Gardiner
Gardiner, Colonel Jestes, Son Of Capt. Patrick Gardiner, Was B. At Carriden, In Linlithgowshire, Jan. 11, 1688, And When Only 14 2,-ears Old, Obtained A Commission In A Scots Regiment In The Dutch Service. He Afterwards Entered The English Army, And Was Severely Wounded At The.battle Of Ramifies In 1706. ...
Garhwal
Garhwal, A District Of British India, In The Kumiion Division, Under The Juris Diction Of The Lieutenant-governor Of The North-western Provinces, Situated Between 29° 16' And 31°5' N., And 78° 80' 8' E., And Bounded On The N. By Chinese Thibet, On The E. By Kumdon District, On The S. ...
Garlic
Garlic, A/lium, Sativum„ See At,mum, A Bulbous-rdoted Plant, A Native Of The East, Cultivated From The Earliest.ages. The Stern Rises To The Height Of About 2 Ft., Unbranched. And Bearing At Top An Umbel Of A Few Whitish Flowers, Mixed With Many Small Bulbs, The Upper Part Of The Stem ...
Garnet
Garnet, A Precious Stone, Some Of The Varieties Of Which Are Of Great Beauty; While Some Are Less Highly Prized Than Other Not More Beautiful Minerals, Because Much More Common. Garnets Are Found Most Generally In Mica-slate, Hornblende Slate, And Gneiss; Less Frequently In Granite And Granular Limestone; Sometimes In ...
Garnishment Garnish
Garnish, Garnishment, Garnishee (fr. Garnir, To Furnish). In English Law, To Garnish Is To Warn, And Garnishment Signifies A Warning Given To One For His Appearance In Court. But Garnishment In Its More Usual Sense Is -applied To The ,notice Which A Person Sued In An Action Of Definite, And ...
Garrett
Garrett, Trromas, B. Darby, Pa., 1783; D. Wilmington, Del., 1871; An Abolitionist. He Learned The Trade Of A Cutler And Scythe-maker, And In 1820 Removed To Wilmington, Del., And Entered Into Business As Au Iron Und Hardware. Merchant. In His New Home He Avowed His Anti-slavery Opinions Without The Least ...
Garrison
Garrison, Wmnrtar Lloyd, An Eminent American Abolitionist, Was B. At Newbury. Phrt, Mass., Dec. His Jatker Was _a Map Of Lit; Nary Taste And Ability, But Fall Ing Into Dissolute Habits, Deserted His Wife, Who, For The Support Of Her Family, Had To Act As Professional Nurse. As Early As ...
Garrot
Garrot, Clan Aura, A Genus Of The Oceanic Section Of Ducks (q.v.), Having The Bill Shorter Than The Head. One Species, The Golden-eye (c. Vulgaris Or C. Ehrysophthal Mus), A Bird Not Quite So Large As A Widgeon, Is A Common Winter Visitant In Britain, In Small Flocks, Most Frequently ...
Garrotte
Garrotte' (spanish Garrote, A Stick Or Cudgel), A Mode Of Execution Practiced In Spain And. The Spanish Colonies. Originally, It Consisted In Simply Placing A Cord Round The Neck Of A Criminal, Who Was Seated On A Chair Fixed To A Post, And Then Twisting The Cord By Means Of ...
Gas Engine
Gas-engine. Many Attempts Have Been Made To Utilize, As A Motive-power, The Expansive Force Arising From The Explosion Of A Mixture Of Common Coal-gas, Such As Is Iu General Use For Illuminating Purposes, And Common Air. The First Atempt Of This Kind Which Had Any Commercial Success Was That Of ...
Gas Lighting By
Gas (lighting By) Is The Best And Most Economical Mode Of Obtaining Artificial Light As Yet Brought Into Use; Though Hardly Known At The Beginning Of The Present Century, It Has Since Been Gradually Extending. It May Now Be Said To Be Universal In The Cities And Towns Of Europe; ...
Gas Lighting In Railway Trains
Gas-lighting In Railway Trains. Many Methods Hhve Been Tried Within The Last Few Years For Lighing Railway Carriages With Ordinary Street Gas; But With Only Partial Success. The More Prevalent Schemes Are Those In Which The Gas Is Contained In An Elastic Receptacle. Mr. Allen's Plan, Tried On Some Of ...
