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# A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Brigid (17)

​St. Brigid (17) of Glastonbury, a recluse at Glastonbury, whose necklace and other relics were shown there in the time of William of Malmesbury (11th century), and were supposed to have belonged to St. Brigid of Ireland. Later critics and investigators say this was another saint, whose memory is swallowed up in the fame of her great namesake.
# A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Brigid (20)

​St Brigid (20) the Younger, of Sweden, V. † 1398. Granddaughter of St. Brigid of Sweden, being the daughter of her son Charles, who died on pilgrimage. The younger Brigid was brought up in the convent of Vreta, on the Wettern Lake. When she was seven, her grandmother appeared to her and predicted her death. She made her last confession, and, although it was January, she begged persistently for strawberries, and, by a revelation from St. Brigid, some were found under the snow, on a hill near the convent. She was buried at her grandmother’s monastery of Wadstein. Vastovius, Vitis Aquiloniæ.
# A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Brigid (16)

​St. Brigid (16), or Birgitta, Feb. 1, V. Sister of St. Henry, Emperor (1002–1024). Abbess of a monastery at Regensburg, founded by St. Wolfgang. She is worshipped by the Benedictines only. AA. SS., Præter.
# A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Brigid (12)

​St. Brigid (12) Mactail. 6th century. Daughter of Conchraid, of the family of Mactail. She had her cell at Cluan-in-fidi, on the banks of the Shannon. She made a vestment which she wished to send to Inniscathy for St. Senan, who was settled there not earlier than 534. Finding no better mode of sending it, she wrapped it in hay and put it in a basket, which she addressed and set afloat on the river. It is said to have arrived safely. This anecdote is related of St. Brigid of Kildare, who sent her basket, however, by sea, and a much greater distance. Lanigan, Eccles. Hist, of Ireland, i. 449.
# A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Brigid (13)

​St. Brigid (13), March 14. An Irish virgin, brought up at Dunkeld with St. Cuthbert, by St. Columba. Bishop Forbes, Scot. Cal.
# A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Brigid (14)

​St. Brigid (14), or Britta, Jan. 14. 8th century. Of Beauvais; also called of Tours and of Nogent; with her sister St. Maura, July 13, MM. of virginity. Daughters of the King of the Scots. They were born in 731, on the day that a long and desolating famine and pestilence came to an end. Their mother died in giving them birth. Maura devoted her life to fasting and prayer. Brigid devoted hers to works of mercy. Contrary to their wishes, the king sought advantageous alliances for them. While he was taking measures to bring them to his way of thinking, he died. They were now heirs of the kingdom, as their only brother Hispadius was feeble of body and unfit to succeed his father. They renounced their right to the throne, took their brother with them, and went to Rome. After they had visited the holy places, they cast a devil out of Ursinus their host, who thenceforth became their devoted servant. They next went to the territory of Beauvais, where they settled at Balagny, near Creil. Here they were attacked by four ruffians, and suffered much in their own defence. At last the robbers killed them and their brother, and Ursinus buried them. After many years, St. Bathilde, queen of France, had them translated to her new monastery of Chelles. Colgan, Irish Saints, Jan. 14. French Mart., July 13. Guérin, Petits Boll. (Cf. Maura. The difference in dates tends to the conclusion that the legends are fictitious.)
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/William I. of Württemberg

