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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
- 201 FLEMING, PAUL, a celebrated German poet, born at Hartenstein, Vogtland; received a medical training at Leipzig, and was engaged in emba.s.sies in Russia and Persia; settled in Hamburg in 1639, but died the following year; as a lyrist he stood in the front
- 202 FOLKESTONE (24), a seaport and watering-place on the coast of Kent, 7 m. SW. of Dover; has a fine harbour and esplanade; is much engaged in the herring and mackerel fisheries, and is steam-packet station for Boulogne; a fine railway viaduct spans the vall
- 203 FORSTER, JOHN, a noted English writer, born at Newcastle; was educated for the bar, but took to journalism, and soon made his mark as a political writer in the _Examiner_; he subsequently edited the _Foreign Quarterly Review_, the _Daily News_ (succeeding
- 204 FOYERS, FALL OF, a fine cascade, having a fall of 165 ft., on the lower portion of the Foyers, a river of Inverness-s.h.i.+re, which enters Loch Ness on the E. side, 10 in. NE. of Fort Augustus.FRA DIAVOLO, chief of a band of Italian brigands, born in Cal
- 205 FRATICELLI (i. e. Little Brethren), a religious sect which arose in Italy in the 13th century, and continued to exist until the close of the 15th. They were an offshoot from the FRANCISCANS (q. v.), who sought in their lives to enforce more rigidly the la
- 206 FRENCH PHILOSOPHISM, an a.n.a.lysis of things conducted on the presumption that scientific knowledge is the key to unlock the mystery and resolve the riddle of the universe.FRENCH REVOLUTION, according to Carlyle "the open violent revolt, and victory
- 207 FRONDE, a name given to a revolt in France opposed to the Court of Anne of Austria and Mazarin during the minority of Louis XIV. The war which arose, and which was due to the despotism of Mazarin, pa.s.sed through two phases: it was first a war on the par
- 208 GABERLUNZIE, a licensed beggar, or any of the mendicant cla.s.s, so called from the wallet he carried.GABINUS, a Roman tribune in 66 B.C., afterwards consul; party to the banishment of Cicero, 57 B.C.GABOON and FRENCH CONGO (5,000), a French Colony in W.
- 209 GALGACUS, a Caledonian chief defeated by Agricola at the battle of the Grampians in 85, after a desperate resistance.GALIA'NI, FERDINANDO, an Italian political economist, man of letters, and a wit; held with honour several important offices under the
- 210 GAMBIA, 1, a river of W. Africa, that flows through Senegambia and discharges itself into the Atlantic at Bathurst after a course of more than 1400 m. into a splendid estuary which, in some parts, has a breadth of 27 m. but contracts to 2 m. at the seawar
- 211 GARNETT, RICHARD, an acute critic, born in Lichfield, son of preceding; long a.s.sociated with the book department of the British Museum; an admirer of Sh.e.l.ley, and biographer of Carlyle and Emerson; _b_. 1835.GARONNE, an important river of SW. France,
- 212 GAYA (80), chief town of a district of the same name in Bengal, on the Phalgu, 57 m. S. of Patna; it is a great centre of pilgrimage for Hindus, and has a.s.sociations with Buddha; 100,000 pilgrims visit it annually.GAY-LUSSAC, LOUIS JOSEPH, French chemis
- 213 GENGHIS KHAN (i. e. Very Mighty Ruler), a celebrated Mongol conqueror, born near Lake Baikal, the son of a Mongol chief; his career as a soldier began at the age of 13, an age at which he boldly a.s.sumed the reins of government in succession to his fathe
- 214 GERIZZIM, a mountain of 2848 ft. in height in the S. of the valley of Shechem, opposite EBAL (q. v.), and from the slopes of which the blessings were responded to by half the tribes of Israel on their arrival in Canaan (Josh. viii. 30-35); the Samaritans
- 215 GHIRLANDAJO (i. e. Garland-maker), nickname of Domenico Curradi, an Italian painter, born at Florence; acquired celebrity first as a designer in gold; he at 24 turned to painting, and devoted himself to fresco and mosaic work, in which he won wide-spread
- 216 GILPIN, WILLIAM, OF BOLDRE, an English author, who by his series of "Picturesque Tours" exercised an influence on English literature similar to that of White's "Selborne," at the same time (1724-1804).GILRAY, JAMES, English carica
