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Yet these are only consequences--differences that follow from the
fundamental difference. It did happen to the ancients accidentally to
experiment with a view to measuring, as also to discover a law
expressing a constant relation between magnitudes. The principle of
Archimedes is a true experimental law. It takes into ... |
Let us go further. Suppose that the rapidity of the flux becomes
infinite. Imagine, as we said in the first pages of this book, that the
trajectory of the mobile T is given at once, and that the whole history,
past, present and future, of the material universe is spread out
instantaneously in space. The same mathematic... |
It seems then that, parallel to this physics, a second kind of knowledge
ought to have grown up, which could have retained what physics allowed
to escape. On the flux itself of duration science neither would nor
could lay hold, bound as it was to the cinematographical method. This
second kind of knowledge would have se... |
Such was the case with Leibniz, as also with Spinoza. We are not blind
to the treasures of originality their doctrines contain. Spinoza and
Leibniz have poured into them the whole content of their souls, rich
with the inventions of their genius and the acquisitions of modern
thought. And there are in each of them, espe... |
It is this parallelism that we find both in Leibniz and in Spinoza--in
different forms, it is true, because of the unequal importance which
they attach to extension. With Spinoza, the two terms Thought and
Extension are placed, in principle at least, in the same rank. They are,
therefore, two translations of one and th... |
Now, it might easily be shown that the conclusions of this metaphysic,
springing from science, have rebounded upon science itself, as it were,
by ricochet. They penetrate the whole of our so-called empiricism.
Physics and chemistry study only inert matter; biology, when it treats
the living being physically and chemica... |
He _would_ not, because, while assigning to knowledge an
extra-intellectual matter, he believed this matter to be either
coextensive with intellect or less extensive than intellect. Therefore
he could not dream of cutting out intellect in it, nor, consequently, of
tracing the genesis of the understanding and its catego... |
That the thought of the nineteenth century called for a philosophy of
this kind, rescued from the arbitrary, capable of coming down to the
detail of particular facts, is unquestionable. Unquestionably, also, it
felt that this philosophy ought to establish itself in what we call
concrete duration. The advent of the mora... |
For, according to him, the phenomena that succeed each other in nature
project into the human mind images which represent them. To the
relations between phenomena, therefore, correspond symmetrically
relations between the ideas. And the most general laws of nature, in
which the relations between phenomena are condensed... |
[Footnote 102: Aristotle, _De anima_, 430 a 14 [Greek: kai hestin ho men
toioutos nous tô pynta ginesthai, ho de tô panta poiein, ôs hexis tis,
oion to phôs. tropon gar tina ka to phôs poiei ta dynamei onta chrômata
energeia chrômata].][Footnote 103: _De caelo_, ii. 287 a 12 [Greek: tês eschatês periphoras
oute kenon e... |
Ancient philosophy, Achilles and tortoise, 311-2
Alexandrian philosophy, 322-3
Allegory of the Cave, 191
Anima (De), 322 _note_
Apogee of sensible object, 344, 345, 349
Archimedes, 343-4
Aristotle, 135, 174-5, 227-8, 314, 316, 321, 323, 324, 328-33, 347, 349,
353, 356, 370
Arrow of Zeno, 308-13
ascen... |
Atom, 240, 254, 255
as an intellectual view of matter, 203, 250
and interpenetration, 207Attack and defence in evolution, 131-2Attention, 2, 148-9, 154, 184, 209
discontinuity of, 2
in man and in lower animals, 184.
_See_ Tension and instinct, Tension as inverted extension,
Tension of personality, Sympat... |
Choice, 110, 125, 143-5, 179, 180, 252, 260-4, 276, 366
and consciousness, 110, 179, 260-4Chrysalis, 114 _note_Cinematograph, 306-7, 339-40Cinematographical character of ancient philosophy, 315-6
of intellectual knowledge, 306, 307, 312-8, 323-4, 331-3, 346
of language, 306-7, 312-5
of modern science, 329-31, 3... |
Cook, Plato's comparison of the, and the dialectician, 156Cope, 35 _note_, 77, 111Correlation, law of, 66, 67Correspondence between mind and matter in Spencer, 368.
_See_ SimultaneityCortical mechanism, 252, 253, 262.
