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ASPER. HANS (1400-1571), Swiss painter, was born and died at Zurich. He wrought in a great variety of styles, but excelled chiefly in flower and fruit pieces, and in portrait-painting. Many of his pictures have perished, but his style may be judged from the il ...

ASPER, AEMILIUS. Latin grammarian, possibly lived in the jnd c«ntury A.D. He wrote commentaries on Terence, Sallust and Virgil. Numerous fragments of the last show that as both critic and commentator he possessed good judgment and taste. They arc printed in Kc ...

... ence was not found, nothing could have been better calculated to increase the exasperation of the colonists than a threat of this kind. It drew from the Virginia burgesses strong addresses and resolutions of protest. Fear lest the English Church would induce t ...

... as originally a Slav fortress; it obtained civic rights in 1 244 and joined the Hanseatic league. In 1648 it passed to Sweden, but in 1676 was retaken by Frederick William I. of Brandenburg, and after being plundered by the Russians in 1713 was ceded to Prussi ...

... royed several other old buildings in the city, notably in 1891 the house of the Hansa League on the northern quays. A curious museum is the Maison Plantin, the house of the great printer C. Plantin (q.v.) and his successor Moretus, which stands exactly as it d ...

... the society established a botanic and physic garden at Chelsea, and in 1722 Sir Hans Sloane, who had become the ground owner, gave it to the society on the condition of presenting annually to the Royal Society fifty dried specimens of plants till the number sh ...

... nst children and vice versa, protection of widows, wardship of heiresses and orphans, divorce; in religious matters he superintended the Dionysia, the Thargelia, the processions in honour of Zeus the Saviour and Asclepius. The archon basileus superintended the ...

... unicipal rights on the town, and fortified it. At a later period it entered the Hanseatic League. In 1473 it was captured by Charles the Bold of Burgundy. In 1505 it received the right of coining from Philip, son of the emperor Maximilian. I. In 1514 Charles o ...

... . See R. Steig, Ackim ton Arnim und Klemens Brentano (1894). ARNIM-BOYTZENBURG. HANS GEORO VOM (1581-1641), German general and diplomatist, was born in 1581 at Boytzenburg in Brandenburg. From 1613 to 1617 he served in the Swedish army under Gustavus Adolphus, ...

... nians (460-454). Out of it sprang the rebellion of Megabyzus, who was greatly exasperated because, though he had persuaded Inarus to surrender by promising that his life would be spared, Artaxerxes, yielding to the entreaties of his wife Amytis, who wanted to ...

... called crocidolite (q.i>.). It occurs in veins in slaty rocks, associated with jaspers and quartzites rich in magnetite and brown iron-ore. Their geological position is in the Griqua Town series, belonging to what are known in South Africa as the Pre-Cape rock ...

... ertain mutilated heads of saints appear upon it; and later it became a fortress ASPER— ASPERN-ESSLING and received certain additions. It is now under the care of the local agkd and not allowed to be plundered for building stone. C. Uiu-konmiki. ViUti dt la i'a ...

ASPERGES (" thou wilt sprinkle," from the Latin verb aspergere), the ceremony of sprinkling the people with holy water before High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church, so called from the first word of the verse (Ps. iv. 9) Asperges me, Domini, hyssopo tt mundabo ...

ASPERN-ESSLING. BATTLE OF (1809), a battle fought on the list and 22nd of May 1809 between the French and their allies under Napoleon and the Austrians commanded by the archduke Charles (see NAPOLEONIC CAMPAIGNS). At the time of the battle Napoleon was in poss ...

... he longitude of the true planet at the time '. By a number of ingenious device* Hansen developed methods by which dt could be determined. The computations are, as a general rule, simpler, and the algebraic expression* lets complex, than when the computations o ...

... Western Theological Seminary (Evangelical-Lutheran, 1893); a state soldiers' orphans' home is also located here. Atchison's situation and transportation facilities make it an important supply-centre, its trade in grains and live-stock being particularly large; ...

... Idoine, Belle Isabeau, Belle Emmelos and Beatrix. These romances follow older chansons in subject, but the smoothness of the verse and beauty of detail hardly compensate for the spontaneity of the shorter form. See A. Jeanroy, Les Origines de la poesie lyriqu ...

... cessful mission to the states-general of Holland, and to the authorities of the Hanseatic towns, with reference to the defence of Geneva against the threatened attacks of the duke of Savoy. He published in 16181620 (2 vols.) a defence of the Genevan translatio ...

... gen, a branch of the ducal house of Brunswick. The town subsequently joined the Hanseatic League. In the isth century it became famous for its beer (" Eimbecker," whence the familiar " Bock "). In 1540 the Reformation was introduced by Duke Philip of Brunswick ...