- 217 GLENROY, a narrow glen 14 m. long, in Inverness-s.h.i.+re, in the Lochaber district; Fort William lies 13 m. NE. of its SW. extremity; the Roy flows through the valley; the steep sides are remarkable for three regular and distinctly-formed shelves or terr
- 218 GOLDEN LEGEND, a collection of lives of saints and other tales, such as that of the "Seven Sleepers" and "St. George and the Dragon," made in the 13th century by Jacques de Voragine, a Dominican monk, to the glory especially of his bro
- 219 GORGIAS, a celebrated Greek sophist, born at Syracuse, in Sicily; settled in Athens, a swashbuckler of a man, who attached himself to the ELEATICS (q. v.), and especially Zeno, in order that by their dialectic "he might demonstrate that nothing exist
- 220 GOW, NEIL, a famous Scotch fiddler, born at Inver, near Dunkeld, of lowly origin; during his long life he enjoyed a wide popularity amongst the Scotch n.o.bility, his especial patron being the Duke of Atholl; Raeburn painted his portrait on several occasi
- 221 GRAND MONARQUE, THE, LOUIS XIV. (q. v.) of France, so called.GRAND PENSIONARY, a state official in the Dutch Republic; in earlier times the Grand Pensionary was Secretary and also Advocate-General of the province of Holland; later his duties embraced the
- 222 along the western base of the Wahsatch Mountains, about 4200 ft. above the sea-level; it is from 20 to 32 m. broad, and very shallow; Antelope Island, 18 m. long, is the largest island; the coast is rugged and desolate; its clear waters hold no fish, and
- 223 GREGORY OF NYSSA, ST., one of the Fathers of the Greek Church, brother of St. Basil, and bishop of Nyssa, in Cappadocia; he was distinguished for his zeal against the Arians, and was banished from his diocese at the instance of the Emperor Valens, who bel
- 224 GRIFFIN or GRIFFON, a chimerical fabulous animal with the body and legs of a lion in symbol of strength, with the wings and beak of an eagle in symbol of swiftness, with the ears of a horse in symbol of watchfulness, and instead of a mane the fin of a fis
- 225 GROVE, SIR GEORGE, born at Clapham; trained as a civil engineer, and a.s.sisted Robert Stephenson in constructing the Britannia tubular bridge; in 1849 he became secretary to the Society of Arts, a position he held till 1852, when he became secretary and
- 226 GUIGNES, JOSEPH DE, an eminent French Orientalist, and Sinologist especially; was author of "Histoire Generale des Huns, des Turcs, des Moguls, &c.," a work of vast research (1721-1800).GUILDFORD (14), capital of Surrey, on the Wey, 30 m. SW. of
- 227 GUSTAVUS IV., king of Sweden from 1792 to 1809, son of preceding; his incompetency and stubbornness made him an ill ruler; territory was lost to the French, and Finland to Russia, while an attack on Norway proved a failure; popular indignation rose to a h
- 228 HADLEIGH (3), an interesting old market-town of Suffolk, on the Bret, 9 m. W. of Ipswich; its cloth trade dates back to 1331; Guthrum, the Danish king, died here in 889, and Dr. Rowland Taylor suffered martyrdom in 1555. Also a small parish of Ess.e.x, ne
- 229 HALBERSTADT (37), an interesting old town in Prussian Saxony, 30 m.SW. of Magdeburg; the 13th-century cathedral is a fine specimen of Pointed Gothic, and the Church of Our Lady, a 12th-century structure, is in the Byzantine style; its industries embrace g
- 230 HALLOWE'EN, the eve of All Saints' Day, 31st October, which it was customary, in Scotland particularly, to observe with ceremonies of a superst.i.tious character, presumed to have the power of eliciting certain interesting secrets of fate from w
- 231 HAMPDEN, JOHN, a famous English statesman and patriot, cousin to Oliver Cromwell, born in London; pa.s.sed through Oxford and studied law at the Inner Temple; subsequently he settled down on his father's estate, and in 1621 entered Parliament, joinin
- 232 HARDICANUTE, king of England and Denmark, the son of Canute and his successor on the Danish throne; was king of England only in part till the death of his brother Harold, whom he survived only two years, but long enough to alienate his subjects by the re-
- 233 HARRIS, LUKE, founder of the "Brotherhood of the New Life," born in Buckinghams.h.i.+re, a spiritualistic Socialist; his system founded on SWEDENBORGIANISM (q. v.) on the one hand and a form of communism on the other, with a scriptural Christian
