Alignment-Lab-AI/GutenDialogue · Datasets at Hugging Face

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21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know, colonel, General Burrows said, as they were smoking their cigars after dinner," } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose he is like me, Colonel Ripon said;" } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I fear that the trouble is serious, General Burrows said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The troops Ayoub is bringing with him have not yet met us in the field. The population on the road is wild and fanatical, in the extreme; and will, no doubt, join him to a man. On the other hand, the troops of the Wali are not to be depended upon, and the brunt of the fighting is sure to fall upon us." } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Yossouf, where have you laid the tiffin?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have spread it, sahib, on a level piece of ground, in the shade of the chief's house. He did not seem disposed to be civil and, indeed, I thought that it would be more pleasant out of doors, in the shade, than inside." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Much more pleasant, Yossouf; and these forts, as they call them, are generally stuffy places, with small windows. What is the feeling of the people here?" } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should recommend that, as soon as tiffin is over, you should start for the camp; for I don't think it is quite safe, here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They would never think of attacking us, Yossouf, with our force within an easy day's march." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know, sir, Yossouf said, doubtfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They say that the Wali's men are all with them; and that these, alone, are quite sufficient to eat up the three British regiments." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They will find out their mistake, if they try it. However, Yossouf, I will let the others know what you think." } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "They are scowling, sulky-looking brutes, he said, looking at a group of natives, who stood watching them, with lowering eyes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, you know, Hammond, these Ghazis do attack us, in all sorts of places--as I have found, to my cost--and these villages abound with these fanatics." } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I for one don't mean to move, till it gets a bit cooler. If these fellows want to attack us, they have got the chance, now; and there is no more reason they should do it, three hours hence, than when we are having our breakfast, quietly." } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Yossouf, what is it? Have you learned anything?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, sir, nothing. But the people no longer speak to me freely. They must have guessed, when they saw me speaking to you, that I was warning you; but I don't think things are right. The children are all in the houses, instead of playing about in the street. A few of the women are standing at their doors, but most of them are inside, too." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But if the men are thinking of attacking us why shouldn't they do so, at once?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There are not above twenty or thirty men here, sahib. They may not think they are strong enough. Perhaps they have sent to some of the villages, for help." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Likely enough, Yossouf; I did not think of that. Do you go up above the village, and have a good look round. I will try and persuade my friends to be moving." } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But as we said before, Gale, Fortescue urged," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps they may think we shall all take a nap, after our tiffin, Will replied;" } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come on, boys, we had better do as Gale tells us." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's right, Will said, cheerfully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And look here, if we get away from here without any disturbance, and find it all right, we can halt again, at the first shady place we come to; and stop there for two or three hours, till it gets cool." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have been thinking it over. We have all got bullets in our pockets, to drop into our guns over the shot, in case of necessity. But these smooth-bore fowling pieces are of no good, except at close quarters; while the Afghan matchlocks will carry straight, a long way. Therefore, if we had to make a running fight of it, we should get the worst of it; for these fellows could keep up with us, easily--besides, there are the servants. Therefore, if a shot is fired, my advice is that we should make a dash at the chief's house. Seize that, and hold it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, that would be a good plan," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look here, Gale, we are all senior to you in the date of our commissions, but you have seen no end of service and adventure; therefore I vote that you shall be commanding officer, until we get back to camp." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hammond, will you tell your servant to get ready for a start, at once. Speak to him quietly and carelessly. Then, as the men move up more towards the ponies, tell them--in Hindustanee--to go about their work quietly but, in case of any trouble with the Afghans, to out with their swords, and join us in a rush at the chief's house." } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Two large parties are coming, master; one down the valley, and the other across the hills. They have got flags with them, and I am sure they are going to attack us." } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ask the sahibs, he said to Yossouf," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have duties at the camp, and must return at once." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It looks as if you were not pleased with the hospitality of our village, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bring up the ponies quickly, he said to Yossouf." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never mind those things, there is not a moment to be lost." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kaffir dogs, he said," } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Will shouted," } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What! Fortescue, are you hit?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am done for! the young officer replied, faintly;" } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be careful! Will exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't show a head above the roof, or at a loophole, or you will get a bullet in your brain, to a certainty. Stand well back, so that they can't see you." } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hammond, you had better go down to Fortescue, at present. One of the Syces can take Yossouf's place on guard over the women, and he can help you. The lad is a good nurse, but I fear there is nothing to be done for the poor fellow." } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have handed his revolver to one of the Syces, and his gun to the other. Your man, Yossouf, has a revolver." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What on earth are we to do now, Gale? Plater asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have been right thus far and, if it hadn't been for you putting us up to make a rush here, we should have been done for, long ago. But we are not much better off; for here we are, cooped up, and the betting is a hundred to one against our being rescued, in time. No one will know where to look for us and, though we may beat them off two or three times, in the end it is likely to go hard with us." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Couldn't we send a messenger, with the news of the fix we are in? Lowther asked;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's what I have been thinking about, ever since I first planned coming here, Will said;" } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've got it!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will get it, if you don't mind, Hammond said, dryly; as a bullet passed through one of the loopholes, and struck the wall an inch or two from Will's head." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But what is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When it gets quite dusk we will call a parley, and tell them we don't want to keep the women here. They are only in our way, and eat up the food; so we will open the door, and let them go." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But what will you do that for, Gale? You were saying, a short time ago, that the women could be kept as hostages." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So they might, Hammond; but it will be more useful to us to let them go. There are seven women here. Six of them shall go out; and with them, in the clothes of the seventh, Yossouf." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Capital! Capital! the others exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you think they will notice him?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, Will said," } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Will said at last," } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "How many are there of you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Seven," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are the children to come?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We may take away the babies, but the three boys are to remain behind." } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hurrah! Will shouted," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All safe?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "All safe, except Fortescue--who was killed at the first attack." } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, you four men who brought the powder kegs, carry them inside this fort. We are going to blow it up, to give them a lesson." } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is hot work," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is, indeed, the officer answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It would be difficult to withdraw, now, Will said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It would shake the confidence of the men. I think, myself, that we ought to advance, and drive the enemy before us, till we take up some really defensible position; but I doubt if the Afghans would wait for that. In all our history, a British charge against an Indian enemy has always been successful, no matter how great the odds." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is a bad lookout, the captain said, as a shell burst close by him, killing and wounding five or six men." