David
David, King Of Israel, Was The Youngest Son Of Jesse, A Man Of Considerable Wealth, Of The Tribe Of Judah, Dwelling At Bethlehem. David When Only A Youth Was Selected From Amoug His Father's Sons For The Throne Of Israel By Samuel, And Anointed By Him. But Saul Was Then ...
David Loggan
Loggan, David, A Line-engraver And Designer Of Considerable Eminence, Was Born At Danzig In 1635. Ho Appears To Have First Learnt His Art From Simon De Pas In Denmark, And To Have Worked Subsequently With Hondius In Holland. He Came To England During The Commonwealth, And Spent Some Time In ...
David Ramsay Hay
*hay, David Ramsay, Is The Author Of Some Able Works On Decoration, And On The Principles Of Form And Colour Applicable To Various Branches Of Art. Engaged At Edinburgh In The Business Of Housa•painting, He Is One Of The Very Small Number Of Persons Follow Ing A Commercial Pursuit Connected ...
Davout
Davout (and Not Davoust As It Is Usually Written), Louis Niciiolas, Was Born At Annoux In The Department Of The Yonne (part Of The Former Burgundy) In The Year 1770. His Family Was Noble, And He Was Sent To The Military Academy At Brienne, Where He Was A Fellow-atndent With ...
De Witt Clinton
Clinton, De Witt, Has A Claim To Biographical Notice Chiefly As The Persevering Promoter Of The Project For The Formation Of The Great Canal From Lake Erie To The Atlantic. He Was Bora In 1769, At Little Britain, Orange County, New York. His Mother Was One Of The Distinguished Dutch ...
Deaths Registration Of Births
Registration Of Births, Deaths, And Marriages. Parish Registers Were Not Kept In England Till After The Dissolution Of The Monasteries. The 12th Article Of The Injunctions Issued By Cromwell, Henry Viii!' Secretary, In 1538, Directs That Every Clergy Man Shall, For Every Church, Keep A Book Wherein He Shall Register ...
Declination Of The Magnetic
[declination Of The Magnetic Needle.] It Is Not Improbable That Columbus Was Acquainted Also With The Diurnal V..riation, But Nothing Very Accurate On This Subject Was Known Before The Numerous And Valuable Observations Made By Canton, In 1750. Ile Showed That The Needle Vibrates, During The Day And The Night, ...
Decomposition Of Timber Wood
Wood, Decomposition Of. [timber, Preservation Or.] Wood-engraving Is The Art Of Producing Raised Surfaces, By Excision, On Blocks Of Wood, From Which Impressions Can Bo Transferred By Means Of A Coloured Pigment To Paper, Or Other Suitable Medium, And Generally Applied To Pictorial Representations Of Objects. The Art Of Cutting ...
Deep Sea Soundings
Soundings, Deep Sea. Under The Word Lead-line A General Description Has Been Given Of The Process Of Sounding In Anchorages And Moderate Depths Upon The Coast. Deep-sea Sounding Requires Totally Different Apparatus. Prior To About 1350, The Question Of Deep Sea Sounding Was Purely Geographical And Physical. To Know The ...
Defects Of Sight
Sight, Defects Of. Under Thin Head Will Be Comprehended Short-sight, Long-sight, Double Vision, And The Defective Perception Of Colours, Or Colour Blindness. Llfyepia, Or Near-sightedness (from Aims, "i Shut," And $. "the Eye," A Short-sighted Person Being In The Habit Of Winking, Or Half Shutting His Eyelids When He Endeavours ...
Dehetrius Poliorcetes
Dehe'trius Poliorce'tes (the City-taker) Was The Son Of Antigonus (one Of The Successors Of Alexander The Great) And Stra Tonice. He Appears To Have Been Born About The Year B.c. 334, For Plutarch Tells Us ('dem.,' V.) He Was Twenty-two When He Was Defeated By Ptolemy And Seleucns At Gaza ...
Deiiades
De'iiades, An Athenian Orator And Demagogue, Contemporary With Demontheues. According To Suidas Ho Was Originally A Sailor ; According To L'roclus A Fishmonger. He Took The Part Of Philip In The Olynthian Affair, And Was Liberally Rewarded By That Prince, Who Received Him Well When He Fell Into His Hands ...
