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was the life depicted on the canvas of Hogarth and the pages of Fielding. All high imagination, all devotion to the public weal, seemed laid asleep. But the political instinct was not dead, and it would one day express itself for better ends than an agitation

... derable place in English Pml'rliterature, notably John Ruskin (Modern Painters, 1842, Seven Lamps, 1849, Stones of Venice, 1853), William Morris, John Addington Symonds and Walter Pater. Browning, it is true, shared the discipleship of the first two with Kings ...

the summit of the San Francisco Mountain* one may pan rapidly through all these down into the Painted Desert. The BorealCanadian, Transition and Upper Sonoran embrace the highlands. Coyotes are very common; wild cats and mountain lions are fairly plentiful. De

... al rod or tendon. Natural size. (From Lankester, Q. J. Hie. Set.. N5. ml. niv.. 1884.) Limulus an Arachnid. — Modern views as to the classification and affinities of the Arachnida have been determined by the demonstration that Limulus and the extinct Eurypteri ...

... outhern bank of the Congo (6° S., 12° E.) to the mouth of the Kunene river (17° 18' S., 11° 50' E.). The coast-line is some ooo m. long. On the north the Congo forms for 80 m. the boundary separating Angola from the Congo Free State. The frontier thence (in 5° ...

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 ...

... on the border. In July the guardianship of the king was entrusted to him for a fixed period till the ist of November, but he refused at its close to retire, and advancing to Linlithgow put to flight Margaret and his opponents. He now with his followers engross ...

... T, a duchy of Germany, and a constituent state of the German empire, formed, in 1863, by the amalgamation of the two duchies Anhalt-Dessau-Cothen and Anhalt-Bernburg, and comprising all the various Anhalt territories which were sundered apart in 1603. The coun ...

... ), an organic base first obtained from the destructive distillation of ndigo in 1826 by O. Unverdorben (Pogg. Ann., 1826, 8, p. 397), who named it crystalline. In 1834, F. Runge (Pogg. Ann., 1834, 31, p. 65; 32, p. 331) isolated from coal-tar a substance which ...

... sibility of distinguishing the sacred few from the profane crowd; (2) one or a fixed number of a species arc sacred. It is probable that the first of these forms is the primary one and the second in most cases a development from it due to (i.) the influence of ...

... s. First, he made a number of leathern tubes the ends of which he contrived to fix among the joists and flooring of a fine upper-room in which Zeno entertained his friends, and then subjected it to a miniatureearthquake by sending steam through the tubes. Seco ...

... of Ara Coeli, near Padua, on the I3th of June 1231. He was canonized by Gregory IX. in the following year, and his festival is kept on the I3th of June. He is regarded as the patron saint of Padua and of Portugal, and is appealed to by devout clients for findi ...

... oid. The individual animal or zooid of Actinia equina has the form of a column fixed by one extremity, called the base, to a rock or other object, and bearing at the opposite extremity a crown of tentacles. The tentacles surround an area known as the peristome ...

... sing ortho-brombenzyl bromide with sodium, C. L. Jackson and J. F. White (Ber., 1879, 12, p. 1065) obtained dihydro- anthracene C,H,<^H«Br-f4Na+Br(,^>C.H.-4NaBr-|-C.H,<^|{|>C,H,. Anthracene has also been obtained by heating ortho-tolylphenyl ketone with zinc d ...

ANTHRAQUINONE, CuHsOi, an important derivative of anthracene, first prepared in 1834 by A. Laurent. It is prepared commercially from anthracene by stirring a sludge of anthracene and water in horizontal cylinders with a mixture of sodium bichromate and caustic ...

... n this malady that disease-producing germs (bacteria) were first discovered, in 1849, by Pollender of Wipperfurih, and, independently, by veterinary surgeon Braucll of Dorpat, and their real character afterwards verified by C. J. Davaine (1812-1882) of Alfort ...

... turning the palm uppermost at will; in the possession of a long vermiform appendix to the short caecum of the intestine; in the size of the cerebral hemispheres and the complexity of their convolutions. They differ in certain respects, as in the proportion of ...

... se countries than elsewhere. This was apparent even before the emancipations of 1848. Towards the middle of the iSth century, a limited number of wealthy f, Jews had been tolerated as Schulz-Juden outside the ghettos, and their sons, educated as Germans under ...

... r a rising with the rest of Latium against Rome, and the beaks (rostra) of the six captured Antiatine ships decorated and gave their name to the orators' tribunal in the Roman Forum. At the end of the Republican period it became a resort of wealthy Romans, and ...

ANTONELLI, GIACOMO (1806-1876), Italian cardinal, was born at Sonnino on the 2nd of April 1806. He was educated for the priesthood, but, after taking minor orders, gave up the idea of becoming a priest, and chose an administrative career. Created secular prela ...

