BRIENNE, JEAN DE, descendant of an old French family; elected king of Jerusalem, then emperor of Constantinople; d. BRIDGETOWN (21), capital of Barbadoes, seat of the government, the bishop, a college, &c.; it has suffered frequently from hurricane and fever. BRIDGETON, a manufacturing town in New Jersey, 38 m. BRIDGET, ST., an Irish saint, born at Dundalk; entered a monastery at 14; founded monasteries; takes rank in Ireland with St. Patrick and St. Columba. BRIDGE OF SIGHS, a covered way in Venice leading from the Ducal Palace to the State prison, and over which culprits under capital sentence were transported to their doom, whence the name. This history may also be useful in private families; whichare not able to purchase the larger works from which it is selected.” I am sensible that all this has been doneby many able writers; but as their works are too expensive to be putinto the hands of children, and of greater magnitude than they havetime or patience to study, I have compiled this abridgment for theirbenefit. Second editionprinted by Starr & Niles, Middletown, (Conn.) 1823.” bound withVol II which was “printed by S. In 1748, adorned by a statue of him; at the Revolution it was called Place de la Revolution; here Louis XVI. Of Boston; was the residence of Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne; here the first engagement took place in the American war in 1775. CONCORD, a town in U.S., 23 m. Off, one of the safest and most commodious in the country, and ranks next to Valparaiso as a trading centre. ABBOT OF MISRULE, a person elected to superintend the Christmas revelries. ABBEVILLE (19), a thriving old town on the Somme, 12 m. AALBORG (19), a trading town on the Liimfiord, in the N. At that time so little was known ofthe Plymouth Pilgrims that they were known as “Mr. Owing to inclement weather they returned to London in fourteendays with the vessel badly damaged. 2John Pierce, his son, lived in Boston, Woburn, Mass., and Wethersfield.Last mention in Woburn, 1649. John Pierce, Watertown, freeman, 1638. Now, Wethersfield was settled from Watertown,Massachusetts, by men who had become dissatisfied withthe conduct of the Massachusetts Bay Company, and here againwe find a line of John Pierces starting in Watertown and bringingup in Wethersfield. DAY, JOHN, an English dramatist, contemporary of Ben Jonson; author of the "Parliament of Bees," a comedy in which all the characters are bees. DAVY JONES'S LOCKER, the sailors' familiar name for the sea as a place of safe-keeping, though why called of Davy Jones is uncertain. DAVOS-PLATZ, a village 5105 ft. above the sea-level, in a valley of the East Grisons; a place frequented in winter by invalids suffering from chest disease, the dry air and sunshine that prevail being favourable for patients of that class. Mayo, son of a peasant, who, being evicted, settled in Lancashire; joined the Fenian movement, and was sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude; released on ticket-of-leave after seven years; founded the Land League; was for over a year imprisoned again for breaking his ticket-of-leave; published in 1885 "Leaves from a Prison Diary"; entered Parliament in 1895 for co. DAVIDSON, ANDREW BRUCE, Hebrew scholar and professor, born in Aberdeenshire; a most faithful, clear, and effective interpreter of the spirit of Hebrew literature, and influential for good as few men of the time have been in matters of biblical criticism; b. CHAMBERS, GEORGE, an English marine painter, born at Whitby; d. JOSEPH, born in London, connected as a business man with Birmingham; after serving the latter city in a municipal capacity, was elected the parliamentary representative in 1876; became President of the Board of Trade under Mr. Gladstone in 1880, and chief promoter of the Bankruptcy Bill; broke with Mr. Gladstone on his Home Rule measure for Ireland, and joined the Liberal-Unionists; distinguished himself under Lord Salisbury as Colonial Secretary; b. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, an association of merchants to promote and protect the interests of trade, particularly of the town or the district to which they belong. CHAINS, chief town of the French dep. CHÆRONEA, a town in Boeotia, where Philip of Macedon defeated the Athenians, and extinguished the liberties of Greece. AURELIA`NUS, LUCIUS DOMITIUS, powerful in physique, and an able Roman emperor; son of a peasant of Pannonia; distinguished as a skilful and successful general; was elected emperor, 270; drove the barbarians out of Italy; vanquished Zenobia, queen of Palmyra, carrying her captive to Rome; subdued a usurper in Gaul, and while on his way to crush a rebellion in Persia was assassinated by his troops ( ). AULIS, a port in Boeotia, where the fleet of the Greeks assembled before taking sail for Troy, and where Iphigeneia, to procure a favourable wind, was sacrificed by her father Agamemnon, an event commemorated in the "Iphigeneia in Aulis" of Euripides. AULIC COUNCIL, supreme council in the old German Empire, from which there was no appeal, of date from 1495 to 1654; it had no constitution, dealt with judicial matters, and lived and died with the emperor. AUGUSTINIANS, (a) Canons, called also Black Cenobites, under a less severe discipline than monks, had 200 houses in England and Wales at the Reformation; (b) Friars, mendicant, a portion of them barefooted; (c) Nuns, nurses of the sick. AUGUSTIN, or AUSTIN, ST., the apostle of England, sent thither with a few monks by Pope Gregory in 596 to convert the country to Christianity; began his labours in Kent; founded the see, or rather archbishopric, of Canterbury; d. Here were seated theDaundelyon family, who became extinct withJohn Daundelyon, last of his race, in 1445.Sunday Mrs. Bull excused me for not going to meeting.Mr.CHAINS, chief town of the French dep.While some congratulated her on her weight loss journey, others said they preferred her curves.Going to meeting Mrs. Bull informedme that Mr. Mason was going to preach.To lose weight, you need to combine detailed tracking of your caloric intake with a carefully selected variety of healthy foods and regular exercise.GABERLUNZIE, a licensed beggar, or any of the mendicant class, so called from the wallet he carried. Of Jerusalem, with TOPHET (q. v.) at its eastern end; became the symbol of hell from the fires kept burning in it night and day to consume the poisonous gases of the offal accumulated in it. GAZETTE THE, an official newspaper in which government and legal notices are published, issued on Tuesdays and Fridays; originally a Venetian newspaper, the first of the kind so called as issued for a farthing. From the sea, a considerable place to this day. GAZA, a Philistine town, the