Duns Scotus
Duns Sco'tus, One Of The Most Famous And Influential Of The Scholastics Of The 14th Century. His History Is Involved In Considerable Obscurity. England, Scotland, And Ireland All Contend For The Honor Of Having Given Him Birth, But Without Anything To Offer In Support Of Their Respective Claims Beyond Inference ...
Durham
Durham, A Maritime Co. Of The N.e. Of England, Between The Tyne And Tees, Bounded N. By Northumberland, E. By The German Ocean, S. By Yorkshire, W. By Cum Berianq And Westmoreland. It Is 48 M. Long, By 39 Broad, With 32 M. Of Coast, Generally Low, But With Some ...
Durham_2
Durham, A Parliamentary And Municipal Borough, And Ancient Episcopal City Of England, Near The Middle Of Durham Co., Built Around A Steep Rocky Hill 86 Ft. High, Nearly Encircled By The Wear. On The Top Of The Hill Are The Cathedral And Castle. Ancient Walls Partly Inclose The Hill, From ...
Dutch Language And Literature
Dutch Language And Literature (netherlands, Ante). Dutch Is The Written Dialect Of The Inhabitants Of The Netherlands. It Belongs To The Aryan Family Of Languages And To The Teutonic Division Thereof. The Alphabet Consists Of The Same Letters As The English, The Vowels Having Essentially The Same Sound As In ...
Dutch School Of Painting
Dutch School Of Painting. This School Holds A High And Honorable Place In The History Of Art, Being Marked By Many Excellences And Illustrated By Many Eminent Names. The School Took Its Rise In A Divergence From The Schools Of Germany At The Beginning Of The 15th Century. Its Founders ...
Dvgdale
Dvgdale, Sir William, A Celebrated Antiquary And Historian, Was B. In 1605 At Shustoke, Near Coleshill, Warwickshire. He Was Educated For Some Time At The Free School Of Coventry, But Left It At The Age Of 15, And Continued His Studies Under The Care Of His Father, Who, Having A ...
Dvsseldorf
Dvsseldorf, The Chief T. Of The District Of Dusseldorf, In Rhenish Prussia, And The Capital Of The Former Duchy Of Berg, Is Situated In The Center Of A Fertile District, On The Right Bank Of The Rhine, At The Confluence Of The Dfissel With That River, In Lat. 51° 13' ...
Dyck
Dyck, Sir Anthony Van. The History Of This Celebrated Painter Is Of Great Interest, Not Only From The High Position He Held As An Artist, But From His Having Settled In England, Where He Executed Numerous Works, Which Enable Us To Realize Most Of The Personages Whose Actions Form Prominent ...
Dyeing
Dyeing Is The Art Of Staining Or Coloring Yarn Or Cloth. It Has Been Practiced Among Eastern Nations From Time Immemorial; And In The Sacred Writings, We Read Of The Vest Ments Of The High-priest Being Dyed Purple, Of Linen Cloths Being Dyed Blue, Purple, And Scarlet, And Of Rams' ...
Dyeing Of
Dyeing Of Cotton.—the Following Receipts For The Dyeing Of Cotton Apply To 10 Lbs. Weight Of Cotton Yarn Or Cloth, Which Is Found To Be The Smallest Quantity Capable Of Being Well-dyed At One Time. The Proportions Of Each Ingredient May Be Altered, How Ever, So As To Correspond With ...
Dyeing Of Silks
Dyeing Of Silks. —the Operations Connected With The Dyeing Of Silk Are Similar To Those Already Sketched Out, But A More Thorough Scouring Of The Raw Material Requires To Be Made, So As To Remove All The Gum And Wax Belonging Naturally To The Fiber. 30. Black Is Obtained By ...
Dyeing Of_2
Dyeing Of Wool.—in The Dyeing Of Woolen Yarn And Cloth, The Various Steeps Are Used Warm, But The Washings In Water Are Done Cold. Care Must Be Taken To Remove Every Particle Of Grease From The Wool By Washing With Soda And Soap, Before It Is Sub Jected To The ...
Dykes
Dykes. In Volcanic Districts, Rents Frequently Occur Which Are Filled With Molten Materials From Below, That Subsequently Solidify, And Form Solid Walls, Filling The Fis Sures, And Separating The Edges Of The Disjointed Strata. To These Walls, Geologists Apply The Term Dyke, A Scottish Word For A Wall Or Fence. ...
