Extermination In America
Extermination In America. The List Of The Larger Animals Lost To America Since Its Redis Covery And Settlement By Europeans Is A Long One. Whether Or Not A Native Horse Lingered In Small Numbers In South America Is A Matter Of Dispute. If There Was Such An Animal, It So ...
Extermination In Tile Old
Extermination In Tile Old World Within Historic Times. Since Written Records Began, Several Species Have Vanished From The Fauna Of Europe, But Remain Elsewhere, Or Are Preserved In Carefully Guarded Remnants. The Lion, Tiger, Leopard, And Various Wildcats Once Inhabited The Valley Of The Danube, And The Lion Was Common ...
Extermination Of Animals By
Extermination Of Animals By Prehistoric Men. Just How Far We Are To Attribute To The Direct Agency Of Primitive Man The Extinction Of Forms That Evidently Survived Until After His Advent Upon The Earth Must He A Matter Largely Of Opinion. There Seems Good Reason To Suppose That The Last ...
Exterritoriality
Exterritoriality. The Fiction Or Rule Of Law By Which Certain Classes Of Aliens In A Country Are More Or Less Exempted From Its Juris Diction, And Are Governed By The Laws Of Their Own Country. The Right To This Exemption Is Not Absolute, But Arises From, And Is Made Possible ...
Extinction Of Species
Extinction Of Species. The Extinc Tion Of Species And Higher Groups Has Been Due To Two Causes—first, Changes In The Physical Geog Raphy And Other Environmental Conditions Of The Globe During Past. Geological Time, And, Second, To Changes In The Biological Environment. Geological Extinction.—the Primary Factor, Therefore, In The Extinction ...
Extradition
Extradition {from Lat. Ex, Out + Tradi Tio, Delivery, From Trudere, To Give Over). The Delivery Up By One State Or Nation To Another Of A Fugitive From Justice. Strictly Speaking, Extra Dition Is A Modern Praetice, Although Hannibal's Delivery Was Stipulated For In A Roman Treaty, And More Than ...
Extreme Unction
Extreme Unction (let. Ext Icnta Inne A Sacrament Of The Roman Catholic Church, Which, As The Other Sacraments Supply Spiritual Aid In The Various Circumstances Of Life, Is Be Lieved To Impart To The Christian Grace And Strength To Encounter The Struggle, As Well Spir Itual As Bodily, Of The ...
Eye
Eye. A Loop, Ring, Or Hole Through A Sub Stance; Also Direction, As In The Wind's Eye. The Extreme Forward Part Of A Ship Is Called The Eyes Of The Ship. Chinese Junks And Other Native Craft Have Blocks Of Wood Shaped And Painted To Resemble Human Eyes Placed On ...
Eye As
Eye (as. Rays, Goth. Augo, Ohg. Ouga, Ger. Auge, Icel. Gaga, 0sw. Ouga, Sw. Iiga, Dan. Nor. Ale, Lat. Oeutus, Eye. Gk. 6acre, Ossc, The Two Eyes, Ochurch Slay. Oko, Slat. Ak.an, Eye). The Organ Of Sight. In This Article We Shall Consider The Structure Of The Human Eyeb.,i1, And ...
Eye In Vertebrates
Eye In Vertebrates. Passing Now To The Con Sideration Of The Vertebrate Eye, We Find That The Structure Is In All Eases Essentially Similar To That Of The Human Eye, Though Many Cases Of Degenerate Eyes Are Known. Associated With Some Peculiarities Of Habit, As, In The Hagfish, With A ...
Eylau
Eylau, Lion, Or Preussisch-eyea11, Proi's4sh-l'ion. A Town Of Some 3000 Inhabitants, Situated On The Pasmar, About 24 Miles South Of K5nigsberg, Prussia. It Is Noted As •the Scene Of A Sanguinary Battle Betm Cm The French Under Napoleon And A Combined Force Of Russians And Prussians Under Bennigsen And Lestoeq, ...