_See_ Cerebral mechanismCosmogony and genesis of matter, 188.
_See_ Genesis of matter and ... |
Diversity, sensible, 205, 220-1, 231, 235, 236Divination, instinct as, 176.
_See_ Sympathy, etc.Divisibility of extension, 154, 162Division as function of intellect, 152, 154, 162-3, 189
of labor, 99, 110, 118, 157, 166, 260
of labor in cells, 166Dog and man, consciousness in, 180Dogmatism of the ancient episte... |
Evolutionary, qualitative, and extensive motion 302-3, 311, 312
superiority, 133-5, 174-5.
_See_ Success, Criterion of evolutionary rank, Culminating points, etc.Evolutionism, x-xii, xiv, 77, 84, 364Exhaustion of the mutability of the universe, 337-8Existence, logical, as contrasted with psychical and physical, 2... |
Frames of the understanding, 46-7, 48, 150-2, 173, 177, 197-9, 219-20,
223-4, 258, 270, 313, 358, 364
fit the inert, 197, 218
inadequate to reality entire, 364
misfit for the vital, x, xiii, xiv, 46, 48, 173, 177, 197-9, 223,
258, 313
product of life, 358
transform freedom into necessity, 270
utility ... |
Geometry, fitness of, to matter, 10
goal of intellectual operations, 211, 213, 218
ideal limit of induction and deduction, 214-8, 361.
_See_ Space, Descending movement of existence
modern, compared with ancient, 36, 161, 333-4
natural, 194, 211-2
perception impregnated with, 205, 230
reasoning in, contr... |
Impulse of life, divergence of, 26, 27, 51-5, 97-105, 110, 118-9,
126-7, 131, 134-6, 257, 258, 266, 270
limitedness of, 126, 141, 148-9, 254
loaded with matter, 239
tendency to mobility, 131, 132
as necessity for creation, 252, 261
negates itself, 247, 248
prolonged in evolution, 246
prolonged in our w... |
Instinct and action on inert matter, 136, 141
in animals as distinguished from plants, 170
in cells, 166
and consciousness, 143-5, 166, 167, 173, 174, 175, 186
culmination of, in evolution, 133, 174-5.
_See_ Arthropods in evolution, Evolutionary superiority
fallibility of, 173-4
in insects in general, 1... |
Intellect and action, ix, 11, 29, 44-8, 93, 136, 142, 152-7, 162, 179,
186, 187, 192, 195, 197-8, 219, 220, 226-9, 251, 270, 273, 297-9, 301,
302, 306, 329, 346-7
in animals, 187
Fichte's conception of the, 189, 190, 357
function of the, 5, 11, 12, 44-50, 92, 93, 126, 137-45, 149-60, 162-4,
168, 174, 176... |
Intelligence and action, 137-41, 150, 154-5, 161, 162-3, 181, 189, 198, 306
animal, 138, 187, 188, 212
categories of, x, 48, 195-6
of the child, 147-8
and consciousness, 187
culmination of, 130, 139-40, 174-5.
_See_ Superiority
genesis of, 136, 177-8, 366
and the individual, 251
and instinct, 109, 1... |
Kunstler, 260 _note_Labbé 260 _note_Labor, division of, 99, 110, 118, 140, 157, 166, 260Lalande, André, 246 _note_Lamarck, 75-6Lamarckism, 75-6, 77, 84-87Language, 4, 147, 157-60, 258, 265, 293, 302-3, 305, 312-4, 320La Place, 38Lapsed intelligence, instinct as, 169, 175Larvae, 19, 140, 145-66, 172-3Latent geometrism o... |
Looking backward, the attitude of intellect, 46, 237Lumbriculus, 13Machinery and intelligence, 141Machines, natural and artificial, 139.
_See_ Implement, Instrument
organisms, for action, 252, 254, 300-1Magnitude, certainty of induction approached as factors approach pure
magnitudes, 215-16
and modern scienc... |
Movement and animal life, 108, 131, 132
ascending, 12, 101, 103, 104, 185, 208-9, 210-1, 369-70.