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is quite evident that if we stay where we are we must, in time, be annihilated. Our fellows will stand, no doubt; they are English soldiers, and well officered. But how can one expect the two Indian regiments--with only three or four white officers, each--to remain steady, under such a fire as this, and with these desperate charges of Ghazis upon them?" } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Steady, men, steady!" } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your company has done good service, sir, he said to Captain Fletcher;" } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank God that is over, Captain Fletcher said, as he lifted his cap and wiped the perspiration from his forehead;" } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What on earth has become of the cavalry? They have done nothing to cover the retreat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They have ridden on ahead, the captain said, bitterly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! Gale, he exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am glad to see that you are safe, sir, Will answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "This has been a terrible day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It has, indeed, the colonel said, mournfully," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Several, sir, some of them badly hurt." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You had better let the men throw away their knapsacks, and all useless encumbrances, he said to Captain Fletcher." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You will have to march--and perhaps fight--all night; and must husband your strength." } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sahib! the latter whispered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hear people moving below. I think there are thieves in the house." } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you hurt?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thanks to you, I have escaped without hurt, Yossouf; and had it not been for your aid, they would assuredly have made an end of me. My pistol had fallen from my hand as they knocked me down and, on the ground, I could not have defended myself with my sword, for an instant. Once more, Yossouf, I owe my life to you." } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It would have been hard work, sir, Will Gale said to Colonel Ripon, as they rode forward in rear of the fighting brigade," } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are men in England who persist in shutting their eyes to the certain consequences of the Russian advance towards the northern frontier of Afghanistan; but the time will come when England will have to rue, bitterly, the infatuation and folly of her rulers. When that day arrives, she will have to make such an effort, to hold her own, as she has never had to do since the days when she stood, alone, in arms against Europe." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hear one of your captains died, last night. That gives you your step, does it not?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, sir." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are the luckiest young dog I ever heard of. You got your commission, within a year of enlisting; and now, by an extraordinary fatality, your regiment is almost annihilated; and you mount up, by death steps, to a captain's rank, nine months after the date of your gazette. In any other regiment in the service, you would have been lucky if you had got three or four steps, by this time." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am fortunate, indeed, sir, Will said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can scarcely believe it, myself." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah Ripon, how are you?" } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is a singularly fine young fellow--young Gale, I mean, Colonel Shepherd said;" } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know anything of him, previous to the time of his enlisting? You told me he joined your regiment, on the day when it arrived at Calcutta. I know nothing of his history, before that. The subject never happened to occur, in conversation; and it was one upon which I naturally should have felt a delicacy in asking any questions--though I have sometimes wondered, in my own mind, how he came to be penniless in Calcutta; as I suppose he must have been, to have enlisted. Did you happen to hear anything about it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, indeed, Colonel Shepherd answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Curiously enough, he was by no means penniless; as he had just received 100 pounds reward, for the services he had rendered in preventing a ship from being captured, by the Malays. I happened to meet its captain on shore, the day I landed; and heard from him the story of the affair--which was as follows, as nearly as I can recollect." } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Naturally, he went on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was greatly interested in the story and--expressing a wish to see the young fellow--he was brought off that evening, after mess, to the Euphrates; and told us how he had been wrecked on the island in a Dutch ship, from which only he, and a companion, were saved. I was so struck with his conduct--and, I may say, by his appearance and manner--that I took him aside into my own cabin, and learned from him the full particulars of his story. I don't think anyone else knows it for, when he expressed his willingness to take my advice, and enlist, I told him that he had better say nothing about his past. His manner was so good that I thought he would pass well, as some gentleman's son who had got into a scrape and, as I hoped that the time might come when he might step upwards, it was perhaps better that it should not be known what was his origin." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But what was his origin, Shepherd? I confess you surprise me, for I have always had an idea that he was a man of good family; although in some strange way his education had been neglected for, in fact, he told me one day that he was absolutely ignorant of Latin." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, Ripon, as you are a friend of the young fellow, and I know it will go no further, I will tell you the facts of the case. He was brought up in a workhouse, was apprenticed to a Yarmouth smack man and--the boat being run down in a gale by a Dutch troopship, to which he managed to cling, as the smack sank--he was carried in her to Java. On her voyage thence, to China, he was wrecked on the island I spoke of." } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "They tell me, he said, with a smile," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Strange, is it not, Colonel Ripon went on, arousing himself," } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, what is the matter, Ripon? Good heavens, are you ill?" } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "How old is he?" } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "But what has that to do with it, my dear old friend? What is the matter with you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I believe, Shepherd, Colonel Ripon said solemnly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Your son!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I believe he is my son." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But how on earth can that be? his friend asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you sure that you know what you are saying? Is your head quite clear, old friend?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "My head is clear enough, the colonel replied," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, indeed, Colonel Shepherd replied, more and more surprised--for he had at first supposed that some sudden access of fever, or delirium, had seized his friend." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You will remember that, a week or two after you were married, my regiment was moved up to the north; and we remained three years longer in India. When I got back to England, I heard that you had lost your wife, a short time before, and had returned. I remember our ships crossed on the way. When we met again, the conversation never turned on the past." } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "My wife had never been strong and, from that day, she gradually sank. As long as there was hope she kept up, for a time. I hoped all would go well; but three months afterwards she faded rapidly and, ere six months had passed from the loss of the child, I buried her, and came straight out to India. I went home once, for two or three months, upon business connected with my property there, some seven years since. That was when we last met, you know, at the club. With that exception, I have remained here ever since." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The trouble will be, I fear, Colonel Shepherd said," } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Listen, Shepherd! That is his step on the stairs. May God grant that he prove to be my son!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Be calm, old friend, Colonel Shepherd said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will speak to him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am glad you have not gone, colonel--I was afraid you might have left, for I have been longer than I expected. I just heard the news that the 66th are in orders this evening to march, the day after tomorrow, for Kurrachee; to sail for England, where we are to be reorganized, again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Gale, I am going to ask you a rather curious thing. Will you do it, without asking why?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Certainly, colonel, if it is in my power," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will you take off your patrol jacket, open your shirt, and turn it well down at the neck?" } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "My son, my son!" } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, I will enlist in the Guides. I shall be at home with them, for most of them belong to the Afghan tribes. I am young yet, not fully a man, and I have my life before me. Some day, perhaps, if things are quiet and prosperous at home, I will go back and end my days there." } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your name is Mrs. Dickson, I think?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is Will Gale! she exclaimed, drawing back a step." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They said you were dead, years ago." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I am very much alive, Mrs. Dickson; and glad, most glad, to see an old friend again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good Lord! the woman exclaimed," } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father," } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! And here is Sam!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Sam! Who do you think this is?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If it warn't that he be drowned and dead, long ago, he said, at last," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should say it was Will Gale, growed up and got to be a gentleman. I shouldn't ha' knowed him, at first; but when he smiles, I don't think as how I can be far wrong." } ]
