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The Nuttall Encyclopaedia Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the The Nuttall Encyclopaedia novel. A total of 464 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.by P. Austin Nuttall.PREFACE "The NUTTALL ENCYCLOPaeDIA&q
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.by P. Austin Nuttall.PREFACE "The NUTTALL ENCYCLOPaeDIA" is the fruit of a project to provide, in a concise and condensed form, and at a cheap rate, an epitome of the kind of information given in the larger Encyclopaedi
- 101 CALLIS'TRATUS, an Athenian orator, who kindled in Demosthenes a pa.s.sion for his art; his Spartan sympathies brought him to grief, and led to his execution as a traitor.CALLOT, JACQUES, engraver and etcher, born at Nancy; his etchings, executed many
- 102 Catherine's, 1473; Jesus, 1496; Christ's, 1505; St John's, 1511; Magdalene, 1519; Trinity, 1546; Emmanuel, 1584; Sidney Suss.e.x, 1598; and Downing, 1800. Each college is a corporation by itself, governed by statutes sanctioned by the crown
- 103 CAMPBELL, SIR COLIN, LORD CLYDE, born in Glasgow, son of a carpenter named Macliver; entered the army, and rose rapidly; served in China and the Punjab; commanded the Highland Brigade in the Crimea; won the day at Alma and Balaclava; commanded in India du
- 104 CANDLISH, ROBERT SMITH, a Scottish ecclesiastic, born in Edinburgh; distinguished, next to Chalmers, for his services in organising the Free Church of Scotland; was an able debater and an eloquent preacher (1806-1873).CANDOLLE. See DE CANDOLLE.CANDOUR, MR
- 105 CAPE COLONY (1,527), comprises the extremity of the African continent south of the Orange River and Natal, and is nearly twice the size of the United Kingdom; the Nieuwveld Berge, running E. and W., divides the country into two slopes, the northern slope
- 106 CARAGLIO, an eminent Italian engraver, born at Verona, engraved on gems and medals as well as copper-plate, after the works of the great masters (1500-1570).CARAVAGGIO, an Italian painter, disdained the ideal and the ideal style of art, and kept generally
- 107 CARLOS, DON, son of Philip II. of Spain, born at Valladolid, and heir to the throne, but from incapacity, or worse, excluded by his father from all share in the government; confessed to a priest a design to a.s.sa.s.sinate some one, believed to be his fat
- 108 CAROLINA, NORTH, one of the original 13 States of N. America, on the Atlantic, about the size of England, S. of Virginia, 480 m. from E. to W.and 180 m. from N. to S.; has a fertile, well-watered subsoil in the high lands; is rich in minerals and natural
- 109 CARTERET, JOHN, EARL GRANVILLE, eminent British statesman, orator, and diplomatist, entered Parliament in the Whig interest; his first speech was in favour of the Protestant succession; after service as diplomatist abroad, was made Lord-Lieutenant of Irel
- 110 Ca.s.sAGNAC, PAUL, son of preceding; editor of _Le Pays_ and the journal _L'Autorite_; an obstinate Imperialist; _b_. 1843.Ca.s.sANDER, king of Macedonia, pa.s.sed over in the succession by his father Antipater; allied himself with the Greek cities;
- 111 CASTLEWOOD, the heroine in Thackeray's "Esmond."CASTOR AND POLLUX, the Dioscuri, the twin sons of Zeus by Leda; great, the former in horsemans.h.i.+p, and the latter in boxing; famed for their mutual affection, so that when the former was s
- 112 CATHCART, EARL, a British general and diplomatist, born in Renfrews.h.i.+re; saw service in America and Flanders; distinguished himself at the bombardment of Copenhagen; represented England at the court of Russia and the Congress of Vienna (1755-1843).CAT
- 113 CAUSALITY, the philosophic name for the nature of the relation between cause and effect, in regard to which there has been much diversity of opinion among philosophers.CAUTERETS, a fas.h.i.+onable watering-place in the dep. of the Hautes-Pyrenees, 3250 ft
- 114 CE'BES, a Greek philosopher, disciple and friend of Socrates, reputed author of the "Pinax" or Tablet, a once popular book on the secret of life, being an allegorical representation of the temptations that beset it.CECIL, ROBERT, EARL OF SA
- 115 CERRO DE PASCO, a town in Peru, 14,200 ft. above the sea-level, with the richest silver mine in S. America.CERUTTI, a Jesuit, born at Turin; became a Revolutionary in France; p.r.o.nounced the funeral oration at the grave of Mirabeau in 1789.CERVANTES-SAA
- 116 CHALMERS, THOMAS, a celebrated Scotch ecclesiastic and pulpit orator, born at Anstruther, Fife; studied for the Church, and entered the ministry; after he did so was for some years more engrossed with physical studies and material interests than spiritual