Eyre
Eyre, Sr. A Large Salt Lake In The Northwest Of South Australia, About 550 Miles North Of Ade Laide, Reached At Stuart Creek Station By The Railroad From Adelaide To Oodnadatta. It Con Sists Of Two Extensive And Shallow Sheets Of Water, Known As Lake Eyre, North And South, Covering ...
Eyre_2
Eyre, Sir James (1734-99). An English Judge, The Son Of Rev. Thomas Eyre, Prebendary Of Salisbury. He Was Born At Wells, Somerset Shire, In 1734; Became A Scholar Of Winchester In 1747, And A Student Of Saint John's College, Oxford, In 1749. At The Age Of Nineteen, With Out Waiting ...
Eytinge
Eytinge, Rose (1838—). An Ameri Can Actress And Author, Born In Philadelphia. From 186'2 To 1869 She Played In Various Theatres In New York City, And Then Went Abroad With Her Second Husband, Col. George 11. Butler, Consul-general To Egypt. On Her Return Thence In 1871 She Took The R5le ...
Ezekiel
Eze'kiel (heb.. Trehezvl, God Makes Strong). One Of The Four 'greater' Prophets. He Was The Son Of The Priest Buzi, A Member Of The Zadokite Elan, Which Toward The Close Of The Seventh Century B.c. Began To Obtain Complete Con Trol Of The Yahweh Cult In Jerusalem. He Prob Ably ...
Ezra
Ezra, Boor Of. A Record Of Portions Of Jew Ish History After The Babylonian Exile. It Origi Nally Formed In The Jewish Canon One Book With Nehemiah, And Is Supposed To Have Been Com Piled By The Author Of Chronicles From Various Doctunents, Such As: (a) The Memoirs Of Ezra ...
Fabius
Fabius. The Name Of One Of The Oldest And Most Illustrious Patrician Families Of Rome. Three Brothers Of This Name Alternately Held The Office Of Consul For Seven Years (n.c. 485-479). In 479 The Fahii. Under Kl_eso Fanius Viau La's S, Migrated To The Banks Of The Cremera, A Small ...
Fable
Fable (from Lat. Fabula, Narrative, From Fari, To Speak; Connected With Gk. Codvat, Phanai, To Say. Skt. Bha, To Shine). A Word Of Twofold Signification. First, It Is Employed By Some Writers In A General Sense To Denote Any Fictitious Narrative, As, For Example, The Incidents In An Epic Or ...
Factor
Factor. An Agent Employed To Sell The Goods Of Another; In The United States Such An Agent Is Usually Called A Commission Merchant, Because He Has His Compensation In A Commission Or Per Centage Upon The Goods He Sells. He Differs From A Broker In That He Has Actual Possession ...
Factor Acts
Factor Acts. The Legal Designation Of A Series Of Modern .statutes In England And Amer Ica, Conferring Upon Agents Who Are Intrusted With The Possession Of Goods The Authority To Vest A Good Title Thereto In An Innocent Purchaser. At Common Law A Factor (q.v.) Had No Implied Authority To ...
Factory Inspection
Factory Inspection. The Most Impor Tant Part Of Factory Legislation, For It Is Only By The Constant Visits Of Well-trained, Intelligent, And Efficient Inspectors That Factories Can He Pre Vented From Evading And Practically Nullifying The Laws. Such Inspectors Can Strengthen The Laws By Liberal Interpretations Of Their Powers, By ...
Faculty
Faculty (lat. Facultas, Ability, From Fa. Easy, From Facere, To Do). A Term Used Gen Erally In Psychology To Denote Any Sort Of Mental Function. Specifically The Name 'faculty Psychol Ogy-' Is Applied To A Psychological School Which Has Its Typical Representative In Christian Wolff And Its Most Renowned Expositor ...