Gascoigne
Gascoigne, Sir William, An Eminent English Judge, Belonging To A Noble Norman Family, Was B. At Gaythorpe, Yorkshire, In 1330. After Studying For The Bar, He Acquired Considerable Reputation As A Pleader, And In 1393 Was Made Serjcant-at-law. On The Accession Of Henry Iv. In 1399, He Was Appointed One ...
Gassner Jouann Joseph
Gassner. Jouann Joseph, A Man Who Made A Noise As An Exorcist In The 18th C., Was Born Aog. 28, 1727, At Bratz, Near Pludenz, In The .tyrol, And Became Catholic Priest At Klosterle, In The Diocese Of Coire. While In That Office, The Accounts Of Demo Niacs In The ...
Gastein
Gastein, A Valley In The Austrian Duchy Of Celebrated For Its Mineral Springs. It Is A Side Valley Of The Upper Satzach Valley, And Is About 23 In. Long And 1.+, Rn. Broad. It Has An Elevation Of Between 3,000 And 3,500 Feet. Behind It, To The South, Tower The ...
Gasteropoda
Gasterop'oda (gr. Belly.rfooted), Or Gastropods, A Class Of Mollusks, Inferior In Organization To Cephalopads, But Far Superior To Almost All Other Mollusks, And Containing A Multitude Of Species, The Greater Number Of Which Are Marine, But Some Are Inhabi Tants Of Fresh Water, And Some Are Terrestrial. Snails, Whelks, Periwinkles, ...
Gateshead
Gateshead, A T. Of England, In The Co. Of Durham, And An Ancient Borough Under The Episcopal Palatines Of That Co. Was Formerly Governed By A Bailiff And Bur Gesses, And Became A Parliamentary And Municipal Borough Under The Reform Act Of 1832, And The Municipal Corporations Reform Act Of ...
Gateway
Gateway. The Passage Or Opening In Which A Gate Or Large Door Is Hung, This May Be Either An Open Way With Side Pillars Or A Covered Way Vaulted Or Roofed Over. The Gateway Being A Most Important Point In All Fortified Places, Is Usually Protected By Various Devices. It ...
Gatling Gun
Gatling Gun, A Machine-gun Of The Mitrailleuse Order, Invented By Dr. R.. J. Gatling Of Indiana, In 1861. It Has Generally 5 Or 10 Barrels, Each Barrel Has A Corre Sponding Lock. Although The Barrels And Locks Revolve Together, The Locks Have A For Ward And Backward Action, By Means- ...
Gauge
Gauge, An Apparatus For Measuring Any Special Force Or Dimension; Thus We Have Pressure-gauge, Wind-gauge (see Anemometer), Rainsange (q.v.), Wire-gangs, Button Gauge, Etc., Simplest Form Of Gauge Of Dimension Is The Common Wire-gauge, By Which The Iameter Of Wire Is Measured. It Is Simply An Oblong Plate Of Steel, With ...
Gaussen
Gaussen, Louts, Iwo—issa, Was B. In Geneva, And In 1810 Became Pastor Of Satigny, Near That City. Here He Derived Profit From Intercourse With Pastor Cellerier, Who Had Continued A Steadfast Christian In The Midst Of The Declension That Was Spread Ing Among The Swiss Clergy. About This Time, Through ...
Gautier
Gautier, Tlif:ophile, 1811-72; B. At Tarbes, France; Educated At The Grammar School Of That Town, And Afterwards At The College Charlemagne In Paris, Where It Does Not Appear That He Particularly Distinguished Himself, Though In Later Life His Remark Able Literary Faculty And Instinct Enabled Him To Give To Much ...
Gavelkind
Gav'elkind. Lappenberg. Who, Though A Foreigner, When Indorsed. By His Trans Lator Thorpe, May Be Considered As The Very Highest Authority On The Subject Of English Social Antiquities, Thus Speaks Of The Custom Of Gavelkind: "a Fact Worthy Of Notice Is The Existence Down To Recent Times Of The Old ...
Gavial
Gavial (garialis), A Genus Of Reptiles Of The Crocodile (q.v.) Family, Conspicuously Differing From True Crocodiles And From Alligators In The Great Length And Slenderness Of The Muzzle. Another Peculiar Character Is A Large Cartilaginous Swelling At The Extremity Of The Muzzle In The Males, Around The Orifice Of The ...
Gay Feather
Gay-feather, The Common Name For The Liatris Scariosa And Spieata: Plants Which Are Indigenous To The American Soil, Possessing Bulbous Roots, Strong Taste, And Great Remedial Properties. A Familiar Local Name For Them Is "rattlesnake Master." They Bear Purple Flowers, And Are Suitable For Flower Borders. Louis Joseph, One. Of ...