gates of which Samson carried off by night; situated on a mound at the edge of the desert, 5 m. There seemed to be a current of wind which at timespasses high up in the air over the town, and which moves the tops ofthe trees, while on the ground there is no movement of wind. “The morning after our arrival in Litchfield we sallied forth alone.The day was high and wide, full of stillness and serenely radiant.As we carried our present life up the North Street, we met at everystep our boyhood life coming down. To complete the picture, there was the daily procession ofschool girls taking their exercise to the sound of flute andflageolet, and surely it was a lively scene. The rest of the pupils boarded withdifferent families throughout the town, as did also those of thelaw school. Also about this time we find advertised aselect school for business students, mathematics, and the languages,kept by M. CHIHUA`HUA (25), a town in Mexico; capital of a State (298), the largest in Mexico, of the same name, with famous silver and also copper mines.The occasion was made the very mostof, in the hysterical manner of the age; froma congratulatory telegram from the King down295to the excited comments of the halfpenny press.Webb’s finer performance of thirty-six yearsearlier was a comparatively obscure affair.Went down to the Bantam to dayMisses Austin & Beebe in search of mint....A martello tower looks downupon Sandgate from the Leas, and down upon theseashore stands an older defence, SandgateCastle, a coastwise fortress built by Henry theEighth for the defence of these low-lying shoresagainst the foreign foe.ALLOB`ROGES, a Celtic race troublesome to the Romans, who occupied the country between the Rhône and the Lake of Geneva, corresponding to Dauphiné and Savoy.Monday 26th, Washed a little etc., Made a half handkerchief, tooka walk up to Captain Stantons.APEL`LES, the most celebrated painter of antiquity; bred, if not born, at Ephesus; lived at the court of Alexander the Great; his great work "APHRODITÉ ANADYOMENE" (q. v.); a man conscious, like Dürer, of mastery in his art, as comes out in his advice to the criticising shoemaker to "stick to his last."Thus we find, in Gerald’s “Herbal,”of 1596, “Rock samphire groweth on the rockycliffs of Dover, Winchelsea, about Southampton,and the Isle of Wight.Of Marseilles, where Constantine built a palace, with ruins of an amphitheatre and other Roman works; the seat of several Church Councils. 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In the warm days of summer, andin these beautiful and cloudless sunsets, like the day in which I hadfirst seen it, most of the young people would be on the streets, andamong them those of the students who, like myself, were lovers ofbeauty and of scenery. Search code, repositories, users, issues, pull requests... As you get closer to your ideal weight, the loss may slow down until you stabilize at a weight that your body feels is right. However, weight loss doesn’t occur at this rate in everyone. It’s common to lose 2-6 pounds (1-3 kg) within the first week on a strict low-carb or high satiety diet, and then on average about one pound (0.5 kg) per week as long as you have a lot of weight remaining to lose.30 This translates into about 50 pounds (23 kilos) per year. In addition, you need to set realistic expectations for health and weight loss goals. Elizabethwas carried to the place, with every appearance ofsevere affliction, “her face wondrously disfigured,her tongue hanging out, and her eyes being inlike manner plucked out and lying upon her cheek.There was then heard a voice speaking withinher belly, as it had been in a tunnel, her lips notgreatly moving; she all that while continuingby the space of three hours or more in a trance.” In her trances and somnambulistic exploitsand in her ravings the ordinary peoplethought her possessed of evil spirits; but RichardMasters declared she had always been a devoutgirl, and he now professed, when called to herbedside, to have heard her say “very godly certainthings concerning the seven deadly sins andthe Ten Commandments.” This, in the view of337the Church, was inspiration. Religious mania is generallythe product of outside influences acting upon adiseased body and an ill-balanced mind; and itmay be suspected, since the crisis in the affairsof the Church was then the chief topic in themouths of all men, that Elizabeth had been influencedby the talk she heard, and by the preachingof the then rector of Aldington, RichardMasters. CAROLINE CHESTER—HER COMMONPLACE BOOK. Among other memorials is a tablet to Vice-AdmiralSir Richard King, Bart., Commander-in-Chiefat the Nore, who, having commandedthe Achille at Trafalgar and come scathelessthrough that action, died of cholera at Sheerness,82aged 61.BAIRAM, a Mohammedan festival of three days at the conclusion of the Ramadan, followed by another of four days, seventy days later, called the Second Bairam, in commemoration of the offering up of Isaac, and accompanied with sacrifices.One, we learn, was “Captain of ye selecteboard, sometime burgis at ye parliament for yesame towne, who was one of the portes Barons incarrying ye canopie at the coronation of KingJames ye first of England.”Monday morning I studied my History lesson, went toschool and recited very well.The value of an Encyclopædia of such small scope must depend, therefore, upon the careful selection of its materials, and in this respect it is hoped the one now offered to the public will be found adequate to any reasonable demands made upon it.9th Every real Lady will treat her superior with due reverence, hercompanions with politeness, good humor she will always show, a sweet147temper, a modest deportment on all occasions, never forgetting what isdue to all persons in every situation.The Sharks recognized the potential for growth in this market and were eager to partner with entrepreneurs who were passionate about making a positive impact on people’s lives through their keto-friendly offerings. And Charles IX., and the scene of events of interest in the history of France. BLENHEIM PARK, near Woodstock, Oxford, the gift, with the Woodstock estate, of the country to the Duke of Marlborough, for his military services in the Spanish Succession war. BLANQUI, ADOLPHE, a celebrated French publicist and economist, born at Nice; a disciple of J. Monday to Saturday nothing particular happened. Sunday morning Mr. Baldwin preached ... Saturday Miss Pierce gave us some very good instruction. Saturday after school I wenthome and thought I would take a walk; I concluded to go to PineIsland; part of the scholars accompanied me. I went to school, recited my lesson in Sacred Historyand went to writing my Journal and have just finished it. I