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APPEAL. The words " error excepted "or " errors and omissions excepted " (contracted to " E.E." " E. & O.E."), are frequently placed at the end of a statement of account or an invoice, so that the accounting party may reserve the right to correct any errors or ...

... with Prussia of 1867 the Anhalt troops form a contingent of the Prussian army. Appeal from the lower courts of the duchy lie* to the appeal court at Naumburg in ian Saxony. History.— During the 1 1 th century the greater part of Anhalt was included in the duc ...

... , Dionysus Bassareus and other examples seem to show that the god may have been appealed to for help and thus become associated with the animals from whom he protected the crops, &c. (x.) The use of animals in magic may sometimes give rise to a kind of respect ...

... th of June. He is regarded as the patron saint of Padua and of Portugal, and is appealed to by devout clients for finding lost objects. The meagre accounts of his life which we possess have been supplemented by numerous popular legends, which represent him as ...

... beral bourgeoisie and partly because Christian Socialism, with its anti-Semitic appeal to ignorant prejudice, was likely to weaken the hold of the Social Democrats on the lower classes. The Lutheran clergy followed suit, in order to prevent the Roman Catholics ...

... the battle you tremble." Antithesis is sometimes double or alternate, as in the appeal of Augustus: — " Listen, young men, to an old man to whom old men were glad to listen when he was young." The force of the antithesis is increased if the words on which the ...

... been put in possession of his lands, and who procured a fresh trial; but Antrim appealed to the king, and through the influence of the queen mother obtained a pardon, his estates being restored to him by the Irish Act of Explanation in i66$.2 Antrim died on th ...

... ations and hymns, he is rarely introduced as an active force to whom a personal appeal can be made. His name becomes little more than a synonym for the heavens in general and even his title as king ANUBIS— ANVILLE '57 or father of the gods has little of the pe ...

... ramme of "succouring distressed faith," imply the latter alternative; the moral appeal of Christianity, primary and essential; its confirmation by argument, secondary. The view has its difficulties; but it is highly suggestive. The word dToXo-yla is used by Or ...

... in Paul's case be proved so fully as in the case of the original apostles — but appealing to the " signs of an apostle " (i Cor. ix. 2; 2 Cor. xii. 1 2), the tokens of spiritual gift visible in work done, and particularly in the planting of the Gospel in fresh ...

... ich, along with Acts, it may owe something of its very conception as a reasoned appeal to the lover of truth. But while literary in form and conception, its appeal is in spirit so personal a testimony to what the Gospel has done for the writer and his fellow C ...

... men have been erroneously supposed to become gods. The Euhemerist theory mainly appeals to ancestor worship — a fact of undoubted importance in the history of religion, especially in China and in ancient Rome. In India, too, a dead person treated with funeral ...

... proclaimed himself the champion of the old Roman gods, and as a response to the appeal of Ambrose, is said to have threatened to stable his horses in the cathedral of Milan, and to force the monks to fight in his army. His defeat in the hardfought battle of th ...

... t of deprivation, however, being reserved to the pope; (4) to act as a court of appeal from the diocesan courts; (5) to exercise the jus devolulionis, i.e. present to benefices in the gift of bishops, if these neglect their duty in this respect. These rights w ...

... erde's famous lament of the deserted Ariadne is one of many early examples that appeal to an elementary sense of form by making the last phrase identical with the first. As instrumental music grew, and the modern sense of key became strong and consistent, comp ...

... dity may prove a snare to those who trust to it alone, and scornfully refuse to appeal to the imagination or the feelings. It is to be feared that, but for his connexion with Pascal, Arnauld's name would be almost forgotten — or, at most, live only in the famo ...

... ay in restoring official papers and condemned to three months' imprisonment. On appeal the sentence was increased to nine months. Arnim avoided imprisonment by leaving the country, and in 1875 published anonymously at Zurich a pamphlet entitled " Pro nihilo," ...

... 854 by P. A. Hansen's announcement of its incompatibility with lunar theory. An appeal then lay to the iqth century pair of transits in 1874 and 1882; but no peremptory decision ensued ; observations were marred by the same optical evils as before. Their upsho ...

... n the monks; this reminded them of earlier Saracenic invasions, and led them to appeal for protection to Pope Innocent III., who gave them a favourable reply. Under the Palaeologi (1260-1453) they recovered their prosperity, and were enriched by gifts from var ...

... n for which he undertook to guard Jem in such a way as to prevent his design of appealing to the Christian powers to aid him against his brother. For six years Jem, in spite of frequent efforts to escape, was kept a close prisoner in various castles of the Rho ...