Gaya
Gaya, A District Of British India In The Patna Division, Under The Lieutenant-gov Ernor Of Bengal, Situated Between 24° 17' And 25' 19' N., And 84° 4' And 86° 5' Cast. It Is Bounded On The N. By Patna, On The E. By Monatyr, On The S.e. And S. By ...
Gazelle
Gazelle, Antilopq Dorcas Or Gazella Dorcas, A Species Of Antelope, About The Size Of A Roebuck, But Of Lighter And More Graceful Form, With Longer And More Slender Limbs, In These Fespects.exhibiting The Typical Characters Of The Antelopes In Their Highest Per Fection. It Is Of A Light Tawny Color, ...
Gecko
Gecko, Gecko, A Genus Of Saurian Reptiles, Constituting A Family, Geekotidce, Which Some Recent Naturalists Have Divided Into Many Genera. The Geckos Are Of Small Size, And Generally Of Repulsive Aspect; The Colors Of Most Of Them Aye Dull, And The Small Granular Scales With Which They Are Covered Are ...
Gehenna
Gehen'na Is The Greek Form Of The Hebrew ("valley Of Hinnom"), Or ("valley Of The Son Of Hinnom"). This Valley, Or Rather Gorge—for It Is Described As Very Narrow, With Steep And Rocky Sides—lies S. And W. Of The City Of Jerusalem. Here Solomon Built A High Place For Molech ...
Gelatigenoits Tissues
Gelatigenoits Tissues Aso Gelatine. The Gelatigenous Tissues Are Substances Resembling The Proteine-bodies (albumen, Fibrine, And Caseine) In Containing Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, And Sulphur; But Differing From Them In Containing More Nitrogen And Less Carbon And Sulphur. They Consist Of Two Principal Varieties, Viz., Those Which Yield Gluten (or Ordinary ...
Gelatine
Gelatine (proper) Is Prepared For Commercial Purposes From A Variety Of Animal Substances, But Chiefly From The Softer Parts Of The Hidesof Oxen And Calves And The Skills Of Sheep, Such As The Thin Portion Which Covers The Belly, The Ears, Etc.; Also From Bones And Other Parts Of Animals. ...
Gell
Gell, Sir William. Knight, An Eminent Antiquarian And Classical Scholar, The Younger Son Of Philip Gell, Esq., Of Hopton.'derbyshire, Was Born In 1777. He Was Educated At Jesus College, Cambridge, Where He Graduated As B.a. In 1798, And M.a. In 1804, And Was For Some Time A Fellow Of Emmanuel ...
Gelon
.gelon, " Tyrant" Of Gela And Syracuse, Was The Son Of Deinomenes, And Was A Native Of The Former City. His Family Was One Of The Oldest And Most Distinguished In The Place. Gelon Himself First Figures In History As One Of The Body-guards In The Service Of Hippocrates, Tyrant ...
Gelsemium
Gelsemium, A Drug Consisting Of The Root Of Geesemium Sempervirens, A Climbing Shrub Of The Natural Order Loganiacem, _haying A .milky Juice, Opposite, Lanceolate, Shin Ing Leaves, And Axillary Clusters Of From One To Five Large, Funnel-shaped; Very Fragrant Yellow Flowers, Whose Perfume Has Been Compared To That Of The ...
Gender
Gender (fr. Gendre, From Lat. Genus, Generis, Race, Kind), In Grammar, Is A Distinc Tion Among Words Depending Upon Sex. Names Applied To The Male Sex Are Said To Be Of The Masculine As Man, Poet; Those Applied To The Female Sex, Feminine, As Woman, Poetess; Words That Are Neither ...
Genealogy
Genealogy (let, And Gr. Genealogic; From Gr. Genos, Race, And Logos, Discourse) Is The Name Applied To The Science Of The Origin, Sequence, And Affinities Of Families. Although In Itself It Is Not Of Sufficient Importance To Rank As An Independent Science, Yet In So Far As It Has To ...
General
General (of Religious Order), In The Roman Catholic Church, The Supreme Bead, Under The Pope, Of The Aggregated Communities Throughout Christendom Belonging To A Religious Order. The Governing Authorities Of The Monastic Orders In The Roman Catholic Church May Be Arranged Iu Three Classes: (1.) The Superiors Of Individual Convents ...
