OpenLLM-France/wikimedia huggingface dataset:
# Royal Naval Biography/Gordon, James (b)

Layout 2
JAMES GORDON (b), Esq. [Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 27th June, 1826; and promoted to the rank of commander, June 6th, 1834.
# Royal Naval Biography/Gordon, George

Layout 2
GEORGE GORDON, Esq. [Commander.]
Served as midshipman on board the Blanche frigate. Captain Sir Thomas Lavie, with whom he was wrecked and taken prisoner, near Ushant, in the night of March 4, 1807. On this disastrous occasion, about 45 seamen and marines perished; one-third of whom through drunkenness. He was made a lieutenant on the 26th Nov. 1810; appointed to the flag-ship of the commander-in-chief at Plymouth, June 4th, 1811; and promoted from her to his present rank, Jan, 9th, 1815.
# Royal Naval Biography/Gordon, Henry

Layout 2
HENRY GORDON, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1805.]
This officer received his first commission in 1798; obtained the rank of Commander in 1802; and was posted for his gallant defence of the Wolverene, mounting 13 guns, with a complement of 76 men, against the Blonde, French privateer, of 30 guns and 240 men, by which ship he was attacked when on his way to Newfoundland with a convoy, Mar. 28, 1804. The Wolverene on that occasion had 5 men killed and 10 wounded: the remainder of her crew had not been long removed before she went to the bottom.
Captain Gordon appears to have been many years a prisoner in France. The manner in which he returned from that country has been variously stated. We shall probably be enabled to speak more confidently on the subject in our Addenda. His post commission bears date April 8, 1805.
# Royal Naval Biography/Gordon, James Gabriel

Layout 2
JAMES GABRIEL GORDON, Esq. [Commander.]
Passed his examination in Mar. 1809; obtained his first commission on the 3d of Oct. 1810; and served, during the last two years of the late war, in the Egmont 74, Captain Joseph Bingham, On the 20th of Sept. 1814, he was appointed flag-lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Penrose; with whom he continued until promoted to the rank of commander, July 20th, 1815. He has since been employed in the Ordinary at Sheerness.
# Royal Naval Biography/Gordon, Charles (b)

Layout 2
CHARLES GORDON (b), Esq. [Captain of 1828.]
Was made a lieutenant in July, 1818; appointed to the Tagus 42, Captain ;. W. Deans Dundas, on the 11th of the following month; to the Active 46, Captain Sir James A. Gordon, Jan. 12th, 1819; to the Ariadne 26, Captain C. R. Moorsom, Mar. 29th, 1822; and to the command of the Cadmus sloop, on the South American station, April 17th 1827. His first commission as commander bears date Jan. 6th, 1826; and he obtained his present rank, April 17th, 1828.
Agents.– Messrs. Maude and Co.
# Royal Naval Biography/Gordon, James Murray

Layout 2
JAMES MURRAY GORDON, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1808.]
Was made a Lieutenant Feb. 25, 1803; advanced to the rank of Commander Feb. 1, 1806; and posted Feb. 15, 1808. He married, Dec. 13, 1810, Mrs. Charlton, daughter of Archdeacon Caulfield.
# Royal Naval Biography/Gordon, John

Layout 2
HON. JOHN GORDON. [Post-Captain of 1818.]
A grandson of the late Earl of Aberdeen, and brother to the present peer. He was made lieutenant. Mar 21, 1812; advanced to the rank of commander, June 15, 1814; and posted, from the Carnation of 18 guns, into the Tamar 26, at Newfoundland, Dec. 31, 1818.
# Royal Naval Biography/Gordon, James (a)

Layout 2
JAMES GORDON (a), Esq. [Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant in Dec, 1808; and promoted to his present rank, while serving as first of the Leander 60, flag-ship of the Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, on the East India station, Jan. 29th, 1831.
# Rowland v. Mad River Local School District, Montgomery County, Ohio

* related portals: Supreme Court of the United States.
* sister projects: Wikidata item.

## Dissenting Opinion

    Brennan
Supreme Court of the United States
470 U.S. 1009
Rowland v. Mad River Local School District, Montgomery County, Ohio
Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
No. 84-532 Argued: --- Decided: February 25, 1985; Rehearing denied April 22, 1985
Reported below: 730 F.2d 444.

