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Guyon (gi'on; F.pron.ge-ôn'), Madame (Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon). Born at Montargis, Loiret, April 13, 1648: died at Blois, June 9, 1717. A French mystic, one of the founders of quietism. She married Jacques de la Motte-Guyon at 16 years of age. In 1695 she was imprisoned for her religious opinions, and later was banished to Blois. She wrote "Moyen court et très facile pour l'or a is on" (1688-90), "Les torrents spirituels " (1704), "Poésies spirituel les" (1689), autobiography (1720), translation of the Bible (1713-15), etc. Guyon (gi'on), Sir. The personification of temperance in Spenser's "Faerie Queene," bk. ii. bian Sea, about lat. 20°-24° 45′ N., long. 69-74 20′ E. It comprises the northern districts of the governorship of Bombay, the Gaikwar's dominions, and other native states. Guzerat (in the Panjab). See Gujrat. Guzman (göth-män'), Fernando Perez de. Born in 1405: died in 1470. A Spanish poet and chronicler. He served for a time at the council-board and in the army of John II., king of Castile, but eventually retired to private life and devoted himself to literature. His chief work is "Cronica del señor don Juan Segundo deste nombre, rey de Castilla," etc. (1564). Guzman, Gonzalo Nuño de. Born at Portillo: died at Santiago de Cuba, Nov. 5, 1539. The second governor of Cuba. He was one of the conquerors of the island, regidor of Santiago, and after the death of Velasquez became governor, April 27, 1527. On account of his avarice and cruelty he was removed, Nov. 6, 1531, but again obtained the place and retained it until 1537. Guzman (göth-män'), Joaquin Eufracio. Born in Costa Rica, 1801: died in Salvador about 1870. A Central American general and politician. He served under Male spin, and was vice-president in his administration, but declared against him in Feb., 1845, and a umed the presidential office until the end of the term in 1848. Subsequently he was a leader of the liberals in the Salvador i an Congre . Guzman, Luis Henriquez de. See Henriquez de Guzman. Guzman, Nuño or Nuñez Beltran de. Born at Guadalajara, Spain, about 1485: died there, 1544. A Spanish lawyer and soldier. He was long encomendero at Puerto de Plata, Española. In 1526 he was appointed to settle and govern Panuco, in northwestern Mexico; and by his encroachments on the territory of Cortés, and of Narvaez on the north, caused much trouble. In 1528 he was made president of the first audience of Mexico, virtually ruling the country until 1531. He did all he could to injure Cortés, and made himself odious by arb i trary acts and extortion. In 1530 he conquered the region on the Pacific coast long known as New Galicia. Guzman was deposed by a new audience, Jan., 1531, and was sub sequently disgraced and heavily fined. Guzman, Ruy Ruy Diaz de. Born in Paraguay, 1544: died after 1612. The first historian of Paraguay. The greater part of his life was spent in the province of Guayra, where he became military governor. His "Hist or i a Argentina" describes the conquest of the Platine States, and brings the history of the colony down to 1575. The work was first published in the "Angel is Collection," 1886. Guzman Blanco (blän'kō), Antonio. Born at Caracas, Feb. 29, 1828. A Venezuelan soldier and statesman. He was prominent in the federalist revolts 1859-63, and on the triumph of his party became first vice-president under Falcon in 1863. The latter was deposed by a revolution in 1868. Guzman Blanco headed a succe ful counter-revolution in 1870, and (Falcon having died) became president. By succe ive reëlections he retained the office until 1882, and his influence was strong under subsequent administrations until 1888. Guzman de Alfarache. A romance by Mateo Aleman, named from its hero. It is "nearly of the same age as 'Don Quixote,' and of great genius, though it can hardly be ranked as a novel or a work of imagination. It is a series of strange, unconnected adventures, rather drily told, but accompanied by the most severe and sarcastic commentary. The satire, the wit, the eloquence and reasoning, are of the most potent kind: but they are didactic rather than dramatic. They would suit a homily or a pasquinade as well (as) or better than a romance. Still there are in this extraordinary book occasional sketches of character and humorous descriptions to which it would be difficult to produce anything superior." Hazlitt . As it has reached us, it is divided into two parts, the first of which was published at Madrid in 1599. Its hero, who supposed himself to be the son of a decayed and not very reputable Genoese