- 117 (1738-1810).CHANDOS, an English t.i.tle inherited by the Grenville family, of Norman origin.CHANDOS, JOHN, a celebrated English general in the 14th century; was present at Crecy, governor of English provinces in France ceded by treaty of Bretigny; defeate
- 118 CHARLES XII., king of Sweden, son of Charles XI., a warlike prince; ascended the throne at the age of 15; had to cope with Denmark, Russia, and Poland combined against him; foiled the Danes at Copenhagen, the Russians at Narva, and Augustus II. of Poland
- 119 CHASLES, MICHEL, an eminent French mathematician, and held one of the first in the century; on the faith of certain autographs, which were afterwards proved to be forgeries, he in 1867 astonished the world by ascribing to Pascal the great discoveries of N
- 120 CHEMULPO, a town on the W. coast of Corea; a thriving town since it became a treaty-port in 1883.CHENAB', an affluent on the left bank of the Indus, and one of the five rivers, and the largest, which give name to the Punjab; is 750 m.long.CHENERY, TH
- 121 CHESTERFIELD, PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, EARL OF, statesman, orator, and man of letters, eldest son of the third earl, born in London; sat in the House of Commons from 1716 to 1726; was an opponent of Walpole; held office under the Pelhams; in 1748 retired f
- 122 CHIe'TI (22), a city in Central Italy, 78 m. NE. of Rome, with a fine Gothic cathedral.CHIGI, a distinguished Italian family, eminent in the Church.CHIGOE, an insect which infests the skin of the feet, multiplies incredibly, and is a great annoyance
- 123 CHINESE GORDON, General Gordon, killed at Khartoum; so called for having, in 1851, suppressed a rebellion in China which had lasted 15 years.CHINOOK, a tribe of Indians in Was.h.i.+ngton Territory, noted for flattening their skulls.CHINSURA, a Dutch-built
- 124 CHOLULA, an ancient city, 60 m. SE. of Mexico; the largest city of the Aztecs, with a pyramidal temple, now a Catholic church.CHOPIN, a musical composer, born near Warsaw, of Polish origin; his genius for music early developed itself; distinguished himsel
- 125 CHRONICLERS, THE RHYMING, a series of writers who flourished in England in the 13th century, and related histories of the country in rhyme, in which the fabulous occupies a conspicuous place, among which Layamon's "Brut" (1205) takes the le
- 126 CIMON, an Athenian general, son of Miltiades; distinguished himself in the struggle of Athens against Persia in 466 B.C.; gained two victories over the Persians in one day, one by land and another by sea, was banished by the democratic party, and after fo
- 127 CITY OF CHURCHES, Brooklyn, now incorporated with New York.CITY OF DESTRUCTION, Bunyan's name for the world as under divine judgment.CITY OF G.o.d, Augustine's name for the Church as distinct from the cities of the world, and the t.i.tle of a bo
- 128 CLARENDON, EDWARD HYDE, Earl of, sat in the Short Parliament and the Long on the popular side, but during the Civil War became a devoted Royalist; was from 1641 one of the chief advisers of the king; on the failure of the royal cause, took refuge first in
- 129 CLEAR THE CAUSEWAY RIOTS, bickerings in the streets of Edinburgh in 1515 between the rival factions of Angus and Arran, to the utter rout of the former, or the Douglas party.CLEANTHES, a Stoic philosopher, born at a.s.sos, in Troas, of the 3rd century B.C
- 130 CLERMONT, ROBERT, COMTE DE, sixth son of St. Louis, head of the house of Bourbon.CLERMONT FERRAND (45), the ancient capital of Auvergne and chief town of the dep. Puy-de-Dome; the birthplace of Pascal, Gregory of Tours, and Dessaix, and where, in 1095, Po
- 131 CLOUD, ST., or CLODOALD, third son of Clodomir, who escaped the fate of his brothers, and retired from the world to a spot on the left bank of the Seine, 6 m. SW. of Paris, named St. Cloud after him.CLOUDS, THE, the play in which Aristophanes exposes Socr
- 132 c.o.c.kBURN, SIR ALEXANDER, Lord Chief-Justice of England from 1859; called to the bar in 1829; became Liberal member for Southampton in 1847, and Solicitor-General in 1850; was prosecutor in the Palmer case, judge in the Tichborne, and an arbitrator in t
- 133 COLCHESTER (35), the largest town in Ess.e.x, 51 m. from London, on the right bank of the Colne, of great antiquity, and with Roman remains; has been long famous for its oyster fishery; has silk manufactures; is the port of outlet of a large corn-growing
