ON MAIN STREET.
In the meeting house of the Wesleyan Methodists, on Main street, where amid the many popular and large pro-slavery congregations of this city, a small band of men and women meet to hear the Gospel of Freedom and Love for all, an Anti-Slavery lecture was given by Frederick Douglass, last Sunday afternoon. After prayer by Mr. Benson, the clergyman of the society, and the singing of an anti-slavery hymn (which by the way are rarely to be found in hymn books used in public worship,) Mr. Douglass spoke for an hour or more to a respectable audience who had come together notwithstanding the severity of the storm.—He dwelt for some time on the nature of real Christianity, showing to be a world-wide faith-recognising all as brethren, raising up the degraded, freeing the slave, and strengthening the weak. Toward the conlusion of his remarks, he spoke in a feeling manner, which drew tears from many eyes, of the cruel prejudice against his race, and gave a simple narrative of some of his own experience of good and ill treatment as a colored man. The ad,dress was given in a familiar manner; the speaker saying that he felt more like talking with those present, than making a speech to them, and apparently produced a happy effect on the listeners. His sentiments were warmly responded to by the minister and a number of the members of the society; and it was cheering to see and feel that amid the prejudice which drives the colored man to the negro pew in so many churches in this city, and the stern bigotry which cries "Infidel" against those who ask that God's truth shall free the black man as well as the white man, and make all brethren, here was a different spirit—on oasis in the desert. S.
# The North Star (Rochester)/1848/01/14/To Correspondents

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
H. C., Poplar Ridge, New York. We hope to give our readers some extracts from his encouraging letter.
J. H., Clyde. His views may be perfectly correct, but they are regarded as more theological than is suited to the columns of the North Star.
L. G. B., Indianapolis. We forwarded copies, but must say to him, as we do to all who would obtain subscribers, that subscriptions must be prepaid.
A. S. Sullivan, Ohio. We are glad to acknowledge his communication and cash enclosed. The parcel will be forwarded to his address; and we hope many other such agencies may be established.
J. C. H., Brooklyn, New York. Thanks for his letter of 4th inst., and exertions for the Star.
J. C., Wellsville, Ohio. List received and whole number mailed.
S. B., Salem, Ohio. Letters of Jan. 7th received, and names credited. He may expect a letter.
S. S. B., Greenhill, Ohio. We gratefully acknowledge the subscribers and friendly communication. Such agencies are to our liking, as we believe them profitable to all parties.
W. H. T., Albany. The views of our friend are in harmony with many others on the subject of our letter to Mr. Clay; but neither the loss of subscribers nor the displeasure of the community shall deter us from a faithful exposure of slaveholders in high or low places; and we are assured of your support in an uncompromising course.
# The North Star (Rochester)/1848/01/14/To the North Star, and its Distinguished Editor

TO THE NORTH STAR, AND ITS DISTINGUISHED EDITOR.
by a Trans-Atlantic Friend.
# The North Star (Rochester)/1848/01/14/The Land of Liberty

THE LAND OF LIBERTY.
This is the title of a very accurate picture of "our glorious country," by that distinguished artist, philosopher, and reformer, Punch. Of all the intelligent and distinguished persons whom we had the honor to meet is London, none seemed to possess more complete information respecting our "peculiar institutions," than this same Mr. Punch; and we may do him the justice to say, that few make better use of their knowledge than he. It is not now, however, our purpose to draw a picture of Mr. Punch, but to give our readers some idea of the picture he draws of the present aspect of our "glorious country."
As might be expected, the artist has bestowed the greatest amount of labor and skill on slavery, that most prominent feature of the American face, to which the people, old and young—priest and politician, bow with the utmost reverence and admiration. The slaveholder is drawn to the life. His person stretched out on two chairs, resting his right leg over the back of one, and his left on the head of a pro-trait bust of Washington. Around his person is a belt of arms, containing a bowie knife and a seven-barrel revolving pistol. Under his arm is a knotted "cat-o'-nine tails." On the left of him is a chest, upon which are papers labelled, Texas—Oregon—Dollars. Behind, is a woman half naked, tied to a whipping-post. In front of him is a group of slaves and slave-drivers. Prominent in the group are two female slaves kneeling with their hands closely tied behind their backs. One driver is in the act of flogging a woman; another, with a look of Satanic indifference, is branding a kneeling woman on the back with a hot iron,—the smoke of her broiling flesh and blood rising from the wound. Off in the distance is a coffle of slaves driven by two while men, with long-lashed whips. They seem to have just landed from an American slave-ship. Above this scene is floating our star-spangled banner, raised upon a lofty staff, crowned with a capacious liberty cap. On the right of the flag is a representation of Lynch law—a mob in the act of hanging a negro. On the left is a picture of repudiation, illustrated by a well-drawn American in the act of stealing the handkerchief of an Englishman. Above this scene are two pictures representing our duelling practices. Still further on, we have the war with Mexico; stabbing, shooting, hanging, robbing churches,—bayonets, swords, guns, cannons, bombs,—all enveloped in fire and smoke. And above all this horrid confusion of blood and slaughter, is a terrific picture of Satan brooding over the whole scene with a grin of infernal satisfaction.
Now, what a picture is this to be looked upon abroad! and what American has the folly or audacity to deny its truthfulness! At the hazard of making many enemies, and losing some friends, we extend our heartfelt thanks to Punch for the picture, and beg him, in the name of three millions of our enslaved brethren, to continue to notice us, in his world-read journal. It is not impossible that we may wring from a sense of shame what we have been unable to gain from American sense of justice.
# The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen/Volume 11/Letters of Jane Austen, Part 1/Letter 3