went toschool, learned a lesson in Geography in the forenoon, in Grammar inthe afternoon. Thursday I arose in the morningvery early, ate breakfast, studied until the bell rang. There is no duty, there is no pleasure, there is no sentiment, whichdoes not borrow from enthusiasm—I know not what charm, whichis still in perfect unison with the simple beauty of Truth. Are stretches of forest and hills in which iron and copper are wrought; a branch of the Mekong flows backward and forms the Great Lake; most of the country is inundated in the rainy season, and rice, tobacco, cotton, and maize are grown in the tracts thus irrigated; spices, gutta-percha, and timber are also produced; there are iron-works at Kompong Soai; foreign trade is done through the port Kampot. CAIN, THOMAS HENRY HALL, eminent novelist, born in Cheshire, of Manx blood; began life as architect and took to journalism; author of a number of novels bearing on Manx life, such as the "Deemster" and the "Manxman"; his most recent novel, the "Christian," his greatest but most ambiguous work, and much challenged in England, though less so in America; it has been translated into most of the languages of Europe, where the verdict is divided; b. BURLEIGH, WILLIAM CECIL, LORD, a great statesman, born in Lincolnshire; bred to the legal profession, and patronised and promoted by the Protector Somerset; managed to escape the Marian persecution; Queen Elizabeth recognised his statesman-like qualities, and appointed him chief-secretary of state, an office which, to the glory of the queen and the good of the country, he held for forty years, till his death. Stop Putting Your Life On Hold Africa fronting the Atlantic, between the Cameroon country and the Congo State, and stretching inland as far as the head-waters of the Congo River; in the NW. GABERLUNZIE, a licensed beggar, or any of the mendicant class, so called from the wallet he carried. FYZABAD (78), capital of Oudh, in India, at one time, 78 m. The winter is hard, thesummer season is short, and the fishing and themoney earned in taking visitors for a sail formbut a scanty and uncertain support for wives andchildren.FAED, JOHN, a Scottish artist, son of a millwright, born at Barley Mill, Kirkcudbright; was elected an A.R.S.A. in 1847, and R.S.A. in 1851; his paintings are chiefly of humble Scottish life, the "Cottar's Saturday Night" among others; b.Attended a private school ball.CATO, MARCUS PORTIUS, or CATO THE YOUNGER, or UTICENSIS, great-grandson of the former, and a somewhat pedantic second edition of him; fortified himself by study of the Stoic philosophy; conceived a distrust of the public men of the day, Cæsar among the number; preferred Pompey to him, and sided with him; after Pompey's defeat retired to Utica, whence his surname, and stabbed himself to death rather than fall into the hands of Cæsar (95-46 B.C.).BALFOUR, SIR JAMES, Lord President of the Court of Session; native of Fife; an unprincipled man, sided now with this party, now with the opposite, to his own advantage, and that at the most critical period in Scottish history; d.By this paper it appears that Mrs. Marvinmade 6,056 cartridges, Ruth Marvin 6,204 Laura (the General’sdaughter) 4,250, Mary Ann (another daughter) 5,762, Frederick (hisson) 708, Mrs. Beach 2,002, and “sundry persons,” names not given,enough to swell the total to 42,288.Many may find the above guidelines difficult to follow, perhaps because of a lack of time (or the equivalent – small children!).Place your reasons where you can see them daily to remind yourself why you want to make this change."Contarini Fleming," "Coningsby," "Tancred," "Lothair," and "Endymion" are the most important of a brilliant and witty series, in which many prominent personages are represented and satirised under thin disguises. Heart &c.Yet I fear his dislike to the law will prevent his making that applicationto the study of it which is necessary to form the able counsellor.”In his last letter he expressed a desire to enter as a Clerk into the Bank.Mr. I have spun out this epistle to such a length, that I shall not havetime this evening to write every one—therefore each one may appropriatethis to him or herself, & give me credit for it upon their letteraccount books. In the succeeding farce called the Romp,Mrs. It has been under her immediate directionfrom its first establishment, and for several years she has been assistedby John P. Brace, Esq., a gentleman of distinguished literary andscientific attainments, whose time and talents are assiduously devotedto the improvement of the pupils under his charge. At a meeting of the Trustees holden Nov. 14th, 1828 voted that Dr.William Buel be appointed agent to collect the balance now due onthe Subscription to the Litchfield Female Academy and be authorizedto institute suits for the collection of the same. ThePainting to be done by the first day of May next.” The payments tobe “four hundred dolls on or before the 10th day of Sept. next 200dollars on or before the first day of November next and the balancewhen the building shall have completed. Throughout the Civil War; his chief work was the "Monasticum Anglicanum," which he executed conjointly with Roger Duckworth; wrote also on the antiquities of Warwickshire and heraldry; left 27 folio MSS. DUGDALE, SIR WILLIAM, antiquary, born in Warwickshire; was made Chester herald, accompanied Charles I. DUFFY, SIR CHARLES GAVAN, an Irish patriot, born in co. Consider weight loss pills Friday was examination day. Thursday was parsing afternoon, no division beat as several hadthe same.— Wednesday morning recited in Logic and Modern Europe, afternoonI went over to see Roxana Clark along with Maria C. Monday we were examined in the third volume of Sacred Historyand recited in Modern Europe. The jurats hadalso power of life and death for offences that wouldnow be considered of only a minor kind. Furthermore, any person who should woundanother maliciously with knife, sword, or the like,had the choice either of paying the Mayor andcommonalty sixty shillings, of going to prisonfor a year and a day, or of having his hand perforatedby the weapon with which the wound wasinflicted. Sandwich was severely governed in mediævaltimes by its authorities, the “jurats or barons,”but not one whit more severely than other membersof the Cinque Ports. Thus under Henry theThird, in 1229, the Cinque Ports, as a whole, wereto furnish fifty-seven ships, each with a crewof twenty-one men and a boy (a “gromet,” or“garcion,” as he was called) for fifteen days, at199their own cost; and as long afterwards as mightbe required, on pay. DOVER—THE CASTLE AND ROMAN PHAROS—“QUEEN ELIZABETH’S POCKET-PISTOL”—THE Are stretches of forest and hills in which iron and copper