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Hist., p. 346. Anfo i (än-fos'sē), Pasquale. Born at Naples, 1736: died at Rome, 1797 (1795?). An Italian operatic composer, author of "L'Incognita perse gui tat a" (1773), etc. Angami-Naga (än-gä'mē-nä'gä). A savage and warlike tribe in northern A am. Angara_(än-gä-rä'). (Upper Angara and Upper Tungusta.) The chief tributary of the Yenisei, in southern Siberia. It rises northeast of Lake Baikal, traverses Lake Baikal, flows northwest and west, and joins the Yenisei above Yeniseisk. Its length about 1,300 miles. It is navigable throughout its entire course. Angel (an'jel), Benjamin Franklin. Born at Burlington, Otsego County, N. Y., Nov. 28, 1815: died at Geneseo, N. Y., Sept. 11, 1894. A lawyer and diplomatist, commi ioner to China (1855) under President Pierce, and minister to Sweden and Norway under President Buchanan. Angelica (an-jel'i-kä). 1. In Boiardo's “Orlando In nam or a to" and Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso," a beautiful but coquettish and faithle prince , daughter of Galaphron, king of Cathay. His unrequited love for her was the cause of Orlando's madne .-2. The principal female character in Congreve's play "Love for Love," a witty and piquant woman, and the author's favorite character. - 3. A character in Farquhar's comedy "The Constant Couple," and also in its sequel, "Sir Wildair." Angelic Brothers. A community of Dutch Pietists, in the 16th century, who believed that they had attained that state of angelic purity in which there is neither marrying nor giving in marriage": founded by George Gichtel. Angelic Doctor, ML. Doctor Angelic us. A surname of Thomas A quinas. Angelico (än-jel'ē-kō), Fra. See Fiesole . Angel in a (an-je-lī'nä). 1. In Dryden's tragicomedy "The Rival Ladies," a sister of Don Rhodorigo, in love with Gonsalvo. She disguises herself as a man and goes by the name of Amideo.- 2. The heroine of Goldsmith's ballad "Edwin and Angel in a," sometimes called "The Hermit," in "The Vicar of Wake field." Angel in a. A pseudonym of Harriet Martin eau. Angélique (on-zhā-lēk'). 1. One of the principal characters in Molière's "Le Malade Imaginaire." She is the daughter of Argan, the imaginary invalid, who wishes to marry her to the son of his phys i. cian, M. Diafoirus, but is finally induced to give her to Cléante, the man she loves. 2. The wife of George Dandin, in Molière's comedy of that name. See George Dandin . Angell (an'jel), James Burrill. Born at Scituate, R. I., Jan. 7, 1829. An American educator. He was a graduate of Brown University and was profe or of modern languages there 1853-60, editor of the Providence "Journal" 1860-66, president of the University of Vermont 1866-71, and president of the University of Michigan after 1871. He was United States minister to China 18801881, and commi ioner in negotiating treaties with that country; and was minister to Turkey 1897-98. Angell, Joseph Kinnicut. Born at Providence, R. I. April 30, 1794: died at Boston, May 1, 1857. An American legal writer. He was a graduate of Brown University 1813, editor of the "Law Intelligencer and Review" 1829-31, and reporter of the Rhode Island Supreme Court; author of "Treatise of the Right of Property in Tide Waters" (1826), "Inquiry Relative to an Incorporeal Hereditament" (1827), "A Practical Summary of the Law of A ignment" (1835), "On Adverse Enjoyment" (1837), "Treatise on the Common Law in Relation to Water Courses" (1840), "Treatise on the Limitations of Actions at Law and Suits in Equity and Admiralty" (2d ed. 1846), and with Samuel Ames of "Treatise on Corporations" (3d ed. 1846). Angeln (äng'eln). A small district in the province of Schleswig-Holstein, Pru ia, lying between the Flensburg Fiord on the north, the Baltic on the east, and the Schlei on the south. It is noted for its fertility, and is supposed to have been the original home of the Angles. Angelo, Michel. See Michelangelo . Angelo (an'je-lō). 1. In Shakspere's "Measure for Measure," the duke's deputy. The actor is here required to represent a man who is too little for the great, bold, and dangerous projects of an ambitious selfishne ; too noble for the weak errors of a vain self-love, who wavers negatively between the two, who aspires after honour, who would be a master in his pol it is pre cation his manifester in the hour of temptation, is found as false and tyrannical in the one as he is hypocritical and base in the other. Gervinus , Shakespeare Commentaries (tr. by F. E. Bunnett, [ed. 1880), p. 500. 