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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 ...

ARNOLD, known as " ARNOLD OF BRESCIA " (d. 1155), one of the most ardent adversaries of the temporal power of the popes. He belonged to a family of importance, if not noble, and was born probably at Brescia, in Italy, towards the end of the nth century. He dis ...

ARNOBIUS (called Afer, and sometimes " the Elder "), early Christian writer, was a teacher of rhetoric at Sicca Venerea in proconsular Africa during the reign of Diocletian. His conversion to Christianity is said by Jerome to have been occasioned by a dream; a ...

TARNOW, a town in Galicia, Austria, 164 m. W.N.W. of Lemberg by rail. Pop. (1900) 31,691, about 40 per cent. Jews. It is situated on the river Biala, not far from its junction with the Dunajec, and is the seat of a Roman Catholic bishop. It possesses a cathedr ...

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.

... the I7th, and Croft, Boyce, James Kent, James Nares. Benjamin Cooke, and Samuel Arnold in the iSth were famous composers of anthems, and in more recent times the names are too numerous to mention.

... erman anti-Semitic Union that anarchical outrages like the murder of President Carnot were as much due to the " Anarchismus von oben " as the " Anarchismus von unten," the Ultramontane Germania publicly washed its hands of the Jew-baiters (ist of July 1894). T ...

... ristianity which seeks to extricate the " spiritual " from the" supernatural " (Arnold Toynbee, characterizing T.H. Green). It would only lead to confusion, however, if we called this method " apologetic." Any single effort in apologetics may be termed " an ap ...

... onite sometimes contain small amounts of strontium or lead. A variety known as tarnowitzite, from Tarnowitz in Silesia, contains about 5 % of lead carbonate. Aragonite is the more unstable of the two modifications of calcium carbonate. A crystal of aragonite w ...

... OS garden in Great Britain, which was founded in 1632. In the United States the Arnold Arboretum at Boston ranks with Kew for size and completeness. It takes its name from its donor, the friend of Emerson. It was originally a well-timbered park, which, by late ...

... s sway extended originally over the entire Argolis peninsula, the land east of Parnon, Cythera, Aegina and Sicyon. Under King Pheidon the Argive empire embraced all eastern Peloponnesus, and its influence spread even to the western districts. This supremacy wa ...

... je-au's Oord, which was bought by the crown in 1881. History. — 'Arnhem, called Arnoldi Villa in the middle ages, is, according to some, the Arenacum of the Romans, and is first mentioned in a document in 893. In 1233 Otto II., count of Gelderland, chose this ...

... 6th of January 1781. He studied natural science at Halle and ARNIM-BOYTZENBURG— ARNO Gottingcn, and published one or two essays on scientific subjects; but his bent was from the first towards literature. From the earlier writings of Goethe and Herder he learne ...

AUDREHEM. ARNOUL D' («. 1305-1370), French soldier, was born at Audrehem, in the present department of Pas de Calais, near St Omer. Nothing is known of his career before 1332, when he is heard of at the court of the king of France. Between 1335 and 1342 he wen ...

... ed in a spirit of satirical invective, and attacked Tennyson, Browning, Matthew Arnold and Swinburne in no half-hearted fashion. The book aroused some discussion at the time, but its judgments were extremely uncritical. In 1881 Mr Austin returned to verse with ...

... , the Elmira orphans' home, the Stcele memorial library, home for the aged, the ArnotOgden memorial hospital, the Elmira free academy, and the Railway Commcrical training school. Here, also, is Elmira College (Presbyterian) for women, founded in 1855. This ins ...

... Ralph Waldo Emerson (1907). Critical estimates are also to be found in Matthew Arnold's Discourses in America, John Morley's Critical Miscellanies, Henry James's Partial Portraits, Lowell's My Study Windows, Birrcil's Obiter Dicta (2nd scries), Stedman's Poet ...

... thermodynamics (?.».), mainly by R. Clausius and Lord Kelvin on the basis of" Carnot's principle " (1824), modified in expression so as to be consistent with the conservation of energy (see ENERGETICS). Though we can convert the whole of the energy possessed ...

... em to enable them to be correctly •In i il in the Eocene scries. Such are the Clarno formation (late Eocene) of the John Day basin, Oregon, the Pinyon conglomerate of Yellowstone Park, the Sphinx conglomerate of Montana, the VVhitctail conglomerate of Arizona, ...

... The series of the Fathers alone contains Jerome (1516), Cyprian (1520), Pscudo-Arnobius (1522), Hilarius (1523), Irenaeus (Latin, 1526), Ambrose (1527), Augustine (1528), Chrysostom ERASMUS (Latin, 1530), Basil (Greek, 1532, the first Greek author printed in ...