Delavione
Delavione, Jean-fra.nco1s-casimir, Was The Son Of A Merchant, And Was Born At Havre On The 4th Of April 1793. He Was Educated At The Lycenm-napolcon At Paris, And As Early As His Four Teenth Year Gave Proofs Of His Addiction To Poetry, Confiding His Attempts However Only To His Brother, ...
Dement Daokixtan O
Dement; Daokixtan ; &o. Sawria.—tobolak. Tomei, Jenisseiak, Irkutzk, Jakutzk, Okhotzk, Kamtchstka, &o. (siazeu ; Kasitchatka ; &o.] Isleada—in The Arctic Seas Nova Zembla. Numerous Islands Oppo Site The Mouth Of The Lena ; The Lialrhov Islands, Or New Siberia, North Of 75' N. Lat.; St. Lawrence, Aonth Of Bhering Strait; ...
Demetrius
Demetrius, Tear (czar) Of Russia, The Title Assumed By A Suc Cession Of Claimants At The Commencement Of The 17th Century, The First Of Whom Is Generally Spoken Of In History As The False Dense Trim.' Ivan The Fourth Of Russia, Known As ' The Terrible,' In The Year 1584 ...
Demetrius Phalereus
Deme'trius Phale'reus, An Athenian, The Son Of Phano Stmtus,lind A Scholar Of Theophrastus. His Earlier Years Were Devoted To The Study Of Philosophy: He Lint Began To Take A Part In Public Affairs About B.c. 320. (dior,. Laert., V. 5-75.) He Was Condemned To Death At The Same Time With ...
Democritus
Demo'critus Was Born At Abdera In Thrace, Or, According To Some, As We Learn From Diogenes Laertius (ix. 34), At Miletus, In The Year N.c. 460. He Was Thus Forty Years Younger Than Anaxagoras, And Eight Years Younger Than Socrates. He Received His First Lessons In Astrology And Theology From ...
Demosthenes
Demo'sthenes Was Born Probably In D.o. 384 Or 385. Ho Was The Son Of Demosthenes, An Athenian Citizen Of The Demur Preania, Who Carried On The Trades Of Cutler And Cabinet-maker, Aud Of Cleobule, The Daughter Of Gylon. This Gylen, Who Had Been Governor Of Nyni Phieum, An Athenian Settlement ...
Denys Diderot
Diderot, Denys, Was Born At Langres, In The Province Of Cham Pagne, In 1713. His Father, A Master Cutler, A Worthy Man, Much Respected Iu His Native Town, And Eonfortable In His Circumstances, Placed His Son First In The Jesuits' College At Langres, And Afterwards Sent Him To The College ...
Deodat Guy S1lvain Tancrede Gratet De
Dolomieu, Deodat-guy-s1lvain Tancrede Gratet De, Was Born At Grenoble On The 24th Of June 1750. Iu Early Youth He Was Admitted A Member Of The Religious Order Of Malta, But In Consequence Of A Quarrel With One Of His Companions Which Ended In A Duel Fatal To His Adversary He ...
Department Of Science And
Science And Art, Department Of. This Department Of The Committee Of Privy Council On Education Owes Its Origin To The Suggestions Contained In The Second Report Of The Commissioners For The Exhibition Of 1951. After Raging The Necessity Of The Industrial Classes Of This Country Receiving More Systematic Instruction In ...
Derbysibre
Derbysibre, Crosses The Southern Extremity Of Yorkshire Between Shire Oaks And The Village Of Wales, Near Which There Is A Tunnel Of 2s50 Yards Upon The Summit Level Of The Canal. The Dearne And Dove Canal Commences At Swinton, In A Side-cut Which Forms Part Of The Don Or Dun ...
Deteiiminant
Deteiiminant. — Imagine A Square Arrangement Of Terms, For :sample A", And Taking This As The Primitive Arrangement, Permute In Every Possible Way Entire Columns (or, What Would Give The Same Result, Entire Lines) And For Each Such Arrangement Form The Product Of The Terms In The Dexter Diagonal (ice, ...
