Farce
Farce, A Dramatic Piece Or Tainment Of Law Comic Character. It Was Originally A Droll, Or Petty Show Exhib Ited By Mountebanks And Their Buffoons In The Open Streets, To Gather The People Together. It Has, However, Long Been Re Moved From The Street To The Theatre ; And Instead ...
Fata Morgana
Fa'ta Morga`na, A Singular Aerial Phenomenon Seen In The Straits Of Messi Na.. When The Rising Sun Shines From That Point Whence Its Incident Ray Forms An Angle Of About On The Sea Of Reg Gio, And The Bright Surface Of The Water In The Bay Is Not Disturbed Either ...
Federalist
Federalist, An Appellation In The United States, Given To Those Politicians Who Wanted To Strengthen Thefirdus, Or General Government Compact, In Opposi Tion To Others Who Wished To Enfeeble It By Extending The Separate Authority Of The Several States. Liamilton Was A Chief Federalist, Jefferson A Leading Anti Federalist. Fee, ...
Felpcitas
Felpcitas, The Appellation Of A Roman Goddess, A Christian Martyr, And A Traditional Empress, Mentioned In Ro Mantic Poetry Felicitas, A Di Vine Being, Agreeing With The End:cola Nia (felicity) And The Eutychia (good For Tune) Of The Greeks, In Whom Was Per Sonified The Idea Of Happiness Arising From ...
Feudal System
Feudal System, A Form Of Gov Ernment Anciently Subsisting In Europe, And Which, About Twelve Centuries Ago, Was So Universally Received, That Spel Man Calls It "the Law Of Nations In Our Western World." The Origin Of This System, Is To Be Found In The Military Policy Of The Celtic ...
Fire
Fire, In Former Times, Fire Obtained A Place Among The Elements, And Was For A Long Time Considered To Be A Constituent Part In The Composition Of All Bodies, And To Require Only The Concurrence Of Favor Able Circumstances To Develop Its Activ Ity. Its All-consuming Energy, The Sim Ilarity ...
Forti I
Forti I: 1 Ca"r Ion, The Art Or Science Of Fortifying Is Place, Or Of Putting It In Such A Posture Of Defence, That Every One Of Its Parts Defends, And Is Defended, By Some Other Ports, By Means Of Ramparts, Parapets, Moots, And Other Bulwarks; So That A Small ...
Freemasonry
Freema'sonry, A Term Applied To The Organization Of A Society Calling Themselves Free And Accepted Masons, And All The Mysteries Therewith Connected. This Society, If We Can Reckon As One A Number Of Societies, Many Of Which Are Unconnected With Each Other, Though They Have The Sonic Origin, And A ...
G A Ll Ev
G A L'l Ev, A Naval Vessel Of Large Size, Long And Narrow, Usually Propelled By Oars, With Occasionally The Addition Of Sails. Most Of The Ships Employed By The Ancients May Be Termed Galleys, And Ac Cording To The Number Of Banks Of Row Ers Were Biremes When With ...
Gems
Gems, The Name Given To Precious Stones In General, But More Especially To Such As By Their Color, Brilliancy, Polish, Purity, And Rarity, Are Sought After As Ob Jects ,of Decoration. Gems Of The Most Valu Able Form The Principal Part Of The Crown Jewels Of Sovereign Princes, And Are ...
Geniis
Genii's, An Aptitude For A Particular Pursuit. Founded On Some Stimulus Its Youth, By Which The Mind And Faculties Are Directed To Excellence. It Combines Opposite Intellectual Qualities; The Deep Est Penetration With The Liveliest Fancy ; The Greatest Quickness With The Most In Defatigable Itiiigence. To What Is Old ...
Genre Painting
Genre-paint'ing, Pictures Of Life And Manners. Under This Title Are Com Prised The Grave Episodes Of Life, Which Are To History What A Single Scene Is To A Drama, Or A Lyric To An Epic Poem. Also Coinie Scenes Of Every Kind ; A Comic Sub Ject Is Seldom Placed ...