- 234 HASTINGS, FRANCIS RAWDON-HASTINGS, MARQUIS OF, Governor-General of India; entering the army in 1771, he saw active service in the American War and in Holland; succeeded his father in the earldom of Moira; was in 1813 appointed to the Governor-Generals.h.i
- 235 HAWKER, ROBERT STEPHEN, a Cornish clergyman and poet; was vicar for 40 years of Morwenstow, a parish on the N. Cornwall coast; author of "Cornish Ballads"; was a humane man, of eccentric ways, and pa.s.sionately fond of animals; was the author o
- 236 HEBREW, a Semitic language, the ancient language of the Jews, and that in which the Old Testament is written, the words of which, as indeed of others of the same stock, are derived from triliteral roots, and the verb in which has no present tense, only a
- 237 HEIR PRESUMPTIVE, one whose right of succession is sure if not barred by the birth of one nearer.HEJAZ, EL, the holy land of the Moslems, a district of Arabia Felix, and so called by containing the sacred cities of Mecca and Medina.HEJIRA or HEJRA (Arabic
- 238 HELST, BARTHOLOMaeUS VAN DER, one of the greatest of the Dutch portrait-painters, born at Haarlem, but spent his life in Amsterdam; he enjoyed a great reputation in his day, and many of his pictures are to be found in European galleries; his "Muster
- 239 HENRY, PATRICK, American statesman and orator, born in Virginia; having been in business he took to law, and rose into fame by his eloquent pleadings in the cause of the people; played a conspicuous part in the agitation for independence, especially by hi
- 240 HERMANDAD, SANTA (i. e. Holy Brotherhood), an a.s.sociation of the princ.i.p.al cities of Spain leagued together at first against the pillagings and robberies of the n.o.bles, and eventually against all forms of violence and lawlessness in the State.HERMA
- 241 HESIOD, one of the earliest Greek poets, born in Boeotia, lived in the 8th century B.C., chiefly at Orchomenos, probably of humble birth; of the works ascribed to him the princ.i.p.al were the "Works and Days" the "Theogony," and the &
- 242 HIGHGATE, a noted suburb of London, 5 m. N. of the General Post-Office; the burial-place of Coleridge, George Eliot, and Faraday.d.i.c.k Whittington's Stone is at the foot of Highgate Hill.HILARION, ST., founder of monachism in Palestine; was a conve
- 243 HITCHIN (9), a very old and still prosperous town of Hertfords.h.i.+re, on the Hiz, 14 m. NW. of Hertford; does a flouris.h.i.+ng trade in corn, malt, and flour; brewing and straw-plaiting are important industries, and it has long been noted for its laven
- 244 HOLDEN, SIR ISAAC, inventor, born at Hurlet, Renfrews.h.i.+re; worked in a cotton-mill in Paisley, but betook himself to teaching, and in 1829, while a teacher of chemistry in Reading, discovered the principle of the lucifer match; turning to wool-combing
- 245 HOME, JOHN, Scotch divine and dramatist, born at Leith; graduated at Edinburgh, and entered the Church in 1745; became minister at Athelstaneford, near Haddington, where he wrote the tragedies "Agis" and "Douglas"; the latter establish
- 246 HOPKINS, SAMUEL, an American divine, born at Waterbury, Connecticut; was pastor at Newport; was a Calvinist in theology, but of a special type, as he denied imputation and insisted on disinterested benevolence as the mark of a Christian; gave name to a pa
- 247 HOYLAKE (3), a rising watering-place in Ches.h.i.+re, at the seaward end of Wirral Peninsula, 8 m. W. of Birkenhead; noted for its golf-links.HOYLE, EDMOND, the inventor of whist, lived in London; wrote on games and taught whist; his "Short Treatise
- 248 HUMBERT I., king of Italy, son of Victor Emmanuel, whom he succeeded in 1878; took while crown prince an active part in the movement for Italian unity, and distinguished himself by his bravery; _b_. 1844.HUMBOLDT, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH ALEX., BARON VON, grea
- 249 HYDERABAD (370), the capital of the Nizam's dominions in the Deccan, is 6 m. in circ.u.mference, strongly protected all round by a belt of rocky desert, and a centre of Mohammedanism in India. Also the capital of Sind (58), near the apex of the delta
- 250 ICONIUM, the capital of Lycaonia, in Asia Minor, a flouris.h.i.+ng city in St. Paul's time, who planted a church there, and of importance in the time of the Crusades; is now named Konieh.ICONOCLASTS (i. e. breakers of images), the name given to a sec