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​WILLIAM I. [Friedrich Karl] (1781–1864), king of Württemberg, son of Frederick, afterwards King Frederick I. of Württemberg, was born at Lüben in Silesia on the 27th of September 1781. In his early days he was debarred from public life owing to a quarrel with his father, whose time-serving deference to Napoleon was distasteful to him. In 1814-1815 he suddenly rose into prominence through the Wars of Liberation against France, in which he commanded an army corps with no little credit to himself. On his accession to the throne of Württemberg in 1816 he realized the expectations formed of him as a liberal-minded ruler by promulgating a constitution (1819), under which serfdom and obsolete class privileges were swept away, and by issuing ordinances which greatly assisted the financial and industrial development and the educational progress of his country. In 1848 he sought to disarm the revolutionary movement by a series of further liberal reforms which removed the restrictions more recently imposed at Metternich's instance by the Germanic diet. But his relations with the legislature, which had from time to time become strained owing to the bureaucratic spirit which he kept alive in the administration, were definitely broken off in consequence of a prolonged conflict on questions of Germanic policy. He cut the knot by repudiating the enactments of 1848–1849 and by summoning a packed parliament (1851), which re-enforced the code of 1819.
The same difficulties which beset William as a constitutional reformer impeded him as a champion of Germanic union. Intent above all on preserving the rights of the Middle Germanic states against encroachments by Austria and Prussia he lapsed into a policy of mere obstruction. The protests which he made in 1820–1823 against Metternich's policy of making the minor German states subservient to Austria met with less success than they perhaps deserved. In 1849–1850 he made a firm stand against the proposals for a Germanic union propounded in the National Parliament at Frankfort, for fear lest the exaltation of Prussia should eclipse the lesser principalities. Though forced to accede to the proffering of the imperial crown to the king of Prussia, he joined heartily in Prince Schwarzenberg's schemes for undoing the work of the National Parliament, and by means of ​the coup d’état described above forced his country into a policy of alliance with Austria against Prussia. Nevertheless his devotion to the cause of Germanic union is proved by the eagerness with which he helped the formation of the Zollverein (1828–1830), and in spite of his conflicts with his chambers he achieved unusual popularity among his subjects. He died on the 25th of June 1864, and was succeeded by his son Charles.
See Nick, Wilhelm I., König von Württemberg, und seine Regierung (Stuttgart, 1864); P. Stalin, “König Wilhelm I. von Württemberg,” Zeitschrift für allgemeine Geschichte, 1885, pp. 353-367, 417-434.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/William I. of Sicily

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​WILLIAM I. (d. 1166), king of Sicily, son of King Roger II. by Elvira of Castile, succeeded in 1154. His title “the Bad” seems little merited and expresses the bias of the historian Falcandus and the baronial class against the king and the official class by whom he was guided. It is obvious, however, that William was far inferior in character and energy to his father, and was attached to the semi-Moslem life of his gorgeous palaces of Palermo. The real power in the kingdom was at first exercised by Maio of Bari, a man of low birth, whose title ammiratus ammiratorum was the highest in the realm. Maio continued Roger's policy of excluding the nobles from the administration, and sought also to curtail the liberties of the towns. The barons, always chafing against the royal power, were encouraged to revolt by Pope Adrian IV., whose recognition William had not yet sought, by the Basileus Manuel and the emperor Frederick II. At the end of 1155 Greek troops recovered Bari and began to besiege Brindisi. William, however, was not devoid of military energy; landing in Italy he destroyed the Greek fleet and army at Brindisi (28th May 1156) and recovered Bari. Adrian came to terms at Benevento (18th June 1156), abandoned the rebels and confirmed William as king, and in 1158 peace was made with the Greeks. These diplomatic successes were probably due to Maio; on the other hand, the African dominions were lost to the Almohads (1156–1160), and it is possible that he advised their abandonment in face of the dangers threatening the kingdom down from the north. The policy of the minister led to a general conspiracy, and in November 1160 he was murdered in Palermo by Matthew Bonello, leader of the Sicilian nobles. For a while the king was in the hands of the conspirators, who purposed murdering or deposing him, but the people and the army rallied round him; he recovered power, crushed the Sicilian rebels, had Bonello blinded, and in a short campaign reduced the rest of the Regno. Thus freed from feudal revolts, William confided the government to men trained in Maio's school, such as the grand notary, Matthew d'Agello. His latter years were peaceful; he was now the champion of the true pope against the emperor, and Alexander III. was installed in the Lateran in November 1165 by a guard of Normans. William died on the 7th of May 1166. (E. Cu.)
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/William II., King of the Netherlands