Faience
Faience, Firline (fr. From It. Faenza, Faience, For Porcelluna Di Faenza, Earthenware Of Faenza, A City Of Italy, Where The Ware Is Said To Have Been Invented). Properly An Earth Enware Of Coarse Fabric, Covered With An Opaque Enamel Upon Which Decoration May Be Applied In Vitrifiable Paint, And Fired. ...
Fair Of
Fair (of. Feire, Foire, Fr. Foirr, It. Firma, Fair, From Lat. Feria, Holiday; Connected With Lat. Festus, Feast). A Meeting Held For The Purpose Of Exhibiting Or Selling Goods. Originally Fairs Were Held At Stated Times And Places, Swat) For The Sale Of A Particular Class Of Merchandise, Others For ...
Fairbairn
Fair'bairn, Sir William (1789-1874). An English Engineer, Horn At Kelso, In Roxburghshire, February 19, 1789. He Learned A Little Reading, Writing, And Arithmetic At The Parish School Of Mulloehy, In Ross-shire. And After Some Six Months' Instruction From An Uncle, He Was Ap Prenticed To A Machinist At Pereymain Colliery, ...
Fairfax
Fairfax, Thomas, Third Lord Fa Irfax (1612-71). An English Parliamentary General, Better Known As Sir Thomas Fairfax. The Son Of Sir Ferdinand° (afterwards Second Lord) Fair Fax, He Was Born At Denton, Yorkshire, January 17, 1612. After Receiving His Education At Saint John's College, Cambridge, He Served As A Voln ...
Fairy
Fairy. An Imaginary Creature Of Small Size, Conceived According To Popular Superstition As Dwelling In A Region Called Fairyland. And As Having A Special Interest In The Affairs Of Man. The Term Fairy, However. Is Also Loosely Used To Include Other Beings Of A Similar Character Like The Brownie, Elf. ...
Faith Cure
Faith Cure. A Term Applied To The Prac Tice Of Curing Disease By An Appeal To The Hope, Belief, Or Expectation Of The Patient, And Without The Use Of Drugs Or Other Material Means. For Merly It Was Confined To Methods Requiring The Exercise Of Religious Faith, Such As The ...
Faith Of
Faith (of. Feid, Foit, Lei, Foi, Fr. Foi. It. Fede, From Lat. Fides, Faith, From I'idcre, To Trust; Connected With Gk. Reloav, Peithein, To Persuade, As. Biddun, Eng. Bid). A Theological Term. De Rived Front The Scriptures, And Which Should Be Conformed To Their Usage. Besides Its Use To Sig ...
Fakir
Fakir, Fa-ker' (ar. Faqir, Beggar, Religions Mendicant. From Fagura, To Be Poor). In General. A Religions Mendicant ; More Specifically, A Hindu Mars El-worker Or Priestly Juggler. Usually Peri Patetic And Indigent. The Fakir May Be Regarded As A Differentiated Shaman Or Sorcerer, Stand Ing Midway Between The Best And ...
Falashas
Falashas, Fa-15/shaz (ethiop., Wanderers). The Inhabitants Of The Abyssinian Kingdom Of Amhara. They Claiiin To Be Of Jewish Race And To Be Descended From Emigrants Of The Period Of Dis Order In Israel During And Following The Reign Of Jeroboam. Whether They Are True Jews, Or De Scendants Merely Of ...
Falcon Of
Falcon (of. Faucon, Falcon, It. Falcone, From Lat. Faleo, Falcon, From Fal.r, Sickle). Broadly, Any Hawk Of The Family Faleonithe, More Usually And Scientifically One Of Those Species Which, In The Language Of Falconry, Were Styled 'noble' Birds Of Prey. The True Falcons Are Char Acterized By A Bill Curved ...
Falconer
Falconer, Liven (1808-65). A Scottish Botanist And Paleontologist, Born At Forres (el Ginshire). Ile Graduated At The University At Aberdeen In 1826, Studied Medicine At The University Of Edinburgh In 1826-29, Was Ap Pointed Assistant Surgeon In The Service Of The East India Company In 1829, And In 1832 Became ...
