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FIRST edition, published in three volumes, 1768—1771. SECOND ten 1777—1784. THIRD eighteen 1788—1797. FOURTH twenty 1801—1810. FIFTH twenty 1815—1817. SIXTH twenty 18*3—1824. SEVENTH twenty-one 1830—1847. EIGHTH twenty-two 1853—1860. NINTH twenty-five 1875—188 ...

... n colonies for Alexander; and the pupil is said to have slept with his master's edition of Homer under his pillow, and to have respected him, until from hatred of Aristotle's tactless relative, Callisthenes, who was done to death in 328, he turned at last agai ...

... ne of the first founders, and his stall in St George's chapel, Windsor, was the eleventh on the side of Edward, the Black Prince. He appears to have served in France in 1346, and in August 1350 took part in the naval fight off Sluys. When hostilities were rene ...

... s parentage, his teachers, and the residence of his early years. In some of the editions of his works he is called Mcgarcnsis, as if he bad been born at Megara in Greece, a mistake which arose from confounding him with another Euclid, a disciple of Socrates. P ...

... mentioned, it was estimated by M. G. Mulhall (Industries and Wealth of Nations, edition of 1896, pp. 34-35) that Great Britain then produced approximately one-third, the United States one-third, and all other countries collectively one-third of the minerals of ...

... it thanks for assistance, and formally consult it before leaving home on an expedition; it seems, however, to be regarded as the messenger of the supreme god Balli Penyalong. The Kayans have a hawk-god, Laki Neho, but seem to regard the hawk as the servant of ...

... ysecond volume of the Hist, de FAcad. des Inicr. ; A. Westermann gave a revised edition of it in his Uapa&o^oypa<(>oi (Scriptora rerum mirabilium Graecf), 1839. In the course of constructions for surfaces to 'reflect to one and the same point (i) all rays in w ...

... a large number of classical works, which enjoyed great popularity, although his editions of classical authors were by no means in favour with schoolmasters, owing to the large amount of assistance, especially translations, contained in the notes.

... useum, i. (1893); D.C.Danielssen, "Report Norwegian North Atlantic Exploring Expedition," Zoology, xix. (1890); J. E. Ducrdcn, "Some Results on the Morphology and Development of Recent and Fossil Corals," Rep. Brit. Association, 1903, pp. 684-685; " The Morpho ...

... Marr's pamphlet was reprinted, and within a few months ran through nine further editions. The historian Treitschke gave the sanction of his great name to the movement. The Conservative and Ultramontane press rang with the sins of the Jews. In October an anti-S ...

... to the date or author. It is considered probable that the date of the original edition was the beginning of the 3rd century, while that which we possess is to be assigned to the time of Diocletian. If the author or promoter of the work is one of the emperors, ...

... nquest, the role of the antrustions became less important. For each of their expeditions, the kings raised an army of citizens in which the Gallo-Romans mingled more and more with the Franks; they only kept one small permanent body which acted as their bodygua ...

... ished memoirs and dissertations amounted to 78, and his maps to 211. A complete edition of his works was announced in 1806 by de Manne in 6 vols. quarto, only two of which had appeared when the editor died in 1832. See Dacier's A'/niy de d'Anville (Paris, 1802 ...

... e possess. His chief authorities were Aristarchus and Apion's Homeric glossary. Edition by Villoison (1773), I. Bekker (1833) ; Leyde, De Apollonii Sophistae Lexico Homerico (1885); E. W. B. Nicholson on a newly discovered fragment in Classical Review (Nov. 18 ...

... . Nix with German translation ( Drugulin, Leipzig, 1 889) . Halley added in his edition (1710) a restoration of Book viii., in which he was guided by the fact that Pappus gives lemmas " to the seventh and eighth books " under that one heading, as well as by th ...

... ithdrew to Rhodes, where he was very successful as a rhetorician, and a revised edition of his epic was well received. In recognition of his talents the Rhodians bestowed the freedom of their city upon him — the origin of his surname. Returning to Alexandria, ...

... tle of the oldest Paris MS., but found in later MSS. and almost all the printed editions) or Liber Creaturarum (c. 1435). The book is not what moderns (schooled unconsciously in post-Reformation developments of Thomist ideas) expect under the name of natural t ...

... otelier, to distinguish the writings rightly and wrongly assigned to such. Thus editions tended to vary with the historical views of editors. But the convenience of the category " Apostolic Fathers " to express not only those who might possibly have tad some s ...

... 38), now exceedingly rare; a collection of proverbs in Greek, of which a fuller edition appeared at Leiden, " Curante Hcinsio," in 1619; " Oratio Panegyrica ad Fredericum III." in Freher's Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum, vol. ii. (Frankfort, 1624); Gcorgii Gemi ...