21979	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am a captain, now; and my name is no longer Will Gale, but Tom Ripon, for I have found my real father--this gentleman, Colonel Ripon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who feels, Colonel Ripon went on," } ]
932760	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, an' what income have you now?" } ]
404817	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sometime! how long did she expect to live, I wonder?" } ]
265229	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "To F--s S. O--d," } ]
644424	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, Mr. Crewe, I'll thank you to mind your own business," } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Notes and Queries" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When found, make a note of." } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "No Cross no Crown" } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Crowns have their Compass" } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "NOTES AND QUERIES" } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "This Treatise concernynge the fruytful Saynges of David the King and prophete in the seven penytencyall psalmes, devyded in _ten_ sermons, was made and compyled by the ryght reverente fader in god Johan Fyssher, doctour of dyvinyte and bysshop of Rochester, at the exortacion and sterynge of the most excellent pryncesse Margarete, Countesse of Richemount and Derby, and moder to out souverayne Lorde Kynge H[=e]ry the VII." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dieu et mon Droit." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here endeth the exposycyon of the 7 psalmes. Enprynted at London in the fletestrete, at the sygne of ye Sonne, by Wynkyn de Worde. In the yere of oure lorde M.CCCCC.VIII. ye 16 day of ye moneth of Juyn. The XXIII. yere of ye reygne of our souverayne Lorde Kynge H[=e]ry the Seventh." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wynkyn de Worde." } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The surest meanes for to attaine The perfect waye to endlesse blisse Are happie lief and to remaine W'thin ye church where virtue is; And if thy conscience be sae sounde To thinse thy faith is truth indeede Beware in thee noe schisme be founde That unitie may have her meede; If unitie thow doe embrace In heaven (_en_?)joy possesse thy place." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Qui non rectè vivit in unitate ecclesiæ Catholicæ, salvus esse non potest." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thomas Morus d[=n]s cancellarius Angliæ Joh. Fisher Epûs Roffensis." } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maria, glorious martyr and Queen of Scotland. It is conjectured these books were brought to Douai by the fugitive English Roman Catholic priests. In 1790 their collections were confiscated and given to the public library of Douai. It would be of interest to ascertain, if possible, the authenticity of the _Heures à l'Usage_, stated to have belonged to Mary Queen of Scots. Upon this point one may be permitted to be sceptical. I have myself seen two. One of these, it was said, had been used by Mary on the scaffold, and contained a note in the handwriting, as I think, of James II. attesting the fact. It was understood to have been obtained from a monastery in France. The other, a small Prayer Book MS. in vellum, of good execution, had the signature" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "M. with a line I think over it of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "O Lord, deliver me from my enemies!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Maria, glorious martyr and Queen of Scotland, be written in the Psalter, or has been added by the mental excitement of M. Duthilloeul, the librarian at Douai, I cannot decide. The grand culmination of" } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "One that is fit to keep a Warehouse, be a Steward, or do any Business that can be supposed an intelligent Man that has been a Shopkeeper is fit for, and can give any Security that can be desired, as far as Ten Thousand Pound goes, and has some Estate of his own, desires an Employment of One hundred Pounds a year, or upwards. I can give an account of him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can give an account of him," } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "A very eminent Brewer, and one I know to be a very honest Gentleman, wants an Apprentice. I can give an account of him." } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Many Masters want Apprentices, and many Youths want Masters. If they apply themselves to me, I'll strive to help them. Also for variety of valuable services." } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "If any young Man that plays well on a Violin, and writes a good Hand, desires a Clerkship, I can help him to Twenty Pounds a year." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can help him," } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Grocer of good business desires an Apprentice of good growth." } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "NOTES AND QUERIES" } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here's an Equivocator, that could swear in both the scales, against either scale: who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven. Oh, come in, Equivocator" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "in the margin, should be printed" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The word in the MS. is a contraction to that effect: the capital" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "V has a curved stroke across the first line of the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "V, followed by" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Generally the _Dubium_, in alphabetic works of the kind referred to, ranks under some alphabetic word, one or more, as it may happen; but in Em. Sà's work the word _Dubium_ comes under the letter D., and this is meant to be expressed. At p. 49. the footnote should be omitted, as the Vulgate, which is followed, calls the 1st of _Samuel_ the 1st of _Kings_. The first line of p. 56. should have" }, { "from": "human", "value": "instead of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Illum expirantem transfixo pectore flammas Turbine corripuit scopuloque infixit acuto." }, { "from": "human", "value": "TURBINE; volubilitate ventorum. SCOPULO; saxo eminenti." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hub sie im Wirbel empor, und spiesst' an ein scharfes Gestein ihn." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ipsum vero Pallas fulmine percussum procellæ vi scopulo etiam allisit." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Impegit rupi acutæ." } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Præterea etiam acuto scopulo _infigendi_ voc. accommodatius videtur quam _infligendi_. And Wagner:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cornua obnixi infigunt," } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Saturnius me sic _infixit_ Jupiter, Jovisque numen Mulcibri adscivit manus. Hos ille _cuneos_ fabrica crudeli _inserens_, Perrupit artus; qua miser sollertia Transverberatus, castrum hoc Furiarum incolo." } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Plura cum auderet furens, Tridente rupem subruit pulsam pater Neptunus, imis exerens undis caput, Solvitque montem; quem cadens secum tulit: Terraque et igne victus et pelago jacet." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fixusque Capharei Cautibus, inter aquas flammam ructabat Oileus." }, { "from": "human", "value": "the pierced lung;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(_Æn._ XII. 537.);" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Viscera sic aliquis scopulus tua figat, ut olim Fixa sub Euboico Graia fuere sinu," } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Præcipitem scopulo atque ingentis turbine saxi Excutit effunditque solo." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stupet obvia leto Turba super stantem, atque emissi turbine montis Obruitur." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Idem altas turres saxis et turbine crebro Laxat." } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurled, Each on his rock transfixed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A tale un turbo In preda il diè; che per acuti scogli Miserabil ne fe' rapina, e scempio." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ast ego, quæ Divûm incedo regina, Jovisque Et soror et conjux, una cum gente tot annos Bella gero." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I who walk in awful state above." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Incessus dearum, imprimis Junonis, gravitate sua notus." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Magnifice incedit (Liv. II. 6.);" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Turpe incedere (Catull. XXXXII. 8.);" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Molliter incedit (Ovid, _Amor._ II. 23.);" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Passu incedit inerti (Ovid, _Metam._ II. 772.);" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Melius est incessu regem quam imperium regno claudicare (Justin. VI. ii. 6.);" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Incessus omnibus animalibus certus et uniusmodi, et in suo, cuique, genere" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "but inferable from" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The expression corresponds exactly to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(_Æn._ II. 578.); with this difference only, that" }, { "from": "human", "value": "does not, like" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jovisque et soror et conjux. --Both the _ets_ are emphatic." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jovisque _et_ soror _et_ conjux." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bella" } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Verses to General Monck," } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pius V. resolved to make his bastard son, Boncompagni, Marquis of Vincola, King of Ireland, &c. For this assertion no authority is cited, nor indeed could be. The very name might have suggested the filiation to his successor, Gregory XIII., which was the fact. In a work, not much known, _The Burnt Child dreads the Fire, &c._, by William Denton, M.D., London, 1675, at p. 25. we read," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gregory XIII. had a bastard, _James Buon Compagna_, and to him he gave _Ireland_, and impowered _Stewkely_ with men, arms, and money, to conquer it for him." } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The cross, which does not appear to have been peculiar to Christianity, when introduced on these obelisks, is usually filled with tracery." } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the court of one of the temples in the island of Columel he was amazed by the sight of a cross of stone and lime, about ten palms high." