Thane
Thane, In Anglo-saxon Thegn, From Thegnian, Or Thenian, "to Serve," The Same Word With The Modem Germen Dienen, Is Frequently, In Conformity With This Origin, Translated Minister In The Latin Charters Of The Anglo-saxon Period. In Other Cases Its Equivalent Is Miles, Or Ildelis Miles. So King Alfred, In His ...
Thasos
Thasos, An Island Belonging To Turkey, Situated Oft The Coast Of Thrace, At A Short Distance From The Mouth Of The River Neetus Or Karuou, And • Little To The South-east Of The Gulf Of Kavallo. Volgaro, Which Is Nearly In The Centre Of The Island, Is In 41' 45' ...
Thaw
Thaw Is The Reduction Of Ice Or Snow To A Liquid State In Conse Quence Of An Increase In Temperature. In The Ordinary Succession Of The Seasons, This Effect Is Produced On The Surface Of The Earth Or In The Atmosphere During The Spring By The Return Of The Sun ...
The Second
The Second Boo; Mostly On Resisted Motion, Contains 0 Sections And 53 Propositions. Section 1. When The Resistance Is As The Velocity. (1) The Motion Lost Is As The Space Described. Cor. Lemma 1. (2) When No Forces Act But The Resistance, The Velocities At The Beginnings Of Successive Equal ...
The Third
The Third Boos, Or Application, Styled 'de Syetemate Mundi,' Contains Forty-two Propositions, And Preliminaries. It Is To Be Noted That It Was The Original Intention Of Newto' That This Book Should Be A Popular One ; And The Original Draft (so It Is Considered By Mr. Ltigaud) Was Preserved, And ...
Theatre
Theatre. Before The Reign Of Elizabeth Theatrical Representations &ppear To Have Been Subject To No Legal Restraint Beyond The Liability Of Those Who Conducted Them To The Vagrant Lama. But, Although Players, As Such, Were Subject To No General Legal Restrictions, It Is Probable That The Practice Of Granting Licences ...
Thebes
Thebes. Towne And Cities Of This Name Occur In Several Parts Of The Ancient World, But The Two Which Are Most Renowned In History Are The Egyptian And The Bccotian Thebes. The Egyptian Thebes, In The Bible Called No, Or No Amman, Was Situated In The Central Part Of Upper ...
Themis
Themis (1344/1), A Greek Divinity, Was, According To Hesiod And Apollodorus, A Daughter Of Uranus (heaven) And Gaea (earth), Or, According To Tzetzes, A Daughter Of Helios. She Was A Favourite Of Zeus, And Bore Him Several Daughters,—the Norm, Eunomia, Dice, Eircne, And The Ifoerae. (healed, Theog.; 135, 001, &c.; ...
Theodore Edward 1100k
1100k, Theodore Edward, Was Born On The 21nd Of Septem Ber 1788, In Charlotte-[treat, Bedford-square, London. Lie Was The Son Of James Hook, A Musical Composer Of Some Celebrity In His Days By His First Wife (miss Madden), A Beautiful, Accomplished, And Excel Lent Woman. There Was Only One Other ...
Theodosian Code
Theodosian Code. In The Year A.d. 420 Theodosius I I. Appointed A Commission Of Eight Persons, At The Head Of Whom Was Antiochus, To Form A Code Out Of All The Constitutions And Other Laws Which Had Been Promulgated Since The Time Of Constantine The Great. The Code Was To ...
Theophilus Cibber
Cibber, Theophilus, The Son Of The Laureat, Was Born On Tho 26th Of November 1703. At The Ago Of Thirteen He Was Sent To Winchester School. In 1721 We Find Him On The Stage Performing In The Conscious Lovers.' He Acquired Considerable Reputation In Characters Similar To Those Supported By ...
Theory And Practice Theory
Theory, Theory And Practice. If Articles Upon The Mere Meaning Of Words Be Admissible, It Is The Consequence Of The Manner In Which The Words Are Used. Of All The Fallacies Which Infest Society, The Most Common Is Gist Of Applying To One Sense Of A Word Ideas Or Associations ...
