Education_3
Education. Under The Old Regime Education Was In Chinese Chiefly. And Conducted On Chinese Lines. In 1594-93 A Department: Of Educa Tion Was Established, And A Public School System Inaugurated Extending Through The Various Grades, From Primary To Normal, With A Univer Sity In Prospect. Besides There Are Schools For ...
Emigration
Emigration. The Unsatisfactory Condition Of Public Affairs Is Responsible For The Enounous Tide Of Emigration. More Than 2.000,000 Italian Emigrants Are Living In Foreign Countries, And Their Number Increases From Year To Year By Hundreds Of Thousands. The Growth Of Emigra Tion In The Last Quarter Of The Nineteenth Century ...
Emile De Keratry
Keratry, Emile De, Count (1832-1904). A French Politician. Born In Paris. Abandoning The Legitimist Traditions Of His Family, Young Kiiratry Entered The Army (1854), And Fought In Africa, The Crimea. And Mexico. Returning To Paris In 18(15, He Became A Contributor To The Revue Contemporaine, And Subsequently Edi Tor Of ...
Engineering
Engineering Laboratories. The Snipes: Which Has Attended Chemical, Physical. And Other Lahora Tories Organized Either For Instruction Or Re ,,eareh Has Led To The Establishment Of Engineer Ing Laboratories In Which The Student Is Taught To Apply Himself Particularly To Such Problems As He Would Encounter In The Aetual Prnetiee ...
Epistle Of James
James, Epistle Of. The First Of The So Called Catholic Epistles, An Encyclical Writing, Belonging Either To The Very Earliest Or The Very Latest Part Of The New Testament Literature. The Settlement Of This Wide Difference Of Date Rests Upon The Determination Of Three Questions, Each Of Them Interetting In ...
Epistle Of Jude
Jude, Epistle Of. The Last Of The Twenty One Epistles Of The New Testament. It Is Both An Exhortation (3) And A Reminder (5) To The Beloved Readers In View Of The Presence In Their Churches Of Ungodly Men Who Deny Christ As The Lord And Are Full Of Lust. ...
Ethnology
Ethnology. Of The So-called Earliest Paleo Lithic Epochs Or Eultnre Stages Of Europe There Are No Relics In Italy. Exceptional Finds Belong Ing To Later Periods Oeeur North Of The Po. The Northern Slopes Of The Apennines Are Said To He Rich In Chipped Implements Called Coups Do Poing, Which ...
Ethnology
Ethnology. The Modern Japanese Are A Very Mixed People. The Largest Factor In The Produc Tion Of The Japanese Is To Be Traced Hack To The :mongolian Race Of The Adjacent Continent, A View Confirmed By The Physical Characteristics Of A Con Siderable Portion Of The Population At The Present ...
Ethnology_2
Ethnology. The Native Inhabitants Of Java Belong To The Malay Race, The Alleged 'negrito Peoples Of The Interior Having No Real Existence. The Javanese Proper Dwell In The Central Por Tions Of The Island And Toward The East, The Sundanese In The West, And The :madurese In The East And ...
Eugen Korschelt
Korschelt, Eugen (1858—). A German Zoologist, Born At Zittau. He Studied In Heidelberg, Leipzig. And Freiburg, Where He Obtained His Degree In 1882. From 1882 To 1884 He Was Assistant In The Zoologisches Institut In Leipzig; In 1885 He Was Appointed Privat. Docent At Freiburg, And In 1887 At Berlin. ...
Fah Cation
Fah: Cation. Italy Compares Very On Favorably With Northern European Countries In Respect To The General Diffusion Of Education. Since The Nation Is Overburdened With Debt And Is Lacking In National Wealth, The Educational System Has Not Had The Financial Support Necessary To Its Proper Development. It Would Have Been ...
Fanov1tch 1787 1864
Fanov1tch (1787-1864), The Founder Of The Liter Ary Language Of The Serbo-croats And Of Their Literature. Ile Was Born At Trshitch In Servia. He Learned To Read From Letters Scribbled On Shot Gun Paper With A. Reed Pen Dipped Iu A Solution Of Gunpowder. At Seventeen He Was The 'most ...
