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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

... e welcomed by the English king, and ratified at the treaty of Troyes (May ai, 1420). Henry married the princess Catherine, received the oaths of Duke Philip and his partisans, and started forth to conquer the Dauphinois at the head of an army of which half was ...

... 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 ...

... a pink digitate form popularly known as " dead men's fingers," is common in 10-20 fathoms of water off the English coasts. In the order PSEUDAXOMA the colonies arc upright and branched, of a number of short zooid* whose proximal end* are imbedded in a coenenc ...

... . Even Stocker raised his voice in protest against the " Ahlwardtismus " and " Bdckelianismus," and called upon his Conservative colleagues to distinguish between " respectable and disreputable anti-Semitism." As for the Liberals and Socialists, they filled th ...

... gy; so the New Testament tends to take its theism for granted. However, Rom. i. 20 has had great influence on Christian theology (e.g. Thomas Aquinas) in leading it to base theism upon reason or argument. One apologetic contention, aimed at Gentile readers, is ...

... 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 agricultural products. It a ...

... 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 ...

... written 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 ...

... th excess of sulphur obtained the value 74-3; J. Pelouze (Comples rendus, 1845, 20, p. 1047) titrated arsenic chloride with silver solution and obtained 75-0; and F. Kessler (Pogg. Ann. 1861, 113, p. 134) by converting arsenic trisulphide in hydrochloric acid ...

... 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 ...

... -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 ...

... y designated and defined. Cometary records of a vague kind go back in China to 2206 B.C.; they are intelligible and trustworthy from 6n B.C. onward. Two instruments constructed at the time of Kublai Khan's accession in 1280 were still extant at Peking in iSSi. ...

... De sanitate luenda, and suggests as suitable athletic exercises within doors " dcambulations, labouryng with poyses made of ledde, lifting and throwing the heavy stone or barre, playing at tennis," and dwells upon " rennyng " as a "igood exercise and laudable ...

... mam/ ha* remained above the sea; but the depression which lien immediately outiidc the Carpathian chain has at limes been covered by an arm of the sea and at other times has been i>il by a chain of salt lake*, to which the salt deposit* of \\ iehczka and numer ...

... bear testimony to the truth and accuracy of the engraved plates of the marquis dc Vogue. The preservation of these central Syrian remains, more or less intact, is considered to have been due either to the desertion of all the towns in which they were situated ...

... elevated in the eastern part (Hohe Eifel), where there are several points from 2000 up to 24 10 ft. above sea-level. In the west is the Schneifels or Schnee-Eifel ; and the southern part, where the most picturesque scenery and chief geological interest is fou ...

... mouth of the Ems, 49 m. N.W. from Oldenburg by rail. Pop. (1885) 14,019; (1903) 20,754. The Ems once flowed beneath its walls, but is now 2 m. distant, and connected with the town by a broad and deep canal, divided into the inner (or dock) harbour and the oute ...

... reached by many passes (over which excellent carriage roads were constructed 1820-1872). The Maloja (5935 ft.) is the route from Chiavenna and the Lake of Como to the Upper Engadine, which is also reached from Coire by the Julier (7504 ft.) and the Albula Pas ...

... rinter is an anagram of Jacobum Castelvetrum. In the Stationers' Register (June 20, 1589) the printing is said to have been " alowed " by Archbishop Whitgift. It consists of seventy-five Theses, followed by a Confirmatio in six books, and an appendix of letter ...

... the subject, that whilst thick lines agree perfectly well with the nature of woodcut, they are very apt to give an unpleasant heaviness to plate engraving of all kinds, whilst thin lines have generally a clear and agreeable appearance in plate engraving. Never ...

... c man is, speaking generally, round-headed, and it has been urged that round-headcdncss is entirely synchronous with the neolithic age, and that the long-headed palaeolithic species of mankind gave place all at once to the round-headed neolithic species. The p ...

... they came out of Lydia seems not impossible. Herodotus (i. 94) and Strabo (v. 220) tell of Lydians landing at the mouth of the Po and crossing the Apennines into Etruria. Thus it seems certain that though the earliest immigrants, known to the later Etruscans ...

... t's passion. In this article the history of the rite is first traced up to A.D. 200 in documents taken in their chronological order; differences of early and later usage are then discussed; lastly, the meaning of the original rite is examined. St Paul (i Cor. ...

... 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 ...

... ; and its most eastern, a spot near the north end of the Ural Mountains, in 66° 20' E. A line drawn from Cape St Vincent in Portugal to the Ural Mountains near Ekaterinburg has a length of 3293 m., and finds its centre in the W. of Russian Poland. From the mou ...

... d, 1881), vol. i. p. 294; J. D. Everett, Electricity (expansion of part iii. of Dcschanel's Natural Philosophy) (London, 1901), ch. iv. p. 20; A. Winkelmunn, Handbuch der Physik (Breslau, 1905), vol. iv. pp. 50-58 (contains a large number of references to orig ...

... 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 ...

... daurus Rofftt of the Acropoh^ „', ^ */~*"\ '" ' ^^^*~^~'lj=? " ~-V b .-•' Scale 20 yards. FIG. 2. From Dorpfeld and Rcisch, Das griechische Theater, ab, double western wall. be, single wall. °°> gg, walls terminating wings of auditorium. 6, /, entrances. c, th ...

... through the centre of this area at altitudes of about 1000 ft. rise to 1500 or 2000 ft. in the north-west, before descent is made to the lowlands of the stratified belt (St Lawrence-Champlain-Hudson valleys, described later on as part of the Great Appalachian ...

attacks were made upon the bishops in the Martin Marprelate tracts printed by a secret press; their author is unknown, but some who were probably connected with them were executed for publishing seditious libels. Whitgift's firmness met with success. During th

was compelled to give up the earldoms of Northumberland and Cumberland, which his father Henry had received from Stephen. He received instead only the earldom of Huntingdon, too far from the border to be a dangerous possession, to which he had a hereditary rig

... adquarters at Paletwa. The area of the Hill Tracts is 5233 sq. m. ; pop. (1901) 20,682. 0- G. Sc.)

... nce, and obtained some successes. In 1619 he received by bequest, ratified in 1620 by royal grant, the duchy of Angoule'me. Soon after he was engaged on an important embassy to Germany, the result of which was the treaty of Ulm, signed July 1620. In 1627 he co ...

... owns, four, vu. Dessau, Bernburg, Cdthen and Zerbst, have populations exceeding 20,000. The inhabitants of the duchy, who mainly In-long to the upper Saxon race, are, with the exception of about i .',000 Roman Catholics and 1700 Jews, members of the Evangelica ...