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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
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Britannica 11thXIV, The first metasomatic somite, that of the mesosoma. It was (After Bnner. Ztititk. ma. Zaol yot. lu., described by Newport as " the diaphragm. Only the central and horizontal parts of this structure correspond precisely to the entosterniteof Limulus : the ...
Iv
Britannica 11thIV. lieutenants. But the duke of Clarence betrayed to his brother the army which he had gathered in King Henry's name, and Battle of manv °f the Lancastrians were slow to join the earl, Barnet. from their distrust of his loyalty. Edward, dashing Death of throu
Anguier
Britannica 11th... orte 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 reckoned his masterpiece. From 1662 to 1667 he directed the progress of the sculpture and decoration in this c ...
Anville
Britannica 11th... COLA in full the sources of the design. A trigonometrical survey which Benedict XIV. soon after had made in the papal states strikingly confirmed the French geographer's results. In his later years d'Anville did yeoman service for ancient and medieval geograph ...
Apologetics
Britannica 11th... , Leviathan, 1651, ch. xxxi.; Spinoza, Tractatus TheologicoPoliticus, 1670, ch. xiv.). Professedly, Herbert's contention merely is that non-Christians feeling after the " supreme God " and the law of righteousness must have a chance of salvation. Herbert was a ...
Apostle
Britannica 11th... en by the risen Christ to certain assembled disciples (Acts i. 6 ff., cf. Luke xxiv. 33), including not only the Twelve and the Lord's brethren (i. 13 f.), but also some at least of the Seventy. Of this wider circle of witnesses, taken from among personal disc ...
Archbishop
Britannica 11th... tation of a suffragan's diocese or to issue censures against him was, by Sess. xxiv. c. 3 de ref., of the council of Trent, made dependent upon the consent of the provincial synod after cause shown (causa cognila et probala); and the only two powers left to th ...
Argon
Britannica 11th... oret, " Les flfltes ejjyptiennes antiques," Journal Asiatique. Seme serie, tome xiv., Paris, 1889, pp. 129, 1 30 and 132. * Catalogue descriptif et analytique du must* du Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles (Ghent, 1880), p. 141. * A Descriptive Catalogue of Ike ...
Aristotle
Britannica 11th... the latter in the morning walk (MM* nplnrwO, the former in the evening walk (fctXivAv -rtpiwaror) ; (3) divided his books in the same manner; (4) defended himself against Alexander's letter, complaining that it was not right to his pupils to have published his ...
Ark
Britannica 11th... to attack their enemy north of Kadesh without its aid, and were defeated (Num. xiv. 44 sq.). There are many gaps in its history, and although at the crossing of the Jordan and at the fall of Jericho the ark figures prominently (Josh. iii. sq., vi. sq.), it is ...
Arlon
Britannica 11th... ch crowns the peak. Arlon is no longer fortified. When Vauban by order of Louis XIV. turned it into a fortress in 1671 great damage was done to the old Roman wall, the foundations of which were practically intact. In the local museum are many Roman antiquities ...
Armagnac
Britannica 11th... k to the French crown along with the other dominions of Henry IV. In 1645 Louis XIV. erected a countship of Armagnac in favour of Henry of Lorraine, count of Harcourt, in whose family it continued till the Revolution. James of Armagnac, grandson of Bernard VII ...
Arnauld
Britannica 11th... life. After holding various embassies, he rose to be foreign secretary to Louis XIV., and was created marquis de Pomponne. Lastly Madame Lemaistre and two of her sons became identified with Port Royal. On her husband's death she took the veil there. Her eldest ...
Arses
Britannica 11th... the air, the roof was to consist of an arch of loadstones (Pliny, Hist. Nat. xxxiv. 42). Coins were also struck, showing her crowned and veiled on the obverse, with a double cornucopia on the reverse. She was worshipped as a goddess under the title of 9*4 ^tX ...