Dynamic Units
Dynamic Units Are Units For Measuring Forces And Their Effects. It Is An Axiom Of Mechanics That If A Body At Rest Be Impressed By A Force, And Meet No Resistance Other Than Its Own Inertia, It Will Move In A Straight Line With A Velocity Which Varies As The ...
Dynamics
Dynamics Is That Division Of Mechanics (q.v.) Which Contains The Doctrine Of The Motion Of Bodies Produced By Forces. It Is Essentially A Science Of Deduction From The Laws Of Motion (see )11oriox, Laws Of), Under Which Head Will Also Be Found A Brief Sketch Of The Growth Of The ...
Dysentery
Dysentery (gr. Dys, Difficult, And Enteron, The Intestine), A Form Of Disease Attended By Discharges From The Bowels, And Differing From Diarrhoea (q.v.) Chiefly In Being Attended By Marked Fever And Pain, As Also By The Presence Of Blood And Inflammatory Products Iu The Discharges. Dysentery Is, In Fact, A ...
Dysentery_2
Dysentery (ante). Two Forms Of Dysentery Are Usully Recognized By Medical Authorities, Sporadic And Epidemic. The Causes, However, Are Supposed To Be The Same In Both. It Is Essentially A Disease Of Hot Weather, Or Hot Climates. There Being No Doubt Of The Epidemic Character Of The Disease In Certain ...
Dytiscus
Dytiscus (gr. Dytes, A Diver), A Linnwan Genus Of Aquatic Coleopterous Insects Or Water-beetles, Now Forming The Tribe Or Family Dytiscidce. They Are Pentamerous Coleop Tera; That Is, Have All The Tarsi Five-jointed. Their General Form Is Oval, The Outline Little Broken, And The Surface Very Smooth. The Respiratory Organs ...
Dyvour And Dyvours Habit
Dy'vour And Dyvour's Habit (from The Fr. Detain To Owe; A Debtor). In The Old Legal Language Of Scotland, A D. Seems To Have Been Synonymous With A Bankrupt. Skene Speaks Of A D. Or " Bairman" (bare-man), As One Who, " Being Involved And Drowned In Debts, And Not ...
Eagle
Eagle (aquila), A Genus Of Birds Of Prey, By Some Naturalists Subdivided Into Several Genera, Constituting A Group Which Contains The Largest And Most Powerful Of The Fal Conzda. From The Most Ancient Times, The E. Has Been Universally Regarded As The Emblem Of Might And Courage; And, Like The ...
Earl Of Ellenborough
Ellenborough, Earl Of. Edward Law, First Earl Of E., Son Of The First Baron (many Years Chief-justice Of The King's Bench), Was B. 1790; Educated At Eton And At St. John's College, Cambridge, Where He Graduated M.a., 1809; Succeeded His Father In The Barony In 1818; Was Lord Privy Seal ...
Earls Of
Earls Of Douglas.—hitherto, The Douglases Had No Higher Title Than That Of Knight; But In 1357, Sir William Of Douglas, Who Had Fought At Poitiers, And Distin Guished Himself In Other Fields, Was Made Earl Of Douglas, And Afterwards By Marriage Became Earl Of Mar. His Ambition Aimed At Still ...
Earls Of Angus
Earls Of Angus. —meanwhile A Younger Illegitimate Branch Had Been Rising To Great Power. William, First Earl Of Douglas, Was The Faithless Husband Of A Faithless Wife. She Was Believed To Have Had A Paramour In Sir William Douglass Of Liddesdale. Her Jealous Husband, Who Slew That "flower Of Chivalry," ...
Earls Of_2
Earls Of Morton.—sir Andrew Of Douglas, Whoi-appears In Record In 1248, Was Apparently A Younger Son Of Sir Archibald, Or •erkenbald, Of Douglas, The Sec Ond Chief Of The House. He Was The Father Of Williani7of .douglas, Who, In 1296, Swore Fealty To King Edward I. For His Lands In ...
Early English
Early English, The Term Generally Applied To The Form Of Gothic In Which The Pointed Arch Was First Employed In This Country. The Early English Succeeded The Norman Towards The End Of The 12th C., And Merged Into The Decorated (q.v.) At The End Of The 13th. Its Characteristics Are ...
