given by him to art, with new ideas, 211; character and man- ners, 211; sonnets, 213; stern integrity and allegiance to duty, 214; benevolence, death, 214; vii, 25, 158, 227, 250, 278, 382; viii, 185, 239; his decoration of the Sistine Chapel, xi, 199. Michael, Saint, the archangel, vii, 73, 98.
Michaud, Joseph F.-(1767-1839.)
French writer on the Crusades, ix, 221.
Michelet, Jules. (1798-1874.) French historian, vi, 208; ix, 221.
Michigan applies (1836) for ad-
mission into the Union, xii, 222. Michmash, Battle of, ii, 161. Middle Ages, Spiritual despotism of, 1, 40; yeomanry sports of, 127; cathedrals of, 299; ideas of, ii, 32; wisdom of, 115; of feudal Europe, 148; Germany and Italy in, 137; anarchy of, 150; vi, 219, 221, 223, 224, 239, 243, 248; vii, 29, 32, 37, 43, 69, 70, 88, 113, 115, 117, 120-123, 128, 131, 133, 142; xi, 204.
Middlebrook, N. J., xi, 141. "Middlemarch," George Eliot's novel, vii, 379-381, 385. Midian, Land of, ii, 101, 129. Midland Counties of England, George Eliot's description of, vil, 364.
"Midsummer Night's Dream," Shakspeare's, xiii, 302, 312. Midwifery, Lord Lister's work in, xiv, 465.
Mignet, François A. M. (1796- 1884.) French historian, vii,
"Mignon," Goethe's creation of, xiii, 426, 427.
Mikado of Japan, The, restored to his ancient power, xiv, 291, 292; Li Hung Chang at the
Milan, See of, Importance of, in Ambrose's day, 252; cathedral
of, vi, 202, 207. Milbanke, Miss, Byron's marriage with (1815), and separation from (1816), xiii, 158. Military aggrandizement, Frederic the Great's national policy of, viii, 399.
Military ambition, and lust of con- quest, Egyptian, 1, 37. Military Art in the Nations of An- tiquity (Weapons, Engines, Dis- cipline), iii, 237.
Mill, John Stuart.
English official, sent to observe Russian situation, XV, 151; question of Chinese labour in the South African mines, 307; High Commissioner of South Africa, 310; opposes self-government in South Africa, 310.
Milnes, R. Monckton, Lord Hough- ton. (1809-85.) English patron of letters, x, 95; xiii, 452. Miltiades.-Athenian general (died about 489 B. C.), uses the. phalanx formation in his de- feat of the Persians at Mara- thon, iii, 248. Milton, John. (1608-74.) English poet and foreign secretary under the Commonwealth, 242;
vii, 25, 381; viii, 355; Treatise on Christian Doctrine, xiii, 317; best known by his poetry, 319; Johnson's clumsy ridicule, 320;
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triumphs over great difficulties, 327; elegant classical scholar, 327; Latin poems, 328; "L'AI- legro" and "Il Penseroso," 331; "Comus" and "Samson Agon- istes," 332; "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained," 337; compared with Dante, 338; Mil- ton's supernatural beings, 342; his poetry mysterious and pic- turesque, 346; his spirits and fiends, 347; loftiness of spirit, 350; his conception of love, 352; sonnets, 353; public con- duct, 354, 356; stood by the cause of public liberty, 366; his conduct during the administra tion of the Protector, 368; neither Puritan nor Royalist, 382; battle for freedom of hu- man mind, 384; joins Inde- pendents, 385; prose writings, 387; zeal for the public good, 390.
Minerva (Athena). Goddess of wisdom, i, 136; feast of, 137. Minerva, Greek temple to, at Tegea, iii, 99.
Mings, ruling dynasty of China (1868-1644), ancient capital of the, xiv, 275.
Minos. Ancient King of Crete, fabled to have been made, with Rhadamanthus, a judge of the dead in the nether world, i, 269. Mint, English, x, 329. Mirabeau, Count Gabriel Honoré.—
(1749-91.) French orator and author, vi, 220; viii, 189; visits Frederic the Great, 396; theme: "The French Revolution," ix, 25; as pamphleteer he attacks · the
government and exposes sores of body politic, 29; fasci- nation, and excesses of his pri- vate life, 29, 30; family and intellectuality, 80; at Berlin,
30; tendency of his writings to destroy ancien régime, 31; nounces his rank and enters States-General at Versailles (May, 1789), 82; Carlyle on, 33, 34; in National Assembly, 39; ascendency, 40; declaration of rights of man, 44, 47; his two-sided character, man of
pleasure and a statesman, 45; ostentatious living, 48; spolia- tion of the Church from which Mirabeau shrank, 51; death, worn out by labors and passions, 53; characteristics, 54, 55; first epoch closed of the Revo- lution, 55; unscrupulous de- struction and violence follows, 56, 223; I, 95; eulogizes Franklin, xi, 101.. Mirrors, Hall of, Versailles, x, 301. Mississippi Company, John Law's French financial (1717-20), viii, 297-300.