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​WILLIAM II. (1792–1849), king of the Netherlands, son of William I., was born at the Hague on the 6th of December 1792. When he was three years old his family was driven out of Holland by the French republican armies, and lived in exile until 1813. He was educated at the military school at Berlin and afterwards at the university of Oxford. He entered the English army, and in 1811, as aide-de-camp to the duke of Wellington, took part in several campaigns of the Peninsula War. In 1815 he commanded the Dutch and Belgian contingents, and won high commendations for his courage and conduct at the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo, at the latter of which he was wounded. The prince of Orange married in 1816 the grand duchess Anna Paulowna, sister of the tzar Alexander I. He enjoyed considerable popularity in Belgium, as well as in Holland for his affability and moderation, and in 1830, on the outbreak of the Belgian revolution, he betook himself to Brussels, and did his utmost by personal conferences with the most influential men in the Belgian capital to bring about a peaceable settlement on the basis of the administrative autonomy of the southern provinces under the house of Orange. His father had given him powers to treat, but afterwards threw him over and rejected the terms of accommodation that he had proposed. He withdrew on this to England and resided there for several months. In April 1831 William took the command of a Dutch army for the invasion of Belgium, and in a ten-days’ campaign defeated and dispersed the Belgian forces under Leopold I. after a sharp fight near Louvain. He would have entered Brussels in triumph, but his victorious advance was stayed by the intervention of the French. In 1840, on the abdication of his father, he ascended the throne as William II. The peace of 1839 had settled all differences between Holland and Belgium, and the new king found himself confronted with the task of the reorganization of the finances, and the necessity of meeting the popular demand for a revision of the fundamental law, and the establishment of the electoral franchise on a wider basis. He acted with good sense and moderation, and, although by no means a believer in democratic ideas, he saw the necessity of satisfying public opinion and frankly gave his support to larger measures of reform. The fundamental law was altered in 1848 and the Dutch monarchy, from being autocratic, became henceforth constitutional. The king’s attitude secured for him the good will and affection of a people, loyal by tradition to the house of Orange, and the revolutionary disturbances of 1848 found no echo in Holland. William died suddenly on the 17th of March 1849.
See J. J . Abbink, Leven van Koning Willem II. (Amsterdam, 1849); J. Bosscha, Het Leven van Willem den Tweede, Koning der Nederlanden, 1793–1849 (Amsterdam, 1852); P. Blok, Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche Volk (Leiden, 1908).  (G. E.)
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Civil Service Musical Society

From volume 1 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Circassienne, La

From volume 1 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Cipriani, Lorenzo

From volume 1 of the work.
[ J. M. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Cis

From volume 1 of the work.
[ G. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Cither

From volume 1 of the work.
[ A. J. H. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Clapisson, Antoine

From volume 1 of the work.
​CLAPISSON, Antoine Louis, born at Naples Sept. 15, 1808, died at Paris March 19, 1866, was a good violin-player before becoming a composer, and published a great many romances and songs, which exhibit an easy vein of melody. His operas are 'La Figurante' (5 acts, 1838); 'La Symphonie' (1839); 'La Perruche' (1840); 'Frère et Mari' (1841); Le Code noir' (3 acts, 1842); 'Les Bergers-Trumeau' (1845); 'Gibby la Cornemuse' (3 acts, 1846); 'Jeanne la Folle' (5 acts, 1848); 'La Statue équestre' (1850); 'Les Mysteres d'Udolphe' (3 acts, 1852); 'La Promise' (3 acts, 1854); 'La Fanchonnette' (3 acts, March 1, 1856); 'Le Sylphe' (2 acts, Nov. 1856); 'Margot' (3 acts, 1857); 'Les trois Nicolas' (3 acts, 1858); and 'Madame Gregoire' (3 acts, 1861). These plays are generally poor, and many of them were unsuccessful. In fact, 'La Promise' and 'La Fanchounette' are the only two of his operas which gained public favour. There is however much good music in 'Gibby,' 'Le Code noir,' and several others. His style is somewhat bombastic and deficient in genuine inspiration; but, in almost every one of his operas there are to be found graceful and fluent tunes, fine harmonies, pathetic passages, and characteristic effects of orchestration.
[ G. C. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Ciprandi, Ercole

From volume 1 of the work.
[ J. M. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Citole

From volume 1 of the work.
​CITOLE. This word, used by poets in the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries, has been derived from cistella (Lat.) a small box, and is supposed to mean the small box-shaped psaltery, sometimes depicted in MSS. of the period in representations of musicians. Dr. Rimbault ('The Pianoforte,' 1860, p. 25) has collected several poetic references to the citole, including quotations from the 'Roman de la Rose," Gavin Douglas, Gower, and Chaucer ('Knight's Tale,' 'a citole in hire right hand hadde she'). According to the same authority (p. 22) the name was used as late as 1543. [See Psaltery.] A modern instance of the use of the name is in D. G. Rosetti's 'Blessed Damozelle,'
'And angels meeting us shall sing  To their citherns and citoles.'
[ A. J. H. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Clagget, Charles

From volume 1 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Clari, Giovanni

