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ASKE, ROBERT (d. 1537), English rebel, was a country gentleman who belonged to an ancient family long settled in Yorkshire, his mother being a daughter of John, Lord Clifford. When in 1536 the insurrection called the " Pilgrimage of Grace " broke out in Yorksh ...

ASKEW, or ASCUE, ANNE (1521?-! 546), English Protestant martyr, born at Stallingborough about 1521, was the second daughter of Sir William Askew (d. 1540) of South Kelsey, Lincoln, by his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Wrottesley. Her elder sister, M ...

... ann Steinthal (1823-1899) the national psychologists. In politics, too, Edward Lasker (1829-1884) and Ludwig Bamberger (18231899) had shown how Jews could put their country before party. when, at the turning-point of German imperial history in 1866, they led t ...

... of irregular bays, of which the most important are those of Sary-chaganak and Paskevich. On the west an almost unbroken wall of rock extends from Chernychev Bay southwards, rising towards the middle to 500 ft. The southern coast is occupied by the delta of th ...

... er to be nitrogen. Since the time of Henry Cavendish no one seemed even to have asked the question whether the residue was, in truth, all capable of conversion into nitric acid. The manner in which this condition of complacent ignorance came to be disturbed is ...

... retation and the De Anima. A late work may quote an earlier; but how, it may be asked, can the earlier reciprocally quote the later ? Besides these difficulties in and between the works there are others beyond them. On the one hand, there is the curious story ...

... adapted from the Lat. area, chest, cf. arcere, to shut up, enclose), a chest, basket or box. The Hebrew word tebah, translated in the A.V. by " ark," is used in the Old Testament (i) of the box made of bulrushes in which Pharaoh's daughter found the infant MO ...

... r adds that the bishop to whom Arnobius applied distrusted his professions, and asked some proof of them, and that the treatise Adversus Gentes was composed for this purpose. But this story seems rather improbable ; for Arnobius speaks contemptuously of dreams ...

... taineers, and aided by the natural strength of their country they have ASISIUM— ASKEW hitherto preserved their independence. Since the beginning of the ipth century they have been bigoted Wahhabis, though previously regarded by their neighbours as very lax Mah ...

... , provided in two years a sequel of some value to Bradley's performance. Nevil Maskelyne, who succeeded him in 1764, set on feot, in 1767, the publication of the Nautical Almanac, and about the same time had an achromatic telescope fitted to the Greenwich mura ...

... d licensing of meetings, and has control over the following branches of sport: basketball, billiards, boxing, fencing (in connexion with the Amateur Fencers' League of America), gymnastics, hand-ball (fives), running, jumping, walking, weight-putting (hammer, ...

... en) were published in 2 vols. (1884). See E. Zabel, B. Auerbach (1882); and E. Lasker, B. Auerbach, ein GedenkUa.lt (1882).

... thin its limits he then pitched a tent, in which he sat down with covered head, asked the gods for a sign, and waited for an answer. As the augur looked south he had the east, the lucky quarter, on his left, and therefore signs on the left side were considered ...

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... loth, quilting, calico, cigars and agricultural implements, bleaching, dyeing, basket-making, carriage-building and trade in cattle. In the neighbourhood is the iron foundry of Erwinhof. Opposite the town, on the steep left -bank of the Mulde, is the castle fr ...

... y Charlemagne, who next morning narrated the occurrence to his counsellors, and asked for their advice. Very severe punishments were suggested for the clandestine lover, but the emperor rewarded the devotion of the pair by consenting to their marriage. This st ...

... of the Hebrew text, here differing from the Greek text and Josephus (which read Askelon), it was the last town to which the ark was transferred before its restoration to the Israelites. Its maintenance of a sanctuary of Baal Zebub is mentioned in 2 Kings i. Fr ...

... could produce a charge of opposite sign upon a neighbouring conductor, Faraday asked himself whether an electric current passing through a conductor could not in any like manner induce an electric current in some neighbouring conductor. His first experiments ...

... urkish possession in 1517. In July 1829 it was captured by the Russian general Paskevich, and the ERZGEBIRGE— ESAR-HADDON occupation continued until the peace of Adrianople (September iSjg). The town was unsuccessfully attacked by the Russians on the oth of No ...

... st epic," his famous picture of " Joan of Arc." This subject, which would have tasked to the full even his great powers in the prime and vigour of manhood, proved almost too serious an undertaking for him in his old age. It exhibits, at least, amid great excel ...

... cted persons reclining at tables supporting a fish, accompanied by one or more baskets of loaves, and more rarely by flasks of wine or water. The fish represents Christ; and in the Inscription of Aberdus, bishop of Hierapolis about A.D. 160, we have this symbo ...

... er title to fame. Proclus preserves a reply made by Euclid to King Ptolemy, who asked whether he could not learn geometry more easily than by studying the Elements — " There is no royal road to geometry." Pappus of Alexandria, in his Mathematical Collection, s ...

... nian folds are buried beneath more recent deposits and have in some cases been masked by the superposition of a later scries of folds. The formation of this Carboniferous range was followed in northern Europe by a second continental period somewhat similar to ...

... and for the faithful to take it to their own homes and reserve it in arcae or caskets for. the purpose of communicating themselves (Tert. ad Uxor. ii. 5, De oral. 19; St Cypr. De lapsis, 132). Being open to objection on grounds both of superstition and of irr ...

... iod of his presidency a sharp conflict with "Abbas Pasha, viceroy of Egypt, who asked of him an unjust legal opinion in matters of inheritance. When bribes and threats failed, the sheikh was thrown into chains and treated with great severity, but it was the pa ...

SUPEREROGATION (Late Lat. super -erogatio, payment beyond what is due or asked, from super, beyond, erogare, to pay out, expend, ex, out, rogare, to ask), the performance of more than is asked for, the action of doing more than duty requires. In the theology o ...

... co are largely engaged in the cultivation of hemp; the women in weaving cloth, baskets and mats. The town has a deep and well-protected harbour, and its shipping is extensive. The language is Bicol.

... mer has been adopted, by one manufacturer at least, to secure the detection of masked faults which might develop themselves after submergence. Should these tests prove satisfactory the core is served with jute yarn, coiled in water-tight tanks, and surrounded ...

... r 1904 at a price to be determined by arbitration. The United Telephone Company asked parliament for rights of way in streets but was refused, and its only right to place overhead wires was obtained by private wayleaves. 1885. The United Telephone Company agai ...

... e invited to a conference with the king at Hampton Court (1604). They no longer asked, as many of them had asked in the beginning of Elizabeth's reign, to substitute the presbyterian discipline for the episcopal government. All they demanded was to be allowed ...

... y 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 revisionist agitation of General Boulanger. His re ...

... m. An idle, dissipated life had told upon his health, and early in 1847 Tolstoy asked permission to go down, " on account of ill health and private reasons." Thus ended his college life, which from an educational point of view he had treated as a jest. Somewha ...

... gravy and juices from the meat and other food were eaten or thrown to the alms basket for the poor. The wooden trencher went out of use on the introduction of pottery and later of porcelain plates. At Winchester College, the old square beechwood trenchers are ...

... vernment, and in a circular letter conveyed its views to the other colonies and asked an expression of theirs in return. This provoked Hillsborough, the incumbent of the new colonial secretaryship, to order the Massachusetts house to rescind its action and the ...

... has taken a fine patina, which makes the whole look like some richly embossed casket in oxidized silver. The full meaning of the change which had come over Venetian architecture, of the gulf which lies between the early Lombardesque style, so purely character ...