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At p. 183 I mentioned Mr. Reddie,[650] the author of _Vis Inertiae Victa_
and of _Victoria toto coelo_,[651] which last is not {345} an address to
the whole heaven, either from a Roman Goddess or a British Queen, whatever
a scholar may suppose. Between these Mr. Reddie has published _The
Mechanics of the Heavens_, 8vo,... |
William Herschel,[655] and after him about six other astronomers, had aimed
at determining, by the proper motions of the stars, the point of the
heavens towards which the solar system is moving: their results were
tolerably accordant. Mr. Airy, in 1859, proposed an improved method, and,
applying it to stars of large pr... |
The above is the commonplace talk of the class, of which I proceed to speak
without more application to this paradoxer than to that. It reminds one of
the funny young rascals who used, in times not yet quite forgotten, to
abuse the passengers, as long as they could keep up with the {353} stage
coach; dropping off at la... |
All paradoxers can publish; and any one who likes may read. But this is not
enough; they find that they cannot publish, or those who can find they are
_not_ read, and they lay their plans athwart the noses of those who, they
think, ought to read. To recommend them to be content with publication,
like other authors, is ... |
The three paradoxers last named and myself have a pentasyllable convention,
under which, though we go far beyond civility, we keep within civilization.
Though Mr. James Smith pronounced that I must be dishonest if I did not see
his argument, which he knew I should not do [to say nothing of recent
accusation]; though Dr... |
For the present I cut and run: a Catiline, pursued by a chorus of Ciceros,
with _Quousque tandem? Quamdiu nos? Nihil ne te?_[669] ending with, _In te
conferri pestem istam jam pridem oportebat, quam tu in nos omnes jamdiu
machinaris!_ I carry with me the reflection that I have furnished to those
who need it such a maga... |
P_1=x Q_1=1
P_2=3x Q_2=3-x^2
P_3=15x-x^3 Q_3=15-6x^2
P_4=105x-10x^3 Q_4=105-45x^2+x^4
P_5=945x-105x^3+x^5 Q_5=945-420x^2+15x^4
P_6=10395x-1260x^3+21x^5 Q_6=10395-4725x^2+210x^4-x^6We can use this algebraically, or arithmetically. If we div... |
Abbott, Justice, I, _181_.
Abernethy, J., II, _219_.
Aboriginal Britons, a poem, II, 270.
Academy of Sciences, French, I, 163.
Adair, J., I, _223_.
Adam, M., I, _65_.
Adams, J. C., I, _43_, 82, 385, 388; II, 131, 135, 140, 303.
Ady, Joseph, II, 42, _42_.
Agnew, H. C., I, 328.
Agricola, J., I, 394.
A... |
Babbage, C., I, _207_, 290, 291; II, 181.
Bachet, de Meziriac, I, _161_.
Bacon, F., I, 5, _75_, 75, 76, 79, 89, 145, 331.
Bacon, R., I, 5, _126_, 126, 360; II, 94.
Baconian controversy, I, 141.
Baden Powell, II, _267_.
Bailly, J. S., I, 166, _166_, 308.
Baily, F., I, 308, _309_; II, 16, 143, 188.
Baily,... |
Cabbala, I, 272.
Calculating Boys, I, 86.
Calculus, I, 129.
Calendar. (_See Easter._)
Cambridge Poets, II, 269.
Campanus, I, 42, _43_.
Canning, Geo., II, _145_.
Carcavi, I, _106_.
Cardanus, II, _59_.
Carlile, R., I, _271_.
Carlyle, T., II, _373_.
Carnot, I, 107.
Caroline tables, I, 124.
Casaub... |
D'Alembert, I, _382_; II, 283, 364.
Dalgarno, I, 116, _117_.
Dalton, J., I, _255_.
D'Arblay, Mme., I, _190_.
Darwin, E., II, _8_.
Darwinism, Primitive, I, 344.