Earner Of Canterbury
Earner Of Canterbury, A Man Of Considerable Mark In The Beginning Of The 12th C., Would Seem, From His Name, To Have Been The Child Of English Parents. At An Early Age, He Entered The Benedictine Monastery Of Canterbury; And When St. Anselm, In 1093, Was Made Archbishop Of That ...
Earth Shine
Earth-shine, The Reflection From The Moon Of The Light Cast Upon Her By The Earth, Particularly Noticeable In Clear Nights At The Time Of New Moon, When Sometimes The Whole Surface Of The Moon Can Be Seen In Ashy Colored Light. The Earth Serves The Same Purpose To The Moon ...
Earthquake
Earthquake, The Term Applied To Any Tremor Or Shaking Of The Solid Crust Of The Earth. The Frequent Occurrence Of Earthquakes, Their Destruction To Life And Property, Their Influence Upon The Solid Surface Of The Earth, And The Mysteriousness Of Their Cause, Force Them Upon Our Attention. It Is Estimated ...
Earthworm
Earthworm, Lumbricus, A Genus Of Annelida (q.v.), Of The Order Terrimks. There Are Many Species, All Of Them Pretty Closely Resembling In Characters And Habits The Common E. Or Dew-worm (l. Terrestris), Which Is Everywhere Plentiful In Britain And Throughout Europe, And Is Familiar To Everybody. It Has No Head ...
Eartiiivork Embankment
Embankment, Eartiiivork. Embankments, In Engineering, Are Masses Of Earth, Rock, Or Other Materials Artificially Formed, And Rising Above The Natural Surface Of The Ground. They Are Chiefly Formed Either (1) To Carry Railways, Common Roads, Canals, Etc., Over Depressions Of The Country; Or (2) For Hydraulic Purposes, Such As The ...
Earwig
Earwig, Forficula, A Genus Of Orthopterous Insects, Recently Subdivided Into A Num Ber Of Genera, And Forming The Family Forficulidcs, Which Many Entomologists Constitute Into A Distinct Order, Dermaptera (gr. Leather-winged). These Insects Indeed Connect The True Orthoptera With The Eoleoptera. Their Legs Are Formed For Running, And Not For ...
Easement
Easement (ante), A Legal Term Signifying Some Right Of The Public, Or Of An Indi Vidual, In Lands Owned By Another; A Right Existing Either At Common Law Or By Statute; Such, For Example, As The Right Of Way Across Another's Estate, Or To Receive Water From, Or Discharge It ...
East India Army
East India Army. When The East India Company (q.v.) First Sent Factors Or Agents To India, An Army Was Not Thought Of. Military Forces Arose Out Of The Exigen Cies Of The Times. Some Of The First Troops In The Company's Pay Were Mere Adventur Ers; Some Were Liberated Convicts; ...
East India Company
East India Company. On The 31st Dec., 1600, A Charter Was Granted By Queen Elizabeth To A Number Of London Merchants, Under The Title Of " The Governor And Company Of Merchants Of London Trading To The East Indies." From The Time When Vasco Da Gama Effected The Eastern Passage ...
Easter
Easter (ger. Ostern, Fr. Paque, Scot. Parch, From Gr. Pascha, The Passover), The Festi Val Of The Resurrection Of Jesus Christ, Derives Probably Its Teutonic Name From The Fes Tival Of The Goddess Ostara, In Ang.-sax. Eastre, Which The Saxons Of Old Were Wont To Celebrate About The Same Season ...
Eastern Question
Eastern Question, In Popular Usage, Is The Problem Of The Future Disposition_ Of The Turkish Empire And Its Territory, As Related To The Supposed Designs Of Russia, And To The Interests Of Other European Nations, England And Austria In Particular. Voltaire, In The Time Of Catherine Ii., Characterized Turkey As ...
Eastlake
Eastlake, Sir Ciiarles Lock, President Of The Royal Academy Of London, Was B. At Plymouth In 1795, Educated At The Charter,house In London, And Entered As A Student Tit The Royal Academy. Subsequently, He Went To Paris, Where He Studied And Copied The Great Paintings Then Collected In The Louvre. ...
Ebenezer Elliot
Elliot, Ebenezer, The Corn-law Rhymer, Was B. At Masborough, In Yorkshire, Mar. 7, 1781. His Father Was A Man Of Strong Character And Narrow Opinions, And, As Appears From Ebenezer's Autobiography (published In The Atheneum In 1850), Exercised No Little Influence On His Son's Modes Of Thinking And Sympathies. When ...
