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ATHY (pronounced Athy), a market-town of Co. Kildare, Ireland, in the south parliamentary division, 45 m. S.W. of Dublin on a branch of the Great Southern & Western railway. Pop. of urban district (1001) 3599. It is intersected by the river Barrow, which is he ...

ANTHONY, SAINT, the first Christian monk, was born in Egypt about 250. At the age of twenty he began to practise an ascetical life in the neighbourhood of his native place, and after fifteen years of this life he withdrew into solitude to a mountain by the Nil

... o distant regions or the nether world, of which he brings back an account. Telepathy or clairvoyance (q.v.). with or withoul trance, must have operated powerfully to produce a conviction of the dual nature of man, for it seems probable that facts unknown to th ...

... , where he sat and voted with the Conservatives. He found himself in strong sympathy with Prince Bismarck's new economic policy, which, although also of Lassallian origin (Kohut, Ferdinand Lassalle, pp. 144 et seq.), was claimed by its author as being essentia ...

... der long dominated the middle ages as part of the Augustinian tradition. In sympathy with this Platonism, the medieval church began by assuming the entire mutual harmony of faith and reason. Such is the teaching, along different lines, alike of St Anselm and o ...

... sed as a screen by the queen Maria Louisa and her favourite Godoy. His open sympathy with the French Revolution brought him into collision with the violent reaction produced in Spain by the excesses of the Jacobins, while his temper, which had become perfectly ...

... (Ol. 7). His poems are lost, but an idea of them can be gained from the Chrtstomathy written by I'roclus the Neo-Platonist of the 5th century or by a grammarian of the same name in the time of the Antonines. The Afthiopis (AldiorU), in five books, was so calle ...

... es, one and many, into substantial things and real causes. Aristotle had no sympathy with the unwritten dogma* of Plato. But with the written dialogues of Plato he always continued to agree almost a* much as he disagreed. Like Plato, he believed in real univer ...

... nufacturers but also from the working classes, who in 1779 displayed their antipathy to labour-saving appliances by destroying a large mill he had erected near Chorley. Though a man of great personal strength, Arkwright never enjoyed good health, and throughou ...

... eating sections. To the latter belong those Rajputs who though generally in sympathy with the movement declined to adhere to the tenet of the Samaj which forbade the destruction of animal life and the consumption of animal food. The age of admission to the Sam ...

... ortant light on the political and ecclesiastical history and social life of the ATHY— ATKINSON East from the middle of the loth century. Up to comparatively recent times a priceless collection of classical manuscripts was preserved in the libraries; many of th ...

... nd were enforced in a harsh and tyrannical manner, for he lacked wisdom and sympathy. Under his rule nonconforming clergy were deprived and sometimes imprisoned. The cruel punishments inflicted by the Court of Star Chamber of which he was a member, the unpopul ...

... means of transformers. His ideas were improved by Carl Zipernowsky and O. T. Blathy in Hungary and by S. Z. de Ferranti in England, and the alternating current transformer (see TRANSFORMERS) came into existence. Polyphase alternators were first exhibited at t ...

... England. The two men were bound together by a mutual respect deeper than a sympathy of tastes, and a community of spirit stronger than a similarity of opinions. Emerson was a sweet-tempered Carlyle, living in the sunshine. Carlyle was a militant Emerson, movi ...

... ge is in accordance with the high self-confident tone of his mind, with his sympathy with the dominant genius of the Roman republic, and with his personal relations to the members of her great families. Of his early years nothing is directly known, and we firs ...

... ade his feelings acute, and his brain incessantly active. Through his ready sympathy with all forms of life and character, his attention was always alive. The active movement of his spirit spent itself, not in following put its own trains of thought, but in ou ...

... but in moderation, for the Eskimo, though keen traders, have a deeprooted antipathy to speculation. When they offer anything for sale — say at a Danish settlement in Greenland — they always leave it to the buyer to settle the price. They have also a dislike t ...