Theory Of Couples
Theory Of Couples. The Two Motions Of Which Any Rigid System Is Susceptible Are Those Of Translation And Of Rotation. Each Of These Has This Peculiarity, Namely, That One Particular Case Of Its Application Yields The Other Kind Of Motion. Every Motion Of A System Can, For Any One Instant, ...
Theory Of Equations
Theory Of Equations. Under This Term Is Expressed All That Part Of Algebra Which Treats Of The Properties Of Rational And Inte Gral Functions Of A Single Variable, Such As Ax+b, +e, And So On ; A, B, C, &c., Being Any Algebraical Quanti Ties, Positive Or Negative, Whole Or ...
Theory Of Limit Limits
Limit : Limits, Theory Of. The Word Limit Implies A Fixed Magnitude To Which Another And A Variable Magnitude May Be Made As Nearly Equal As We Please, It Being Impossible However That The Variable Magnitude Can Absolutely Attain, Or Be Equal To, The Fixed Magnitude. In This Strict Sense ...
Theory Of Numbers
Numbers, Theory Of. The Theory Of Numbers Is In Fact The Science Of Whole Or Integer Numbers, And Its Moat General Problem Is : " Given Any Equation Whatsoever Involving Two Or More Unknown Quantities, Or Any Number Of Tsluatious Between A Greater Number Of Unknown Quantities, To Determine Every ...
Thera
Thera, An Island In The Grecian Archipelago, And The Chief Of The Sporades. Its Modern Name Is Santa Mira, Which Is Usually Written Santorini. It Is About 86 Miles In Circumference, And In Figure Like A Horse-shoe. When It First Emerged From The Sea, It Is Said To Have Been ...
Therese De Fontenay
Fontenay, Therese De Cabaltrus, Marquise De, Was Born In 1773 At Saragossa, In Spain. All That Is Known Of Her Early Youth Is, That She Was Even Then Admired For Her Wit, Fascinating Manners, And Remarkable Personal Beauty, For Which She Was Dis Tinguished Through Life. In 1789, At The ...
Theri Aca
Theri Aca (esepraxd) Was The Name Given Orginally By The Ancients To All Those Medicines Which Were Intended As Antidotes To The Bite Of Venomous Animals (ohpia), Swt Those Which Counteracted Poisonous Drugs Were Called Isartiorippasa (galen,' Comment. In Llippocr.' De Alim.,' Lib. Iii., Cap. 7, Torn. Xv., P. 279, ...
Thessaly
Thessaly,. One Of The Principal Divisions Of Northern Greece, And The Cradle Of Many Of The Inhabitants Of Greece In General, Is En Extensive And Generally Unbroken Plain, About 80 Miles In Extreme Length And 70 Miles In Breadth, Comprising An Area Of About 5300 Square Miles, And Forming An ...
Thetford
Thetford, Norfolk, A Market-town, Municipal And Parliameniary Borough, And The Seat Of A Poor-law Union, In The Parish Of Thetford, Is Situated Chiefly Ou The Left Bank Of The Little Ouse, In 52° 24' N. Lat., 0° 44' E. Long., Distant 30 Miles S.w. From Norwich, 80 Miles N.n.e. From ...
Thian Shan Nanlu
Thian Shan Nanlu Is The Name Of A Chinese Government, Situated Nearly In The Centre Of Asia. European Geographers Generally Call It Eastern Or Chinese Turkistan, And Also Little Liucharia. The Name Of Turkistan Is Applied To It Because The Bulk Of The Inhabitants In That Part Of Asia Is ...
Third
Third (and Posthumous) Stfvetzsizatv (1827).-on The Development Of The Distance Of Two Planets, And Of Its Elliptic Co-ordinates; Ou The Tides Of The Atmosphere. We Have Spoken Freely Of The Defects Of Laplace's Character, Both Political And Scientific, And It Is Now Our More Pleasing Task To Say A Few ...
Thomas Andrew Knight
Knight, Thomas Andrew, Brother Of The Subject Of The Preceding Article, Was Born On The 10th Of October 1753. The Grand Father Of These Eminent Men Had Amassed A Large Fortune, As An Iron Master At A Period Long Before Steam Machinery Was Introduced Iu The Smelting And Manufacture Of ...
