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VERGE (Lat. iiirga, a rod), originally a staff denoting authority, whence (from the ceremony in swearing fealty to a lord) the sense of a measurement, and so boundary or border, of land, or generally a margin of space. In architecture, a verge is the edge of t ...

VERGENNES, CHARLES GRAVIER, COMTE DE (1717-1787), French statesman, was born at Dijon on the 2oth of December 1717. He was introduced to the profession of diplomacy by his uncle, M. de Chavigny, under whom he saw his first service at Lisbon. His successful con ...

VEERE, a town in the province of Zeeland, Holland, on the island of Walcheren, 4 m. N.N.E. of Middelburg, with which it is connected by canal (1867-72). It contains several interesting architectural remains of the days of its former prosperity, many of its qua

VERGA, GIOVANNI (1840- ), Italian novelist, was born at Catania, Sicily. In 1865 he published Storia di una peccalrice and / Carbonari della montagna, but his literary reputation was established by his Eva and Storia di una capinera (1869). Other novels follow

VERDEN, a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hanover, on the navigable Aller, 3 m. above its confluence with the Weser, 22m. S.E. of Bremen by the railway to Hanover. Pop. (1900) 9842. The most noticeable edifices are the beautiful Gothic cathedral,

... a, that it is impossible to suppose that the identity is due to homoplasy or convergence, and the conclusion must be accepted that the resemblances arise from close genetic relationship. The view that Limulus, the king-crab, is an Arachnid was maintained as lo ...

... infants and young children of wide has a much greater range than this, and Is divergencies from comparatively slight cause*. Of the lower warm-blooded animals, there are some that appear to be cold-blooded at birth. Kittens, rabbits mad puppks, if removed from ...

... epta are so disposed that in the quadrants abutting on the chief septum they converge towards that septum, whilst in the other quadrants they converge towards the alar septa. The secondary septa show a regular gradation in size, and, assuming that the smallest ...

... ot originate it, and they have not entirely controlled it. The alleged racial divergence is, too, only a linguistic hypothesis on the physical evidence of which anthropologists are not agreed (Topinard, Anlhropologie, p. 444; Taylor, Origins of Aryans, cap. i. ...

... w of philosophy, this was a compromise. Faith and reason partly agree, partly diverge. The tendency of the later middle ages is to add to the number of the doctrines with which philosophy cannot deal. Thomas's great rival, Duns Scotus, does this to a large ext ...

... y biaxial sectors. The variety known as leucocyclite shows, when examined in convergent polarized light, a peculiar interference figure, the rings being alternately white and violetblack and not coloured as in a normal figure seen in white light. Apophyllite i ...

... sibly there is a trace of ancestor worship even here; but the two usages have diverged. The squib of the philosopher Seneca on the memory of Claudius (d. A.D. 54), Apocolocyntosis (" pumpkinification "), is evidence that, as early as Seneca's lifetime, apotheo ...

... d many, the good, are real but not separate realities. This deep metaphysical divergence was the prime cause of the transition from Platonism to Aristotelianism. Fragmenla Aristolelis. — Aristotle's originality soon asserted itself in early writings, of which ...

... is apparently regarded by Jeremiah (xxvi. 6) as a recent event. Of these two divergent traditions, it would seem that the one which associates it with the kin of Moses and David may be traced farther in those late narratives which connect the ark closely with ...

... rmy in five columns. Three under Hitler, Bellegarde and Hohenzollern were to converge upon Aspern, the other two, under Rosenberg, to attack Kssling. The Austrian cavalry was in the centre, ready to move out against any French cavalry which should attack the h ...

... ly and occurs in greater or less quantity in rocks of all ages. There is some divergence in the views expressed as to the precise manner of its production, but it may certainly be said that the principal asphalt deposits are merely the result of the evaporatio ...

... ary, the act ion i- ilu- vittn- U luri the natrllitr in in <|ii.ulrature the convergence of the linen of attraction toward tin- rein re of the tun tend* to bring the two bodie* together. \Mu-n tin- ort>it of the satellite U inclined to that of the primary plan ...