Fattier Joseph
Joseph, Fattier. A Popular Name For Fran Cois Leclerc Du Tremblay (1577-1638), The Private Secretary And Confidant Of Cardinal Richelieu. Ile Was Born In Paris Of A Distin Guished Family. And Was Originally A Soldier, But. Left The Army In 1599 And Became A Capuchin Friar. After Some Time Father ...
Fauna
Fauna. This Is Oa As Rich As The Horn, Yet The Country Can Boast Of At Least 150 Species Of Mammals. 359 Of Birds, 300 Of Reptiles And Batra Chians, A Great Number Of Kinds Of Fishes, Of Which 358 Species Were Described By Siebold. Also Over 1200 Species Of ...
Febvre De 1811 83
Febvre De (1811-83). A French Jurist And Publicist, Born In Paris. Ile Was A Student Of Law, Devoting Himself Early In Life To Conti Nental Legal History With Singular Energy And Intelligence. At The Age Of Twenty-eight He Be Came Known By An Elaborate Work, Entitled .116nuire Sue Phistuire Dr ...
Felix Klein
Klein, Felix' (1849—). Clue Of The Most Eminent Of Living German Mathematiciang. He Was Burn At Diisseldorf, Studied At Bonn, And When Only Seventeen Was Made Assistant To Piticker In The Physical Institute. The Follow Ing Year (18ti8) He Took His Doetor's Degree, And Then Went To Berlin And Later ...
Final Judgment
Judgment, Final. The Ultimate Trial Of The Human Race When Judgment Will Be Passed Upon All Melt According As Their Works Have Peen Good Or Evil, The Present Order Of Things Will Be Brought To An End, And A New Dispensa Tion Inaugurated. The Idea Of A Coming Destruc Tion ...
Finance
Finance. The Revenue Of The Imperial Gov Ernment Is Derived Chiefly From The Land Tax (which Since 1877 Has Been Per Cent. Of The Market Value Of The Land) ; The Taxes On Sake And Other Liquors Abut $30,0011,000) ; Customs Dues, The Leaf-tobacco Monopoly, Stamp Duties; Income Tax ($2,750,000) ...
Finances
Finances. The Condition Of Italian Finance Is The Country's Blight. The Enormous Debts That The Government Of United Italy Had To Assume. The Costly Wars Waged To Bring About The Unifi Cation, The New Debts Incurred For Public Works. And The Eonstantly Growing Expenditure For The Army And Navy, Have ...
Fisheries
Fisheries. The Japanese Depend On The Farmer And The Fisherman For Their Food-supplies. The Former Provides Them With The Indispensable Rice, And The Latter With The Fish Which Invariably Goes With It. The Waters, Both Fresh And Salt, Teem With Fish Of Every Kind, From The Whitebait To The Bonito ...
Flavius Josephus
Jose'phus, Flavius (37-?). A Celebrated Jewish Historian. He Was Horn At Jerusalem In The Year A.d. 37. Of Both Royal And Sacerdotal Lineage, Being Descended, On The Mother's Side, From The Line Of Asmonean Princes. While His Father, Mat Thias, Officiated As A Priest In The First Of The Twenty-four ...
Flavius Justinian I
Justin'ian I., Flavius Across Justin Ia.ni's (483-565). Byzantine Emperor From 527 To 565. He Was Born Probably 11, 483, In The Village Of Tauresium, In 111yricum. His Name Was Uprauda, Which He Changed To Jus Tinian. Although Of Obscure Parentage, He Shared The Success Of His Maternal Uncle, Justin I. ...
Flora
Flora. The Flora Of Japan Is Exceedingly Rich In Variety, And Its Luxuriance Is In Keeping With The Warmth And The Moisture Of The Japanese Summer. In 1376 Franellet And Savatier Enume Rated No Fewer Than 2743 Species Of Phaneroga Mons And The Higher Eryptogamous Plants, Dis Tributed Among 1035 ...
Flora_2
Flora. .lava Is An I-land With Many Botanical Zones. The Deep Black Soil Produces A Richness And An Abundance Of Products In The Vegetable Kingdom That Is Absolutely Without Parallel In Any Other Part Of The World Within An Area So Limited. Almost All The Are Evergreen, And Most Of ...