Thomas Campbell
Campbell, Thomas, Was Born July 27, 1777, At Glasgow, Where His Father, Who Was The Youngest Eon Of A Highland Laird, Campbell Of Keenan, And Had Then Attained The Age Of Sixty-seven, Had Spent, His Life As A Merchant, But Was Now Out Of Bueinees. Thomas Was The Youngest. Of ...
Thomas Chatterton
Chatterton, Thomas, Was Born At Bristol On The 20th Of November 1752. 111. Father (who Died Three Month, Before The Birth Of His Son) Was Sexton At Redcliff Church, And Also Master Of A Charity School In L'ylo-street. At The Age Of Five Years He Was Placed Under The Care ...
Thomas Cheswick
* Cheswick, Thomas, Ra., Was Born In 1811 At Sheffield, In Yorkshire, And Educated At Hazelwood, Near Birmingham, Where His Fondness For Drawing Became Very Conspicuous. He Removed To London, With A View To Prosecute His Artistic Studies, In 1828. The Same Year Two Of His Landscapes Appeared In The ...
Thomas Christopher Hofland
Hofland, Thomas Christopher, Was Born At Worksop, Nottinghamshire, December 25th, 1777. His Father, An Extensive Cotton-manufacturer, Removed To London In 1789, But Tho Business On Which Lie Had Entered Failed, And Young Holland At The Age Of Eighteeu Turned To Landscape-painting Asa Profession. For Some Time He Wise Chiefly Engaged ...
Thomas Chubb
Chubb, Thomas, Was Born In 1679, At East Harnham, A Small Village Neer Salisbury. Ilk. Father Died When Thomas, The Youngest Of Four Children, Sae A Mere Boy. After Receiving A Little Instruction I. Reading And Writing, Thomas Was Apprenticed To A Leather Glove And Breeches Maker In Salisbury. Lie ...
Thomas Clarkson
Clarkson, Thomas, Was Born March 26, 1760, At Wisbeacb, Cambridgeshire, Where His Father, Who Was A Clergyman, Was Master Of The Free Grammar School. He Was At First Educated Under His Father, And After That Was Sent To St. Paul's School, London, And Thence To St. John's College, Cambridge, Where ...
Thomas Colby
Colby, Thomas, Major-general In The Army, And One Of The Directors Of The Ordnance Survey, Was Born At Rochester 1st Of Sep Tember 1784. When His Father, Captain Colby, Of The Royal Marines, Mailed With The Fleet Under Lord Howe, He Was Sent To Dr. Crockell's School At Xorthfleet, And ...
Thomas Coram
Coram, Thomas, Was Born About 1668, Was Brought Up In The Mercantile Navy, And Became Early In Life The Captain Of A Merchant Ship Trading To The Antilles. While In London Hie Buainess Often Led Him From The East-end To The City, And His Feelings Were Harrowed By Witnessing "young ...
Thomas Coryat
Coryat, Thomas, "the Odcombian Leg-stretcher," As He Was Wont To Call Himself, Was The Son Of The Rev. George Coryat, Rector Of Odcombe, In Somersetabire, And Prebendary Of York Cathedral. Thomas, Or, As He Was Usually Styled, Torn Coryat, Was Born At Odcombo Rectory In 1577, And Was Educated At ...
Thomas Cranmer
Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop Of Canterbury, The Second Eon Of Thomas Cranmer And Agnes, Daughter Of Laurence Hatfield, His Wife, Was Born At Aslacton, In Nottinghamshire, On The 2nd Of July 1489. The Respectable Family From Which He Descended Had Been Settled In That County For Some Generations. His First Instruction ...
The Book Of Judges
Judges, The Book Of : Uprrai, Acts Xiii. 20), A Book Of The Old Testament, Which Gives An Account Of The History Of The Israelites From The Death Of Joshua To That Of Samson. Joshua Did Not Exterminate According To Divine Commandment All The Nations Of Canaan, But Allowed Each ...
The Book Of Numbers
Numbers, The Book Of, One Of The Books Of The Pentateuch. In Hebrew It Has Two Titles, "i`tri, And He Spoke, Which Is The First Word Of The Book, And In The Desert, Which Is The Fifth Word In The First Verse, And Which Applies To The Whole Book, Inasmuch ...