Dary, M., II, _305_.
Daval, P., II, _298_.
Davies, T. S., II, 151, _151_, 188.
Day, A., I, 295, _295_.
De Baruel, I, 165.
De Beaune. (_See... |
Gadbury, J., I, _115_, 115.
Galbraith, J. A., II, 372.
Galileo, I, 5, 6, 32, _76_, 82, 83, 96, 122, 381.
Galle, J. G., I, _386_; II, 7.
Galloway, I, _56_, 57; II, 143.
Gamblers, I, 280.
Garrick, I, 21.
Gascoigne, W., II, _299_.
Gassendi, I, _107_.
Gauss, I, 86, 107, 310.
Gemistus, G., I, _188_.
Ge... |
Jabir ben Aflah, II, _59_.
Jack, R., I, 149.
Jacotot, J., I, 278, _278_.
Jameson, Mrs., II, _63_.
Jeffreys, G., I, _183_.
Jenner, E., II, _205_.
Jesuit contributions, I, 164.
Johnson, H. C., I, 350.
Johnson, S., I, 20, _190_, 259; II, 117.
Johnston, W. H., II, 67.
Jombert, I, _161_.
Jonchere, I, _... |
Macclesfield, Earls of, I, 7; II, _296_, 301.
Macclesfield, Letters, II, 296.
MacElshender, II, 87.
Machin, J., II, _301_.
Mackey, John, I, 349.
Mackey, S. A., I, _256_.
Maclear, T., II, _181_.
Macleod, H. D., II, 184, _184_.
Magic, I, 118.
Magna Charta, I, 25.
Magnus, I, 42.
Maitland, S., I, _63... |
Occam, Wm. of, II, _40_.
Odgers, N., II, 191, _191_.
Oinopides of Chios, II, _59_.
Oldenburgh, H., II, _300_, 302.
Orthodox Paradoxes, II, 363.
Orthography, Paradoxes of, II, 267.
Ortwinus, I, 319.
Oughtred, W., II, _298_, 303.
Owenson, I, _191_.
Ozanam, I, _161_, 312.Pagi, I, 32.
Paine, T., I, 173,... |
Rabelais, I, _102_.
Rainbow Paradox, II, 334.
Ramachandra, Y., I, _374_.
Ramchundra, I, 374.
Ramus, I, 5.
Recalcati, II, 208, 314.
Recorde, R., II, _328_.
Reddie, Jas., II, 183, _183_, 344, 360.
Reeve, J., I, _395_.
Regiomontanus, I, _48_, 360.
Reisch, I, _45_; II, 281.
Religion and Philosophy, II... |
Sabatier, A., II, _267_.
Sabellius, I, _241_.
Sacrobosco, I, _360_.
Sadler, T., I, _238_, 241.
Saint-Martin, I, 167, _168_, 206.
St.-Mesmin, M. de., I, 280.
St. Vincent, G. de., I, _110_, 117.
St. Vitus, Patron of Cyclometers, II, 60.
Sales, de, I, 167.
Salicetus, I, 64.
Salisbury, Earl of (1st), II... |
Talbot, G., I, _22_, _108_.
Talbot's powder, I, 108.
Tartaglia, II, 59.
Tasse, I, _106_.
Tate, J., I, _199_.
Tauler, J., II, _322_.
Taylor, Brook, II, _301_.
Taylor, John, I, _352_; II, 95.
Taylor, Robt., I, _270_.
Taylor, T., I, 188, _188_.
Teissier, I, _113_.
Temple, H. J., I, 290.
