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ARSON (from Lat. ardere, to burn), a crime which has been described as the malicious and voluntary burning of the house of another (3 Co. Inst. 66). At common law in England it is an offence of the degree of felony. In the Roman civil law arson was punishable ...

ARSONVAL, a village of France in the department of Aube, lies on the right bank of the Aube, about 30 m. east of Troyes. It has a church dating from the i2th century. Pop. 434.

ARGON (from the Or. &-, privative, and tpyov, work; hence meaning " inert "). a gaseous constituent of atmospheric air. For more than a hundred years before 1894 it had been supposed that the composition of the atmosphere was thoroughly known. Beyond variable

ARLON, the chief town of the Belgian province of Luxemburg, situated on a hill about 1240 ft. above the sea. Pop. (1004) 10,894. It is a very ancient town, and in the time of the Romans was called Orolaunum, being a station on the Antoninian way connecting Rei

ARSOT, the name of a forest in France, in the immediate neighbourhood of Belfort. It has an area of about 1500 acres, is almost encircled by a small stream, the Eloie, and is about 1400 ft. above the sea. On the east it is continued by the forest of Denney, wh

BARON (c. 1562-1639), son of Sir Mathew Arundell of Wardour Castle in Wiltshire, a member of the ancient family of Arundells of Lanhernc in Cornwall, and of Margaret, daughter of Sir Henry Willoughby, was born about 1562. In 1579 he was personally recommended

ARAGON, or ARRAGON (in Span. Aragon), a captaincygeneral, and formerly a kingdom of Spain; bounded on the N. by the Pyrenees, which separate it from France, on the E. by Catalonia and Valencia, S. by Valencia, and W. by the two Castiles and Navarre. Pop. (1900

ARCHON (apxuv, ruler), the title of the highest magistrate in many ancient Greek states. It is only in Athens that we have any detailed knowledge of the office, and even in this one case the evidence presents problems of the first importance which are incapabl

... he first, and by degrees some of the component documents became known. Bishop Pearson was able to say that " the eight books of the Apostolic Constitutions have been after Epiphanius's time compiled and patched together out of the didascoliae or doctrines whic ...

... ice he offered to join the Jesuit mission to England that set out under Robert Parsons (q.v.) in the spring of 1580. The following year, being then only thirty-seven years old, he was elected, by a large majority, general of the society in succession to Mercur ...

... n. The tertiary arsines, such as As(CH»)i, trimethyl arsine, and the quaternary arsonium iodides and hydroxides, (CHi)*AsI and (CH^iAs'OH, tetramethyl arsonium iodide and hydroxide, have been obtained. The arsines and arsine chlorides are liquids of overpoweri ...

... s III., was raised to the throne in 338 B.C. by Bagoas (q.v.), who had ARSINOE— ARSON murdered his father and all his brother*. But when the young king tried to make himself independent, Bagoas killed him too, with .ill hi* children, in the third year of his r ...

... sing independently from the aorta, though it has been seen in the Koala (F. G. Parsons, " Mammalian Aortic Arch," Journ. of Anat. vol. xxxvi. p. 389). The human arrangement of the common iliacs is not constant among mammals, for in some the external and intern ...

... th and breadth of Norway, adding to his stores. Moe, who was born at Mo i Hole parsonage, in Sigdal Ringerikc, on the 22nd of April 1813, met AsbjBrnsen first when he was fourteen years of age. A close friendship began between them, and lasted to the end of th ...

... drew up a form of recantation which he entered in his register. This fact led Parsons and other Catholic historians to state that she actually recanted, but she refused to sign Bonner's form without qualification. Two months later, on the 24th of May, the pri ...

... n hemisphere, nfntji*i. his father's work. The third earl of Rosse mounted, at Parsonstown in (1845, a speculum 6 ft. in diameter, which afforded the first indications of the spiral structure shown in recent photographs to be the most prevalent characteristic ...

... is little inclined to dogmatics. We have such unsystematic systems as Bishop Pearson's Exposition of the Apostles' Creed — a book of the golden age of great writers — or we have average 19th-century Church orthodoxy in Bishop H. Browne, On the XXXIX. Articles ...

... neral. The only important region of coal mining in the state up to 1910 was in Carson county, where more than nine-tenths of the total output of the state was mined in 1907 and in 1908. The production in 1870 was 5800 tons; in 1880, 14,748 tons (probably an un ...

... it of it on foot in 1893 (see his Great Frozen Land, London, 1895; also H. J. Pearson, Beyond Petsora Eastward, London, 1899).