... e St Medard " is perhaps the best instance of the dignity, vigour and grave sympathy with which he addresses himself to ecclesiastical themes. Something of. these latter qualities, in dealing with similar themes, Legros passed on to his pupil, Sir Charles Holr ...

... ibuted by an alliterative translation of Beowulf (1840), an Anglo-Saxon chrcstomathy entitled Engla and Seaxna scopas and boceras (1850), and a well-known Lexicon Anglo-Saxonicum (1851), in which the explanations and comments arc given in Latin, but the words ...

... a painter were the result of insufficient general culture and narrowness of sympathy. See Etty's autobiography, published in the Art Journal for 1849, and the Life of William Etty, R.A., by Gilchrist (2 vols., 1855).

... d for us, becoming as it were a new Passover (i Cor. v. 7). By a mysterious sympathy the bread and wine over which the words, " This is my body which is for you," and " This cup is the new covenant in my blood," had been uttered, became Christ's body and blood ...

... the position of the Arians, with whom he had himself been hitherto more in sympathy than with the Alexandrians. He was placed in a difficult predicament by the action of the council, and his letter to the Caesarean church explaining his conduct is exceedingly ...

... solved to destroy. The ^duke'ot duke's fate (Feb- J7' J478) need provoke no sympathy, Clarence, he was a detestable intriguer, and had given his brother just offence by a series of deeds of high-handed violence and by perpetual cavilling. But he had committed ...

... eir day, the two former as prominent doctors who were ardent converts to homoeopathy, and James as a homoeopathic chemist and the founder of the great cocoa business associated with his name. Among Dr G. N. Epps's children were Dr Washington Epps, a well-known ...

... tion is further aided by the universal tendency of mankind to imitation and sympathy, the tendency to imitate the actions of, and to experience the emotions expressed by, those about one. Conditions very favourable to mass-suggestion prevailed during the middl ...

... B. Edward, The History of Texas (Cincinnati, 1836), slightly pro-Mexican in sympathy; H. H. Bancroft, History of Texas and the North Mexican States (2 vols., San Francisco, 1884-89), valuable for authorities cited in the footnotes; and H. M. Williams, Sam Hous ...

... Lear was inhibited. George Colman, when examiner, showed an extraordinary antipathy to such words as " heaven " or " angel." The lord chamberlain's powers are still occasionally exerted against scriptural dramas, less frequently for political reasons. Later i ...

... k ranked among the foremost of his time. As a teacher, he showed remarkable sympathy and won great success. As a thinker he can hardly be said to have been endowed with great creative power. After his commentaries (on Romans, the Gospel of John, the Sermon on ...

... mpressions of the simple idyllic life of his native district, partly by his sympathy with the early German masters>f-particularly with Altdorfer and Cranach. In his love of the details of nature, in his precise (though by no means faultless) drawing of outline ...

... school of thought, could not long subsist. Mutual admiration does not imply sympathy. Turgeniev presently wrote to a friend, " I regret I cannot draw nearer to Tolstoy, our views are so opposed, the one to the other." And these differences of opinion gradually ...

... hanges colour with variations in the state of the owner's health or even in sympathy with his affections. It is commonly held to be a " lucky stone."

... her north in Vermont; and in the ridges of northern Maine: these are all in sympathy with Appalachian structure; so also are certain open valleys, as the Berkshire (limestone) Valley in western Massachusetts and the corresponding Rutland (limestone and marble) ...

... high ability. Her husband, who was devotedly attached to her, found in her sympathy and encouragement one of the chief sources of his inspiration as a writer. After her death he published a selection from her papers, and afterwards much of her correspondence ...

... owing in commercial and maritime importance, and had, on the whole, shown a sympathy for Byzantium rather than for the Franks. Pippin determined to subdue the lagoons. He gathered a fleet at Ravenna, captured Chioggia, and pushed on up the Lido towards the cap ...