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... rriage treaty by which his eldest son was to marry the French king's daughter (1160). This was to be but the first of many disappointments in this direction; there was apparently some fatal scruple, both in Henry's own mind and in that of his continental subje ...

... ooker. The queen, who had so vigorously ordered ecclesiastical affairs, died in 1603. On the accession of James I. the Puritans expressed their desire for ecclesiastical change in the Millenary Petition which purported to come from 1000 clergy; their requests ...

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

... 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 ...

... at the former is nearest to the sulcar directives. The derivation of the Zoanthidca from an Edwardsia form U sufficiently obvious. The order CeRiANTHlDEAcom prises a few soft-bod icdZoantharians with rounded aboral extremities pierced by pores. They have two c ...

... s he dropped significant hints in this sense (Busch, Bismarck, u. 453-454, iii. 16). He even spoke of a new Kulturkampf against the Jews (ibid. ii. p. 484). How these hints were acted upon has not been revealed, but it is sufficiently instructive to notice tha ...

... 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 ...

... J. L. Vives. Early in the modern period occurs the great name of Blaisc Pascal (1623-1662). A staunch Roman Catholic, but belonging to a school of Augustinian enthusiasts (the Janscnists), whom the Church put down as heretics, he stands pretty much apart from ...

... d Portum near Altinum in 132 B.C. improved the communications still further. In 169 B.C., 1300 more families were settled there as a reinforcement to the garrison. The discovery of the goldfields near the modern Klagenfurt in 150 B.C. (Strabo iv. 208) brought ...

... ,GlenStrae,HeH's Glen (off Loch Goil) and Glencoe, the scene of the massacre in 1692. The waterfalls of Cruachan are beautiful; and those of Connel, which are more in the nature of rapids, caused by the rush of the ebbing tide over the rocky bar at the narrowi ...

... cite Plato's doctrines as what " we say " (cf. fatter, Metaphysics, L 9, ooo b 16). At the same time, he must have learnt much from other contemporaries at Athens, especially from astronomers such as Eudoxus and Callippus, and from orators such as Isocratcs a ...

ARNAUD, HENRI (1641-1721), pastor and general of the Vaudois or Waldcnsians of Piedmont, was born at Embrun. About 1650 his family returned to their native valley of Luserna, where Arnaud was educated at La Tour (the chief village), later visiting the college ...

... 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 bells. The Roman Catholic c ...

... 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 ...

... IES). 1. Daughter of Lysimachus, king of Thrace, first wife of Ptolemy II. Philadclphus (285-247 B.C.). Accused of conspiring against her husband, who perhaps already contemplated marriage with his sister, also named Arsinoe°, she was banished to Coptos, in Up ...

... , Gcograpki Graeci Afinores; Bunbury, History of Ancient Geography; Stichle, "• Dcr Geograph Artemidoros von Ephcsos," in Philologus, xi., 1856). (2) A soothsayer and interpreter of dreams, who flourished in the 2nd century A.D., during the reigns of Hadrian a ...

... ees. The aspen is found in moist places, sometimes at a considerable elevation, 1600 ft. or more, in Scotland. It is an abundant tree in the northern parts of Britain, even as far as Sutherland, and is occasionally found in the coppices of the southern countie ...

... -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 ...

... e on the magnitudes and distances of the sun and moon, edited by John Walh's in 1688, describes a theoretically valid method for determining the relative distances of the sun and moon by measuring the angle between their centres when half the lunar disk is ill ...

AUBREY. JOHN (1626-1697), English antiquary, wu born at Easlon Picrscor Perry, near Malmcsbury, Wiltshire, on the I2th of March 1626, his father being a country gentleman of considerable fortune. He was educated at the Malmcsbury grammar school under Robert La ...

... s of Cretaceous beds and lies buried far below the surface. At Lemberg a boring 1650 ft. in depth did not reach the base of the Senonian. West of Cracow the Cr> ous beds are underlaid by Jurassic and Triassic deposits, the general dip being eastward. It is not ...