Tenterden, ... |
[6] See Vol. I, p. 292, note 1 {632}.[7] "What is all that!"[8] "I have some good news to tell you: at the Bureau of Longitudes they
have just received a letter from Germany announcing that M. Bessel has
verified by observation your theoretical discoveries on the satellites of
Jupiter."[9] "Man follows only phantoms."[... |
_Whig_ is then a preparation of milk. But another commonly cited derivation
may be suspected from the word _whiggamor_ being used before _whig_, as
applied to the political party; _whig_ may be a contraction. Perhaps both
derivations conspired: the word _whiggamor_, said to be a word of command
to the horses, might con... |
[84] Sir Peter Laurie (c. 1779-1861) was worth referring to, for he was
prominent as a magistrate and was honored because of his interest in all
social reforms. He made a fortune as a contractor, became sheriff of London
in 1823, and was knighted in the following year. He became Lord Mayor of
London in 1832.[85] See Vo... |
[127] Anghera wrote not only the three works here mentioned, but also the
_Problemi del piu alto interesse scientifico, geometricamente risoluti e
dimostrati_, Naples, 1861. His quadrature was defended by Giovanni Motti in
a work entitled _Matematica Vera. Falsita del sistema ciclometrico
d'Archimede, quadratura del ce... |
[158] Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) was professor of philosophy at the
Prostestant University at Sedan from 1675 until its dissolution in 1681. He
then became professor at Rotterdam (1681-1693). In 1684 he began the
publication of his journal of literary criticism _Nouvelles de la
Republique des Lettres_. He is best known f... |
[195] Mrs. Cottle published a number of letters that attracted attention at
the time. Among these were letters to the emperor of France and king of
Sardinia (1859) relating to the prophecies of the war between France and
Austria; to G. C. Lavis and Her Majesty's Ministers (1859) relating to her
claims as a prophetess; ... |
[244] George Stephenson (1781-1848), the inventor of the first successful
steam locomotive. His first engine was tried in 1814.[245] Robert Stephenson (1803-1859), the only son of George. Most of the
early improvements in locomotive manufacture were due to him. He was also
well known for his construction of great bridg... |
[292] A contemporary of Plato and a disciple of Aristotle.[293] Meton's solstice, the beginning of the Metonic cycles, has been
placed at 432 B. C. Ptolemy states that he made the length of the year
365-1/4 + 1/72 days.[294] Aratus lived about 270 B. C., at the court of Antigonus of Macedonia,
and probably practiced me... |
[335] Perhaps 1,600,000,000 years, if Boltwood's recent computations based
on radium disintegration stand the test. This would mean, according to
MacCurdy's estimate, 60,000,000 years since life first appeared on the
earth.[336] De Morgan wrote better than he knew, for this work, the _Allgemeine
Encyclopaedie der Wisse... |
[372] The Greek words and names are also occasionally misspelled so as to
fit them to the number 666. They are [Greek: Lateinos] (Latin), [Greek: he
latine basileia] (the Latin kingdom), [Greek: ekklesia italika] (the
Italian Church), [Greek: euanthas] (blooming), [Greek: teitan] (Titan),
[Greek: arnoume] (renounce), [... |
[404] Dionysius Lardner (1793-1859), professor of natural philosophy in
London University (now University College). His _Cabinet Cyclopaedia_
(1829-1849) contained 133 volumes. De Morgan wrote on probabilities, and
Lardner on various branches of mathematics, and there were many other
well-known contributors. Lardner is... |
[441] Regnault de Becourt wrote _La Creation du monde, ou Systeme
d'organisation primitive suivi de l'interpretation des principaux
phenomenes et accidents que se sont operes dans la nature depuis l'origine
de univers jusqu'a nos jours_ (1816). This may be the work translated by
Dalmas.[442] "Because it lacks a holy pr... |
[487] Edward Bernard (1638-1696), although Savilian professor of astronomy
at Oxford, was chiefly interested in archeology.[488] See Vol. I, page 107, note 1 {190}.[489] See Vol. I, page 107, note 1 {190}.[490] See Vol. I, page 135, note 3 {281}.[491] Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773), wel... |
[533] See Vol. II, page 296, note 483.[534] Thomas Baker (c. 1625-1689) gave a geometric solution of the