_See_ Vital impetus
consciousness and, 111, 118, 144-5, 207-8
descending, 11-2, 202-4, 207-10, 212, 246, 252, 256, 270, 276, 339,
361, 369-70
goal of, the object of the intellect, 155, 299-300, 302, 303
int... |
Organ and function, 88-91, 93-4, 95, 132, 140, 141, 157, 161-2Organic destruction and physico-chemistry, 226
substance, 131, 140, 141-2, 149, 162-3, 195-6, 240 _note_, 255, 267
world, cleft between, and the inorganic, 190, 191, 196, 197-8
world, harmony of, 50-1, 103, 104, 116, 118, 126-7
world, instinct the pr... |
Physics, ancient, "logic spoiled," 320, 321-2
of ancient philosophy, 315, 320, 321-2, 355
of Aristotle, 228 _note_, 324 _note_, 331, 332
and deduction, 213
of Galileo, 357, 369-70
and individuality of bodies, 188, 208
as inverted psychics, 202
and logic, 319-20, 321
and metaphysics, 194, 208
and mutab... |
Reality, absolute, 198, 228-9, 230, 269, 359-60, 361
as action, 47, 191-2, 194-5, 249
degrees of, 323, 327
in dogmatic metaphysics, 196
double form of, 179-80, 216, 230-1, 236
as duration, 11-2, 217, 272
as flux, 165, 250, 251, 294, 337, 338, 342
and the frames of the intellect, 363-4, 365.
_See_ Fram... |
Science and action, 93, 195, 198, 328-9
ancient, and modern, 329-37, 342-5, 357
astronomy, ancient and modern, 334-5, 336
cartesian geometry and ancient geometry, 333-4
cinematographical character of modern, 329, 330, 336-7, 340-1, 342, 345-8
conventionality of a certain aspect of, 206-7
and deduction, 212-... |
Spencer's evolutionism, correspondence between mind and matter in, 368
cosmogony in, 188
imprint of relations and laws upon consciousness in, 188
matter in, 365, 367
mind in, 365, 367Spheres, concentric, in Aristotle's philosophy, 328Sphex, paralyzing instinct in, 172-5Spiders and paralyzing hymenoptera, 172Spi... |
Torpor, in evolution, 109, 111, 113, 114 _note_, 120, 128-35, 181, 292Tortoise, Achilles and the, in Zeno, 311Touch, science expresses all perception as touch, 168
is to vision as intelligence to instinct, 169Track laid by motion along its course, 309-12, 337Transcendental Aesthetic, 203Transformation, 32, 72, 73, 13... |
Vital activity, 134-6, 139, 140, 166-9, 246, 247-8
current, 26, 27, 53-5, 80, 85, 87, 88, 96-105, 118-9, 120, 230-1,
232, 239, 257, 266, 270
impetus, 50-1, 53-5, 85, 87, 88, 98-105, 118-9, 126-7, 128, 131-2,
141-2, 148-9, 150, 218, 230-1, 232, 247-8, 250, 252, 254-5, 261
order, cause in, 34, 35, 94-5, 164
... |
Produced by Free Elf, Viv and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.netTHE STEPHENS FAMILYA Genealogy of the Descendants of Joshua StevensWritten by Bascom Asbury Cecil Stephens, Los Angeles,
California, A. D. 1892Printed, with a few additions, by Alonzo Smith Bower, Lima,
Ohio, A. D. 1910JOSHUA S... |
JOSHUA STEPHENS, Sr., (3), the name now being changed, lived in what is
now Berkes County, and probably in Union Township, near the David
Stephens above mentioned. His children were:6. JOSHUA, born in 1733, the immediate ancester of the family, and
with whom the certain history of the family begins.7. JOHN ... |
A few years after the war he moved with his family to a place near Warm
Springs, Virginia. After another few years to Lexington, Kentucky. While
there, Daniel Boone was a frequent visitor and greeted him as "Cousin".
About 1798, he decided to remove to near Chillicothe, Ohio, lived in
either Ross County or Franklin Cou... |
31. ELIZABETH, d. unm., aged 18 years.32. JOSHUA, b. Jan. 4, 1812; m. Nancy Creegan; d. Feb. 1, 1891.33. DAVID HUMPHREYS, b. Nov. 8, 1813; d. Aug. 23, 1846; m. S. A.