#### Notes

* ↑ . Justice Powell took no part in the consideration or decision of the orders announced on this date.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
# Rowley v. Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Co.

* related portals: Supreme Court of the United States.
* sister projects: Wikidata item.
United States Supreme Court
293 U.S. 102
Rowley v. Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Co.
No. 9 Argued: Oct. 10, 1934. --- Decided: Nov 5, 1934
Messrs. Ray E. Lee and James A. Greenwood, both of Cheyenne, Wyo., for petitioners.
Messrs. Samuel H. Cady and William T. Faricy, both of Chicago, Ill., and R. R. Rose, of Casper, Wyo., for respondent.
Mr. Justice BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.

## Notes

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
# Rowoldt v. Perfetto

* related portals: Supreme Court of the United States.
* sister projects: Wikidata item.
United States Supreme Court
355 U.S. 115
Rowoldt v. Perfetto
Argued: Oct. 14, 1957. --- Decided: Dec 9, 1957
Messrs. David Rein and Joseph Forer, Washington, D.C., for petitioner.
Mr. Oscar H. Davis, Washington, D.C., for respondent.
Mr. Justice FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

## Notes

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
# Rowland v. Mad River Local School District, Montgomery County, Ohio/Opinion of the Court

* Court Documents
* Case Syllabus
* Per Curiam Opinion of the Court
* Dissenting Opinion Brennan
PER CURIAM.
Certiorari denied.
# Royal Naval Biography/Mends, William Bowen

Layout 2
WILLIAM BOWEN MENDS, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1814.]
Was made lieutenant early in 1801; commander, Feb. 26, 1811; and post-captain. May 26, 1814. His last appointment was Jan. 21, 1824, to the Blanche 46, fitting for the South American station, from whence he returned to Portsmouth, with nearly 800,000 dollars on board, Sept. 28, 1827.
# Royal Naval Biography/Mercadell, Alexander

Layout 2
ALEXANDER MERCADELL, Esq. [Commander.]
Is the son of a Minorca merchant. He was made a lieutenant on the 14th May, 1808; and advanced to his present rank, while serving as first of the Alcmene frigate, Captain Jeremiah Coghlan, Sept. 3d, 1814.
# Royal Naval Biography/Meredith, Samuel

Layout 2
SAMUEL MEREDITH, Esq. [Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 24th Nov. 1815; and appointed, as supernumerary, to the Severn frigate. Captain William M‘Culloch, superintendent of the coast blockade, Oct. 4th, 1820. He subsequently served in the Prince Regent 120, bearing the flag of the late Sir Benjamin H. Carew, stationed off Gillingham. He obtained his present rank on the 7th May, 1828.; and was appointed an inspecting commander of the coast guard in July, 1830.
This officer married, June 21st, 1819, Lydia, third daughter of John Dyer, Esq., Secretary of Greenwich Hospital.
# Royal Naval Biography/Medlicott, John

Layout 2
JOHN MEDLICOTT, Esq. [Commander.]
This officer’s first commission bears date Jan. 7th, 1802; about which period he was presented with the Turkish gold medal, for his services on the Egyptian coast, during the campaign of 1801. He obtained the rank of commander June 4th, 1814; previous to which he had served as flag-lieutenant to Rear-Admiral (now Sir William) Hargood, on the Guernsey station.
# Royal Naval Biography/Methven, Thomas

Layout 2
THOMAS METHVEN, Esq. [Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant early in 1798, and promoted to his present rank on the 21st Feb. 1812; previous to which he had served in the Invincible 74, Captain (now Vice-Admiral) Ross Donnelly; and as first of the Resistance frigate, Captain Philip L. G. Rosenhagen, on the Mediterranean station. He married, in 1829, Janet Grant, youngest daughter of the late David Hunter, of Blackness, Esq.
# Royal Naval Biography/Mercer, John Davis

Layout 2
JOHN DAVIS MERCER, Esq. [Commander.]
Obtained his first commission on the 8th December, 1809; and was serving under Captain Charles Gill, in the Cleopatra frigate, at the close of the French war in 1814. He was subsequently flag-lieutenant to the late Sir William Charles Fahie, on the Leeward Island and Halifax stations. His promotion to the rank of commander took place Sept. 9th, 1824.
# Royal Naval Biography/Meynell, Henry