From volume 1 of the work.
​CLARI, Giovanni Carlo Maria, was born at Pisa in 1669 where he became Maestro di Cappella. He studied music at Bologna, under the well-known Colonna, of whom he has always been considered to have been one of the best pupils. For the theatre of the last-named town he wrote an opera intituled 'II Savio delirante,' which had considerable success. But his renown chiefly comes from a collection of vocal duets and trios written with a basso continue, which he published in 1720. A later edition of these is extant, published by Carli of Paris in 1823, and arranged with a modern accompaniment for the piano by a Polish composer named Mirecki. In these his novel treatment of fugue, and his approach towards the modulation of later times, help to mark an epoch in composition, and stamp him as a progressive and profound musician.
There is a Stabat Mater by Clari in C minor in the Royal Library at Copenhagen; and Landsberg of Rome had the following works of his: a Mass for 5 voices, strings and organ; a Credo for 4 voices; Psalms for 4 voices in 2 dialogued choruses; a De Profundis for 4 voices and the ​organ; a Requiem for nine voices, strings and organ; a Mass di Cappella for 4 voices; some Psalms for Complins arranged for two choruses. Novello's 'Fitzwilliam music' contains no less than 23 compositions of Clari's from Masses and the Stabat Mater, which for science, dignity, and sweetness, fully bear out his reputation.
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# A Field Book of the Stars/Lyra

The Constellations of Summer.
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LYRA (lī'-ra)— THE LYRE.
Location.—Lyra may be easily distinguished because of the brilliant Vega, its brightest star, which is situated about 12 degrees southwest of the Dragon's head. It is unmistakable, as it is the brightest star in this region of the heavens, and one of the most brilliant stars in the northern hemisphere. In July and August Vega is close to the zenith.
The six bright stars in Lyra form an equilateral triangle on one corner of a rhomboid. A very characteristic figure.
(ε) is a pretty double for binoculars, and a double double for a powerful telescope.
(ζ) is a double for good binoculars.
(β) is a variable, changing from third to nearly fifth magnitude in a week's time.
The noted ring nebula lies between (β) and (γ). A powerful telescope alone renders it visible.
If the distance from the earth to the sun equalled one inch, the distance from the earth to Vega would be one hundred and fifty-eight miles.
# A Field Book of the Stars/Map of the Heavens-07-01

Layout 2
THE CONSTELLATIONS OF SUMMER.
Map showing the principal stars visible from Lat. 40° N. at 9 o'clock, July first.
# A Field Book of the Stars/Lepus

The Constellations of Winter.
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LEPUS (lē'-pus)— THE HARE. (Face South.)
Location.—Lepus crouches under Orion's feet. Four stars of the third magnitude form an irregular and conspicuous square.
The star (γ), a beautiful double of a greenish hue, is southwest of Rigel, and north of Columba.
Four or five degrees south of Rigel are four faint stars which are in the ear of the hare. They can be seen on a clear night with the naked eye.
Arneb is the brightest star in the constellation and is situated about in the centre of it.
The curved line of three stars θ, η, and ζ, are in the back of the hare.
Lepus is about 18 degrees west of Canis Major, and, by reason of the earth's motion, the Great Dog seems to be pursuing the Hare around the heavens.
# A Field Book of the Stars/Meteoric Showers July to October

The Constellations of Summer.
Layout 2
METEORIC SHOWERS. JULY TO OCTOBER.
The Perseids are of a yellowish color, and move with medium velocity. Their line of flight is from northeast to southwest. They are probably visible for more than a month, from the latter half of July to the last week in August.
The August meteors are known as the "Tears of St. Lawrence."
The Abbreviations under Characteristics are as follows:
* v.—very
* M.—Moderately
* SW.—Swift
* Sl.—Slow
* B.—Bright
* F.—Faint
* Sk.—Streak-leaving meteors.
* T.—Train
* Sh.—Short
# A Field Book of the Stars/Map of the Heavens-10-01

Layout 2
THE CONSTELLATIONS OF AUTUMN
Map showing the principal stars visible from Lat. 40° N. at 9 o'clock, October first.
# A Field Book of the Stars/Meteoric Showers April to July

The Constellations of Spring.
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METEORIC SHOWERS. APRIL TO JULY.
The Abbreviations under Characteristics are as follows:
V.—very. M.—moderately. SW.—swift. SL—slow. Sh.—short. B.—bright. F. faint. Sk.—streak-leaving meteors. T.—train−leaving meteors.
# A Field Book of the Stars/Map of the Heavens-01-01

Layout 2
THE CONSTELLATIONS OF WINTER
Map showing the principal stars visible from Lat. 40º N. at 9 o'clock, January first.
# A Field Book of the Stars/Map of the Heavens-04-01

just after the March equinox
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THE CONSTELLATIONS OF SPRING.
Map showing the principal stars visible from Lat. 40° N. at 9 o'clock April 1st.
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 Field Book of the Stars/Meteoric Showers January to April