2. In Shakspere's “Comedy of Errors," a goldsmith. Angelo. A prose drama by Victor Hugo, first represented at the Théâtre Français, Paris, April 28, 1835. The scene is laid in Padua in the middle of the 16th century. It was translated into English by G. H. Davidson, and produced in London as "Angelo and the Actre of Padua." Pregel, in East Pru ia, which drains the Mauersee. Anger burg (äng'er-börg). A small town in the province of East Pru ia, situated on the An. modern Hernösand län. Ångermann (ang'er-män). See Ångermanelf . Angermünde (äng-er-mün'de). A town in the province of Brandenburg, Pru ia, 42 miles northeast of Berlin, on the Mündesee. Anger on a (an-je-rō'nä), or Anger on i a (-ni-a). In Roman mythology, a godde whose attributes and powers are not definitely known. She was, perhaps, the godde who releases from (or causes) anguish and secret grief. Her state of the temple of Volupia (sensual pleasure), and she was represented with her finger upon her bound and sealed lips. Angers (on-zha'). The capital of the department of Maine-et-Loire, France, situated on the Maine 5 miles from the Loire, in lat. 47° 28′ N., long. 0° 33′ W.: the Roman Juliomagus or An dec a via (Andegavia or Andegavum), a town of the Andecavi or Andes, a Gallic tribe, It has an extensive trade and varied manufactures. It was formerly the capital of Anjou, and the seat of a university and a military college. It suffered severely in the Huguenot and Vendean wars. The cathedral of Angers is an interesting monument of the Angevin Pointed style, Anglo-Saxon characterized particularly by the vaulting, which rises so much in every bay as to approach a domical form. There is a fine early sculptured west portal; the nave is 54 feet wide and 80 feet high; and there are long transepts, but no aisles. It contains splendid 13th-century gla , a beautiful wall-arcade beneath the windows, and very extensive and notable 14th-century tapestries bequeathed by King René. The castle, completed by St. Louis, is a huge trapezoid about half a mile in circuit, with seventeen ma ive cylindrical towers bo ing its walls. Within the inclosure remain portions of the Renai ance palace of the counts of Anjou as well as the dungeons and many other interesting memorials of the medieval fortre . Population (1901), 82,966. Anger stein (ang'er-stin), John Julius. Born at St. Petersburg, 1735: died at Black heath, Jan. 22, 1823. An English merchant, philanthropist, and art amateur. The greater part of his very valuable collection of pictures was acquired by the British government in 1824, at an expense of £60,000. Angerville, Richard. See Bury , Richard de . Angevin Line or Dynasty. The early Plantage net kings of England, from Henry II. to John: so called from their origin in Anjou. Anghiera (än-ge-a'rä), Pietro Martire d', or Peter Martyr. See Martyr , Peter . An gilbert (ang'gil-bėrt), Saint. Born about 740 A. D.: died Feb. 18, 814. A Frankish poet, historian, and diplomatist, a councilor of Charles the Great, and abbot of Centula, or Saint-Riquier in Picardie (794). He was surnamed "the Homer of his age." Angiras (an'gi-ras). In Vedic mythology, the alleged ancestor of the Angirases, represented as the author of the ninth Mandala of Rigveda, of a law-book, and of an astronomical manual. law-book, Angirases, The. [Deriv. Deriv. uncertain.] In Hindu mythology, a cla of beings standing between gods and men. They are called the sons of heaven, sons of the gods. They appear in company with the gods, with the Asvins, Yama, the gods of the sun and the light. Agni is called the first and highest Angiras. At the same time the Angirases are called the fathers of men, and many families trace their descent from them. The hymns of the Atharvaveda are called Angirasas, and the Angirases were especially charged with the protection of sacrifices performed in accordance with the Atharvaveda. Angkor (ang-kōr'). A ruined city near the frontiers of Cambodia and Siam, near Lake Bienho. Anglante's knight. The name given to Orlando, lord of Anglante, in Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso." Angles (ang'glz). [In mod. use only as a his L. Anglus , usually pl. Angli (first in Tacitus), repr. the OTeut. form found in AS. Angle , Ongle , Angle , reg. Engle , pl. (in comp. Angel- , Ongel- ), the people of Angel , Angol , Angul , Ongul (= Icel. Öngull ), a district of what is now Schleswig-Holstein, said to be so named from angel , angul , ongul , a hook, in ref. to its shape.] A Teutonic tribe which in the earliest period of its recorded history dwelt in the neighborhood of the district now called Angeln, in Schleswig-Holstein, and which in the 5th century and later, accompanied by kindred tribes, the Saxons, Jutes, and Friesians, cro ed over to Britain, and col onized the greater part of it. The Angles were the most numerous of these settlers, and founded the three kingdoms of East Anglia, Mercia, and Nor thumb ria. them the entire country derived its name England , in Anglo-Saxon Engla land , 'land of the Angles.' Anglesey (ang'gl-sē), or Angle sea (ang'gl-sē). [AS. Angles eg , Angle's island.'] An island and county of North Wales, which lies northwest of the main land from which it is separated by Menai Strait. Its surface is generally flat. It was an ancient seat of the Druids, was conquered by the Romans under Suet on i us Paul in us in 61 A. D., and by Agricola in 78, and Rater became a Welsh stronghold. Its length is 22 miles, and its area 302 square miles. Population (1891), 50,079. See Mona . Angle sea, Earl of. See Annesley . Anglesey, Marquis of. See Paget . Angleterre (on-gle-tar'). The French name of England. Anglia (ang'gli-ä). A Latin name of England; specifically, that part of England which was settled by the Angles. See East Anglia . Anglian (ang'gli-art). A name sometimes used for the old English (Englisc) or Anglo-Saxon of Anglia, the district of Britain first occupied by the Angles. Anglo-Latin (ang-g-lo-lat'in). Middle or medieval Latin as written in England in the middle ages: the ordinary language of the church and the courts until the modern period. It is characterized by the liberal inclusion and free Latinizing of technical and vernacular English and Norman or Anglo-French terms. Anglo-Saxon (ang-glo-sak's on). [ An glo- Saxones , more correctly written Anglosax IMG:content-0086.