General Convention Of The
General Convention Of The Protestant-episcopal Church. During The Period Of Colonial Dependence The Episcopalians Of This Country Were Menu Hers Of The Church Of England: Under The Jurisdiction Of The Bishop Of London. But The War Of Independence Having Severed These Bonds, It Became Necessary To Obtain Episcopal Supervision, And ...
General Lien
General Lien, In English Law, Is The Right Which A Party Has To Retain A Chattel As Security For The Payment, Not Only Of The Particular Article, But Of Any Balance That May Be Due On General Account In The Same Line Of Business. General Liens Do Not Exist At ...
General Oiticer
General Oiticer Is An Officer Of The General Staff Of An Army To Whom Is Intrusted The Command Of A Body Of Men, Not Less In Strength Than A Brigade (q.v.). In An Army Of Very Large Proportions, The Normal Sequence Of Command Would Be The The Generafcommanding-in-chief, Generalissimo, Or ...
General Properties Gases
Gases, General Properties Or. The Term Gas—which Is From The Same Root As Ghost, Ger. Geist, Breath, Spirit—was Employed By The Older Chemists To Designate Any Kind Of Air Or Vapor. All Liehnont Was The First Chemist Who Limited The Term Gas To Such Elastic Fluids As Had Not Been ...
General Theological Seminary
General Theological Seminary Of The Protestant Episcopal Church In The "united States. This Institution Was Founded In 1819 At New Haven, Conn., Shortly Afterwards Removed To The City Of New York, And Chartered By The Legislature In 1822. It Is Governed By A Board Of Trustees, Composed Of All The ...
Generalization
Generalization. Our Experience Of The World Leads Us To Recognize Not Only Great Variety, But Also Numerous Instances Of Agreement In The Midst Of The Variety. We Do Not Call The Continuance Of The Same Fact An Agreement; It Is Only When, Amid Differ Ence Of Accompaniment, We Recognize A ...
Geneseo
Geneseo, A Village In Henry Co., Ill., On The Chicago, Rock Island, And Pacific Railroad, 159 M. W. By S. Of Chicago And 23 Rn. E. Of Rock Island. It Is An Important Grain And Stock-shipping Point. It Contains A National And A Private Bank, An Iron Foundry, Agricultural Implement, ...
Genesis
Genesis (ante)—the First Book Of The Pentateuch And Of The Bible—of Which The First Words, Signifying In The Beginning, Are Used In The Hebrew As The Title; And Of This The Genesis, Meaning Origin Or Beginning, Has Been Adopted Iu The Latin And English Versions. With This Title The Whole ...
Geneva
Geneva, A Canton Of Switzerland In The S.w. Of That Country, Is Bounded On The N. By The Canton Of Vaud And The Lake M Geneva, And On The S., E., And W., By The Territories Of France. It Has An Area Of 109 Sq.m., And In 1877 It Had ...
Geneva Convention
Geneva Convention, An Agreement Concluded At An International Conference Which Was Held At Geneva 1864, Under The Presidency Of General Dufour, The Swiss Plenipotentiary, For The Purpose Of Ameliorating The Condition Of The Sick And Wounded In Time Of War. The Credit Of Originating This Conference Must Be Eiven To ...
Geneva_2
Geneva (fr. Geneve, Ger. Genf, Ital. Ginevra), The Most Populous And Flourishing T. Of Switzerland, Capital Of The Canton Of The Same Name, Is Situated On The Southern Extremity Of The Lake Of Geneva, 70 Rn. N.e. From Lyon, In France. At The Time Of The Contests Between The Helvetii ...
Genevieve
Genevieve, A Saint Of The Roman Catholic Church, The Subject Of Many Popular And Highly Poetical Legends, And Regarded With Special Veneration In France And Par Ticularly In Paris, Of Which City She Is The Patroness. From A Nearly Contemporary Life Of St. Genevieve, We Learn That She Was Born ...
Genghis
Genghis (jengueiz, Tchinggis, Or Zingis) /chan, Originally Called Temujin, A Cele Brated Mongol Conqueror, B. Jan. 25, 1155 A.d., At Deylun-yeldilk, Near The Northern Bend Of The Ferainuran (hoang-ho), Was The Son Of Yesukai Bahadfir, A Mongol Chief, Who Ruled Over Some Thirty Or Forty Families Or Clans, Called The ...
Genii
Genii. According To The Belief Of The Old Italian Races, Genii Were Protecting Spirits, Who Accompanied Every Created Thing From Its Origin To Its Final Decay, Like A Second Spiritual Self. They Were Appropriated Not Only To Men, But To All Timings Ani Mate And Inanimate, And More Especially To ...
