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XVIII. 89. The Saxon Army formerly played a prominent part in all the wars of northern Europe, chiefly in connexion with Poland. In the War of the Austrian Succession the Saxon army played a prominent part, but in the end it suffered a heavy defeat in the batt ...

VIII, The pectensof Scorpio and the first branchial plate of Limulus. IX, The first pair of lung-books of Scorpio and the second branchial plate of Limulus. (After Lankester.'ioc. <*.) eyes, it is to be noted that no Crustacean has structures corresponding to

III. Races of Mankind. — The classification of mankind into a number of permanent varieties or races, rests on grounds which are within limits not only obvious but definite. Whether from a popular or a scientific point of view, it would be admitted that a Negr

VII. in 1002. (See Geogr. Jow., 1903, xri. 45-50.) lu the first section the line starts from a pillar erected in the San Francisco pass, about 26° 50' S. lat., and follows the water-parting southward to the highest peak of the Tres Cruces mountains in 27° o' 4

... Madreporaria," Biol. owlet, vii. pp. 79-104; P. M. Duncan, Journ. Linnean Soe. xviii. (1885); P. H. Gosse, Actinologia brilannica (London, 1860); O. and R. Hertwig, Die Actinien (Jena. 1879); R. Hen wig, " Challenger Reports," Zoology, vi. (1882) and xxvi. (1 ...

... at. iii. 6, pro Flacco, 38; Plutarch, Cicero, 12; Dio Cassius xxxvii. 39, 40; xxxviii. 10. On his trial see article in PaulyWissowa's Rcalencydopddie. 4. MARCUS ANTONIUS, commonly called MARK ANTONY, the Triumvir, grandson of Antonius the " orator " and son of ...

... and emigrated in 1700. He was the secret agent of the comte de Provence (Louis XVIII.) at different courts of Europe, and at the same time received money from the courts he visited. He published a number of pamphlets, Des monstres ravagent partoul, Point d'ac ...

... ian of the gods. Anubis was the principal god in the capitals of the XVIIth and XVIIIth nomes of Upper Egypt, and secondary god in the XIII th and probably in the XII th nome; but his cult was universal. To begin with, he was the god of the dead, of the cemete ...

... ision " can hardly have been due to conflicting doctrines. (See PAUL.) From Actsxviii. 24-28 we learn that he spoke and taught with power and success. He may have captivated his hearers by teaching " wisdom," as P. \V. Schmicdcl suggests, in the allegorical st ...

... faith. So (it b alleged) rulers, both Jewish and Gentile, have often admitted (xviii. 14; xix. 37; xxiii. 9; xxvi. 32). III. Early Christian. — When we leave the New Testament, apologetics becomes conspicuous until the political triumph of Christianity, and e ...

APOSTLE (aw6(rTO\os, one sent forth on a mission, an envoy, as in Is. xviii. 2; Symmachus, a.iro<jTt\\tiv cbrocrToXow; Aquila, irpetr/Seuras), a technical term used in the New Testament and in Christian literature generally for a special envoy of Jesus Christ. ...

... Marghcrita was burned at a slow fire. Dante mentions Dolcino's name (I*/cmo,c. xxviii.), and his memory is not yet completely effaced in the province of Novara. The Apostles continued their propaganda in Italy, Langucdoc, Spain and Germany. In turn ilu-y were ...

... e Prisca or Priscilla had settled in Corinth, where Paul stayed with them (Acts xviii. 2,3). They became Christians and fellowworkers with Paul, to whom they seem to have shown their devotion in some special way (Rom. xvi. 3, 4). (2) A native of Pontus, celebr ...

... s viti. ; W. M. Leake, Travels in Ike Morea (London, 1830). chs. iii., iv., xi.-xviii., \\iii.-x\vi.; E. Curtius. Peloponneios (Gotha, 1851), i. 153-178; H. F. Torer, Geography of Greece (London, 1873), pp. 287-292; E. A. Freeman, Federal Government (ed. 1893, ...

... ible; the Vulgate reads Arcturus for stars mentioned in Job ix. 9, xxxvii. 9, xxxviii. 31, as well as Amos v. 8. Other versions, as also modern authorities, have preferred, e.g., Orion, the Pleiades, the Scorpion, the Great Bear(cf. .4 woj in the "In temationa ...

... ts for the first time the six incriminating letters to Monk; Eng. Hist. Review, xviii. 369 and 624; Scottish History Society, vol. xvii. (1894); Charles II. and Scotland in 1650, ed. by S. R. Gardiner, and vol. xviii. (1895); History of Scotland, by A. Lang, v ...

... his sons, descendants of an ancient family of priests (i Sam. ii. 28; cp. Josh, xviii. i). After a great defeat of Israel by the Philistines it was brought into the field, but was captured by the enemy. The trophy was set up in the Philistine temple of Ashdod, ...

... Karbasaras, and Vonitza. The river ARTA (anc. Arachthus or Aratthus, in Livy xxxviii. 3, Aretha) is the chief river of Epirus, and is said to have been navigable in ancient times as far as Ambracia. Below this town it flows through a marshy plain, consisting ...

... restored the booty, and paid a heavy contribution to the Parthians (Dio Cass. Ixxviii. 26 f.). But at the same time, the Persian dynast Ardashir (q.v.) had already begun his conquests in Persia and Carmania. When Artabanus tried to subdue him his troops were d ...

... e; Hist, de I'astr. au moyen Age; Hist, de I'astr. moderne; Hist, de I'astr. au XVIII' siecle Baillv/ Histoire de V astronomic . . . (5 vols., 1775-1787); J. F. Weidler, Historia Astronomiae (1741); J. H. Madler, Geschichte der Himmelskunde (1873); R. Wolf, Ge ...

