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But some women only require an emerg- ency to make them fit for one. Obliged, to some extent, to forgo dreaming in order to find the way, he reached the churchyard, and passed round it under the wall where several ancient trees grew. There was a wide margin of grass along here, and Gabriel's footsteps were deadened by its softness, even at this indurating period of the year.
An excellent brief account of the discovery of America is in Channing's History of the United States, I, chs. I-II. For the relations of Europe and Asia, and the Portuguese explorations, see Cheyney's European Background of American History, chs. I, II, IV. An excellent brief sketch of the life of Columbus is in Ency. Brit., 11th ed.
In Painting, see Caylus, Memoires de l'ac des Inscr. Levesque, sur les Progres successifs de la Peinture chez les Grecs; I. I. Grund, Mahlerei der Griechen; Meyer's Kunstgischichte; Muller, Hist, of Ancient Art; Article on Painting, Ency. Brit., Article "Pictura," Smith's Dict.; Fuseli's Lectures; Sir Joshua Reynolds' Lectures. Lanzi's History of Painting refers to the revival of the art.
If ever there was a case of adding insult to injury, surely this piece of canting impertinence was one of the most outrageous. By H.W. Woolrych. London: J. & W.T. Clarke, 1826, pp. 145-48. Lipscomb's History and Antiquities of the Co. of Bucks, 1847, Vol. IV., p. 548. Gray made the churchyard of Stoke Pogis the scene of his famous Elegy, and he was buried there in 1771. Ency. Brit., Vol.
In the early days of Christianity the names of the departed brethren were entered in the diptychs. Later, in the sixth century, it was customary in Benedictine monasteries to hold a commemoration of the deceased members at Whitsuntide, In Spain, there was such a day before Sexagesima or before Pentecost, at the time of St. Ency., art.
It lasted about six months, from the first accusations in March until the last executions in September.... It was an epidemic of mad superstitious fear, bitterly to be regretted, and a stain upon the high civilization of the Bay Colony." What was done at Salem, when the tempest of unreason broke loose? Who were the chief actors in it? This was done. Ency.
Offer's Introduction, Hume's History, and Ency. Amer. it. If any man hath received a gift of tinkering, as thou hast done, let him follow his tinkering; and so other men their trades, and the divine his calling, etc.
D. Cassini, however, first put forward about 1671 the hypothesis alluded to in the text. See Delambre, Hist. de l'Astr. Berl. Ges. Cf. Grant, Astr. Nach., No. 1838. Ency., art. Am. Phil. Trans., vol. xxxviii., p. 134. It. Am. Phil. R. A. S., vol. xxi., pp. 54, 56. Santini had made a similar observation at Padua in 1842. Grant, Hist.
Augustine, commenting on Psalm 122, defined a hymn as a song with praise of God, cantus est cum laude Dei. Cath, Ency., art. In the early Christian assemblies great use was made of the psalms and canticles in their congregational singing. St.
Diana enjoyed it till the death of her protector; but when this event oc- curred, the widow of the monarch, who had been obliged to submit in silence, for years, to the ascend- ency of a rival, took the most pardonable of all the revenges with which the name of Catherine de' Medici is associated, and turned her out-of-doors.
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