Geogiiaphy
Geogiiaphy, Properly, A Descrip Tion Of The Earth Ur Terrestrial Globe, Pal Tieularly Of The Divisions Of Its Surface, Natural And Artificial, And Of The Position Of The Several Countries, Kingdoms, States, Cities, He. As A Science, Geography In Cludes The Doctrine Or Knowledge Of The Astronomical Circles Or Divisions ...
Giisies Or Gypsies
Gii"sies. Or Gypsies, A Wandering Tribe, Or Race Of Vagabonds, Sprea I Over The Greatsr Part Of Europe, Au I Some Parts Of Asia And Africa ; Strolling About And Subsisting Mostly By Theft, Low Games, And Fortune-telling. The Name Is Sup Posed To Be Corrupted From Egyptian, As They ...
Greek
Greek: That Portion At Christians Who Conform, In Their Creert, Usages, And Church Government, To The Views Of Christianity Introduced Into The Former Greek Empire, And Perfected, Sinee The Fifth Century, Under The Patriarchs Or Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, And Jerusalem. Like The Roman Catholic, This Church Recognizes Two Sources Of ...
Greek Fire
Fire, Greek, A Destructive Eompo Sition, Used In War From The Ith To The 13th Century. When The Arabs Besieged Constantinople In 669, The Greek Archi Tect Callinicus Of Heliopolis, Deserted From The Caliph To The Greeks, And Took With Him A Composition, Which, By Its Wonderful Struck Terror Into ...
Greek Language
Greek Lan'guage, The Language ()i' The Primitive Inhabitants Of Greece, The Pelasgi, Was Already Extinct In The Time Of Lierolotue, Who Asserts That It Was Dif Ferent From The Ilellenie, And Adds, That It Is Probable The Ilellenes Have Retained Their Original Language. From The Great Number Of Hellenic Tribes ...
Guillotine
Guillotine', The Name Given To The Instrument Of Capital Punishment Used In France ; So Called From Joseph Ignace Guillotin, By Whom It Was Intro Duced Into That Country. This Person Was Born At Saintes, And, Established As A Physician At Paris, Obtained A Certain Celebrity In The Early Period ...
Hail
Hail, The Small Mosses Of Ice Or Fro Zen Vapor, Falling From The Clouds In Show Ers Or Storms. These Masses Consist Of Little Spherules United, But Not All Of The Same Consistence ; Some Being As Hard And Solid As Perfect Ice ; Others Soft, Like Frozen Snow. Hailstones ...
Hailmattan
Hailmat'tan, The Name Given To A Prevailing Wind On The Coast Of Africa, Which Is Of A Peculiarly Dry And Parching Character. Ha Li.mon'ica, Or Ar Monica, A Musical Instrument, In Which The Sound Is Produced From Glasses, Blown As Near As Possible In The Form Of Hemispheres, Having Each ...
Hair
Hair, In Physiology, Slender, Oblong, And Flexible Filaments, Growing Out Of The Pores Of Animals, And Serving Most Of Them As A Covering. It Consists Of The Bulb, Situated Under The Skin, Which Is A Nervous Vesicle, And A Trunk Which Per Forates The Skin And Cuticle, And Is Cov ...
Heaen
Hea)"en, Literally The Sky, Or Azure Vault Which Spreads Above Us Like A Hol Low Hemisphere, And Appears To Rest On The Limits Of The Horizon. Modern As Tronomy Has Taught Us, That This Blue Vault Is, In Fact, The Immeasurable Space In Whieh Our Earth, (he Sun, And All ...
Heltrf Synod
Heltrf' Synod, A Respectable Body Of Presbyterian Dissenters In Scotland, Whose Ground Of Separation From The Established Church Was The Violent Exer Cise Of Lay Patronage Which Obtained In The Latter. Though Patronage, Or The Ap Pninttuent Of Clergymen To Church Bene Fices By Presentations Bad Been Establish Ed By ...