biquadratic in his _Geometrical Key, or Gate of Equations unlocked_ (1684).[535] See Vol. I, page 160, note 5 {350}.[536] See Vol. I, page 87, note 4 {133}.[537] See Vol. I, page 132, note 2 {272}.[538] See Vol. I, ... |
[587] See Vol. II. page 11, note 29. _The Circle Squared; and the solution
of the problem adapted to explain the difference between square and
superficial measurement_ appeared at Brighton in 1865.[588] "And beyond that nothing."[589] Gillott (1759-1873) was the pioneer maker of steel pens by machinery,
reducing the pr... |
[622] Wilhelm Frederik von Zytphen also published the _Tidens Stroem_, a
chronological table, in 1840. The work to which De Morgan refers, the
_Solens Bevaegelse i Verdensrummet_, appeared first in 1861. De Morgan seems
to have missed his _Nogl Ord om Cirkelens Quadratur_ which appeared in
1865, at Copenhagen.[623] Jam... |
[677] Joseph Allen Galbraith who, with Samuel Haughton, wrote the Galbraith
and Haughton's _Scientific Manuals_. (Euclid, 1856; Algebra, 1860;
Trigonometry, 1854; Optics, 1854, and others.)[678] This note on Carlyle (1795-1881) is interesting. The translation of
Legendre appeared in the same year (1824) as his translat... |
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The name "Gordon" has baffled the etymologists, for there is every
reason to believe that the not inappropriate connection with the
Danish word for a spear is due to a felicitous fancy rather than to
any substantial reality. There is far more justification for the
opinion that the name comes through a French source tha... |
Of the five sons of General William Henry Gordon and Elizabeth
Enderby, Charles George Gordon was the fourth. His eldest brother,
Henry William Gordon, born in 1818, had entered the army, first in the
8th Regiment, and transferred in a short time to the 59th, when, at
the early age of ten, Charles Gordon was sent off t... |
Even in the midst of his escapades at the Academy, something of the
spirit of the future hero revealed itself. However grave the offence
or heavy the punishment, he was never backward in taking his share--or
more than his share--of the blame for any scrape into which he and his
friends were brought by their excessive h... |
Having said this much about the relations between Gordon and his
brother, it would be an inexcusable omission to pass over the still
more striking sympathy and affection that united him with his sisters.
From his first appointment into the service he corresponded on
religious and serious subjects with his elder sister,... |
"Not over 5 feet 9 inches in height, but of compact build, his
figure and gait characteristically expressed resolution and
strength. His face, although in itself unpretending, was one that
in the common phrase 'grew upon you.' Time had not streaked with
grey the crisp, curly brown hair of his youth ... |
As the allied forces advanced towards Sebastopol the Russian Army
assumed the offensive. The brilliant and never-to-be-forgotten Cavalry
charges on 25th October, of the Light and Heavy Brigades, under
Cardigan and Scarlett respectively, at Balaclava in the valley that
stretched at the foot of the hills overlooking the ... |
The next incident of the siege described by Gordon occurred about a
week after his _bapteme de feu_ in the caves. While the French were
somewhat deliberately making at Inkerman a battery for fifteen guns,
the Russians, partly in a spirit of bravado, threw up in a single
night a battery for nearly twenty guns immediatel... |
"I must now commence my long story of our attempted assault. To
take up my account from 14th June, which was the last letter I
wrote to you, Seeley, my fellow-subaltern at Pembroke, arrived on
the 15th, and joined the right. On the evening of the 16th it was
rumoured we were to commence firing again... |
"DEAR SIR,--I indeed feel greatly obliged to you for your
kindness in sending me a copy of 'General Gordon's Letters from
the Crimea.'"Already I have read a great part of the volume, and I need
hardly say that, apart from the reasons which link me to the
Crimea, I have been greatly interested by see... |
"We are not certain what the Russians are doing on the north
side, and as yet do not know whether we shall follow them up or
not. We ought to, I think. It is glorious going over their horrid
batteries which used to bully us so much. Their dodges were