Deux Sevres
Sevres, Deux, A Department Of France, Bounded N. By Maine Et-loire, E. By The Department Of Vienne, S.e. By That Of Charente, S.w. By That Of Charente-iuf,lrieure, And W. By That Of Vend6e. Its Greatest Length From North To South Is 79 Miles ; From East To West About 41 ...
Di Buoninsegna Duccio
Duccio, Di Buoninsegna, A Celebrated Old Painter Of Siena, And One Of The Earliest Of The Italian Painters, Was Born In Or Near Siena, In The Latter Half Of The 13th Century. Ile Signed Himself Duccius, Or Magr. Duccius ; Buoninsegua, Or Segue, Was The Name Of His Master Or ...
Diagoras Of Melds
Dia'goras Of Melds, Known Also By The Name Of The Atheist, Flourished, According To Suidasia, The 78th Olympiad, B.o. 468-65. Mr. Clluton Has Adopted This Date; But Sealiger (in Eusob. Cchron. P. 101) Placed Him Ounabbrably Later, Fixing His Flight From Athens In The Year Ac. 415; And Be Has ...
Dianufacture Of Oils
Oils, Dianufacture Of. The Manufacture Of Animal Oils, Such As That Of The Whale, Is Simple. The Blubber, Or Fat From Which The Oil Is Procured, Is Usually Cut Into Small Pieces And Packed In Casks Soon After It Is Taken From The Whale ; It Is Then Brought Home ...
Diaooras Of Melds
Dia'ooras Of Melds, Known Also By The Name Of The Atheist, Flourished, Aocording To Suidaain, The 76th Olympiad, Ft.e. 468-65. Mr. Clinton Has Adopted This Date; But Scaliger (in Euseb. Chron.' P. 101) Placed Him Considerably Later, Fixing His Flight From Athens In The Year B.c. 415; And Ho Has ...
Diarsilio Ficino
Fici'no, Diarsilio, Born At Florence In 1433, Was The Son Of Ficino, The Physician Of Cosmo Do Medici, Who Perceiving The Happy Dispositions Of The Youth, Generously Provided For His Education. Pichler Studied Greek, And Applied Himself Especinlly To The Works Of Plato, Which He Translated Into Latin. He Afterwards ...
Diciearchus
Diciearchus,. The Sou Of Phidias, Was Born In The City Of Messana In Sicily. He Was A Scholar Of Aristotle, And Is Called A Peripatetic Philosopher By Cicero (' De Officiis,' Ii. 5); But Though He Wrote Some Works On Philosophical Subjects, Ho Seems To Have Devoted Bis Attention Principally ...
Didius Julianus
Didius Julia'nus, Of A Family Originally From Milan, And Grand Son Of Salvius Julianus, A Celebrated Jurist, Was Born About A.d. 133. He Was Educated By Domain Lucille, The Mother Of Marcus Aurelius. He Soon Rose To Important Offices, Was Successively Qumstor, Prmtor, And Governor Of Belgic Gaul, And Having ...
Didymus
Di'dymus, A Celebrated Grammarian, The Son Of A Seller Of Fish At Alexandria, Was Born In The Consulship Of Antony And Cicero, N.c. 63 (suidas, Sob V.), And Lived In The Reign Of Augustus. Macrobius Calls Him The Greatest Grammarian Of His Own Or Any Other Time. (saturn. R. 22.) ...
Diego Cle3iencin
Cle3iencin, Diego, A Patriotic Spanish Statesman, And An Author Distinguished For The Purity Of His Castilian Style, Was, Accord Ing To His Opponent, Puigblancb, The Son Of A Frenchman. He Was Born In The City Of Murcia On The 27th Of September 1765, Entered The College Of San Fulgencio In ...
Differences Or Nothing
Nothing, Differences Or This Name Is Given To Certain Numbers Which Are Used In So Many Different Theorems, That It Is Worth While To Tabulate Them, And To Consider Them As Fundamental Numbers Of Reference. They Were First Specifically Noted In This Point Of View By The Late Bishop Brinkley. ...
