Richard Cromwell
Cromwell, Richard, The Third Son Of Oliver Cromwell The L'roteotor, But The Eldest That Survived Him, Was Born At Huntingdon On The 4th Of October 1626. He Was Educated At Feletead, In Essex, With His Brothers Henry And Oliver, And Thence Removed To Lincoln's Inn, Where He Was Admitted In ...
Richard Cumberland
Cumberland, Richard, Was Born In The Pariah Of St. Ann, Near Aldersgate, In London, On Tho 13th Of July 1632. He Received The Early Part Of His Education At St. Paul's School, And Went Thence To Magdalen College, Cambridge, In 1649. After Taking His Master's Degree He Thought Of Entering ...
Richard Cumberland_2
Cumberland, Richard, A Dramatic Writer And Miscellaneous Anther Of The Last Century, Great-grandson Of Richard Cumberland, Bishop Of Peterborough, And Grandson By The Mother's Side Of Dr. Richard Bentley, Ones Born February 19, 1732, In The Lodge Of Trinity College, Cambridge. He Was Placed Successively At The Public Schools Of ...
Richard Danes
Danes, Richard, Was Born St Marketetosworth In The Year 1708. His First Teacher Was Anthony Blackwell, The Well-knoivn Author Of ' The Sacred Classics,' After Which He Spent Some Time At The Charter House, And Went To Emanuel College, Cambridge, In The Year 1725 ; He Was Elected Fellow In ...
Richard Doyle
*doyle, Richard, Was Born In London In 1826. Ira Is The Son Of Mr. John Doyle, Generally Believed To Be The Author Of The Celebrated 'mb.' Political Sketches Which Were A Few Years Ago So Remarkably Popu Lar, And Which, While Exhibiting With Abundant Keenness The Prominent Features And Peculiarities ...
Richard Flecknoe
Flecknoe, Richard, Is Said To Have Been An Irish Roman Catholic Priest. He Was A Minor Poet And Wit In The Time Of Dryden, And Would Have Been Long Since Forgotten Had Not That Writer Used His Name As The Title Of A Severe Satire Against Shadwell, And Therein Proclaims ...
Richard Ford
* Ford, Richard, Descended From An Ancient Sussex Family, Is The Eldest Eon Of Sir Richard Ford, Member Of Parliament In 1789 For East Grinstead, And Chief Police Magistrate Of London. Mr. Ford's Mother, The Representative Of The Salweys Of Shropshire, Was The Heiress Of Her Father Benjamin Booth, An ...
Richard Fox
Fox, Richard, Bishop Of Winchester, An Eminent Statesman, And Minister Of Henry Vii. And Viii., Was Born Of Poor Parents, Towards The Middle Of The 15th Century, At Ropesley, Near Grantham, In Lincolnshire, Studied At Magdalen College, Oxford, And Pembroke College, Cambridge, And Finally Went To The University Of Paris ...
Richard Gouge
Gouge!, Richard, An Eminent English Antiquary, Son Of Henry Cough, Esq., Was Born In Winchester-street, London, October 21, 1735. He Became A Fellow-commoner Of Bene't College, Cambridge, In July 1752, But Left The University In 1756, Without Taking A Degree. He Was Elected F.sa, In 1767, And In 1771, Upon ...
Richard Hakluyt
Hakluyt, Richard, Was Born In 1553. Having Studied At Christ Church, Oxford, And Applied Himself Particularly To The Study Of Geography, Or Cosmography, As It Was Then Called, He Was Made A Lecturer On That Subject At Oxford. In Order To Promote The Study Of His Favourite Science He Published ...
Richard Henry Horne
*horne, Richard Henry, Was Born About The Commence Ment Of The Present Century. He Was For A Short Rime At Sandhurst, In Expectation Of A Military Appointment In The East India Company's Service ; But When He Left That School, He Entered Into The Mexican Service As Midshipman, In Which ...
Richard Hooker
Hooker, Richard, Was Born At Heavytree, Near Exeter, About 1553, Accordiug To Walton, Or About Easter, 1554, According To Wood. By The Kindness Of His Uncle, John Hooker, Chamberlain Of Exeter, He Obtained A Better Education At School Than His Parents Could Have Afforded ; And He Was Afterwards Introduced ...
Richard Howe
Howe, Richard, Earl, The Second Son Of Emanuel Scrope Howe, Governor Of Barbadoes, And Mary Sophia Charlotte, Daughter Of Baron Kielmansegge, Master Of The Horse To George I. When Elector Of Hanover, Was Born In 1725. At The Age Of Fourteen He Left Eton, And Joined The Severn, One Of ...