Layout 2
HENRY MEYNELL, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1816.]
Son of the late Hugo Meynell, Esq. by a sister to the Dowager Marchioness of Hertford. He obtained the rank of lieutenant, Nov. 8, 1809; commanded the boats of the Theban frigate. Captain S. T. Digby, at the capture of a French merchant brig, lying aground under two batteries, near Dieppe, Feb. 2, 1811; was made commander, Aug. 24, 181S; and posted into the Newcastle 60, bearing the flag of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, at St. Helena, April 10, 1816. Captain Meynell’s mother was accidentally killed, in Aug. 1817.
Agents.– Messrs. Maude and Co.
# Royal Naval Biography/Meredith, Richard

Layout 2
RICHARD MEREDITH, Esq. [Commander.]
Entered the royal navy in 1790; obtained his first commission on the 15th Aug. 1806; and served, during the peace, as senior lieutenant of the Northumberland 78, and Cambridge 82, under the command of Captain Thomas James Maling, the latter ship employed on the South American station. He was promoted to the rank of commander on the 16th Mar. 1824; and appointed to the Pelorus sloop, fitting out for the suppression of the African slave-trade, Sept. 26th, 1831. The following is taken from the Hampshire Telegraph:–
“A court-martial was held on Monday,” June 16th, 1834, “on Lieutenant Philip De Sausmarez, of H.M. sloop Pelorus, on the following charge preferred against him by Commander Meredith, viz. – For having, on the 18th of April, 1832, whilst in charge of the Segunda Teresa, slave-brig, punished Francis Brown, with twenty-four lashes, for neglect of duty, contrary to the general rules of the service, and in opposition to the written orders of Commander Meredith. It appeared from the evidence, that Lieutenant De Sausmarez was surrounded by a disrespectful and even mutinous crew; that Francis Brown, the seaman who was punished, was most conspicuously so; that on being ordered by Lieut. De Sausmarez to put the helm up he refused to do so, and on the order being repeated to him, he said he could steer a ship as well as he (the lieutenant) could. That, on another occasion, being sent ashore on duty, by the officer of the Match, he did not return to the ship until ​several hours after he ought to have done so, and then he refused to take the quarter-master (Price) off to the schooner, though ordered to do so. – Lieut. De Sausmarez, in his defence, commented on the insubordinate state of the crew, and on the evident necessity there was, that he should make an example of Brown, but whose punishment he did not resolve upon until he had consulted with Lieut. Huntly, then the senior officer at Sierra Leone, who not only concurred in opinion, but sent the boatswain’s mate and marines of his own vessel (the Lynx), to carry the punishment into execution. The Court decided that, under the circumstances, Lieut. De Sausmarez was justified in having had recourse to such punishment, and therefore acquitted him. The President, Sir Frederick L. Maitland, K.C.B.,” (Admiral-Superintendent of Portsmouth dock-yard) “then returned Lieutenant De Sausmarez his sword, saying, ‘I have great pleasure in returning you your sword, and in saying that nothing whatever has appeared to affect your character on this occasion.’ – Lieutenant De Suasmarez had been under arrest eighteen months upon this charge!”
# Royal Naval Biography/Michell, Frederick Thomas

Layout 2
FREDERICK THOMAS MICHELL, Esq. [Captain of 1830.]
Was long a follower of Sir Edward Pellew (now Viscount Exmouth), and has the reputation of being a most daring, gallant officer. He was made a lieutenant in May, 1807, and commanded the battering flotilla attached to the squadron under his patron, at the battle of Algiers. He was advanced to the rank of commander on the 16th Sept. 1816; and of captain, Feb. 17th, 1830. His wife is the youngest daughter of the late Mr. Prideaux, of Wadebridge House, near Truro, in Cornwall.
# Selected letters of Mendelssohn/Letter 29

