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The emigrants taught their arts and manufactures to the countries where they had taken refuge; and gradually trade guided its ships in their direction, and changed their course from France to Holland and Germany. Pedigree of Fourdrinier and Grolleau, by Rev. Dr. Now in the Dict. Nat.
The name is probably a derivative from a lost O.H.G. francho, a spear or javelin: compare A.S. franca, Icel. frakka; similarly the Saxons are supposed to have derived their name from a weapon seax, a knife; see Kluge's Dict.
Daimonomageia: a small Treatise of Sicknesses and Diseases from Witchcraft and Supernatural Causes.... Being useful to others besides Physicians, in that it confutes Atheistical, Sadducistical, and Sceptical Principles and Imaginations ..., London, 1665. It is so, at least, in the Cornell copy of the first edition and in the Harvard copy of the third, and is so described by the Dict. Nat.
Advancement of Learning, bk. II; ibid., III, 490. Works, IV, 400-401. Ibid., IV, 296. The book is supposed to have been written during the last twenty years of Selden's life, that is, between 1634 and 1654. "Witches." Nor did Selden believe in possessions. See article on Hobbes in Dict. Nat. Biog. Leviathan , 7. See also his chapter on Dæmonology in the Leviathan, in Works, 384.
BARETTI'S Italian Dict. "Ah me! it is a dangerous freak, When men will dabble with Antique."
These differ very much from the nest of our large ant; but the real history of this creature, as well as of the wasp, is yet very imperfectly known. Wasps are said to catch large spiders, and to cut off their legs, and carry their mutilated bodies to their young, Dict. Raison. Tom. I. p. 152.
Thus a name belonging to something else, which the new object nearly resembles, may be transferred to it, and the confusion arising from calling different things by the same name disregarded. Dict.
Many words yet stand supported only by the name of Bailey, Ainsworth, Philips, or the contracted Dict. for Dictionaries subjoined; of these I am not always certain that they are read in any book but the works of lexicographers.
But Stebbing was in 1712 still a fellow at Cambridge, and Sherlock, later Bishop of London, was Master of the Temple and Chaplain to Queen Anne. See Dict. Nat. Biog. The Impossibility of Witchcraft Further Demonstrated, Both from Scripture and Reason ... with some Cursory Remarks on two trifling Pamphlets in Defence of the existence of Witches.
The positive toning of the experience what we call aesthetic pleasure is due not only to the favorable stimulation, but also to the fact that the very antagonism of impulses which constitutes repose heightens tone while it inhibits action. Thus the conditions of both factors of aesthetic emotion tend to induct pleasure. <1> Baldwin's Dict. Of Phil. And Psychol. Art. "Emotion."
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