Richard Hurd
Hurd, Richard, D.d., Bishop Of Worcester, Was Born In 1720. Bishop Hurd Is Eminent Rather As An Elegant Scholar Than A Divine, And Is More Spoken Of On Account Of His Connection With Warburton Than For His Owu Merits, Which Were However Of No Menu Order. Ile Was Born Iu ...
Richard Kirwan
Kirwan, Richard, A Chemical Philosopher Of Considerable Eminence, Was Born In Ireland About The Middle Of The Last Century. He Was Intended For The Profession Either Of Law Or Medicine, And Was Sent To Be Educated By The Jesuits Of St. Omer's. On The Death Of His Brother However He ...
Richard Lovell Edgeworth
Edgeworth, Richard Lovell, An Ingenious Mechanical Philosopher, But Better Known As The Father And Literary Associate Of Maria Edgeworth, Was Born At Bath, In 1744. He Was Descended From An English Family, Which Had Settled In Ireland In The Reign Of Queen Elizabeth, And Resided In Edgeworthtown, In The County ...
Richard Payne Knight
Knight, Richard Payne, Eldest Son Of The Reverend Thomas Knight, Of Wormealey Grange, In The County Of Hereford, Was Born In 1750. Lie Was A Weak And Sickly Child, And His Father Did Not Send Him To School, Or Suffer Him To Learn Either Greek Or Latin At Home. Soon ...
Richmond
Richmond, Surrey, A Town, And The Seat Of A Poorstaw Union, In The Pariah Of Richmond, Is Situated On The Right Bank Of The River Thames, In 51' 27' N. Lat., V 18' W. Long., Distant 21 Miles N.h. From Guildford, 12 Miles W.s.w. From London By Road, And 10 ...
Richmond_2
Richmond, North Riding Of Yorkshire, The Capital Of The Exten Sive Baronial Liberty Of Richmondshire, A Market-town, Municipal And Parliamentary Borough, And The Seat Of A Poor-law Union, In The Pariah Of Richmond, Is Situated In 54° 25' N. Lat., 1° 44' W. Long., Distant 44 Miles N.w. From York, ...
Ricochet
Ricochet, A Word Expressing The Act Of Rebounding, Is Applied To The Mode Of Firing Ordnance In Which (the Axis Of The Piece Being Parallel, Or Inclined At A Small Angle To The Horizon) The Shot Or Shell, Having Described A Curve In The Air, Descends To The Ground, And, ...
Rieti
Rieti, The Ancient Eate, Once One Of The Principal Towns Of The Sabini, And Now The Chief Town Of A Province Of The Papal States, Stands On The Velino, 42 Miles N.n.e. From Rome, About 1000 Feet Above The Sea, In An Elevated Plain, Which Is Part Of The Western ...
Rifled Ordnance
Rifled Ordnance. In The Year 1774, Captain Blair Proposed The Formation Of Rifled Guns Of Iron, To Be Used As Field Artillery. Agreeably To The Old Practice, They Were To Be Made Hollow In The Act Of Being Cant, And In The Same Operation The Grooves Were To Be Formed. ...
Riflemen
Riflemen (called By The French Tirailleurs) Were Soldiers Whose Duties Corresponded Nearly To Those Of Light Infantry Troops, But Their Muskets Being Rifled Or Grooved, The Effect Of Their Fire, Within Certain Limits, Was More Certein. In The Preceding Article We Have Stated What Is Known Concerning The First Use ...
Right
Right. This Word Occurs Under Some Form In All The Teutonic Languages ; And Bears A Double Meaning Equivalent To The Significatious Of The Latin Word Jus. Iu Its Strict Sense It Means A Legal Claim ; In Other Words, A Claim Which Can Be Enforced By Legal Remedies, Or ...
Right 110n Sidney Herbert
*herbert, Right 110n. Sidney, M.p. For South Wilts, Second Son Of The Eleventh Earl Of Pembroke, By A Daughter Of The Late Count 1voronzow Of Russia, Was Born In 1810. He Received His Education At Harrow And At Oriel College, Oxford, Where He Graduated Iu Classical Honours In 1831. He ...
Right Honourable Henry Brooke
Congleton, Right Honourable Henry Brooke Par Nell, Lord, Was Born 3rd Of July 1776, And Was The Second Son Of The Right Honourable Sir John Parnell, Chancellor Of The Irish Exchequer ; His Mother Was Letitia Charlotte, Second Daughter And Co-heir Of Sir Arthur Brooke, Of Colebrooke, In The County ...