Food And Habits
Food And Habits. Kangaroos Are Entirely Herbivorous And Seem To Replace, In The Austra Lian Region, The Deer And Antelopes, Which Are Entirely Wanting There. They Are Naturally Timid And Inoffensive, And Rely On The Keenness Of Their Senses And The Rapidity Of Their Flight For Escape Front Their Enemies. ...
Forestry
Forestry. About 11,000,000 Acres, Or 15.72 Per Cent. Of The Total Area Of Italy, Are Under Forests, Of This Total Area, 1,018.052 Acres (1.44 Her Cent.) Are Ill Chestnuts. Only 143,318 Acres Of Forests Belong To The Government, But A Great Part Of The Forest Land Is Mider Government Supervision, ...
Frances Anne Kemble
Kemble, Frances Anne (mrs. Fanny Kem Ble) (1809-93). An English Actress And Au Thor, Born In London, November 27, 1809, Daugh Ter Of Charles Kemble. She Was Educated Largely In France, And Made Her First Appearance On The Stage Octobar 5, 1829, In The Character Of Juliet, Reviving The Fortones ...
Franz 1303 58 Kugler
Kugler, Franz ( 1303-58 ) . A German Art Historian And Poet. He Was Born At Stettin. January 19. 1308. He Studied At The Universities Of Berlin And Heidelberg. And At The Academy Of Architecture, Berlin. After The Completion Of A Very Diversified Course Of Study. He Devoted Himself To ...
Franz Kobell
Kobell, Franz Vox (1803-82). A German Mineralogist And Poet, Born In Munich And Edu Cated At Landshut. Ile Became Professor Of Mineralogy In Alunich In 1826, And In Ism Was Appointed First Curator Of The State Collection Of Minerals. To Mineralogy His Greatest Contribu Tions Were New Methods In Crystallography ...
Franz Lambert
Lambert, Franz, Or Lanibert Of Avignon (c.i486-1536). A German Protestant Reformer. He Was Born In Avignon. Became A Franciscan Friar At An Early Age, Was Ordained A Priest, And Preached With Success. In 1522, Having Been Refused Permission To Join The He Attached Himself To The Cause Of Martin Luther ...
Friedrich Gottlieb 1724 1503 Klopstock
Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb (1724-1503). A German Poet Of Great Fame In The Latter Half Of The Eighteenth Century, Now Hardly Read Or Readable. Lie Was Horn In Qned Linburg, July 2, 1724, And Died In Hamburg, 7.11arch 14, 1803. Educated At Quedlinburg And The Famous School At Sehulpforta, Klopstock Went ...
Galaup
Galaup. Count De (1741-88?). A French Navi Gator, Born Near Albin. In The Department Of Tarn. He Entered The Navy In 1756, Fought Against The English In The Seven Years' War, And Was Made A Captain In 1780. In 178• He Was Sent To Destroy The British Forts In Hudson ...
General Characteristics
General Characteristics. Lakes Vary From Each Other In Form, Depth, And Source Of Water Supply. They Are Usually Elongated In The Di Rection Of The Inlet And Outlet, Owing To The Fact That They Arise From Some Interference With The Free Drainage Along A Preexisting River Valley. Often The Outline ...
Geology And Mine I
Geology And Mine(:. I. Resornces. Java Has Been For So Many Ages Under A Stre.s, Of Volcanic Action That The Strata Anciently Deposited Have Been Again And Again Disturbed; Yet It Appear; That The Underlying Rock, Are For The Most Part Granite And Syenite. And On These Rest Sedimen Tary ...
Geology And Mineral Resouices
Geology And Mineral Resoui;ces. Little Is Known Of The Geology Of The Country. In General It May Be Stated That Overlying The Fundamental Rocks—gneiss, Crystalline And Other Schists, Crys Talline Limestone, Quartzite, Etc. — Are Found Strata Of Cambrian And Carboniferous Age, The Repositories Of The Metallic Ores Of The ...