merchant established at Seville, escapes, as a boy, from his mother, after his father's ruin and death, and plunges into the world upon adventure. He soon finds himself at Madrid, though not till he has pa ed through the hands of justice; and in that capital undergoes all sorts of suffering, serving as a scullion to n cook, and as a ragged errand-boy to whomsoever would employ him; until, seizing a good opportunity, he steals a large sum of money that had been intrusted to him, and escapes to Toledo, where he sets up for a gentleman. But there he becomes, in his turn, the victim of a cunning like his own; and, finding his money nearly gone, enlists for the Italian wars. His star is now on the wane. At Barcelona he again turns sharper and thief. At Genoa and Rome he sinks to the lowest condition of a street beggar. But a cardinal picks him up in the last city and makes him his page: a place in which, but for his bold frauds and tricks, he might long have thriven, and which at last he leaves in great distre , from lo es at play, and enters the service of the French amba ador. Here the First Part ends... In 1605 the genuine Second Part appeared. It with the life of Guzman in the house of the French amba ador at Rome, where he serves in some of the most dishonorable employments to which the great of that pe- riod degraded their mercenary dependents. Ticknor , Span. Lit., III. 99. Gwalior (gwä'lē-ôr). 1. A protected state of India, of irregular outline, lying between the Northwest Provinces on the northeast and the states of Rajputana on the west. It is ruled by the Sindhia dynasty: their forces were defeated in 1803 and 1843. Area, 29,000 square miles. Population (1891), IMG:content-0489.png:[blocks in formation] equalled for the natural feeling which she put into the upper Skeena River, British Columbia. See parts most suited to her. She was so fierce of repartee that no one ventured to allude sneeringly to her antece- dents. She was coarse, too, when the humour took her; could curse pretty strongly, if the house was not full; and was given, in common with the other ladies of the com- pany, to loll about and talk loudly in the public boxes, when she was not engaged on the stage. Nasqa . Gymnopædiæ (jim-nō-pēdi-ē). [Gr. γυμνοπαι- δίαι .] See the extract. Gya. See Gaya. Gyaman (gyä-män'). A Nigritic tribe of the Gold Coast, West Africa, situated north of Ku- ma i, and speaking a language of its own. Gye (gi), Frederick. Born at London, 1809: died at Ditchley, Dec. 4, 1878. An English manager of opera. He undertook the management of Covent Gar- den in 1869, and retained it till 1877, when his son Ernest Gye a umed control. See Albani . Gyergyo-Szent-Miklós (dyer'dyō sent mėk'- losh). A town in the county of Csik, Transyl. vania, situated in lat. 46° 42′ N., long. 25°33′ E. Population (1890), 6,104. Gyges (gi'jēz). King of Lydia, a contemporary of the A yrian king As urban i pal (668-626 B. c.), and a founder of a new dynasty. Pre ed by the Cimmerians, he invoked the help of As urban i pal, and submitted to his supremacy. Afterward he allied sed with am me tich us, king of Egypt, against As syria, and seems to have fallen in one of the repeated attacks of the Cimmerians, who were no longer checked by the As- syrian power, in about 653. "According to the legend in Plato, Gyges, a herdsman of the king of Lydia, after a ter- rible storm and earthquake, saw near him a chasm in the Gymnosophists (jim-nos'ō-fists). A sect of an- cient Hindu philosophers who lived solitarily in the woods, wore little clothing, ate no flesh, renounced all bodily pleasures, and addicted themselves to mystical contemplation: so called by Greek writers. By some they are regarded as Brahman penitents; others include among them a set of Buddhist ascetics, the Shamans. Gyoma (dyō'mo). A town in the county of Békés, Hungary, situated on the Körös in lat. 46° 57' N., long. 20° 51′ E. Population (1890), 10,867. Gyöngyös (dyėnʼdyėsh). A town in the county of Heves, Hungary, 47 miles northeast of Bu- (1890), 16,124. corpse with a golden ring. This ring he carried away, and Gyp. The pseudonym of Sibylle Gabrielle Marie property of rendering him invisible at pleasure. Being discovered unexpectedly that it po e ed the miraculous Antoinette de Riquetti de Mirabeau, comte e sent on a me age to the king Candaules, he made the magic de Martel de Janville. See Martel de Janville . ring available to his ambition: he first po e ed himself Gypsies. See Gipsies . of the person of the queen, and then with her aid a a i- Gyrowetz (gir'ō-vets), Adalbert. Born at Bud- nated the king, and finally seized the sceptre." Grote. we