infinite. Most of their artillerymen, being sailo... |
"I am now, as you see, stationed in the dockyard preparing the
shafts and galleries for the demolition of the docks. The French
will destroy one half and ourselves the other. The quantity of
powder we shall use is 45,000 lbs., in charges varying from 80
lbs. to 8000 lbs. The French do not sink their... |
Gordon's connection with the Russian War and the Eastern Question did
not terminate with the Treaty of Paris. On 10th May he received orders
to join Colonel Stanton, for the purpose of assisting in the
delimitation of the new frontier in Bessarabia. He imagined that the
work would take six months; it really took a year... |
"Kars is, as you can easily imagine, a ruined city, and may
perhaps never recover its former strength and importance. As far
as the works of defence are concerned, they are excessively badly
traced. A little pamphlet published by Kmety, a Hungarian, gives
a graphic description of the siege. One thin... |
"We met on our road a great number of Kurds, who live as their
fathers did, by travelling about, robbing, etc., with their
flocks. Their children are short of clothing. In spite of the
Cossacks, etc., they are as lawless as ever, and go from Turkey
to Russia and back again as they like. They are fin... |
"The whole of this time there was a thick fog, which now and then
cleared away, though only for brief moments, and enabled us to
get a splendid view of the country spread out as a map beneath
us, with cumuli clouds floating about. The snow which I mounted
was at a very steep slope, and quite hard, n... |
"I dined with the Governor-General, Prince Eristaw, who left the
next day for Swaneti to overawe the subjects of the late Prince
(he was shot at Kutais for stabbing Prince Gagarin, the
predecessor of Prince Eristaw), who do not seem to have realised
his death. The Prince takes two battalions of infa... |
"Owing to the ill-treatment the prisoners experienced at the
Summer Palace, the General ordered it to be destroyed, and stuck
up proclamations to say why it was so ordered. We accordingly
went out, and, after pillaging it, burned the whole place,
destroying in a Vandal-like manner most valuable prop... |
"Some way beyond Taiyuen they came upon the pass over the
mountains which led down into the country drained by the Peiho.
The descent was a terrible one. All along the cold had been
intense--so much so that raw eggs were frozen hard as if they had
been boiled. To add to their troubles, when they wer... |
"The next day General Staveley sent us word to come back, since
he would attack Nanjao first, but as there were nearly 1000
villagers depending upon our protection and crowding round our
camp, I was sent back with an armed party, and Captain Willes
remained in front of the town. I went back by a dif... |
Before closing this chapter it will be well to give some account of
the origin of this force, and of the more important events that
preceded Gordon's appointment to the command. As far back as April
1860 the Viceroy of the Two Kiang provinces had begged the English and
French representatives to lend him military assist... |
"He was a man of large promises and few works. His popularity was
great among a certain class. He was extravagant in his
generosity, and as long as he had anything would divide it with
his so-called friends, but never was a man of any administrative
or military talent, and latterly, through the irri... |
As far back as the year 1830 there had been symptoms of disturbed
popular feeling in Kwangsi, the most southern province of China
adjacent to Tonquin. The difficulty of operating in a region which
possessed few roads, and which was only rendered at all accessible by
the West River or Sikiang, had led the Chinese author... |
"The outer barbarians (Europeans) say that of literature China
has more than enough, of the art of war not sufficient. The whole
country swarms with the rebels. Our funds are nearly at an end,
and our troops few; our officers disagree, and the power is not
concentrated. The commander of the forces w... |
When the Taepings reached Changsha they found the gates closed and the
walls manned. They proceeded to lay siege to it; they cut off its
supplies, and they threatened the garrison with extermination. They
even attempted to carry it by storm on three separate occasions.