Falconry
Falconry. The Art Of Training Falcons Born In A State Of Freedom So That When They Have Flown And Captured Their Quarry They Will, Instead Of Devouring It, Give It Up To Their Trainer. They Will Pursue And Capture On The Wing The Heron. Partridge, Lark, Rook, Magpie, Wild Duck, ...
Falkirk
Falkirk, A Parliamentary And Municipal Burgh And Market-town Of Stirling Shire, Scotland, About Three Miles Southwest Of Its Seaport. Grangemouth, On The Firth Of Forth, And 24 Miles Northwest Of Edinburgh (map: Scotland, E 4). Falkirk Consists Principally Of A Long, Irregular Street. There Is An Equestrian Statue To The ...
Falkland Islands
Falkland Islands. A Crown Colony Of Great Britain In The South Atlantic, Consisting Of The Two Large Islands Of East And West Falkland, A Large Number Of Small Islands, Mostly Uninhabited, And The Uninhabited Island Of South Georgia (slap: South America, E 8). The Falkland Archipelago Is Situated Between Latitudes ...
Fall River
Fall River. An Important Manufactur Ing City And Port Of Entry In Bristol County, Mass., Near The Boundary Of Rhode Island, At The Mouth Of The Taunton River, On The Eastern Shore Of Mount Hope Bay, And 50 Miles South By West Of Boston (map: Massachusetts, E 4). It Is ...
Fallacy
Fallacy (lat. Fallacia, Deception, From Fallax, Deceitful, From Fallere, To Deceive; Con Nected With Gk. Criginnew, Sphallein, To Overthrow, Skt. Phal, To Deceive. Lith. Pa/1i, Ohg. Fallen, Ger. Fallen, Icel. Fallay, As. Feallan, Eng. Fall). The Incorrect Performance Of The Process Of Rea Soning, So As To Lead To Error. ...
Fallopio
Fallopio, Fri1-wp4-5, Or Fallo'pius, Gabriel Le (c.1523-62) . An Italian Anatomist, Born At Or Near :modena. If The Date Of Birth Assigned Is Correct, He Was Only Twenty-five When He Was Promoted From The University Of Fer Rara To A Professorship At Pisa, Whence, After A Few Years, He Was ...
Fallow Deer
Fallow Deer (so Called From The Dun Yel Low Color). A Species Of Deer (dania Platyceros) Commonly Kept In Parks, In Most Parts Of Europe. It Is A Native Of The Countries Around The :medi Terranean, And Has Been Introduced By Man Into The Northern Parts Of Europe. Where It ...
Fallow As
Fallow (as. Feels, Yellow, ]eel. Folr, Ofig. Palo, Ger. Fall; Connected With Lat. Pallidus, Pale, Gk. Rom6s, Polios, Gray, Skt. Imilita, Gray). Waste, Unfilled Land; Also Land That Is Plowed, And Otherwise Stirred, For A Season Without Being Cropped. Most Of The Wheat Raised By The Ro Mans Was Sowed ...
False Imprisonment
False Imprisonment. The Wrongful Violation Of The Right Of Personal Liberty By De Tention Or Restraint Of A Person Without Author Ity Of Law. While', Ordinarily, It Takes The Form Of Confinement In A Prison, Jail, Or Police Station, Actual Incarceration Is Not Necessary To The Of Fense. Nor Is ...
False Pretenses
False Pretenses. In Law, Willful Mis Representations Of Fact, Whereby A Person Is In Duced To Part With Money Or Other Property To The Person Making The False Statements Or To Another. By The Common Law Of England, A Man Is Not Punishable As A Criminal Who Has Induced Another, ...
Familiarity
Familiarity (lat. /um Ilia Ritas, From Familia Ris, Familiar, From Familia, Family, From Famdas, Olat. Famtd, Servant). The Traditional View Of The Process Of Recognition (q.v.) Is Rather An Expression Of A Logical Postulate Than Of A Psychological Analysis Of The Data Furnished By Consciousness. It Has Been Assumed That ...