Burton.34. MARIA, d. 1848; m. John Blake.35. RACHEL, d. young.36. OLIVER PERRY, b. June 20, 1820; d. Nov. 6, 1873; m. 2 times.37. SARAH, b. Aug. ... |
79. JANE EVANS, b. April 30, 1830; m. James Scantlin.80. MARTHA STOCKWELL, b. Oct. 26, 1832; d. Sept. 29, 1833.81. Infant son, b. and d. Dec. 6, 1833.82. ROBERT MORGAN EVANS, b. Oct. 15, 1834; m. Mary Tribble.83. JOSHUA WING, b. Oct. 29, ----, d. unm., Feb. 20, 1843.84. HENRY CLAY, b. Sept. 21, 1842; m. Caroline Rensch... |
DAVID HUMPHREY STEPHENS, (33), son of John Stephens, (15), was born Nov.
8, 1813, in Pickaway County, Ohio; was a preacher of the Methodist
Protestant Church, and President of the Indiana Conference at the time
of his death; he married Sytha Annesley Burton April 13, 1838: (she was
born Sept. 29, 1817, near Flemingsbur... |
WILLIAM HUMPHREYS STEPHENS, (41), son of E. D. Stephens, (16), was born
Feb. 25, 1813, on Walnut Creek, Franklin County, Ohio; was raised on his
father's farm near Hardin; learned the shoemakers trade in that place;
was there in partnership in that business with Calvin Lenox, and married
Sept. 13, 1835, his sister, Jul... |
203. JOHN WESLEY, b. Sept. 26, 1853; d. Feb. 19, 1862.LUCINDA MOORE, (52), daughter of Priscilla, (Stephens) Moore, (17), was
born Oct. 25, 1812; accompanied her parents to Shelby County; married
Jacob Marshall, of Fort Jefferson, Ohio. Jealousy on the part of her
husband led to their separation; in 1836 she disappeare... |
EPHRIAM RILEY MOORE, (61), son of Priscilla (Stephens) Moore, (17), was
born in Franklin County, Ohio, Jan. 8, 1824; accompanied his parents to
Western Ohio and Indiana; with his brothers D. L. (55) and T. McL.,
(58), founded the town of Mooresburg. He married first Oct. 13, 1847,
Sarah Jane Patterson, by whom he had t... |
285. MARY ELIZABETH, b. Aug. 4, 1856; m. James M. Chandler.286. MARTHA WING, b. Oct. 1, 1859.287. ALBERTHA, P----, b. Jan. 10, 1862.288. ELIZA SELITA, b. Mar. 23, 1866; m. H. K. Carrington.289. ROBERT E----, b. Aug. 18, 1870.ROBERT MORGAN EVANS STEPHENS, (82), son of Silas Stephens, (20), was
born Oct. 15, 1834, in Eva... |
MARY CATHERINE VANDEVER, (105), daughter of Joshua Vandever, (26), was
born Jan. 18, 1842; married Joseph Orrin Fuller. He was born May 8,
1845; died Dec. 13, 1886. She died March 28, 1884. They lived in Darke
County, Ohio. Their children were:334. WILLIAM EDWARD, b. June 15, 1867; lives at Piqua, Ohio.335. NETTIE B---... |
DAVID STUBERT STEPHENS, (133), son of O. P. Stephens, (36), was born May
12, 1847; graduate of Edinburgh University, Scotland; ex-president of
Adrian College, Michigan; preacher of the Methodist Protestant Church;
editor of the "Methodist Recorder," Pittsburg, Pa., where he resides;
married Marrietta Louisa Gibson, Oct... |
408. LELA BLANCHE, b. June 1, 1874.409. FLORENCE ANNETTA, b. June 15, 1877.ALONZO SMITH BOWER, (152), son of Catherine (Stephens) Bower, (38), was