... ormerly 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 lofty tower, and containing an interesting collection of ...

... n hardware. In Enfield and its vicinity much tobacco is grown. First settled in 1679, Enfield was a part of the township of Springfield, Massachusetts, until 1683, when it wa» made a separate township; in 1749 it became a part of Connecticut. At a town meeting ...

... es of engraving — line-engraving, etching, mezzotint or wood-engraving — the woodcut is historically the earliest. Line-engraving is now practically obsolete, while etching and mezzotint have recently come more and more to the front. To the draughtsman the dif ...

... , with brief life of Erastus (based on Melchior Admin's account), was issued in 1659, entitled The Nullity of Church Censures; it was reprinted as A Treatise of Excommunication (1682), and, as revised by Robert Lee, D.D., in 1844. The aim of the work is to sho ...

... be brittle. The ground used by Abraham Bosse, the French painter and engraver (1602-1676) was composed as follows: — Melt 2 oz. of white wax; then add to it i oz. of gum-mastic in powder, a little at a time, stirring till the wax and the mastic are well mingl ...

... Carthaginians, with the result that they obtained control of Corsica (Herod, i. 166), and this union continued for many generations.1 That this treaty was no exceptional one is shown by Aristotle (Pol. iii. 96, Op. ii. 261), who says that there were numerous t ...

... her, the Protestant pastor of the village, entered the gymnasium at Zittau in 1816 and studied from 1823 to 1826 at the university of Leipzig. After a period of about two years during which he was partly abroad and partly at Gcrsdorf. he proceeded to Jena, whe ...

... ents Christ; and in the Inscription of Aberdus, bishop of Hierapolis about A.D. 160, we have this symbolism enshrined in a literary form: " In company with Paul I followed, while everywhere Faith led the way, and set before me the fish from the fountain, might ...

... es) , Plato, whose unique coin is dated from the year 147 of the Seleucid era (=166 B.C.), and others — are known only from coins with Greek and Indian legends. In the west the Parthian king Mithradates I. began to enlarge his kingdom and attacked Eucratides; ...

... rom the mouth of the Kara to the mouth of the Ural river the direct distance is 1600 m., but the boundary line has a length of 2400 m. Two of the most striking features in the general conformation of Europe are the great number of its primary and secondary pen ...

... 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 ...

... splendour. Still less credible is the account which Pliny gives (H. N. xxxvi. 116) of two wooden theatres built by C. Curio in 50 B.C., which were made to revolve on pivots, so that the two together could form an amphitheatre in the afternoon, after having be ...

... ly first given currency in England (though 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 Ind ...

... rfaces are prevailing plateau-like in their evenness, with altitudes of 1400 to 1600 ft. in their higher areas. In this province, therefore, we find a part of one of those ancient mountain regions, initiated by crustal deformation, but reduced by long continue ...

... etached Cachl, Gulumpaii and Famatina ranges project southward ; and the Sierra dc Santa Victoria, south of which are the Zenta, Aconquija, Ambato and Anoute ranges. These minor range*, excepting the Zenta. are separated from the Andean masses by comparatively ...

much influence on the later literature of Europe, were Englished in the nth century with considerable skill. To the same period belongs the curious tract on The Wonders of the East. In these works, and some minor productions of the time, we see that the minds

or entirely of cells directly derived from the surface epithelium, may be formed. In this way originate the central nervous system, the sensitive surfaces of the special sense organs, the glands, and the hairs, nails, &c. The epithelial cells possess typical m

ANGOULBMB, CHARLES DE VALOIS, DUKE OF (1573-1650), the natural son of Charles IX. of France and Marie Touchet, was born on the 28th of April 1573,31 the castle of Fayet in Dauphine. His father, dying in the following year, commended him to the care and favour ...

... by a dome, and the extremity of the north transept by a fine square tower over 160 ft. high. The hotel de ville, also by Abadie, is a handsome modern structure, but preserves two towers of the chateau of the counts of Angoule'me, on the site of which it is bu ...