Arundell Of Wardour
Britannica 11th... ibly for the funeral of Henrietta Maria, but in reality to negotiate with Louis XIV. the agreement which took shape in 1670 in the treaties of Dover (see CHARLES II.). In 1676 he was privy to James's negotiations with Rome through Coleman. He was accused in 16 ...
Asa
Britannica 11th... lem, and Asa was compelled to use the residue of the temple-funds (cf . i Kings xiv. 26) to bribe the king of Damascus to renounce his league with Baasha and attack Israel. Galilee was invaded and Baasha was forced to return; the building material which he had ...
Aspen
Britannica 11th... ound. It is supposed that the mulberry trees (Becaim) mentioned in i Chronicles xiv. 14, 15 were really aspen trees. The flowers, which appear in March and April, are borne on pendulous hairy catkins, 2-3 in. long; male and female catkins are, as in the other ...
Asphodel
Britannica 11th... e great meadow (<io-<£66eXos \finuv), the haunt of the dead (Od. xi. 539, 573; xxiv. 13). It was planted on graves, and is often connected with Persephone, who appears crowned with a garland of asphodels. Its general connexion with death is due no doubt to the ...
Astrology
Britannica 11th... ts, did not despise astrology as an engine of government. At the birth of Louis XIV. a certain Morin de Villcfranche was placed behind a curtain to cast the nativity of the future autocrat. A generation back the astrologer would not have bee* hidden behind a c ...
Aubusson
Britannica 11th... ntship of La Marche by Hugh XII. of Lusignan, and shared in its fortunes. Louis XIV. revived the title of viscount of Aubusson in favour of Francois, first marshall de la Feuillade (1686). From the family of the old viscounts was descended Pierre d'Aubusson (< ...
Audran
Britannica 11th... lbert, was so struck with the beauty of Audran's works, that he persuaded Louis XIV. to recall him to Paris. On his. return he applied himself assiduously to engraving, and was appointed engraver to the king, from whom he received great encouragement. In the y ...
Elam
Britannica 11th... 100 B.C.); another would have been the Chedor-laomer (Kutur-Lagamar) of Genesis xiv. One of the greatest builders among them was Untas-GAL (the pronunciation of the second element in the name is uncertain). About 1330 B.C. Khurba-tila was captured by Kuri-galz ...
Elisha
Britannica 11th... y instance of a resemblance between the work of Elisha and that of Jesus (Matt. xiv. 13-21). The one distinct exception to the general beneficence of Elisha's activity — the destruction of the forty-two children who mocked him as he was going up to Bethel (.' ...
Emmaus
Britannica 11thEMMAUS, the name of two places in Palestine. 1. A village mentioned by Luke (xxiv. 13), without any indication of direction, as being 60 stadia (almost 7 m.) , or according to some MSS.1 160 stadia, from Jerusalem. Its identification is a matter of mere guessw ...
Eschatology
Britannica 11th... ligion, chs. xxi. and xxii., 1902; and J. A. MacCulloch's Comparative Theology, xiv., 1902). (i) Confucius, though unwilling to discuss any questions concerning the dead, by approving ancestor-worship recognized a future life. (2) Taoism promises immortality a ...
Ethiopic Literature
Britannica 11th... c (edited by A. Zotenberg with French translation in Notices et extraits, vol. xxiv.). Under John, about 1687, the Spiritual Medicine of Michael, bishop of Adtrib and Malig, was translated. The literature that is not accurately dated consists largely of liturg ...
Etruria
Britannica 11th... but little meaning in connexion with the building they decorate. • Pliny, H.N. xiv. 9; xvi. 216. ' From the Polledrara tomb at Vulci, Martha fig. 335. • Coll. Tyszkiewiez, pi. 13. ' Man. dell' Inst. vi. pi. 59, cf. Annali (1861), p. 402; Man. Ant. viii. pi. x ...