are wrought; a branch of the Mekong flows backward and forms the Great Lake; most of the country is inundated in the rainy season, and rice, tobacco, cotton, and maize are grown in the tracts thus irrigated; spices, gutta-percha, and timber are also produced; there are iron-works at Kompong Soai; foreign trade is done through the port Kampot.AN`TONY, ST., a famous anchorite of the Thebaïd, where from the age of thirty he spent 20 years of his life, in a lonely ruin by himself, resisting devils without number; left his retreat for a while to institute monasteries, and so became the founder of monachism, but returned to die; festival, Jan. 17 ( ).DILLON, JOHN, an Irish patriot, born in New York; entered Parliament in 1880 as a Parnellite; was once suspended, and four times imprisoned, for his over-zeal; sat at first for Tipperary, and since for East Mayo; in 1891 threw in his lot with the M'Carthyites; b.ELBOEUF (21), a town on the Seine, 75 m.The election takes place always on a Sunday,and the voting is given in the church-vestry.Should an election not be held within six monthsof the living becoming vacant, the privilege lapsesand the presentation becomes the property of theArchbishop of Canterbury.CORSICA (288), an island belonging to France, in the Mediterranean, ceded to her by Genoa in 1768, but by position, race, and language belongs to Italy; has been subject by turns to the powers that in succession dominated that inland sea; is 116 m. DORKING (7), a market-town picturesquely situated in the heart of Surrey, 24 m. DORIS, a small mountainous country of ancient Greece, S. DORIA, ANDREA, a naval commander, born in Genoa, of noble descent, though his parents were poor; a man of patriotic instincts; adopted the profession of arms at the age of 19; became commander of the fleet in 1513; attacked with signal success the Turkish corsairs that infested the Mediterranean; served under Francis I. “Whereas there has been this day produced tous a book called the ‘Storm,’ printed in Londonin the year 1704, for G. Defoe’s biting indictment came home to theinhabitants of Deal, and, after a considerabletime for thinking it over, they grew angry andresentful about it, in proportion to the truthof the charges. Itwas, without doubt, a sad spectacle to beholdthe poor seamen walking to and fro upon thesands, to view their postures and the signals theymade for help, which by the assistance of glasses,was easily seen from the shore. “I cannot omit,” he says, “thatgreat notice has been taken of the townspeopleof Deal, who are blam’d, and I doubt not withtoo much reason, for their great barbarity inneglecting to save the lives of abundance of poorwretches; who, having hung upon the masts andrigging of the ships, or floated upon the brokenpieces of wrecks, had gotten ashore upon theGoodwin Sands when the tide was out. Their present-day representatives arefallen upon the worst of times, and now thatdays and nights of cruising these waters at theirworst yields but an occasional job, the Deallugger is becoming something of a rarity, andeven that other peculiarly localised craft, the“knock-toe,” or galley-punt, does not seemto be as numerous on the beach as of yore. GALLIPOLI, 1, a fortified seaport town (8) in Southern Italy, 59 m. GALLE or POINT DE GALLE (33), fortified seaport town, prettily situated on a rocky promontory in the SW. Aurelius, L. Verus, and Severus; of his voluminous writings 83 treatises are still extant, and these treat on a varied array of subjects, philosophical as well as professional; for centuries after his death his works were accepted as authoritative in the matter of medicine ( ). Ladies are certainly injudicious in employing somany male frisseurs about their person. I neednot say of how much time and money they rob us which are sacred tovirtue and to the poor nor how soon this very embellished body will bedust and ashes the perfection of the one is conveyed in two words anelegant simplicity. Neatness however is easily practised and willalways have considerable weight. Rochefoucault that niceobserver of life and manners. Dartford does not greatly concern us here,because, for one thing, it is not upon the coast,and, for another, it belongs to quite a differentsubject, the Dover Road; and in a book onthat highway I have described the town at somelength. Coal was leisurely landedhere, in a way that was, by comparison with thepresent methods, altogether amateurish. Chief28among these was the life-size, cross-legged effigyof a knight in chain-mail, supposed to representone of the De Lucy family, about 1301; the shieldon his arm bearing the “flower-de-luce.” Thecolours and gilding are still perfect. Attended school, rehearsed my play, drew on my map,In the evening attended a private school ball enjoyed myself verywell. 49Sunday, Did not attend meeting, read in the Bible & Downman oninfancy, In the evening did not do anything. Assisted at home, attended school, read in the companion,drew on my map, assisted Mama at home & heard a playrehearsed, In the forenoon, drew on my map, In the afternoon studiedmy part. The forenoon I spent in sewing at home, In the afternoonwent to school, drew on my map of Connecticut & read in theinquisitor, which is a very humorous thing DERBY, CHARLOTTE COUNTESS OF, wife of the 7th Earl who was taken prisoner at Worcester in 1651, and was beheaded at Bolton; famous for her gallant defence of Lathom House against the Parliamentary forces, which she was obliged to surrender; lived to see the Restoration; d. DERBY (94), county town of Derbyshire, on the Derwent, with manufactures of silk, cotton hosiery, lace, porcelain, &c.; it is the centre of a great railway system. DEPTFORD (101), a town on the S. DEPARCIEUX, French mathematician, born at Cessoux, dep. DENISON, GEORGE ANTHONY, archdeacon of Taunton, born in Notts; was charged with holding views on the eucharist inconsistent with the teaching of the Church of England, first condemned and then acquitted on appeal; a stanch High Churchman, and equally opposed to Broad Church and Low; b. Of Ipswich, named from Edmund, king of East Anglia, martyred by the Danes in 870, in whose honour it was built; famous for its abbey, of the interior life of which in the 12th century there is a matchlessly graphic account in CARLYLE'S "PAST AND PRESENT." BURCKHARDT, Swiss historian and archæologist, born at Bâle, author of "Civilisation in Italy during the Renaissance"; b. BUNSEN, ROBERT WILLIAM, a distinguished German chemist, born at Göttingen, settled as professor of Chemistry at Heidelberg; invented the charcoal pile, the magnesian light, and the burner called after him; discovered the antidote to arsenic, with hydrate of iron and the SPECTRUM ANALYSIS (q. v.); b. BULL, an