born Oct. 9, 1855; married Oct. 6, 1881, Clara Bowyer. They live in
Lima, Ohio. Children:410. TIMA FAY, b. July 23, 1882; d. April 30, 1889.411. ROBERT SIDNEY, b. Nov. 29, 1... |
SARAH ELIZABETH STEPHENS, (174), daughter of W. H. Stephens, (41), and
Julian Crisup Lenox, was born in Hardin, Shelby County, Ohio, March 13,
1837; has been a successful teacher in the public schools, academies,
colleges and universities, all her life. Wrote a grammar; married at
Santa Clara, California, June 14, 1860... |
BASCOM ASBURY CECIL STEPHENS, (182), son of W. H. Stephens, (41), was
born on Monday, March 5, 1855, at 7:00 A. M., in Lockington, Shelby
County, Ohio; assumed the name of Cecil of his mother's family; graduate
of Santa Clara High School, 1871; clerked in the Santa Clara Post-Office
two years; founded the Santa Clara E... |
ALLEN FOSTER STEPHENS, (193), son of D. N. Stephens, (47), was born in
Shelby County, Ohio, Nov. 25, 1854; married Sept. 3, 1881, Mrs. Nancy
Ann Princehouse (born, Saunders), she was born Aug. 9, 1847, and died
Aug. 25, 1889; he is a farmer and lives at Hardin, Ohio. Child:488. WILLIAM NELSON, b. June 10, 1882.SHAFFER ... |
THOMAS DUDLEY MOORE, (224), son of Thomas McClish Moore, (58), was born
Jan, 19, 1852; married Nov. 15, 1874, Sarah Ellen McCoy; she was born
Jan. 10, 1850; they live in Mooresburg, Indiana. Children:528. GRANVILLE A----, b. Sept. 8, 1875.529. LULU D----, b. July 15, 1877.530. MAUDE E----, b. Nov. 3, 1878.531. MABEL E-... |
SARAH JANE WILLIAMS, (253), daughter of Elizabeth Margaret (Moore)
Williams, (63), was born March 20, 1848; married Jan. 25, 1866 E. W.
Penny; live in Goodlands, Kansas. Children:567. EDWIN ALONZO, b. Jan. 17, 1857.568. ROSELLA OLIVE, b. May 18, 1873.NOTE:--This ends the record of the Eighth Generation in so far as I h... |
599. ALTHA, b. Dec. 11, 1887.EMMA GASKILL, (314), daughter of J. C. Gaskill, (94), was born June 6,
1864; married Dec. 23, 1889, John T. Hamilton. Residence, Hemingford,
Nebraska.ELIZA GASKILL, (316), daughter of J. C. Gaskill, (94), was born July 15,
1866; married Feb. 10, 1888, D. J. Kirwan. Residence, Valentine,
Neb... |
JULIA BENNETT, (580), daughter of Emily (Schnae) Bennett, (259), was
born Jan. 3, 1867; married June 3, 1888, Frank E. Piper; live at Peoria,
Illinois; had one child:628. JULIA, b. Feb. 28, 1887; d. May, 25 1889.ROBERT FRANKLIN BOWER, (405), born at Lima, Ohio, August 4th, 1874. m.
to Mary Adeline Wright. Invented roll... |
Produced by Steven desJardins and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.netA SUCCESSFUL SHADOW;
OR,
A Detective's Successful Quest.BY OLD SLEUTH,
_Author of All the Famous Old Sleuth Stories_.TABLE OF CONTENTSPROLOGUE.Chapter ITHE SAME OLD INCIDENT OF A MISSING BEAUTY--A WIDOW'S
NARRATIVE--AN ARO... |
"After the death of my husband I removed with my infant daughter to New
York City, as it was necessary that I should earn a living for my child.
