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ARNE, THOMAS AUGUSTINE (1710-1778), English musical composer, was born in London on the izth of March 1710, his father being an upholsterer. Intended for the legal profession, he was educated at Eton, and afterwards apprenticed to an attorney for three years. ...

ARNETH. ALFRED. RITTER VON (1810-1807), Austrian historian, born at Vienna on the loth of July 1819, was the son of Joseph Calasanza von Arneth (1791-1863), a well-known historian and archaeologist, who wrote a history of the Austrian empire (Vienna, 1827) and ...

... nly converted to its present use in 1830. Its grotesque external ornamentation earned for it the name of Duivelshuis, or devil's house. The provincial government house occupies the site of the former palace of the dukes of Gelderland. Other buildings are the c ...

... aine and Champagne, and forming part of the departments of Ardennes, Meuse and Marne. The Argonne stretches from S.S.E. to N.N.W., a distance of 63 m. with an average breadth of 19 m., and an average height of 1150 ft. It forms the connecting-link between the ...

ARNO, ARN or AQUILA (c. 750-821), bishop and afterwards archbishop of Salzburg, entered the church at an early age, and after passing some time at Freising became abbot of Elnon, or St Amand as it was afterwards called, where he made the acquaintance of Alcuin

ARACHNE. in Greek mythology, the daughter of Idmon of Colophon in Lydia, a dyer in purple. She had acquired such skill in the art of weaving that she ventured to challenge Athena. While the goddess took as subjects her quarrel with Poseidon as to the naming an

... he bay a few miles south of the Koladaing. Farther to the south, owing to the nearness of the range which bounds Arakan on the east, the rivers are of but little importance. These are the Talak and the Aeng, navigable by boats; and the Sandoway, -the Taungup a ...

... tion, with notes by MarErite Hutchinson, of Filippo Pigafetta's Relatione del Rearne di >ngo (Rome, 1591), a book founded on the statements and writings of Duarte Lopez; Rev. Thos. Lewis, " The Ancient Kingdom of Kongo " in Geographical Journal, vol. xix. and ...

... has a Iyc6e, training-colleges, a school of artillery, a library and several learned societies. It is a centre of the paper-making industry, with which the town has been connected since the i-jth century. Most of the mills are situated on the banks of the wat ...

... eague against James III. and his favourite Robert Cochranc at Lauder, where he earned his nickname by offering to bell the cat, i.e. to deal with the latter, beginning the attack upon him by pulling his gold chain off his neck and causing him with others of th ...

... se Fose, an apothecary's daughter of Dessau, in spite of his mother's long and earnest opposition, and subsequently he procured for her the rank of a princess from the emperor (1701). Their married life was long and happy, and the princess acquired an influenc ...

... the east Cushendun, Cushendall and Milltown on Red Bay, Cam Lough and Glcnarm, Larne, and Whitehead on Belfast Lough. All are somewhat exposed to the easterly winds prevalent in spring. The only island of size is Rathlin. off Ballycastle, 6} m. in length by ij ...

... ury B.C. With his brother Tauriscus, he executed the marble group known as the Farnese Bull, representing Zethus and Amphion tying the revengeful Dirce to the tail of a wild bull. See GREEK ART, pi. i. fig. 51.

... ere fiction which Philostratus accumulated, we have left a highly imaginative, earnest reformer who laboured to infuse into the flaccid dialectic of paganism a saner spirit of practical morality. See L. Dyer, Studies of the Cods in Greece (New York, 1891); A. ...

... e converts, the church, so lately a victim and a pleader for liberty, readily learned to persecute. Under such conditions there is little scope for apologetics. Force kills argument and drives doubt below the smooth surface of a nominal conformity. But there w ...

... eir limitations, the anonymous homilist and Hennas are marked by intense moral earnestness, while the writer to Diognetus joins to this a profound religious insight. These personal traits determine by selective affinity, working under conditions given by the s ...

... the severe displeasure of his patron. He afterwards retired to Crete, where he earned a scanty living by teaching and by copying manuscripts. Many of his copies are still to be found in the libraries of Europe. One of them, the Icones of Philostratus at Bologn ...

... endered unhealthy by rice-fields. See T. W. Jadcson, Dalmalia, Istria and the Quarnero (Oxford, 1887), iii. 377 seq.; H. Maionica, Aquileia zur Romerzeit (Gorz, 1881), Fundkarte von Aquileia (Gorz, 1893), " Inschriften in Grado " (Roman inscriptions removed th ...

... e British fleet bombarded the forts (nth July), and a British force, under Sir Garnet Wolseley, defeated Arabi on the i ?th of September at Tel-el-Kebir. Arabi fled to Cairo where he surrendered, and was tried (3rd of December) for rebellion. In accordance wit ...

... es noms proprei dans la langue franque a I'tpoque mfrtmngienne; and in 1877 a learned work upon Les Premiers Habitants de I' Europe (2nd edition in 2 vols. 1889 and 1894). Next he concentrated his efforts upon the field of Celtic languages, literature and law, ...

