Fictitious Silver
No. I: Silver, I oz.; nickel, I oz., II dwts.; copper, 2 oz. 9 dwts.; No. 2, silver 3 oz.; nickel, I oz. II dwts.; copper, 2 oz 9 dwts.; spelter 10 dwts.
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Single-source entries: F (18)
Each of these 8 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
Ficus
in botany, genus a Moraceæ; flowers unisexual, the males and females mixed indiscriminately on the inner side of a concave fleshy receptacle, the upper margin of which constitutes a narrow aperture. Flowers separated from each other by soft, colorless, bristle-like bracts or scales. The genus is a very large one, about 600 species being already known. They occur in all the hotter parts of the world.
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Fidius
An ancient form of filius, occurs in the connection of Dius Fidius, or Medius Fidius, that is me Dius filius, or the son of Jupiter , that is Hercules . Hence the expression medius fidius is equivalent to me Hercules scil. juvet. Sometimes fidius is used alone. Some of the ancients connected fidius with fides. Flaccus, Fulvius. The name of two distinguished families in the Fulvia and Valeria gentes.
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Field, Cyrus
Cyrus (1819-1892), the American promoter of the Atlantic cable . He was a native of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Having acquired wealth as a New York Merchant, he turned his attention to the project of laying an Atlantic cable. He obtained a charter, giving him the exclusive right to land on the coast of New-foundland for a period of fifteen years. An account of his attempts, discouragements, and final success may be found under CABLE.
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Field, Marshall
Marshall (1836-1906), an American merchant. He was born in Conway, Massachusetts. He had experience as clerk in a dry goods store at Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He came to Chicago as a clerk when the city had 50,000 people. In 1865 he organized a new retail dry goods store, which in 1881 took the name of Marshall Field and Company. Mr. field was very successful as a business man. He made it a rule never to borrow money, never to give his note. His house lost in the Chicago fire of 1871 but was rebuilt at once. The new retail store of the firm occupies an entire square, and is twelve stories high. During his lifetime, Mr.Field gave the city a million dollars for the Columbian Museum. He gave the University of Chicago land and other property valued at half a million. Such money as could be spared from his dry goods business, Mr. Field invested in real estate , United States Steel, Chicago & Northwestern Railway, Pullman Car stock, etc. In point of wealth, he was the third richest American. He was surpassed only by Rockefeller and Carnegie. At his death he left an estate valued at from $120,000,000 to $200,000,000, the greater part of which passed to a grandchild, still a schoolboy.
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Fielding
WILLIAM STEVENS, a Canadian statesman. He was born'at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1848, where he was educated, and where he was for 20 years connected with the Halifax "Morning Journal." Since 1882 he has represented Halifax, first in the Pro vincial Legislature, becoming Prime Minister in 1884 and resigning in 1896 to become Minister of Finance in the Cabinet of Sir Wilfred Laurier. He represented Canada in London in 1902 and at the negotiation of the Franco-Canadian Commercial Treaty, Paris, 1907-1909. He was a member of the commission on Canada-West India trade, 1909-1910, and helped to negotiate the Reciprocity Agreement with the United States in 1911. Since 1917 has represented Shelburne and Queen's in the Dominion Parliament.
HENRY, novelist; born in Sharpham Park, Somersetshire, April 22, 1707. After only moderate success as a playwright and lawyer he wrote "The Adventures of Joseph Andrews" (1742), to burlesque Richardson's "Pamela"; it grew in his hands into a strong novel of a new type, and his career and fame were determined. His masterpiece is "Tom Jones; or the History of a Foundling" (1749). His last novel, "Amelia" (1752), is characteristic of his sentiments rather than of his genius. He died in Lisbon, Oct. 8, 1754.
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Fielding, Henry
Henry (1707-1754), an English novelist. He is the literary aftercomer, but not follower of Richardson. He was educated at Leyden for the law, but betook himself to a roistering life and to the writing of comedies. He inherited money and an estate, but wasted both in riotous living. He sneered at Richardson's ideals of virtue as hypocritical. He wrote Joseph Andrews as a caricature on Pamela and Amelia as a substitute for Clarissa. Parson Adams in the latter is a noble character, neither spoiled nor soured by poverty. Tom Jones is a vigorous novel valued for the picture it gives of the active young man of England, and the state of society in which he moved. Like Richardson, Fielding is to be read for a view of society in his day, not for pure pleasure, as Scott's Ivanhoe is read. QUOTATIONS. This story will not go down. Penny saved is a penny got. Enough is equal to a feast. Much may be said on both sides. I am as sober as a judge. Fielding writes with his eye sharply fixed on the world. The most of his characters seem alive and vigorous. Except in the cases of Tom Jones and Captain Booth, who are Fielding himself, Fielding appears to be listening with considerable curiosity to the conversations of his characters, and wondering what they will do next.
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Fields
JAMES THOMAS, an American publisher and author; born in Portsmouth, N. H., Dec. 31, 1817. The various publishing firms of which he was partner, with Ticknor, Osgood, and others, were of the first rank. He edited the "Atlantic Monthly" in 1862-1870; and was an acceptable lecturer on literary subjects and authors. He published: "Poems" (1849); "Yesterdays with Authors" (1872); "Hawthorne" (1875); "In and Out of Doors with Dickens" (1876); "Underbrush" (1881), essays; "Ballads and Other Verses" (1881); and (with h Edwin P. Whipple) edited "The Family Library of British Poetry" (1878). He died in Boston, Mass., April 24, 1881.
ANNIE (ADAMS), an American poet and essayist, wife of James T. Fields; born in Boston, Mass., in 1834 became a leader charity organization and work. She published: "Under the Olive," poems (1881); "Biography of James T. Fields" (1884); "How to Help the Poor" (1885); "The Singing Shepherd"; "Authors and Their Friends"; "A Shelf of Old Books" (1896); "Life 66 and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe" (1897); "Charles Dudley Warner" (1904 (1904 ). She died in 1915. 191
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