Genitive
Genitive, The Name Of One Of The " Cases " In Grammar (see Declension). In Such An Expression As (lat.) Regis Flies, (eng.) The King's Son, The Form Regis Or King's Is Called The Genitive Case; And According To The Usual Explanation, This Name Was Given It, Because It Indicates ...
Genius
Genius. This Word, Which Conveys The Most Lofty Enlogium That Can Be Applied To Intellectual Excellence, Meant Originally The Tutelary God Or Demon That Was Anciently Supposed To Preside Over The Birth And Destinies Of Every Individual Human Being. The Peculiarities Attending The Character And Career Of Each Person Came ...
Genlis
Genlis, Sti3phanie Comtesse De, -was B. At Champori, Near Autun, In Burgundy, Jan. 25, 1746, Of An Ancient But Reduced Family. Her Maiden Name Was Ducrest, At The Age Of 15 She Was Married To The Comte De Geniis; And In 1770, Through The Influence Of Her Aunt, Madame De ...
Gennadius
Gennadius. Georgius Scholari Or Scholarius, Better Known As Gennadins, A Learned Greek And For Some Time Patriarch Of Constantinople, Obtains A Place In History Through The Important Part Played By Him In The Contest Between Platonism And Aris Totelianism Which Marks The Transitions From Medimval To Modern Thought. Extremely Little ...
Genoa
Gen'oa (ital. Genova; Fr. Genes; Anciently, Genoa), A City Of Italy, Situated On The Mediterranean Gulf Of The Same Name, At The Foot Of The Apennines, 79 M. S.e. Of Turin, Is The Chief Commercial Seaport Of The Sardinian Provinces. Lat. Of Light-house, 44° 24' 18" N., Long. 8° 54' ...
Genre Painting
Genre-painting, A Term Derived From The French Genre (" Kind," "sort"). Origi Nally Employed To Distinguish Any Special Branch Of Painting, As Genre-historigue (historic Painting), Genre Du Paysage (landseape-painting), Etc. In A More Definite Sense It Is Used To Describe Any Picture Containing Human Figures Not Included In The So-called ...
Genseeic
Gen'seeic, King Of The Vandals, Was -an Illegitimate Son Of Godigiselus, Who Led The Vandals Into Spain. After The Death Of His Brother Gonderic, Genseric Became Sole Ruler. In The Year 429, He Invaded Africa On The Invitation Of Count Boniface; The Viceroy Of Valentinian Iii., Emperor Of The West, ...
Gentleman
Gentleman, This Word Is An Example Of Those Compromises So Frequent In Eng Lish Between The Language Introduced By The Normans, And That In Possession Of The Country At The Period Of The Conquest. The Norman Word Was, As The French Word Is Now, Gentilhomme. The First Syllable Was Retained, ...
Gentz
.gentz, Freedittcn Vox, 1764-1832; Aptly Described By Varnhagen Von Ense As A Writer-statesman. He Was More Than A Publicist Or Political Writer. His Position Was Peculiar, And His Career Without A Parallel. It Is Believed That No Other Instance Can Be Adduced Of A Man Exercising The Same Amount Of ...
Genuflexion
Genuflexion, The Act Of Kneeling Or Bending The Knees In Worship. As An Act Of Adoration, Or. .reverence, There Are Frequent Allusions To Genuflexion In The Old And In The New Testaments: As Gen. Xvii. 3 And 17; Numbers Xvi. 22; Luke Xxii. 41; Acts Vii. 00, And Ix. 40; ...
Genus
Genus (lat. A Kind), In Natural History, A Group Of Species (q.v.), Plosely Connected By Common Characters Or Natural Affinity. See Generalization. In All Branches Of Zoology And Botany, The Name Of The Genus Forms The First Part Of The Scientific Name Of Each Species, And Is Followed By A ...
Geodesy
Geodesy, The Science Of The Measurement Of The Earth's Surface, And Of Great Por Tions Of It. The Reader Will Find Under Earth The Principal Results Of Geodetical Meas Urements, And Under Triangulation, An Account Of Some Of The Methods Of Obtaining Them. Geodesy Has Many Physical Difficulties To Contend ...
Geoffrey Of
Geoffrey Of Called Also Jeffrey Al' Arthur, Was B. At Monmouth, And In 1152 Was Consecrated Bishop Of St. Asaph. He Died About 1154. His Chief Work, The Chronicon Sire Ilistoria Britonum, Seems To Have Been Completed About 1128. It Is A Tissue Of The Wildest Fables, Interwoven With Some ...