Layout 2
METEORIC SHOWERS
JANUARY TO APRIL. :
| Name of Shower | Date | Radiant Point | Characteristics | Other Dates of observation | Location |
| Quadrantids. Rich annual shower | Jan. 2 | (44) Boötis, between Boötes and Dragon's head | M. Sw. B. | Jan 3. | E. |
| Zeta Cancrids | Jan. 2–4 | (ζ) Cancri, near Bee Hive | | | E. |
| Theta Ursids | Jan. 5 | About 10° from (β) away from (γ) Ursæ Maj. | Small Sh. Sw. F. | Jan 2–8 | N. |
| Alpha Draconids | Feb. I | Near Thuban (α) Draconis | Sl. | Jan.9 Dec. 8 | N. |
| Alpha Aurigids | Feb. 7 | Near Cappale (α) Aurigæ | Sl. | Aug. 21 Sept. 12–22 | High in Southern Sky |
| Tau Leonids | Feb. 16 | (τ) Leonis, between Leo and Crater | Sl. Sk. | Nov. 27 Dec. 12 Mar. 1–4 | E. |
| Alpha Canum Ven. Well defin'd 1877 | Feb. 20 | Near Cor Caroli and Coma Berenices | V. Sw. B. | | E. ​ |
| (α)—(β) Perseids | Mar. 1 | Between (α) and (β) Persei | V. Sl. | July–Dec. Mar. 13–19 | N. W. |
| Beta Leonids or Beta Virginids | Mar 14. | Near Denebola (β) Leonis | Sl. B. | Mar. 3, 4 Dec. 12 | S. E. |
| Kappa Cepheids | Mar. 18 | Near Polaris | Sl. B. | Oct 4–17 Mar. 13–19 | N. |
| Beta Ursids | Mar. 24 | Near (β) Ursæ Maj. | Sw. | Apr. 10–16 Mar. 13–14 Dec. 2–9 Precise | N. |
| Zeta Draconids | Mar. 28 | Near the Dragons's Head | Sl. | July 29 Aug 24, etc. | N. |
The Abbreviations under Characterisics are as follows:
T. Train leaving meteors
# A Field Book of the Stars/Libra

The Constellations of Summer.
Layout 2
LIBRA (li'-bra)—THE SCALES. (Face Southwest.)
Location.—Libra is one of the signs of the Zodiac, and lies between Virgo and Scorpio. Its two chief stars, (α) and (β), may be readily recognized west of and above the head of the Scorpion.
The star (ι) Libræ is about 20 degrees northwest of Antares in the Scorpion. Spica in Virgo, a star of the first magnitude, is a little over 20 degrees northwest of (α) Libræ.
A quadrilateral is formed by the stars α, β, γ, ι, which characterizes the constellation.
The star (α) Libræ looks elongated. Binoculars shows that it has a fifth-magnitude companion.
(β) is a pale green star. Its color is very unusual.
Lyra, Corona, and Hercules are almost directly overhead in the early evening, during July and August, and can best be observed in a reclining position. Thus placed, with binoculars to assist the vision, you may study to the best advantage the wonderful sight spread out before you, and search depths only measured by the power of your glass.
# A Child's Garden of Verses/Young Night Thought

IV
YOUNG NIGHT THOUGHT
ALL night long and every night,
When my mamma puts out the light,
I see the people marching by,
As plain as day, before my eye.
Armies and emperors and kings,
All carrying different kinds of things,
And marching in so grand a way,
You never saw the like by day.
So fine a show was never seen,
At the great circus on the green;
For every kind of beast and man
Is marching in that caravan.
At first they move a little slow,
But still the faster on they go,
And still beside them close I keep
Until we reach the town of Sleep.
# A Child's Garden of Verses/front matter

BY THE SAME AUTHOR
AN INLAND VOYAGE EDINBURGH: PICTURESQUE NOTES TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY VIRGINIBIUS PUERISQUE FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN AND BOOKS NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS TREASURE ISLAND
A CHILD'S GARDEN
OF VERSES
# A Child's Garden of Verses/Winter-Time

XXXVIII
WINTER-TIME
LATE lies the wintry sun a-bed,
A frosty, fiery sleepy-head;
Blinks but an hour or two; and then,
A blood-red orange, sets again.
Before the stars have left the skies,
At morning in the dark I rise;
And shivering in my nakedness,
By the cold candle, bathe and dress.
Close by the jolly fire I sit
To warm my frozen bones a bit;
Or with a reindeer-sled, explore
The colder countries round the door.
When to go out, my nurse doth wrap
Me in my comforter and cap:
The cold wind burns my face, and blows
Its frosty pepper up my nose.
Black are my steps on silver sod;
Thick blows my frosty breath abroad;
And tree and house, and hill and lake,
Are frosted like a wedding-cake.