hewed in pieces by Samuel, 157. Agapæ, or Love Feasts, ii, 438. Agincourt, Victory of, vii, 74. igni, in Hindu Mythology, the god of fire, 1, 75.
griculture, in Egypt, iii, 206; Jefferson's acquaintance with im- provements in, xi, 284; scien- tific, xii, 421, 428, 429, 430. grippa, Herod, at Cæsarea, Paul "almost persuades him to be a Christian," ii, 447. grippa, Baths of, iii, 121. hab, King of Israel.-(1918-896 B. C.) Son and successor of Omri, ii, 244; builds temple to Baal, 244; dwells with Jezebel in splendor at Jezreel, 245; wit- discomfiture of Baal's prophets on Mt. Carmel, 258; acquaints Jezebel, who threatens Elijah's life, 259; covets Na- both's vineyard, 266, 267; with Jezebel secures it by craft, and compasses Naboth's death, 269, 270; punishment of both king and queen, 271; death of, 273; death of Jezebel and Ahab's sev- enty sons, 279.
naz, King of Judah (742-727 B. C.), his subjects slain and taken captive, ii, 296.
naziah. Son of Ahab, and King of Israel (896-894 B. C.), sends soldiers to arrest Elijah who are consumed by fire, ii, 274, 275; his death, 275.
Alaric.-King of the West Goths (1376-410 A.D.), invades Greece, Athens ransomed, iv, 346, 347; retires before Stilicho, but ad- vances into Italy, 347; extorts great ransom from Rome, 349; returns to Rome (410 A.D.) and sacks it, 350.
Albans, Saint, English Church of, ▼, 149. Albertus Magnus.
- (1190-1280.) Teacher of Thomas Aquinas, and able expounder of the scholastic philosophy, v, 233; vii, 32. Albret, Jeanne d'. (1 5 2 8-7 2.) Queen of Navarre, viii, 119. Alcibiades.-(450-404 B.C.) Athe- nian general and politician, at- tracted by Socrates, i, 209, 253, 257; banqueting, 250; passions and appetites, 268; traitor to his country, 275. Aldworth, Surrey, Tennyson's home, and death at, xiii, 457. Alembert, Jean Baptiste
(1717-83.) French philosopher and mathematician, xiii, 29, 55. Alençon, Duke of, vii, 90. Alexander the Great. (323-356 B.C.) King of Macedon, i, 62, 63; family history, iii, 389; education, 389; interest Greek heroic and tragic poetry,
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389; affection for Aristotle,
389; ascends throne, 389, 390; invades Greece, 390; made com- mander-in-chief to prosecute war against Persia, 390; captures Thebes, 390; invades Asia, 391; defeats Darius, 391, 392; marches toward Egypt, 393; conquers Egypt, 393; believes himself of divine origin, 393; founds city of Alexandria, 393; becomes master of eastern Medi- terranean coast, 393; destroys Persian Empire, 393, 394; picious character of, 395; kills his general, 395, 396; marriage, 396; conquests lead into India, 396, 397; constructs fleet in Phoenician ports, 398; receives embassies from all nations around Mediterranean, 398; death, 399; influence of reign, 399, 401; wars of, led to intro- duction of Greek civilization into Ásia and Egypt, v, 328; vii, 109. Alexander I. Czar of Russia
(1801-25), vii, 289, 291; suc- cession of, ix, 77, 87, 95, 141; at Congress of Vienna, 159; def- erence to Metternich, 180, 235, 275, 280, 281, 288; death, 313; autocrat of all the Russias, x, 155; adds Finland to his king- dom, 156.
Alexander II.-Emperor of Russia, X, 195.
Alexander VI, Pope.-(1492-1503.) vi, 142, 168, 171.
Alexandria, Egypt, in the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus, iii, 214; great seat of commerce, 215; renowned schools, 215, 313; in the time of Queen Cleopatra, 322-329; in Constantine's day, the centre of theological agita- tions, iv, 158.
Alexis. Son of Peter the Great
(1690-1718), a trial to his fa- ther, viii, 358-360, death of, 361. Alfred the Great.-(849-901.) King of the West Saxons (871-901). The Saxons in England, viii, 25; birth and parentage, 33; edu cated at Rome and visits at Paris court of Charles the Bald, 34; rule of his brothers over Wessex, 35; fights the Danes, and begins his reign, 35, 36; a fugitive (A.D. 878), but is victorious at Ethandune, Guthrum succumbing to Alfred and receives baptism, 36-38; treaty of Wedmore gives Danes slice of England, which they occupy and settle, 38; con- structs fortresses and other de- fences, 41; reorganizes his army and navy, 42-45; destroys Dan- ish fleet, 44; siege of Rochester, 45; laws and codes of, and maintenance of justice, 46-52; educational efforts, 53, 54; fur- ther Danish invasion under Has ting, and defeat of, 55-57; death and character, 58-62. Alger, Russel A.