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Crosses, or stones on which the figure was traced, marked a place of meeting for certain districts; and within memory of man a fair was held on this spot. It is not improbable that market-crosses may be deduced from this custom." } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The crucifix was not known before the fifth or sixth century, though the cross was always the emblem of the Christian faith." } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir Bernard succeeded to the paternal inheritance both in England and France, and having married Mary, daughter and heiress of Sir John de Roche, had a large estate with her, and the hereditary post of Master of the Buckhounds; which was confirmed to him by King Edward the Third, and held by the family, till sold in James the First's reign." } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cerne coronatam Domini super _atria Christi_, Stare crucem, duro spondentem celsa labori Præmia: _tolle crucem, qui vis auferre coronam_." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "See how the cross of Christ a crown entwines: High o'er God's temple it refulgent shines; Pledging bright guerdon for each passing pain: Take up the cross, if thou the crown would'st gain." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When Dido found Æneas did not come, She wept in silence, and was--di-do-dum." } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "SARAH MATTOCKS, Aged 27. Much lamented by her husband, Lieutenant-Colonel JOHN MATTOCKS. Was the grand-daughter of the Great JOHN HAMDEN, Esq., Of St. James's, Westminster." } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "As she was twenty-seven years old at her death, she must have been born in 1751; it was therefore impossible that she should have been the grand-daughter of the great John Hampden, that died in 1643, one hundred and eight years before her birth." } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "NOTES AND QUERIES." } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Auctori Connect.; and on the reverse," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Inde. for _independence_, and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lib. for liberty; date in the exerg., 1781 or 1787; and between" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Inde. and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lib. five stars. Can any of your correspondents tell me if my explanation of the reverse is the correct one? and also who was the" } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Walker? Why do people say" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Walker" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hookey Walker, as related by John Bee, Esq., is simply this:--John Walker was an out-door clerk at Longman, Clementi, and Co.'s in Cheapside, where a great number of persons were employed; and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Old Jack, who had a crooked or hooked nose, occupied the post of a spy upon their aberrations, which were manifold. Of course, it was for the interests of the surveillants to throw discredit upon all Jack's reports to the heads of the firm; and numbers could attest that those reports were fabrications, however true. Jack, somehow or other, was constantly outvoted, his evidence superseded, and of course disbelieved; and thus his occupation ceased, but not the fame of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hookey Walker." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The privileges of, and the ancient customs appertaining to, the See of Durham?" } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rembrandt." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A mistake (says P.) as Rembrandt was not fourteen years of age (he was indeed only eight) in 1614, at which time it is certain the countess was not living." } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Being at Strawberry Hill in April, 1773, I saw there a copy of the picture commonly attributed to the old Countess of Desmond; but Mr. Walpole told me that there is sufficient proof that it is a painter's mother, I think Rembrandt's. However, by a letter from Mr. Lort, April 15, 1774, he assures me that on Mr. Pennant's calling at Strawberry Hill to see this picture, he was much chagrined at having a print of it engraved for his book, till Mr. Lort revived him by carrying him to a garret in Devonshire House, where was a picture of this same countess with her name on it, exactly corresponding to his engraved print. I remember a tolerable good old picture of her at Mr. Dicey's, prebendary of Bristol, at Walton in Bucks." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones: Pennant would not have displayed the ignorance which Walpole exhibits in the instance before us. In an inscription, which the latter gives, on a Countess of Desmond buried at Sligo, occurs the following contraction:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Desmoniæ _Noie_ Elizabetha. Walpole says (_Fugitive Pieces_, p. 204.)," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This word I can make no sense of, but _sic originale_; I take it to be redundancy of the carver. It seems to be a repetition of the last three syllables of Desmoniæ!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Historic Doubts" } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Voluntate Cæsaris Romani Imperatoris Maximi Domini, Rex. I hope to offer a better solution, which, although not new, has been passed over, I believe, by all subsequent writers. The Rev. George North, in the _Museum Meadianum_, p. 97., gives the following note:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Apud Arabes accepi verbum Karama significare Honoravit, a quo Ucrima, et Ucrim; quo sensu respondet hoc Arabicum Τῷ Σεβαστῷ apud Græcos." } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "ὁ τίμιος γάμος ἐστί is" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "ὁ γάμος τίμιος is untranslateable, unless you supply ἐστί, and then it means" }, { "from": "human", "value": "(or, marriage in general, in the abstract)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But ἔστω might be supplied, as it is in Heb. xiii. 4., when it will mean," }, { "from": "human", "value": "and τίμιος ὁ γάμος has just the same meaning, with perhaps this difference, that the emphasis falls more distinctly on τίμιος. The circumstance that the mere assertion that marriage is honourable in all (men or things), true as it is in itself, ill accords with the tenor of the passage of which it forms a part, which is hortatory, not assertive, is a good reason why CEPHAS'S version should be preferred. But when we find afterwards the words καὶ ἡ κοίτη ἀμίαντος, it is impossible to deny this hortatory force to the sentence; for those words cannot mean" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and to translate them" }, { "from": "human", "value": "--which is the only version which they will here bear, but one--would give but a feeble sense. That sole remaining sense is," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "subaudite ἔστω in the verse is," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let marriage be honourable in all (men or things)," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Had our translators known that ἡ κοίτη ἀμίαντος could not mean" }, { "from": "human", "value": "they would at once have been driven to see that the verse is a commandment: and the commandment that marriage should be held honourable in all men (or in all respects), would have served the purpose of their doctrines quite as well as the affirmative form which they have given to their present version. I say, it would have served their purpose; but I say more: they heeded not what did or would serve their purpose. They looked only for the truth and disregarded all else in their pursuit of it. With regard to the controversy about ἐν πᾶσι, it is immaterial which version be adopted. MR. WALTER is right in the rule which he enunciates, if he means that in those cases of adjectives in which the masculine and neuter forms are the same," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "or" }, { "from": "human", "value": "not" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "or" } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Crowns have their Compass," } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Crownes have their compasse, length of dayes their date, Triumphes their tombes, felicitie her fate; Of more than earth can earth make none partaker, But knowledge makes the king most like his Maker." } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Crowns have their compass--length of days their date-- Triumphs their tomb--felicity, her fate-- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "into" } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "read" } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Administrations of England, and the Judges of the Ecclesiastical Courts" } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "NOTES AND QUERIES," } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "--Cozens the Painter--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Acu tinali meridi --Nightingale and Thorn, &c.--Theodolite--Temple of Ægina--Ashen Fagots--Cause of Transparency--Praed's Charade--Marriages in ruined Churches--Age of Trees--Joceline's Legacy--St. Bene't Fink--Bristol Tables--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "A little Bird told me" } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "FERMILODUM read" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "FERMILODVNI; p. 394. col. 1. l. 34. for" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Danish read" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dutch; p. 395. col. 1. l. 19. for" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dunfe_r_line read" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dunfermline." } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "THUCYDIDES OR GROTE?" } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Editor of NOTES AND QUERIES." } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Proposals for Christian Union." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are written in the same attractive and popular style." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Show great research on the part of the Author into the early history of the Principality. We can recommend this little work to all those who are curious in these matters." } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Booke that ys cleped the Mirrour of the Blissed Liffe of Jhesu Criste," } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Webster's English Dictionary;" } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The neatest and most comprehensive collection of Scottish minstrelsy, ancient and modern." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Book of Scottish Song." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A rich and valuable collection--accompanied by critical and bibliographical illustrations which add largely to the interest of the volume." } ]
