Athos
Athos, A Mountain Of Macedonia, Famous 'in Ancient History And Poetry. It Is Situated Between The Strymonic And Singitic Gulfs, On A Mountainous _promontory, Which Is Connected With The Continent 3 By An Isthmus Of Land About Twelve Leagues Broad. The Promontory Stretches A Great Way Out Into The ' ...
Atlas
Atlas, A Chain Of Mountains In The North-west Africa, Called In The Arabic Jibbel Attils, Or The Mountains Of Snow. This Chain Of Mountains Is In Habited By The Various. Tribes Of Berebbers, And Ex Tends From (jibbel D'zatute) Ape's Hill On The Mediterranean To Shtuka Andait Bainaran In Lower ...
Atmos Phe
Atmos Phe Re,that Invisible Elastic Fluid Which Surrounds The Earth, And Encloses It On All Sides. It Received Its Name From The Greeks, In Consequence Of The Vapours Which Are Continually Mixing With It. The Ancients Considered It As One Of The Four Elements Of Which All Things Were Composed, ...
Atomical
Atomical Pirmosopit+, That Doctrine Which Professes To Explain The Origin Of All Things, By A Com Bination Of Atoms. The Philosophers, Who Adopted This Doctrine, May Be Divided Into Two Classes ; The Theistical, And The Atheistical. The First Are Those Who Adopted The An Cient Doctrine Concerning Atoms, Said ...
Atonement
Atonement, In Theology, Means That Sacri Fice Which Christ Offered In His Own Person For The Sins Of Men. This Doctrine Supposes The Human Race To Be In A Fallen State, And Incapable Of Effecting Its Deliverance. There Is Evidently The Strongest Founda Tion In Reason For This Representation. It ...
Attachment
Attachment (from The Corrupt Lat. At. Tachiare ; Fr. Attacher, To Tie Or Fasten), In The Com Mon Law Of England, Signifies The Taking Or 'appre Hending A Person Or Thing, By A Writ Or Precept Is Suing On Commandment Of A Court. Attachment Differs From Arrest : For In ...
Attainder
Attainder, In Law, Is The Immediate And In Separable Consequence Of A Sentence Of Death. When This Highdst Judgment Known In The Laws Of England Is Pronounced, A Mark Of Infamy Is Thereby Set Upon The Criminal; Lie Is Thenceforth Put Out Of The Pro Tection Of The Law, Which ...
Attention
Attention, A Steady Exertion Or Due Applica- I Tion Of The Mind To Any Object Of Sense Or Intellect, In Order To Its Being Thoroughly Understood, And After Wards Retained. In Its Etymology It Denotes Stretch- 1 In; Or Straining, From Ad And Tendo, Which Not In- • Aptly Expresses ...
Atticus
Atticus, Titus Pomponius Cjectlius, Was. Descended Of One Of The Most Ancient Families In Rome. He Was Of The Equestrian Order ; And Whether We Consider Him As An.intimate Associate Of The Great, A Prudent Politician, Or:a Dignified Man Of Letters, He Is One Of The Most Honourable Men Tliat ...
Attila
Attila, The Son Of Mundzuk, King Of The Huns. In Conjunction With His Brother Bleda, Lie Succeeded To The Supreme Government Of The Huns, About The Year 433. Bleda, However, Was Soon De Prived Of His Government And His Life By The Cruel Policy Of His Brother. Attila, According To ...
Attorney At Law
Attorney At Law, Is A Person Who Manages . The Law Business Of Another, By Whom He Is Retained ; The Term Being Analogous To The Procurator, Or Proc Tor, Of The Civilians And Canonista. Anciently, (according To The Old Gothic Constitu Tion,) Every Suitor Was Obliged To Appear And ...
Attraction
Attraction, Cnemical, Usually Called Af Finity, An Attraction Which Exists Between The Mi. Nute Particles Of Matter, Which Urges Theih Together, And Which Keeps Them United. It Acts Only At Insen. Sible Distances, And Becomes Imperceptible When The Distances Between Bodies Is Sensible. Hence We Have No Means Of Knowing ...
