Edward
Edward The Eldest Surviving Eon Of Edward I., Was Born Nt Caernarvon 25th April 1284, And Became The Heir Apparent To The Crown By The Death Of His Elder Brother, Alphonse, A Few Months After. Iu 1289 He Was Affianced To The Young Queeu Of Scotland, Who Died The Following ...
Edward Hawke Locker
Locker, Edward Hawke, Was The Son Of Admiral Locker, To Whom Nelson, Soon After The Battle Of The Nile, Thus Wrote : "you, My Old Friend, After Twenty-seven Years' Acquaintance, Know That Nothing Can Alter My Attachment And Gratitude To You. I Have Been Your Scholar. It Is You Who ...
Edward Herbert
Herbert, Edward, Lord Herbert Of Cherbury, Was Born In The Year 1581, At Montgomery, In The Principality Of Wales. After Going Through The Usual Course Of Studies At Oxford, Where He Was A Member Of University College, Herbert Visited London In 1600, And Shortly Afterwards Proceeded To The Continent With ...
Edward Hitchcock
'hitchcock, Edward, D.d., Lld., An Eminent American Geologist, Was Born At Deerfield, Massachusetts, United States, In May 1793. In 1816 Be Was Made Head Of The Academy At Doeraeld; But Resigned That Office In 1819, And Two Years Later Accepted The Invitation To Become The Pastor Of A Congregational Church ...
Edward Hyde
Hyde, Edward, Earl Of Clarendon, The Third Son 01 Lieury Ilyde, Of Dinton, In Wiltshire, Near Salisbury, And Mary, Ono Of The Daughters And Co-helressee Of Edward Langford, Of Trowbridge In The Same County, Was Born At Dinton On The 18th Of February Ile Was First Instructed By The Clergyman ...
Edward I
Edward I., King Of England, Surnamed Long-slinnke, From The Excessive Length Of His Legs, Was The Eldest Son Of King Henry Iii., By His Wife Eleanor, Second Daughter Of Raymond, Count Of Provence. Ile Was Born At Westminster, Juno 16, 1239. In 1252 He Was Invested By His Father With ...
Edward Ii
Edward Ii., King Of The Anglo-saxons, Surnamed The Martyr, Was The Eldest Son Of Edgar The Peaceable, By His First Wife, Eltleda. On The Death Of Edgar In 975, The Accession Of Edward Was Opposed By A Faction Headed By His Father's Widow, Elfrida, Who, On The Pretence That The ...
Edward Ill
Edward Ill, King Of The Anglo-saxons, Surnamed The Confessor, Was The Eldest Of The Two Sons Of Ethelred Ii. By His Second Wife Emma, The Daughter Of Richard I., Duke Of Normandy. He Was Born At Islip, In Oxfordshire, Probably In The Year 1004. In The Close Of 1013, When ...
Edward Iv
Edward Iv., King Of England. During The Reign Of Richard Ii. The Heir Presumptive To The Crown Was Roger Mortimer, Earl Of March, The Son Of Philippa Plantagenet, Who Was The Only Child Of Lionel, Duke Of Clarence, The Second Of Tho Sous Of Edward Iii. That Left Any Descendants. ...
Edward Jenner
Jenner, Edward, M.d., Was Born In 1749, At Berkeley, In Gloucestershire, Of Which Place His Father Was Vicar. He Was Educated At Cirencester, And Apprenticed To Mr. Ludlow, A Surgeon At Sudbury. At The Conclusion Of His Apprenticeship He Went To London, And Became A Pupil Of John Hunter, With ...
Edward Law
Law, Edward, Lord Ellenborough, Was Born Novem Ber 16, 1750, At Great Salkeld, In The County Of Cumberland. He Was The Fourth Son Of Dr. Edmund Law, Bishop Of Carlisle. He Received His Rudimentary Education At The Residence Of His Maternal Uncle, The Rev. Humphrey Christian, Who Then Resided At ...
Edward Lye
Lye, Edward, An English Clergyman, Distinguished By The Attention Which Be Paid To The Saxon And Gothic Languages And Litera Ture, Was Born At Totnees In 1704. Ho Was Educated In The University Of Oxford, And Received The Living Of Houghton Parva Iu Northamp Tonshire, Which He Exchanged For That ...