Herrniiut
Herrniiut, An Establishment In Upper Lusatia, Comprising, It Is Said, At Present 120 Houses, Soil 1500 Inhabitants, Which Was Founded By A Few Moravians About The Year 1722, Tinder The Patronage Of Count Zinzendorf. The Principles Of The Society Thus Formed Are Seclusion From The Wat Id, The Enjoyment Of ...
Historiographer
Historiog'rapher, A Professed Historian, Or Writer Of Histories. It Has Been A Common, Although Not Uniform Practice In European Courts, To Confer The Place Of Public Historiographer On Some Learned Man As A Mark Of Royal Favor. Voltaire Had At One Period The Title Of Royal Historiographer Of France. An ...
Hong
Hong, The Chinese Name For The For Eign Factories Situated At Canton. The Hong Merchants Are Those Persons Who Are Alone Legally Permitted To Trade With For Eigners. They Are Ten In Number, And Are Always Held Responsible By The Gov Ernment For Paying All Duties, Whether On Inspects Or ...
Honors
Hon'ors. Greece, In The Heroic Times, Rendered To All Her Great Generals And Captains Some Liberal Reward As A Proof Of The Public Approbation And Respect. This Was Sometimes Offered In The Shape Of A Of Gold, Or Of A Silver Tripod, Or Sou., Other Valuable Article Either Of Util ...
Hymn
Hymn, An Ode In Praise Of The Deity, Or Some Divine Personage. The Earliest Greek Hymns Are Those Attributed, Prob Ably Without Foundation, To Homer: Imi Tated By Can Machus. They Are In Heroic Verse, Except One Of Carnal:mits In Hex Ameters And Pentameters; And Their Con Tents, For The ...
I Senate
I Sen'ate, An Assembly Or Council Of Senators : That Is, A Body Of The Principal Inhabitants Of A State, Invested With A Share In The Government. The Senate Of Ancient Rome Was, Of All Others, The Most Celebrated : It Appointed Judges, Either From Among The Senators Or Knights, ...
Identity
Iden'tity, Sameness, As Distinguish Ed From Similitude And Diversity ; The Sameness Of A Substance Under Every Pos Sible Variety Of Circumstances. Among Philosophers, Personal Identity Denotes The Sentences Of The Conscious Subject 1, Throughout All The Various States Of Which It Is The Subject.—system Of Identity, In Philosophy, (otherwise ...
Idptia
Idptia, In Antiquity, Lacedemo Nian Festivals, Remarkable For The Fru Galify Of The Entertainment, And The Char Itable Intention Of The Meetinc. They Were Hold In Public Places, And In The Open Air. Those Who Attended Made Con Tributions Of Flour, Wine, Cheese, And Figs. Rich And Poor Assisted Alike ...
Iielmet
Iiel'met, Defensive Armor For The Head : A Word Of Scandinavian Derivation. The Armor Of The Ancients, Which Partic Ularly Guarded The Head, Was Known By The General Denominations Of Head-pieee, Casque, And Helmet. Helmets Were An Ciently Formed Of Various Materials, But Chiefly Of Skins Of Beasts, Brass, And ...
Iierald
Iier'ald, The Title Of An Officer In Eng Land Whose Duty It Anciently Was To Declare War, To Challenge In Battle And Combat, To Proclaim Peace, And To Execute Martial Messages; But Who Is, At Present, To Conduct Royal Processions, The Creations Of Nobility, And The Ceremonies Of Knighthood ; ...
Im Provisatore
Im Provisatore, An Italian Word, Signifying A Person Who Has The Talent Oi Composing And Reciting A Suite Of Verses On A Given Subject Immediately And With Out Premeditation. This Peculiar Talent, Thus Restricted, Appears To Belong, Almost Exclusively, To The Italian Language And People. Much, No Doubt, Of The ...
Images
Images, In Sculpture. This Word Was Used Among The Ancients, More Par Ticularly To Denominate The Portraits Of Their Ancestors, Either In Painting Or Sculpture. The Greeks And Romans En Tertained For These Images The Greatest Veneration, And Even Rendered Them A Sort Of Worship. The Romans Preserved With Especial ...