Ebionites
E'bionites (heb. Won, Poor), A Name Probably Given Originally By The Hierarchical Or Influential Party Among The Jews, To Those Of Their Countrymen Who Professed The Christian Faith, And Who Generally Belonged To The Poorer And More Ignorant Class (john, Chap. Vii., Verses 48, 49). Subsequently, It Would Seem, The ...
Ebony
Ebony (lat. Ebenura; But Originally From The Eastern Name), A Wood Remarkable For Its Hardness, Heaviness, And Deep Black Color, Is The Heart-wood Of Different Species Of Diospyros, Of The Natural Order Ebenacem, The Same Genus Which Produces The Date Plum (q.v.), Kaki, And Other Fruits. The Best E., Excelling ...
Ecarte
Ecarte, A Game At Cards, Probably First Played Early In The Present Century In Paris, Though It Appears To Have Grown Out Of An Old Game Called La Triomphe, Or French Ruff. It Is Usually Played By Two Persons, Though Sometimes By Three, The Third Player Taking The Place Of ...
Ecbatana
Ecbata'na (agbatana, Achmaa, Hagmatana), The Ancient Capital Of Media, Situated At A Distance Of 12 Stadia (about 1 M. From Mt. Orontes, The Modern Elwend. Its Foundation Was Attributed By Popular Belief To Solomon Or Semiramis, While The Book Of Judith Ascribes It To Arphaxad (phraortes?), And Herodotus To Deioces ...
Ecclesia I
Eccle'sia. I. The Great Assembly Of The Athenians In Which All Free Citizens Might Vote. Its Authority Was Supreme, But, As In The Growing Power Of The Higher Classes It Was After A Time Seldom Convened, The Entire Management Of The State Fell Into The Hands Of The Archons, Who ...
Ecclesias Ticus
Ecclesias Ticus, The Title Of An Apocryphal Work, Called In The Septuagint Thelvis Dons Of Jesus, The Son Of Sirach. It Obtained The Title Of E., Not Because The Writer Was A Priest (for Regarding His Profession Nothing Is Known), But Because It Was, In The Opin Ion Of The ...
Ecclesiastes
Ecclesias'tes (eng. The Preacher), The Title (taken From The Septuagint) Of A Canoni Cal Book Of The Old Testament; Its Hebrew Name Is Koheleth, Which Signifies Nearly The Same. The Inscription With Which It Commences Is: "the Words Of Koheleth, The Son Of David, King In Jerusalem." Its Authorship Is ...
Ecclesiastical Commissioners For England
Ecclesiastical Commissioners For England, A Corporation With Per Petual Succession And A Common Seal, And With Power To Take, Purchase, And Hold Real Estate, Notwithstanding The Statutes Of Mortmain."—burns' Eccles. Law By Phillimore. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners Consist Of 311 The Bishops Of England And Wales, The Deans Of Canterbury, St. ...
Ecclesiastical Courts
Ecclesiastical Courts Are Courts Specially Devoted To The Consideration Of Mat Ters Relating To The Clergy And To Religion. For The Origin Of These Courts We Must Go. Back To The First Days Of Christianity, When The Early Christians, Acting Upon The Injunc Tion Of St. Paul—" Dare Any Of ...
Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Act
Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Act (14 And 15 Vict. C. 60). In 1850, A Ferment Of Protestant Zeal Was Awakened In This Country By An Edict Issued By The Court Of Rome Dividing Great Britain Into Territorial Bishoprics, Under An Archbishop Of Westminster. The Brief Was Immediately Followed By A Pastoral ...
Ecclesiasticus
Ecclesiasticus, Boox Of (ante), The Longest And One Of The Best Books Of The Apo Crypha. Affixed To It Are Two Prologues: The First, By An Unknown Author, States That The Jesus, Son Of Sirach, Whose Name Is At The Head Of The Book, Lived In The Latter Times, After ...
Ecclesiology
Ecclesiol'ogy, A Word Of Recent Use, Is The Name Which Has Been Given In The British Islands To The Study Of Church Architecture And Decoration.. Besides Discriminating The Various Styles Of Ecclesiastical Architecture, E. Takes Account Of The Ground-plan And Dimensions Of A Church; Of Its Orientation, Or The Deviation ...