... g actions. In Spain, audiencia is the name given to certain tribunals which try appeals from minor courts. The Spanish judges were originally known as oidores, hearers, from the Spanish oir, to hear; but they are now called ministros, or magistrados togados, r ...

... ieste, Innsbruck, Zara, Prague, Briinn, Cracow and Lemberg; these are courts of appeal from the lower courts, and have the supervision of the criminal courts in their jurisdiction; (4) the supreme court of justice and court of cassation in Vienna. The judicial ...

... at Harvard College in August 1837, on " The American Scholar," was an eloquent appeal for independence, sincerity, realism, in the intellectual life of America. His address before the graduating class of the divinity school at Cambridge, in 1838, was an impas ...

... mself wholly to his cause. Besides contributing to the Globe newspaper, he made appeals to the people by systematic preaching, and organized centres of action in some of the principal cities of France. The headquarters in Paris were removed from the modest roo ...

... dressed the jury strongly against the accused. Rusby was heavily fined, but, on appeal, the court was equally divided as to whether engrossing, forestalling and regrating were still offences at common law. In 1844, all the statutes, English, Irish and Scottish ...

... erned. In fact, it increased the burden of the luckless provincials, whose only appeal lay to a body of men whose interests were identical with those of the publicani. Provided he left the tax-gatherer alone, the governor might squeeze what he could out of the ...

... d was in prefaces — not philological introductions to each author, but spirited appeals to the interest of the general reader, showing how an ancient book might be made to minister to modern spiritual demands. Of Erasmus's works the Greek Testament is the most ...

... d be reversed on the ground of error, known as a " writ of error," see WRIT and APPEAL. The words " error excepted "or " errors and omissions excepted " (contracted to " E.E." " E. & O.E."), are frequently placed at the end of a statement of account or an invo ...

... ew grounds of accusation, and he was compelled to shield himself from rebuke by appealing to the general assembly. Here, however, the sentence of the synod was confirmed, and after many fruitless attempts to obtain a hearing, he, along with William Wilson of P ...

... . He was imprisoned and sent for trial with other conspirators. But as they had appealed to Napoleon, who would not suffer his name to be mentioned, the government had to allow the matter to be hushed up, and the prisoners were acquitted. After the outbreak at ...

... r the Liberal candidate. As this vote was given after four o'clock, however, an appeal was lodged, and the House of Commons allowed both members to take their seats. Brett rapidly made his mark in the House, and in 1868 he was appointed solicitor-general. On b ...

... ere of eight days, the first being market day and the day when the people could appeal to the king, and the months were lunar. 1 Monumenti dell' Inst. Arch. Rom. x. pi. 31; Museo Etrusco Vaticano, i. pi. 63-69; cf. Annali dell'Inst. Arch., 1896, p. 199 ff. 2 V ...

... of their master formed a solemn and 1 Dm Evangelium Marci, p. 121. intelligible appeal. It belongs to the same order of ideas that the headship of the Messianic ecclesia in Judea was assigned after the death of Jesus to his eldest brother James, and after him ...

... e crusading movement, which received its first impetus from Pope Urban II., who appealed to Europe at the council of Clermont in 1095 to recover the Holy Places from the Turks. During the nth century the Eastern Empire was attacked by the Russians, the Normans ...

... beth Hearing on Incense (q.v.). The parties concerned were three clergymen, who appealed from the direction of their respective diocesans, the bishops of St Albans and Peterborough and the archbishop of York: in the two former cases the archbishop (Temple) of ...

... nd himself. His oration was a tremendous arraignment of war, and an impassioned appeal for freedom and for peace, and proved him an orator of the first rank. He immediately became one of the most eagerly sought orators for the lyceum and college platform. His ...

... imamate and issues judgments in points of faith and law from which there is no appeal; but the norr.ination must fall on one of the mollahs? who form the upper stratum of the hierarchy of ulema. And, though the various places of religious dignity are conferre ...

... of wires according to any preconcerted system of signals." 1881. The company's appeal against the decision was withdrawn, the Postmaster-General agreeing to grant licences for restricted areas of about 5 m. in London and about 2 m. in the provinces. The licen ...

... six years, with civil jurisdiction only, largely appellate; a court of criminal appeals, of three members, elected for six years, with appellate jurisdiction in criminal cases; courts of civil appeals (number determined by the legislature) of three members eac ...

... heater. Wien, 2 vols. quarto, by Josef Bayer (1894). (E. O. S.) "SPECTACLE" The appeal to the eye has been the essential feature of dramatic production in its many stages of development from the earliest times of the miracle plays and " moralities," mummers an ...