Cato

Marcus Porcius, the Censor, was a celebrated Roman, born in 234 B.C. Pie was a warrior, and rose rapidly in office till he became Consul. His hostility to Carthage furthered the third Punic War. place of his death, to distinguish him from his great grandfather, the Censor), was born in 95 B.C. pfe was a stoic and a warrior. His vigorous reforms won him respect, and in 63 he was chosen tribune of the people. He was Cicero’s adviser. His failure in defending the city of Utica made him commit suicide in B.C. 46. famous Roman lyric poet, the friend of Cicero and Cinna, and of Cornel i us Nepos, to whom he dedicated his poems. He was the first Roman who caught succe fully the Greek lyric spirit. meetmg'of citizens to agree upon candidates proposed for election to offices, and to concert measures for supporting a party. The Birmingham Liberal A ociation is a type of the Caucus in Britain. Its origin is referred to a fray between British soldiers and Boston rope-makers, which resulted in meetings between the rope-makers and caulkers. Cave _ in Kentucky are noted. Kirkclalc, in Yorkshire, Kent’s Hole, near Torquay, and Wokey’s Hole, near . Wells, are remarkable bone caves. caves. They were ignorant of metals, pottery, and agriculture, and had no domestic animals. prepared and salted. statesman, born in 1809, who became Minister of Commerce and Agriculture in 1850, and was a member of the Sard in i an Chamber of Deputies. In 1852 he became Premier, and secured an alliance with Great Britain and France. He lived to see the first Italian Parliament meet. printing into Britain and helped materially to fix the literary language of the 16th century by his able translations fro in the French and Dutch. He was book-lover and a book-seller as well as a printer, and therefore printed good and popular books, e.g. romances. the Robes to Henry VIII. He studied at St. John’s College, Cambridge, and at Gray's Inn. On the acce ion of Edward VI. Somerset advanced him, but he held no public office until Elizabeth’s acce ion, when he became Secretary of State. Much of the under Mary’s tyranny. story forms one of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tala, and Bryden and Pope sang her praises. Raphael and other painters have represented her in celebrated pictures. Athens and first King of Attica. He was said to have taught the savages their religion and morals. Minor. The deodar was introduced into Britain in 1822. It grows in marshy places, is therefore cheap, derives all animal and vegetable ti ues from the union and metamorphosis of primitive cells. is called areolar ti ue. In botany, the term applied to the soft substance of plants, composed of elementary cells without woody ti ues. stitute for ivory, bone, hard rubber, coral, etc., as closely resembles them. It is used chiefly for buttons, billiard balls, piano keys, backs to brushes, etc. cell-membranes of plants are always composed. It allied to sugar, gum, starch, and is changed into the latter by heat, sulphuric acid, or caustic potash. daughter of Francesco Cenci, a wealthy Roman, who, according to the usual story, after his second marriage behaved shockingly to the children of his first marriage. Be at rice failed in an appeal for protection to the Pope, and so planned and carried out her father’s murder. She was beheaded in 1599. She the heroine of one of Shelley’s most powerful plays, and was till lately considered the subject of a painting of Guido’s. high, which is famous for its tunnel, between France and Italy, finished in 1871. There is also a famous road over it, made by Napoleon I. The tunnel nearly eight miles long, and it cost,£2,600,000. for 18 months and whose busine was to draw up register of the citizens and the amount of their property, for taxation to keep watch over the public morality, and to superintend; the finance administration. The term is now applied to an officer empowered to examine books which are about to be published. about a person's property, for taxation, introduced by King Servius Tullus B.C. 577. In modern times it is an enumeration of a country’s inhabitants, accompanied by any other information deemed useful. The first census taken in Great Britain was in 1801 the first in France, probably, in 1700.; dredth part of some other coin. In the United States and in Canada it is the hundredth part of a dollar, in France of a franc. represented as half man, half horse; but the earliest notice of them presents them as a wild race inhabiting The aly. feet. to a system of government where the tendency is to administer, by the central government, matters pre a viously in the hands of local authorities. especially in American yachts, which can be raised and lowered in a well extending longitudinally amidships. It helps to prevent leeway, and gives the ve el more stability under pre of canvas. forces which cause a moving body, on which they act, to go backwards or forwards from the centre of motion. The first is flying from, the second flying towards, the centre of motion. of a century, a body of 100 men but, later, an indefinite number, the sixtieth part; of a legion. The rank of captain now corresponds to a centurion’s rank. includes all objects made of baked clay, as vases, urns, statuettes, etc., including all the kinds of earthenware and porcelain which are works of art. of Hades, with many heads, a serpent's tail, and a mane made of snake’s heads. in 516, having invaded England about the end of the 5th century. though it is extended to leguminous plants also, is generally confined to the gramineae, such as wheat, barley, rye, etc. is Ceres, a Roman godde whose sacrifices consisted of pigs and cows. The Romans celebrated in her honour the festival of the Cereal i a. it 1Don Quixote, bom in 1547. In 1570 he fought under Colonna and then joined the troops at Naples, in the Spanish King s service, when he won high reputation. In 1575 he was sold as a slave, which condition he enis dured for seven years. In 1583 he retired from the service, having been ransomed by friends; and he spent the rest of his days in literary work. He died in 1616. Their bodies are fishlike, but have bilobate tails placed horizontally, not vertically as is usual. They are broadly grouped as toothle whales. of the Zulus. He was crowmed in 1873, and proved is a tyrannical ruler, and when he refused to comply with British requests, war was declared against him, and he was taken prisoner. In 1882 he was restored, but the next year a rival chief drove him away. He died in 1884. overlaid with ivory work and gold was first mentioned is in 500 by Ennodius.; language (or a dialect of it), one of the chief varieties a of the old Semitic. Chaldee literature is divided into the Biblical Chaldee, and the Chaldee of the Targums and other later Jewish writings. It is used as an absorbent and anti-acid. In geology it is the rock which forms the higher part of a scries of strata. „ divine, bom in 1780. In 1803 he was presented to the parish of Kihnany, in Fife (where m his preaching won him great reputation), and 1815 to the Tron Church of Glasgow. His astronomical discourses made quite a sensation throughout the country. In 1823 he accepted the Chair of Moral Philosophy at St. Andrews, and in 1827 he was elected to the Divinity Chair in Edinburgh University. He was a D.C.L. of Oxford. It was in the great non-intrusion movement in the Scottish Church that his name became most prominent. He was against the Establishment, and may be regarded as the founder of the Free Church of Scotland.