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A small river in Yorkshire, Eng of water by galvanism. "Nicholson's Journal," the earl i- Nicol in i, Madame. See Patti . est English journal of natural philosophy and chemistry, Nicholson, William. Born at Ovingham, Dec. 25, 1781: died at Edinburgh, Aug. 16, 1844. A Scottish portrait-painter, one of the founders and the first secretary of the Scottish Academy. He etched portraits of distinguished Scotch men, including Scott, Jeffrey, Burns, and Wilson. Nicias (nish'i-as). [Gr. Νικίας.] Put to death in Sicily, 413 B. c. An A then i an general and politician, chief leader of the aristocratic faction in Athens in the Peloponnesian War. He commanded the unsucce ful expedition against Syracuse 415-413. hill, Bedford shire, England, 1624: died May 28, 1672. The first English colonial governor of New York. He served under the royal standard in the English civil war, and was appointed gentleman of the bedchamber to the Duke of York at the Restoration. He was chief of the commi ion sent to New England to organize an attack on New Nether land in 1664; and on the surrender of the Dutch in that year became governor of the conquered province, which he renamed New York from his patron, the Duke of York. He returned to England in 1668, and resumed his former position in the duke's household. He fell in the naval battle with De Ruyter, May 28, 1672. Nicolò de' Lapi (në-ko-lo da läpē). A novel by Azeglio, published in 1841. Nicias, Peace of. A truce between Athens and Sparta in the Peloponnesian War, concluded 421 B. C. It was negotiated mainly by Nicias. Nicolosi (ne-kō-lō'sē). A town in Sicily, at the southern foot of Mount Etna. It is the usual Nicias (nish'i-as) of Athens. A Greek painter, starting-point of ascents of Etna. a contemporary of Praxiteles. When Praxiteles was asked which of his works in marble he valued most, he is said to have answered, "Those on which Nicias has set his mark"; and Pliny explains this expre ion by the comment, "So much importance did Praxiteles attach to the circum lition (covering of color) applied by Nicias." This pa age was for a long time the principal foundation for the theory that the Greeks painted their statues, which is now confirmed by the works themselves: the hair of the Hermes of Praxiteles had a red color when discovered. Nick, Old. See Old Nick . Nicobars (nik-ō-bärz'), or Nicobar (nik-ō-bär') Islands. A group of small islands situated in the Bay of Bengal, south of the And a man Islands, about lat. 7° to 9° N. It is a British po es Nicomachean Ethics. An ethical treatise by Aristotle. Nicomède (nē-kō-mād'). A play by Corneille, produced in 1651. Nicomedia (nik-ō-mē'di-ä). [Gr. Νικομήδεια .] In ancient geography, the capital of Bithynia, Asia Minor, situated on an arm of the Pro pont is (Sea of Marmora), in lat. 40° 48′ N., long. 29° 58′ E. It was built by Nicomedes I., king of Bithynia, and was the residence of Diocletian, Const an tine, and other Roman emperors. The modern Ismid is on its site. Nicomedia, Gulf of. The eastern prolongation of the Sea of Marmora: also called the Gulf of Ismid. sion, a dependency of the And a man Islands, annexed in 1869. The largest island is Great Nicobar. Area, 434 square Nicopoli. See Nikopoli . miles. Population, about 7,000. Nicodemus (nik-o-de' mus). [Gr. Νικόδημος .] In New Testament history, a member of the Sanhedrim, a disciple who visited Jesus by night as an inquirer. After the death of Jesus he contributed a mixture of aloes and myrrh for anointing the dead body. Nicol (nik'ol), Erskine. Born at Leith, Scotland, July, 1825. A British genre-painter. He studied at the Trustees Academy, Edinburgh; lived in Dublin about 1815-49; and removed from Edinburgh to London in 1863. Many of his works have been engraved. Nicol (nik'ol), William. Born about 1768: died at Edinburgh, 1851 (1). A British inventor and experimenter in natural philosophy. In 1828 he invented the prism for polarizing light, named from him the Nicol prism, or nicol. His life was almost entirely spent in his laboratory at Edinburgh. Nicolai (nik'ō-lī), Chris toph Fried rich. Born at Berlin, March 18, 1733: died Jan. 6, 1811. A German author and bookseller. He edited the periodical "All gem eine deutsche Bibliothek," and wrote "Anekdoten von Fried rich II." (1788-92), the novel "Leben und Meinungen des Herrn Magisters Sebaldus Not hanker" (1773-76), etc. He was the literary a ociate of Le ing and Moses Mendel ohn in the "Letters concerning Recent German Lit erature" and the "Universal German Library," published between 1759 and 1792. Soon after the appearance of Goethe's "Sorrows of Werther," Nicolai published a malicious and rather stupid parody entitled "The Joys of Werther." He has been called the Erz-Phi lister-the arch-representative of the commonplace, conventional element in German literature. Goethe was provoked into using the only weapon which he considered fitting-ridicule; and he was a isted by Nicolai's own indiscretion. The latter, whose literary materialism was his prominent quality, who fought the spiritual element as Luther fought the devil, was visited in 1791 with an avenging malady. He was troubled by apparitions of persons living and dead, who filled his room, and for several weeks continued to haunt and torment him although he knew them to be phantasms. He was finally relieved by the application of leeches about the end of the spine, whence Goethe's term Proktophantasmist [in "Faust"], which may be delicately translated as "Rump-visionary." after having seen himself pilloried in the "Wal pur gis Night."