Initiative
Initiative, In Politics. In Legisla Tire Assemblies Constituted So As To Coh. Prise More Than One Chamber, Or Tumor) Than One Distinct And Co-ordinate Power, That Branch Of The Legislature To Which Belongs Of Right The Power To Propose Measures Of A Particular Class Is Said To Have The Initiative ...
Inquisfelon
Inquisfelon, The Title Given To In Court Armed With Extensive Criminal Au Thority In Various European Countries; Especially Instituted To Inquire Into Of Fences Against The Established Religion. The First Of Those Tribunals Of Faith Was That Established In The South Of France After The Conquest Of The Albigenses In ...
Inspiration
Inspiration, The Infusion Of Ideas Into The Mind By The Holy Spirit ; The Conveying Into The Minds Of Men, Ideas, Notices, Or Monitions By Extraordinary Or Supernatural Influence.—inspipation Of The Sacred Writers, Is Defined ;um Influence Of The ]duly Spirit Exercised On The Under Imaginations, Memories, And Other Mental ...
Interdict
Interdict, In Ecclesiastical History, A Spiritual Weapon, By Which The Popes Used In Former Times To Reduce Individuals Or Whole States To The Most Abject Submis Sion To Their Power. In The Middle Ages It Was The Most Terrible Blow Which Could Be Inflicted On The People Or The Prince. ...
Invalids
In'valids, Those Soldiers Or Sailors Who, Either On Account Of Wounds Or Length Sf Service, Are Admitted Into Hospitals, And There Maintained At The Public Ex Pense. The Practice Of Making Provision For Soldiers Worn Out Or Disabled In The Public Service Dates From High Antiquity. The Liberality Of Pisistratus ...
Inveicsion
Inveicsion, In Rhetoric And Philolo Gy, The Transposition Of Words Out Of Their Natural Order. Every Language Has A Customary Arrangement Of Its Own To Reg Ulate The Order Of Succession In Which Words Forming Part Of The Same Sentence, Member, Or Proposition Follow Each Other. On The Other Hand, ...
Ionic Order
Ionic Order, One Of The Five Or Ders Of Architecture. The Distinguish Ing Characteristic Of This Order Is The Volute Of Its Capital. In The Grecian Ionic, The Volutes Appear The Same On The Front And Rear ; Being Connected On The Flanks By A Baluster-like Form ; Through The ...
Ionic Philosophers
Ionic Philosophers, The Earliest Among The Greek Schools Of Philosophy. Speculation Arose In Greece, As Elsewhere, In The Attempt To Discover The Laws Of Outward Phenomena-, And The Origin And Successive Stages Of The World's Develop Ment. Such An Attempt, It Is Needless To Say, Must At First Have Been ...
Ist Evan Ei
Evan Ei,ist, A General Name Given To Those Who Write Or Preach The Gospel Of Jesus Christ. The Word Is Of Creek Origin, Signifying One Who Publishes Glad Tidings, Or Is The Messenger Or Good News. But It Is Applied Principally To The Writers Of The Four Gospels, Or Erangella, ...
Ivory
I'vory, The Tusks And Teeth Of The Elephant, And Of The Walrus Or Sea-horse; A Hard, Solid Substance, Of A Tine White Creamy Color, And Greatly Esteemed For The Fineness Of Its Grain, And The High Polish Ft Is Capable Of Receiving. That Of India Loses Its Color And Becomes ...
Jacobins
Ja'cobins, In French History, A Po Litical Club, Which Bore A Well-known Part In The First Revolution. It Was First Form Ed By Some Distinguished Members Of The First Assembly, Particularly From Brit Tany, Where Revolutionary Sentiments Ran High. They Took, At First, The Name Of Friends Of The Revolution; ...
Jacobites
Jac'obites, In English History, That Party Which, After The Revolution Of 1688, Adhered To The Dethroned Monarch James If., And Afterwards To His Descendants. In Scotland And Ireland, Where The Revo Lution Was Not Effected Except With The Assistance Of Arms, The Jacobite Party Formed Ono Of The Two Great ...
