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# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Sentia, (Amæsia)

SENTIA (AMÆSIA),
Pleaded her own cause with great force, in a large assembly of the people, before Lucius Titius, the proctor; and established her innocence, by the correctness and ability of her defence. She obtained the appellation of Androgyne, or a manly woman, as carrying a strong mind under a gentle appearance.
Valer. Max. lib. 8. C. 3.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Seturman, (Madame)

SETURMAN (MADAME), a Native of Cologne,
Excelled in all the arts: was a painter, musician, engraver, sculptor, philosopher, geometrician, and theologian. She besides understood and spoke nine different languages.
Essay by M. Thomas.
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# A Child's Own Book of Verse/Volume 3/White Horses

WHITE HORSES
I saw them plunging through the foam, I saw them prancing up the shore— A thousand horses, row on row, And then a thousand more!
In joy they leaped upon the land, In joy they fled before the wind, Prancing and plunging on they raced, The huntsman raced behind.
When this old huntsman goes to sleep, The horses live beneath the waves; They live at peace, and rest in peace, Deep in their sea green caves.
But when they hear the huntsman’s shout Urging his hounds across the sea, Out from their caves in frenzied fear The great white horses flee!
To-day they plunged right through the foam, To-day they pranced right up the shore, A thousand horses, row on row, And then a thousand more. — Hamish Hendry.
# A Child's Own Book of Verse/Volume 3/Robert of Lincoln

ROBERT OF LINCOLN
* Merrily swinging on brier and weed,
* Near to the nest of his little dame,
* Over the mountain-side or mead,
* Robert of Lincoln is telling his name:
* “Bob-o’-link, bob-o’-link,
* Spink, spank, spink;
* Snug and safe is that nest of ours,
* Hidden among the summer flowers,
* Chee, chee, chee!”
Robert of Lincoln is gayly drest, Wearing a bright black wedding coat; White are his shoulders and white his crest. Hear him call in his merry note : “Bob-o’-link, bob-o’-link, Spink, spank, spink; Look, what a nice new coat is mine, Sure there was never a bird so fine. Chee, chee, chee! ”
Robert of Lincoln’s Quaker wife, Pretty and quiet, with plain brown wings, Passing at home a patiënt life, Broods in the grass while her husband sings: “Bob-o’-link, bob-o’-link, Spink, spank, spink; Brood, kind creature; you need not fear Thieves and robbers while I am here. Chee, chee, chee!”
Modest and shy as a nun is she; One weak chirp is her only note, Braggart and prince of braggart is he, Pouring boasts from his little throat: “Bob-o’-link, bob-o’-link, Spink, spank, spink; Never was I afraid of man ; Catch me, cowardly knaves, if you can ! Chee, chee, chee!”
Six white eggs on a bed of hay, Flecked with purple, a pretty sight! There, as the mother sits all day, Robert is singing with all his might: “Bob-o’-link, bob-o’-link, Spink, spank, spink; Nice good wife that never goes out, Keeping house while I frolic about. Chee, chee, chee!”
Soon as the little ones chip the shell, Six wide mouths are open for food; Robert of Lincoln bestirs him well, Gathering seeds for the hungry brood. “Bob-o’-link, bob-o’-link, Spink, spank, spink; Nobody knows but my mate and I Where our nest and our nestlings lie. Chee, chee, chee!”
Summer wanes; the children are grown; Fun and frolic no more he knows; Robert of Lincoln’s a humdrum crone; Off he flies, and we sing as he goes: “Bob-o’-link, bob-o’-link, Spink, spank, spink; When you can pipe that merry old strain, Robert of Lincoln, come back again. Chee, chee, chee!” — William Cullen Bryant.
# A Child of the Age (Adams)