39233	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Notes and Queries" } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know, colonel, General Burrows said, as they were smoking their cigars after dinner," } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose he is like me, Colonel Ripon said;" } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I fear that the trouble is serious, General Burrows said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The troops Ayoub is bringing with him have not yet met us in the field. The population on the road is wild and fanatical, in the extreme; and will, no doubt, join him to a man. On the other hand, the troops of the Wali are not to be depended upon, and the brunt of the fighting is sure to fall upon us." } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Yossouf, where have you laid the tiffin?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have spread it, sahib, on a level piece of ground, in the shade of the chief's house. He did not seem disposed to be civil and, indeed, I thought that it would be more pleasant out of doors, in the shade, than inside." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Much more pleasant, Yossouf; and these forts, as they call them, are generally stuffy places, with small windows. What is the feeling of the people here?" } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should recommend that, as soon as tiffin is over, you should start for the camp; for I don't think it is quite safe, here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They would never think of attacking us, Yossouf, with our force within an easy day's march." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know, sir, Yossouf said, doubtfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They say that the Wali's men are all with them; and that these, alone, are quite sufficient to eat up the three British regiments." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They will find out their mistake, if they try it. However, Yossouf, I will let the others know what you think." } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They are scowling, sulky-looking brutes, he said, looking at a group of natives, who stood watching them, with lowering eyes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, you know, Hammond, these Ghazis do attack us, in all sorts of places--as I have found, to my cost--and these villages abound with these fanatics." } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I for one don't mean to move, till it gets a bit cooler. If these fellows want to attack us, they have got the chance, now; and there is no more reason they should do it, three hours hence, than when we are having our breakfast, quietly." } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Yossouf, what is it? Have you learned anything?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, sir, nothing. But the people no longer speak to me freely. They must have guessed, when they saw me speaking to you, that I was warning you; but I don't think things are right. The children are all in the houses, instead of playing about in the street. A few of the women are standing at their doors, but most of them are inside, too." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But if the men are thinking of attacking us why shouldn't they do so, at once?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There are not above twenty or thirty men here, sahib. They may not think they are strong enough. Perhaps they have sent to some of the villages, for help." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Likely enough, Yossouf; I did not think of that. Do you go up above the village, and have a good look round. I will try and persuade my friends to be moving." } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But as we said before, Gale, Fortescue urged," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps they may think we shall all take a nap, after our tiffin, Will replied;" } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come on, boys, we had better do as Gale tells us." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's right, Will said, cheerfully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And look here, if we get away from here without any disturbance, and find it all right, we can halt again, at the first shady place we come to; and stop there for two or three hours, till it gets cool." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have been thinking it over. We have all got bullets in our pockets, to drop into our guns over the shot, in case of necessity. But these smooth-bore fowling pieces are of no good, except at close quarters; while the Afghan matchlocks will carry straight, a long way. Therefore, if we had to make a running fight of it, we should get the worst of it; for these fellows could keep up with us, easily--besides, there are the servants. Therefore, if a shot is fired, my advice is that we should make a dash at the chief's house. Seize that, and hold it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, that would be a good plan," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look here, Gale, we are all senior to you in the date of our commissions, but you have seen no end of service and adventure; therefore I vote that you shall be commanding officer, until we get back to camp." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hammond, will you tell your servant to get ready for a start, at once. Speak to him quietly and carelessly. Then, as the men move up more towards the ponies, tell them--in Hindustanee--to go about their work quietly but, in case of any trouble with the Afghans, to out with their swords, and join us in a rush at the chief's house." } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Two large parties are coming, master; one down the valley, and the other across the hills. They have got flags with them, and I am sure they are going to attack us." } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ask the sahibs, he said to Yossouf," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have duties at the camp, and must return at once." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It looks as if you were not pleased with the hospitality of our village, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bring up the ponies quickly, he said to Yossouf." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never mind those things, there is not a moment to be lost." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kaffir dogs, he said," } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Will shouted," } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What! Fortescue, are you hit?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am done for! the young officer replied, faintly;" } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be careful! Will exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't show a head above the roof, or at a loophole, or you will get a bullet in your brain, to a certainty. Stand well back, so that they can't see you." } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hammond, you had better go down to Fortescue, at present. One of the Syces can take Yossouf's place on guard over the women, and he can help you. The lad is a good nurse, but I fear there is nothing to be done for the poor fellow." } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have handed his revolver to one of the Syces, and his gun to the other. Your man, Yossouf, has a revolver." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What on earth are we to do now, Gale? Plater asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have been right thus far and, if it hadn't been for you putting us up to make a rush here, we should have been done for, long ago. But we are not much better off; for here we are, cooped up, and the betting is a hundred to one against our being rescued, in time. No one will know where to look for us and, though we may beat them off two or three times, in the end it is likely to go hard with us." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Couldn't we send a messenger, with the news of the fix we are in? Lowther asked;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's what I have been thinking about, ever since I first planned coming here, Will said;" } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've got it!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will get it, if you don't mind, Hammond said, dryly; as a bullet passed through one of the loopholes, and struck the wall an inch or two from Will's head." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But what is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When it gets quite dusk we will call a parley, and tell them we don't want to keep the women here. They are only in our way, and eat up the food; so we will open the door, and let them go." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But what will you do that for, Gale? You were saying, a short time ago, that the women could be kept as hostages." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So they might, Hammond; but it will be more useful to us to let them go. There are seven women here. Six of them shall go out; and with them, in the clothes of the seventh, Yossouf." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Capital! Capital! the others exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you think they will notice him?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, Will said," } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Will said at last," } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How many are there of you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Seven," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are the children to come?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We may take away the babies, but the three boys are to remain behind." } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hurrah! Will shouted," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All safe?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "All safe, except Fortescue--who was killed at the first attack." } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, you four men who brought the powder kegs, carry them inside this fort. We are going to blow it up, to give them a lesson." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is hot work," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is, indeed, the officer answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It would be difficult to withdraw, now, Will said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It would shake the confidence of the men. I think, myself, that we ought to advance, and drive the enemy before us, till we take up some really defensible position; but I doubt if the Afghans would wait for that. In all our history, a British charge against an Indian enemy has always been successful, no matter how great the odds." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is a bad lookout, the captain said, as a shell burst close by him, killing and wounding five or six men." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is quite evident that if we stay where we are we must, in time, be annihilated. Our fellows will stand, no doubt; they are English soldiers, and well officered. But how can one expect the two Indian regiments--with only three or four white officers, each--to remain steady, under such a fire as this, and with these desperate charges of Ghazis upon them?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Steady, men, steady!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your company has done good service, sir, he said to Captain Fletcher;" } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank God that is over, Captain Fletcher said, as he lifted his cap and wiped the perspiration from his forehead;" } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What on earth has become of the cavalry? They have done nothing to cover the retreat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They have ridden on ahead, the captain said, bitterly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! Gale, he exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am glad to see that you are safe, sir, Will answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "This has been a terrible day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It has, indeed, the colonel said, mournfully," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Several, sir, some of them badly hurt." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You had better let the men throw away their knapsacks, and all useless encumbrances, he said to Captain Fletcher." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You will have to march--and perhaps fight--all night; and must husband your strength." } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sahib! the latter whispered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hear people moving below. I think there are thieves in the house." } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you hurt?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thanks to you, I have escaped without hurt, Yossouf; and had it not been for your aid, they would assuredly have made an end of me. My pistol had fallen from my hand as they knocked me down and, on the ground, I could not have defended myself with my sword, for an instant. Once more, Yossouf, I owe my life to you." } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It would have been hard work, sir, Will Gale said to Colonel Ripon, as they rode forward in rear of the fighting brigade," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are men in England who persist in shutting their eyes to the certain consequences of the Russian advance towards the northern frontier of Afghanistan; but the time will come when England will have to rue, bitterly, the infatuation and folly of her rulers. When that day arrives, she will have to make such an effort, to hold her own, as she has never had to do since the days when she stood, alone, in arms against Europe." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hear one of your captains died, last night. That gives you your step, does it not?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, sir." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are the luckiest young dog I ever heard of. You got your commission, within a year of enlisting; and now, by an extraordinary fatality, your regiment is almost annihilated; and you mount up, by death steps, to a captain's rank, nine months after the date of your gazette. In any other regiment in the service, you would have been lucky if you had got three or four steps, by this time." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am fortunate, indeed, sir, Will said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can scarcely believe it, myself." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah Ripon, how are you?" } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is a singularly fine young fellow--young Gale, I mean, Colonel Shepherd said;" } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know anything of him, previous to the time of his enlisting? You told me he joined your regiment, on the day when it arrived at Calcutta. I know nothing of his history, before that. The subject never happened to occur, in conversation; and it was one upon which I naturally should have felt a delicacy in asking any questions--though I have sometimes wondered, in my own mind, how he came to be penniless in Calcutta; as I suppose he must have been, to have enlisted. Did you happen to hear anything about it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, indeed, Colonel Shepherd answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Curiously enough, he was by no means penniless; as he had just received 100 pounds reward, for the services he had rendered in preventing a ship from being captured, by the Malays. I happened to meet its captain on shore, the day I landed; and heard from him the story of the affair--which was as follows, as nearly as I can recollect." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Naturally, he went on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was greatly interested in the story and--expressing a wish to see the young fellow--he was brought off that evening, after mess, to the Euphrates; and told us how he had been wrecked on the island in a Dutch ship, from which only he, and a companion, were saved. I was so struck with his conduct--and, I may say, by his appearance and manner--that I took him aside into my own cabin, and learned from him the full particulars of his story. I don't think anyone else knows it for, when he expressed his willingness to take my advice, and enlist, I told him that he had better say nothing about his past. His manner was so good that I thought he would pass well, as some gentleman's son who had got into a scrape and, as I hoped that the time might come when he might step upwards, it was perhaps better that it should not be known what was his origin." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But what was his origin, Shepherd? I confess you surprise me, for I have always had an idea that he was a man of good family; although in some strange way his education had been neglected for, in fact, he told me one day that he was absolutely ignorant of Latin." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, Ripon, as you are a friend of the young fellow, and I know it will go no further, I will tell you the facts of the case. He was brought up in a workhouse, was apprenticed to a Yarmouth smack man and--the boat being run down in a gale by a Dutch troopship, to which he managed to cling, as the smack sank--he was carried in her to Java. On her voyage thence, to China, he was wrecked on the island I spoke of." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They tell me, he said, with a smile," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Strange, is it not, Colonel Ripon went on, arousing himself," } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, what is the matter, Ripon? Good heavens, are you ill?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How old is he?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But what has that to do with it, my dear old friend? What is the matter with you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I believe, Shepherd, Colonel Ripon said solemnly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Your son!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I believe he is my son." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But how on earth can that be? his friend asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you sure that you know what you are saying? Is your head quite clear, old friend?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "My head is clear enough, the colonel replied," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, indeed, Colonel Shepherd replied, more and more surprised--for he had at first supposed that some sudden access of fever, or delirium, had seized his friend." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You will remember that, a week or two after you were married, my regiment was moved up to the north; and we remained three years longer in India. When I got back to England, I heard that you had lost your wife, a short time before, and had returned. I remember our ships crossed on the way. When we met again, the conversation never turned on the past." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My wife had never been strong and, from that day, she gradually sank. As long as there was hope she kept up, for a time. I hoped all would go well; but three months afterwards she faded rapidly and, ere six months had passed from the loss of the child, I buried her, and came straight out to India. I went home once, for two or three months, upon business connected with my property there, some seven years since. That was when we last met, you know, at the club. With that exception, I have remained here ever since." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The trouble will be, I fear, Colonel Shepherd said," } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Listen, Shepherd! That is his step on the stairs. May God grant that he prove to be my son!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Be calm, old friend, Colonel Shepherd said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will speak to him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am glad you have not gone, colonel--I was afraid you might have left, for I have been longer than I expected. I just heard the news that the 66th are in orders this evening to march, the day after tomorrow, for Kurrachee; to sail for England, where we are to be reorganized, again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Gale, I am going to ask you a rather curious thing. Will you do it, without asking why?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Certainly, colonel, if it is in my power," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will you take off your patrol jacket, open your shirt, and turn it well down at the neck?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My son, my son!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, I will enlist in the Guides. I shall be at home with them, for most of them belong to the Afghan tribes. I am young yet, not fully a man, and I have my life before me. Some day, perhaps, if things are quiet and prosperous at home, I will go back and end my days there." } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your name is Mrs. Dickson, I think?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is Will Gale! she exclaimed, drawing back a step." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They said you were dead, years ago." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I am very much alive, Mrs. Dickson; and glad, most glad, to see an old friend again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good Lord! the woman exclaimed," } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father," } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! And here is Sam!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Sam! Who do you think this is?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If it warn't that he be drowned and dead, long ago, he said, at last," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should say it was Will Gale, growed up and got to be a gentleman. I shouldn't ha' knowed him, at first; but when he smiles, I don't think as how I can be far wrong." } ]

