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ASBURY. FRANCIS (1745-1816), American clergyman, was born at Hamstead Bridge in the parish of Handsworth, near Birmingham, in Staffordshire, England, on the 2Olh of August 1745. His parents were poor, and after a brief period of study in the village school of ...

... ncipality. In 1806 Alexius of Anhalt-Bernburg was created a duke by the emperor Francis II., and after the dissolution of the Empire each of the three princes ANHALT-DESSAU took this title. Joining the Confederation of the Rhine in 1807, they supported Napoleo ...

... HONY OF PADUA, SAINT (1195-1231), the most celebrated of the followers of Saint Francis of Assisi, was born at Lisbon on the i sth of August 1195. Inhisfifteenthyearheentered the Augustinian order, and subsequently joined the Franciscans in i 220. He wished to ...

... marquess of Antrim (?.».), and Alexander, 3rd earl. Three other sons, Maurice, Francis and James, were probably illegitimate. The earldom has continued in the family down to the present day, the nth earl (b. 1851) succeeding in 1869. See also An Historical Ac ...

... rmerly ranged the country around Apalachee Bay, Florida. About 1600 the Spanish Franciscans founded a successful mission among them, but early in the i8th century the tribe suffered defeat at the hands of the British, the mission churches were burnt, the pries ...

... ne). This was a product of the mystic fermentation which proceeded from exalted Franciscanism and from Joachimism (see FRATICELLI and JOACHIM). It presents great analogies with groups of the same character, e.g. Sachets, Bizocchi, Flagellants, &c. The order of ...

... g Charles VII., but was again bestowed on Charles, the nephew of that count, by Francis I., who at the same time gave him his sister Margaret in marriage. After the death of her husband, by whom she had no children, she married Henry of Albret, king of Navarre ...

... the stage, and even clothing for firemen. Asbestos enters into the ASBJORNSEN— ASBURY PARK composition of fire-proof cement*, plasters and paints: it is used fur packing safes; and is made into balls with fire-clay for gasstoves. Various preparations of asbes ...

... g. The same month he received the king's thanks for his action in pacifying Sir Francis Bigod's rising. But his position was now a difficult and a perilous one, and a few weeks later the attitude of the government towards him was suddenly changed. The new risi ...

... secretary of state for foreign affairs. In 1873 he became Mexican consul at San Francisco, where he remained till his election to the Senate in 1875. He was professor of jurisprudence at the college of Puebla from 1883 to 1890, when he was again appointed assi ...

... hap, x.) relates a singular episode in the history of astrology. Charles V. and Francis I., who both bid for the friendship of the infamous Arctino, surnamed Jbe divine, both likewise engaged astrologers to fight their ball In Italy those who prophesied the ru ...

... mpirical knowledge scarcely deserves the name. Vere scire est per causas scire. Francis Bacon's prescient dream, anvit*however, of a living astronomy by which the physical tioaal laws governing terrestrial relations should be extended astroto the highest heave ...

... n* of the cattle, of the town walls ( 1 576). of the abbey of St Peter and of a Franciscan foundation. On several islands of the picturesque Lough Rcc, to the north, are ecclesiastical and other remains. The military importance of Athlonc dates from the erecti ...

... regulated the succession to the throne; (2) the Pragmatic Patent of the emperor Francis II. of the ist of August 1804, by which he took the title of Emperor of Austria; (3) the Diploma of the emperor Francis Joseph I. of the 20lh of October 1860, by which the ...

... trkal machine and made other not unimportant additions to electrical knowledge. Francis Hawksbee (d. 1713) published in his book Physico-Mechanical Experiments (i 709), and in several Memoirs in the Phil. Trans, about 1 707, the results of his electrical inqui ...

... s versatility. Elliston was the author of The Venetian Outlaw (1805), and, with Francis Godolphin Waldron, of No Prelude (1803), in both of which plays he appeared.

... d. 1540), count of East Friesland; the Gasthauskirche, formerly the church of a Franciscan friary founded in 1317; and the Neue Kirche (1643-1647). Of its secular buildings, the Rathaus (town-hall), built in 1574-1576, on the model of that of Antwerp, with a l ...

... given to Marie Louise, wife of the deposed Napoleon, and Modena to the archduke Francis of Austria, the heir of the las.t Este. In Romagna and .Modena the government was oppressive, arbitrary, coirupt and unprogressive, while in Parma things were better. In iS ...

... ven before Newton's time, more than a suspicion that heat was a form of energy. Francis Bacon expressed his conviction that heat consists of a kind of motion or " brisk agitation " of the particles of matter. In the Novum Organum, after giving a long list of t ...

... 087 (355 of negro descent); (1010) 13,799. Enid is served by the St Louis & San Francisco, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railways, and by several branch lines, and is an important railway centre. It is the seat of the ...

