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... ) puts the number at 49 only, which W. H. Frere (History of the English Church, 1558-1625, p. 321) thinks more credible. Conformity could still be enforced, but before long the Puritan party grew in strength partly from religious and partly from political caus ...

... him with a great retinue on his next continental expedition. In the same year (1157) Henry made an expedition into North Wales, and forced its prince Owen to become his vassal, not without some fighting, in which the English army received several sharp checks ...

Montereau Charles deliberately murdered the suppliant duke, as he knelt to do homage, thinking thereby that he would make an end of the Burgundian party (Sept. 9, 1419). This abominable deed gave northern France for twenty years to an English master. The young

... little originality. The Peterborough Chronicle, it is true, was continued till 1154, and its later portions, while markedly exemplifying the changes in the language, contain some really admirable writing. But it is substantially correct to say that from this p ...

... alts, form a line of hilts almost bare of vegetation between Benguella and Mi medcs. Nephelinc basalts and tiparite* occur at Dombe Grande. The presence of gum copal in considerable quantities in the superficial rocks is characteristic of certain regions. Clim ...

... mily Corillidae, is found at depths varying FIG. 7.— The sea-fan (Gorgonia from 15 to 1 20 fathoms in cavolinif). the Mediterranean Sea, chiefly on the African coast. It owes its commercial value to the beauty of its hard red calcareous axis which in life is c ...

... elt upon here (for details see Blum, Das deutsche Reich zur Zeit Bismarcks, pp. 153-181). It must suffice to say that in the following May the great Vienna " Krach " occurred, and the colossal bubble of speculation burst, bringing with it all the ruin foretold ...

... bition by the famous offer of the crown at the festival of Lupercalia (February 15). After the murder of Caesar on the iSth of March, Antony conceived the idea of making himself sole ruler. At first he seemed disposed to treat the conspirators leniently, but a ...

... o Eudemus at intervals, as revised, and the later books were dedicated (after Kudcmus' death) t« King Attalus I. (241-197 B.C.). Only (our Books have survivril in (•n-ck, three more are extant in Arabic; the eighth has never been found. Although a fragment has ...

... entem Gaunilonem (c. noo); or the Lutheran Apology for the Augsburg Confession (1531); or J. H. Newman's Apologia pro vita sita (1864); or A. B. Bnice's Apologetics; or Christianity Defensively Staled (1802). Of course, defence easily passes into counterattack ...

... to the garrison. The discovery of the goldfields near the modern Klagenfurt in 150 B.C. (Strabo iv. 208) brought it into notice, and it soon became a place of importance, not only owing to its strategic position, but as a centre of trade, especially in agricu ...

... no hint of foul play. Aquinas was canonized in 1323 by Pope John XXII., and in 1567 Pius V. ranked the festival of St Thomas with those of the four great Latin fathers, Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome and Gregory. No theologian save Augustine has had an equal infl ...

... rocks cover a wide area in Lome between Loch Melfort, Oban and the Pass of Brandcr, and they reappear in the lofty mountains on both sides of Glencoe. Representatives of this formation are found in Kintyre, south of Campbeltown, where the sediments prevail. T ...

... n dogmas (cf. t* rotf Xtyo/itKxj a-ypotfxxs obynaaiv, Ar. Physics, iv. 2, 209 b 15, Berlin ed.). He was an earnest, appreciative, independent student. The master is said to have called his pupil the intellect of the school and his house a reader's. He is also ...

... third quarter of the isth century, contains the marble monument to Charles (d. 1538), the last duke of Geldcrland of the Egmont dynasty. High up against the wall is an effigy of the same duke in his armour. The fine lofty tower contains a chime of forty-five ...

... esult (18061808), in collaboration with Klcmcns Brentano (q.v.) under the title DCS Knaktn \Vunderhorn. From 1810 onward he lived with his wife Hcttina, Brentano's sister, alternately at Berlin and on his estate at Wicpersdorf, near Dahme in Brandenburg, where ...

... ion of a solution of silver arsenite in nitric acid. Its specific gravity is 4- 15. In the amorphous condition it can be obtained by condensing the vapour of the oxide at as high a temperature as possible, when a vitreous mass is produced, which melts at 200° ...

... ith .ill hi* children, in the third year of his reign (336) (Diod. 17.5; Strabo 15. 736; Trogus, Prol. x., Alexander's despatch to Darius HI.; Arrian ii. 14. 5, and the chronographcrs). In Plutarch, Dr furl. Alex. ii. 3. 5, he is called Oarsei, in Johannes \nt ...

... eign of Artaxerxes II., are not convincing (cf. Ed. Meyer, Die Entslthung des Judcntums, 1896; see further JEWS, §§ 19, 21, 22; EZRA AND NEHEMIAH). Artaxerxes I. died in December 425, or January 424 (Thuc. iv. 50). To his reign must belong the famous quadrilin ...

... Persian o*a = mastic, and fetidus, stinking, so called in distinction to asa dtdcis, which was a drug highly esteemed among the ancients as laser cyrenaicum, 7MASAF-UD-DOWLAH— ASBESTOS and it supposed to have been a gummy exudation from Thapsis garganica), a ...