Digby
Digby, Kenelmli, The Son Of Sir Everard Digby, Was Born In 1003, Three Years Before His Father's Execution. He Was Educated In The Protestant Faith, And Sent To Oxford At The Age Of Fifteen, Having Been Entered At Gloucester Hall. His Ability Was Early Apparent, And When He Bad Left ...
Dimensions
Dimensions ; But The Common Idiom Refers To That Which The Mathe Matician Calls, For Distinction, Apparent Magnitude. It Is Correct, In The Common Meaning Of The Term, To Say, That A Man At A Little Distance From The Eye Is Larger Than A Remote Mountain. In Thus Judging Of ...
Dinarchus
Dinarchus (aster:sexes), Ono Of The Greek Orators, For The Explanation Of Whose Orations Herpocration Compiled Hie Lexicon. Dinarchus Was A Corinthian By Birth, Who Settled In Athens And Became Intimate With Theophrastus And Demetrius The Phalerian, A Circumstance Which, Combined With Others, Enables Us To Determine His Age With Tolerable ...
Diodorus
Diodo'rus, A Greek Historian, Was Born At Agyrium In Sicily. (` Biblioth. Mist.,' Lib. I. C. 5.) Our Principal Data For The Chronology Of His Life Are Derived From His Own Work. It Appears That He Was In Egypt About The 180th Olympiad, B.c. 60 (‘biblioth. Hist.; I. C. 41, ...
Diogenes
.dio'genes, The Cynio Philosopher, Was The Son Of Hicesius, A Money-changer Of Sinope. His Father And Himself Were Expelled From Their Native Place On A Charge Of Adulterating The Coinage, Or, According To Another Account, Hicesius Was Thrown Into Prison And Died There, While Diogenes Escaped To Athens. On His ...
Diogenes_2
Dio'genes Of Apollonia, So Called From His Birthplace, A Town In Crete, Was A Pupil Of Anaximenes And A Contemporary Of Anaxagoras. The Years In Which He Was Born And Died Are Not Known, As Is The Case Also With His Master Anaximenes. But The Birth-year Of His Contemporary And ...
Dion
Dion, Surnamed Chryedstomun, Or The Golden-mouthed, On Account Of The Beauty Of His Style, The Son Of Pasicmtes, A Man Of Considera Tion At Prusa In Bithynia, Was A Sophist And Stoic, Lie Was In Egypt When Veapasiesa, Who Had Been Proclaimed Emperor By His Own Army, Came There, And ...
Dion Ysius The Elder
Dion Ysius The Elder Was Born At Syracuse About N.c. 430. In The Civil Troubles Of Syracuse, Between The Party Of Diodes And That Of Hermocrates, Who Was Accused Of Aspiring To The Supreme Power, Dionyaiva Took Part With The Latter, And Waa Wounded In An Attempt Which Hermocrates Made ...
Dion_2
Dion, Of Syracuse, Eon Of Ilipparinue, One Of The Chief Men In That City, Lived Under The Reigns Of Both The Dionysil He Was Originally Introduced To Dionysius The Eller By His Slater Aristomacho, One Of The King's Wives, But His Own Merit Appears Afterwards To Have Gained Him So ...
Dionysius
Diony'sius, The Son Of Alexander, An Historian And Critic, Born At Halicarnassue In The First Century Lc. We Know Nothing Of His History Beyond What Ho Has Told Us Of Himself. Lie States (' Antiq.,' P. 20.24) That He Came To Italy At The Termination Of The Civil War Between ...
Dionysius Cato
Diony'sius Cato. This Is The Name Given To The Author Of A Latin Work In Four Books Entitled ‘dionyaii Catonie Makin" De Moribus Ad Mum. But The Real Name Of The Author Is Unknown, And Also The Time When Ho Lived. It Is Admitted However That He Lived Before The ...