... he was born was burned in 1689, but was rebuilt in 1693 as a free school for orphans. This school fell into decay under the regime of the kingdom of Westphalia, but was restored in 1817 by King Frederick William III. of Prussia, who, in 1819, transferred it to ...

... ng works, and the imperial factory for the cutting and polishing of malachite, jasper, marble, porphyry and other ornamental stones, the industrial establishments comprise candle, paper, soap and machinery works, flour and woollen mills, and tanneries. There i ...

... etween the two, but twenty years elapsed after the invention of the pile before Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851), professor of natural philosophy in the university of Copenhagen, made in 1819 the discovery which has immortalized his name. In the Annals of Ph ...

... moury, the Chemung county court bouse and other county buildings, 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 El ...

... duchy of Cleves, and passed with it in 1609 to Brandenburg. The town joined the Hanseatic League in 1407. In 1794 it was bombarded by the French under General Vandamme, and in 1806 it was assigned to the grand-duchy of Berg. It passed into the possession of Pr ...

... ighted by the name of Erasmus, who stood at the head of letters, a widespread exasperation was the consequence. Disraeli has not noticed Erasmus in his Quarrels of Authors, perhaps because Erasmus's quarrels would require a volume to themselves. " So thin-skin ...

... lt mosques (none older than the 1 6th century), public baths, and several good khans. There are Armenian and Catholic churches, but the most beautiful building is a medresse erected in the i2th century by the Seljuks, with ornamental doorway and two graceful m ...

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 ...

... t important steles, can be roughly dated: Tandamarie, son of Tirhaka (667-650), Asperta (630-600), Pankharer (600-560), Harsiotf (560-525), Nastasen (525-500). From the evidence of the stele of the second (the Coronation Stele) and that of the fifth it has bee ...

... ives; and that each brought offerings to the president out of which he aided orphans and widows, the sick, the prisoners and strangers sojourning . with them. These contributions of the faithful seem to be included by Justin along with the bread and cup as sac ...

... s also adopted various provisions for the care of the poor and of widows and orphans. He died in 827. (L. D.*) EUGENIUS III. (Bernardo Paganelli), pope from the isth of February 1145 to the 8th of July 1153, a native of Pisa, was abbot of the Cistercian monast ...

... s also adopted various provisions for the care of the poor and of widows and orphans. He died in 827. (L. D.*)

... e task of checking the growing independence of the nobles and t he cit ies. The Hanseatic League (?.«.) was at the height of its power, and in 1381 the Rhenish towns formed a confederation. Wenceslaus, like Richard II., had fallen upon evil times. The advance ...

... . He ventured to criticize the magical and theurgic side of the doctrine, and exasperated the emperor, who preferred the mysticism of Maximus and Chrysanthius. He devoted himself principally to logic. Stobaeus in the Sermones collected a number of ethical dict ...

... See P. Knuth, Botanische Wanderungen auf der Insel Sylt (Tondern, 1890); C. P. Hansen, Das Nordseebad Westerland auf Sylt (Carding, 1891); Meyn, Geologische Beschreibune der Insel Sylt (Berlin, 1876); and Kepp, Wegweiser auf Sylt (Tondern, 1885).

... ch are Tambov, Borisoglyebsk, Yelatma, Kirsanov, Kozlov, Lebedyan, Lipetsk, Morshansk, Shatsk, Spask, Temnikov and Usman. The inhabitants are Great Russians in the centre, but there is a notable admixture of Mordvinians and Meshcheryaks in the west and north-w ...

... s wife's dowry. In 1822, it was bestowed on the Archduke Charles, the victor of Aspern; it was inherited by his eldest son, and, at his death, in 1895 it passed into the hands of his nephew, the Archduke Frederick.

... its designation as the homestead. The object is the protection of widows and orphans, but the right has been very much abused, and its abuse is in part responsible for the high rate of interest which prevails. State-wide prohibition of the sale of intoxicating ...

... walls. These were rendered necessary by the occasional hostility of the Tatar khans. When the Turks took Constantinople the colony was almost cut off from the mother city, which handed it over to the enterprising bank of St George; but it could not be saved a ...

... a High Lutheran reaction *° ihe which has shown some vigour in thought and some asperity in judgment (E. W. Hengstenberg; H. A. C. Haevernick; dogmatic in G. Thomasius and F. A. Philippi ; more liberal type in C. F. A. Kahnis; history of doctrine in G . Thomas ...

... to pietistic circles in Berlin, and came specially under the influence of Baron Hans Ernst von Kottwitz (1757-1843), who became his " spiritual father," and of the historian Neander. Before deciding on the career of theological professor, he had in view that o ...