TO MARE ANDRE SOUCHAY, LUBECK.
Berlin, 15th October, 1842.
There is a great deal of talking about music, and very little said to the purpose. My own belief is that words are inadequate to express it, and if it were otherwise I should end by leaving off composing music altogether. One constantly hears people complain that the meaning of music is so indefinite, it leaves them in so much doubt as to the significance intended to be conveyed in it; and yet they imply that language is intelligible to everybody. With me it’s exactly the opposite. And that not only with complete sentences, and so on, but single words also seem to me vague, indefinite, and very open to misunderstanding in comparison with real music, the music that fills one’s heart with a thousand things finer than any language. What any music I care for means to me is not an indefinite feeling which one might render definite by translating it into words, but something perfectly clear. And, therefore, all ​attempts to express these ideas strike me as accurate, perhaps, but always as unsatisfying, and that is the impression I gain from your own. Not that that is your fault; it is the fault of language itself which, indeed, must fall short here. If you ask me what was in my mind while composing a particular song, I answer, the song itself precisely as it stands. And if, indeed, there was in any case some particular word or particular sentence in my thoughts, I can tell no one what it was, precisely because that word does not carry the same significance to one person that it does to another, and it is only the song itself that can express the same meaning, or suggest the same emotion, to one as to the other.
Resignation, melancholy, worship, a hunting call; these words do not call up the same feeling in two different persons; what is resignation to one is melancholy to another, while a third person attaches no definite significance to either. If one were a downright keen hunter by nature, perhaps the hunting call would come to signify to one pretty much the same thing as worship, and the notes of a horn be veritably a sort of anthem. We should hear nothing in it but the hunting call, and however much we might discuss it with the huntsman we should never come to an agreement. The word would still be many-sensed, and yet we should both understand the music.
Will you let that pass for an answer to your question? It is, at least, the only answer I know how to make, and it is nothing itself but words of doubtful significance.
# Selected letters of Mendelssohn/Letter 31

TO CARL KLINGEMANN, LONDON.
Leipsic, 6th December, 1846.
For several days I have been straining all my powers on the "Elijah," and am hoping to make a good end of most of the things I disliked on the first performance. I have quite done one of the hardest portions—the widow—and you will certainly be content with the alteration, yes, I will say with the improvement.
The "Elijah" has gained much in significance and mystery in this passage. It was the want of these things which troubled me, the sort of want I discover, alas! after the festival, and can only define when I have mended it. But in the other passages we have talked about as well I hope to refine somewhat. I am very seriously going through again everything that satisfied me before, so that in a few weeks I hope to be ready with the whole, and then turn to something new. But the pieces I have already worked over afresh do show me clearly that it is well not to rest with such a work till it is as perfect as ever I can make it, even though a very small number of people indeed hear or know anything of these refinements. And though a prodigious time is taken up in making ​them, when a passage is really made better, its effect, both by itself and on the rest of the piece, is, indeed, vastly different. You see I am vastly contented with the "widow," the passage I completed to-day; therefore, I think one dare not rest satisfied, and conscience, too, gives me a hint now and then to the same effect.
# Selected letters of Mendelssohn/Letter 33

TO HIS NEPHEW, SEBASTIAN HENSEL.
Baden-Baden, 13th June, 1847.
Dear Sebastian,—I must wish you happiness for your birthday. It is the most solemn you have yet seen. To look back at this day last year is now a great sorrow for you, for then your mother stood by your side; but may the looking forward at your years to come give you strength and courage, for then also will your mother be with you in all your life and all your actions. May it all be good and worthy, and every step of yours be directed to the goal that she looks forward to for you, and to which her example and her spirit have accompanied you and ever will, so long as you are faithful to her. And, in other words, that means indeed all your life long. Whatever branch of life and knowledge and activity you devote yourself to, it is essential to will, not to wish for, mind, but to will, something useful and noble, and that is enough. Everywhere there is now a want, and ever will be a want, of good, stout-hearted workers. It is not true what people say about it being harder to accomplish anything now than it was formerly. On the contrary, it is and remains, in a sense, easy, or else it ​is impossible. All that is wanted is true inward courage, real love, real unconquerable will, and all these you should not want for, for you have the sweetest, loveliest pattern of them unchangeably before you. If you follow that, and accomplish it all, well; yet nothing can be attained without the accomplishment of that inward desire I have for you to-day. God be with you.
FELIX M. B.
THE END.
Printed by Cowan & Co., Limited, Perth.
# Selected letters of Mendelssohn/Letter 30