Family
Family (let. Familia, Family). The Ro Mans Used The Word To Denote Personal Property, And Further, To Denote The Descendants Of A Com Mon Progenitor. In Our Use The Word Has This Last Meaning, And Also The More Especial Reference To The Group, Father, Mother, And Children. The Prevailing Idea ...
Fan Tracery Vaulting
Fan-tracery Vaulting. A Kind Of Late Gothic Vaulting Peculiar To The Perdendicu Lar (q.v.) Style In England. It Is The Logical Out Come Of The English Feeling That The Ribs Of Gothic Vaulting Were Not Strictly Structural Ele Ments, As Is The Case In All Pure Gothic, Espe Cially In ...
Fan As
Fan (as. Faun, From Lat. Venous, Fan, Win Nowing Machine ; Connected' With Skt. Gk.dijvat Aenai, To Blow-, Goth. Winds, Otig. Zoint, Ger. Wind, As., Eng. Wind). An Instrument Or Me Chanical Contrivance For Moving The Air For The Sake Of Coolness, Or For Winnowing Chaff From Grain. In The ...
Fanariots
Fana'riots. To The Greeks Who Assisted Him In Obtaining An Entrance To Constantinople After His Ships Had Been Transported Overland To The Golden Horn, Mohammed 11. Granted The Fanar Quarter Of The City, On The Golden Ilorn Adjoining The Blacherne. The District Was So Called From The Lighthouse That Stood ...
Fanshawe
Fanshawe, Sir Richard (1608-66). An English Diplomat And Author, Born In Hertfo•d Shire. He Entered Jesus College, Cambridge. And In 1626 Began The Study Of Law In The Inner Temple. He Spent Several Years In Travel Upon The Continent, And In 1635 He Began His Diplo Matic Career, Accompanying Lord ...
Far Eastern Question
Far Eastern Question. The Name Commonly Given To The Complex Problem Of Mod Ern International Politics Growing Out Of The Acquisition Of Interests In Farther Asia And The Pacific By The Western Powers, With The Rivalries Consequent Thereon, And The Close Contact Of Oriental And Occidental Peoples. Ever Since The ...
Farce
Farce (fr. Farce, From Lat. Farsus, P.p. Of Farcire, To Stuff). A Dramatic Piece Of A Gro Tesquely Comic Character. The Difference Between It And Regular Comedy Is More In Degree Than In Kind. Both Aim To Excite Laughter, But While Legitimate Comedy Does So With A Comparatively Faithful Adherence ...
Farel
Farel, Fa'rep, Guillaume (1489-1565). A Friend Of Calvin And Active Promoter Of The Reformation In Switzerland. He Was Horn Of Noble Family At Fareanx, Near Gap, Dauphinh, In 1489. He Studied In Paris, Became Professor In The College Le Maine, And Was Distinguished For His Zeal For The Catholic Church. ...
Farid Ud Dinattar
Farid - Ud - Din Attar, Fared' Aid (117tn At-tar' (e.1119-1229). A Persian Poet And Mys Tic. Lie Was The Son Of A Druggist, Brought Up To His Father's Business, And His Real Name Was Muhammad Ibn Ibrahim, His Better-known Appellation, Farid-nd-din 'attar (`the Pearl Of The Faith, The Druggist'), ...
Farini
Farini, Lutot Carlo (1812-66). An Italian Statesman And Historian, Whose Name Stands Next To Those Of Garibaldi And Cavour In The Long Struggle For United Italy. He Was Born At Bussi, Near Ravenna, Graduated In Medicine At Bologna Twenty Years Later, And For A Time Prac Ticed Successfully As A ...
Farm Buildings
Farm Buildings. The Various Buildings Necessary For The Occupation And Operation Of A Farm Are Collectively Known In England As The Homestead, In Scotland As The Onstead Or Stead Mg, In America As The Homestead Or Farmstead. They Include The Farmhouse With Its Attendant Buildings Providing A Ecommoda T Ions ...