Echinidie
Echinidie, A Family Of Echinodermata, The Species Of Which Are Popularly Known As Sea-urchins, Sea-eggs, Etc. They Have The Body Covered With A Calcareous Crust Or Shell, Of An Extremely Porous Structure (and Thus Differing Very Widely From The Shells Of Mol Lusks), In Polygonal Plates Nicely Adapted To Each ...
Echinodenmata
Echinoden'mata (gr. Spiny-skinned), A Class Of Radiate Animals, The Highest In Organization Of That Great Division Of The Animal Kingdom. They Have A Digestive And A Vascular System: Fol. The Former, However, There Is In Many Of Them Only A Single Ori Fice: A Circular And Radiating Nervous System Has ...
Echmiedzin
Echmiedzin'. See Etchmiadzicn. Echo (gr. Sound). Sound Is Produced By Waves Or Pulses Of The Air; When Such A Wave Comes Against A Wall Or Other Opposing Surface, It Is Reflected Like Light, And Pro Ceeds In Another Direction, And The Sound So Heard Is An Echo. Even The Atrface ...
Eciia
E'ciia, A City Of Spain, Andalusia, In The Province Of Seville, And 45 M. E.n.c. Of The Town Of That Name, Is Situated On The Left Bank Of The Jenil, In Lat. 37° 33' N., Long. 5° 8' West. It Is Surrounded By Gardens, And Stands In The Center Of ...
Ecki1vhl
Ecki1vhl, A Village On The Leber, In Bavaria, Notable For The Battle Fought There, On The 22d April, 1809, Between 75,000 French And 40,000 Austrians. The Archduke -charles Had Taken Up His Position On The Right Bank Of The Danube, Near Eckmtihl. From This Point, At The Head Of Four ...
Eclecticis3i Eclectics
Eclectics, Eclec'ticis3i. Eclectics Was The Name Given In Ancient Times To Those Philosophers Who Had No Determinate System Of Their Own, But Who Professed To Choose (eklegein) From All Systems The Parts That They Considered True. The Systems From Which The Selections Were Originally Made Wete Those Of Pythagoras, Plato, ...
Eclipses
Eclipses. An Eclipse Is An Obscuattion Of One Of The Heavenly Bodies By The Interposition Of Another, Either Between It And The Spectator, Or Between It And The Sun. The Causes Of E., As Suggested In This Definition, Are So Simple And Familiar, That It Is Difficult For Us To ...
Ecliptic
Ecliptic Is The Name Given To The Great Circle Of The Heavens Round Which The Sun Seems To Travel From W. To E., In The Course Of A Year. It Took Its Name From The Early Observed Fact, That Eclipses Happen Only When Both Bodies Are In Or Near This ...
Ecstasy
Ecstasy (gr. Eksticsis, A Transposition, A Change Of Situation Or Condition; Applied To The Mind In The Sense Of A State In Which It Is Altered Or Fundamentally Changed In Char Acter By. Some Absorbing Emotion), A Word Applied To Those States Of Mind, Which, Without Amounting To Insanity (q.v.), ...
Ecthyma
Ecthy'ma Is A Pustular Disease Of The Skin, In Which The Pustules Often Reach The Size Of A Pea, And Have A Red, Slightly Elevated, Hardish Base. In The Course Of Two Or Three Days After The Appearance Of The Pustule, It Is Replaced By A Scab, Which Adheres Firmly ...
Ecuador
Ecuador', The Spanish Term For Equator, Is The Name Of An Independent State Of South America, Extending From Lat. 1 40' N. To 5° 50' S.; And From Long. 70° To 81° 20' West. It Measures, Therefore, From N. To S. Fully 500 Rn., And From E. To W. Nearly ...
Edch3hadzin Etchmiadzin
Etchmiadzin', Edch3hadzin, Or Irsattanzuv, A T. And Monastery In The Russian Government Of Erivan, Famous As The Seat Of The Catholicus, Or Primate Of The Arme Nian Church. It Is Situated In The Plain Of The Aras Or Araxes, About 2,985 Ft. Above The Sea, 12 M. W. Of Erivan, ...
Edda
Ed'da. There Are Two Works Which Bear This Title—the Edda Smmundar Bins Praia, Or Edda Of Seemund The Wise, And The Edda Snorra Sturlusonar. The Former And Older Of These Is A Collection Of The Most Ancient Mythological And Heroic Scandinavian Songs, The Date Of Whose Composition May Probably Be ...
