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A dict, then, was defined as "that which subsists in correspondence with a rational phantasy." A dict was one of the things which the Stoics admitted to be devoid of body. There were three things involved when anything was said the sound, the sense, and the external object. Of these the first and the last were bodies, but the intermediate one was not a body.

Lives in Biographica Britannica, Dict. of Nat. Biog., Johnson's Lives of Poets, and by Lucy Aikin, Macaulay's Essay, Drake's Essays Illustrative of Tatler, Guardian, and Spectator; Pope's and Swift's Correspondence, etc. Historian, studied law and was called to the Bar in 1807.

III. p. 70. Smith, Dict. Gr. and Rom. Biog. and Myth., art. Shortly afterwards, the Emperor Honorius, by solemn decree, put an end to this horrid custom. That protest can be uttered by every one here at home.

Carol. Stepha. in dict. hist. Bale. And it should séeme by doctor Caius and master Bale, that Cæsar found some of them here at his arriuall in this Ile, and reported that they had also their first begining in the same. The profession and vsages of these Bardi, Nonnius, Strabo, Diodorus, Stephanus, Bale, and sir Iohn Prise, are in effect reported after this sort.

If, during the breeding-season, a strange male attempts to enter the burrow, he is attacked; the female does not remain passive, but closes the mouth of the burrow, and encourages her mate by continually pushing him on from behind; and the battle lasts until the aggressor is killed or runs away. Quoted from Fischer, in 'Dict. Class. d'Hist.

Women are more credulous, more curious, "their complection is softer," they have "greater facility to fall," greater desire for revenge, and "are of a slippery tongue." Treatise of Witchcraft, 42-43. "In Cheshire and Coventry," he tells us. For the whole case see Howell, State Trials, II. See article on Bernard in Dict. Nat. Biog. See below, appendix C, list of witch cases, under 1626.

Fleetwood, Bishop of Ely, said of it that he thought the author had pretty sufficiently proved they were of no use at all. Chalmers's Biog. Dict. xi. 209. Enquiry after Happiness, by Richard Lucas, D.D., 1685. Divine Dialogues, by Henry More, D.D. See ante, ii. 162, note I. By David Gregory, the second of the sixteen professors which the family of Gregory gave to the Universities. Ante, p. 48.

/# "Inhumanity Cruelty. Cruelty The disposition to give unnecessary pain." Webster's Dict. #/ I had intended to put third on the list of inhumanities of parents "needless requisitions;" but my last summer's observations changed my estimate, and convinced me that children suffer more pain from the rudeness with which they are treated than from being forced to do needless things which they dislike.

"Well, then, the signor you love not-seated at this table, and dict to me just what you would say to him." "Well, if he sat there, I should say, 'Go away." Gerard, who was flourishing his pen by way of preparation, laid it down with a groan. "And when he was gone," said Floretta, "your highness would say, 'Come back." "Like enough, wench. Now silence, all, and let me think.

This Peter Fourdrinier mentioned by the Dict. Nat. Biography seems to have been pupil to Bernard Picart, at Amsterdam, for six years. By profession he was an engraver of portraits and book illustrations. I believe there are portraits extant engraved by him of Cardinal Wolsey and Bishop Tonstall, amongst others. There is certainly an engraving of his called The Four Ages of Man, after Laucret.