During eighty days the siege went on; but the Taep... |
The forcing of the Limming Pass produced great confusion at Peking. It
was no longer a question of suffering subjects and disturbed
provinces. The capital of the Empire, the very person of the Emperor,
was in imminent danger of destruction at the hands of a ruthless foe.
The city was denuded of troops. Levies were hast... |
That chief succeeded in collecting a small force, with which he at
once began to harass Tseng's army. By transferring his army rapidly
from one side of the river to the other, he succeeded in supplying his
deficiency in numbers; but with all his activity he could make no
impression on the mass of his opponents. He even... |
Nor does a closer examination of the system of administration set up
at Nanking by the leader Tien Wang raise one's opinion of the cause or
its promoters. The foreign missionaries long thought that the Taepings
were the agents of Christianity, and that their success would lead to
the conversion of China. That faith die... |
"The officer Gordon having received command of the Ever
Victorious Army, having immediately on doing so proceeded to
Fushan, working day and night, having worked harmoniously with
the other generals there, having exerted himself and attacked
with success the walled city of Fushan and relieved Chanzu... |
From Taitsan he marched to Quinsan; but his force was not yet
thoroughly in hand, and wished to return to Sungkiang, in accordance
with their practice under Ward of spending their pay and prize-money
after any successful affair before attempting another. Gordon yielded
on this occasion the more easily because he was im... |
"We met many boats that had appeared deserted on our passing up
sailing merrily towards Soochow, but which, when they saw the red
and green of the steamer and heard her whistle, were immediately
run into the bank and were deserted. Just before Siaon Edin was
reached we came on a large body of rebels... |
Having thus settled the differences within his own force, and having
fully established his own authority, Major Gordon would have
prosecuted the attack on Soochow with vigour, if other difficulties
had not occurred which occupied his time and attention. In the first
place, there was a serious quarrel with General Ching... |
The season of the year, the hottest and most trying of the long
Chinese summer, compelled inaction, and Gordon felt doubly the need of
caution now that he was brought face to face with the most arduous
undertaking of the whole war, viz. the siege and capture of Soochow.
General Ching's headquarters were at Ta Edin, and... |
In the meantime that pressure had greatly increased, owing to the
bolder measures to which Gordon resorted after the European contingent
abandoned the Taeping side. His first step was to attack and capture
the stockades at Wuliungchow, a village two miles west of Patachiaou,
which commanded a passage leading from the T... |
Having thus strengthened his position towards the north, Gordon, very
much to Ching's satisfaction, fell in with his views to begin a direct
attack on Soochow itself. For good reasons it was decided that the
north-east angle of Soochow was the weakest, but before it could be
attacked it was necessary to capture the str... |
The Chinese officials were delighted to thus get rid of the Ever
Victorious Army, without which they would never have seen the inside
of Soochow. Its presence diminished their credit and interfered with
the execution of the plans which they had no doubt held throughout all
the negotiations with Lar Wang. Neither Li nor... |
Ching then corrected himself by saying, "Oh, yes, that is all right,
but they have not shaved their heads, and they want to retain half the
city," the western half, that nearest to the relieving force, still at
a considerable distance from Soochow, under the heroic Chung Wang.To which Gordon at once responded, "That wo... |
I do not gather that Sir Halliday Macartney had any serious misgivings
about this mission when he undertook it. His relations with Gordon
were, as has been shown, of a specially cordial and confidential
character, and even if he failed to induce Gordon to abandon the
threatening plans he had described in his letter to ... |