Edward Pellew Exmouth
Exmouth, Edward Pellew, Viscount, A Distinguished Naval Commander, Was Born April 19, 1757, At Dover, Where His Father Was Captain Of A Government Packet. Edward Pellew Entered The Navy In 1770, And Iu That Year Sailed With Captain Stott When Ho , Was Sent Out To Retake Possession Of Port ...
Edward V
Edward V., The Eldest Son Of Edward Iv., Was Born On The 4th Of November 1470, In The Sanctuary Of Westminster Abbey, Where His Mother Had Taken Shelter When Her Husband Was Obliged To Fly To The Continent On The Return Of Queen Margaret And The Earl Of Warwick. He ...
Edward Vi Elizabeth
Edward Vi.; Elizabeth Of England ; Gardiner ; Henry Viii.; Mary I. Of England ; And Pole, Reginald, In Biog. Dry. For The Reformation In Scotland, See Knox And Mary Stuart, In 1310a. Drv. In France, As Early As 1530, The Doctrines Of The Reformation Had Found Their Way From ...
Edwin
Edwin, Kill Of Northumbria, Was The Son Of Ella, Who Appears To Have Reigned In That Kingdom From About A.d. 559 To 539. On The Death Of Ella The Throne Was Seized By Edilfrid, Or Ethilfrith, The Husband Of His Daughter Acca, And Edwin, An Infant, Of Only Three Years ...
Edwin Chadwick
Chadwick, Edwin. In 1854, The Earl Of Carlisle, Speaking Of "the Two Measures Which In Our Time Seemed To Him Beyond Any Others To Hare Affected The Internal Condition Of The Great Body Of Tho People, The Amendment Of The Poor-law And Sanitary Reform," Thus Expressed Himself With Reference To ...
Egbert
Egbert, Styled The Great, King Of The Weak Saxons, Was, Accord Ing To The Saxon Chronicle, The Son Of Alckmund, Whose Deacent Is Traced Up Through Esa, 6r Eata, And Eoppa, To Inigisil, Or Ingild, The Brother Of The Great Ina, And The Undoubted Descendant Of Cerdic. The 'chronicle' States ...
Egmont
Egmont, Count Of Lamoral, Prince Of Gene, A Descendant Of Those Dukes Of Gueldera Who Had Signalised Themselves Against The House Of Austria, Was Born In 1522 In Amsterdam. The Fame Of His Ancestors Is Celebrated In The Annals Of His Country, One Of Whom Enjoyed, During The Reign Of ...
Ejiunfre Pr
Pr,ejiunfre (used For Pramortere," To Forewarn," Co. Lit. 129 B) Is The First Word Of An Ancient Writ By Which A Party Was Summoned Before The Sovereign To Answer A Charge Of Contempt Against Him. The Commencement Of The Writ Was As Follows :—" Praemunire Faciam A. B. Quod Sit ...
Ekater1na Romanova Dasiikov
Dasiikov, Ekater1na Romanova, A Russian Princess, Remarkable For Her Singular Character And Career, Was The Daughter Of Count Roman Larionovich Vorontsov, And Was Born According To Her Own Statement In 1744. If This Be Correct, At The Age Of Fifteen She Was Married To Prince Dashkov, And Nt The Age ...
Electric Telegraph
Telegraph, Electric. The Attempts To Render One Or Other Of Tho Phenomena Of Electricity Subservient To The Purposes Of Tele Graphy, Have Been Numerous. From The Earliest Date Which We Can Assign To The Existence Of An Electric Telegraph, Its Essential Parts Have Been The Same. These Are, 1st, The ...
Elijah Fenton
Fenton, Elijah, Was Born In Staffordshire, In The Year 16s3. Being Designed For The Church, He Was Admitted A Pensioner Of Jesus College, Cambridge, In 1700. After Taking A Bachelor's Degree, He Was Forced To Leave The University In Consequence Of Being A Non-juror. He Became Secretary To The Earl ...
Elizabeth
Elizabeth, Queen Of England, The Daughter Of Henry Viii. By His Second Wife, Anne Boleyn, Was Born At Greenwich, 7th Of September 1533. She Was Not Three Years Old Therefore When Her Mother Was Brought To The Block In May 1536. Very Soon After Her Birth It Was Declared, By ...