Right Of Search
Search, Right Of. The General Principles Upon Which That Part Of The Law Of Nations Is Constructed Which Respects The Usages To Be Observed Towards Neutral Powers In Time Of War By The Belligerent Powers, Have Been Explained Under The Bead Of Blockadf. Here It Is Only Necessary Further To ...
Right_2
Right. (mathematics) ) This Term Is Applied In Mathematical Language To Anything Which Is Imagined To Be The Moat Simple Of Its Kind, To Distinguish It From Others. Thus A Right Line Is A Straight Line ; A Right Angle Is The Most Simple And Well-known Of The Angles Used ...
Rigidity Of Ropes
Rigidity Of Ropes. In Estimating The Powers Of Machines, It Is Frequently Necessary To Take Into Consideration The Effects Arising From The Rigidity Or Etiffness Of The Ropes Which Pass Over Tke Pulleys Or The Axles Of The Wheels ; And, In Order To Understand How This Con Dition Affects ...
Rio De La Plata
Plata, Rio De La, Is The Name Applied To The Wide :estuary Formed By The Confluence Of The Rivers Parand And Uruguay, In South America. Where The Rio De In Plata Enters The Sea, Between Punta Del Este And Cape San Antonio, Its Width Is About 130 Miles ; And ...
Riot
Riot. A Riot Is A Misdemeanor At Common Law ; And Is Defined By Hawkins To Be " A Tumultuous Disturbance Of The Peace By Three Persons Or More, Assembling Together Of Their Own Authority, With An Intent Mutually To Assist One Another Against Any One Who Shall Oppose Them ...
Ripon
Ripon, West Riding Of Yorkshire, A Market Town, Municipal Aid Parliamentary Borough, And The Seat Of A Bishopric, In The Parish Of Ripon, Is Situated On The Right Bank Of The River Ure, In 54° 8' N. Lat., 1' 32' W. Long., Distant 23 Miles N.w. From York, 212 Miles ...
River
River. In A Legal Sense Rivers Are Divisible Into Fresh And Salt Water Rivers. Salt-water Rivers Are Those Rivers Or Parts Of Rivers In Which The Tide Ebbs And Flows. Rivers Are Also Divisible Into Public Or Navigable Rivers And Private Rivers. The Property In Fresh-water Rivers, Whether Public Or ...
River Eno In
River Eno In Eeit Ing. The Lews Of Hydraulics Which Apply To The Flow Of Water In Rivers May Be Briefly Expressed As Follows :—if A Uniform Velocity Be Once Established, In A Channel Of Whatsoever Section, The Same Quantity Of Water Must Pass Through That Section In The Same ...
Rivers
Rivers Are The Flowing Waters Which Bring To The Sea, And Some Times To A Lake, The Waters Which Are Collected Within A Certain Portion Of The Earth's Surface. The Country Which Is Thus Drained By A River Is Called Its Basin, As The River Rune In The Lowest Part ...
Riveting
Riveting, Considered In Its Simplest Form, Is Nothing More Than The Hammering Of An Iron Bolt Through A Hole Punched In Two Iron Platen; But In The Vast Engineering Operations Of The Present Day, Where Rivets Are Used, Not Merely By The Thousand, But By The Million, The Rapid And ...
Rivinus Com3ilvnis
Rivinus Com3ilvnis, The Castor-oil Plant, Known From Very Ancient Times Both To The Egyptian, And Also To The Greeks. According To Ilerodotus (il 9i), The Egyptians Called The Oil Of The Tillicyprion (oslaudrzpor) By The Name (efet), The Greeks Also Called It Croton (spin's), A Name Bestowed By Modern Botanists ...
Road
Road. Under This Head It Is Proposed To Embrace Road-making, With A Brief Sketch Of The History Of Roads, Referring For More Detailed Statistical Information To The Geoorapmcal Drvisron Of This Work, And To Way And Tunfirmo Trusts For An Explanation Of The Laws Respecting The Formation And Maintenance Of ...
Roadstead
Roadstead, A Sheltered Bay, Or Portion Of A Sea-coast, In Which Vessels May Lie Safely At Anchor Until The Tide Should Allow Of Their Entering The Harbour Or Dock At The Bottom Of The Bay, Or To Pass The Bar Of A River Discharging Into The Same. There Are Other ...