Missolonghi, Greeks occupy in their war (1820) with the Turks, ix, 293; repulse Turks with great slaughter at, 307; Byron st, 308; siege and fall of (1826), 312.
Missouri applies (1818) for ad- mission into Union, xii, 106, 107; the Compromise, 108. Missouri Compromise of 1820, xii, 46, 108. Mitchell, Maria.
(1818-1889.) American astronomer, xvi, 144; discovers comet, 145, 146; pro- fessor of astronomy at Vassar, 147.
Mitchell, Ormsby M.-(1810-62.) American astronomer and gen- eral, xii, 322. Mitford, Mary Russell. 1855.) English authoress, xiv, 89.
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Mithra. In Persian mythology, the god of light (the Sun), i, 58, 59, 75, 76. Mivart, St. George.-(1827-1900.) English naturalist, xiv, 192. Moab, Plains of, ii, 131; land of, 131; desolation of, predicted by Isaiah, 309.
Moabite Stone, found in ruins of Dibon (Dhiban), record on of early Kings mentioned in Bible, xiv, 384.
Mobanga river, Africa, xiv, 323. Mobile, Ala., General Jackson at, xii, 35-37.
Modjeska, Mme. Helena.
(1844- 1909.) Polish actress, com. patriot of Paderewski, xv, 412. Mogul, The great dominions of, xiv, 258, 267. Mohammed, or Mahomet.
570-632.) Founder of Islam or Mohammedanism. Theme: "Sar- acenic Conquest," ▼, 23; a re- former or an imposter? 23; tri- umphs and zeal of Moham- medans, 24; birth, family, and marriage, 27; sympathy and aid of his
wife, 29; dreams,
ecstasies, and visions, 29, 30, 31; truths and doctrines, 31; reformer, 32; buffeted and ridi- culed, his flight (the Hegira) to Medina, 34, 35; moral force, 35; writes the Koran at Mecca, 36; change of methods, mixes truth with error and allows polygamy, 37, 38; inflames the faithful, 39; new revelations, 39; spirit of expediency, 41; makes use of the sword, 42; Saracenic conquests, 43; con- trols Medina and triumphal en- trance into Mecca, death, aged 63, 44; his wife Ayésha, 44; spread of Mohammedanism by the sword, 46; conquests of
Syria, 46; his religion and doc trines, 48, 49. Mohammed Ali.-Pasha of Egypt, ix, 309.
Mohammedanism, a monotheistio religion, i, 53; Mohammedans, ix, 283; x, 169, 175. Moldavia, viii, 339; Turks enter Principality and defeat Ypsilanti (who abetted the Greeks in 1820) at Dragaschan, ix, 293, 320; x, 154, 155, 156, 158, 162. Molé, Count Louis M. (1781. 1855.) French statesman, viil, 251; ix, 207, 225, 345, 348. Molière, Jean Baptiste P.-(1622. 73.) French dramatist and actor; i, 332; vii, 157, 160, 174; viii, 251, 264, 322, 325. Moltke, Count ven. (1800-91.) Prussian field-marshal, ix, 162; takes part in war with Austria (1866), x, 287; rewards, 289; in war with France (1870-71), 241, 242, 256, 287, 289, 295, 299.
Mommsen, Theodor, German his torian, xv, 377, 378.
Monarchies, Oriental, absolute, iii, 25.
Monarchy, Glory of the, under Sol omon, ii, 203.
Monasteries of India, iii, 92. Monastic institutions in 11th cent,
monks and clergy of the era, v 108; vices and evils of, 110, 111; eclipse of celibacy in, 114; allied to Papacy, 114. See Ber nard, Saint.
Monastic life, interest in the ex tension of, taken by Paula and St. Jerome, iv, 196; motives sought in seclusion from wicked world, leisure for study and repose, and a state favorable to Christian perfection, 198.
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Monckton-Milnes R. (Lord Hough. ton).-English patron of letters, X, 95; xiii, 452.
Mongols, conquest of China, xiv, 258, 259; expulsion from in 1388, 261.
"Monitor," type of warship, xiv, 215; launched, 219; battle be- tween, and the "Merrimac," 220, 228, 238, 239. Monk, George.