- 251 ILLUMINATION, THE, the name given to the "advanced" thinking cla.s.s who pride themselves in their emanc.i.p.ation from all authority in spiritual matters, the a.s.sumption of which they regard as an outrage not only against the right of private
- 252 IN-AND-IN, a term applied to the breeding of animals from the same parentage.INCA, a king or royal prince of the ancient original people of Peru.INCANDESCENT LIGHT, or ELECTRIC LIGHT, a light produced by a thin strip of a non-conducting body, such as carb
- 253 INDO-GERMANIC, a term at one time employed especially among German writers, synonymous with Aryan.INDORE, 1, a native princ.i.p.ality (1,094), in Central India, somewhat larger than Wales, embraces the Vindbya and Satpura Mountains, and is traversed by th
- 254 (unfinished), display honesty and penetration (1662-1744).INNISFAIL, an ancient name of Ireland.INNOCENT, the name of 13 popes: INNOCENT I., Pope from 402 to 417; INNOCENT II., pope from 1130 to 1143; INNOCENT III., Pope from 1198 to 1216; INNOCENT IV., P
- 255 IOLCUS, a town in Thessaly, the port from which the Argonauts sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece.ION, in the Greek mythology son of Apollo by Creusa, and exposed by her in the cave where she bore him, but who was conveyed by the G.o.d to Delphi and educ
- 256 IRON HAND, GOETZ VON BERLICHINGEN (q. v.).IRON MASK, MAN WITH THE, a prisoner who in the reign of Louis XIV.wore, when he was transferred from prison to prison, what seemed an iron mask to prevent any one discovering and revealing his ident.i.ty, over whi
- 257 ISERLOHN (22), a town in Prussian Westphalia, 14 m. SE. of Dortmund; is picturesquely situated, and is engaged in iron-ware manufacture.ISHMAEL, the son of Abraham and the handmaid Hagar, cast out of Abraham's household at 15; he became skilful with
- 258 ITHACA (10), one of the Ionian Islands, and one of the smallest, known now under the name Thiaki; it was the home of Ulysses, and his domain as king when he set out for the Trojan War, and which he did not see again till his return after twenty years. Als
- 259 JACOBITES, the name given to the adherents of the Stuart dynasty in Great Britain after their expulsion from the throne in 1688, and derived from that of James II., the last Stuart king; they made two great attempts to restore the exiled dynasty, in 1715
- 260 JAMES, HENRY, an American theological writer, a disciple of Swedenborg, and an exponent of his system (1811-1882).JAMES, HENRY, American novelist, born in New York: studied law at Harvard, but was eventually drawn into literature, and after a spell of mag
- 261 JASHER, BOOK OF, a Hebrew book twice quoted in the Old Testament, no longer extant; believed to have been a collection of national ballads.JASMIN, JACQUES, a Gascon barber and poet, who by his romances, burlesques, and odes, published between 1835 and 184
- 262 JENNER, EDWARD, an English physician, born in Berkeley, and practised there; was the discoverer of inoculation with cowpox as a preventive of smallpox, or vaccination as it is called, a discovery which has immortalised his name (1749-1822).JENNER, SIR WIL
- 263 JINGO, a name, of uncertain derivation, given to a political party favourable to an aggressive, menacing policy in foreign affairs, and first applied in 1877 to that political section in Great Britain which provoked the Turco-Russian war.JINN, in the Arab
- 264 JOHNSTON, JAMES FINLAY WEIR, agricultural chemist, born at Paisley, educated at Glasgow; acquired a fortune by his marriage in 1830, and devoted himself to studying chemistry; after some years in Sweden he was chosen lecturer in Durham University, but he
- 265 JOUBERT, BARTHeLEMI, French general; distinguished himself in the Rhine and Italian campaigns, and fell mortally wounded at the battle of Novi; one of the most promising generals France ever had (1769-1799).JOUBERT, JOSEPH, author of "Pensees," born in
- 266 JUMPERS, name of a certain religious sect in America, from the dancing a.s.sociated with its services.JUNE, the sixth month of the year, so named from the Roman _gens_ or clan Junius, or perhaps from Juno.JUNG STILLING, a German mystic, born in Na.s.sau;
- 267 KAFFIRS, including Kaffirs proper and Zulus, a division of the Bantu negroes, found all over S. Africa, are a pastoral and latterly agricultural people of fine physique, naturally hospitable, honest, and truthful, but now much contaminated by the white ma