Elizabeth Hamilton
Hamilton, Elizabeth, Born At Belfast In Ireland, But Pro Bably Of Scottish Parentage, Is Deservedly Remembered As An Early Advocate Of An Enlarged And Intellectual System Of Female Education, And As One Of The Leaders Of That Useful Class Of Novelists Who Have Placed The Interest Of Their Fictions, Not ...
Elizabeth Petrowna
Elizabeth Petrowna, Daughter Of Peter The Great And Of Catharine I., Was Born Iu 1709. After The Death Of Her Nephew, Peter Ii., In 1730, She Was Urged To Assert Her Claims To The Crown, But She Declined To Do Eo Through Indolence Or Timidity, And Her Cousin Anna, Duchess ...
Ellis
" Ellis, Silt Henry, Was Born In London In 1777. Lle Received His Early Education At The Merchant Taylors School, And Then Pro Ceeded To St. John's, Oxford, Where He Took His Degree. In 1805 He Married. About This Period Be Became One Of The Assistant Librarians Of The British ...
Emmanuel Grouchy
Grouchy, Emmanuel, Comte De, Marshal And Peer Of France, Was Born In Paris, October 23rd, 1766. He Entered The Artillery Branch Of The Army In 1780. He Was Already A Captain Of Horse In 1784, And In The Course Of The Ensuing Year, Became One Of The Gardee-du-corps Of Louis ...
Empedocles
Empe'docles, A Native Of Agrigentum In Sicily, Who Flourished About Me. 450: He Was Distinguished Not Ouly As A Philosopher, But Also For His Knowledge Of Natural History And Medicine, And As A Poet And Statesman. It Is Generally Believed That He Perished In The Crater Of Mount /etna. The ...
Engelbert Kaempfer
Kaempfer, Engelbert, Well Known As A Botanist, And Still More As A Traveller, Was Born On The 16th Of September 1651 At Lemgo, In The Principality Of Lippe-detmold, In Germany, Where His Father Was Rector Of The Church Of St. Nicholas. He Was Sent Succes Sively To The Schools Of ...
Enrique Florez
Florez, Enrique, A Laborious Contributor To The Elucidation Of Spanish History, Was Born At Valladolid On The 14th Of February 1701, Entered The Order Of Augustin Monks In His Fifteenth Year, And After Having Published A Course Of Theology, As Professor Of The Science At Alcalh, Devoted Himself To A ...
Epaminondas
Epaminondas, A Theban Statesman And Soldier, In Whose Praise, Both For Talents And Virtue, There Is A Remarkable Concurrence Of Ancient Writers. Nepos Observes That, Before Epaminondas Was Born, And After His Death, Thebes Was Always In Subjection To Some Other Power: On The Contrary, While He Directed Her Councils, ...
Ephraim Chambers
Chambers, Ephraim, Editor And Chief Compiler Of The ' Cycle Which Bears Lilt Name, Was Born At Kendal In The Latter Part Of The 17th Century. Ili, Father Was • Small Freeholder Hi Westmorland, In Respectable Circumstances. Ephraim, His Eldest Son, Was Bound Apprentice To A Mechanical Trade In London. ...
Epi5ienides
Epi5ie'nides Was Born In The Year N.o. 659 (suidas), At Plarestus, In Crete, According To Some Accounts ; Or At Cnossus, According To Others; Ho Was Certainly A Citizen Of The Latter Place, Though His Father Appears To Have Been A Phxstia.u. (diog. Laert., I. 109.) He Passed His Youth ...
Epicharmus
Epicharmus, The Son Of Helothales, Was Born In The Island Of Coe, And Accompanied Cadmus, The Son Of Scythes, To Sicily About The Year D.c. 485. Ile Must Have Arrived At Maturity By This Time ; For He Was A Pupil Of Pythagoras (who Died In D.c. 497), And, According ...
Epictetus
Epictetus Was Born At Iliempolis, A City Of Phrygia. The Year Of His Birth Is Not Known, Nor Are Wo Able To Make Any Very Close Approximation To It. Lie Must Have Been Born However Before The End Of The Reign Of The Emperor Nero, A.d. 68, Else He Could ...
Epicurus
Epicu'rus Was Born In The Year Me. 31], Seven Years Atter The Death Of Plato. He Was Born Iu The Island Of Samos, Whither His Father Had Gone From Athens In The Year Sae. 352, Among 2000 Colonists Thou Sent Out By The Athenians. (stmb. Xiv., P. 638.) Ile Was ...
