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TRIUMPH (triumphus) , amongst the ancient Romans, the highest honour bestowed upon a victorious general. Originally it was only granted on certain conditions, which were subsequently relaxed in special cases. Only those who had held the .office of dictator, co ...

TRIUMPH OP REFORM (1793-1837) In appearance the great Whig landowners gave their support to Pitt, and in 1794 some of their leaders, the duke of Portland, Lord Fitz william, and Windham, entered the cabinet I%Z*rm. lo xrve under him. In reality it was Pitt who ...

... ., last due de Montmorency, at Moulins. To Michel are due the sculptures of the triumphal arch at the Porte St Denis, begun in 1674, to serve as a memorial for the conquests of Louis XIV. A marble group of the Nativity in the church of Val de Grace was reckone ...

... excluding the anti-Semites from his blessing, the elections resulted in a great triumph for the Jewhaters. The municipal council was immediately dissolved by the government, and new elections were ordered, but these only strengthened the position of the anti-S ...

... hus, in Gray's ode called " The Progress of Poesy," the strophe, which dwelt in triumphant accents on the beauty, power and ecstasy of verse, is answered by the antistrophe, in a depressed and melancholy key — " Man's feeble race what ills await, Labour, and P ...

... ing assigned to him. Here he was so successful against the pirates that a naval triumph was awarded him. He was consul in 99, censor 97, and held a command in the Marsic War in 90. An adherent of Sulla, he was put to death by Marius and Cinna when they obtaine ...

... ublic baths, the Odeum and the Forum Trajanum, within the city of Rome; and the triumphal arches at Beneventum and Ancona. The Trajan column in the centre of the Forum is celebrated as being the first triumphal monument of the kind. On the accession of Hadrian ...

... we leave the New Testament, apologetics becomes conspicuous until the political triumph of Christianity, and even somewhat later. The atmosphere is no longer Jewish but fully Greek. True there are, as always, Jewish controversialists. Justin Martyr writes a Di ...

... rs (1866), is a history of the apologue from the earliest times until its final triumph in France.

... in Rom. Mitteilungen, 1003, p. 143). Outside, on the south is a well-preserved triumphal arch with composite capitals, and close to it the nth-century basilica of S. Maria Libera, a handsome building in the Romanesque style, but now roofless. Several Roman in ...

... ther secured by the alliance with the English opposition, and by the subsequent triumph of the parliament and Presbyterianism in the neighbouring kingdom. The sovereign himself, after vainly contending hi arms, was a prisoner in their midst. But Argyll's influ ...

... ive by Caesar. Caesar took her with him to Rome as a precaution. After Caesar's triumph she was allowed to return to Alexandria. After the battle of Philippi she was put to death at Miletus (or in the temple of Artemis at Ephesus) by order of Mark Antony, at t ...

... iddle of the 4th century B.C. as the period when Babylonian astrology began its triumphal march to the west, invading the domain of Greek and Roman culture and destined to exerdse a strong hold on all nations and groups — more particularly in Egypt — that came ...

... boundaries of the tun's dominion. These successes paved the way for the higher triumphs of Joseph Louis Lagrange and of Pierre Simon Laplace. The subject of the lunar librations was treated by Lagrange *""""~JJJ" with great originality in an essay crowned by ...

... uis Bennett, called "Deerfoot," a full-blooded Seneca Indian, repeated Seward's triumphs,establishing running records up to 12 miles. In 1878 the Canadian, C. C. Mclvor, champion sprinter of America, went to England, but failed to beat his British professional ...

... re, in 1666, engraved for Le Brun " Constantino's Battle with Maxentius," his " Triumph," and the " Stoning of Stephen," which gave great satisfaction to the painter, and placed Audran in the very first rank of engravers at Paris. Next year he set out for Rome ...

... unged into war. He was hated in his day as the arch-opponent of reform, yet the triumph of the reform movement would have been impossible but for the peace his policy secured. To say this is not to say that the attitude of the Tory government towards the great ...

... led upon Edtvos to address it. The February revolution of 1848 was the complete triumph of Eotvos' ideas, and he held the portfolio of public worship and instruction in the first responsible Hungarian ministry. But his influence extended far beyond his own dep ...

... ns (Dion. Hal. iii. 61); for instance, the diadem worn by those honoured with a triumph, the ivory sceptre and the embroidered toga (Tertull.£>eCor. 13), and so too the golden bulla and the praetexta (Festus, s.v. " Sardi "). Such things give us an idea as to ...

... lenheim (?.v.) on the 3rd of August 1704, where the English and imperial troops triumphed over one of the finest armies that France had ever sent into Germany. But since Prince Eugene had quitted Italy, Vendome, who commanded the French army in that country, b ...

... lish their predominance in Italy. Frederick's death in 1250 marked not only the triumph of the papacy in Italy, but also that of feudalism in Germany. He has been called the " most dazzling of the long line of imperial failures," and with him ends the Empire a ...

... re, in 1666, engraved for Le Brun " Constantino's Battle with Maxentius," his " Triumph," and the " Stoning of Stephen," which gave great satisfaction to the painter, and placed Audran in the very first rank of engravers at Paris. Next year he set out for Rome ...

... hich in 1440 he added the front. In this he was evidently inspired by the Roman triumphal arch in that city, and his interpretation of it, to meet the requirements in its facade which were imposed upqn him by the existing nave, was admirable. Unfortunately the ...

... t on with varying fortune, but at last the courage and determination of Ibrahim triumphed, and on the gth of September, after a heroic resistance, Abdallah, with a remnant of four hundred men, was compelled to surrender. The Wahhabi leader was soon after sent ...

... was revived and Sulla was in fact emperor of Rome. After celebrating a splendid triumph for the Mithradatic War, and assuming the surname of " Felix " (" Epaphroditus," " Venus's favourite,"1 he styled himself in addressing Greeks), he carried in 80 and 79 his ...

... and the purity of his expression. Thenceforward his career was a succession of triumphs. In order to disprove the popular idea that he could execute no music but his own, he played Beethoven's Concerto in C minor (Op. 37) at the London Wednesday Concerts, hel ...

... he splendour and accuracy of their archaeology. Byron's Sardanapalus was also a triumph for the same management in 1853; and the same theatre three decades later witnessed the production (December 1883) by Wilson Barrett of Claudian, a romantic poetic drama of ...

... II. all that part of the empire which his father had held. After celebrating a triumph in Rome (389) he stayed to arrange the government of Italy for another two years. If we may trust the evidence of Zosimus, from the end of the year 388 Theodosius resigned ...

... erpretation of the Millennium (Rev. xx.), as a parable of the Church's historic triumph, stands for the final eradication of primitive " enthusiasm " in the great Church, though of course millenarianism has had many revivals in special circles. Even if the Aug ...

... te. The signing of the document by the members took place at a later time. Thus triumphed the tendencies toward self-government which had been predominant hi the continental colonies from the first, and which the system of imperial control had only superficial ...

... sit in the following June to London; there his daring adventures and linguistic triumphs made him the lion of the day. In the same year he published his Travels in Central Asia. In connexion with this work it must be remembered that Vambery could write down bu ...

... lery stand the four colossal bronze horses which belonged to some Graeco- Roman triumphal quadriga, and were brought to Venice by the Doge Enrico Dandolo after the fall of Constantinople in 1204; they were carried off by Napoleon to Paris in 1797, and restored ...

... d for himself the reality instead of the shadow of power was a great diplomatic triumph for France. With the accession of Louis XVI. Vergennes became foreign minister. His general policy was one of friendly relations with Austria, combined with the limitation ...