A CHILD OF THE AGE
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A CHILD OF THE AGE
BY FRANCIS ADAMS
Stirb und werde! Denn so lang du das nicht hast, Bist du nur ein trüber Gast Auf der dunkeln Erde.
GOETHE.
LONDON: JOHN LANE, VIGO ST. BOSTON: ROBERTS BROS., 1894
[Note.—This novel is the first of a series which Francis Adams intended, had he lived, to complete. In a letter, dated March 23rd, 1893, he says: 'It was my modest little scheme to draw types of all the social life of the day. "A Child of the Age," is the first of a series of novels and tales. Oh, I was going to do as big as Balzac that way! Fancy what a pretty scheme for a jackanapes of eighteen, and to have sweated at it all these years! I finished the last but one of the novels (chronologically) on my way back from Australia [1890]. There are three novels to do yet and about eight short tales.' He also intended to work through the same cycle of characters in his Verse. The early chapters of the 'Poetical Works' correspond to and illustrate this novel.
In 1879, at the of seventeen, Adams left Shrewsbury School—the Glastonbury of this novel—and spent the next two years chiefly in Paris. In 1880 he wrote the first draft of the book, and during the two years following, latterly in London and Ventnor, he recast and corrected his work. Under the title 'Leicester, an Autobiography' it was published in 1884, while the author was in Australia. Some time after, on reading his novel critically as the work of another writer, he was surprised to find how truly he had depicted experiences which at the time of writing he had still to undergo. In another letter [1885] he says: 'I see its faults clearly, but entirely fail to reproduce its excellences. It is a remarkable book and it came to me to write it in a quite spontaneous and inspired way.' He said on another occasion: 'It was an honest attempt to give a candid revelation, but it was crude and morbid and not quite candid. Beware,' he adds, 'of taking-my characters for myself. I am terribly objective; even when I wrote "Leicester," I wrote of one entirely unlike myself.'
The book is now published in its final form as revised and to a great extent rewritten by its author a year or two before his death.]
* Dedication
* Part I: Chapter I
* Part I: Chapter II
* Part I: Chapter III
* Part I: Chapter IV
* Part II: Chapter I
* Part II: Chapter II
* Part II: Chapter III
* Part II: Chapter IV
* Part III: Chapter I
* Part III: Chapter II
* Part III: Chapter III
* Part III: Chapter IV
* Part IV: Chapter I
* Part IV: Chapter II
* Part IV: Chapter III
* Part IV: Chapter IV
* Part V: Chapter I
* Part V: Chapter II
* Part V: Chapter III
* Part V: Chapter IV
* Part V: Chapter V
* List of Works
* Publisher's catalogue
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists/Arago, Dominique François Jean

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​Arago, Dominique François Jean, French physicist. B. Feb. 26, 1786. Ed. École Polytechnique, Paris. Arago, reared in the finest spirit of the Revolution, joined the staff of the Observatory, and in 1806 he was appointed to take part in the important work of measuring an arc of the terrestrial meridian as a basis of the metrical system. For his brilliant work he was, by a suspension of the age limit, admitted to the Academy at the early age of twenty-three, and he was appointed professor at the Polytechnic and Director of the Observatory. His papers, which fill seventeen volumes (1854-62), represent a remarkable series of services to science, especially in optics and electro-magnetism. He invented the polariscope and other instruments, and he was the first French man to receive the Copley Medal of the Royal Society. He belonged to most of the learned societies of Europe. Eminent as he was in science, Arago never relaxed in his humanitarian creed. He joined the Anti-Clericals in the French Parliament after the Revolution of 1830, and after the Revolution of 1848 he accepted the port folio of War and Marine. For his thorough Rationalistic sentiments one must read his letters to Alexander von Humboldt, a kindred spirit (Correspondance d'Alexandre de Humboldt avec F. Arago, 1907). D. Oct. 2, 1853.
# A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists/Archer, William

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​Archer, William, M.A., dramatic critic. B. Dec. 23, 1856. Ed. Edinburgh University. After a period of journalism in Edinburgh and a short stay in Australia he settled in London in 1878. He was dramatic critic of the Figaro 1879-81, and was called to the bar (Middle Temple) in 1883. Pie continued to be dramatic critic on, in succession, the World (1884-1905), the Tribune, the Nation, and the Star. Besides his own numerous works (notably Real Conversations, 1904, and The Life, Trial, and Death of Francisco Ferrer, 1911), he has translated most of Ibsen's plays, and he has edited Ibsen's Prose Dramas (5 vols., 1890) and Collected Works (11 vols., 1906, etc.). He has also translated works of Maeterlinck, Kielland, Hauptmann, Brandes, etc. His Agnostic views are best given in his God and Mr. Wells (1918). Mr. Archer is an Honorary Associate of the Rationalist Press Association, and a fearless and powerful advocate of advanced causes. He has contributed to the R. P. A. Annual for many years.
# A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists/Ardigó, Professor Roberto

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​Ardigó, Professor Roberto, Italian philosopher. B. Jan. 28, 1828. He became a Catholic priest (1851) and canon of Mantua Cathedral (1863), but a profound study of philosophy emancipated him, and he left the Church in 1870 to become the most learned and most honoured leader of the Italian Positivists. In 1881 he was appointed to the chair of philosophy at Padua University, though the clergy denounced this "glorification of Atheism." Ardigo was a man of austere and lofty ideals and an original thinker. His works (Opere filosofiche, 11 vols., 1882-1912) ​show a rejection throughout of all religious ideas, except in the Positivist sense. See Prof. G. Marchesini, La Vita e il Pensiero di E. Ardigó (1907). D. Feb., 1906.