Eucharist
Britannica 11th... the brethren were assembled in church, should eat at home and beforehand. Mark xiv. 22-25, Matt. xxvi. 26-29, Luke xxii. 14-20, arc, in order of time, our next accounts, Mark representing the oldest tradition. They all in substance repeat Paul's account; but ...
Eugene Of Savoy
Britannica 11th... his application for a commission, repeated more than once, was refused by Louis XIV. This, and the influence of his mother, produced in him a lifelong resentment against the king. Having quitted France in disgust, he proceeded to Vienna, where his relative the ...
Europa
Britannica 11thEUROPA (or rather, EUROPE), in Greek mythology, according to Homer (Iliad, xiv. 321), the daughter of Phoenix or, in a later story, of Agenor, king of Phoenicia. The beauty of Europa fired the love of Zeus, who approached her in the form of a white bull and ca ...
Europe
Britannica 11th... ment of territorial sovereignty, and wars of ambition like those waged by Louis XIV. With the i8th century democratic ideas first begin to appear side by side with the rule of the enlightened despots such as Frederick the Great, Catherine II. and Joseph II. Th ...
Eusebius
Britannica 11th... Reliquiae sacrae, iv. 339 sq., and in Lommatzsch's edition of Origen's Works, xxiv. p. 293 sq.). After the death of Pamphilus Eusebius withdrew to Tyre, and later, while the Diocletian persecution was still raging, went to Egypt, where he seems to have been i ...
Gerard
Britannica 11th... lbert, was so struck with the beauty of Audran's works, that he persuaded Louis XIV. to recall him to Paris. On his. return he applied himself assiduously to engraving, and was appointed engraver to the king, from whom he received great encouragement. In the y ...
Henry Arundell
Britannica 11th... ibly for the funeral of Henrietta Maria, but in reality to negotiate with Louis XIV. the agreement which took shape in 1670 in the treaties of Dover (see CHARLES II.). In 1676 he was privy to James's negotiations with Rome through Coleman. He was accused in 16 ...
Language
Britannica 11thLANGUAGE, vol. xiv. p. 895.) See E. Repetti, Dizionario geografico fisico storico della Toscana (6 yols., Florence, 1834-1846). See also G. Dennis, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria (2 vols., London, 1883). On medieval and Renaissance architecture and art there ...
Sumptuary Laws
Britannica 11th... Hannibal, was repealed twenty years later, against the advice of Cato. Livy (xxxiv. 1-8) gives an interesting account of the commotion excited by the proposal of the repeal, and of the exertions of the Roman women against the law, which almost amounted to a f ...
Sun-Bird
Britannica 11th... the genus Zoster ops; 1 Certainly since 1826 (cf. Stephens, Gen. Zoology, vol. xiv. pt. I, p. 292). W. Swainson (Nat. Hist., and Classif. Birds, i. 145) says they are " so called by the natives of Asia in allusion to their splendid and shining plumage," but g ...
Synaxarium
Britannica 11th... (Rome, 1788) ; H. Delehaye, " Le Synaxaire de Sirmond," inAnalecta bollandiana, xiv. 396-434, where the terminology is explained; idem, Synaxarium ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae e codice Sirmondiano (Brussels, 1902), forming the volume Propylaeum ad acta sanct ...
Talmud
Britannica 11th... essings. (2) Pe'ah (" corner "), deals with Lev. xix. 9 seq., xxiii. 22; Deut. xxiv. 19-22, and the rights of the poor. (3) Demai, or rather Dammai (" doubtful "), on doubtful cases relating to the tithing of fruit offerings. (4) Kil'ayim (" of two sorts "), o ...
Theatre
Britannica 11th... n early London theatres, by T. F. Ordish, in The Antiquary, vols. xi., xii. and xiv. (1885^86;. On the problems connected with the construction of the Elizabethan theatre, see Dr Cecil Brodmeier, Die Shakespeare-Biihne nach den alten Buhneranweisungen (Weimar, ...