... come to an understanding with the Austrian invaders. Thereafter he served Louis XVIII., but, after reviling Napoleon, went over to him during the Hundred Days. The emperor repulsed him and charged him with being a traitor to France in 1814. Louis XVIII., when ...

... remises are held or for any wrong or injury to the premises claimed (R.S.C., O. xviii. r. 2). These claims were formerly recoverable by an independent action. With regard to actions for the recovery of land — apart from the relationship of landlord and tenant ...

... aul consulted on the eve of the battle of Gilboa, in which he perished (i Sam. xxviii. 5-25). According to a psalmist (Ps. Ixxxiii. 9) it was the scene of the rout of Jabin and Sisera. Although situated in the territory of the tribe of Issachar, it was assigne ...

... his outbreak of patriotic enthusiasm, the school was soon after closed by Louis XVIII., and the young student was compelled to seek some other career instead of that of the soldier. He first engaged himself to a country wine merchant, for whom he travelled in ...

... ssians of possible opportunity for active mission work (Col. iv. 3, 4; cf. Actsxxviii. 30, 31), the fact that Pkilippians, which in a measure belongs to the same group, was pretty certainly written from Rome. As to the Christians addressed, they are evidently ...

... ized (Luke xii. 47, 48). Gehenna is applied to the condition of the lost (Matt, xviii. 9). Two sayings are held to point to a terminable penalty (Matt. v. 25, 26, xii. 31, 32), but the one is so figurative and the other so obscure, that we are not warranted in ...

... ocess are traced by E. W. Budge, The Egyptian Sudan, 1907, i. 505 sqq.),undertheXVIIIth Dynasty it became an Egyptian province, administered by a viceroy (at first the Egyptian king's son), called prince of Kesh, and paying tributes in negroes, oxen, gold, ivo ...

... ed from the Arabic (partly edited by A. Zotenberg in Notices et Exlraits, vol. xxviii.). The Confession of Faith of King Claudius has been repeatedly printed. The reign of Sharsa Dengel (ob. 1595) was marked by many literary monuments, such as the religious an ...

... grande iscriz. Etrusca," &c., in Rendic. d. Reale Insl. Lamb., scric ii. vol. xxxviii., 1900, p. 345 ff.), has shown that both contain H-.IS of offerings made to certain gods (among them Suri, Leflam, and Calu); and Skutsch (Rhein. Afui. 56, 1901, p. 639) has ...

... h the German powers HISTORY] clamoured as essential to their safety. That Louis XVIII. continued to rule over the territories " handed down to him by his ancestors " was due to the magnanimity, or policy, of the emperor Alexander I. (?.«.), and the commonsense ...

... roses " 1 Cf. H. J. Gadow, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1882), pp. 409-421, pis. xxvii., xxviii. 1 Ibid. (1883), pp. 62-69, pl- xvi. * According to M. J. Brisson (Ornithologie, ii. 460), this name was the invention of Reaumur. It seems to have become Anglicized. 4 This ...

... 1-8; Deut. xv. I sqq.). (6) Terumoth (" heave offerings "), on the laws in Num. xviii. 8 sqq., 25 seq. ; Deut. xviii. 4, (7) Ma'asroth (" tithes ") or Ma'aser Ri'shon (" first tithe "), with reference to the Levites, Num. xviii. 21-24. (8) Ma'aser Sheni (" sec ...

... 505, also Ann. de Chim. et de Phys., xxiii. 302, and Phu. Mag., 3rd ser., vol. xxviii. p. 544; Jannair, Comp. Rend., xxiii. 319; Joule, Phil. Mag., 3rd ser., vol. xxv. pp. 76, 225; Laborde, Comp. Rend., 1. 692; Poggendorff, Pogg. Ann., Ixxxvii. 139, xcviii. 19 ...

... . Egyptian hieroglyphic was carried by conquest into Syria, certainly under the XVIIIth Dynasty, and again under the XXVIth for the engraving of Egyptian inscriptions; but in the earlier period the cuneiform syllabary, and in the later the " Phoenician alphabe ...

... iii. i, 12 and i^, De Vila et Honestate Clericorum). As late as 1603, canon Ixxxviii. of the canons of the Church of England enacted that churchwardens were not to suffer plays in churches, chapels or churchyards. The latest occurrence of such a play seems to ...

... ier, Oudin, Du Pin and Fabricius and Harless, see Schrockh, Kirchengesch., vol. xviii. ; Hefele, Conc.-gesch., vol. ii. ; Richter, De Theodorelo Epp. Paul. Interprete (Leipzig, 1822); Binder, Etudes sur Theodoret (Geneva, 1844); Staudlin, Gesch. u. Lit. der Ki ...

... Aristotle, Musonius and Clement of Alexandria, who aptly compares it with Psalm xviii. 26. Another famous couplet is 177-78:" In poverty, dear Cyrnus! we forego | Freedom in word and deed — body and mind, | Action and thought, are fetter'd and confin'd" (trans ...

... s doctrine — built itself up along the lines of the baptismal formula of Matt, xxviii. lo,.J There are traces in the New Testament of a baptismal confession simply of the name of Christ (i Cor. i. 13, 15; Rom. vi. 2; cf. even the late verse Acts viii. 37), not ...

... vice-president of the United States. In March 1812, under the authority of art. xviii. of the New York constitution of 1777, he prorogued the legislature — the only instance of the exercise of this power. During the War of 1812 he was active in equipping and a ...

... point to which St Paul's friends came to meet him on his journey to Rome (Acts xxviii. 15). It became an episcopal see, but this was united with that of Velletri in 592 owing to the desertion of the place. The name occurs twice in other parts of Italy as the n ...