edict of the Pope, so called from a leaden seal attached to it. BUCKLE, GEORGE EARLE, editor of the Times, born near Bath; studied at Oxford, where he distinguished himself; is a Fellow of All Souls' College; became editor in 1884, having previously belonged to the editorial staff; b. CLEOPA`TRA, Queen of Egypt, a woman distinguished for her beauty, her charms, and her amours; first fascinated Cæsar, to whom she bore a son, and whom she accompanied to Rome, and after Cæsar's death took Mark Antony captive, on whose fall and suicide at Actium she killed herself by applying an asp to her arm, to escape the shame of being taken to Rome to grace the triumph of the victor (69-30 B.C.). CLEOM`BROTUS, a philosopher of Epirus, so fascinated with Plato's "Phædon" that he leapt into the sea in the expectation that he would thereby exchange this life for a better. CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE, an American humorist with the pseudonym of "Mark Twain," born at Florida, Missouri, U.S.; began his literary career as a newspaper reporter and a lecturer; his first book "The Jumping Frog"; visited Europe, described in the "Innocents Abroad"; married a lady of fortune; wrote largely in his peculiar humorous vein, such as the "Tramp Abroad"; produced a drama entitled the "Gilded Age," and compiled the "Memoirs of General Grant"; b. The occasion was made the very mostof, in the hysterical manner of the age; froma congratulatory telegram from the King down295to the excited comments of the halfpenny press.Webb’s finer performance of thirty-six yearsearlier was a comparatively obscure affair. Prominentamong these is the bronze portrait-bust ofCaptain Webb, the first person to swim theChannel. Dover is an ambitious place, and intends tocompete vigorously with Southampton, Plymouth,and Liverpool for overseas traffic. CONSERVATISM, indisposition to change established laws and customs that have wrought beneficially in the past and contributed to the welfare of the country; in practical politics often a very different thing, and regarded by Carlyle in his time "a portentous enbodied sham; accursed of God, and doomed to destruction, as all lies are." COLUMELLA, JUNIUS, a Latin writer of the 1st century, born at Cadiz; author of "De Re Rustica," in 12 books, on the same theme as Virgil's "Georgics," viz., agriculture and gardening; he wrote also "De Arboribus," on trees. CLODOMIR, the second son of Clovis, king of Orleans from 511 to 524; fell fighting with his rivals; his children, all but one, were put to death by their uncles, Clotaire and Childebert. CLEVELAND, JOHN, partisan of Charles I.; imprisoned for abetting the Royalist cause against the Parliament, but after some time set at liberty in consequence of a letter he wrote to Cromwell pleading that he was a poor man, and that in his poverty he suffered enough; he was a poet, and used his satirical faculty in a political interest, one of his satires being an onslaught on the Scots for betraying Charles I.; d. BONHEUR, ROSA, a celebrated French animal painter, born at Bordeaux; brought up in poverty from ill-fortune; taught by her father; exhibited when she was 19; her best-known works are the "Horse Fair" and the "Hay Harvest in Auvergne," "Ploughing with Oxen," considered her masterpiece; through the Empress Eugenie she received the Cross of the Legion of Honour; during the siege of Paris her studio was spared by order of the Crown Prince; b. BONER, ULRICH, a German fabulist and Dominican monk of the 14th century, author of "Der Edelstein" (The Jewel), a book of fables. BONDU (30), a country of Senegambia, a dependency of France; yields maize, cotton, fruits. 1822, married Princess Clothilde, daughter of Victor Emmanuel, of which marriage was born Prince Victor Napoleon in 1862. Fortunately for them, oneof the hovelling luggers of Deal was despatchedin time. No oarsmen are strongenough to pull away from the Sands under thosecircumstances; and there those adventurouscricketers had to remain, facing death, or thealternative of their danger being recognised bytheir friends ashore. Another match, played in 1839by a party from Deal, had not concluded whenthe wind freshened and they found it an ill thingto be on the Goodwins with only a small boatthat, useful enough on a calm sea, was of no useat all in half a gale. I trod with reverencethe rock upon which that great man stood, & my heart wept to thinkthat the father of his country was no more. Your pleasant letter written sometime ago gratified me extremely—Every line, every phrase, presented379my rattling sister very vividly to my fancy. Dr. Ortonhas arrived & I also can afford more time to my L’d friends. Does MariaBudd still act the “heyday of the fantastic? At this time I suppose Idea’s black eyes are sparkling upon the beausof Vermont. Cannons were to be fired from the topof these things, in order to defend the countryagainst the French Jacobins! I had scarcelyhad time to think about what it could be, whentwenty or thirty others, standing along the coast,caught my eye; and, if any one had been behindme, he might have heard me exclaim, in a voicethat made my horse bound, ‘The martello towers,by ——! Romney Marsh was in merry Tom Ingoldsby’stime so out of the way that he could find itpossible to say, with that humorous exaggerationwhich enshrines some little truth, “the world,according to the best geographers, is dividedinto Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and RomneyMarsh. CAROLINE CHESTER—HER DIARY—EXTRACTS FROM HER COMMONPLACE BOOK. BELA I., king of Hungary from 1061 to 1063; an able ruler; introduced a great many measures for the permanent benefit of the country, affecting both religion and social organisation. BEERBOHM TREE, HERBERT, actor, born in London, son of a grain merchant; his first appearance was as the timid curate in the "Private Secretary," and then as the spy Macari in "Called Back"; is lessee of the Haymarket Theatre, London, and has had many notable successes; he is accompanied by his wife, who is a refined actress; b. Grew restive under his assumption of authority, and got rid of him by the hands of four knights who, to please the king, shed his blood on the steps of the altar of Canterbury Cathedral, for which outrage the king did penance four years afterwards at his tomb. The noble monuments and relics of her ancient civilisation, chief amongst which are the Pyramids, as well as the philosophies and religions she inherited, together with the arts she practised, and her close connection with Jewish history, give her a peculiar claim on the interested regard of mankind. The country is nominally a dependency of Turkey under a native government, but is in reality controlled by the British, who