Geology And Mineral Resources
Geology And Mineral Resources. The Sur Face Geology Of Kansas Is Simple. Since The Strata Lie Undisturbed And Nearly Horizontal. Hence The Outcroppings Of The Comparatively Thin Strata Of The Main Systems Form Broad Belts, Over 100 Miles Wide; There Are, Roughly, Only Three Of These Belts, Which Cross The ...
George Jeffreys
Jeffreys, George, Lord (1648 89). An English Judge, Born At Acton, In Den Bighshire, Wales. Though The Son Of A Squire Of Small Means, Jeffreys Obtained A Fair Education At Shrewsbury, At Saint Paul's, And At Westmin Ster Under Dr. Busby; In 1662 He Matriculated At Trinity College, Cambridge, Which ...
George Payne Hainsford 1801
James, George Payne Hainsford ( 1801 Go). An English Novelist, Born In London, August 9, 1801. He Attended A. School At Putney, Where He Acquired Some Knowledge Of French And Italian; And Subsequently Educated Himself By Wide Reading And Extensive Travel On The Con Tinent. After He Had Won A ...
Gottfried 1819 90 Keller
Keller, Gottfried (1819-90). A Swiss Novelist And Poet, Remarkable For His Blending Of The Humorous And The Tragic. The Realistic And The Romantic. After A Vain Attempt To Become A Painter At Munich (1840-42). He Returned To His Native Zurich And Devoted Himself To Litera Ture. From 1848 To 1854 ...
Govern3cent
Govern3cent. The Constitution Was Ratified By The People In October, 1859, And Went Into Operation In January, I Sol An Amendment May Be Proposed In Either House. And Must Receive A Two-thirds Tot. Of All The Members Elected To Each, And Then Be Submitted To The Electors Of The State ...
Government
Government. The Government May Be De Scribed As A Constitutional Monarchy With Repre Sentative Institutions Based Largely On German Rather Than On British Or American Models. The Constitution On Which It Rests Was Promul Gated By The Mikado In 1889 In Accordance With Ids Oath In 1868. To Give The ...
Government
Government. The Present Constitution Of Daly Is Based On The Statuto Granted By Charles Albert, King Of Sardinia, To His Subjects In Is4m. When Sardinia Expanded Into The Kingdom Of Italy, Its Constitution Was Taken Over As The Fundamental Law Of The New State. Curiously Enough, It. Contains No Provision ...
Government_2
Government. 'java And Madura.' With The Surrounding Islets Included In The Same Adminis Tration, Is Divided Into Twenty-three Residencies. Under The Control Of A Governor-general, Who Has Great Executive And Even A Certain Amount Of Legislative Power. He Is Assisted By A Eouneil Of Five, Whose Functions Are Legislative And ...
Greer
Greer. As Usual, The Romans Borrowed Much From The Greeks In Their Later Conception Of Jupiter, And It Will Be Best To Treat First Of Zeus As He Appears In Greek Mythology. From The Beginning Of Our Records Zeus Appears As The Supreme God, Established As The Ruler Of The ...
Gy6rgy Klapka
Klapka, Gy6rgy (geonce) (1820 92). A General Of The Hungarian Revolution Of Isms. He Was Born At Temesvar, Being The Son Of The Burgomaster Of That Town. He Entered The Austrian Army In 1s3s. And Rose To He Lieutenant. In 1s4s He Left The Service. But Upon The Outbreak Of ...
Henry Petty Fitzmaltrice Lansdowne
Lansdowne, Henry Petty-fitzmaltrice, Third Marquis Of (1780-1863). An English States. Man. He Was Born At Lansdowne House, Lon Don. And Was A Younger Son Of Earl Shelburne, Premier Of George Itt.. Who Received The Coronet Of A Marquis In 1784. Lord Henry Petty Was Sent To Westminster School. And Afterwards ...
Hera
Hera Is, In All Particulars, A Thoroughly Hel Lenic Conception, And The Theory Of Semitic Origin May Lie Dismissed In This, As In Most Other Eases; There Is, However, No General Agreement As To The Derivation Of The Name Or The Original Nature Of The Goddess. While Sonic Authorities See ...