- 134 COLLINS, WILLIAM, a gifted and ill-fated English poet, born at Chichester; settled in London; fell into dissipated habits and straitened circ.u.mstances; had 2000 left him by an uncle, but both health and spirits were broken, and he died in mental imbecil
- 135 of the State. The climate resembles that of northern England, but is in some parts very rainy. The chief industries are lumbering--the forests are among the finest in the world, fis.h.i.+ng--the rivers abound in salmon and sturgeon, and mining--rich depos
- 136 COMPIeGNE (14), a quiet old town in the dep. of Oise, 50 m. NE. of Paris; has some fine old churches, but the chief edifice is the palace, built by St. Louis and rebuilt by Louis XIV., where the marriage of Napoleon to Maria Louisa was celebrated; here Jo
- 137 through Lake Bangueola, then N. to the equator; curving in a great semicircle it continues SW., pa.s.ses in a series of rapids through the coast range, and enters the S. Atlantic by an estuary 6 m. broad. It brings down more water than the other African r
- 138 CONSERVATISM, indisposition to change established laws and customs that have wrought beneficially in the past and contributed to the welfare of the country; in practical politics often a very different thing, and regarded by Carlyle in his time "a po
- 139 CONVERSION, "the grand epoch for a man," says Carlyle, "properly the one epoch; the turning-point, which guides upwards, or guides downwards, him and his activities for evermore."CONVOCATION, an a.s.semblage of the English clergy, with
- 140 COPENHAGEN (380), the capital of Denmark, and the only large town in it; lies low, and is built partly on the island of Seeland and partly on the island of Amager, the channel between which forms a commodious harbour; is a thriving place of manufacture an
- 141 CORELLI, MARIE, a novelist, a prolific auth.o.r.ess, and very popular; her first work "The Romance of Two Worlds," one of her latest "The Sorrows of Satan"; _b_. 1864.CORFE CASTLE, a village in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorsets.h.i.+re, rou
- 142 CORRIB, LOUGH, an irregularly shaped lake in Galway and Mayo, 25 m.long and from 1 to 6 m. broad, with stone circles near it.CORRIENTES (300), a province of the Argentine Republic, between the Parana and the Uruguay; also its capital (18), surrounded by o
- 143 COTES, ROGER, an English mathematician of such promise, that Newton said of him, "If he had lived, we should have known something"(1682-1716).CoTES DU NORD (618), a dep. forming part of Brittany; the chief manufacture is linen.COTIN, THE ABBe, a
- 144 COUTTS, THOMAS, a banker, born in Edinburgh, his father having been Lord Provost of that city; joint-founder and eventually sole manager of the London banking house, Coutts & Co.; left a fortune of 900,000 (1735-1822).COUVADE, a custom among certain races
- 145 CRAIL, a little old-fas.h.i.+oned town near the East Neuk of Fife, where James Sharp was minister; a decayed fis.h.i.+ng-place, now a summer resort.CRAMER, JOHANN BAPTIST, a distinguished German composer and pianist (1771-1858).CRANACH, LUCAS, a celebrate
- 146 CRESCENTINI, a celebrated Italian soprano (1769-1846).CRESCENTIUS, a patrician of Rome who, in the 10th century, sought to destroy the imperial power and restore the republic; on this he was defeated by Otho III., to whom he surrendered on promise of safe
- 147 CROMWELL, RICHARD, son of the Protector; appointed to succeed him; was unequal to the task, and compelled to abdicate, April 26, 1659; retired into private life; went after the Restoration for a time abroad; returned under a feigned name, and lived and di
- 148 CULLODEN, a moor, 5 m. NE. of Inverness, where the Duke of c.u.mberland defeated Prince Charles in 1746, and finally wrecked the Stuart cause in the country.CULPEPER, NICHOLAS, a herbalist, born in London, who practised medicine and a.s.sociated therewith
- 149 CURTIUS, GEORG, German philologist, born at Lubeck, brother of the preceding; held professorial appointments in Prague, Kiel, and Berlin; one of the best Greek scholars in Germany, and contributed largely to the etymology and grammar of the Greek language
- 150 CYRIL OF JERUSALEM, ST., patriarch of Jerusalem, elected 351, and a Father of the Greek Church; in the Arian controversy then raging was a Semi-Arian, and was persecuted by the strict Arians; joined the Nicene party at the Council of Constantinople in 381
- 151 DALAI-LAMA, chief priest of Lamaism, reverenced as a living incarnation of deity, always present on earth in him. See LAMAISM.DALAYRAC, celebrated French composer; author of a number of comic operas (1753-1809).DALBERG, BARON DE, an eminent member of a n.