I was ambitious to give my daughter a good education--yes, give her
opportunities that were never vouchsafed her mother. I was a very
skillful needlewoman, and taking cheap ap... |
"Hello, Mr. Wonderful," was the banker's salutation as our hero entered
his presence. "Where did you come from? I have not seen you for several
months.""No, but I am here now.""And your presence means that you have made another of your wonderful
discoveries.""I think I have.""What is it.""I believe I have found an heir... |
ONE MYSTERY SOLVED--A SUCCESSFUL "SHADOW" INDEED--ON A
NEW "LAY"--IN A GAMBLING ROOM--A NEW ACQUAINTANCE--THE
DETECTIVE PERPLEXED--FALSE OR TRUE?--A RIDDLE TO BE
SOLVED.It was evident that Mrs. Speir, who was bright and quick of perception,
had discerned partially what the ultimate conclusion of the narrative
would be,... |
The detective played on and luck turned in his favor. He won a little
money. The baron had gotten up from the table, but stood over our hero's
chair and occasionally a word would pass between the two young men. Jack
admitted that he was mystified--all at sea concerning the real character
of the so-called baron. He disc... |
"You were at the opera this evening?""I was.""There was a party in Box C?""Yes, sir."Jack observed that there came a glitter to the young man's eyes, and a
slight color to his cheeks as he answered:"I was.""The parties in that box were the Richards family?""Yes, but I do not know how the fact concerns either you or me.... |
There came a strange glitter in our hero's eyes, and a suspicion that
almost caused his heart to stand still. He had reckoned himself a very
shrewd, sharp man, but suddenly, and on evidence that would not have
aroused a passing comment on the part of most men, he became convinced
that he had been magnificently played. ... |
We will here state that the evidences attending the discovery of the
dead girl apparently indicated beyond all possibility of doubt that she
had taken her own life. The mutilations which prevented a positive
identification were attributed to some animal that had discovered the
remains before they were discovered by the... |
"But tell me what are the testimonies you have secured.""It is not in my line of business to betray our movements. I am a
regular detective and I have been assigned to this case. I am determined
to push through to some startling denouement."The detective had already pushed through to a startling denouement. He
had purp... |
"Do you think she would commit actual crime?""I do not think that she is a criminal by nature, but extravagance leads
to criminal acts, and when one commits one crime they are often driven
to commit others.""You are right; but this family have come into considerable prominence
lately owing to the tragedy connected with... |
We have often said, and we declare again, that beautiful faces are no
rarity in America. One cannot walk the streets or even enter a public
conveyance without being able to pass the time watching a beautiful
face, and the types of beauty to be met with are varied, but not as
varied as the expressions. It is the express... |
The woman began to break up, and she demanded in eager tones:"Has my husband repudiated the acceptance?""Not yet, madam, simply because I have not presented the draft. I
thought I would come to you first.""Do you believe the draft a forgery?""In fact, madam, I have the most positive evidence in that direction."The woma... |
"August, you are a brave and skillful man. Now you know the real danger
you will be able to devise some plan, but no time must be lost; we must
move rapidly. Let us get this immediate danger removed and we can bring
the other matter about at once, but it is strange how obstinate and
determined _that girl_ is. There we ... |
"We were watching the mother after the disappearance, and learned that
she had employed you. I knew all the time you were a detective, but you
have beaten me; I surrender."That very night Jack and Gil accompanied the baron to the place where
Amalie Speir had been held a prisoner, and Jack had met face to face the
beaut... |
Transcribed from the 1902 Harper and Brothers edition by David Price,
email ccx074@coventry.ac.ukA HOUSE-BOAT ON THE STYX
by John Kendrick BangsCHAPTER I: CHARON MAKES A DISCOVERYCharon, the Ferryman of renown, was cruising slowly along the Styx one
pleasant Friday morning not long ago, and as he paddled idly on he
chu... |
"How do you do, Charon?" said Sir Walter, affably. "We are very glad to
see you.""Thank you, kindly, Sir Walter," said the boatman. "I'm glad to hear
those words, your honor, for I've been feeling very bad since I had the
misfortune to drop your Excellency and her Majesty overboard. I never
knew how it happened, sir... |
"We'll see in a minute what the use is," retorted the Avonian. "We'll
have Bacon down here." Here he touched an electric button, and Charon
came in answer."Charon, bring Doctor Johnson the usual glass of ale. Get some ice for
the Emperor, and ask Lord Bacon to step down here a minute.""I don't want any ice," said Ne... |