Roasting
Roasting Is That Culinary Process By Which Meat Is Brought From A Raw To A Cooked State More Directly By The Action Of Fire Than By Any Other Means Except That Of Limiling. By The Latter The Heat Is Applied Immediately And Suddenly To The Surface. By Which It Is ...
Robbery
Robbery Is Theft Aggravated By The Circumstance Of The Property Stolen Being Aken From The Person, Or Whilst It Is Under The Protection Of The Person, Of The Owner Or Other Lawful Possessor, Either By Violence Or Putting In Fear. This Offence Appears To Have Been Formerly Confined To Cases ...
Robbery_2
Robbery, In The Roman Law, Was Called Rapina, And The Remedy Of The Injured Person Was The Actio Vi Bonorurn Raptor= Against The Robber. Robbery Was, In Fact, A Species Of Furtum ; For The Definition Of Furtum Was," A Fraudulent Carrying Off (contrectatio) Of A Moveable Thing Against The ...
Robert Cecil
Cecil, Robert, Earl Of Salisbury, Son Of Lord Burleigh, By His Second Wife Mildred, Was Born About 1550. He Was Of A Weakly Constitution And Deformed In His Person, Upon Which Account Be Was Not Sent To School; He Afterwards Went To St. John's College, Cam Bridge. He Was Knighted ...
Robert Clayton
Clayton, Robert, Bishop Of Clogher, Was Born At Dublin In 1595, And Educated At Westminster School And Trinity College, Dublin. Lie Was Successively Appointed To The Sees Of Killala, Cork, And Clogher (bolding The Two Latter Together), Although His Orthodoxy Eeems To Have Been Very Doubtful From His First Entrance ...
Robert Clive
Clive, Robert, Lord, Was Born On The 29th Of September 172.5, At Styehe, Near Market Drayton, Shropshire. His Family Was Respectable, But Poor. Lie Was Sent To Several Schools, But Distin Guished Himself In All Of Them Rather By A Love Of Mischief And A Fouler Disposition Than By Any ...
Robert Damiens
Damie'ns, Robert Francois, Was Born In 1715, Iu A 'village Of Artois, Where His Father Had A Small Farm. He Enlisted In The Army, Which He Left At The Peace, And Went To Paris, Where He Engaged As A Menial, First In The College Of The Jesuits, And Afterwards In ...
Robert Devereux
Robert Devereux, Third Earl Of Essex, Was Born In Essex House, In The Strand, In 1592. He Was Sent To Eton By His Grandmother, Who, After His Father's Death, Received Him Into Her House; And In 1602 He Was Removed To Merton College, Oxford, Where The Warden, Mr. (afterwards Sir ...
Robert Dodsley
Dodsley, Robert, Was Born In 1709, As Is Supposed, Near Mansfield, In Nottinghamshire, Where His Father Is Said To Have Kept The Free School. Robert And Several Brothers However Appear To Have All Commenced Life As Working Artisans Or Servants. Robert Is Said To Have Been Put Apprentice To A ...
Robert Dudley Leicester
Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl Of, One Of Queen Elizabeth's Principal Favourites, Was Born About The Year 1531, Of An Ancient And Noble Family. Edmund Dudley, The Rapacions Minister Of Henry Yil, Was His Grandfather. His Father Was John Dudley, Duke Of Northumberland, Who, After Attaining Considerable Celebrity During The Reigns ...
Robert Fabyan
Fabyan, Robert, The Historian, Was Descended From A Respect Able Family Of Essex. Bishop Tanner Says He Was Born In London. We Have No Dates Of His Early Life, But He Is Known To Have Belooged, As A Citizen, To The Company Of Drapers. From Records In The City Archives, ...
Robert Fulton
Fulton, Robert, Distinguished As Having Been The First To Establish Atestranavigation On The American Peas And Rivers, Was Bore In 1765 In Little Britain, Pennsylvania. His Parents Were Emigrants From Ireland. Lie Received A Common English Education At A Village School. Besides A Foudneas For Mechanical Pursuits, He Early Displayed ...
Robert Gordon
Gordon, Robert, Was Born In Aberdeenshire About The Year 15s0. He Studied First At Aberdeen, And Afterwards At Paris. On His Father's Death In 1600 Be Returned To Scotland, And Succeeded To His Ancestral Estate Of Straloch. At This Time The Vast Collection Of Maps, And Corresponding Letter-press Geographical And ...
Robert Gordon Latham
*latham, Robert Gordon, A Distinguished Living Philologer And Ethnologist. He Was Born In The County Of Lineolnahire, And Received His Early Education At Eton. From Thence He Was Entered A Student At King's College, Cambridge, And In 1833 Was Made B.a. He Was Subsequently Made A Fellow Of His College, ...