- 268 was published in 1781, and it was followed by the "Kritic of Practical Reason" in 1788, and the "Kritic of Judgment" in 1790; his works inaugurate a new era in philosophic speculation, and by the adoption of a critical method dealt a death-blow to spe
- 269 KAYE, SIR JOHN WILLIAM, historian of English India, an officer in the Bengal Artillery, retired in 1841; in 1856 entered the East India Company's service in England, and was subsequently a secretary in the Government India Office; he wrote "History of t
- 270 KEMP, GEORGE MEIKLE, architect, born in Moorfoot, Peebless.h.i.+re; bred a millwright, became a draughtsman, studied Gothic architecture, and designed the Scott Monument in Edinburgh; was drowned one evening in the Union Ca.n.a.l before the work was finis
- 271 KEY WEST (10), a seaport, health resort, and naval station on a coral island 60 m. SW. of Caple Sable, Florida; it has a good harbour and strong fort; was the basis of operations in the Spanish-American War, 1898; exports salt, turtles, and fruit, and man
- 272 KILMAINHAM (5), a suburb of Dublin, with a royal hospital for disabled soldiers and a jail; the treaty of Kilmainham was an agreement said to have been made in 1882 between Gladstone and Parnell, who was then confined in Kilmainham jail, affecting Irish g
- 273 KIRBY, WILLIAM, entomologist, born in Suffolk; distinguished as the author of "Monographia Apium Angliae," and "Introduction to Entomology"; was rector of Barham, Suffolk, for 68 years (1759-1850).KIRGHIZ, a nomadic Turkish people occupying the Kirghi
- 274 KNOWLES, SHERIDAN, dramatist, born at Cork; was connected with the stage first as actor and then as an author of plays, which include "Virginius," "The Hunchback," and "The Wife"; latterly he gave up the stage, and took to preaching in connection wi
- 275 KRuDENER, MADAME DE, novelist, born at Riga; auth.o.r.ess of an autobiographical novel ent.i.tled "Valerie"; lived partly at St. Petersburg and partly at Paris; was a mystic religious enthusiast and political prophetess (1764-1824).KRuGER, S. J. PAUL, P
- 276 LACePeDE, COMTE DE, French naturalist, born at Agen; was entrusted by Buffon to complete his Natural History on his death; wrote on his own account also the natural histories of reptiles, of fishes, and of man (1756-1825).LACHAISE, FRANcOIS DE, a French J
- 277 LAKE DISTRICT, a district in c.u.mberland and Westmorland, 20 m. long by 25 m. broad, abounding in lakes, environed with scenery of rare beauty, and much frequented by tourists.LAKE DWELLINGS, primitive settlements, the remains of which have been found in
- 278 LANDES, sandy plains along the French coast between the Garonne and the Pyrenees, covered with heath and broom.LANDGRABBER, name given in Ireland to one in the possession or occupancy of land from which another has been evicted.LANDGRAVE, t.i.tle given to
- 279 LAPITHae, a race inhabiting the mountains of Thessaly; subject to Perithous, who, on the occasion of his marriage with Hippodamia, invited his kinsfolk the Centaurs to the feast, but these, under intoxication from the wine, attempting to carry off the bri
- 280 LATIN UNION, a convention in 1865, between France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, and Greece, to establish an international monetary standard.LAt.i.tUDINARIANS, the name given to a body of theologians belonging to the Church of England who, at the end of th
- 281 LEANDER. See HERO.LEANING TOWER, specially a campanile of white marble at Pisa, in Italy, 178 ft. in height, and which leans 14 ft. off the perpendicular.LEAR, a legendary British king, the hero of one of Shakespeare's tragedies, the victim of the unnatu
- 282 LEGION OF HONOUR, an order of merit inst.i.tuted on republican principles on May 10, 1802, by Bonaparte when First Consul in recompense of civil and military services to the country; it originally consisted of four cla.s.ses, but now comprehends five: gra
- 283 LEO, the name of six emperors of the East, of which the chief was Leo III., surnamed the Isaurian, born in Isauria; raised to the imperial throne by the army, defeated by sea and land the Saracens who threatened Constantinople; ruled peacefully for nine y