exercise a veto on its financial policy, and who, since 1882, have occupied the country with soldiers. EGYPT (8,000), a country occupying the NE. EGHAM (10), a small town in Surrey, on the Thames, 20 m. The next morning we were awakened by Mrs. Bull.When we went down there was a large fire built for Sarah and me, forwe sat alone most of the time. It certainlymust afford great pleasure to parents to see their children walking inthe ways of wisdom and prudence. I do not know how I shallever repay my parents for their goodness in sending me to school,but I think if I improve myself as much as they expect and to theirsatisfaction they will want me to repay them no better. How quick theflight of time! I had 721 forwhat time I had been here. ÆPYOR`NIS, a gigantic fossil bird of Madagascar, of which the egg is six times larger than that of an ostrich. See "SCHWEGLER," translated by Dr. Hutchison Stirling. ÆNESIDEMUS, a sceptical philosopher, born in Crete, who flourished shortly after Cicero, and summed up under ten arguments the contention against dogmatism in philosophy. ÆGIR, the god of the sea in the Norse mythology. CECROPS, the mythical first king and civiliser of Attica and founder of Athens with its citadel, dedicated by him to Athena, whence the name of the city. CAYLUS, MARQUISE DE, born in Poitou, related to Mme. de Maintenon; left piquant souvenirs of the court of Louis XIV. CAVENDISH, LORD FREDERICK, brother of the ninth Duke of Devonshire, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and a Liberal; was made Chief-Secretary for Ireland in 1882, but chancing to walk home one evening through the Phoenix Park, he fell a victim, stabbed to the heart, of a conspiracy that was aimed at Mr. Burke, an unpopular subordinate, who was walking along with him, and came to the same fate. In England in opposition to the parliamentary party, or the Roundheads, as they were called. CAVALIER, JEAN, leader of the CAMISARDS (q. v.), born at Ribaute, in the dep. It has also been found to promote substantial weight loss – likely better than any drug currently available – in a trial of overweight people without diabetes.103 TThe FDA approved semaglutide for use with weight loss, and many feel this it is a “gamechanger” when it comes to medical weight loss. At this lower dose, the resulting weight loss is about 75% of the weight loss seen with Saxenda. Testing on people with obesity (without diabetes) shows that at higher doses the drug is fairly effective as a pure weight loss treatment, with patients losing on average 12.3 pounds (5.6 kilos) more than a placebo group after one year.101 Liraglutide was initially used to control blood sugar in type 2 diabetes – under the brand name Victoza – where it has the nice side effect of significant weight loss.100 It slows down how quickly the stomach empties and tells the brain that you don’t need to eat yet – not a bad idea for losing weight. AT`TOCK (4), a town and fortress in the Punjab, on the Indus where the Kabul joins it—a river beyond which no Hindu must pass; it was built by Akbar in 1581.COMITY OF NATIONS, the name given for the effect given in one country to the laws and institutions of another in dealing with a native of it.BASTIAN, DR. H. C., a physiologist, born at Truro; a materialist in his theory of life; a zealous advocate of the doctrine of spontaneous generation; b.I felt quite bad enough when I was at school, and I am sure I shallfeel ten times worse, now I am agoing to my aunt’s.Simply divide your waist (in inches or centimeters) by your height.D. III., Eucæros (i. e. the happy), king of Syria in 95, died in 84 B.C.BAR`RACKPUR (18), a town on the Hooghly, 15 m. DANVILLE, the name of several towns in the United States. Of Europe; it is traversed by canals, and many of the houses are built on piles of wood; exports grain brought down the river on timber rafts from the great grain country in the S.; it is one of the chief stations of the German navy. Prussia, once a Hanse town, on the Vistula, 4 m. He died after finishing it, not yet very old, at the age of 56. DERBY DAY, the last Wednesday in May, or, as may happen, the 1st of June, being the second day of the Summer Meeting at Epsom, on which the Derby Stakes for colts and fillies three years old are run for, so called as having been started by the 12th Earl of Derby in 1780; the day is held as a great London holiday, and the scene is one to which all London turns out. DENVER (134), the capital of Colorado, U.S., on a plain 5196 ft. above the sea-level; originally founded as a mining station in 1858, now a large and flourishing and well-appointed town; is the centre of a great trade, and a great mining district. D. III., Eucæros (i. e. the happy), king of Syria in 95, died in 84 B.C. DEMETRIUS I., Soter (i. e. saviour), king of Syria from 162 to 150 B.C.; was grandson of Antiochus the Great. DOGE, the name of the chief magistrate of Venice and Genoa, elected at first annually and then for life in Venice, with, in course of time, powers more and more limited, and at length little more than a figure-head; the office ceased with the fall of the republic in 1797, as it did in Genoa in 1804. DOBSON, AUSTIN, poet and prose writer, born at Plymouth, is in a department of the Civil Service; wrote "Vignettes in Rhyme," "Proverbs in Porcelain," "Old World Idylls," in verse, and in prose Lives of Fielding, Hogarth, Steele, and Goldsmith; contributed extensively to the magazines; b. DNIEPER, a river of Russia, anciently called the Borysthenes, the third largest for volume of water in Europe, surpassed only by the Danube and the Volga; rises in the province of Smolensk, and flowing in a generally southerly direction, falls into the Black Sea below Kherson after a course of 1330 m.; it traverses some of the finest provinces of the empire, and is navigable nearly its entire length. May every anxious hour, which ye havespent, the tears ye have shed when we have counted o’er the monthsby woes, and chid the tardy sun, whose sluggard pace detained usprisoners in a wretched world; be reckoned o’er in new found blessingson your virtuous lives. May all the kindness ye have shewn my dear lost sonsand me, be doubled to ye. If need requireI will accept your offers; meantime let us prepare to make the journey. The very reasons which you name would urge it. ELVAS, a strongly fortified town in Portugal, in the province of Alemtejo, 12 m. ELSWICK (53), a town in the vicinity of Newcastle, noted for the great engineering and ordnance works of Sir W. G. ELSINORE, a seaport on the island of Zeeland, in Denmark, 20 m. ELPHINSTONE, WILLIAM, an erudite and patriotic Scottish ecclesiastic and statesman, born in Glasgow; took holy orders; went to Paris to study