- 152 DANAe, daughter of Acrisius, king of Argos, confined by her father in an inaccessible tower of bra.s.s to prevent the fulfilment of an oracle that she should be the mother of a son who would kill him, but Zeus found access to her in the form of a shower o
- 153 DAPHNIS, a Sicilian shepherd, the mythical inventor of pastoral poetry.DAPSANG, the highest of the Karakorum Mountains.D'ARBLAY, MADAME, a distinguished novelist, daughter of Dr. Burney, the historian of music; auth.o.r.ess of "Evelina" and
- 154 DASH, COUNTESS, the _nom de plume_ of the Viscountess de Saint-Mars, a French novelist, born at Poitiers; in straits for a living, took desperately to writing; treated of aristocratic life and its hollow artificialities and immoralities (1804-1872).DASHKO
- 155 DAVIS, JEFFERSON, President of the Confederate States, born in Kentucky; entered the army; fought against the Indians; turned cotton-planter; entered Congress as a Democrat; distinguished himself in the Mexican war; defended slave-holding and the interest
- 156 DECA'TUR, STEPHEN, an American naval commodore; distinguished for his feats of valour displayed in the war with Tripoli and with England (1779-1820).DECCAN, a triangular plateau of from 2000 to 3000 ft. of elevation in the Indian peninsula, extending
- 157 DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS, mountains covered with sheep in the "Pilgrim's Progress," from which the pilgrim obtains a view of the Celestial City.DELESCLUZE, a French Communist, born at Dreux; was imprisoned and transported for his extreme opinio
- 158 DEMETRIUS PHALEREUS, an eminent Athenian orator, statesman, and historian, born at Phalerus, a seaport of Athens; was held in high honour in Athens for a time as its political head, but fell into dishonour, after which he lived retired and gave himself up
- 159 DENNIS, JOHN, a would-be dramatist and critic, born in London, in constant broils with the wits of his time; his productions were worth little, and he is chiefly remembered for his attacks on Addison and Pope, and for the ridicule these attacks brought do
- 160 DESMOND, EARLDOM OF, an Irish t.i.tle long extinct by the death of the last earl in 1583; he had rebelled against Elizabeth's government, been proclaimed, and had taken refuge in a peasant's cabin, and been betrayed.DES MOINES (62), the largest
- 161 DE WITT, JAN, a Dutch statesman, born at Dort; elected grand pensionary in 1652; like his father, Jacob de Witt, before him, was a declared enemy of the House of Orange, and opposed the Stadtholders.h.i.+p, and for a time he carried the country along with
- 162 DIBDIN, CHARLES, musician, dramatist, and song-writer, born in Southampton; began life as an actor; invented a dramatic entertainment consisting of music, songs, and recitations, in which he was the sole performer, and of which he was for the most part th
- 163 DIKe (i. e. Justice), a Greek G.o.ddess, the daughter of Zeus and Themis; the guardian of justice and judgment, the foe of deceit and violence, and the accuser before Zeus of the unjust judge.DIKTYS, the fisherman of Seriphus; saved Perseus and his mother
- 164 DION OF SYRACUSE, a pupil of Plato, and an austere man; was from his austerity obnoxious to his pleasure-loving nephew, Dionysius the Younger; subjected to banishment; went to Athens; learned his estates had been confiscated, and his wife given to another
- 165 DIVAN, THE, a collection of poems by Hafiz, containing nearly 600 odes; also a collection of lyrics in imitation of Goethe, ent.i.tled "Westostlicher Divan."DIVES, the name given, originally in the Vulgate, to the rich man in the parable of the
- 166 DOCTRINAIRES, mere theorisers, particularly on social and political questions; applied originally to a political party that arose in France in 1815, headed by Roger-Collard and represented by Guizot, which stood up for a const.i.tutional government that s
- 167 DOMAT, JEAN, a learned French jurist and friend of Pascal, regarded laws and customs as the reflex of political history (1625-1696).DOMBASLE, an eminent French agriculturist, born at Nancy (1771-1818).DOM-BOKE (i. e. Doom-book), a code of laws compiled by
- 168 DONON, the highest peak of the Vosges Mountains.DOO, GEORGE THOMAS, a celebrated English line-engraver, and one of the best in his day (1800-1886).DOON, a river rendered cla.s.sic by the muse of Burns, which after a course of 30 m. joins the Clyde 2 m. S.
