Laurel Hill and Later : The Record of a Teacher (Signed By author)
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The story of a teacher who was a professor of history and English and became Dean of Newcomb Women's College in New Orleans. After he retired to Laurel Hill in 1938, he wrote this book and The Unhurried Years: Memories of the Old Natchez Region (1948) of history and memoirs.
Legenda Aurea Légende Dorée Golden Legend: A Study of Caxton's Golden Legend With Special Reference to Its Relations to the Earlier English Prose ... Studies of the Johns Hopkins University fo
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Excerpt from Legenda Aurea Légende Dorée Golden Legend: A Study of Caxton's Golden Legend With Special Reference to Its Relations to the Earlier English Prose Translation; A Dissertation Presented to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
But the very limited time devoted to the question of Jacobus's sources does not entitle me to ofl'er opinions. I Shall merely state that while his book was confessedly a compilation, he used his sources with considerable judgment and care.
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Axel and Valborg: A Tragedy in Five Acts: And Other Poems. Translated from the Danish of Adam Oehlenschläger. With a Memoir of the Translator
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What Became Of The Slaves On A Georgia Plantation?: Great Auction Sale Of Slaves, At Savannah, Georgia, March 2d & 3d, 1859. A Sequel To Mrs. Kemble's Journal
An Index for G.I. Gurdjieff s All and Everything First Series: Beelzebub s Tales to His Grandson
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This chapbook is a 36 page Index prepared by professional indexer, Pierce Butler. Professor Butler has studied and practiced the Gurdjieff Teaching for over 30 years. In creating the index for Gurdjieff's 1,238 page book, he draws upon 40 years' experience as a professional indexer. The index works with the Penguin/Arkana single-volume paperback edition of Beelzebub s Tales to His Grandson (1999) which was based on the original 1950 Harcourt, Brace text (with typographical corrections and the addition of two missing paragraphs). It can also be used with the Two Rivers Press edition of 1993 (a facsimile reproduction of the original 1950 edition) with allowance for minor discrepancies in the page references for Chapter 32, "Hypnotism," in Book II (pp. 558-578) on account of the missing paragraphs on page 568.
Many, if not most, of the non-English words used in Tales, are included on the grounds that this communicates the flavor (if not the sense) of the text. There are a number of summary entries (Transformation of cosmic substances; Vibrations) that draw together various thematically related parts of the text in their lists of sub-entries.
The Index is of primary interest to students of The Fourth Way who have read and studied or are concurrently reading G.I. Gurdjieff s Beelzebub s Tales to His Grandson.
What Became Of The Slaves On A Georgia Plantation?: Great Auction Sale Of Slaves, At Savannah, Georgia, March 2d & 3d, 1859. A Sequel To Mrs. Kemble's Journal
Pierce Butler was an American lawyer and justice of the United States Supreme Court. He served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1923 until his death in 1939.
Background
Pierce Butler was born on March 17, 1866 in a log farmhouse near Northfield, Minnesota, the fourth son and sixth of eight children of Patrick and Mary (Gaffney) Butler. His parents were pioneer farmers of very modest circumstances who had emigrated from County Wicklow, Ireland.
Education
At Carleton College, only five miles away, the bright and industrious lad gained a good preparatory and college education. Graduating in 1887, Pierce went to St. Paul, read law, and in 1888 was admitted to the bar.
Career
Pierce Butler was appointed assistant county attorney in 1891 and in 1893 and 1895 was elected county attorney. This was his only tenure of an elective office, although in 1906 he was narrowly defeated for the state senate.
In 1897 Butler began general legal practice in a firm which, through successive changes, became Butler, Mitchell and Doherty - one of the great law offices of the Northwest.
In Near vs. Minnesota, where the Court struck down a previous restraint on newspaper publication; in Stromberg vs. California, where it invalidated a law forbidding the display of a red flag; in Powell vs. Alabama - the first "Scottsboro Case"--where the Court found a denial of the right to counsel; in Missouri ex. rel. Gaines vs. Canada, requiring that a state in its own schools provide for the Negro whatever it provided for the white--in all these cases Justice Butler found reason to dissent. He was, however, with Holmes, Brandeis, and Stone dissenting when the Court refused to hold wire-tapping an "unreasonable search".
His inclination was toward protecting the accused--not least in prosecutions under the federal prohibition laws. When the depression came, and then the "New Deal, " Justice Butler stood firm against the entire course of government. In his last three terms he dissented in seventy-three cases--more than half of the total dissents of his sixteen years of service. Illness, diagnosed as a bladder ailment, prevented his attending the Court's October term in 1939.
He died next month in Washington and was buried at St. Paul, in Calvary Cemetery.
It was implicit in all the remarks on that kindly occasion that the America for which this powerful man had stood had, indeed, passed forever.
Also against his confirmation were labor activists, some liberal magazines (The New Republic and The Nation) and the Ku Klux Klan because he was Catholic. However, with the support of prominent Roman Catholics, fellow lawyers (the Minnesota State Bar Association strongly endorsed him), and business groups (especially railroad companies), as well as Minnesota's other senator Knute Nelson, Butler was confirmed on December 21, 1922, by a margin of 61 to 8.
Politics
When in 1922 President Harding considered the third of the four vacancies on the Supreme Court that fell to his lot to fill, Butler was one of two persons urged by Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who pointed out that Butler was a Democrat (the Court then having seven Republicans), a Catholic, and a self-made man. The nomination was made, and though it encountered opposition from organized labor and from progressive Senators like George W. Norris and Robert M. La Follette, it was easily confirmed.
Views
Tough-minded and unshakable in his convictions, he was always ready for intellectual battle.
To characterize Justice Butler's work on the Supreme Court calls for no subtle refinements. He was, in Justice Holmes's phrase, a "monolith. " As to problems of public control of business, that meant the striking down of minimum wage legislation, of limitations on the charges of employment agencies, and of an attempt to stabilize business by subjecting newcomers to the test of convenience and necessity.
Indeed, municipal zoning--now so familiar and accepted--was sustained only over Butler's dissent; and he dissented alone where the Court sustained the principle of compulsory sterilization of mental defectives. As to the regulation of rates charged by carriers and utilities, the group stood for strict judicial supervision of the administrative process, to insure, among other points, that the cost of reproduction (rather than prudent investment) be taken as the base on which an adequate return must be allowed. Justice Butler was not quick of heart when the claim of right came from a quarter with which he was out of sympathy.
Butler was a strict constitutional constructionist, voting with the conservative bloc of justices Willis Van Devanter, James C. McReynolds, and George Sutherland on many issues. He opposed government control of business, consistently voted against the imposition of state and federal taxes, and joined with the court’s majority in voting down two important New Deal programs, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the National Recovery Administration.
Membership
Pierce Butler was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. He was also a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association.
Personality
Butler was a dominating figure in a court of law; strong mind in strong body, directness and candor, Irish wit, and extraordinary command of facts gave him power with juries and with judges.
Connections
His marriage to Annie M. Cronin in 1891 brought forty-eight years of devoted family life and eight children, Pierce, Mary, William, Margaret, Leo, Francis, Ann, and Kevin.