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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 &
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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-
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 (
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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-
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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