- 169 DOUBTING CASTLE, a castle belonging to Giant Despair in the "Pilgrim's Progress," which only one key could open, the key Promise.DOUCE, FRANCIS, a learned antiquary, born in London; for a time keeper of MSS. in the British Museum; author of
- 170 DRAKE, SIR FRANCIS, a great English seaman of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, born near Tavistock, in Devon; served in the Royal Navy under his relative, Sir John Hawkins, and distinguished himself with signal success by his valour and daring against the pr
- 171 DRUMMOND, WILLIAM, of Hawthornden, a Scottish poet, named the "Petrarch of Scotland," born in Hawthornden; studied civil law at Bourges, but poetry had more attractions for him than law, and on the death of his father he returned to his paternal
- 172 DUCORNET, a French historical-painter, born at Lille; being born without arms, painted with his foot (1805-1856).DUCOS, ROGER, French politician, born at Bordeaux, member of the National Convention and of the Directory (1754-1816).DUCROT, a French general
- 173 DUMB OX, THOMAS AQUINAS (q. v.), so called from his taciturnity before he opened his mouth and began, as predicted, to fill the world with his lowing.DUMBARTON (17), the county town of Dumbartons.h.i.+re, and a royal burgh, at the mouth of the Leven, on t
- 174 DUNKERS, a sect of Quakerist Baptists in the United States.DUNKIRK (40), the most northern seaport and fortified town of France, on the Strait of Dover; has manufactures and considerable trade.DUNNET HEAD, a rocky peninsula, the most northerly point in Sc
- 175 DURWARD, QUENTIN, a Scottish archer in the service of Louis XI., the hero of a novel of Scott's of the name.DuSSELDORF (176), a well-built town of Rhenish Prussia, on the right bank of the Rhine; it is a place of manufactures, and has a fine picture-
- 176 EARTH HOUSES, known also as Yird Houses, Weems and Picts' Houses, underground dwellings in use in Scotland, extant even after the Roman evacuation of Britain. Entrance was effected by a pa.s.sage not much wider than a fox burrow, which sloped downwar
- 177 ECKERMANN, JOHANN PETER, a German writer, born at Winsen, in Hanover; friend of Goethe, and editor of his works; the author of "Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of his Life, 1823-32," a record of wise reflections and of Goethe's
- 178 EDMUND, ST., Edmund Rich, archbishop of Canterbury, born at Abingdon; while still at school made a vow of celibacy and wedded the Virgin Mary; sided as archbishop with the popular party against the tyranny of both Pope and king; coming into disfavour with
- 179 EGERTON, FRANCIS. See BRIDGEWATER, EARL OF.EGGER, eMILE, a French h.e.l.lenist and philologist (1813-1885).EGHAM (10), a small town in Surrey, on the Thames, 20 m. W. of London; has in its vicinity Runnymede, where King John signed _Magna Charta_ in 1215.