... ter his death, in 1691, John went to London, where he lived in the house of a learned linen-draper, William Pate, and supported himself by teaching mathematics. In 1692 he published Of the Laws of Chance . . . , based on the Latin version, De Ratociniis in lud ...

... eague against James III. and his favourite Robert Cochranc at Lauder, where he earned his nickname by offering to bell the cat, i.e. to deal with the latter, beginning the attack upon him by pulling his gold chain off his neck and causing him with others of th ...

... left bank of the Aube, 23 m. N. of Troyes on the Eastern railway to Chalonssur-Marne. Pop. (1906) 2803. Fires in 1719, 1727 and 1814 destroyed the ancient buildings, and it is now a town built in modern style with wide and regular streets. A' chateau of the i8 ...

... nd Roxburgh, to London; but he refused to be won over, openly and courageously warned Charles against his despotic ecclesiastical policy, and showed great hostility towards Laud. In consequence a secret commission was given to the earl of Antrim to invade Argy ...

... ) in the archonship of Theophilus (348-347) he departed to Hermias, tyrant of Atarneus, and, after three years' stay, during the archonship of Eubulus (345-344) he moved to Mitylene, whence he went to Philip of Macedon in the archonship of Pythodotu* (343-342) ...

... d later by the Pythagoreans, Lamprus of Erythrae and Xenophilus, from whom he learned the theory of music. Finally he studied under Aristotle at Athens, and was deeply annoyed, it is said, when Theophrastus was appointed head of the school on Aristotle's death ...

... ntific views as to the origin of species, there was much discussion among the learned, and many ingenious and curious theories were advanced, as to the number of the animals and the space necessary for their reception, with elaborate calculations as to the sub ...

... eace, the university of Bonn was founded in 1818, Arndt was appointed to ARNDT— ARNE the chair of modern history. In this year appeared the fourth part of his Geisi der Zeit, in which he criticized the reactionary policy of the German powers. The boldness of h ...

... e first towards literature. From the earlier writings of Goethe and Herder he learned to appreciate the beauties of German traditional legends and folk-songs; and, forming a collection of these, published the result (18061808), in collaboration with Klcmcns Br ...

... y reckon him as king, with a reign of seven months), until Artaxerxes, having learned the truth about the murder of his father and his brother, overwhelmed and killed Artabanus and his sons in open fight. 3. A satrap of Bactria, who revolted against Artaxerxes ...

... from Athens sent probably by Cleisthenes (^.r.) in 507 B.C., and subsequently warned the Athenians to receive back the " tyrant " Hippias. Subsequently he took an important part in suppressing the Ionian revolt (see IONIA, ARISTAGORAS, HiSTiAEt;s),and after t ...

... st. He deposed or lulled many Greek dynasts, among them the famous Hcrmios of Atarneus, the protector of Aristotle, who had friendly relations with Philip (342 B.C.). When Philip attacked Pcrinthus and Byzantium (340), Artaxerxes sent them support, by which th ...

... ging the mask or image of a vegetation-divinity on a tree to obtain fertility (Farnell, Cults of the Greek Slates, ii. p. 429; cf. the "swing" festival (aioipa) of the Greeks, and the oscilla of the Romans). The functions of the goddess extended from the veget ...

... tending the king at York. He died on the 7th of November 1639. Arundell was an earnest Roman Catholic, but the suspicions of the government as to his loyalty were probably unfounded and stifled a career destined by nature for successful adventure. He married ( ...

... . Thus he explains the Yajna (sacrificial cult) as " the entertainment of the learned in proportion to their worth, the business of manufacture, the experiment and application of chemistry, physics and the arts of peace; the instruction of the people, the puri ...

... nown at this period, nor does there seem to be room for such a person " (W. E. Barnes, Cambridge Bible, Chronicles, p. xxxi.). The identification with Osorkon I. or II. is scarcely tenable considering Asa's weakness; but inroads by desert hordes frequently tro ...

... s is mostly an amphibole. It is in some cases associated with nodules of green garnet known as " seeds " — Sememe dell' amianlo. Asbestos is widely distributed, but only in a few localities does it occur in sufficient abundance and purity to be worked commerci ...

... sed a large area, mostly on horseback. The greatest testimony to the work that earned for him the title of the " Father of American Methodism " was the growth of the denomination from a few scattered bands of about 300 converts and 4 preachers in 1771, to a th ...

... y remarkable, and, with the noble Roman theatre, the finest in the world, have earned for the place (as is the case with certain other great monuments) a legendary connexion with Solomon's Sheban queen. On the summit of the hillock, surrounded by a wall with t ...

... th and even i?th centuries; while small ones were in use among travellers and learned men, not only for astronomical, but for astrological and topographical purposes. Nearly every one of the modern instruments used for the observations of physical astronomy is ...