Eden
Eden, According To The Hebrew Scriptures, The First Residence Of Man. The Descrip Tion Given Of It In The Book Of Genesis Is Brief, Obscure, And In Appearance Legendary. The Allegorical Theory Will Be Noticed Under Fall (q.v.). In General, However, Scholars Have Preferred To Understand The Story Literally, And ...
Edessa
Edes'sa (modern Name, Urfah, Or Orfa), A Very Ancient City, On The River Daisan, In The N. Of Mesopotamia, 78 M. S.w. Of Diarbekir, Although The Christian Or Inioliam Medau Legend, Ascribing Its Foundation To Nimrod, Or Kliabiba, A Female Contemporary Of Abraham, Is Uriworthy Of Any Credence: With The ...
Edfou
Ed'fou (coptic, Atbil ; Egypt. Hut; Anc. Apollinopolis Magna), A T. Of Upper Egypt, Is Situated On The Left Bank Of The Nile, In Lat. 25° N., And Long. 32° 45' East. It Contains The Remains Of Two Temples, Which Are Considered The Finest Remains Of Antiquity In Egypt. The ...
Edict
Edict (lat. Edictum). The Power Of Making Edicts (jus Ediondi) Belonged Generally To The Higher Magistrates At Rome; But It Was By The Curule Aediles, And More Extensively Stilt By Two Prntors—the Prtetor Urbanus, And The Prator Peregrinus—that It Was Promi Nently Exercised. In A Province, The Jurisdiction Of The ...
Edinburgh
Edinburgh, The Capital Of Scotland, And Chief Town In The Co. Of Mid-lothian, Occu Pies A Picturesque Situation On A Cluster Of Eminences, At A Distance Of About A Mile And A Half From The Firth Of Forth (q.v.), Which Is Here About 6 M. In Breadth. The Out Skirts ...
Edinburgh Review
Edinburgh Review, The First Of The Great Critical Periodicals Which Form A Dis Tinguishing Feature Of The Literature Of The 19th Century. It Was Started In Oct., 1802, By A Knot Of Young Men Living In The Northern Metropolis, The Principal Of Whom Were Francis Jeffrey (q.v.), Sidney Smith (q.v.), ...
Edmunds St Hall
Edmund's (st.) Hall, Oxford, Derives Its Name From St. Edmund, Archbishop Of Canterbury In The Reign Of Henry Iii. As Early As 1269, It Appears To Have Been Pur Chased By The Canons Of Osney, And Devoted To Purposes Of Education. On The Dissolu Tion Of Religious Houses Under Henry ...
Edouard Drouyn De Lhuys
Drouyn De Lhuys, Edouard, An Eminent French Diplomatist And Politician, Was B. At Paris, Nov. 19,1805, And Studied At The College Of Louis-le-grand And The Ecole De Droit. He Was At First Attached To The Embassy At Madrid, Whither He Proceeded In 1830. In 1840, He Was Placed At The ...
Education
Education Is An Art, The Art, Namely, Of Drawing Out (lat. Edeicere) Or Developing The Faculties—of Training Human Beings For The Functions For Which They Are Destined. Now, In Order To The Perfection Of An Art, It Must Be Founded On A Corresponding Science; And Of Nothing Is This More ...
Edward
Edward, The Black Prince (edward Iii. Ante), 1330-76; Son Of Edward Iii. Of England, And Philippa. He Was Created Duke Of Cornwall In His Eighth Year, And A Year Later, During His Father's Absence In France, Was Appointed Nominal Guardian Of The Kingdom. He Held This Office Also In 1340 ...
Edward Everett
Everett, Edward, A Younger Brother Of The Preceding, Was B. In 1794, At Dor Chester, Near Boston, Mass., Entered Harvard College In 1807, And Took His Degree In 1811. He Was For Some Time A Unitarian Clergyman In The Town Of Cambridge, And In This Had The Reputation Of Being ...
Edward Everett_2
Everett, Edward, Ll.d. (ante), B. Dorchester, Mass., April 11, 1794; D. Boston, Jan. 15, 1865; An American Statesman, Orator, And Scholar, Son Of Rev. Oliver Everett. He Was At One Time A Pupil In A Boston School, Of Which Daniel Webster, In The Absence Of His Brother Ezekiel, Was The ...