- 180 EKATERINBURG (37), a Russian town on the Isset, on the E. side of the Ural Mountains, of the mining industry in which it is the chief centre; has various manufactures, and a trade in the cutting and sorting of precious stones.EKRON, a town in N. Palestine
- 181 ELGIN (8), the county town of above, on the Lossie; created a royal burgh by David I.; has ruins of a fine Gothic cathedral and royal castle.ELGIN (17), a city in Illinois, on the Fox, 35 m. NW. of Chicago; watchmaking the chief industry.ELGIN, JAMES BRUC
- 182 ELLORA, an Indian village in Hyderabad, 12 m. NW. of Aurungabad, famed for its Buddhist and Hindu cave and monolithic temples, the most magnificent of which is hewn out of a solid hill of red stone, the most beautiful being the Hindu temple of Kailas.ELLW
- 183 EMERSON, RALPH WALDO, an American philosophic thinker and poet, of English Puritan descent, born at Boston, where he started in life as a Unitarian preacher and pastor, an office he resigned in 1832 for literature, in which he found he would have freer an
- 184 ENERGY, CONSERVATION OF, the doctrine that, however it may change in form and character, or be dissipated, no smallest quant.i.ty of force in the universe is ever lost.ENFANTIN, BARTHeLEMY PROSPER, a Socialist and journalist, born in Paris, adopted the vi
- 185 EPHIALTES, a Malian Greek who led the Persians across a pa.s.s in the mountains, whereby they were able to surround and overcome Leonidas and his Spartans at Thermopylae.EPHOD, a richly and emblematically embroidered vestment worn by the high-priest of th
- 186 EPSOM, a market-town in Surrey, skirting Banstead Downs, 15 m. SW.of London; formerly noted for its mineral springs, now a.s.sociated with the famous Derby races.EQUINOCTIAL POINTS are the two points at which the celestial equator intersects the ECLIPTIC
- 187 ERNST I., Duke of Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg; served in the Thirty Years' War under Gustavus Adolphus, and shared in the victory of Lutzen; was an able and wise ruler, and gained for himself the surname of "the Pious" (1601-1675).EROS (in Lat
- 188 ESKIMO DOG, a dog found among the Eskimo, about the size of a pointer, hair thick, and of a dark grey or black and white; half tamed, but strong and sagacious; invaluable for sledging.ESMOND, HENRY, the t.i.tle of one of Thackeray's novels, deemed by
- 189 ETERNAL CITY, ancient Rome in the esteem of its inhabitants, in accordance with the promise, as Virgil feigns, of Jupiter to Venus, the G.o.ddess-mother of the race.ETERNITIES, THE CONFLUX OF, Carlyle's expressive phrase for Time, as in every moment
- 190 EUGUBINE TABLES, seven bronze tablets discovered in 1441 near Eugubium, in Italy, containing inscriptions which supply a key to the original tongues of Italy prior to Latin.EUHEMERISM, the theory that the G.o.ds of antiquity are merely deified men, so cal
- 191 EVANDER, an Arcadian, who is said to have come from Greece with a colony to Latium and settled in it 60 years before the Trojan war, and with whom aeneas formed an alliance when he landed in Italy; he is credited with having introduced the civilising arts
- 192 EXOGENS, the name for the order of plants whose stem is formed by successive accretions to the outside of the wood under the bark.EXORCISM, conjuration by G.o.d or Christ or some holy name, of some evil spirit to come out of a person; it was performed on
- 193 FAED, THOMAS, brother of the preceding, born at Barley Mill; distinguished himself in his art studies at Edinburgh; went to London, where his pictures of Scottish life won him a foremost place among those of his contemporaries; was elected R.A. in 1864 an
- 194 FALL, THE, the first transgression of divine law on the part of man, conceived of as involving the whole human race in the guilt of it, and represented as consisting in the wilful partaking of the fruit of the forbidden tree of the _knowledge_ of both goo
- 195 FARR, WILLIAM, statistician, born at Kenley, Shrops.h.i.+re; studied medicine, and practised in London; obtained a post in the Registrar-General's office, and rose to be head of the statistical department; issued various statistical compilations of g
- 196 FAUSTINA, ANNIA GALERI, called Faustina, Senior, wife of Antoninus Pius, died three years after her husband became emperor (105-141).FAUSTINA, ANNIA, JUNIOR, wife of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, daughter of the preceding. Both she and her mother are repre
- 197 FELTON, CORNELIUS CONWAY, American scholar, born at West Newbury, Ma.s.sachusetts; graduated at Harvard in 1827, and became professor of Greek there, rising to the Presidency of the same college in 1860; edited Greek cla.s.sics, and made translations from
- 198 FERRARA, a broadsword bearing the name of Andrea Ferrara, one of an Italian family famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the quality of their swords.FERRARA (31), a fortified and walled Italian city, capital of the province of the name, situated on a
- 199 FIESCHI, COUNT, a Genoese of ill.u.s.trious family who conspired against Andrea Doria, but whose plot was frustrated on the eve of its fulfilment by his falling into the sea and being drowned as he stept full-armed from one of his s.h.i.+ps into another (
- 200 FISCHER, ERNST KUNO BERTHOLD, a German historian of philosophy, born at Sandewalde, Silesia; as a student of Erdmann at Halle he was smitten with the love of philosophy, and gave his life to the study of it; after graduating he went to Heidelberg and ther