Herschel Vespasian 1812 80 Johnson
Johnson, Herschel Vespasian (1812-80). An American Jurist And Political Leader, Born In Burke County, Ga. He Graduated At The Versity Of Georgia In 1834, Studied Law And Ticed At Augusta, And Finally Settled At In 1844. In 1843 He Was Nominated For Congress, Hut Was Defeated, And In The Campaign ...
Histology
Histology. The Kidney Is A Highly Differentiated Compound Tubular Gland. It Is Composed Of An External Portion, Or Cortex. And An Internal Por Tion, Or Medulla, The Latter Terminating Internally In A Number Of Apices Known As Papilla.. Each Papilla Contains The Terminations Of A System Of Tubules Which, Extending ...
History
History. For The Earliest Period Of Italian History. Consult: Bury. Later Roman Em Pire (london, 1889) ; Hodgkin. Italy And Her Invaders (oxford. 1880) ; For The Period After Charlemagne. Gregorovius. History Of The, City Of Jeanie In The Middle Ages, Translated By Hamil Ton (london, 1895-1900), Which In Spite ...
History
History. Of The Three Names Hebrew, Israelite. Jew, The First Is Properly Applied To The Period When Hebrews Constituted In The Full Sense Of The Word A Nation; The Second Has Acquired An Al Most Exclusive Religious Force; While The Third Is The Proper Designation To Cover The Twofold Aspect ...
History_2
History. The History Of Java. Shorn Of Leg End. Fable, And Mythology, Is Very Simple. Civil Ization Came To The Aborigines From India. Bud Dhism At. First Being Paramount. The Sivaism Of The Hindus Followed And Prevailed For Cen Turies, During Which Time Many Hindu States Were Set Op, That ...
History_3
History. Khiva In Ancient Times And In The Early Middle Ages Formed Part, Succes Sively, Of The Kingdoms Of Baetria, Parthia, And I'ersia, And Of The Caliphate. The Modern Khanate Of Khiva Is A Fragment Of The Independ Ent Kingdom Of Chorasmia Or Khwaresm, Which Rose Into Power At The ...
History_4
History. The Beginnings Of Korean History Are Associated With Ki-tse (q.v.), Who Is Said To Have Founded A Nation Here Some Time After B.c. 1122. In U.c. 105' The Country Was Annexed To The Chinese Empire. Soon After The Christian Era, It Was Divided Among Three Petty Principali Ties Called ...
Hours Of Labor
Hours Of Labor. On This Subject Several States In The South And In The Rocky Mountain District Have No Legislation Whatever, And That Of The Other States In The Same Regions Is Rather Meagre, As Eompared With The Comprehensive Laws Of The North Atlantic States And Those Of The North-central ...
House Of Lancaster
Lancaster, House Of. The Name Of The Dynasty Which Occupied The Throne Of England From 1399 To 1461, And Again In 1470-71. The Title Originated During The Reign Of Henry 111., Ho In 1267 Made His Second Son, Edmund Crouchback, Earl Of Lancaster. On The Failure Of Male Heirs, John ...
Hydrography
Hydrography. Italy Has Many Streams, Al Though It Has Only One Great River, The L'o. The Most Important Streams, The L'o And The Adige, Flow Into The Adriatic Sea. The Po Is Fed On One Side By The Snows Of The Alps, On The Other By The Heavy Rains Of ...
I The Contents Of
I. The Contents Of Tile Gospel. In Striking Contrast To The First Three. Or Synoptic Gospels, The Fourth Gospel States Explicitly The Apologetic Motive Controlling Its Author In Writing It (cf.xx. 30-31). It Is In The Light Of This Statement That The Outline Of Contents Should Be Constructed. Understanding. Then. ...
Iantern Fisiies Proper
Iantern-fisiies Proper. The Foregoing Spe Cies Do Not Possess Light-giving Organs To Any Considerable Degree, If At All Hut Most Of The Group Are Provided With Phosphoreseent Lanterns. The Family Contains About 100 Spe Cies, All Of Small Size, Carnivorous, And Very Widely Distributed In The Open Seas. They Some ...
Ii The Criticism Of
Ii. The Criticism Of Tiie Fourth Gos•m.. The Main Question To Which This Gospel Gives Rise Is—•an It Be Considered An Historical Source Tor Our Knowledge Of Jesus Christ? It Is Necessary, In The First Place, To Note What Indications The Work Itself Contains As To Its Authorship. Such Indications ...