Jpris Utritm
Jpris Utritm, In Law, A Writ In Behalf Or A Clergyman Whose Predeces Sor Has Alienated The Lands Belonging To His Ehnrch. Jcprty, A Certain Number Of Men Sworn To Inquire Into Or To Determine Facts, And To Declare The Truth According To The Evidence Legally Deduced, And They Are ...
Justice Of The Peace
Justice Of The Peace, The Word Justice Is Applied To Judicial Magistrates ; As Justices Of Such A Court, And, In The English Laws, Justices Of The Forest, Hun Dred, Or The Laborers, &c.; And Hence The Appellation Justice Of The Peace—that Is, A Judicial Magistrate Intrusted With The Conservation ...
Kantian Philosophy
Kan'tian Philos'ophy, (known Also By The Name Of The Critical Philoso Phy,) A System Which Owes Its Existence To Immanuel Kant, Professor Of Logic And Metaphysics In The University Of Konigs Berg In The Latter Half Of The 18th Cen Tury. The Promulgation Of Kant's Doc Trines Forms A Very ...
Keeper
Keeper, In English Law, An Officer Of Different Descriptions, As The Keeper (.?1" The Great Seal, A Lord By His Office, And One Of Tile Privy Council, Through Whose Hand.; Pass Charters, Commissions, And Grants Of The King Under The Great Seal ; The Keeper Of The Priry Seal, Through ...
King
King, The Chief Magistrate Or Sove Reign Of A Nation ; A Man Invested With Supreme Authority Over A Nation, Tribe, Or Country. Kings Are Absolute Mon Archs, When They Possess The Powers Of Government Without Control, Or The Entire Sovereignty Over A Nation : They Are Called Limited Monarchs ...
Knighthood
Knighthood, The Order Or Frater Nity Of Knights. The Order Of Knight Hood, As Now Existing, Appears To Have Originated In The Eleventh And Twelfth Centuries, And It Was Introduced Into England From France. It Was Is Military Institution, Lath There Appears To Have Been Something Of A Religious Character ...
Knights Of Saint John
Saint John, Knights Of, Or 110spitallers, A Military Order Of Religious Persons. They Derived Their Name From A Church And Monastery Dedicated To St. John The Baptist, Founded At Jerusalem About 1018, By Merchants From Amalfi, The Brotherhood Of Its Mem Bers Being Devoted To The Duty Of Taking Care ...
Lab Irinth
Lab Irinth, Literally A Place, Usu Ally Subterraneous, Full Of Inextneable Windings. Ancient History Gives An Ac Count Of Four Celebrated Labyrinths; The Cretan, Egyptian, Letnnian, And Italian. The First Was Built By Dredalus At The In Stigation Of Minos, To Secure The Mino Taur; The Second Is Said To ...
Language
Language, Human Speech; The Ex Pression Of Ideas By Words Or Significant Articulate Sounds, For The Communication Of Thoughts. Language Consists In The Oral Utterance Of Sounds, Which Usage Has Made The Representatives Of Ideas. When Two Or More Persons Customarily Annex The Same Sounds To The Same Ideas, The ...
Laureate
Laureate, Literally Crowned Wills Laurels ; Applied At Present To A Well Known Officer In The Royal Household. At The Certamina, Or Gymnastic And Other Contests Celebrated Under The Roman Em Perors, Especially At The Quinquatria, Or Feast Of Minerva, Poets Also Contended, And The Prize Was A Crown Of ...
Laurentalia
Laurenta'lia, In Antiquity, A Fes Tival Kept By The Romans On The 23d Of December, In Memory Of Aces Laurentia, The Nurse Of Romulus And Remus. She Was Called Lupa By Way Of Nick-name ; Hence The Story Of The Wolf That Suckled The Royal Twins. Law, An Established Or ...
Lay Of Tile Nibelungen
Nibelun'gen, Lay Of Tile, The Name Given To The Most Ancient Existing Monument Of German Epic Poetry. The Origin Of This Poem Is Veiled In Great Ob Scurity ; It Is Supposed To Have Existed, In Substance At Least, Two Centuries Before The Reign Of Charlemagne, And, Like The Early ...