AQUARIUS (the "Water-bearer" or "Cup-bearer"), in astronomy, the eleventh sign of the zodiac (?.«.), situated between Capricornus and Pisces. Its symbol is ==, representing part of a stream of water, probably in allusion to the fact that when the sun is in thi ...

... dary causes and predestination. The incriminated chapters were withdrawn in the edition of 1 591. In the fierce disputes that arose between the Jesuit theologians and the Dominicans on the subject of grace, Aquaviva managed, under Clement VIII. and Paul V., to ...

... the real existence of universals ante rem, in re and post rem. The best modern edition of the works of Aquinas is that prepared at the expense of Leo XIII. (Rome, 1882-1901). The Abbe Migne published a very useful edition of the Summa Theologiae, in four 8vo ...

... charge of peculation, unproved, was made against him in connexion with this expedition and he was placed on half-pay. During this time he joined a secret society formed by Ali Rubi with the object of getting rid of Turkish officers from the Egyptian army. Ara ...

... c., 1st seriea, v., and new series, ix. ; Grimm's Studies of ate AralCaspian Expedition; Nikolsky's " Fishing in Lake Aral, in Itcestia, Russ. Geop. Soc.. 1887; Prof. Mushketov, Turkestan, vol. i. (1886), which contains bibliographical references; Rosier, Die ...

... g as his successor Eugenius, a rhetorician, descended into Italy to meet the expedition which Theodosius was heading against him. He proclaimed himself the champion of the old Roman gods, and as a response to the appeal of Ambrose, is said to have threatened t ...

... ienne; and in 1877 a learned work upon Les Premiers Habitants de I' Europe (2nd edition in 2 vols. 1889 and 1894). Next he concentrated his efforts upon the field of Celtic languages, literature and law, in which he soon became an authority. Appointed in 1882 ...

... to do, with' valuable results, as in the case of David Douglas's remarkable expedition to North America in 1823-1824. It will be remembered that when the laird of Dumbiedikes lay dying (Scott's Heart of Midlothian, chap, viii.) he gave his son one bit of advi ...

... ntury, were first established in different countries. Evelyn's Sylva, the first edition of which appeared in 1664, rendered an extremely important service to arboriculture; and there is no doubt that the ornamental plantations in which England surpasses all ot ...

... th his contemporary and namesake, the Edinburgh printer, who produced the first edition of Buchanan's History of Scotland in 1582. Some have discovered in the publication of this work a false due to James's resentment against the principal of King's College. _ ...

... oforte piece by Liszt, does not seem to be traced to an earlier source than its edition by Sir Henry Bishop, which has possibly the same kind of origin in Arcadelt as the hymn tune " Palestrina " has in the delicate and subtle Gloria of Palestrina's Magnificat ...

... lier, the Norsemen frequented this part of the world (Bjarmeland) on trading expeditions; the best-known is that made by Ottar or Othere between 880 and ooo and described (or translated) by Alfred the Great, king of England. The modern town dates, however, fro ...

... richinopoly, Clive suggested an attack upon Arcot and offered to command the expedition. His offer was accepted; but the only force which could be spared to him was 200 Europeans and 300 native troops to attack a fort garrisoned by noo men. The place, however, ...

... ing the illustrations, is of value for the text, being the oldest of all. Among editions the first is of 1619, by Gretser; the best, that of 1877, by Tobler,' in Itinera et Descriptioncs Terrae Sanctae; we may also mention that of 1870, by Delpit, in his Essai ...

... d to the Hamilton party. He strongly opposed, but was unable to prevent, the expedition into • England, and in the subsequent reduction of Scotland, after having held out in Inveraray Castle for nearly a year, was at last surprised in August 1652 and submitted ...

... the wars between the two powers was a masterly neutrality. Thus, during the expedition of Alexander II. to the Western Isles in 1249, Ewan (Eoghan), lord of Argyll, refused to fight against the Norwegians; in 1263 the same Ewan refused to join Haakon of Norwa ...

... ragment of a treatise on metre, probably this treatise of Aristoxenus. The best edition is by Paul Marquard, with German translation and full commentary, Die harmonischen Fragments des Aristoxenus (Berlin, 1868). The fragments are also given in C.W. Miiller, F ...

... ed to be stored. It may be interesting to recall the account given in the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Brilannica (1771), which contained a summary of some of these various views (substantially repeated up to the publication of the eighth edition, 1853). ...

... lied the infanta on the defeat of the Armada and censured the conduct of the expedition to Buckingham's face. Buckingham declared he would have him hanged, to which the jester replied that " dukes had often been hanged for insolence but never fools for talking ...

... iae, are ascribed to him, but they are of very doubtful authenticity. Collected editions of them were published at Lyons in 1504 and 1532 (with a biography by Symphorianus Campcgius), at Basel in 1585, at Frankfort in 1603, and at Lyons in 1686. He is also the ...