- 284 LETTERS PATENT, a doc.u.ment under seal of the government granting some special privilege to a person.LETTRES DE CACHET (i. e. sealed letters), warrants of imprisonment, issued prior to the Revolution, sealed with the private seal of the king, in contradi
- 285 LIBERIA (1,500), a negro republic on the Grain Coast of Africa, founded in 1822 by American philanthropists as a settlement for freedmen, with a const.i.tution after the model of the United States.LIBERTY, FRATERNITY, AND EQUALITY, the trinity of modern d
- 286 LIMERICK (159), Irish county on the S. of the Shannon estuary, between Tipperary and Kerry, watered by the Mulcai, Maigue, and Deel; hilly in the S., is mostly fertile, and under corn and green crops; cattle are reared and dairy products exported; some wo
- 287 LITANY, a form of supplication in connection with some impending calamity in which the prayer of the priest or officiating clergyman is responded to by the congregation.LITERATURE, defined by Carlyle "as an 'apocalypse of nature,' a revealing of the '
- 288 LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON, man of letters, born in Cambusnethan; bred for the Scottish bar and practised at it; contributed to _Blackwood_, wrote in collaboration with John Wilson "Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk"; married Sophia Scott, Sir Walter's daugh
- 289 "The Golden Legend," "Hiawatha," and "Miles Standish" (1807-1882).LONGINUS, DIONYSIUS Ca.s.sIUS, a learned Greek philosopher, rhetorician, and critic, and eminent in all three departments, being in philosophy a Platonist of pure blood; his fame as a
- 290 7d. to 18s. 9d., and ceased to be issued in 1795.LOUISIANA (1,119), an American State on the Gulf of Mexico, between the Mississippi and Sabine Rivers, with Arkansas on the N. and traversed diagonally by the Red River, is half upland and half alluvial; mu
- 291 LUCKNOW (273), fourth city in India, cap. of the prov. of Oudh, on the Gumti, a tributary of the Ganges, 200 m. NW. of Benares; is a centre of Indian culture and Mohammedan theology, an industrial and commercial city. It has many magnificent buildings, Ca
- 292 LUX, the name given to the unit of the intensity of electric light.LUX, ADAM, a young Parisian; smitten with love for Charlotte Corday, proposed a statue to her with the inscription "Greater than Brutus,"which brought him to the guillotine.LUXEMBURG (21
- 293 MACARIUS, ST., a hermit of the Thebad, where he spent 60 years of a life of solitude and austerity (300-390). Festival, January 13.MACARONI, a fine wheaten paste made into long thin tubes, and manufactured in Italy and the S. of France.MACa.s.sAR, souther
- 294 MACKENZIE, HENRY, novelist, born in Edinburgh; bred to law; author of "The Man of Feeling," "The Man of the World," and "Julia de Roubigne,"written in a sentimental style; held the office of Controller of Taxes in Scotland by favour of Pitt (1745-18
- 295 MAESTRICHT (33), capital of Dutch Limburg, on the Maes, 57 m. E. of Brussels; has manufactures of gla.s.s, earthenware, and carpets; near it are the vast subterranean quarries of the Pietersberg, opened by the Romans.MAETERLINCK, MAURICE, Belgian dramatis
- 296 MAHMUD II., Sultan of Turkey; crushed a rebellion on his accession by putting his brother to death, on whose behalf the janissaries had risen, as they afterwards did to their annihilation at his hands by wholesale ma.s.sacre; by the victory of Navarino in
- 297 MALAGROWTHER, an old courtier in the "Fortunes of Nigel" soured by misfortune, and who would have every one be as discontented as himself.MALAISE, an uneasy feeling which often precedes a serious attack of some disease.MALAPROP, MRS., a character in She
- 298 MAMMON, the Syrian G.o.d of riches, which has given name to the modern pa.s.sion for material wealth, specially conceived of as an abnegation of Christianity, the profession of which is in flat antagonism to it.MAMMOTH, an extinct species of elephant of e
- 299 MANN, HORACE, American educationist, born in Ma.s.sachusetts; was devoted to the cause of education as well as that of anti-slavery (1790-1859).MANNA, the food with which the Israelites were miraculously fed in the wilderness, a term which means "What is
- 300 MARCH, the third month of our year; was before 1752 reckoned first month as in the Roman calendar, the legal year beginning on the 25th; it is proverbially dusty and stormy, and is the season of the spring equinox; it was dedicated to the Roman G.o.d Mars