Armagh
Armagh, A County Of Ireland, In The Province Of Ulster. It Is Bounded By Lough Neagh On The North ; By The County Of Louth On The South ; On The West By Tyrone And Monaghan ; And By Down On The East. Its Length, From North To South, Is ...
Armenia
Armenia Was A Country Of Asia, Which Probably Derived Its Name From Aram, The Son Of Shem ; Who, If We May Believe Tradition, Settled In That Region, And Peo Pled It With His Descendants. We Are Not Ignorant, That Some Writers Of Respectability Have Tortured Their In Genuity In ...
Armillary Trigonometer
Armillary Trigonometer, The Name Of An In Strument Invented By Mr Mungo Murray, And Improved By Mr Ferguson, For Performing Problems In Astronomy, Dialling, And Spherical Trigonometry. See Ferguson's Tables And Tracts, P. 80. (j) Arminianisi\l, Strictly Speaking, Is That System Of Religious Doctrine Which Was Taught By Arminius, Professor ...
Armour
Armour, An External Covering For The Purpose Of Protecting Tie Human Body During The Time Of War. The Naked And Defenceless Condition Of Mankind In Their Natural State, Their Susceptibility Of Injury, And The Dif Ficulty Of Existing Without Warfare, Probably First Sug Gested The Use Of Armour. What May ...
Arms
Arms. If The Subject Of This Article Require Any Definition, It May Be Comprised Under, " Implements To Injure By Aggression, Or To Aid The Human Strength In Repelling A Foe." It Is Truly Deplorable In Contemplating The History Of Nations, To Behold The Methods Of Destruction That Have Been ...
Army
Army. An Army May Be Defined, A Certain Portion Of The Community Selected And Set Apart For The Public Defence, Or An Assemblage Of Men For The Purpose Of War, Commanded By A Chief, Or Leader, With Subordinate Officers In Regular Gradation, And Under Certain Laws, Which Constitute The Authority ...
Arnaud De Nobleville
Arnaud De Nobleville, Louis Daniel, A Cele Brated Naturalist, Was Born At Orleans On The 24th De Cember, 1701. Being Destined By His Friends For A Commercial Life, He Spent Two Years With A Merchant At Nantes ; And Upon His Return To Orleans, Assisted His Father In Managing A ...
Arnold Or Brescia
Arnold Or Brescia) An Italian Monk, Who, At An Early Period Of Life, Travelled Into France, And Became The Disciple Of The Celebrated Abelard. Having Imbib Ed' Some Of The Heretical Sentiments, And A Of That Freedom Of Thought, Which Distinguished His Mas Ter, He Returned To Italy, And In ...
Arraignment
Arraignment, In Law, Is A Term Used To Denote That Step Of Judicial Process, In Which A Person, Indicted For Any Crime, Is Called To The Bar Of A Court, To Answer The Matter Charged In The Indictment. In This Sense, No One Is Properly Said To Be Arraigned But ...
Arrakan Aracan
Aracan, Arrakan, Reccan, Roshaun, Yeeke1n, Or Moo, A Country Of Asia, Situated On The Bay Of Ben Gal, To The East Of The Mouth Of The Ganges. It Is Bounded On The North By Aieckley, On The East By The Birman Empire, And On The South By Pegu. It Stretches ...
Arran
Arran, An Island On The West Coast Of Scotland, Situated At The Mouth Of The Firth Of Clyde. Its Name Is Derived From Ar High, And In An Island ; Or, According To Others, From ./ir-flun, The Slaughter Of Fingal, An Ety Mology Founded On A Battle Said To Have ...
Arrest
Arrest, In Law, (trom The Fr. Arretcr, To Stop Or Stay,) Signifies The Restraining Of A Man's Person, For Di Purpose Of Securing His Obedience To The Law. Arrest Is Considered As The Beginning Of Imprison Ment ; And It May Be Made Either For A Civil Debt, Or Upon ...
Arrest Of Judgment
Arrest Of Judgment. To Move In Arrest Of Judg Ment, Is To Shew Cause Why Judgment Should Be Staid, Notwithstanding Verdict Given ; For In Many Cases, Though There Be A Judgment, No Verdict Can Be Had. Arrests Of Judgment Arise Principally From Intrinsic Causes Appearing Upon The Face Of ...
Arrestment
Arrestment, In The Law Of Scotland, Is Applied Either To Persons, Or To Things. In The Former Case, It May Denote The Securing Of A Criminal, Until He Undergo Trial, Or Give Bail. In Cer Tain Special Cases, A Judge May Arrest Or Secure The Per Sons Of Such As ...
Arrian
Arrian, A Valuable Greek Historian, Who Flourished In The Second Century, Under Adrian And The Antonines. He Was Born Of An Honourable Family, At Nicomedia, A City Of Bithynia, And Is Called By Dio, Flavius 4rrianus .mcomediensis. In His Own Country He Held The Office. Of Priest Of Ceres And ...
Arsenious Acid
Arsenious Acid. This Acts Both Externally And Inter Nally, And Produces Death In A Very Short Time. The Exact Mode In Which It Operates On Life Is Not Well Agreed On, But The General Symptoms Produced Are The Following : An Austere Taste, With Spitting, Constriction Of The Throat, Grinding ...
Art Tennessee River
Art. Tennessee River, Vol. Xviii. Pp. 666-7. Between The Valley Of Sandy River And Its Reach Ing Tennessee River, In A Distance Of 325 Miles, The Cumberland Chain Is A Dividing Line Eyriver Source, And In Many Parts Presents An Impassable Wall Of Rock. If We, However, Compare The Mountain ...
Arthur
Arthur, The Most Celebrated Name In Cambro British Story, And One Of The Nine Worthies Of The World. From The Peculiar Darkness Of The Period In Which This Personage Flourished, And From The Excessive Eulogies Lavished On Him By Bards And Fablers, His Real History Is Involved In Much Uncertainty. ...
Artillery
Artillery, In Its Original Signification, Was A Par Ticular Name For The Bow And Arrow; But Subsequently Extended To All Engines For Throwing Arrows, Stones, Or Other Missile Weapons. In Modern Times, The Word Is Usually Employed As A Generic Term For Great Guns, Their Ammunition And Appurtenances; Or As ...
Arts The
Arts The Origin Of The Arts Is Founded In The Natural Wants And Desires Of Man. As Formed By Nature, He Is The Most Helpless And Unprotected Of All Beings ; Destitute Of Covering From The Inclemencies Of The Weather ; Unpro Vided With Any Weapons Either For Defence Or ...
Arundel
Arundel, Tnoruis, Archbishop Of Canterbury, Was Born In 1353, And At The Early Age Of 21 Was Promoted From The Archdeaconry Of Canterbury To The See Of Ely. He Was Translated To The Archbishopric Of York In 1388, To The See Of Canterbury In 1396, And For A Number Of ...
Arundelian
Arundelian Mannr.vq, Certain Monuments Of Uy The Earl Of Arundel. They Are Also, In Conjunction With Other Similar Stones, Known To The Learned By The Name Of Marmora Aroniensia, Being Now In The Possession Of The University Of Oxford. Dur Ing The Reigns Of James And Charles I. Thomas How ...