(1836-1907.) Secretary of War during Cuban War, XV,
Algeria, Extension of France's Col ony of, ix, 346; Conquest of (1830), 215.
Algiers, Decatur chastises, xi, 283. Alien and Sedition Laws, Enact-
ment of, under John Adams's administration, xi, 254. Ali Pasha.-(1741-1822.) Alban- ian pasha of Jannina, death of, ix, 295.
Alison, Sir Archibald.
(1792- 1867.) His "History of Europe," ix, 350.
"Allegro, L'," Milton's, xiii, 331. Alma, Battle of the (Crimean War), in 1854, x, 183.
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Althorp, Lord (Earl Spencer). English statesman and reformer (1782-1845), x, 25, 29, 34, 46, 54, 66.
Aluminum, extended uses of the metal, xiv, 438.
lay on, in letter to a correspond. ent, xiii, 271, 272.
America, British, "Summary View of the Rights of," xi, 273. American Idea, the, Origin of, xi, Revolu 23; Institutions, 23; tion, 51; Independence born, 49; resistance to taxation, 229. American Independence, Jefferson identified with, xi, 275. American Leaders, xii, 23. American trade, Jefferson seeks to remove shackles from, xi, 283. American Union, The, xii, 145. See Webster, Daniel... Ammon.-Veiled Egyptian deity, 1,
33; temple at Thebes, 112. Ammon Ra, physical sun of Egypt- ians, 1, 33.
Amorites, Nation of the, ii, 34.
'Amos Barton," "Sad Fortunes of," George Eliot's, vii, 357, 358. Ampère, André Marie.
(1775- 1836.) French physicist, electri- cal investigations, xiv, 401. Ampère, Jean J. A.-(1800-64.) French literary historian, vil, *** 249.
Alva, Duke of.-(1508-82.) Span- ish general, vii, 166. Ambrose, Saint.-(340-397 A. D.) Bishop of Milan, iv, 247; im- portance of his See in his day, 252; birth at Treves, and early education, 253, 254; governor of Northern Italy and arch- bishop of Milan, 254; adminis- trative ability, 256; baptism and surrender of his princely fortune, 256; tilt with heretics, 258; Manicheans and Arians, 258, 259; Empress Faustina (an Arian) challenges Ambrose public disputation, 261; refuses to compromise himself in the palace of an enemy, 265; issue raised with an angry sovereign, 266; seeks shelter in the sanc- tuary, which Faustina's troops refuse to invade, 266, 267; queen baffled and Valentinian threat- ened with a revolt, 270, 271; temporal power yields to the spiritual, 271; ambassador to barbaric courts, 271, 272; Theo- dosius slaughters the people of Thessalonica, 274; grief of Am- brose, who writes a letter to the emperor insisting on his repent- ance and expiation, the emperor yields, 275; his laborious life, charity, and humanity, 277; af- fection for St. Augustine, 278; death and eulogy, 279, 280. America, discovery of, vi, 108; field for enterprise and industry, 126; mission of and immediate results of discovery, 130, 131; Macau- Roman numerals refer to Volumes. see Prefatory Note at beginning of Index.
Amphitheatre, Roman, iii, 102. Anæsthetic, surgical, first efficient, xiv, 478.
"Analects" (Lun-yu) of Confucius, i, 153, 156, 175. Anaxagoras.Greek natural phi losopher (1500-428 B. C.), at- tempts to square the circle, iii, 174.
Anaximander.-Greek physical phi- losopher (611-547 B. C.), geo- metrical knowledge of, iii, 173. Anaximenes. (Circa 6th. cent. B. C.) Greek philosopher and friend of Thales, i, 261; crude notions of astronomy, iii, 160, 161. Ancestors, Worship of, in China, i, 165...
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mestication," variation of, Dar- win's, xiv, 164, 172, 180. Animal worship, Egyptian, i, 39, 40; influence of, extended to the Jews, 41.
Animals of Egypt worshipped neath the temple, ii, 341. Anne, Princess.-(Afterwards Queen.) Wife of Prince George
of Denmark (1665-1714). play- mate with Sarah Jennings (after- wards Duchess of Marlborough) at York House, vii, 183-185; her character, 185; marriage, 186; corresponds (as "Mrs. Morley") with Duchess of Marlborough ("Mrs. Freeman"), 186; resides at Chatsworth, 187; succeeds to British throne (1702), 191; alienated from Duchess of Marl- borough, 199-201; takes up Mrs. Masham in place of "Mrs. Free- man," 203; parts with Lord Godolphin, her confidential min- ister, 204; dismisses Duchess of Marlborough, 206; also dis- misses Duke of Marlborough, 215; her death, 217.