Geographical Distribution Of Animals
Geographical Distribution Of Animals. Each Great Geographical Or Climatal Region Of The Globe Is Occupied By Some Species Of Animals Not Found Elsewhere. Thus, The Ornithorhynchus Belongs Exclusively To Australia; The Sloth, To America; The Hippo Potamus And Camelopard, To Africa; And The Reindeer And Walrus To The Arctic Regions; ...
Geographical Distribution Of Plants
Geographical Distribution Of Plants, Also Called Geographical Botany, And Phytogeograpfiy, Is That Branch Of Botany Which Treats Of The Geographic Distri Bution Of Plants, And Connects Botany With Physical Geography. A Knowledge Of Facts Belonging To It Has Been Gradually Accumulating Ever Since The Science Of Botany Began To Be ...
Geography
Geography (gr. Ye, The Earth, To Write Or Describe) Is, As Its Name Implies, -a Description Of The Earth. This Science Is Best Considered Under The Three Distinct Heads Of Mathematical Or Astronomical Geography, Physical Geography, And Political Geography, Which All Admit Of Further Subdivision Into Numerous Subsidiary Branches. Mathematical ...
Geology
Geology (gr. Ge And Logos), The Science Of The Earth, Should Include All The Sciences That Treat Of The Constitution And Distribution Of The Inorganic Matter Of The Earth, As Well As Those Which Describe The Living Beings That Inhabit It; Just As Astronomy Includes The Whole Science Of The ...
Geometry
Geometry, The Science Of Space, Discusses And Investigates The Properties Of Definite Portions Of Space Under The Fourfold Division Of Lines, Angles, Surfaces, And Volumes, Without Regard To Any Physical Properties Which They May Have. It Has Various Divisions, E.g., Plane And Solid Geometry, Analytical Or Algebraical Geometry, Descriptive Geom ...
Georg Gottfried Gervinits
Gervi`nits, Georg Gottfried, An Historian Of German Literature, And Politician, Was B. At Darmstadt, May 20,1805. He Received A Mercantile Education, And Was For Some Time Employed In The Counting-house Of A Merchant In His Native Town. By A Diligent Course Of Self-instruction. He Supplied What Was Wanting In His ...
George Fownes
Fownes, George, 1815-49;, B. England. His Inclination Was Towards Chemistry, And In 1837 He Began To Lecture On That Science. Two Years Later He Studied Under The -celebrated Leibig At Giessen, And Afterwards Filled A Number Of Professorships In His Own Country. In Addition To His Well-known Manual Of Chemistry ...
George Fox
Fox, George, The Originator Of The Society Of Friends (q.v.), Commonly Called Quakers, Was B. At Drayton, In Leicestershire, In 1624, And At An Early Age Was Employed In Keeping Sheep. Subsequently, Lie Was Apprenticed To A Country Shoemaker; But When About 19 Years.of Age, His Religious Impressions Produced Such ...
George Gascoigne
Gascoigne, George, 1535-77; One Of The Pioneers Of Elizabethan Poetry,, Was The Son And Heir Of Sir John Gascoigue. He Studied At Cambridge, And Was Admitted To Gray's Inn In 1555. His Youth Was Unsteady, And His-father Disinherited Him. In 1565, He Had Written His Tragicomedy Of The Glass-of The ...
George Gillespie
Gillespie, George, 1013-48; B. Scotland; A Prominent Member Of The Presby Terian .party In The Westminster Assembly, Entered The University Of St. Andrews As A " Presbytery Bursar" In 1629. On The Completion Of A Brilliant Student Career, Lie Became Domestic Chaplain To Lord Kenmure, And Afterwards To The Earl ...
George Gosciien
Gosciien, George Joacimi, H. England 1831; Educated At Rugby And Oxford, But- Declined To Graduate Having Scruples About Taking Certain Oaths. Going Into Mercantile Business He Paid Special Attention To Financial Questions, Hut Left His Germ In Order To Take Office In The Russell-gladstone Ministry. He Was Returned In The ...
George Ii
George Ii. Succeeded His Father As King Of England In The 45th Year Of His Age. He Was B. At Hanover On Oct. 80 1683, And Married Carolina Wilhehnina, Daughter Of The Markgraf Of Anspaeh. She Is Said To Have Been A Woman Of Uncommon Attainments In Literature, Theology, And ...