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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

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

... ysiologist (1810-1883), and Moritz Lazarus (1824-1903) and Heymann Steinthal (1823-1899) the national psychologists. In politics, too, Edward Lasker (1829-1884) and Ludwig Bamberger (18231899) had shown how Jews could put their country before party. when, at t ...

... 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 th ...

... ed; the fortifications had fallen into disrepair during the long peace. In A.D. 238, when the town took the side of the senate against the emperor Maximinus, they were hastily restored, and proved of sufficient strength to resist for several months, until Maxi ...

... one of Thomas's friends, gives 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 A ...

... Lyceum for twelve yean. In the thirteenth, after the death of Alexander (June 323) in the archonship of Cephisodorus (323-322), having departed to Chalcis, he died of disease (322), after a life of threc-and-wxty I. AJUSTOTLE'S Lire This account is practicall ...

... 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 ...

... ed by heating one part of arsenic with two parts of iodine, in a sealed tube to 230° C., forms dark cherryred prisms, which are easily oxidized, and are readily decomposed by water. Thetri-iodide, Asia, prepared by subliming arsenic and iodine together in a re ...

... 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 ...

... cts the celestial equator at two opposite points, the equinoxes, at an angle of 23° 27'. The vernal equinox is taken as the initial point on the sphere from which co-ordinates are measured in the equatorial and ecliptic systems. Referring to fig. I , the initi ...

... id stream, becoming latterly much slower. The Danube has in Austria a course of 234 m., and it drains an area of 50,377 sq.m. Its principal affluents in Austria, besides the Inn, are the Traun, the Enns and the March. The Dniester, which, like the Danube, flow ...

... ot-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 to expand the beat generated or a ...

... growths or ingrowths from these surfaces further structures, consisting largely DC. 23 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 sen ...

... Gauls, the Campanian cities by the Samnites, who took Capua (see CAMPANIA) in 423, and in 396, after a ten years' siege, Veii fell to the Romans. The battle of the Vadimonian Lake (309) finally extinguished Etruscan independence, though for nearly two centuri ...

... stor 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, where in 1830 he delivere ...

... This was the missa of the catechumens. The rest of the rite was called missa fidclium, because only the initiated remained. Similarly the collect with which often the rite began is the prayer ad colleclam, i.e. for the congregation met together or collected. ...

... Lapparent,1 960 ft. ; Murray,4 939 ft.; ft.; von Tillo,* 1040 it.; Heiderich,7 1230 ft.; Penck,1 meat of iht highnecessary, the nearest multiple of 5 ft. has been given: — Humboldt, 675ft-: Leipoldt,»975ft.: De ' Sujpan,' 950 ft. ; von Tillo,« I 1085 ft. The e ...

... oxes are mentioned, viz., " gentlemen's roomes " and " twoopennie roomes." A woodcut showing this arrangement of the interior is given in a collection of plays edited by Kirkman in 1672. The vexed question of the construction of these theatres has been much di ...

... y decided to adopt the academical calling. In 1821 he was Privatdozenl and in 1823 became professor extraordinarius of theology in Berlin, though he was at the same time active in the work of home and foreign missions. He lectured on the Old and New Testaments ...

... l £i m 3 u frontier. ^ v yi g *o Q O |X B < 3,929,625 — 3,929,214 — — 819,466 — 239,935 13,850 417,170 16-4 9-4 9-6 5,247,355 61,128 5,308,483 35-1 — 819,466 — 305,708 33,800 434,670 17-4 12-6 0-2 12-2 6,779,308 460,573 7,239,881 36-4 — 1,698,107 878,641! 407, ...

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

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

... tne coralline zone of the sea-coast. The species are few, not more than fifty (23). Some large species of peculiar genera are taken at great depths. Their movements are extremely sluggish. They are especially remarkable for the small size of the body and the ...

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

... 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 ...

... nce. Margaret, however, refused to have anything to do with her husband. On the 23rd, therefore, Angus forced his way into Edinburgh, but was fired upon by Margaret and retreated to Tantallon. He now organized a large party of nobles against Margaret with the ...

... tes for the financial year 19051906 placed the expenditure of the estate at £1,323,437. The public debt amounted on the 30th of June 1904 to £226,300. By convention with Prussia of 1867 the Anhalt troops form a contingent of the Prussian army. Appeal from the ...

... ter by the Seljuk Turks, five times by the Georgians between 1125 and 1209, in 1239 by the Mongols, and its ruin was completed by an earthquake in 1319. It is still surrounded by a double wall partly in •uins, and amongst the remains are a " patriarchal " chur ...

... en 36° C. and 38° C., or if the thermometer be placed in the axilla, between 36-23° C. and 37-5° C. In the mouth the reading would be from •25° C. to 1-5° C. higher than this; and in the rectum some -9° C. higher still. The temperature of infants and young chi ...

... king Peoples, p. 54; Internal. Archiv, xvii. 113; Tylor, Primitive Culture, li. 239; Fergusson, Tree and Serpent Worship; Mahly, Die Schlange im Mythus; Staniland Wake, Serpent Worship, &c.; i6th Annual Report of the American Bureau of Ethnology, p. 273, and b ...

... from its fruit spreading out like a star. The anise of the Bible (Matt, rxiii. 23) is A nethum or Peucedanum frovcotens, i.e. dill (?.».).

ANTEROS, pope for some weeks at the end of the year 235. Me died on the 3rd of January 236. His original epitaph was discovered in the Catacombs.

... A. Momrasen, Feste der Stadt Athen (1898); E. Rohde, Psyche (4th ed., 1907), p. 237.

ANTHONY OF PADUA, SAINT (1195-1231), the most celebrated of the followers of Saint Francis of Assisi, was born at Lisbon on the i sth of August 1195. Inhisfifteenthyearheentered the Augustinian order, and subsequently joined the Franciscans in i 220. He wished ...

... 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 ...

... he Chilean province of the same name, situated about 768 m. N. of Valparaiso in 23° 38' 39" S. lat. and 70° 24' 39" W. long. Pop. (est. 1902) 16,084. Antofagasta is the seaport for a railway running to Oruro, Bolivia, and is the only available outlet for the t ...

... 1453. He died on the 2nd of May 1459, and was canonized by Pope Adrian VI. in 1523. His feast is annually celebrated on the i3th of May. Antoninus had a great reputation for theological learning, and sat as papal theologian at the council of Florence (1439). O ...

... by Groebe in Pauly-VVissowa's Realencyclopddie; and a short but vivid sketch by dc Quincey in his Essay on Ike Caesars. 5. Lucius ANTONIUS, youngest son of Marcus Antonius Creticus, and brother of the triumvir. In 44, as tribune of the people, he brought forwa ...