... nta, with a loss of more than 4000 men, and the three Union armies gradually converged on the north and east sides of the city. But Hood, who had been put in command as a fighting general, was soon ready to attack afresh. This time he placed Gen. W. J. Hardee' ...

... n the end plates of Volta's pile were connected to an electroscope the leaves diverged either with positive or negative electricity. Volta also gave his pile another form, the couronne des tosses (crown of cups), in which connected strips of copper and zinc we ...

... suolo to Modena. At Modena the main line to Verona through Suzzara and Mantua diverges to the N. ; there is also a branch N.N.E. to Mirandola, and another S. to Vignola. Bologna is, however, the most important railway centre; besides the line S. to Pistoia and ...

... es Supremes." This union of the supreme fathers, however, was only nominal. A divergence was already manifest, which rapidly increased to serious difference and dissension. Bazard had devoted himself to political reform, Enfantin to social and moral change; Ba ...

... ed types (with certain nonplaccntal characters) with potentialities for rapid divergence and development in the direction of the more specialized modern orders. Thus, the Creodonta foreshadowed the Carnivora, the EON DE BEAUMONT Stages. Paris Basin. England. B ...

... ntier. Several important routes from Trebizond and various parts of Anatolia converge towards it from the west. It is situated at the eastern end of an open bare plain, 30 m. long and about 12 wide, bordered by steep, rounded mountains and traversed by the Kar ...

... east and the south. On the subject of the boundaries of Europe there is still divergence of opinion. While some authorities take the line __ _^ of the Caucasus as the boundary in the south-east, others take the line of the Manych depression, between the upper ...

... reed that he flourished in the second half of the loth century. Still greater divergences of opinion have existed as to the lives of saints coming from his pen, and here again the solution of the problem has been attained by studying the composition of the gre ...

... 03, or letter to Tht Times, April 14, 1903. [WIRELESS could be reflected and converged by cylindrical parabolic mirrors. He operated with electric waves two or three feet in wave-length. Experiments precisely analogous' to optical ones can be performed with so ...

... ic methods of Campanella and Bruno, of Bacon and Descartes, with their widely divergent results. He, therefore, abandoned the purely intellectual sphere and proposed an inquiry into the data given by the senses, from which he held that all true knowledge reall ...

... ng." 2 Spanish Adoptianism breaks up the unity almost without disguise. their divergent decisions the various non-Orthodox Eastern Churches, Coptic, Armenian, &c. — desire to rest satisfied; theology has finished its work, unless in so far as it is to be codif ...

... c England, he was sought out by Mr and Mrs Wilfrid Meynell and rescued from the verge of starvation and self-destruction, and these friends of his own communion, recognizing the value of his work, gave him a home and procured the publication of his first volum ...

... ni's enterprise — Thorvald being killed on his (as in Red Eric Saga, but with divergent details), and Freydis on her committing atrocities upon her comrades, the Icelanders Helgi and Finnbogi, which are unnoticed in Red Eric. The latter, however, in its mentio ...

... only a short time before the author's death; De Vrucht der Assyriologie voor de vergelijkende geschiedenis der Godsdiensten (1877; German ed., 1878); Babylonisch-assyrische Geschichle (tv/o parts, Leipzig, 1886-1888); Western Asia, according to the most Recent ...

... ters the Pontine marshes, at a point where the modern road to Ninfa and Norba diverges to the north-east, where a few ruins still exist (Grotte di Nottola), 33 m. from Rome. It is, however, more probable that it stood at Cisterna itself, where a branch road ru ...

... y near the northern or southern boundary or along an intermediate path, they converge towards New England as they pass on toward the Atlantic; and hence that the north-eastern part of the United States is subjected to especially numerous and strong weather cha ...

... f their respective styles. In truth, owing to its isolated position on the very verge of Italy, and to its close connexion with the East, Venetian architecture was an independent development. Though displaying a preponderance of Oriental characteristics, it re ...

... es located there, was adjusted by running the line eastward from the point of divergence in 50° 50' S. lat. along the Sierra Baguales, thence south and southeast to the 52nd parallel, crossing several streams and following the crests of the Cerro Cazador. The ...