Farmer
Farmer, Moses Genntsn (1820-92). An American Inventor And Electrician. Lie Was Horn In Iloscawen (now Nvebster), N. Ii., And Was (shunted At Andover, N. Il His Early Inven Tions Included A New Kind Of Window-shade And Paper Curtain, And By Means Of Machinery He Was Able To Supply The Extraordinary ...
Farmers Alliance
Farmers' Alliance. A Political Party In The United States, Which Beeanie Of National Importance In 1890, Especially In The South And West. The Movement Originated In 1876 As A County Institution In Texas, Which Soon Grew Into A State Alliance. Its Object At First Was Similar To That Of Other ...
Farmers General
Farmers-general (fr. Fermiers-gene Raw"). The Name Given To The Members Of A Privileged Association In France, Who Farmed Or Leased The Public Revenue Of The Nation Under The Old Regime. This Peculiar System Of Tax-gather Ing Dated From The Early Fourteenth Century, When The Gabelle Or Salt Tax Was Farmed ...
Farmers Institute
Farmers' Institute. A Meeting Of Farmers For Mutual Improvement In Their Busi Ness Or Home Life. These Meetings Have Grown Out Of The Public Meetings Held At A Compara Tively Early Day In The United States Under The Auspices Of Local Or State Agricultural Societies. The Institutes Are Carried On ...
Farnese
Farnese, Far-ndi'sti. The Name Of An Illustri Ous Italian Family, First Mentioned In The Middle Of The Thirteenth Century, When It Possessed The Castle Of Farneto, Near Orvieto. In 1534 Car Dinal Alessandro Farnese Was Raised To The Papal Throne As Paul Ill. (q.v.), And As His Great Aim Was ...
Faroe
Faroe (fa'rei Or Fa'ro-c) Islands (dan. Fitroerne). A Group Of Islands, Twenty-one In Num Ber, Of Which Only Seventeen Are Inhabited, Belong Ing To Denmark, And Lying Nearly Midway Between The Shetlands And Zeeland, Extending From Lati Tude 61° 25' To 62° 25'n., And From Longitude 0° 20' To 7° ...
Farragut
Farragut, Ffir'ez-gfit, David Glasgow (1801-70). The Most Famous Of American Naval Officers. Lie Was Born At Campbell's Station, Near Knoxville, Tenn., On July 5, 1801, The Son Of George Farragut (1775-1817), A Native Of Minor Ca, Who Had Emigrated To The United States In 1776, And Had Taken An Active ...
Farren
Far'ren, Euzanetir ( E.1759-1829 ) . A Noted English Actress, Who Became In 1797 Countess Of Derby. She Was The Daughter Of An Itinerant Actor Named George Farren, And Appeared Upon The Stage When A Child. About 1774 She Obtained An Engagement Under Younger. At Liverpool, Where She First Played ...
Fashion
Fashion. The Style Of A Brief Epoch. The Term Is Ordinarily Applied To Matter Of Dress, And Will Be Thus Treated In This Article; But It Also Indicates An Ephemeral Taste For Any Object. The Distinction, Then, Between Costume And Fashion, Or Fashionable Dress, Depends On Per Manence Of Taste. ...
Fast As
Fast (as. Fmsten, Ieel. Pasta, Goth. Fastubni, 011g. Fast A, Ger. Fasten, Fast, From As. F(rgtan, Goth. Fasten, Ger. Fasten, To Fast ; Probably Eonneeted With As. Frost, Leel. Fastr, 011(;. Fasti, Feste. Ger. Fest, Fast, Firm). A Term Used To Express Either Total Abstinence From Meat And Drink, Or ...
Fasti
Fas'ti (lat. Nom. Pl., Lawful, From Fax, Di Vine Law. Se. Dies, Days). Among The Romans, The Days On Which It Was Lawful To Transact Busi Ness Before The Pnetor; While The Dies Nefasti Were Those On Which Courts Were Not In Session. The Dies Eamitiales, On Which The Assembly ...