Iiydrography
Iiydrography. Owing To The Mountainous Character Of The Country, And The Narrowness Of The Islands. Japan Cannot Boast. Of Long Rivers, No Part Being Farther Distant From The Sea Than About 100 Miles. Vet The Eountry Is Well Watered. Every Valley Has Its Stream Or Its Stream Let, And One ...
Isidore Of Seville
Isidore Of Seville, ( ?-636). Archbishop Of Seville. And One Of The Most Dis Tinguished Ecclesiastics Of The Seventh Century. Ile Was Horn About 51;0 (or 570), Probably At Or Near Cartagena, Where His Father. Severianus, Had Been Prefect. Two Of His Brothers, Fulgen Tins And I A'ander. Were, Like ...
Isinglass
Isinglass, I'ziu-glits (from Nd. Huysen Bla.s, Dutch Huisblad, Ger. Ilausenblasc, Isin Glass. Sturgeon-bladder, From .,11dutch Huysca, Dutch 110z-en, 011g. Bass, Ger. Hausen, Sturgeon Dutch Bias, Dutch Blad, Ohg. Blasa, Ger. Diasen, Bladder, Dialectic Eng. ()faze, Pimple; Associated By Popular Etymology With Eng. Gloss). The Dried Swimming-bladders Of Differ Ent Fishes. ...
Isla
Isla, Es'la, Jose Francisco De (1703-81). A Jesuit Preacher And Satirist. Born In Segovia, Spain. Hs Was A Man Of Acute Wit And In Tense Humor. He Ridiculed A Religious Festival At Salamanca And A Royal Pageant At Pamplona In His Triunfo Del Amor Y De La Lealtad. An Ironi ...
Island Number Ten
Island Number Ten. An Island Which Existed, Until Shortly After The Civil War, In The Mississippi River, About 40 Miles Below Columbus, Ky. (near The Boundary Line Between Kentucky And Tennessee). Thus Named From Its Position In The Series Of Islands Below Cairo, Iii. After The First Confederate Line In ...
Island As
Island (as. Igiond, Fglond, Icel. Ryland, Ger. Eiland, From As. Ig? Ig, Icel. Cy, 1111g. •a, Ger. A U, Island ; Connected With As. Goths Aluu, Iiiig. Cilia. Lat. Aqua, Water + Icel. Land, Oho. Hunt, Ger. Land, Land ; Connected With Ir. Lain, Land, Welsh Llan, Land, Ochureh Slay. ...
Ismail Pasha
Ismail Pasha, Es'inii-el' Pasha' (1830 95). Viceroy And Khedive Of Egypt. He Was The Second Son Of Ibrahim Pasha (q.v.), And Was Born At Cairo, December 31, 1830. He Was Edu Cated In Paris, And On His Return To Egypt Was Dispatched On Diplomatic Missions To Several European Capitals. Subsequently ...
Isobarometric
Isobarometric (1's6-b1iir'o-met'rik) Lines (from Gk. Ivor, Isos, Equal Eng. Baro Metric, From Gk. Gdpos, Baros, Weight + Idrpov, Metron, Measure), Or Isobars. Lines Joining The Places At Which The Atmospheric Pressure Re Duced To A Common Level Is The Same. Ordinarily The Weather Maps Show The Isobars For Sea-level, And ...
Isocrates
Isoc'rates (lat.. From Grk.'kekpdt-nr, Isok Rates). Though One Of The Ten Attic Orators Of The Alexandrian Canon. Isoerates Was Rather A Publicist And A Pamphleteer Than An Orator. This Long Life (n.c. 436-33s). As De Quineey Interest In
Isolation
Isolation (from Isolate, From Fr. Isoler, It. Isolate, From Ml. Insulare, To Separate, From Lat. Insithi, Island, From In, In &a/nil, Sea. Gk. Acixos, Surge). In Evolution, The Separa Tion Or Segregation Of Any Assemblage Of Plants Or Animals In A Limited Area, So That The Incipient Varieties Or Species ...