When the Blue Book was published with the despatch referred to, Dr
Macartney took no notice of it. Some time afterwards he met the late
Sir Harry Parkes, then Consul-General at Shanghai, and he described
what I have set forth in the same language. Sir Harry Parkes, than
whom England never had a finer representative in ... |
"The destiny of China is at the present moment in the hands of
Gordon more than of any other man, and if he be encouraged to act
vigorously, the knotty question of Taepingdom _versus_ 'union in
the cause of law and order' will be solved before the end of May,
and quiet will at length be restored to ... |
Unlike the other Taeping towns, all of which were stockaded
positions, Kintang had no outer defences. It presented the appearance
of a small compact city with a stone wall. No flags were shown; the
place might have been deserted, but the complete silence seemed
ominous. Gordon selected his point of attack, and began a ... |
Having thus cleared the district due north of Wusieh, Gordon proceeded
against the main Taeping position at Chanchufu, north-west of that
place, and on the Grand Canal. Here Chung Wang had fortified thirty
stockades, and commanded in person. On inspecting it, Gordon found it
so strong that he summoned up his troops fro... |
Having thus concluded his work as commander of the Ever Victorious
Army, it might have been thought that Gordon would be allowed to carry
out his own wish of returning home as quickly as possible, but the
English, as well as the Chinese, authorities were desirous of
organising a purely Chinese force, with the object of... |
The more calmly and critically the deeds of the Ever Victorious Army
and Gordon's conduct during the campaign against the Taepings are
considered, the greater will be the credit awarded to the high-minded,
brave, and unselfish man who then gained the sobriquet of "Chinese"
Gordon. Among all the deeds of his varied and ... |
General Gordon arrived in England early in 1865, and proceeded to join
his family at Rockstone Place, Southampton, where he was then doubly
welcomed, as his father was in declining health, and died soon
afterwards. Here Gordon passed a quiet six months, refusing all
invitations with extreme modesty, and in every way ba... |
Another instance of his unflagging energy and extreme activity was
furnished in connection with the boat in which he had to visit the
different parts of the defences. A two-oared, slow-moving boat was
provided for the purpose, but Gordon soon grew tired of this slow
means of locomotion, and he started a four-oared gig.... |
It has been written of him that his house at Gravesend bore more
resemblance to the home of a missionary than the quarters of an
English officer. His efforts to improve and soften the hard lot of the
poor in a place like Gravesend began in a small way, and developed
gradually into an extensive system of beneficence, wh... |
Many stories have been told of his tenderness of heart, and of his
reluctance to see punishment inflicted, but perhaps the following is
the most typical. A woman called on him one day with a piteous tale.
Gordon went to his bedroom to get half a sovereign for her, and while
he was away she took a fancy to a brown overc... |
The mention of Galatz recalls an incident, showing how long was his
memory, and how much he clung to old friendships. During the
Commune--that is to say, when he was still at Gravesend--the papers
stated that a General Bisson had been killed at the Bridge of Neuilly
on 9th April 1871. He wrote to Marshal Macmahon to in... |
Khartoum lies on the left bank of the Blue Nile--Bahr-el-Azrak--rather
more than three miles south of its confluence with the White
Nile--Bahr-el-Abiad--at the northern point of the Isle of Tuti. The
channel south of that island affords a slightly nearer approach to the
White Nile, coming out immediately opposite the f... |
The financial position of the Egyptian Government in the Soudan was as
bad as the military and political. The Khedive's Governor-General at
Khartoum, Ismail Yakoob Pasha, was nominally responsible for the
administration of Darfour, although Zebehr reaped all the gain. This
arrangement resulted in a drain on the Khedive... |