Liberty
Lib'erty, Freedom From Restraint, In A General Sense, And Applicable To The Body, Or To The Will Or Mind. The Body Is At Liberty, When Not Confined; The Will Or Mind Is At Liberty, When Not Checked Or Controlled. A Man Enjoys Liberty, When No Physical Force Operates To Restrain ...
Lien
Lien, In Law, The Right Which One Person, In Certain Eases, Possesses Of De Taining Property Belonging To Another, When Placed In His Possession, Until Some Demand, Which The Former Has, Is Satis Fied. Liens Are Of Two Kinds : Particular Liens, That Is, Where The Person In Posses Sion ...
Light
Light, That Imponderable Ethereal Agent Or Limiter Which Makes Objects Per Ceptible To The Sense Of Seeing, But The Particles Of Which Are Separately In Visible. It Has Been Believed That Light Is A Fluid Or Real Matter, Existing Inde Pendent Of Other Substances, With Prop Erties Peculiar To Itself. ...
Literates
Literates, In Ecclesiastical Affairs, A Name Given To Those Who Arc Admitted To Ordination By The Bishop Without Hav Ing Taken A University Degree. Littrature, In The General Sense Of The Word, Comprises The Entire Results Rkno•ledge And Mental Activity Ex Pressed In Writing ; But In A Narrower Sense, ...
Liturgy
Liturgy, An Office At Athens, By Which Persons Of Considerable Property Were Bound To Perform Certain Public Du Ties, Or Supply The Commonwealth With Necessaries At Their Own Expense. The Persons On Whom This Office Was Imposed Were Usually Among The Richest Inhabit Ants; And If Any One Selected To ...
Logic
Logic, Various Definitions Have Been Given Of Logic, Some Including Too Little. And Others Too Much. Logic Has Been Called The Art Of Reasoning; This Defini Tion Has Been Properly Amended By Call Ing It The Seienc,e As Well As The Art Of Reasoning: Meaning By The Former, The Analysis ...
Louvre
Lou'vre, One Of The Most Ancient Palaces Of France. It Existed In The Time Of Dagobert As A Hunting Seat, The Woods Then Extending All Over The Actual Site Of The Northern Portion Of Paris Down To The Banks Of The Seine. The Origin Of Its Name Has Not Been ...
Lusiad
Lusiad, The Name Given To The Great Epic Poem Of Portugal, Written By Ca Moens, And Published In 1571. The Sub Ject Of This Poem Is The Establishment Of The Portuguese Empire In India; But Whatever Of Chivalrous, Great, Beautiful, Or Ri We, Could Be Gathered From The Tn., Ditions ...
Mantscripts
Mantscripts, Literally Writings Of Any Kind, Whether On Paper Or Any Other Material, In Contradistinction To Such As Are Printed. Books Were Generally Writ Ten Upon Vellum, After The Papyrus Used In Classical Times Had Become Obsolete, Until The General Introduction Of Paper Made From Rags, About The 13th Century ...
Master Singers
Ma'ster-sing'ers, A Class Of Poets Who Flourished In Germany During The 15th And Part Of The 16th Century. They Were Confined To A Few Imperial Towns, And Their Chief Seat Was The City Of Nu Remberg. They Were Generally Of Burg Her Extraction ; And Formed Regular Cor Porations, Into ...
Medal
Medal, A Piece Of Metal In The Form Of A Coin, Intending To Convey To Posterity The Portrait Of Some Great Person, Or The Memory Of Some Illustrious Action. The Parts Of A Medal Are The Two Sides, One Of Which Is Called The Face Or Head, And The Other ...
Memoirs
Mem'oirs, A Species Of History, Writ Ten By Persons Who Had Some Share In The Transactions They Relate ; Answering To What The Romans Called Com:nents;rii. (commentaries.) They Furnish The Reader With Interesting Individual Anecdotes, And Often Expose The Most Secret Motives, Or Disclose The Whole Character Of Events, Which ...