General and ad- miral, services during English civil war, viii, 236. Monks, Primitive, their lofty self- sacrifices and efforts for holy meditation, v, 141; St. Basil's monastic vows-Poverty, Obedi- ence, and Chastity, 143-147; the monastery of Benedict at Monte Casino, near Naples, 147; celibacy a law of monachism, 146; degeneration of in morals and discipline, 153; gave the only education their age afforded, 154; their singing and devo- tional exercises, 156; specula- tions of in the 12th cent., 157; those of Citeaux, Morimond, Pontigny, and Clairvaux, 162; mendicant friars of the 13th cent., 163; monachism pe- culiarly a medieval institution, 166.
Monmouth, Battle of (June 28, 1778), ii, 140; town of, xi, 140, 329. Monotheism of the Jews the old- est authentic religion, i, 29; of the Egyptians, 31, 32. Monroe, Fort, Va., xii, 284. Monroe, James.
(1758-1831.) President, negotiates with Na- poleon for French cession of Louisiana, xi, 298; administra- tion of (1817-25), xii, 46, 47; elected President (1816), 103. Monroe Doctrine, that the U. S.
should hold aloof from interfer- ence with affairs of Old World, and not suffer Powers of Old World to interfere with those of the New World, xii, 47. Montagu, Charles, 1st Earl of Hali- fax. (1661-1715.) English
statesman, vii, 194, 196. Montaigne, Michel de.-(1533-92.) French essayist, i, 163. Montalembert,
Comte de.-(1810- 70.) French publicist and his- torian, x, 213.
Montauban, Fortress, viii, 120. Montcalm, Mme. de.-ix, 224. Montcontour, Battle of, viii, 120. Montenegro, Russian emissaries in, X, 154.
"Monterey," The, xiv, 235. Montespan, Marquise de.-(1641- 1707.) Louis XIV's mistress, vii, 150-153; disgraced, 153; dismissed from court, 154; her brilliant era at Versailles, 157, 158, 165, 166, 174; viii, 267, 275, 311. Montesquieu, Baron Charles de.-
(1689-1755.) French writer. His "Spirit of the Laws," vii, 267; praises Mme. de Pomps- dour's intelligence and Voltaire her beauty, viii, 312; his Esprit des Lois, 324; xi, 198. Montfort, Countess of, vii, 70. Montgomery, Ala., Congress at (1861), as provisional Con- federacy capital, xii, 323, 324. Montgomery, Comte de. (1530- 74.) Scottish noble in French service (circa Henry II), viii, 117. "Monticello," Jefferson's home at, xi, 260, 285, 290, 313. Montmorency, Anne, Duc de.- (1596-1632.) French marshal, vii, 244, 245, 248; viii, 98, 118, 188.
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Mordecai. An instrument of Prov- idence, ii, 88; ix, 183. Mordecai, in George Eliot's novel of "Daniel Deronda," vii, 383. More, Hannah.-(1745-1833.) Eng- lish religious writer. Intimacy
with Dr. Johnson, vii, 250, 255, 265, 278; "Education of Woman," 299; moralist and teacher, 301; perfect woman, 302; strong-minded, 303; birth and early years, 304; on inti- mate terms with eminent men, 305; writings, 306; friendship with Garrick and Johnson, 308; disenchanted of society, 311; opens school at Cheddar, 313; educational labors, 315; tracts for the people, 316; other writ- ings, and their aims, 316-325; views on society, 325; "Cœlebs in Search of a Wife," 326; resi dence at Barley Wood, 328; death, 329; evangelical belief, 329; devotion to education and elevation of her sex, 330; Co- education, and spheres for women, 332-341.
Morgan, J. Pierpont. (1837- 1913.) American financier, XV, 223.
Moriah, Mount, site of Solomon's temple, ii, 210; altar desecrated and dedicated to Jupiter, 380. Morley, Mrs. (Queen Anne). See Marlborough, Duchess of. Mornay, Philippe de. (1549- 1623.) French diplomat and Huguenot leader, x, 211, 220. Morocco, xiv, 326, 341. Morpeth, Lord.—English politician, introduces his tithe bill, x, 50. Morphology, Spencer's "Arguments from," xiv, 129.
Morris, Dinah, a character in George Eliot's novel of "Adam Bede," vii, 351, 366. Morris, Gouverneur. (1752- 1816.) American statesman, xi, 276, 289.
Morris, Robert. (1734-1806.) American financier and states- man, xi, 199, 205, 280. Morristown, N. J., xi, 130, 177. "Morte d'Arthur," Tennyson's, xiii, 454.
Mosaic Code, ii, 107, 112, 113,
123, 125, 126; Mosaic dispen- sation, 222.
Mosaic law, Ritualism of, i, 79; Mosaic ritual, priest's sacrifices, ii, 44.
Moscow, Patriarch of, x, 151. Moscow, Peter the Great sup.
presses rebellion in, viii, 347; Russian capital transferred to
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