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Cork Street: Tuesday morn (August, 1796).
My dear Cassandra,
​Edward and Frank are both gone out to seek their fortunes; the latter is to return soon and help us seek ours. The former we shall never see again. We are to be at Astley’s to-night, which I am glad of. Edward has heard from Henry this morning. He has not been at the races at all, unless his driving Miss Pearson over to Rowling one day can be so called. We shall find him there on Thursday.
I hope you are all alive after our melancholy parting yesterday, and that you pursued your intended avocation with success. God bless you! I must leave off, for we are going out.
Yours very affectionately,
J. Austen.
Everybody’s love.
# The Princess Casamassima (3 volumes, London & New York: Macmillan & Co., 1886)/Volume 2

THE PRINCESS CASAMASSIMA
THE
PRINCESS CASAMASSIMA
A Novel
BY
HENRY JAMES
IN THREE VOLUMES
VOL. II.
London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
1886
COPYRIGHT
1886
By HENRY JAMES
* Book 2 (continued)
* Book 3
* Book 4
# The Princess Casamassima (3 volumes, London & New York: Macmillan & Co., 1886)/Volume 2/Book 2

Book 2 continues from Volume 1.
* Chapter 16
* Chapter 17
* Chapter 18
* Chapter 19
* Chapter 20
* Chapter 21
# The Ramayana/Book I/Canto LIX: The Sons of Vas'ishtha

Then Kus'ik's son, by pity warmed, Spoke sweetly to the king transformed: 'Hail! glory of Ikshváku's line: I know how bright thy virtues shine. Dismiss thy fear, O noblest Chief, For I myself will bring relief. The holiest saints will I invite To celebrate thy purposed rite: So shall thy vow, O King, succeed, And from thy cares shalt thou be freed. Thou in the form which now thou hast, Transfigured by the curse they cast,-- Yea, in the body, King, shalt flee, Transported, where thou fain wouldst be. O Lord of men, I ween that thou Hast heaven within thy hand e'en now, For very wisely hast thou done, And refuge sought with Kus'ik's son.'
Thus having said, the sage addressed His sons, of men the holiest, And bade the prudent saints whate'er Was needed for the rite prepare. The pupils he was wont to teach He summoned next, and spoke this speech: 'Go bid Vas'ishtha'a sons appear, And all the saints be gathered here. And what they one and all reply When summoned by this mandate high, To me with faithful care report, Omit no word and none distort.'
The pupils heard, and prompt obeyed, To every side their way they made. Then swift from every quarter sped The sages in the Vedas read. Back to that saint the envoys came, Whose glory shone like burning flame, And told him in their faithful speech The answer that they bore from each: 'Submissive to thy word, O Seer, The holy men are gathering here. By all was meet obedience shown: Mahodaya refused alone.
And now, O Chief of hermits, hear What answer, chilling us with fear, Vas'ishtha's hundred sons returned, Thick-speaking as with rage they burned: 'How will the Gods and saints partake The offerings that the prince would make, And he a vile and outcast thing, His ministrant one born a king? Can we, great Bráhmans, eat his food, And think to win beatitude, By Vis'vámitra purified?' Thus sire and sons in scorn replied, And as these bitter words they said, Wild fury made their eyeballs red.
Their answer when the arch-hermit heard, His tranquil eyes with rage were blurred; Great fury in his bosom woke, And thus unto the youths he spoke: 'Me, blameless me they dare to blame, And disallow the righteous claim My fierce austerities have earned: To ashes be the sinners turned. Caught in the noose of Fate shall they To Yama's kingdom sink to-day. Seven hundred times shall they be born To wear the clothes the dead have worn. Dregs of the dregs, too vile to hate. The flesh of dogs their maws shall sate. In hideous form, in loathsome weed, A sad existence each shall lead. Mahodaya too, the fool who fain My stainless life would try to stain, Stained in the world with long disgrace Shall sink into a fowler's place. Rejoicing guiltless blood to spill, No pity through his breast shall thrill. Cursed by my wrath for many a day, His wretched life for sin shall pay.'
Thus, girt with hermit, saint, and priest, Great Vis'vámitra spoke--and ceased.