The Gulf Of Paria
Paria, The Gulf Of, Extends Between The Island Of Trinidad And The Continent Of South America, And Has Received Its Name From The Adjacent Portion Of The Continent, Which Was Once Called Paris, A Name Afterwards Superseded By That Of Cumana. The Gulf Has Nearly The Form Of A Quadrangle, ...
The House Of Habsburg
Habsburg, The House Of, Was The Original Title Of The House Of Austria. Rudolf, The Founder Of The Austrian Dynasty, Was Born In 1213, Aud Was The Son Of Albert, Count Of Ilabeburg In Aargau, And Of Iledwige Of Kyburg, Who Was Descended Through Her Mother From The Once Powerful ...
The Isthmus Of Panama
Panama, The Isthmus Of (new Granada), Constitutes The Most Eastern And The Narrowest Portion Of .the Long Isthmus By Which The Two Americas Are United. It Extends, Together With The Province Of Veragua, Which Is Contiguous To It On The West, From 77 To 83° W. Long., Between 7° 20' ...
The Marches
Marches, The. The Mark, Anglo-saxon Meape, Is A Word Common To Almost All The Languages Of Teutonic Origin. It Was The First General Division Of Landed Property, And Denoted In A Specific And Peculiar Sense Those Important Marks By Which The Boundaries Of Wide Domains Were Indicated, Within Which Individual ...
The Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean, The, Extends Between America On The East, And Asia And Australia On The West. It Received This Name From 3iagalhaens, The First European Who Traversed It, And Who, Having Experienced Bad Weather And Heavy Gales In The Strait Of Magelhaons, Nailed Into The Wide Expanse Of This Ocean ...
The Philippines
Philippines, The, Constitute The Most Northern Group Of The Islands That Compose The Extensive Archipelago Known Under The Name Of The Indian Archipelago ; And They Lie Between 5° And 20' N. 1st., 119' And 127° E. Long. The Strait Of Balingtang, Or Great Passage, Separates Them From The 13atanos ...
The Rev Dr Thomas
Chalmers, The Rev. Dr. Thomas, Was Born At Anstruther, In Fifeshlre, On The 17th Of March 1780. He Was The Sixth Child Of A Family Of Fourteen, Born To Mr. John Chalmers, A Dyer, Shipowner, And General In Anatruther, By His Wifo Elizabeth Hall. Educated First At The Pariah School ...
The Rev William Dodd
Dodd, The Rev. William, Ll.d., Was Born In 1729, At Bourn, In Lincolnshire, Of Which Place His Father Was Vicar. In 1745, Lie Was Admitted A Eizar Of Clare Hall, Cambridge, And Took His Bachelor's Degree With Reputation In 1750. Soon Afterwards Lie Removed To London, Where He Contracted An ...
The Rev William Kirby
Kirby, The Rev. William, One Of The Most Distinguished Naturalists Of His Day, And Celebrated For His Knowledge Of Entomology. He Was The Grandson Of John Kirby. A Miller At Wickham Market In Suffolk, And The Author Of The 'suffolk Traveller,' Which Was Pub Liaised In 1785, And Was A ...
The Right Hon Sir
`hall, The Right Hon. Sir Benjamin, M.p., Is The Son Of The Lato Mr. Benjamin Hall, Many Years M.p. For Totnes, Westbury, And Glamorgenshire, By A Daughter Of William Crawshay, Esq., An Extensive Iron-master Is South Wales. He Was Born In 1802, And Received His Early Edncation At Westminster School ...
The Right Hon William
* Gladstone, The Right Hon. William Ewart, Is The Fourth Eon Of The Late Sir John Gladstone, Burt., Of Fasque, N.13., An Eminent Merchant Of Liverpool, By A Daughter Of The Late Provost Robertson Of Dingwall, N.b. He Was Born At Liverpool In 1809, And Received His Early Education At ...
The Right Honourable Sir
Fanshawe, The Right Honourable Sir Richard, Was The Youngest Son Of Sir H. Fanshawe, And Was Born In 1608 At Ware Park, In The County Of Hertford. He Became A Fellow-commoner Of Jesus College, Cambridge, In 1623, And Removed To The Inner Temple In 1626. On The Death Of His ...