Epistle To The Romans
Romans, Epistle To The. The Epistle To The Romans Has Been Almost Universally Admitted To Be The Work Of St. Paul The Only Sects Which Have Disputed Its Genuineness Are The Ebionites, The Encratites, And The Cerinthians, And These Purely On Doctrinal Grounds, Inasmuch As The Doctrines Of This Epistle ...
Epistles To The Thessalonians
Thessalonians, Epistles To The. Christianity Was Introduced Among The Thessalonians 'in A.d. 50, By St. Paul, When He First Passed Over From Asia Minor Into Europe To Preach The Gospel: St. Paul Found At Thessalonica A Synagogue Of The Jews, "and Went In Unto Them, And For Three Sabbath Days ...
Erasmus
Erasmus Was Born On The 28th Of October 1467, At Rotterdam. Ho Was The Illegitimate Son Of A Citizen Of Gouda, Named Gerrit (gerard), Which, According To A Pedantic Fashion Of The Day, He Trans Lated Doubly Into Desiderine Erasmus ; And In Future Years He Found Time To Lament ...
Erasmus Darwin
Darwin, Erasmus, An English Physician And Physiologist, Was Born At Elton, Near Newark, On The 12th Of December 1731. After Studying At St. John's College, Cambridge, And Taking The Degree Of Doctor Of Medicine At Edinburgh, He Established Himself As A Physician At Lichfield, Where Be Married, And Resided Till ...
Eratosthenes
Erato'sthenes, A Distinguished Contemporary Of Archimedes, Is Said To Have Been Born At Cyrene In The Year N.c. 276. 1ie Possessed A Variety Of Talents Seldom United In The Same Individual, But Not All In The Same Eminent Degree; His Mathematical, Astronomical, And Geo Graphical Labours, Aro Those Which Have ...
Ercole Consalvi
Consalvi, E'rcole, Cardinal, Born At Rome In June 1757, Studied Fur The Church, But Applied Himself Likewise To Belles Lettres, Music, And The Arts. Ho Became A Mousiguore, Or Prelate Attached To The Papal Court, And Was Made, By Pius Vi., Uditor Di Ituots„ Or Mem Ber Of The Highest ...
Erick
Erick, Styled Xiii. The Duke Of Pomerania And Nephew To Queen Margaret Of Waldemar, Who Had United Sweden, Norway, And Den Mark Under Her Sceptre, Was Anoluted By The General States Of The Three Kingdoms Assembled At Calmar In 1396 To Bo Her Successor. He Married In 1410 Philippa, Daughter ...
Erick
Erick, In Swedish, Is Synonymous With The German Heinrich, And The English Henry, And Is The Name Of Many Kings Of Sweden And Of Denmark. Of The Earlier Kings Of This Name Little Is Known, For The History Of The Scandinavian Nations Previous To The 9th Or 10th Centuries Of ...
Erik Gustaf Geijer
Geijer, Erik Gustaf, Said By A Swedish Critic To Be Equally Eminent As A Poet, A Thicker, And An Historian, Was Born At The Iron Foundry Of Ransiiter, In Ransliter Chapelry, Province Of Wermeland, Sweden, On The 12th Of January 1783. His Father, The Proprietor Of The Foundry, Was The ...
Erik Michael Fant
Fant, Erik Michael, An Investigator Of The Early Political And Literary History Of Sweden, Whose Labours Are Of Considerable Value, Was Born At Eskiletuna In Sudermanland, On The 9th Of January 1754, Studied At The University Of Upsal, Became Assistant-librarian There In 1779, And Professor Of History In 1781. He ...
Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffjiann
Hoffjiann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm (or Amadeus, The Name He Assumed Instead Of Wilhelm), Was Born On The 24th Of January 1770, At Konigsberg, In East Prussia. Soon After His Birth His Father And Mother Separated, And He Was Brought Up By An Uncle, By Whom He Was Induced, Against His ...
Esculus
.e'sculus, A Genus Of Plants Belonging To The Natural Order Ilippoeastanem It Consists Of Trees Found M The Temperate Parts Of America And Asia, Remarkable For The Beauty Of Their Flowers And Leaves, And For Their Forming In Some Sort A Type Of Tropical Vegetation In Northern Latitudes. It Must ...