... is supposed that the mulberry trees (Becaim) mentioned in i Chronicles xiv. 14, 15 were really aspen trees. The flowers, which appear in March and April, are borne on pendulous hairy catkins, 2-3 in. long; male and female catkins are, as in the other species o ...

... -Leclercq, Cumont and Boll have enabled us to fix with a considerable degree of dcfiniteness the middle of the 4th century B.C. as the period when Babylonian astrology began its triumphal march to the west, invading the domain of Greek and Roman culture and de ...

... eriod of the revolution as 24 hours, the apparent motion goes on at the rate of 15° per hour. Here we have to make a distinction of fundamental importance between the diurnal motions of the sun and of the stars. Owing to the unceasing apparent motion of the su ...

... and truthfulness that he permits himself in face of established reputations. In 1592 he complained bitterly that Wood had destroyed forty pages of his MS., probably because of the dangerous freedom of Aubrey's pen. Wood was prosecuted eventually for insinuatio ...

... Auchmuty received the thanks of parliament and the order of K.C.B. (G.C.B. in 1815), and in 1813, on his return home, was promoted to the rank of lieut. -general. In 1821 he became commandcr-in-chief in Ireland, and a member of the Irish privy council. He died ...

... and N. by the German empire (Saxony and Prussia) and Russia. It has an area of 115,533 SP,- m-> or about twice the size of England and Wales together. Austria is one of the states which constitute the Austro-Hungarian (Habsburg) monarchy (see AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: ...

... a large Gothic building completed in 1455, containing the tomb of Enno II. (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 Ratha ...

... t of heat obtained was 8*1-89 foot-pounds. Between to atmospheres and i it was 815-875 foot-pounds, and between 23 and 14 atmospheres 761-74 foot-pounds. But, unlike Mayer and Seguin, Joule was not content with ltfnminB that when air is compressed or allowed t ...

ERASTUS, THOMAS (1524-1583), German-Swiss theologian, whose surname was LUber, Lieber, or Liebler, was born of poor parents on the 7th of September 1524, probably at Baden, canton of Aargau, Switzerland. In 1540 he was studying theology at Basel. The plague of ...

... e Capitoline was decorated by Etruscan artists (Livy x. 23; Pliny, 7/..V. xxxv. 157), that the decorations of the temple found by Signor Maxzoleni near Conca (Notitie degli scan, 1896) are of the same kind as others found in Etruria, show that the influences w ...

... g two gnostic uses. Firstly, that of Marcus, a Valentinian, of South Gaul about 150, whose influence extended to Asia Minor. Irenaeus relates (Bk. I., ch. vii. a), that this " magician " used in the Eucharist cups apparently mixt with wine, but really containi ...

... ve been a Seleucid princess. In Bactria Eucratides founded a Greek city, Eucratidcia (Strabo li. 516, Ptolem. vi. ii. 8). On his return from India Eucratides was (about 150 B.C.) murdered by his son, whom he had made co-regent (Justin-4i, 6). This son is proba ...

... n. In the Gulf of Danzig the alluvial deposits of the Vistula cover an area of 615 sq. m.; in the I3th century the knights of Marienburg enclosed with dikes about 350 sq. m. ; and an area of about 70 sq. m. was added in the course of the I4th. The Memel is sil ...

... und is ploughed two or three times, and from 80 to 100 ft> of seed are sown broadcast. The seedlings quickly appear above the surface, but it is about four months before the plant begins to flower. Sometimes the seed is sown in October for the winter crop, and ...

... tanza, and with the next, and so on, by a recurrence of rhymes: thus aba, bcb, cdc, ded, &c., so that, however long the poem is, it can be divided nowhere without severing the continuity of the rhyme. Schuchardt has developed an ingenious theory that these suc ...

... uxury and to be unworthy of the stern simplicity of the Roman citizens. Thus in 154 B.C. Scipio Nasica induced the senate to demolish the first stone theatre which had been begun by C. Cassius Longinus (" tanquam inutile et nocilurum FIG. 3. — Diagram showing ...

... h not then used as an English word) in 1668 2 by W. Charleton (Onomasticon, p. 115); but the bird, with its enormous beak and feather-like tongue, was described by Oviedo in his Sumario de la historia natural de las Indias, first published at Toledo in 1527 (c ...

... ty fragments remain (Lycurgus, In Leocralem, p. 211, § 107; Pausaniasiv. 14, 5. 15, 2; fragments in T. Bergk, Poetae lyrici graeci, ii.). Verrall (Classical Review, July 1896, May 1897) definitely places the lifetime of Tyrtaeus in the middle of the 5th centur ...

... ibed are recognizable with more or less continuity from the Gulf of St Lawrence 1500 m. south-westward to Alabama, where the deformed mountain structures pass out of sight under nearly horizontal strata of the Gulf coastal plain. But the dimensions of the seve ...

... sman and leader of the gentry against the magnates and prelates at the diets of 1500, 1501 and 1505. At the last diet he insisted, in his petition to the king, that the law should be binding upon all the gentry alike, and firmly established in the minds of the ...