Robert Graham
Graham, Robert, The Third Son Of Dr. Robert Graham, After Wards Moir Of Leckie, Was Born At Stirling On The 3rd Of December 1786. He Followed His Father's Profession, And In The Early Part Of His Life Practised Medicine At Glasgow. Previous To The Year 1818 There Was No Separate ...
Robert Greene
Greene, Robert, Was A Native Of Ipswich. The Date Of His Birth Was Probably A Few Years Later Than The Middle Of The 16th Century. He Was Educated At St. John's College, Cambridge, Where, In 1578, He Took His Bachelor's Degree, And His Master's In 1583; And He Was Incorporated ...
Robert Harley
Harley, Robert, Earl Of Oxford, Was Born In London In 1661, Of A Family Lung Of Distinguished Note In The County Of Hereford. His Grandfather, Sir Robert Harley, Was Master Of The Mint In The Reign Of Charles I., And His Father, Sir Edward, Was Governor Of Dunkerque After The ...
Robert Henry
Henry, Robert, D.d., Was The Son Of A Farmer In The Parish Of St. Ninians, Stirlingshire, Where He Was Born In 1718. Lieviug Com Pleted The Usual Course Of Education For The Scottish Church At The University Of Edinburgh, He Was Licensed As A Preacher In 1746, Being Then Muter ...
Robert Hooke
Hooke, Robert, Was Born July 18, 1635, At Freshwater, In The Isle Of Wight, Of Which Parish His Father Was Theu Minister. After Leaving Westminster School, Where He Had Been Placed Under The Care Of Dr. Busby, He Entered Christchurch, Oxford, In The Year 1653; And Shortly Afterwards, Having Been ...
Robert Huntington
Huntington, Robert, D.d., Was Born In February 1636, At Deorhyrat In Gloucestershire, Where His Father, Of The Same Names, Was Parish Clergyman. After Having Received The Rudiments Of A Classical Education At The Free-school Of Bristol, He Was Admitted Iu 1652 A Portioniet Of Merton College, Oxford ; And, Having ...
Robert Leighton
Leighton, Robert, D.d., Archbishop Of Glasgow, Born In 1613; A Divine Whose Sermons And Other Tracts Are Held By Many Persons In Great Esteem, But Who Has Secured For Himself A Reputation By Having Acted In A Manner The Most Opposite To That By Which Repu Tation Is Most Commonly ...
Robert Lowth
Lowth, Robert, A Prelate Of The English Church, Son Of The Lowth Last Named, And, Like His Father, Distinguished By His Knowledge Of The Books Of Scripture And His Valuable Writings In Illustration Of Them, Was Born In 1710. He Wes Educated In The School Of Winchester Founded By William ...
Robert Smith Candlish
* Candlish, Robert Smith, D.d., One Of The Most Influential Ministers Of The Free Church Of Scotland, Has Been An Active Public Man In The Conduct Of Ecclesiastical Affairs In Scotland For The Last Twenty Years. He Was Educated For The Ministry In The Established Church Of Scotland, And, After ...
Robert Stewart Londonderry
Londonderry, Robert Stewart, Marquis Of, Was Born At The Family Seat Of Mount Stewart, In The County Of Down, Ireland, On The 18th Of June 1769 (the Same Year Which Gave Birth To The Duke Of Wellington And To Napoleon Bonaparte). His Father, Of The Same Names, After Representing The ...
Robert William Elliston
Elliston, Robert William, Was Born In Bloomsbury, Lon Don, On The 7th Of April 1774. Ilia Father Was A Watchmaker, One Of Whose Brothers Was Master Of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Young Elliston Was Placed At St. Paul's School, Where He Distinguished Himself By Recitations : But, When He Was ...
Robert And Andrew Foulis
Foulis, Robert And Andrew, Two Learned Printers Of Scot Land, Were, It Ie Supposed, Natives Of Glasgow, And Passed Their Early Days In Obscurity. Robert Is Asserted To Have Been A Barber. Inge Nuity And Perseverance However Enabled Them To Establish A Press, From Which Have Issued Some Of The ...
Rochdale
Rochdale, Lancashire, • Parliamentary Borough, An.i The Seat Of • Poor-law Union, In The Parish Of Rochdale, Is Skated On Both Sides Of The River Roch, In 53° 38' N. 1st, 2° I0' W. Long., Distant 48 Miles 8.e. From Lancaster, 193 Miles N.w. By N. From London By Road, ...