Edward I
Edward I., King Of England, Was The Eldest Son Of Henry Iii. By His Wife Eleanor, Daughter Of Raymond, Count Of Provence, And Was B. At Westminster, June 16, 1239. That Union Of Valor And Intelligence Which Characterized Him Was Exhibited At An Early Period. At The Commencement Of The ...
Edward Ii
Edward Ii., Son Of The Preceding, Was B. At Caernarvon, In 'wales, 25th April, 1284, And In 1301, Was Created Prince Of Wales, Being The First Heir-apparent Of The English Throne Who Bore That Title. He Accompanied His Father On His Various Expe Ditions Into Scotland, And On The Death ...
Edward Iii
Edward Iii., Son Of The Preceding, Was B. At Windsor, 13th Nov., 1312, And Ascended The Throne, 25th Jan., 1327. During His Minority, The Country Was Governed Nominally By A Council Of Twelve Nobles And Bishops, But Really By Mortimer And His Paramour Isabella. On The 24th Jan., 1328, The ...
Edward Iv
Edward Iv., Son Of Richard Duke Of York, And Great-grandson Of Edmund Duke Of York, Who Was The 5th Son Of Edward Iii., Was B. At Rouen, 29th April, 1441 (or, According To Another Account, In Sept., 1442). His Original Title Was That Of Earl Of March. It Would Be ...
Edward Vi
Edward Vi., Son Of Henry Viii. By His Wife Jane Seymour, Was B. At Hampton Court, 12th Oct., 1537. The Events Which Happened During His Brief Reign Were Of Great Importance, But They Were Of Course Brought About By Others, E. Being Too Young (he Was Not Sixteen When He ...
Edward The Confessor
Edward The Confessor, King Of The Anglo-saxons,.was B. At Islip, In Oxford Shire, About The Year 1004. On The Death Of His Father, Ethelred, In 1016, Canute The Dane Obtained Possessioh Of The Throne, And In The Following Year Married Emma, The Mother Of Edward, By Whom He Had Two ...
Edwin
Edwin, An English Saxon Prince, Was The Son Of Ella, King Of Northumbria, Who Died About 589. He Succeeded To The Throne At The Age Of Three Years, But A Neighbor Ing Potentate, Ethelfrith, Invaded And Conquered His Territories, Whereupon The Infant E. Was Carried Into North Wales, And Was ...
Egbert
Egbert, The Most Celebrated Of The Anglo-saxon Kings Before Alfred, Was The Son Of Alckmund, Who Is Said To Have Reigned In Kent, And Was A Descendant Of The House Of Cerdic. In 787, On The Death Of Cynewulf, King Of Wessex, E. Laid Claim To The Throne, But Had ...
Eger
Eger, A T. And River Of Austria, In The Province Of Bohemia.-1. The Town E. Stands On A Rock On The Right Bank Of The Stream Of The Same Name, Is 90 M. W. Of Prague, And Near The Bohemian Frontier. Formerly, It Was A Border Fortress Of Some Importance; ...
Egerton
Egerton, See Bridgewater, Ante. Egg, Ovum. In A Great Majority Of The Different Kinds Of Animals, Reproduction Takes Place By Means Of Eggs; In Other Words, The Animals Are Oviparous. It Is Only In The Mammalia That We Find Animals Truly Viviparous; Whilst The Marsupial Quadrupeds And The Monotremata Form ...
Egg Bird
Egg-bird, Hydrodelidon Fuliginosum Or Sterna Fuliginosa, A Bird Of The Gull Family, Sometimes Called The Sooty Tern. It Is Fully Larger Than The Common Tern Of The British Shores; Has A Long, Slender, Nearly Straight, Compressed, Sharp Bill; Very Long, Narrow, And Pointed Wings, And A Long Deeply Forked Tail; ...
Egyptian Architecture
Egyptian Architecture. There Is No Reason To Question The Originality Of Egyptian Architecture, And The Structures Of Egypt Are Probably The Oldest Specimens Known In The World. It Is Remarkable For Its Solidity. The Great Pyramid, Erected By Cheops As A Tomb For Himself, Was Built Of Stones 30 Ft. ...
Egyptian Language And Literature
Egyptian Language And Literature. The Origin Of The Most Ancient Language Of Egypt, The Hieroglyphic, Is Unknown. It Can Be Traced, However, As Far Back As The 3d Dynasty, And The Date Of Its Discovery Was No Doubt Much Earlier Than 3000 B,c. It Has Some Points Of Affinity With ...