This brief trip satisfied him of several simple facts bearing on the
situation in the Equatorial Province which the Khedive had sent him
with such a flourish of trumpets to govern. He found very easily that
the Egyptian Government possessed no practical authority in that
region. Beyond the two forts at Gondokoro--garri... |
There is no doubt that this absence of any organised opposition was
fortunate, for the so-called troops at the disposal of the Governor of
the Equator were as miserably inefficient and contemptible, from a
fighting point of view, as any General Gordon ever commanded; and at a
later stage of his career he plaintively re... |
"I took a poor old bag of bones into my camp a month ago, and
have been feeding her up, but yesterday she was quietly taken
off, and now knows all things. She had her tobacco up to the
last, and died quite quietly.... A wretched _sister_ of yours
[addressed to the late Miss Gordon] is struggling up ... |
Having organised his new forces, equipped all his steamers--one of
which was fitted out with machinery that had been left in Baker's time
to rust in the Korosko Desert--General Gordon set himself to the task
of systematically organising the line of posts which he had conceived
and begun to construct in the first stages... |
If Kaba Rega had been satisfied to retain the practical marks of
authority, it is probable that Gordon would have been well content to
leave him alone, but irritated by the slight placed upon him by Sir
Samuel Baker, he assumed the offensive on every possible occasion. He
attacked Colonel Long, one of Gordon's lieutena... |
The personal glimpses obtainable of Gordon during these depressing
years, while engaged on a task he foresaw would be undone by the
weakness and indifference of the Egyptian authorities as soon as he
gave it up, are very illustrative of his energy and inherent capacity
for command. The world at large was quite indiffer... |
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displayed have been "unpacked" and shown in brac... |
1/17 [nu beoþ] [_printed without brackets_]
2/30 [fei][gh]e [[fei]ge]
11/1 {þ}urh MS kurh
[_body text printed without italics; added linenote_]
12/15 alisendnesse [alisendnessee]
14/58 fi{lio} [fi{lii}]
17/162 d{escendi} [d{escendit}]
83/32 For v{iam} p{ro}... |
[&] al [biþ] his siþ · mid seorwe biwunden ·
him deaueþ þa æren : him dimmeþ [þa] i[gh]en ·
him scerpeþ þe neose · him scrinckeþ þa lippen ·
him scorteþ [þe] tunge · [him starkeþ his skin ·]
him trukeþ his iwit · him teoreþ his miht · 20
him coldeþ his [siden ·] liggeþ þe ban stille ·
... |
_Qui custodit diuitias ser[uus] est diuitiis_
þu were þeow · þines weolan ·
noldest þu nouht þær{}of d[ælen ·] for drihtenes willæn ·
ac æfre þu grædiliche · gæderedest þe more ·
lu[þer]liche eart þu forloren · from al [þ/] þu lufedest · 35
[&] ic scal wræcche soule [· weo]we nu driæn ·
eart þu nu ... |
++Ðis gære for þe `k{ing}´ Steph{ne} ofer sæ to normandi [&] ther
wes under{}fangen for{}þi ð hi uuenden ð he sculde ben alsuic alse
the eo{m} wes. [&] for he hadde get his tresor. ac he to{}deld it
[&] scatered sotlice. Micel hadde henri k{ing} gadered gold [&]
syluer. [&] na god ne dide me for his saule thar{}of. {40... |
Þa `þe´ king S{tephne} to englal{ande} co{m} þa macod he his
gadering æt Oxeneford. [&] þar he na{m} þe b{iscop} Roger of
Sereb{er}i [&] Alex{ander} b{iscop} of lincol [&] te canceler
Rog{er} hise neues. [&] dide ælle in p{ri}sun. til hi iafen up here
castles. Þa the suikes under{}gæton ð he milde man was [&] softe [&]... |
[Linenotes:
41. _Þa_] no paragraph in MS. || 46. After _maked_ erasure of two
letters. || 56. After _þumbes_, _[&]_ deleted. || 81. _þe ouer_]
_þeouer_ MS. || 97. After _moste_, _alse_ erased. ||
99. _strengthe_ corrected out of _strengthre_.]Nu we willen sægen su{m}del wat belamp on Steph{nes} kinges t... |
[&] scæ fleh [&] iæde on fote to {165}
Walingford.Þær eft{er} scæ ferde ouer sæ.[&] hi of normandi wenden
alle fra þe king.to þe eorl of Angæu.sume here þankes [&] sume
here unþankes.for he be{}sæt heo{m} til hi aiauen up here castles.[&] hi nan helpe ne hæfden of þe k{inge}.Þa ferde Eustace þe
king{es} sune to france ... |
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