Dionysius Of Colophon
Diony'sius Of Co'lophon, A Celebrated Greek Painter, Who Lived In The Time Of Pericles. His Works Were Known To Aristotle, Who, In Speaking Of Imitation, Says, That It Must Be Superior, Inferior, Or Equal To Its Model, Which He Exemplifies By The Works Of Three Painters. Polygnotus, Ho Says, Painted ...
Dionysius The Younger
Diony'sius The Younger, Sou Of Dionysius The Elder, Suc Ceeded Him As Tyrant Of Syracuse, Being Acknowledged As Such By The People. Hie Father Bad Left The State In A Prosperous Condition, But Young Dionysius Had Neither His Abilities Nor His Prudence And Expe Rience. He Followed At First The ...
Diophantus
Diophantus, A Native Of Alexandria, The Exact Date Of Whose Birth Is Unknown, Some Authors Asserting That Be Lived In The Reign Of Augustus, Whilst Others Place Him Under Nero, Or Even The Antonines. The Fact Is That We Do Not Know When He Lived. He Lived However, As Is ...
Direction Of Motion
Motion, Direction Of. We Have Inserted This Article, Not For The Sake Of Rectilinear, But Of Circular Motion, The Consideration Of Which Is Apt To Cause Some Embarrassment To The Beginner. In Motion Along A Given Right Line There Can Be But Two Directions, In One Or Other Of Which ...
Diseases Of Kidneys
Kidneys, Diseases Of. The Principal Disease To Which The Kidneys Are Liable Is That Which Gives Rise To The Formation Of Calculi. [cstcetrs.] Sometimes The Stone Ie Retained In The Pelvis Of The Kidney, Where, By Continued Depositions, It May Increase Till It Com Pletely Fills The Pelvis And Calyces; ...
Diseases Of Skin
Skin, Diseases Of. Most Of The Diseases Of The Skin Are Described In This Work Under Their Particular Names. In This Article We Shall Supply An Arrangement Of Them, And A Description Of Those Which Are Not Described Under Special Heads. The Following Arrangement Is That Adopted By Rayer In ...
Diseases Of Veins
Veins, Diseases Of. The Physiology Of The Veins May Be Found In The Article Crum:me-nos, In Nat. Hist. Div. : In The Present Article Their Principal Diseases Will Be Described. Of These The Most Frequent Is That In Which They Become What Is Called Varicose, That Is, Dilated, And Unnaturally ...
Diseases Of The Lachrymal
Lachrymal Organs, Diseases Of The. The Lachrymal Gland Is Very Rarely The Seat Of Disease. It Sometimes Suppurates From Acute Inflammation, But It Is More Commonly Affected With A Chronic Enlargement And Induration, Forming A Prominent Tumour Under The Upper Eyelid, Which Pushes The Eye Downwards And Inwards. In This ...
Diseases Of The Lungs
Lungs, Diseases Of The. The Highly Organised Structure Of The Lungs And The Incessant Exercise Of Their Important Function, Frequently Under Noxious Circumstances, Render These Organs Perhaps The Most Liable To Disease Of Any In The Body. Exposure To Damp And Cold, Sudden Atmospherical Changes And Transitions Of Temperature, Want ...
Diseases Of The Spleen
Spleen, Diseases Of The. These Do Not Appear To Have Been Much Studied In This Country, Because They Do Not Very Frequently Occur; They Are, However, By No Means Of Unusual Occurrence In Moist Climates, Whether Warm Or Temperate, As Italy, Holland, South America, And Some Parts Of India ; ...
Diseases Of The Teeth
Teeth, Diseases Of The. The Teeth Like Other Organs Of The Body, Are Subject To A Variety Of Diseased Conditions. For Practical Purposes They May Be Divided Into-1. Disorders Attending Dentition Or The Cutting Of The Teeth ; 2. Diseases Of The Teeth Themselves ; 3. Diseases Of The Gums ...
Diseases Of The Womb
Womb, Diseases Of The. The Organ Which Is Devoted To The Retention Of The Foetus During The Early Stages Of Its Development [reproduction In Plants And Animals, In Nev. Htsv. Div.] And Which Is Also Called The Uterus, Is Subject To All Those Pathological Con Ditions Which Are Found In ...