Fatalism
Fatalism ( From Fatal, From Lat. Fatalls, Relating To Fate, From Falum, Fate, From Ma, L?k. 9civat, ',llama, To Speak. Skt. Bu D. To Shine). The Doctrine That The Course Of Events Is So Deter Mined That What An Individual Wills Can Have No Effect Upon That Course. Fatalism Must ...
Fatigue
Fatigue, Ffi-tg' (from Lat. Fatigare, To Fat Igue; Probably Connected With Of - Fat Mi, Enough). Fatigue Usually Follows Long-sustained Appliontion, Whether Of Mind Or Hotly. The Dis Tinction Is Often Drawn Between Physical Or Bod Ily Fatigue And Mental Fatigue. There Is, How Ever, A Common Element In The ...
Fats As
Fats (as. Feet, Icel. Feitr, Dutch Ret, Ohg. Feizit, Ger. Feist, Felt, Fat). An Important Class Of Substances Found In All Parts Of The Animal Organism, Although They Occur Mainly In Sub Cutaneous Tissue And On The Surface Of Muscles. They Are Largely Taken In Ready-formed In The Food. Unlike ...
Fault Of
Fault (of.. Fr. Faute, Sp., Port., It. Folio, Flaw, From Lat. Fallcre, To Deceive. Gk. Sphallein, To Slip, Skt. Pha I, To Deceive, Lith. Petit I, Ohg. Fallen, Ger. Fallen, Icel. Calla, As. Fea/htn, Eng. Fall), Or Dislocation. In Geology, A Dis Placement Of Rocks Along A Plane Of Fracture. ...
Fauna
Fauna. The Indigenous Animals Of A Desig Nated Place, Region, Or Space Of Time, Considered Collectively—the Correlative Of 'flora' (q.v.). The Space In View May He A Geographical Surface, As A Country, Or A Certain Neighborhood; Or It May Be A Certain Environment. Moreover, The Word Is Frequently Compounded. As ...
Faure
Faure, F4r. Francois Felix ( 1841-99). A French Statesman, President Of The French Re Public From 1893 To 1899. He Was Born In Paris, Learned The Trade Of A Tanner, And Removed Early In Life To Havre, Where He Entered The Employ Of A Large Leather Firm, Of Which He ...
Fauriel
Fauriel, F(yryel', Claude Charles (1772 1844). A French Philologist, Historian, And Critic, Born At Saint, Etienne. From 1830 Until His Death He Was Professor Of Foreign Literature In The Faculty Of Letters At Paris. In 1836 He Published His Chief Work. Histoire De La Gavle Meridionale Sous 111 Domination Des ...
Faustin I
Faustin I., Fivstan' ( 1735-1367 ) . An Em Peror Of Llaiti, Known Before His Elevation To The Throne As Faustin Soulongue. Ile Was A Negro, And Was Born In Very Humble Circum Stances At Petit Goave In Ilaiti. In His Youth He Acted As A Servant, And Later As ...
Fawkes
Fawkes, Faks, Guy, Or Gumo 11570-1606). An English Conspirator. The Son Of Edward Fawkes, A Protestant Ecclesiastical Proctor And Notary, He Was Born In York. Under A Step Father's Influence He Became A Roman Catholic, And After Coming Into Possession And Disposing Of His Father's Rroperty, He Enlisted As A ...
Faye
Faye, Fa, Herve Auguste Etienne Albans (1814—). A French Astronomer. He Was Horn At Saint-benott-du-sault (indre), And Was Edu Cated At The Ecole Polytechnique, Which He Left In 1834, Before Completing His Course, To Accept A Position In The Observatory At Paris To Which He Had Been Appointed On The ...
Fayetteville
Fayetteville. A City And County-seat Of Cumberland County, N. C., 60 Miles South By West Of Raleigh, On The Cape Fear River, At The Head Of Navigation, And On The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (slap: North Carolina, D 2). The State Colored Normal School And The Don Aldson-davidson Academy Are ...