21979

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am a captain, now; and my name is no longer Will Gale, but Tom Ripon, for I have found my real father--this gentleman, Colonel Ripon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who feels, Colonel Ripon went on," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, an' what income have you now?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sometime! how long did she expect to live, I wonder?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To F--s S. O--d," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, Mr. Crewe, I'll thank you to mind your own business," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Notes and Queries" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When found, make a note of." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No Cross no Crown" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Crowns have their Compass" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This Treatise concernynge the fruytful Saynges of David the King and prophete in the seven penytencyall psalmes, devyded in _ten_ sermons, was made and compyled by the ryght reverente fader in god Johan Fyssher, doctour of dyvinyte and bysshop of Rochester, at the exortacion and sterynge of the most excellent pryncesse Margarete, Countesse of Richemount and Derby, and moder to out souverayne Lorde Kynge H[=e]ry the VII." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dieu et mon Droit." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here endeth the exposycyon of the 7 psalmes. Enprynted at London in the fletestrete, at the sygne of ye Sonne, by Wynkyn de Worde. In the yere of oure lorde M.CCCCC.VIII. ye 16 day of ye moneth of Juyn. The XXIII. yere of ye reygne of our souverayne Lorde Kynge H[=e]ry the Seventh." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wynkyn de Worde." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The surest meanes for to attaine The perfect waye to endlesse blisse Are happie lief and to remaine W'thin ye church where virtue is; And if thy conscience be sae sounde To thinse thy faith is truth indeede Beware in thee noe schisme be founde That unitie may have her meede; If unitie thow doe embrace In heaven (_en_?)joy possesse thy place." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Qui non rectè vivit in unitate ecclesiæ Catholicæ, salvus esse non potest." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thomas Morus d[=n]s cancellarius Angliæ Joh. Fisher Epûs Roffensis." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maria, glorious martyr and Queen of Scotland. It is conjectured these books were brought to Douai by the fugitive English Roman Catholic priests. In 1790 their collections were confiscated and given to the public library of Douai. It would be of interest to ascertain, if possible, the authenticity of the _Heures à l'Usage_, stated to have belonged to Mary Queen of Scots. Upon this point one may be permitted to be sceptical. I have myself seen two. One of these, it was said, had been used by Mary on the scaffold, and contained a note in the handwriting, as I think, of James II. attesting the fact. It was understood to have been obtained from a monastery in France. The other, a small Prayer Book MS. in vellum, of good execution, had the signature" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "M. with a line I think over it of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "O Lord, deliver me from my enemies!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Maria, glorious martyr and Queen of Scotland, be written in the Psalter, or has been added by the mental excitement of M. Duthilloeul, the librarian at Douai, I cannot decide. The grand culmination of" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One that is fit to keep a Warehouse, be a Steward, or do any Business that can be supposed an intelligent Man that has been a Shopkeeper is fit for, and can give any Security that can be desired, as far as Ten Thousand Pound goes, and has some Estate of his own, desires an Employment of One hundred Pounds a year, or upwards. I can give an account of him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can give an account of him," } ]

39233

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A very eminent Brewer, and one I know to be a very honest Gentleman, wants an Apprentice. I can give an account of him." } ]

39233

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Many Masters want Apprentices, and many Youths want Masters. If they apply themselves to me, I'll strive to help them. Also for variety of valuable services." } ]

39233

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If any young Man that plays well on a Violin, and writes a good Hand, desires a Clerkship, I can help him to Twenty Pounds a year." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can help him," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Grocer of good business desires an Apprentice of good growth." } ]

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39233

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here's an Equivocator, that could swear in both the scales, against either scale: who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven. Oh, come in, Equivocator" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "in the margin, should be printed" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The word in the MS. is a contraction to that effect: the capital" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "V has a curved stroke across the first line of the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "V, followed by" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Generally the _Dubium_, in alphabetic works of the kind referred to, ranks under some alphabetic word, one or more, as it may happen; but in Em. Sà's work the word _Dubium_ comes under the letter D., and this is meant to be expressed. At p. 49. the footnote should be omitted, as the Vulgate, which is followed, calls the 1st of _Samuel_ the 1st of _Kings_. The first line of p. 56. should have" }, { "from": "human", "value": "instead of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Illum expirantem transfixo pectore flammas Turbine corripuit scopuloque infixit acuto." }, { "from": "human", "value": "TURBINE; volubilitate ventorum. SCOPULO; saxo eminenti." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hub sie im Wirbel empor, und spiesst' an ein scharfes Gestein ihn." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ipsum vero Pallas fulmine percussum procellæ vi scopulo etiam allisit." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Impegit rupi acutæ." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Præterea etiam acuto scopulo _infigendi_ voc. accommodatius videtur quam _infligendi_. And Wagner:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cornua obnixi infigunt," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Saturnius me sic _infixit_ Jupiter, Jovisque numen Mulcibri adscivit manus. Hos ille _cuneos_ fabrica crudeli _inserens_, Perrupit artus; qua miser sollertia Transverberatus, castrum hoc Furiarum incolo." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Plura cum auderet furens, Tridente rupem subruit pulsam pater Neptunus, imis exerens undis caput, Solvitque montem; quem cadens secum tulit: Terraque et igne victus et pelago jacet." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fixusque Capharei Cautibus, inter aquas flammam ructabat Oileus." }, { "from": "human", "value": "the pierced lung;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(_Æn._ XII. 537.);" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Viscera sic aliquis scopulus tua figat, ut olim Fixa sub Euboico Graia fuere sinu," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Præcipitem scopulo atque ingentis turbine saxi Excutit effunditque solo." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stupet obvia leto Turba super stantem, atque emissi turbine montis Obruitur." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Idem altas turres saxis et turbine crebro Laxat." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurled, Each on his rock transfixed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A tale un turbo In preda il diè; che per acuti scogli Miserabil ne fe' rapina, e scempio." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ast ego, quæ Divûm incedo regina, Jovisque Et soror et conjux, una cum gente tot annos Bella gero." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I who walk in awful state above." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Incessus dearum, imprimis Junonis, gravitate sua notus." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Magnifice incedit (Liv. II. 6.);" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Turpe incedere (Catull. XXXXII. 8.);" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Molliter incedit (Ovid, _Amor._ II. 23.);" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Passu incedit inerti (Ovid, _Metam._ II. 772.);" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Melius est incessu regem quam imperium regno claudicare (Justin. VI. ii. 6.);" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Incessus omnibus animalibus certus et uniusmodi, et in suo, cuique, genere" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "but inferable from" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The expression corresponds exactly to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(_Æn._ II. 578.); with this difference only, that" }, { "from": "human", "value": "does not, like" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jovisque et soror et conjux. --Both the _ets_ are emphatic." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jovisque _et_ soror _et_ conjux." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bella" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Verses to General Monck," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pius V. resolved to make his bastard son, Boncompagni, Marquis of Vincola, King of Ireland, &c. For this assertion no authority is cited, nor indeed could be. The very name might have suggested the filiation to his successor, Gregory XIII., which was the fact. In a work, not much known, _The Burnt Child dreads the Fire, &c._, by William Denton, M.D., London, 1675, at p. 25. we read," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gregory XIII. had a bastard, _James Buon Compagna_, and to him he gave _Ireland_, and impowered _Stewkely_ with men, arms, and money, to conquer it for him." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The cross, which does not appear to have been peculiar to Christianity, when introduced on these obelisks, is usually filled with tracery." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the court of one of the temples in the island of Columel he was amazed by the sight of a cross of stone and lime, about ten palms high." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Crosses, or stones on which the figure was traced, marked a place of meeting for certain districts; and within memory of man a fair was held on this spot. It is not improbable that market-crosses may be deduced from this custom." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The crucifix was not known before the fifth or sixth century, though the cross was always the emblem of the Christian faith." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir Bernard succeeded to the paternal inheritance both in England and France, and having married Mary, daughter and heiress of Sir John de Roche, had a large estate with her, and the hereditary post of Master of the Buckhounds; which was confirmed to him by King Edward the Third, and held by the family, till sold in James the First's reign." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cerne coronatam Domini super _atria Christi_, Stare crucem, duro spondentem celsa labori Præmia: _tolle crucem, qui vis auferre coronam_." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "See how the cross of Christ a crown entwines: High o'er God's temple it refulgent shines; Pledging bright guerdon for each passing pain: Take up the cross, if thou the crown would'st gain." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When Dido found Æneas did not come, She wept in silence, and was--di-do-dum." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "SARAH MATTOCKS, Aged 27. Much lamented by her husband, Lieutenant-Colonel JOHN MATTOCKS. Was the grand-daughter of the Great JOHN HAMDEN, Esq., Of St. James's, Westminster." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As she was twenty-seven years old at her death, she must have been born in 1751; it was therefore impossible that she should have been the grand-daughter of the great John Hampden, that died in 1643, one hundred and eight years before her birth." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Auctori Connect.; and on the reverse," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Inde. for _independence_, and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lib. for liberty; date in the exerg., 1781 or 1787; and between" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Inde. and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lib. five stars. Can any of your correspondents tell me if my explanation of the reverse is the correct one? and also who was the" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Walker? Why do people say" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Walker" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hookey Walker, as related by John Bee, Esq., is simply this:--John Walker was an out-door clerk at Longman, Clementi, and Co.'s in Cheapside, where a great number of persons were employed; and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Old Jack, who had a crooked or hooked nose, occupied the post of a spy upon their aberrations, which were manifold. Of course, it was for the interests of the surveillants to throw discredit upon all Jack's reports to the heads of the firm; and numbers could attest that those reports were fabrications, however true. Jack, somehow or other, was constantly outvoted, his evidence superseded, and of course disbelieved; and thus his occupation ceased, but not the fame of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hookey Walker." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The privileges of, and the ancient customs appertaining to, the See of Durham?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rembrandt." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A mistake (says P.) as Rembrandt was not fourteen years of age (he was indeed only eight) in 1614, at which time it is certain the countess was not living." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Being at Strawberry Hill in April, 1773, I saw there a copy of the picture commonly attributed to the old Countess of Desmond; but Mr. Walpole told me that there is sufficient proof that it is a painter's mother, I think Rembrandt's. However, by a letter from Mr. Lort, April 15, 1774, he assures me that on Mr. Pennant's calling at Strawberry Hill to see this picture, he was much chagrined at having a print of it engraved for his book, till Mr. Lort revived him by carrying him to a garret in Devonshire House, where was a picture of this same countess with her name on it, exactly corresponding to his engraved print. I remember a tolerable good old picture of her at Mr. Dicey's, prebendary of Bristol, at Walton in Bucks." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones: Pennant would not have displayed the ignorance which Walpole exhibits in the instance before us. In an inscription, which the latter gives, on a Countess of Desmond buried at Sligo, occurs the following contraction:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Desmoniæ _Noie_ Elizabetha. Walpole says (_Fugitive Pieces_, p. 204.)," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This word I can make no sense of, but _sic originale_; I take it to be redundancy of the carver. It seems to be a repetition of the last three syllables of Desmoniæ!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Historic Doubts" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Voluntate Cæsaris Romani Imperatoris Maximi Domini, Rex. I hope to offer a better solution, which, although not new, has been passed over, I believe, by all subsequent writers. The Rev. George North, in the _Museum Meadianum_, p. 97., gives the following note:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Apud Arabes accepi verbum Karama significare Honoravit, a quo Ucrima, et Ucrim; quo sensu respondet hoc Arabicum Τῷ Σεβαστῷ apud Græcos." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "ὁ τίμιος γάμος ἐστί is" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "ὁ γάμος τίμιος is untranslateable, unless you supply ἐστί, and then it means" }, { "from": "human", "value": "(or, marriage in general, in the abstract)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But ἔστω might be supplied, as it is in Heb. xiii. 4., when it will mean," }, { "from": "human", "value": "and τίμιος ὁ γάμος has just the same meaning, with perhaps this difference, that the emphasis falls more distinctly on τίμιος. The circumstance that the mere assertion that marriage is honourable in all (men or things), true as it is in itself, ill accords with the tenor of the passage of which it forms a part, which is hortatory, not assertive, is a good reason why CEPHAS'S version should be preferred. But when we find afterwards the words καὶ ἡ κοίτη ἀμίαντος, it is impossible to deny this hortatory force to the sentence; for those words cannot mean" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and to translate them" }, { "from": "human", "value": "--which is the only version which they will here bear, but one--would give but a feeble sense. That sole remaining sense is," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "subaudite ἔστω in the verse is," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let marriage be honourable in all (men or things)," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Had our translators known that ἡ κοίτη ἀμίαντος could not mean" }, { "from": "human", "value": "they would at once have been driven to see that the verse is a commandment: and the commandment that marriage should be held honourable in all men (or in all respects), would have served the purpose of their doctrines quite as well as the affirmative form which they have given to their present version. I say, it would have served their purpose; but I say more: they heeded not what did or would serve their purpose. They looked only for the truth and disregarded all else in their pursuit of it. With regard to the controversy about ἐν πᾶσι, it is immaterial which version be adopted. MR. WALTER is right in the rule which he enunciates, if he means that in those cases of adjectives in which the masculine and neuter forms are the same," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "or" }, { "from": "human", "value": "not" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "or" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Crowns have their Compass," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Crownes have their compasse, length of dayes their date, Triumphes their tombes, felicitie her fate; Of more than earth can earth make none partaker, But knowledge makes the king most like his Maker." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Crowns have their compass--length of days their date-- Triumphs their tomb--felicity, her fate-- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "into" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "read" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Administrations of England, and the Judges of the Ecclesiastical Courts" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "NOTES AND QUERIES," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--Cozens the Painter--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Acu tinali meridi --Nightingale and Thorn, &c.--Theodolite--Temple of Ægina--Ashen Fagots--Cause of Transparency--Praed's Charade--Marriages in ruined Churches--Age of Trees--Joceline's Legacy--St. Bene't Fink--Bristol Tables--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "A little Bird told me" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "FERMILODUM read" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "FERMILODVNI; p. 394. col. 1. l. 34. for" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Danish read" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dutch; p. 395. col. 1. l. 19. for" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dunfe_r_line read" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dunfermline." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THUCYDIDES OR GROTE?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Editor of NOTES AND QUERIES." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Proposals for Christian Union." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are written in the same attractive and popular style." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Show great research on the part of the Author into the early history of the Principality. We can recommend this little work to all those who are curious in these matters." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Booke that ys cleped the Mirrour of the Blissed Liffe of Jhesu Criste," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Webster's English Dictionary;" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The neatest and most comprehensive collection of Scottish minstrelsy, ancient and modern." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Book of Scottish Song." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A rich and valuable collection--accompanied by critical and bibliographical illustrations which add largely to the interest of the volume." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Notes and Queries" } ]