Isomorphism
Isomorphism, I's,'cinor'fiz'm (from Iso Morphous, From Gk. //roc. Isos, Equal -i- Aung, Morphd7, Form). The Relationship Existing Be Tween Solid Substances Which Arc Similar In Their Chemical Composition And Constitution, Have Simi Lar Crystalline Forms, And Are Callable Of Forming Homogeneous Mixed Crystals (`solid Solutions'), And Each Of Which Is ...
Isopoda
Isop'oda (neo-lat. Nom. Pl., From Gk. Coos, Isos, Equal + Was, Pour, Foot). An Order Of Nialacostracous Crustaceans Of The Section Ar Throstraca, Mostly Aquatic—some Marine, Some Inhabitants Of Tresh Waters—but Some Terres Trial, Inhabiting Damp Places, As The Wood-louse And The Like. They Are Easily Recognized By The Fact ...
Isos 4 2
Isos-4 2 ) . An Eminent Russian Lyric Poet. Lie Was The Son Of A Voronezh Cattle-dealer And Re Ceived Little Education. The First Verses That Came To His Hands He Sang To Improvised Tunes, Positive As He Was That All Verse Was Song. The Study Of Lomonosoff, Derzhavin, Zhukofski, ...
Ispahan
Ispahan, E'spa-han'. The Former Capital And One Of The Largest Cities Of Persia, Situated On The River Zendeh Bud, Over 200 Miles South Of Teheran, The Present Capital (map: Persia, D 4). The Surrounding Country Is Of Remarkable Natural Beauty, And Presents A Striking Contrast To The Half-ruined City. The ...
Israelites
Israelites, Lerti-61-its. See Jews. Isratls, Es'ra-als', Josef ( 1s24— ) . A Dutch Genre Painter, Born At Groningen In North Holland. He Is Of Jewish Parentage. And Was Intended For A Commercial Career, But He Early Showed A Taste For Art, And Was Sent To Amster Dam, Where He Studied ...
Issachar
Issachar, Is'sfl-kiir. (1) One Of The Tribes Of Israel. Descended According To The Book Of Genesis (xxx. 17) From Lssachar, The Ninth Son Of Jacob And Fifth Of Leah. The Name Is Ex Plained As Meaning 'there Is Reward,' And Is Interpreted By The Yahwistie Writer By A Refer Ence ...
Issue Of
Issue (of. Issue, Eissuc, Cssuc, Fr. Issue, From Ok Issir, Cissir, To Go Out, From Lat. Ezirc, To Go Out, From Ex, Out 4- Ire, To Go). In Legal Procedure, The Stage Of An Action When, In The Course Of Pleading. The Parties Come To A Point Which Is Affirmed ...
Isthmus
Isthmus, 'feints (lat. Isthmus, From Gk. Isthmos, Narrow Passage Between Two Seas). In Geography, A Narrow Neck Of Land Joining Two Portions Of Land. The Name Isthmus Was By The Ancients Often Employed Without Any Addition To Designate The Isthmus Of Corinth, Join Ing The Peloponnesus To Continental Hellas. At ...
Istria
Istria, Isftri-it. An Austrian Margraviate And Crownland, Forming Part Of The Modern Divi Sion Called Kiistenland, Or Coast Districts (map; Austria-hungary, C' 4). It Consists'of A Penin Sula. The Ancient Histria, Projecting Into The Northeast Part Of The Adriatic Sea, And The Islands Of Veglia, Cherso, And A Few Others, ...
Italian Language
Italian Language. That One Of The Romance Languages, Or Modern Descendants Of Latin. Which Is Ill The Italian Peninsula, In Sicily, Corsica. And Sardinia. In A Portion Of Switzerland, And Southwestern Austria (tyrol, Istria. Dalmatia, Trii.,t I. In Aloha, And In A Small District In The Southeast Corner Of France. ...
Italian Literature
Italian Literature. The Tenacity Of Latin Tradition In Italy Retarded Considerably The Rise And Development Of Literature In The Vulgar Tongue. Until The First Half Of The Thir Teenth Century Latin Continued To Serve In Italy For The Of Chronicles, Historical Awl Nar Rative Poems, Heroic Legends (many Of Them ...