is, Bohemia, Feb. 19, 1763: died at Vienna, Gyidesdzo (gyed-āsd-zō'). A tribe of North American Indians on Price Island, northwest of Mill bank Sound, British Columbia. See Tsim- shian. children by him: Charles Beau clerk (1670) (afterward Duke of St. Albans), and a second son, James (1671). Large sums of money, and Best wood Park (Nottingham), Burford House (Windsor), and other gifts, were bestowed on her. Gyitgaata (gyēt-gä'ä-tä), or Kitkada, or Kit- kaet. A tribe of North American Indians on Grenville Channel, British Columbia. Their name signifies 'people of the poles' (from their salmon-weirs). See Tsimshian . Gyitksan (gyēt-ksän'), or Kitikshian. [From Kshian or ' Kushian , a settlement on Skeena March 19, 1850. An Austrian composer of sym- phonies, operas, ballets, etc. Gythium (ji-thi'um or jith'i-um). [Gr. Γίθιον .] In ancient geography, a seaport of Laconia, Greece, situated on the Gulf of Laconia in lat. 36° 46′ N., long. 22° 34′ E., near the modern Marathon is i. Gyula (dyöʻlo). The capital of the county of Békés, Hungary, situated on the White Körös in lat. 46° 38′ N., long. 21° 17′ E. Population (1890), 19,991. IMG:content-0490.png:[graphic][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed] SLS The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century Cyclopedia of names Jaanen (hä'nen), Remi van. Born at Oosterhout, Brabant, Jan. 5, 1812. A Dutch land- scape-painter. Haarlem, a, or or Harlem (här'- lem). [D. [ D. Haarlem (former- ly Haerlem , Harlem ), OD. Hindlip, Worcesters hire, Nov., 1605: died there, Habicht (hä'bicht), Ludwig. Born at Sprottau, Pru ia, July 23, 1830. A German novelist. He has written "Der Stadtschreiber von Liegnitz" (1865), "Zwei Höfe" (1870), "Vor dem Gewitter" (1873), "Schein und Sein" (1875), "Am Garda see" (1890), etc. Haralem, ML. Harlemum .] Baratem , Harlemum.] The capital of the province Spaarne Haarlemmer Polder (här'lem-mer pol'der). A plain in the province of North Holland, Nether- lands, between Haarlem, Amsterdam, den. It was formerly the Haarlemmer Meer or Lake, 26 miles in length, formed in the 16th century and versity of Breslau. Haase, He in rich Gottlob Fried rich Christian. Born at Magdeburg, Pru ia, Jan. 4,1808: died at Breslau, Pru ia, Aug. 16, 1867. A German cla ical philologist, profe or at the UniHabab (hä-bab'). An African tribe wandering as nomadic herdsmen over the pasture-lands northwest of Ma owah, between the Bogos and the Beni Amer. In physical appearance they and the Beni Amer show more affinity with the Cushitic Bedja or Bisharin; but their dialects belong to the same cluster as Tigré and Amharic, the base of which is Semitic. In religion the Hababs are said to be now Mohammedan, although within recent times they still made a profe ion of Ethiopic Christianity. See Tigré . Habakkuk (ha-bak'uk or hab'a-kuk). [Cf. A yr. hambaqúqm , name of a plant.] A Hebrew prophet. Nothing authentic of his life is known, and he therefore has become the subject of many legends, Thus, in the apocryphal book "Bel and the Dragon," he is carried through the air by an angel from Judea to Babylon to feed Daniel. The book of his prophecies, consisting of 8 chapters, holds the eighth place among the minor prophets. The first two chapters bear on the wickedne reigning in the country and the growing power of the Chaldeans; the third chapter is a lyric ode representing God as appearing in judgment. Habakkuk exhibits poetical genius of high order. His prophecy is constructed dramatically in the form of a dialogue between himself and Jehovah. The lyric ode ranks, for sublimity of poetic conception, picturesquene of imagery, splendor of diction, with the highest which Hebrew poetry has produced. He prophesied most probably in the reign of Jehoiakim (609-597 в. с.). Habana. See Havana . Haba in. An old name of Aby in i a. Habberton (hab'er-ton), John. Born at Brooklyn, 1842. An American writer, author of "Helen's Babies" (1876), etc. Habelschwerdt (hä'bel-shwert). Atown in the province of Silesia, Pru ia, situated on the Nei e 58 miles south-southwest of Breslau. Population (1890), commune, 5,586. Habeneck (äb-nek'), François Antoine. Born at Mézières, France, Jan. 22, 1781: died at Paris, Feb. 8, 1849. A French violinist and conductor. 14, 1454: the date of her death is not known. A French heroine. She took part, armed with a hatchet (hachette), in the defense of Beauvais against Charles the Bold in 1472 (whence her surname). Hachette, Louis Chris top he François. Born the later succe or of Carchemish; and, under the abbreviated form of Dáda, Shalmaneser speaks of "the god Dáda of Aleppo" (Khalman).