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TEA-POY (Hindustani tepdi), a small table, supported upon a tripod, or even upon four legs, for holding a tea-service or • an urn. The word was also sometimes applied to a large porcelain or earthenware tea-caddy, and more frequently to the small bottles, ofte ...

... y Permian. The Carboniferous Limestone beneath it and around it is red-brown instead of grey, and is famous for its richness in fish remains. A hummocky irregular country spreads southward, where the Silurian axis is encountered, in continuation of the souther ...

... sts as suitable athletic exercises within doors " dcambulations, labouryng with poyses made of ledde, lifting and throwing the heavy stone or barre, playing at tennis," and dwells upon " rennyng " as a "igood exercise and laudable solace." It is probable that ...

... cco, sugar, hemp and indigo. The forests produce abundance of excellent oak and teak timber. The natives of Arakan trace their history as far back as 2666 B.C., and give a lineal succession of 227 native princes down to modern times. According to them, their e ...

... ral sparsely watered and somewhat sterile. The approach to the great central plateau of Africa is marked by a series of irregular terraces. This intermediate mountain belt is covered with luxuriant vegetation. Water is fairly abundant, though in the dry season ...

... ant of the suburbs lie towards the east, where the promontory joins the main plateau, of which it forms the north-western extremity. The main line of the Orleans railway passes through a tunnel beneath the town. In place of its ancient fortifications Angoule'm ...

... s of Anne of Austria in the old Louvre. F. Fouquet also employed him for his chateau in Vaux. See Henri Stein, LesfrZres Anguier (1889), with catalogue of works, and many references to original sources; Armand Sanson, Deux sculpteurs Normands: les freres Angui ...

... uchy four grammar schools (gymnasia), five semi-classical and modern schools, a teachers' seminary and four high-grade girls' schools. Of the whole surface, land under tillage amounts to about 60, meadowland to 7 and forest to 25 %. The chief crops are corn (e ...

... e is manufactured by reducing nitrobenzene with iron and hydrochloric acid and steam-distilling the product. The purity of the product depends upon the quality of the benzene from which the nitrobenzene was prepared. In commerce three brands of aniline are dis ...

... -beat and respiration-number become diminished,drowsiness supervenes, becoming steadily deeper until it passes into the sleep of death. Occasionally, however, convulsions may set in towards the end, and a death somewhat similar to that of asphyxia takes place. ...

... ed by railway, and for about 60 m. along the coast lagoons, a service of small steamers. The city occupies a commanding position, being chiefly built on the summit and slopes of a long and narrow rocky ridge, which extends north and south for about i\ m., divi ...

ANTEATER, a term applied to several mammals, but (zoologically at any rate) specially indicating the tropical American anteaters of the family Uyrmecopkagidae (see EDENTATA). The typical and largest representative of the group is the great anteater or ant-bear ...

... rtained his friends, and then subjected it to a miniatureearthquake by sending steam through the tubes. Secondly, he simulated thunder and lightning, the latter by flashing in Zeno's eyes an in tolerable light from a slightly hollowed mirror. Certain it is tha ...

... r solitary species have been described, viz. Haimea funebris and H. hyalina, Hartea elegans, and Manoxenia Darwinii; but it is doubtful whether these are not the young forms of colonies. For the present the solitary forms may be placed in a grade, Protalcyonac ...

... tment with the higher pyridine bases, the operation being carried out in large steam-jacketed boilers. The whole mass dissolves on heating, and the anthracene crystallizes out on cooling. The crystallized anthracene is then removed by a centrifugal separator a ...

... Llanelly. the ANTHRACOTHERIUM— ANTHRAX central and eastern portions producing steam, coking and house coals. Anthracites of newer, tertiary or cretaceous age, are found in the Crow's Nest part of the Rocky Mountains in Canada, and at various points in the And ...

... ment, the mixture is run into lead-lined vats and treated with sulphuric acid, steam is blown through the mixture in order to bring it to the boil, and the anthracene is rapidly oxidized to anthraquinone. When the oxidation is complete, the anthraquinone is se ...

... emite, who had been made a wanderer by the destruction of his nationality, was steadily trained, through centuries, to become an urban European, with all the parasitic activities of urban economics, and all the democratic tendencies of occidental industrialism ...

... Ooi). Thither he attracted the poorer classes by the simplicity of his life and teaching. He wore a cloak and carried a staff and a wallet, and this costume became the uniform of his followers. Diogenes Laertius says that his works filled ten volumes, but of t ...