... al of the diocese of Killaloe; the parish church formed out of the ruins of the Franciscan Abbey, founded in 1240 by Donough Carbrac O'Brien; a school on the foundation of Erasmus Smith, and various county buildings. The abbey, though greatly mutilated, is ful ...

... loyal followers of Deak, and his speech in favour of the " Address " (see DEAK, FRANCIS) made a great impression at Vienna. The enforced calm which prevailed during the next few years enabled him to devote himself once more to literature, and, in 1866, he was ...

... hampagne. It suffered severely during the Hundred Years' War, and was burned by Francis I . in 1544. It resisted Henry of Navarre in 1592, and Marshal Biron fell in the attack which preceded its capture. In 1642 it was, along with Chateau-Thierry, erected into ...

... vague, were made from France, on the part of the bishop of Bayeux, and even of Francis I. " Invitor amplissimis conditionibus; offeruntur dignitates et episcopatus; plane rex essem, si juvenis essem " (Ep. xix. 106; 735). Erasmus declined all, and in November ...

ERROLL (or ERROL), FRANCIS HAY, gra EARL OF (d. 1631), Scottish nobleman, was the son of Andrew, 8th earl, and of Lady Jean Hay, daughter of William, 6th earl. The date of his birth is unrecorded, but he succeeded to the earldom (cr. 1453) in 1585, was early c ...

... and one of its three bells is said to have been brought from San Domingo by Sir Francis Drake. To the north near the railway station is Sandown Park, where important race meetings are held. Esher is included in the urban district of Esher and The Dittons, of w ...

ETAMPES, ANNE DE PISSELEU D'HEILLY, DUCHESSE D' (iso8-c. 1380), mistress of Francis I. of France, daughter of Guillaume de Pisseleu, sieur d'Heilly, a nobleman of Picardy. She came to court before 1522, and was one of the maids of honour of Louise of Savoy. Fr ...

... in the preparations for his views of Paris, was notably happy. The work of Sir Francis Seymour Haden (b. 1818) had a powerful influence on the art in England. Between 1858 and 1879 Seymour Haden — the first president of the Royal Society of Painter Etchers — ...

... ing a higher racial standard. The founder of this science may be said to be Sir Francis Gallon (f.r.), who has done much to further its study, not only by his writings, but by the establishment of a research fellowship and scholarship in eugenics in the univer ...

... kindness to the poor. He laboured to reform the monastic orders, especially the Franciscan, and was never guilty of nepotism. Although a type of the austere monk in his private life, he was a sincere friend of art and learning, and in 1431 re-established final ...

... om a political as well as from a religious point of view. With the accession of Francis I. to the French and Charles V. to the imperial throne began the long rivalry between France . and the house of Habsburg, which continued with few iBt interruptions till 17 ...

the summit of the San Francisco Mountain* one may pan rapidly through all these down into the Painted Desert. The BorealCanadian, Transition and Upper Sonoran embrace the highlands. Coyotes are very common; wild cats and mountain lions are fairly plentiful. De ...

... conferred on that ruler in 1567 by Pope Pius V. and recognized in the person of Francis I. by the emperor Maximilian II. in 1576. Under a series of degenerate Medici the history of Tuscany is certainly not a splendid record, and few events of importance occurr ...

... dern independence comes out in his critics, the greatest of whom were Roger and Francis Bacon. Since the modern discovery of the science of motion by Galileo which changed natural science, and the modern revolution of philosophy by Descartes which changed meta ...

... with sufficient political insight to appreciate the advantage of combining with Francis I. against Charles V. His Persian campaign was doubtless an error, but was due in part to a desire to find occupation, distant if possible, for his janissaries, who were al ...

... with Seattle. Tacoma is the starting-point of steamship lines to Alaska, to San Francisco, and to Seattle, Port Townsend, Olympia, Victoria, and other ports on Puget Sound. There are trans-oceanic lines to Japan and China, to the Philippines and Hawaii, and to ...

... k telegraph of Reiser, of Don Silva, and of Cavallo, the pith ball telegraph of Francis Ronalds (a model of which is in the collection of telegraph apparatus in the Victoria and Albert Museum), and several others. Next came the discovery of Galvani and of Volt ...

... ing-telephone transmitter.7 The next transmitter of note was that introduced by Francis Blake, which came into wide use in the United States of America and other countries. In it the electrodes were of platinum and carbon. To a frame F (fig. 5) was attached a ...

... e Humiliati in the i2th century, the institution of Tertiaries arose out of the Franciscan movement. It seems to be certain that St Francis at the beginning had no intention of forming his disciples into an Order, but only of making a great brotherhood of all ...

... earliest explorations were made by the Spaniards, Cabeza de Vaca, 1528-36, and Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, 1540-42, but the first colony was that planted on Matagorda Bay in 1685 by the French under the Sieur de la Salle. This was, however, soon abandoned, ...