TO PAUL MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY.
Birmingham, 26th August, 1846.
My Dear Brother, You have taken so kind an interest in my "Elijah" from the beginning, and your encouragement has helped me so much to its completion, that I feel bound to write to you at once after the first performance yesterday, and tell you how things went. Never did the first production of any piece of mine succeed so admirably, or call out such enthusiastic sympathy from musicians and public as this oratorio. At the first rehearsal in London it was evident that it won favour, and that the performers played and sang the music with pleasure, but I confess that the swing and zest of the first performance were far beyond what I expected. I only wish you could have been there! Through the whole two and a half hours that it lasted, the great hall filled with 2,000 people, and the great orchestra all strained to the utmost and concentrated on the music, not a single whisper among the audience; I could control absolutely the crowd of instruments and the great volume of choir and organ, leading them precisely as I wanted. How often did I think of you! ​No less than four choruses and four airs had to be repeated, and in the whole of the first part there was not a single mistake. In the second there were one a or two, but these very insignificant. A young English tenor sang the last air most beautifully, so much so that I had to pull myself together not to let my feelings hinder me from beating time decently. As I said before, would you had been there! To-morrow is my return. Nowadays one does not, like Goethe, see the carriage-pole pointed homewards, but I still have always the same feeling when I am starting back to my own country. In October I hope to see you in Berlin, and will bring the scene, either to perform in public or to play it in secret to you and Fanny and Rebecca, the first probably, but by all means the second also. Farewell, my dear brother, and excuse this letter if it is stupid. I am often much distracted, and all I have really to say is to thank you for your interest in my "Elijah" and the help you have given me.
Yours, Felix.
# Selected letters of Mendelssohn/Letter 32

TO GENERAL VON WEBER, BERLIN.
Frankfort, 24th May, 1847.
Even in the depth of my grief your letter has done me good. Your very handwriting first and your nearness to me at this moment is helpful, and then so also is every single word you write. Take my thanks for it, dear and faithful friend. Truly, one who has ever known my sister can never again forget her in a lifetime. But to us, and perhaps most of all to myself, to whom she was present with all her sweetness and affection at every moment, who could have no joy alone but only with the thought of her partaking in it, whom she from the first so helped and spoiled with all the richness of her sisterly love, and who always dreamed that this could never fail, it is a loss which we cannot yet measure at all, and even now I cannot help instinctively believing that our sorrow will be suddenly revoked. Yet I know it is all true, and the certainty is there, but now I cannot accustom myself to it, nor ever shall. It is beautiful to think of that noble, harmonious being, and how she is freed from the weariness of age and the decline of life, but it is ​hard for us to go on our way with true humility and endurance.
Pardon me that I can write so little, but, thank you, I must. My family are well, their happy children's faces with the unbroken gladness on them, are what has done me good in these days. I cannot think of music; if I turn my thoughts to it, it all seems waste and hollow. But when my children come in, a brightness comes with them, and then I can listen to them and watch them for hours.
The best of thanks for your letter. Heaven keep you and yours.
Felix M. B.
# Selected letters of Mendelssohn/Letter 28

TO HIS MOTHER.
Interlaken, 18th August, 1842.
Dear Little Mother,—Do you still remember our living here twenty years ago in the pleasant inn under the great walnut-trees with the fair young hostess? Ten years back I was here again, and they refused me quarters. I looked too disreputable after my journey on foot, and that, I think, was the only annoyance I had on all that journey. Now we are living here again, this time as people who are settled in life. The Jungfrau with its silver horns still shapes itself as steeply and delicately as ever in the air; the mountain looks fresh still, but the hostess is grown quite old, and it was only by her unchanged deportment I could recognise her. I have been sketching the walnut-trees, far better than before, no doubt, but far worse than I know it really ought to be. The Unterseen post brings us the letters as it used; but there are many new houses. The Aar ripples and murmurs as quickly and quietly; and the water is as green as ever; “time is, time was, time is passed.” Really, I have little more to write; description, of Swiss journeyings are neither here nor there, and instead of my old diary, I now fall to sketching like one ​possessed. All day long I sit down before a mountain and try to copy its outlines, and never leave oft till the drawing is hopelessly spoilt; my great idea is to get at least one landscape daily into my book…. It is a strange thing with the mountains here as the greatest books, they seem to change with oneself, and display a new aspect of themselves to one’s own altered temperament, and always rise above one in the same glory. Now that I come to see them with my wife, my whole impression is quite different from what it was; then I cared for nothing but to rush up every craggy peak and green meadow-slope, and now I should like to stop in every place, and live there quietly for months. I can give no assurance that some fine spring I won’t pack off here with all my household goods, and never return to the North till the very last leaves are off the trees……