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SOB, Abdallah, attempted to negotiate, but Mehemet Ali refused all overtures, and in January 1815 advanced into Nejd, defeated the Wahhabi army and occupied Ras, then the chief town in Kasim. Terms of peace were made, but on the retirement of the Egyptians Abd ...

... o stem the mischief he was causing. In April 1882 a Christian girl named Esther Sobymossi was missed from the Hungarian village of Tisza Eszlar, where a small community of Jews were settled. The rumour got abroad that she had been kidnapped and murdered by the ...

... and two other Egyptian colonels, summoned before a court-martial for acts of disobedience, were rescued by their soldiers, and the khedive was forced to dismiss his then minister of war in favour of Mahmud Sami. A military demonstration on the 8th of Septembe ...

... black hempen sandals, and a handkerchief wound round the head. Three counties — Sobrarbe, situated near the headwaters of the Cinca, Aragon, to the west, and Ribagorza or Ribagorca, to the east — are indicated by tradition and the earliest chronicles as the cr ...

... sfy him on account of its difficulties. Lastly, in the didactic work irtpl rA-yaSoB (Fragm. 27 seq.), containing his report of Plato's lectures on the Good, he was dealing with the same mathematical metaphysics which in his dialogue on Philosophy he criticized ...

... oses it, a small quantity of water leading to the formation of the oxybromide, AsOBr, whilst a large excess of water gives arsenious oxide, As4O6. Arsenic certainly forms two, or possibly three iodides. The di-iodide, AsjI4 or Aslj, which is prepared by heatin ...

... lity (including climate, fauna and flora), see S. Canals, Asturias: information sobre su presente estado (Madrid, 1900) ; and G. Casal, Memorial de historia AST Y AGES— ASYLUM natural y mttlifa it Ailurias (Ovicdo. IQOO). For the bbtory and • niriuiim. (here i ...

... ooms of the monasteries contain a marvellous series of documents, including chrysobulls of various emperors and princes, sigilla of the patriarchs, typica, irades and other documents, the study of which will throw an important light on the political and eccles ...

... rited qualities of self-reliance, love of liberty, strenuous virtue, sincerity, sobriety and fearless loyalty to ideals. The form of his ideals was modified by the metamorphic glow of Transcendentalism which passed through the region of Boston in the second qu ...

... tails he may consult the following works: — Fray Juan de San Geronimo, Memorial sobre la fundacion del Escorial y su fabrica, in the Coleccion de documentor ineditos para la historic de Espafta, vol. vii. ; Y. de Herrera, Sumario y breve declaracion de los dis ...

... or Don John he went heart and soul into all the prince's schemes. He began to disobey orders from Madrid and became entangled in intrigues to manage or even to coerce the king. In July 1577, and contrary to the king's orders, he came to Spain from Flanders, wh ...

... Turks, who held it till 1683, when it was regained by the united forces of John Sobteski, king of Poland, and Prince Charles of Lorraine. It was created an archbishopric in 1001. During the Turkish occupation of the town the archbishopric was removed to Tyrnau ...

... a) in the province of Minas Geraes, Brazil. It is found also with topaz and chrysoberyl in the gold-bearing gravels of the R. Sanarka in the South Urals; and is met with as a rarity in the mica-schist of the Kauris in the Austrian Alps.

... 557, made peace with Hrrry II. of France by the treaty of Cateau-Cambresis in I5SOBy this peace a term was put to the struggle between France on the one hand and the Empire and Spain on the other, and the n, kings of France and Spain were enabled to turn their ...

... r the death of the emperor, which occurred in 337, is a panegyric rather than a sober history, but contains much valuable material. Of Eusebius' apologetic works we Mill have the Contra Hieroclem, Praeparatio evangelica, Demonst^atio mnrtlica, and Theophania. ...

SUPERCARGO, a term in maritime law (adapted from the Span, sobrecargo, one over or in charge of a cargo) for a person employed on board a vessel by the owners of the cargo to manage their trade, sell the merchandise at the ports to which the vessel is sailing, ...

SURPLICE (Late Lat. super pelliceum; FT. super, over, and pellis, fur; Span, sobrepellice; Fr. surplis; in Ital. cotta and Ger. Chorrock, choir coat), a liturgical vestment of the Christian Church. It is a tunic of white linen or cotton material, with wide or ...

... based on a sort of communism and was apparently devoted to peace, industry and sobriety, but their actual plan was to combine all of the Indians from Canada to Florida in a great democratic confederacy to resist the encroachment of the whites. Tribal organiza ...

... ficacy in alleviating the effects of gun-shot wounds had gained for Teplitz the sobriquet of " the warriors' bath." Military baths are maintained in the town by the governments of Austria, Prussia and Saxony, and there are also bath-houses for the poor. Teplit ...

... re the Texas rock lizards (Sceloporus torguatus; S. clarkii; S. spinosus; S. consobrinus; S. dispar) are numerous. The tree swift, or scaly lizard, is also an inhabitant of western and south-western Texas. The green lizard, the fence lizard and whip-tailed liz ...

... because any Iwon would have destroyed the reality of the human nature. The same sober and thoughtful way of looking at things, and the same tendency to give prominence to the moral element, which characterize the commentaries of Theodore, appear also in his do ...

... ings of Jerome, Sulpicius Severus and Cassian for the West. It shows that the " sobriety " of the Antiochene scholars can be predicated only of their exegesis; their style of piety was as exaggerated in its devotion to the ideals of monasticism as was that of ...

... Baron Cuvier. On his return to Germany he maintained the claims of patient and sober anatomical research against the prevalent speculations of the school of Lorenz Oken, whose foremost antagonist he was long reckoned. His remarkable studies of the development ...

... ascended the White Nile to a point above Gondokoro, and explored a part of the Sobat, returning to Khartum in November. Baron Theodor von Heuglin (q.v.) and Dr H. Steudner having meantime joined the ladies at Khartum, the whole party set out in February 1863 ...

... y, for a state might possibly be weak or dilatory, or even itself inclined to disobedience. Thus the indirect taxes of customs and excise which the Federal government imposes are levied by Federal custom-house collectors and excisemen, and the judgments of Fed ...

... t-place here Dr Johnson stood hatless in the rain doing voluntary penance for disobedience to his father. A bas-relief commemorates the incident. The name of the town is locally Uxeter, or an approximate pronunciation. At Denstone, 5 m. N. of Uttoxeter, is St ...