law, and became a professor in Law there, and afterwards at Orleans; returned to Scotland; held several high State appointments under James III. Personal ridicule, in general arises from envy or ill-nature, a meandesire of lowering those virtues we cannot reach, or a mean vanityof exposing those follies from which we feel ourselves free. In making peopleridiculous, we injure them extremely. In telling us that, Alicia, have you not told us the very reason ofMaster Sydney’s behavior? Oh, she pouted out her lips so; then she crammed her fingers intoher mouth; and then leered round to see if I was looking at her! BHUTAN (20), an independent state in the Eastern Himalayas, with magnificent scenery; subsidised by Britain; has a government like that of Thibet; religion the same, though the people are at a low stage of civilisation; the country exports horses, musk, and salt. BHILS, a rude pro-Aryan race of Central India, still untrained to settled life; number 750,000. BHARTRIHARI, Indian author of apothegms, who appears to have lived in the 11th century B.C., and to have been of royal rank. BHARTPUR` (68), a town in Rajputana, in a native state of the name; yielding wheat, maize, cotton, sugar, with quarries of building stone; 30 m. And each attempt averaged just six days. One poll discussed in Psychology Today suggests that, on average, people try 126 fad diets in their lives. If your best efforts at losing weight aren’t panning out, you’re far from alone. When you're stressed, your body conserves energy which can lead to fewer calories burned and possible weight gain in the long run. They've also been linked to a whole host of additional health benefits, such as lowering blood pressure, controlling blood sugar and reducing the risk of chronic disease overall. Every body is different, so the amount of weight you lose will vary greatly from person to person. You can eat a few gummies a day, depending on how much weight you need to lose. Are you looking for a compelling weight loss strategy that doesn't expect you to make extreme improvements in your daily diet or exercise? Isabel S Weight Loss Diet Solution Program Nowadays sugar can be found in most of the packaged foods and it is really hard to keep away from. For me, these periods were about a month long, every 2 or 3 months of not losing weight. I believe it is a natural stage in a longer weight loss journey, as the body needs constant accommodating with its new weight. Also, there were a few long periods of “break”, when my body would just maintain the same weight. When all these thingsare seen and take place, then mamma thinks howdelightful the sea-breeze must be, and suddenlydiscovers that the children look pale. He would probably not doso now; but the general trend of popular literaturein those days was in the same direction ofcomparatively unenterprising holidays on thenearest coast-line. It is rather curious nowadays to read Dickens’sshort story, “The Tuggses at Ramsgate,” tonote that, in the novelist’s mind, a more or lessvulgar Cockney who had suddenly found himselfpossessed of twenty thousand pounds, wouldthink at once of Ramsgate as a holiday-place forhimself and family. Theyhave rendered this no place for a quiet holiday;and effectively disprove the ancient and much-quotedsaying, wrongly attributed to Froissart,171“The English take their pleasures sadly.” Canyou come away from Ramsgate sands with thatbelief? ALFONSO III., surnamed the Great, king of Asturias, ascended the throne in 866, fought against and gained numerous victories over the Moors; the members of his family rose against him and compelled him to abdicate, but on a fresh incursion of the Moors he came forth from his retreat and triumphantly beat them back; died in Zamora, 910. ALFIE`RI, an Italian dramatist, spent his youth in dissipation before he devoted himself to the dramatic art; on the success of his first drama "Cleopatra," met at Florence with the Countess of Albany, the wife of Charles Edward Stuart, on whose death he married her; was at Paris when the Revolution broke out, and returned to Florence, where he died and was buried. ALEXANDER OF PARIS, a Norman poet of the 16th century, who wrote a poem on Alexander the Great in twelve-syllabled lines, called after him Alexandrines. ALEXANDER III., son of the preceding, married a daughter of Henry III., sided with him against the barons, successfully resisted the invasion of Haco, king of Norway, and on the conclusion of peace gave his daughter in marriage to Haco's successor Eric; accidentally killed by falling over a cliff near Kinghorn when hunting in 1285. ALEXANDER I., king of Scotland, son of Malcolm Canmore and Margaret, sister of Edgar Atheling, a vigorous prince, surnamed on that account The Fierce; subdued a rising in the North, and stood stoutly in defence of the independent rights of both Crown and Church against the claim of supremacy over both on the part of England; d. Of Europe was in prehistoric times subjected to two invasions of Aryan tribes, all of whom are now referred to as Celts. CELTIBE`RI, an ancient Spanish race occupying the centre of the peninsula, sprung from a blending of the aborigines and the Celts, who invaded the country; a brave race, divided into four tribes; distinguished in war both as cavalry and infantry, and whom the Romans had much trouble in subduing. CELSUS, a celebrated Roman physician of the age of Augustus, and perhaps later; famed as the author of "De Medicina," a work often referred to, and valuable as one of the sources of our knowledge of the medicine of the ancients. The reputation of each of these schools stands extremely high.—Thenumber of either we do not know, but it is believed they havenot for many years been better filled. The Law School in this place has not for a number of years beenas full and as flourishing as at this time. Miss Piercesaw and regretted this, and devoted herself and all of her active lifeto the mental and moral culture of her sex. Hithertothe education of young ladies, with few exceptions, had been neglected.The district school had limited their course of studies. The intelligence of herdeath cast a shade of sadness, over many a domestic circle, and causedmany a silent tear to fall. CHASSEURS, picked bodies of light cavalry and infantry in the French service, called respectively Chasseurs-à-cheval and Chasseurs-à-pied.It marks,indeed, that nook in the coast-line where theold Wantsum Channel and the river Stour flowedalong past Minster and Sarre, and emerged atReculver, thus forming the Isle of Thanet.Tracking round from Pegwell and its shrimpyarbours, along the low shores, we come at Cliff’sEnd to the “Sportsman” inn and Ebbsfleet,and, turning to the right, will presently