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors] Anglo-Saxon ones , pl., also Angli Saxones or Angli et Saxones , rarely Saxones Angli . The term frequently occurs in the charters of Alfred and his succe ors (chiefly in the gen. pl. with rex ) as the general name of their people, all the Teutonic tribes in England; but it is sometimes confined to the people south of the Humber. The same term is used by foreign chroniclers and writers in Latin from the Sth to the 12th century, with the general meaning.] 1. (a) Literally, one of the Angle or 'English' Saxons. The name is sometimes restricted to the Saxons who dwelt chiefly in the southern districts (We ex, E ex, Su ex, Middle sex-names which contain the form of Saxon - and Kent) of the country which came to be known, from a kindred tribe, as the land of the Angles, Engla land , now England , but usually extended to the whole people or nation formed by the aggregation of the Angles, Saxons, and early Teutonic settlers Britain, or the where the contin The English race; all persons in Great Britain and Ireland, in the United States, and in their dependencies, who belong, actually or nominally, nearly or remotely, to the Teutonic stock of England; in the widest use, all English speaking or English-appearing people. 2. The language of the Anglo-Saxons; Saxon; the earliest form of the English language, constituting, with Old Saxon, Old Friesic, and other dialects, the Old Low German group, belonging to the so-called West Germanic division of the Teutonic speech. Angol (än-gōl'). The capital of Malleco, Chile, in lat. 37° 45′ N., long. 73° W. It was the capital of the former territory of Angol. Population (1885), 6,331. Angola (än-gō'lä). [Pg. Angola , repr. the native name Ngola . ] 1. The Ngola tribe.-2. The native Angola nation, of which the Ngola tribe was the principal.-3. The old Portuguese colony of Angola, founded in the boundaries of the ancient native kingdom of Angola, and called "Reino e Con quist as de Angola." 4. The modern Portuguese province of An gola, comprising the old kingdoms of Kongo, Angola, and Benguella, the new district of Mo a me des, and the latest acce ions between the Kuangu and Ka ai rivers. This province extends along the west coast of Africa from 6° to 17° IMG:content-0087.png:[ocr errors] south latitude, and inland as far as the Kuangu, Ka ai, and Zambesi rivers. Its area is about 490,000 square miles; its population from three to five millions. The admin is tration is in the hands of a governor-general, residing at Loanda, with district governors of Kongo, Benguella, and Mo a me des. Every district is subdivided into "concel. hos" (counties) under military "chefes"; and the concel hos are subdivided into divisions under commandants, who are either natives or white traders. Angola is ruled by the same laws as Portugal, and the natives have exactly Portuguese. Angola is the only central African po e ion which has a large white population (about 6,000) and in which agriculture is flourishing on a large scale. See Kimbundu , Umbundu , Ngola , Kongo . An go lall a (än-go-lällä). One of the chief towns in Shoa, Aby in i a, about lat. 9° 38′ Ν. Angora (an-go ra). A vilayet in Asia Minor, Turkey. Population (1887), 797,362. Angora, Turk. Enguri. [Gr. Αγκυρα : see Ancyra.] The capital of the vilayet of Angora, situated on a head stream of the Sakaria, about lat. 39° 50′ N., long. 32° 50′ E.: the ancient Anсуra (which see). It was an ancient Galatian town, the capital of the Roman province of Galatia, and an important emporium on the route between Byzantium and Syria, and it is still one of the chief commercial places in Asia Minor. The district is especially celebrated for IMG:content-0088.png:[blocks in formation] ture built in 1120, with wide nave and transepts domically vaulted, and no aisles. The cro ing is surmounted by a beautiful ovoid dome on an octagonal drum. The west front has several tiers of arcades between low, conically capped towers, and bears much Romanesque figure-sculpture of great interest. The fine belfry, over the north transept, rises in six arcaded tiers, and resembles an Italian campanile. Population (1891), 36,690. hwē'). A province of China, bounded by Kiang-su on the northeast, by Kiang-su and Che-kiang on the eas east, by Kiang-si on the south, by Hu-peh and Ho-nan on the west, and by Ho-nan on the northwest. Its capital is Nganking. It contains part of the green-tea district. Area, 48,461 square miles. Population, 20,596,288.