Anne, Queen of Great Britain (1702-14), Court of, vii, 182; ruled by Duchess of Marl- borough, viii, 102; English writ ers of the reign of, xiii, 281. (See Preceding.)
Anne of Austria.-Wife of Louis XIII of France, rules through Italian favorites, viii, 102. "Anne of Geierstein," Scott's, xiii, 128.
Anselm, Saint-(1033-1109.) Me- dieval Theology, v, 171; birth, family, and contemporaries, 171, 172; studies under Lanfranc, whom he succeeds as prior, then abbot, of Bec (1063-93), 173; his theological and philosophic studies, 173; becomes arch- bishop of Canterbury on death of Lanfranc, 175, 179; breach with William Rufus, 180; quar rel with the King over the rite of investiture, 182-186, 193; the Pope refuses to depose Anselm at King's bidding, 186; Anselm finally receives the pallium, 187; the appeals to Rome, 188; sides with the Pope rather than with his sovereign, 190; visit to Rome, 194; Henry I becomes reconciled to the archbishop, 195; death and estimate of, 196, 197; combats the Nominalism of Roscelin, 209; vii, 36, 117, 123. Anselm of Laon. - (1030-1117.) French theologian, vii, 33, 36. Anson, Ellen Louise. Wife of Woodrow Wilson, xvi, 25, 26. Anthony, Susan B. (1820-1906.) American reformer, woman suf- fragist, xvi, 142; family his- tory, 142; active in temperance and anti-slavery organization, 142.
Antietam, Battle of (Sept., 1862), xii, 333.
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Anti-Corn-Law Association, x, 79. Anti-Federalists, xi, 160. Anti-Masonic movement in U. S. political history, xii, 77, 78. Antioch, Saul and Barnabas at, ii, 415; Christians of, 417; contri- butions of, to their poor breth- ren, 417; its baths, theatres, museums, and temples, iii, 212. Antiochus IV. - King of Syria
(175-164 B. C.), detests the monotheism of Jews and afflicts them, ii, 393; death of, 394. "Antiquary," The, Scott's novel, xiii, 112, 113.
Antiquity, Classical, rich in poetry, i, 321; ii, 33; Moses, august character of, 97. Anti-slavery agitation, xii, 215,
216, 223; movement, 255. Antisthenes. — (4 4 4-3 71 B. C.) Athenian philosopher and found- er of school of the Cynics, i, 215, 257.
Antoninus Pius.-Emperor of Rome (138-161 A. D.), adopts his fu- ture son-in-law, Marcus Aurelius, iv, 107.
Antonio, the Merchant, of Shaks. peare's plays, xiii, 305. Antony, Mark. - Roman general (83-30 B. C.), Cicero's philippics against; his infatuation for Cleopatra, iii, 297, 312, 323; marries Octavia, 323; fights Oc- tavius (Augustus Cæsar) at Actium (31 B.C.), 326; civil war ends his career, 328; dies before Cleopatra, 329; vii, 109. Aosta, Italy, birthplace of Anselm
Apelles. Greek painter (time of Alexander the Great), "the Titian of his day," i, 309, 310, 311; iii, 138, 139; Venus (Aphro- dite) of, 143.
Aphrodite (Venus). Goddess of love and wedlock, i, 48, 117, 120; mother of Eneas, 118;
Aphrodite, The, of Praxiteles, iil, 120.
Apis, the sacred bull of Memphis, i, 39.
Apollo. Sun-god of Greeks and Romans, i, 48, 49; oracle of, 112; chief
Olympian divinity,
115, 117, 120. Apollo Velvedere.-Sculptured fig ure of, i, 125; vi, 187, 192. Apollodorus. - (Circa 404 B. C.)
Greek painter, i, 257, 307; in- vented chiaroscuro, 308; iii, 134, 136.
Apollonius of Perga, Greek geo.
metrician (circa 2nd half of 3rd cent. B. C.). Iis treaties on conic sections, iii, 177. Appomattox, Lee's capitulation at (April, 1865), xii, 343. Aquila and Priscilla.-Paul lodges with, at Corinth, ii, 432, 435. Aquinas, Thomas.-(1225-74). The scholastic philosophy, v, 215; a recruit of the Dominican order, 231; birth and parentage, 231; a prodigy of dialectical skill, 232; studies under Albertus Magnus, 233; personal appear- ance, 234; his commentary on the "Book of Sentences," 234; doctor of theology, 235; the "Summa Theologica," 235, 236, 247; the "Catena," an interpre- tation of Patristic literature, 236; offered preferment but re- fuses it, 238; Dr. Vaughan's "Life" of the medieval doctor, 239; Platonic and Aristotelian in his writings, 241; death, 241; vii, 32, 35, 37. Arabia.
Patriarchial monotheism of, ii, 42; its fine horses, 206;
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