Mesmebism
Mes'mebism, The Doctrine Of Animal Magnetism. So Named From Its Author, Frederic Anthony Mesmer, A German Physician. Its 1778, Mesmer Propounded A Theory, According To Which All The Phe Nomena Of Life Are Referred To The Motion And Agency Of A Certain Universal Mag Netic Fluid, Which Admits Of Being ...
Metwodists
Metwodists, The Body Of Chris Tians To Whom This Name Is Chiefly Applied Are The Followers Of The Late John Wesley, The Founder Of This Numerous Sect ; Hence Called Wesleyan Methodists. But The Term Bears A More Extensive Meaning, Being Applied To Several Bodies Or Sections Of Christians Who ...
Mezzotin10
Mezzotin'10, A Particular Manner Of Engraving, So Called From Its Resem Blance To Drawings In Indian Ink. To Perform This, The Smooth Surfime Of The Copper Or Steel Plate Is Furrowed All Over With An Instrument Made For The Purpose. Till The Whole Is Of A Regular Roughness Throughout ; ...
Minnesingers
Min'nesingers, The Most Ancient School Of German Poets, Whose Name Is Derived From The Old German Word Minne (lore.) The Songs And Fame Of The Pro Vençal Troubadours Appear To Have Pen Etrated Into Germany Under The First Emperors Of The House Of Hollenstauffen ; In Whose Time The Crusades ...
Miseta
Mi:seta A Place Set Apart As A Re Pository For Elisions, Valuable. And Biter Ceting Objects Connected Wills The Arts And Smenees, Especially Stud' Os Relate To Natural History. The Term Was Origi Nally Applied To A Study Or A Place Set Apart For Learned Men In The Royal Palace ...
Moat
Moat, A Ditch Made Round The Old Castles, And Tilled With Water. The Most Surrounding A Military Fortress Of Modern Construction (or The Ditch) Is Left Dry ; But Where It Is Capable Of Inundation At Plessure, This Circumstance Is Considered An Advantage To The System Of Defence. . Mode, ...
Modern Literature
Modern Literature. An Interval Of Eight Centuries Separates The Period Of The Decline Of Roman Litera Ture From That Of The First Dawn Of Modern Literature In Europe. 'rhe Successive Invasions Of The Barbarians During- The Rapid Dismemberment Of The Ancient Em Pire Of Rome, For A Time Destroyed All ...
Morality
Morality, The Duties Ormen In Their Social Or That Rule Of Conduct, Which Promotes The Happiness Of Others, And Renders Their Welfare Accordant With Our Own. This Implies. That Our Acts Must Proceed From A Motive Of Obedience To The Divine Will.—the Term Was Given To A Kind Of Allegorical ...
Mvatiia
Mvatiia, Sr., When Represented As A Martyr, Is Depicted Crowned, With A Long Veil, And Bearing The Instruments Of Her Cruel Martyrdom, A Pair Of Shears, With Which Her Breasts Were Cut Off. As Patron Saint, She Bears In One Hand A Palm Branch, And Holding With The Other A ...
Mythology
Mythol'ogy, The History Of The Fabulous Gods And Heroes Of Antiquity, With The Explanations Of The Fables Or Al Legories Couched Therein. According To The Opinion Of Most Writers, Among Whom Is That Profound Thinker, Lord Bacon, A Great Deal Of Concealed Instruction And Allegory Was Originally Intended In Most ...
Nature
Na'ture, A Word Of Vast And Compre Hensive Signification, Embracing As It Were, The Whole Universe—all That Is Comprised Under The Superintending Cars Of The Great Creator. Thus When We Say, Nature Is Benevolent And Wise, We Under Stand Either The Deity Himself, Or Power Performing The Will Of The ...
Newspapers
Newspapers, Publications In Num Bers, Consisting Commonly Of Single Sheets, And Published At Short And Stated Inter Vals, Conveying Intelligence Of Passing Events. In Rome, Under The Government Of The Emperors, Periodical Notices Of Pass Ing Events (diurna, Acta Dinrna) Were Compiled And Distributed For General Reading ; But Our ...