It was Washington's Birthday, and the gentleman who had the pleasure of
being Father of his Country decided to celebrate it at the Associated
Shades' floating palace on the Styx, as the Elysium _Weekly Gossip_, "a
Journal of Society," called it, by giving a dinner to a select number of
friends. Among the invited guest... |
"It is fortunate for us that we have so considerate a host," said
Confucius, unfastening his robe and preparing to do justice to the fare
set before him. "I have dined often, but never before with one who was
willing to let me eat a bird like this in silence. Washington, here's to
you. May your life be chequered wit... |
The pleasure-seeking group were gathered in the smoking-room of the club,
which was, indeed, a smoking-room of a novel sort, the invention of an
unknown shade, who had sold all the rights to the club through a third
party, anonymously, preferring, it seemed, to remain in the Elysian
world, as he had been in the mundane... |
"Me too," sighed Hamlet. "I have seen a man who had a walk on him that
suggested spring-halt and locomotor ataxia combined impersonating my
graceful self in a manner that drove me almost crazy. I've heard my 'To
be or not to be' soliloquy uttered by a famous tragedian in tones that
would make a graveyard yawn at mid-... |
"Omar Khayyam stretched over five of the most comfortable chairs in the
library," returned Confucius; "and when I ventured to remonstrate with
him he lost his temper, and said I'd spoiled the whole second volume of
the Rubaiyat. I told him he ought to do his rubaiyatting at home, and he
made a scene, to avoid which I ... |
"And I, too," put in Baron Munchausen, "have frequently conversed with
monkeys. I made myself a master of their idioms during my brief sojourn
in--ah--in--well, never mind where. I never could remember the names of
places. The interesting point is that at one period of my life I was a
master of the monkey language. ... |
"I never thought of that," said Darwin. "It seems reasonable.""It is reasonable," said Johnson."And the snakes of the present day?" queried Thackeray."I believe to be the missing tails of men," said Johnson. "Somewhere in
the world is a tail for every man and woman and child. Where one's tail
is no one can ever say,... |
Raleigh's face flushed scarlet. "'Tis better to have had a head and lost
it," he cried, "than never to have had a head at all! Mark you, Dryden,
my boy, it ill befits you to scoff at me for my misfortune, for dust thou
art, and to dust thou hast returned, if word from t'other side about thy
books and that which in an... |
Doctor Johnson looked around to see who it was that spoke."You?" he cried. "And who, pray, may you be?""My name is Tennyson," replied the poet."And a very good name it is," said Shakespeare."I am not aware that I ever heard the name before," said Doctor Johnson.
"Did you make it yourself?""I did," said the late laurea... |
"Not so," said Munchausen. "On the contrary, continuous exercise served
only to make it stronger. But, as I was going to say, in this life we
have none of these fearful obstacles--it is a life of leisure; and if I
want a bird and a cold bottle at any time, instead of placing my life in
peril and jeopardizing the peac... |
"That is so," said Homer; "but the result in the end would be the same.
The tags would get lost, or perhaps a careless waiter, dropping a tray
full of dainties, would get the tags of a good and bad cook mixed in
trying to restore the contents of the tray to their previous condition.
The tag system would fail.""There is... |
"I think you are a trifle foolish to be so eternally vexed about it,"
said Homer, soothingly. "Of course you feel badly, but, after all,
what's the use? You must know that the mortals would pay more for one of
your statues than they would for a specimen of any modern sculptor's art;
yes, even if yours were modelled i... |
"I'm with you," said Wellington. Whereupon, with a great show of heat,
he roared out, "You? Never! I'm more afraid of a boy with a
bean-snapper that I ever was of you!" and followed up his remark by
pulling Bonaparte's camp-chair from under him, and letting the conqueror
of Austerlitz fall to the floor with a thud w... |
"That's very likely true," observed Mr. Barnum; "but I must confess, my
dear Noah, that you showed a lamentable lack of the showman's instinct
when you selected the animals you did. A more commonplace lot of beasts
were never gathered together, and while Adam is held responsible for the
introduction of sin into the wo... |
"I caught him in the act of swallowing five cows and Ham's favorite
trotter, sulky and all."Baron Munchausen rose up and left the room."If they're going to lie I'm going to get out," he said, as he passed
through the room."What became of Fido?" asked Boswell."The sulky killed him," returned Shem, innocently. "He could... |
"A magnificent old maid was lost to the world when you married," she
said. "Feeling as you do about men, my dear Xanthippe, I don't see why
you ever took a husband.""Humph!" retorted Xanthippe. "Of course you don't. You didn't need a
