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EMERIC - DAVID, TOUSSAINT - BERNARD (1755-1839), French archaeologist and writer on art, was born at Aix, in Provence, on the 2oth of August 1755. He was destined for the legal profession, and having gone in 1775 to Paris to complete his legal education, he ac ...

DAVID TENIERS, the elder (1582-1649), v/as born at Antwerp. Having received his first training in the painter's art from his brother Juliaen, he studied under Rubens in Antwerp, and subsequently under Elsheimer in Rome; he became a member of the Antwerp gild o ...

EINHORN. DAVIO (1809-1879), leader of the Jewish reform movement in the United States of America, was born in Bavaria. He was a supporter of the principles of Abraham Geigcr (q.v.), and while still in Germany advocated the introduction of prayers in the vernac

... e distinguished sympathizers are Edward Gibbon, who has the dcistic spirit, and David Hume, the historian and philosophical sceptic, who has at least the letter of the deistic creed (Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion), and who uses Pascal's appeal to " fai ...

... cultural Society was once wont 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.) h ...

... tion; but the main precedent now relied upon is that of Dr Watson, bishop of St Davids, who was deprived in 1695 by Archbishop Tennison for simony and ' I'nless the case of the claim of Mark, bishop of Carlisle, to be tried by his ordinary instead of by a temp ...

... aport of the district of South Arcot is Cuddalore, close to the site of Fort St David. The principal crops in both districts are rice, millet, other food grains, oil-seeds and indigo.

... r a remarkable period of obscurity, the ark enters suddenly into the history of David (2 Sam. vi.). Some time after the capture of Jerusalem the ark was brought from Baal-Judah, but at the threshing-floor of Nacon (an unintelligible name) Abinadab's son Uzzah ...

... he Book of Chronicles makes Asaph a seer (2 Chron. xxix. 30), contemporary with David and Solomon, and chief of the singers of his time.

... ptions de Piyadasi, by E. Senart (Paris, 1891); chapters on Asoka in T. W. Rhys Davids's Buddhism(2Oth ed.,London, 1903), and Buddhist India (London, 1903) ; V.A.Smith, Edicts of Asoka (1909). (T.W.R.D.)

... cal mode of attack has still the preference over any of the indirect plans. Sir David Gill derived a highly satisfactory value of 8-78' for the long-sought constant from the opposition of Mars in 1877, and from combined heliometer observations at five observat ...

... nded in 1854 by pro-slavery partisans, and was named in honour of their leader, David Rice Atchison, a United States senator. The city was quickly surpassed by Leavenworth in commercial importance, and during the Kansas struggle was never of great political im ...

... efinitely isolated. Carbon dioxide is invariably present, as was inferred by Dr David Macbride (1726-1778) of Dublin in 1764, but in a proportion which is not absolutely constant; it tends to increase at night, and during dry winds and fogs, and it is greater ...

... . in the Bodleian, Oxford. See also John Britton, Memoir of John Aubrey (1845); David Masson, in the British Quarterly Review, July 1856; Emile Montegut, Ileurcs de lecture d'un critique (1891); and a catalogue of Aubrey's collections in The Life and Times of ...

... lonel and brevet colonel; and in the following year, as adjutant-general to Sir David Baird in Egypt, took a distinguished share in the march across the desert and the capture of Alexandria. On his return to England in 1803 he was knighted, and three years lat ...

... ng of France. Between 1335 and 1342 he went three times to Scotland to aid King David Bruce in his wars. In 1342 he became captain for the king of France in Brittany; then he seems to have served in the household of the duke of Normandy, and in 1346, as one of ...

... Creole. He was educated in Paris, where he had lessons from the painter, J. L. David. Returning to America in 1798 he settled on a farm near Philadelphia, and gave himself up to the study of natural history, and especially to drawing birds. In 1826 he went to ...

... er minerals. In repeating and extending the experiments of Hauy much later, Sir David Brewster discovered that various artificial salts were pyro-electric, and he mentions the tartrates of potash and soda and tartaric acid as exhibiting this property in a very ...

... peared in 1 705 and 1709. He also published some volumes of poems, among them a Davideis in five books. He died on the ist of March 1714. The History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood: written by his own hand (1714) has been many times reprinted.

... to the hand of his cousin." Hottentots seldom marry out of their own kraal, and David Livingstone quotes other examples. Endogamy seems to have existed in the Sandwich Islands and in New Zealand. A community of Javans near Surabaya, on the Teugger Hills, numbe ...

... contemporaries, Tiberius Hemsterhuis (1685-1766), L. C. Valckenaer (1715-1785), David Ruhnken (1723-1798), or his colleague J. J. Reiske (1716-1774). The higher criticism was not even attempted by Ernesti. But to him and to Gesner is due the credit of having f ...

ERSKINE. HENRY (1746-1817), lord advocate of Scotland, the second son of Henry David, loth earl of Buchan and brother of the lord chancellor Erskine, was born in Edinburgh on the ist of November 1746. He was educated at the universities of St Andrews, Glasgow ...

... people; so also in the blessing of Jacob (xlix.) and of Moses (Deut. xxxiii.). David's last words (2 Sam. xxiii.) blend together his desire that his family should retain the kingship, and his aspiration for a kingdom of righteousness on earth. The conception ...

... Among earlier names mention may be made of Andrew Geddes (1783-1844) and of Sir David Wilkie (1785-1841). Geddes was the finer artist with the needle; he it was whom Rembrandt best inspired; his work was in the grand manner. Of the rich and rare dry-points " A ...

... concerning the cup : — We give thanks to thee.our Father, for the holy vine1 of David thy servant, which thou didst make known to us through Jesus thy servant;2 to thee be the glory for ever. " 3. And concerning the broken bread: — We give thanks to thee, our ...

... rem of Euclid's Phaenomena, whence, and from the interpolation of other proofs, David Gregory infers that this treatise is corrupt. The Optics and Catoptrics ('OjirwcA, KaTorrpucd) are ascribed to Euclid by Proclus, and by Marinus in his preface to the Data, b ...

... earl of Lennox, and was mother of Lord Darnley. He was succeeded by his nephew David, son of Sir George Douglas of Pittendriech.

... succession, and received by observing the 1 From correspondence found among Sir David Brewster's papers after his death it seems highly probable that the writer of this letter, which was signed " C. M.," was Charles Morrison, a surgeon and a native of Greenock ...

... al. Augustin yiesca. Henry Smith, provisional Period of the Republic (1836-46)* David G. Burnet, provisional Sam Houston Mirabeau B. Lamar Sam Houston Anson Jones ... 1835-36 1836-38 1838-41 1841-44 1844-46 1 Coahuila and Texas, 1690-1725, Texas alone 1725-182 ...

... Festival of the Supreme Being, decreed by the National Convention, designed by David and conducted by Robespierre, was perhaps the most impressive spectacle of the close of the i8th century. The ipth century saw spectacle devoted almost exclusively to theatri ...

... D. Zschokke's standard rationalistic work with the same title, and his reply to David Strauss's Life of Jesus (Glaubwurdigkeit der evangelischen Geschichte, 1837). He published at various times valuable contributions towards a history of rationalism — Vorgesch ...

... ame public property in 1892. The church of All Hallows, Tottenham, was given by David, king of Scotland (c.ii26), to the canons of the church of Holy Trinity, London. It retains Perpendicular portions, a south porch of brick of the i6th century and numerous an ...

... should be forbidden in all territory to be acquired under the act (see WILMOT, DAVID). In the end apparent expediency carried the dominant party off to " squatter sovereignty," and the Democratic adherents of the Wilmot Proviso, with the Liberty party and the ...