... tivari is the name applied both to Prstan and the old town. The Austrian Lloyd steamers call at times, and the " Puglia " S.S. Company runs a regular service of steamers to and from Bari. As an outlet for Montenegrin commerce, however, Antivari cannot compete ...

... ained intelligence and the sincerest desire for the welfare of his subjects. Instead of plundering to support his prodigality, he emptied his private treasury to assist distressed provinces and cities, and everywhere exercised rigid economy (hence the nickname ...

... r of hills is seen beyond the Lagan valley, marking the edge of the basaltic plateaus, and running almost continuously round the coast to Red Bay. Below it, Triassic beds are exposed from Lisburn to Island Magce, giving sections of red sands and marls. Above t ...

... first order. He cut the wood blocks for the books which he printed in Tirgovishtea, Ramnicu, Snagov and Bucharest. He was also the first to introduce Oriental founts of type into Rumania, and he printed there the first Arabic missal for the Christians of the ...

... a series of long poems, and a number of simpler lyrics. His longest piece, The Tears of Khorassan, was translated into English verse by Captain Kirkpatrick (see also PERSIA: Literature).

... aying any marked talent, although his stage experience later stood him in good stead. In 1869 he became a clerk in the Viennese police department, but having in the following year made a success with his anti-clerical drama, Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld, he gave ...

... ace are extensive, and include iron and copper founding and the manufacture of steam-engines, machinery, chain-cables and a great variety of heavy iron goods. There are also glass-works and breweries.

... ated 1910 ft. above sea-level, at the confluence of the Buthier and the Dora Baltea, and at the junction of the Great and Little St Bernard routes. Pop. (1901) 7875. The cathedral, reconstructed in the nth century (to which one of its campanili and some archit ...

... by the Apalachirola Northern railway (to Chattahoochee, Florida), and by river steamers which afford connexion with railways at Carrabcllc about 25 m. distant, at Chatahoochee (or River Junction), and at Columbus and Bainbridge, Georgia, and by ocean-going ves ...

... spoke and taught with power and success. He may have captivated his hearers by teaching " wisdom," as P. \V. Schmicdcl suggests, in the allegorical style of Philo, and he was evidently a man of unusual magnetic force. There seems to be some contradiction betw ...

... f the soul; Athanasius himself, in De Incarnatione Dei, §§ 4, 5, tones down the teaching of Wisdom; and the somewhat eccentric writer Arnobius, a layman — from Justin Martyr downwards apologetics has always been largely in the hands of laymen — stands for what ...

... n, Rom. xvi. 7; and his view has since been emphasized' by the discovery of the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (see DiDACHf.), with its itinerant order of " apostles," who, together with " prophets " (cf. Eph. ii. 20, iii. 5) and " teachers," constituted a ch ...

... nternal character, are regarded as )elonging to the main stream of the Church's teaching during the period between the Apostles and the Apologists (i.e. to c. A.D. 140). Or to put it more exactly, the " Apostolic Fathers " represent, chronologically in the mai ...

... thority ifctloat!' of some kind, (a) The earliest known to us is the Didache or Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, itself compiled from earlier materials, and dating from about uo (see DIDACH£). (b) The Apostolic Church Order (apostolische Kirchenordnung of Germ ...

... ly distinguished from the Apoftoolitins, Mennonites of Frisia, who followed the teachings of the pastor Samuel Apostool (ibjS-beginning of iSth century). In the Mennonite church they represent the rigid, conservative party, as opposed to the Galenists, who inc ...

... his patron. He afterwards retired to Crete, where he earned a scanty living by teaching and by copying manuscripts. Many of his copies are still to be found in the libraries of Europe. One of them, the Icones of Philostratus at Bologna, bears the inscription: ...

... s Julius), the first of a new class of deities proper (dim). The tradition was steadily followed and was extended to some ladies of the imperial family and even to imperial favourites. Worship of an emperor during his lifetime, except as the worship of his gen ...

... with the various objects of his study and the necessary appliances; it is not a teaching institution. 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 a ...

... uppressed in 1751, and the sees of Udine and Gorizia (Gorz) established in its stead. Its buildings served as stone quarries for centuries, and no edifices of the Roman period remain above ground. Excavations have revealed one street and the north-west angle o ...

... raging between the university and the Friar-Preachers respecting the liberty of teaching, resisting both by speeches and pamphlets the authorities of the university; and when the dispute was referred to the pope, the youthful Aquinas was chosen to defend his o ...

... a Maria dei Miracoli there, by the Lombard!; and many of the carvings of the Chateau de Gaillon. France — all of which fairly illustrate the beauties and capabilities of the style. See also Wornum, Analysis of Ornament (1874). . (R. N. W.)