findSt.Y. Cutler, Esq. formerly of this city(New Haven) a native of Watertown, in this State (Conn).This guide is written for adults with health issues, including obesity, that could benefit from losing weight.GERVASE OF TILBURY, a mediæval historical writer, born at Tilbury, in Essex; said to have been a nephew of King Henry II.; he held a lectureship in Canon Law at Bologna, and through the influence of Emperor Otto IV.Of Naples, born at Sos, in Aragon, married Isabella of Castile in 1849, a step by which these ancient kingdoms were united under one sovereign power; their joint reign is one of the most glorious in the annals of Spanish history, and in their hands Spain quickly took rank amongst the chief European powers; in 1492 Columbus discovered America, and the same year saw the Jews expelled from Spain and the Moorish power crushed by the fall of Granada.ENGLAND, THE WANT OF, "England needs," says Ruskin, "examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek, not greater wealth, but simpler pleasures; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity; making the first of possessions self-possession, and honouring themselves in the harmless pride and calm pursuits of peace."COMPTON, HENRY, bishop of London, son of the Earl of Northampton; fought bravely for Charles I.; was colonel of dragoons at the Restoration; left the army for the Church; was made bishop; crowned William and Mary when the archbishop, Sancroft, refused; d. The map of the world (Plate XLII) was drawn by Miss Lewiswhen at school, and there is also a map of the United Statesdrawn by Eliza Ann Mulford, in possession of her son, both ofwhich serve to prove careful instruction in geography. Laws has said of his Mirandathat she was always clean without because she was always pure withinand Richardson whose taste was as exquisite as his imagination glowing,has painted his Clarissa as always dressed before she came downstairs for any company that might break in upon her during the wholeday. The many hints suggested to us at school by Miss Pierce upon improvementleads me more frequently to reflect upon its importanceand for what my Dear Brother was the rational mind given us was itnot to be stored with useful Knowledge which alone can render lifepleasing and above all fit us for the blessed society which all hope toenjoy. In the evening Miss Tomlinson came to Mr. Adams’s her conversationwas pictures boarding and history.... Timothy Pierce, son of John Pierce and Mary Goodman b. James Brace hadin the meantime best go to his Father’s and get his consent that he livewith me this winter I am determined353however that she shall go about the first of the month, and youmust be in readiness at that time to take her place. BITUMEN, an inflammable mineral substance, presumably of vegetable origin, called Naphtha when liquid and light-coloured, Petroleum when less fluid and darker, Maltha when viscid, and Asphalt when solid.DELAUNAY, LOUIS ARSÈNE, a great French actor, born in Paris; made his début in 1846, retired 1887.You can download the paper by clicking the button above.BAILEY, NATHAN, an early English lexicographer, whose dictionary, very popular in its day, was the basis of Johnson's; d.The old road from Sandwich to Deal ran acrossthe sandy wastes through which the railwaygoes, but the sand-dunes that line the shoreall the way between the towns, and stretch farinland, form a profound discouragement to thosewho would seek to trace the seashore.Arose about six oClock spent the morning in writing went to schoolstudied a geography lesson and recited it.ARBE`LA, a town near Mosul, where Alexander the Great finally defeated Darius, 331 B.C. CRANE, ICHABOD, a tall, lean, lank, Yankee schoolmaster in Irving's "Legend of Sleepy Hollow." CRAIL, a little old-fashioned town near the East Neuk of Fife, where James Sharp was minister; a decayed fishing-place, now a summer resort. "It is certain," Carlyle says of it long after, "that for living and thinking in I have never since found in the world a place so favourable…. How blessed," he exclaims, "might poor mortals be in the straitest circumstances if their wisdom and fidelity to heaven and to one another were adequately great!" Because it is only FDA-approved for short-term use, many doctors specializing in weight management will continue to prescribe it “off-label” as a long-term strategy, if the person is doing well on the drug, as long as that person is willing to accept the risks. Most available drugs result in modest weight loss (about 5% of body weight on average), sometimes at the expense of bothersome side effects. Another possible hormonal issue behind stubborn weight issues may be the main stress hormone, cortisol. Untilthat time the public had access to the place;but it has since been restored and huge additionsmade, wholly changing the aspect of the spot.Before these developments it was possible towander anywhere at will about the ruins of thecastrum on the undercliff; but now one is restricted,and goes between limits of barbed-wire, andhedged in with threatening prohibitions. The compositionof this open-air assembly was, the LordWarden, with the Mayor of Sandwich on his rightand the Mayor of Dover on his left; on the right332of the Mayor of Sandwich, the Mayor of Hastings;and the Mayors of Romney, and Hythe, Winchelseaand Rye, Faversham, Folkestone, orFordwich, Lydd, Pevensey or Seaford, and Tenterden,respectively in succession, right and left. The Lord Warden was always, from the earliesttimes, sworn in at the Court of Shepway upon hisappointment. He was bound hand and foot to a stakeset upon the seashore where the tide ebbed andflowed, his throat was cut, and his tongue drawnout through the slit. Here offenderswere tried upon charges of high treason, failureof ship-service, false judgment, and treasure-trove.Process upon conviction was summary. Much of the training and inspirationof my early days consisted, not in the things which I was supposedto be studying, but in hearing while seated unnoticed at mydesk, the conversation of Mr. Brace with the older classes. Miss Pierce, withgreat cleverness had compiled an abridgment of ancient history, fromthe best sources, in four volumes, for the use of her pupils; after which,Russell’s ‘Modern Europe,’ with Coot’s continuation, and Ramsay’s‘American Revolution,’ brought us down nearly to our own times. “This school is the only one I ever knew which really carried outa thorough course of ancient & modern history. The history andantiquities of the Bantam Indians formed the themes of several balladsand poetical effusions, one of which by Miss Catharine Beecher, andtwo by the head teacher of the Female Academy, Mr. John P. Brace,were in the mouths and memories of many persons.