... ; Quintilian, Instil, iii. I, 19; O. Enderlein, De M. Antonio oratore (Leipzig, 1882). 2. MARCUS ANTONIUS, nicknamed CRETICUS in derision, elder son of Marcus Antonius, the " orator," and father of the triumvir. He was praetor in 74 B.C., and received an extra ...

... 69, and Gardiner's Commonwealth, i. 153. 2 Hallam, Const. Hist., iii. 396 (ed. 1855). '53 the highest points arc Knocklayd (1605 ft.), Slieveanorra (1676), TrosUn (1817), Slcmish (1457), and Divis (1367). The inland slope is gradual, but on the northern shore ...

... his districts, being well received the following year by James in London. In 1618 he was created Viscount Dunluce, and subsequently he was appointed a privy councillor and lord-lieutenant of the county of Antrim. On the I2th of December 1620 he was created ea ...

... cathedral. This church was begun in the i-ith century, but not finished till 1518. Its tower of over 400 ft. is a conspicuous object to be seen from afar over the surrounding flat country. A second tower which formed part of the original plan has never been e ...

... lustrating by maps the works of different travellers, such as Marchais. Charlevoix, Labat and Duhalde. For the history of China by the last-named writer he was employed to make an atlas, which was published separately at the Hague in 1737. In i73$and 1736 he b ...

... ment of a larger work by him (Ilepl Qduv). F.dition, with commentary, by Heyne (1803); text by Wagner (1894) (Mythographi Graeci, vol. i. Teubner series). Amongst other works by him of which only fragments remain, collected in Miiller, Fragmenta Historicorum G ...

... , and it is still unpublished except for a fragment of Book v. published by L. 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 ...

... y for the Augsburg Confession (1531); or J. H. Newman's Apologia pro vita sita (1864); or A. B. Bnice's Apologetics; or Christianity Defensively Staled (1802). Of course, defence easily passes into counterattack, as when early apologists denounce Greek and Rom ...

... e useful lesson. One of the best known is that of Jotham in the Book of Judges (ix. 7-15); others are " The City Rat and Field Rat," by Horace, " The Belly and its Members," by the patrician Menenius Agrippa in the second book of Livy, and perhaps most famous ...

... ofession") and to his disciples, generally, as represented by the Twelve (xvii. 18, with 3, 6 ff.). But while ideally all Christ's disciples were " sent " with the Father's Name in charge, there were different degrees in which this 1 The readmission of such ap ...

... ty. Then come interpolations to make this ascription more probable, and the prefixing of a title, then or subsequently, which states it as a fact. This is precisely the way in which the Apostolical Constitutions and other kindred documents have come into being ...

... red can br identified, some declaring by their modern names their ancient use: Aix-les-Bains in Savoy (Aquae Sabaudicae), Aiz-en-Provence (Aquae Sextiae), Aix-la-Chapelle or Aachen (Aquae Grant), &c. Only two occur in Britain: Aquae Suits — less correctly Aqua ...

... itution. The station was founded by Dr Anton Dohrn, and opened in the spring of 1874; it is the oldest and largest of all biological stations, of which there are now about thirty in existence. Its two buildings are situated near the seashore in the western tow ...

... ved his elementary education at the monastery of Monte Cassino, he studied for six years at the university of Naples, leaving it in his sixteenth year. While there he probably came under the influence of the Dominicans, who were doing their utmost to enlist wi ...

... t were respectively Bourges, Bordeaux and Eauze; the province contained twenty-six cities, and was in the diocese of Vienne. Like the rest of Gaul, Aquitania absorbed a large measure of Roman civilization, and this continued to distinguish the district down to ...

ARAGO, DOMINIQUE FRANCOIS JEAN (1786-1853), French physicist, was born on the 26th of February 1786, at Estagel, a small village near Perpignan, in the department of the eastern Pyrenees. He was the eldest of four brothers. Jean (17881836) emigrated to America ...

ARAKCHEEV. ALEKSYEI ANDREEVICH, COUNT (17601834), Russian soldier and statesman, was descended from an ancient family of Great Novgorod. From his mother, Elizabeth Vitlitsaya, he inherited most of his characteristics, an insatiable love of work, an almost peda ...

... iment into the lake; the delta of the Syr-darya increased by 13$ sq. m. between 1847 and 1900. The eastern coast is fringed with multitudes of small islands, and other islands, some of considerable size, are situated in the open towards the north and west. Kug ...

... emen " (224 lines), "On Luve" (10 lines), and "The Miseries of a Pure Scholar" (189 lines), and (6) a Latin account of the Arbuthnot family, Originis et Increments Arbutknoticae Familiae Descriptio Historic a (still in MS.), of which an English continuation, b ...

... ld's earliest days, held the land throughout historic times, without even an admixture of Dorian immigrants. Their customs and dialect persisted, the latter maintaining a peculiar resemblance to that of the equally conservative Cypriotes. Thus Arcadia lagged b ...