ERSKINE. JOHN (1721-1803), Scottish divine, son. of John Erskine of Carnock, was born on the 2nd of June 1721. He studied law for a time after completing his course in arts at the university of Edinburgh, but was eventually licensed to preach in 1743; and was ...

ESCHER VON DER LINTH. ARNOLD (1807-1872), Swiss geologist, the son of Hans Conrad Escher (1767-1823), was born at Zurich on the 8th of June 1807. In 1856 he became professor of geology at the Ecole Polytechnique at Zurich. His researches led him to be regarded ...

... iderably diminished, and about the year 100 B.C. its boundaries were the Arnus (Arno), the Apennines and the Tiber. In the division of Italy by Augustus it formed the seventh regio and extended as far north as the river Macra, which separated it from Liguria. ...

... prefect for the " patrician " and returned to Rome. The celebrated schismatic, Arnold of Brescia, however, put himself again at the head of the party opposed to the temporal power of the papacy, re-established the patricianate, and forced the pope to leave Ro ...

... ribution in central Europe embraces the region from Denmark to the basin of the Arno, and from the confluence of the Loire and Allier to the mouths of the Danube. The temperature of the continent has been illustrated by Dr Supan in an interesting series of map ...

... elligencer, The Evangelical Alliance Quarterly, both published in London; A. J. Arnold, History of the Evangelical Alliance (London, 1897); and the reports of the proceedings of the different conferences.

... ose loss he lamented in one of the finest pastoral elegies of all ages, Matthew Arnold takes xrao/rf rank with Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne alone among the Dii Majores of Victorian poetry. He is perhaps a disciple of Wordsworth even more than of Goethe, an ...

... Tuscia annonaria," the latter being that portion which lies to the north of the Arno. After the fall of the Western empire Tuscia, with other provinces of Italy, came successively under the sway of Herulians, Ostrogoths, and Greek and Lombard dukes. Under the ...

... ht some, day be able to tolve the great problem of erecting over the crowing of Arnolfo di Lapo's great cathedral the dome projected by the latter but never executed. Having spent tome years in Rome, Brunellcwhi returned to hi» native town about 1410, with a p ...

... eat Britain see Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum (" Rolls Series," ed. T. Arnold, 1879); W. Cunningham, Growth of English Industry and 1 See Captain F. Brinkley's Japan, its History, Arts and Literature (1904), i. 138, 205, 140-144, ii. 98, 99, iv. 157-1 ...

TARNOPOL, a town in Galicia, Austria, 87 m. E.S.E. of Lemberg by rail. Pop. (1900) 30,368, half of which are Jews. Industry consists chiefly in corn-milling and the preparation of wax and honey. The principal trade is in horses, corn and other agricultural pro ...

... ay wires underground. 1895. A select committee of the House of Commons (with Mr Arnold Morley, Postmaster-General, as chairman) was appointed " to consider and report whether the provision now made for the telephone service in local areas is adequate, and whet ...

... nce — Luther, Melanchthon and 1 " Mystical Theology " is described in Addis and Arnold's Catholic Dictionary as a " branch " of Moral Theology. THEON— THEOPHANES Calvin, then Zwingli, then John Knox and others. The reply to Protestantism is represented by Card ...

... retaining the same office in the second Jules Ferry ministry (1883-1885). When Carnot became president of the Republic in 1887 he asked Tirard to form a ministry. He had to deal with the Wilson scandal which had led to President Grevy's downfall, and with the ...

... the oldest in France. A statue to General Rampon (d. 1843} stands in the Place Carnot. Wood-sawing, silk-spinning, and the manufacture of chemical manures, silk goods and hosiery are carried on in the town, which has trade in the wine of the Rhone hills. Tourn ...

... x. Meantime the 2,"""%?," i . . • * « 4 !•»«• . Expeditions bold expeditions of Arnold and Montgomery against against Canada — suggesting the joint efforts of the French Canada. wars— had met with only a partial success. Montreal had been occupied, but the ass ...

... while both shared in conquests of the Aargau (1415), the Thurgau (1460), and Locarno, &c. (1512), and in the temporary occupation of the Val d' Ossola (1410-14, 1416-22, 1425-26, 1512-15). In the Burgundian war Unterwalden, like the other Forest cantons, long ...

... resorts are situated among the woods above the Casentino or upper valley of the Arno to the east, such as Camaldoli, Badia di Prataglia, &c. Camaldoli was the original headquarters of the Camaldulensian order, now partly occupied by an hotel. Five hours' journ ...