husband. You were born with something to govern. I wasn't.""How about your temper... |
So fast and furious was the enjoyment of these thirsty souls, so long
deprived of their rights, that night came on without their observing it,
and with the night was brought the great peril into which they were
thrown, and from which at the moment of writing they had not been
extricated, and which, to my regret, has cu... |
Produced by David Widger. Additional proofing was done by Bryan ShermanMEMOIRS OF GENERAL W. T. SHERMANBy William T. ShermanVOLUME IICHAPTER XVI.ATLANTA CAMPAIGN-NASHVILLE AND CHATTANOOGA TO BENEBAW.MARCH, APRIL, AND MAY, 1864.On the 18th day of March, 1864, at Nashville, Tennessee, I relieved
Lieutenant-General Grant ... |
The great question of the campaign was one of supplies. Nashville,
our chief depot, was itself partially in a hostile country, and
even the routes of supply from Louisville to Nashville by rail, and
by way of the Cumberland River, had to be guarded. Chattanooga
(our starting-point) was one hundred and thirty-six mile... |
About this time, viz., the early part of April, I was much
disturbed by a bold raid made by the rebel General Forrest up
between the Mississippi and Tennessee Rivers. He reached the Ohio
River at Paducah, but was handsomely repulsed by Colonel Hicks. He
then swung down toward Memphis, assaulted and carried Fort Pillo... |
Each division and brigade was provided a fair proportion of wagons
for a supply train, and these were limited in their loads to carry
food, ammunition, and clothing. Tents were forbidden to all save
the sick and wounded, and one tent only was allowed to each
headquarters for use as an office. These orders were not
ab... |
HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON D. C., April 4, 1864.Major-General W. T. SHERMAN, commanding Military Division of the
Mississippi.GENERAL: It is my design, if the enemy keep quiet and allow me to
take the initiative in the spring campaign, to work all parts of
the army together, and somewhat toward ... |
GENERAL: Since my letter to you of April 4th I have seen no reason
to change any portion of the general plan of campaign, if the enemy
remain still and allow us to take the initiative. Rain has
continued so uninterruptedly until the last day or two that it will
be impossible to move, however, before the 27th, even if ... |
The 6th of May was given to Schofield and McPherson to get into
position, and on the 7th General Thomas moved in force against
Tunnel Hill, driving off a mere picket-guard of the enemy, and I
was agreeably surprised to find that no damage had been done to the
tunnel or the railroad. From Tunnel Hill I could look into ... |
During the 15th, without attempting to assault the fortified works,
we pressed at all points, and the sound of cannon and musketry rose
all day to the dignity of a battle. Toward evening McPherson moved
his whole line of battle forward, till he had gained a ridge
overlooking the town, from which his field-artillery co... |
Nearly all the people of the country seemed to have fled with
Johnston's army; yet some few families remained, and from one of
them I procured the copy of an order which Johnston had made at
Adairsville, in which he recited that he had retreated as far as
strategy required, and that his army must be prepared for battle... |
The movement contemplated leaving our railroad, and to depend for
twenty days on the contents of our wagons; and as the country was
very obscure, mostly in a state of nature, densely wooded, and with
few roads, our movements were necessarily slow. We crossed the
Etowah by several bridges and fords, and took as many ro... |
Thus, substantially in the month of May, we had steadily driven our
antagonist from the strong positions of Dalton, Resaea, Cassville,
Allatoona, and Dallas; had advanced our lines in strong, compact
order from Chattanooga to Big Shanty, nearly a hundred miles of as
difficult country as was ever fought over by civilize... |
The rains continued to pour, and made our developments slow and
dilatory, for there were no roads, and these had to be improvised
by each division for its own supply train from the depot in Big
Shanty to the camps. Meantime each army was deploying carefully
before the enemy, intrenching every camp, ready as against a ... |
The enemy and ourselves used the same form of rifle-trench, varied
according to the nature of the ground, viz.: the trees and bushes
were cut away for a hundred yards or more in front, serving as an
abatis or entanglement; the parapets varied from four to six feet
high, the dirt taken from a ditch outside and from a co... |
They appealed to me to protect them. I had heard during that day
some cannonading and heavy firing down toward the "Kulp House,"
which was about five miles southeast of where I was, but this was
nothing unusual, for at the same moment there was firing along our
lines full ten miles in extent. Early the next day (23d)... |
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