Fazy
Fazy, Fti'zev. Jean .iirm:s (1796-1878). A Swiss Statesman And Author. Lie Was Horn In Geneva. And Was 14111c:fled In Paris, Where He Began The Study Of Political Economy. Upon The Spread Of The Ca•bonari (q.v.) To Enlace In 1820. He Became Affiliated With Them, And Was Active Among The Opponents ...
Fear As
Fear (as. Fcvr, Ger. Oefahr, Danger; Con Nected With Gi:. 71-eipa, Peira, Trial, Attack, Repar, Peran, To Cross, Skt. Par, To Cross). A Term Which Has Been Used In Two Senses In Psychology. (1) As One Of The Cardinal Emotions Of Time (see Emotion) , The Opposite Of Hope, Fear ...
Fearne
Fearne, Fern, Charles ( 1742-94 ) . An Eng Lish Legal Author, Born In London. Ile Was The Son Of Charles Fearne, Well Known As Judge-advocate Of The Admiralty. The Younger Fearne Was Edu Cated At Westminster School. And Made His Way To The Bar Through The Inner Temple. He ...
Feast Of Fools
Feast Of Fools. A Survival Into And Through The Middle Ages Of The Spirit Of The Roman Saturnalia (q.v.). The Details Of Its Observance Varied Much In Different Places, But It Was Everywhere Marked By The Same Broad, Boisterous Drollery. The Donkey Played So Frequent A Part In The Pageantry ...
Featiiers In Costume
Featiiers In Costume. Feathers Of Birds Have Always Formed A Part Of Decorative Dress Of Savages, And Of Those People Removed Above Savagery, But Still Of Low Civilization. The Most Showy, And Perhaps The Most Tasteful, Use Of Feathers Was Probably In Those 'feather Cloaks' Of Which We Read As ...
Fechner
Fechner, Fex'ner, Gustav Theodor (1801 87). A German Physicist And Philosopher, The Founder Of Modern Psyehology And Psychophysics. He Was Born In The Village Of Gross-sfirchen, Near Muskau, In Lower Lusatia. After Completing His School Education At. The Kreuzschule, In Dresden, Fechner In 1817 Entered The University Of Leip Zig ...
Fechter
Fechter, Diet Chart.es Albert (1821• 79). A Noted Actor. Ile Was Born Probably In Bilidon (tinnigh Accounts From Another Source Say Paris). His Father Being Of Hermon And His Mother Of Italian Descent. Ile Was Educated In France, And In 1810 Appeared In Private Theatri Cabs; In Is41 He Went ...
Federal Government
Federal Government ( Lat. F U'dcra I Us, Bound By Treaty', Trout Firdu.s, A Treaty). When Two Or More States, Otherwise Indepdol Ent, Bind Themselves Together By A Treaty Or An Organic Act So As To Present To The External World The Aspect Of A Single State, Without, Wholly Re ...
Federal Theology
Federal Theology. The Designation Of A Type Of Dutch Calvinism Which Developed In The Latter Part Of The Seventeenth Century. Its Chief Exponents Were Johann Kochi (died 1069). Franz Burmann (died 1679), Hermann Wits (died 1708), And Perhaps One Should Add Vitrin Ga (died 1722). The Theological System Taught By ...
Federalists
Federalists. In American History, The Name Given To Those Who In 1787 And 1788 Advo Cated The Adoption Of The New Constitution Of The United States, And Who Later Contended, For The Most Part, For A Liberal Construction Of The Constitution And The Establishment Of A Strong National Government. In ...
Fee Simple
Fee Simple (lat. Fcodum Simplex). A Fee, Or Estate Of Inheritance, Which Has The Qual Ities Of General Heritability And Unlimited Alien Ability. It Is Distinguished From The Fee Tail. See Fee Tail. A Fee Simple May Be Absolute, In Which Case It Is Unhampered By Any Condition Or Limitation ...