Attraction Of
Attraction Of Souris. As This Subject Is So Intimately Connected With The Important Experi Ments On The Attraction Of Mountains And Leaden Balls, And With Many Other Branches Of Physics, And As It Cannot Be Introduced With Propriety Under Any Other Head, We Shall Present The Reader With Some Of ...
Attraction Or Mountains
Attraction Or Mountains. If Every Por Tion Of Matter Is Attracted By Every Other Portion Of Matter, With A Force Directly Proportional To The Number Of Gravitating Particles, And Inversely As The Square Of The Distance, It Might Naturally Be Ex Pected, That The Attractive Force Of A Large And ...
Attraction Or Solids
Attraction Or Solids. As This Subject Is So Intimately Connected With The Important Experi Ments On The Attraction Of Mountains And Leaden Balls, And With Many Other Branches Of Physics, And As It Cannot Be Introduced With Proprietrunder Any Other Head, We Shall Present The Reader With Some Of The ...
Augsburg
Augsburg, The Augusta Vindelicorum Of The Ancients, An Ancient Free Imperial City Of Swabia, But Now Incorporated With The Kingdom Of Bavaria, Is Situated In A Beautiful Plain Near The Confluence Of The Lech And Werlach, About Forty Miles North-west Of Munich, And 300 Miles West Of Vienna. It Was ...
Augury
Augury, An Ancient Mode Of Divination, Which Professes To Discover The Will Of Heaven, And The Se Crets Of Futurity, By Attending To The Motions And Voices Of Birds. This Superstitious Art Was Called By The Greeks 401k,, Or Oseimersxn, Or Zuotycoorox ; The Derivation Of Which Words Is Sufficiently ...
Aulus Gellius
Aulus Gellius, (called By Some Agellius,) A Roman Author Of Considerable Ingenuity And Various Learning, (vir Clegantissimi Eloquii, Ac Mitr Et Fit Cuudce Seientite; Augustin. De C'iv. Dei, Ix. V.) Was Horn At Rome, And Flourished There, As Is Supposed, In The Time Of Adrian And The Antonines. Of His ...
Aurelian
Aurelian, One Of The Roman Emperors, Was The Son Of A Peasant, And A Native Of Sirmium In Pan Nonia. He Entered The Army As A Common Soldier, And Was So Distinguished By His Extraordinary Strength And Courage, That He Rose Successively To The Rank Of A Centurian, A Tribune, ...
Aurora
Aurora Nontaus, An Extraordinary Lumi Nous Appearance Or Meteor, Shcwing Itself In The Night-time, In Northern Latitudes, Whence It Has Got Its Name Of Northern Lights, Or Northern Dawn. It Is Also Known Among The Vulgar By The Name Of Stream Ers, Or Merry Dancers. The Aurora Borealis May With ...
Ausonius
Ausonius, Dectntus Mac•nlts, A Latin Poet, Was The Second Son Of Julius Ausonius, An Eminent Physician At Bourdeaux. He Was Born Early In The Fourth Century ; And His Grandfather, A Firm Believer In Astrology, Having Calculated His Horoscope, Flatter , Ed His Family With The Hope That The Child ...
Auspices
Auspices, The Observations Taken By The Ro Man Augurs From The Flight Of Birds, And Other Natu Ral Appearances. The Words Auspicy And Augury Are Often Used Indiscriminately ; But The Common Opinion Is, That The Former Originally Signified The Inspection Of Birds For The Purpose Of Divination, Whereas The ...
Australasia
Australasia. A Vague And Indistinct Idea Long Prevailed Among The More Enlightened European Nations, That An Im Mense Continent Existed At The South Pole Of The World, Which They Denominated Terra Australis In This, From The Capes And Islands Casually Seen By Navigators, Was Supposed To Extend Over Many Degrees ...
Austria
Austria, In German Osterreich, Or Ostreich, Is A Considerable Province Of Southern Germany, Which Has Given Fourteen Emperors To That Country, Six Kings To Spain, And Has Made A Conspicuous Figure In Europe For Ten Centuries. Of The Early History Of This Fine Region We Are Almost Totally Ignorant. Charlemagne ...