Sethos

See Seti. Seti (sē'ti) I., or Sethos (sē'thos). About 1366 B. C. A king of Egypt, of the 19th dynasty, father of Rameses II.: noted as a builder. Seti II. A king of Egypt, of the 19th dynasty, son of Menepthah. Setibos (sā-te'bōs). Indians of northern Peru, on the river Ucayale about lat. 5° 30′ S. They belong to the Pano linguistic stock, and are closely allied to the Conibos, Cachibos, Sipibos, and other tribes of the same region. They are agriculturists, and use cotton garments of their own manufacture. A few you sand remain, e entially in a wild state. Seton (se'ton), Mrs. (Elizabeth Ann Bayley). Born at New York city, Aug. 28, 1774: died at Emmittsburg, Md., Jan. 4, 1821. An American philanthropist: founder of the Roman Catholic order of Sisters of Charity 1809, of which she was the first mother superior. Sette Comuni (set'te kō-mö'nē). ['Seven communes. A district in the northern part of the province of Vicenza, northern Italy, long noted as the seat of communities speaking a Germanic dialect. This language is now nearly supplanted by Italian. The district formerly po e ed extensive privileges. Settle (set'l), Elkanah. Born at Duns table, 1648: died in the Charter house, London, 1723. An English poet and playwright of the Restoration. He was a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and wrote and edited many political pamphlets in the time of Charles II. He offended Dryden, who attacked him in a coarse pamphlet (a isted by Crowne and Shad well); he criticized and "answered "all Dryden's political poems in retaliation, and the town took sides, Settle being the favorite among the younger Cambridge and London men. He has been immortalized by the ridicule of Dryden and Pope, being the Doeg of "Absalom and Achitophel" and appearing in the "Dunciad." Later he was made city poet, and composed verses to be recited at the pageants: he was the last to hold that office. Among his plays are "The Empre of Morocco" (1673), " "Love and Revenge" (1675), "Cambyses, King of Persia" (1675), "Pastor Fido, or the Faithful Shepherd" (1677: a pastoral drama, being an alteration of Sir R. Fanshawe's translation from Guarini), "Fatal Love, or the Forced Inconstancy" (1680), "The Female Prelate, or the History of the Life and Death of Pope Joan" (1680), "The Heir of Morocco, with the Death of Gayland" (1682), "Distre ed Innocence, or the Prince of Persia" (1682: Mr. Montfort wrote the last scene of this play, and Better ton afforded valuable a istance), "The World in the Moon (1698: a dramatic comic opera), "The City Ramble, or the Play-house Wedding" (1712), and "The Ladies Triumph" (1718: a comic opera). Settlement, Act of, or Succe ion Act. In English history, an act of Parliament regulating the succe ion to the throne, pa ed in 1701. See the extract. The Crown to pa after Anne to the Electre Sophia and her Protestant descendants. The sovereign not to leave England without consent of Parliament. No foreigner to hold office or receive grants from the Crown. Public busine to be done by the Privy Council, and resolutions to be signed by those members who advise him. No war to be made for the foreign dominions of the sovereign. Judges are to receive fixed salaries, and cannot be removed except for conviction of some offence, or on the addre of both Houses of Parliament. Acland and Ransome, Handbook of Political History, p. 124. Setubal (sā-tö'bäl), or Setuval (sā-tö'väl), also called St. Ubes (sant übz) or St. Yves (ivz). A seaport in the province of Estremadura, Portugal, situated on Setubal Bay in lat. 38° 31′ N., long. 8° 53′ W. It has important commerce and fisheries, and is one of the chief seaports of Portugal, and the leading port for the exportation of salt. It occupies the site of the Roman Cetobriga. It was nearly destroyed by earthquake in 1755. Population (1890), 16,986. Seul, or Seoul (se-öl'). The capital of Corea, situated on the river Han. Its seaport is Chemulpo. Population (1890), about 192,000. Sevanga, or Sevan, or Sevang Lake. See Goktcha. Sevastopol. See Sebastopol . Seven against Thebes, Expedition of the. In Greek legend, an expedition by the heroes Ad Seven Bishops, Case of the. A famous English trial in 1688. Archbishop Sancroft and six bishops were arraigned on a charge of libel in protesting, in a petition to James II., against his order that his "declarations for liberty of conscience" be read in the churches tion They were acquitted on the day (June 30) that invitation was sent to William of Orange to land in England. Seven Champions of Christen dom. 1. In medieval tales, the following seven national saints: St. Denis of France, St. Anthony of Italy, St. James of Spain, St. George of England, St. Andrew of Scotland, St. Patrick of Ireland, and St. David of Wales. Their exploits are celebrated in many ballads, plays, etc., notably in the "Famous History of the Seven Champions of Christen dom," by Richard Johnston, a romance entered the "Stationers' Register" in 1596: a second part was brought out in 1608, and a third in 1616. Sir George Buc made a poetical version in 1622. 2. A play by John Kirke, licensed in 1638 and probably acted in 1636: it is in prose and verse. Seven Cities. [Sp. Siete Ciudades.] A name given (1536-40) to supposed large and powerful cities in the present New Mexico. Fray Marcos de Niza (1539) reported that one of them was larger than Mexico, and rich in precious metals. Corona do's expedition (1540) proved that they were villages of the Zuni Indians. See Cibola and Niza . Seven Cities, Island of the. A fabled island which, in the 14th and 15th centuries, was supposed to exist in the Atlantic west of Europe. It was said to have been peopled by seven bishops who, with many followers, had been driven out of Spain by the invasion of the Moors. In 1475, and later, the kings of Portugal granted privileges to discover and govern it. The geographers of the time frequently called it Antilla or An till i a. Seven Communes. See Sette Comuni. Seven Days' Battles. In the Peninsular campaign of the American Civil War, the series of battles between the Federal army under McClellan and the Confederate army under Lee, in the Chick a hominy swamp region east of Richmond. The fighting began at Oak Grove June 25, 1862, and the Federals won a victory at Mechanicsville June 26. McClellan then determined to remove his base to the James River, and while this operation was being effected the battles of Gaines's Mill (June 27), Savage's Station (June 29), and Frayser's Farm (June 30) occurred. The Federals now rested in a strong position on the James, at Malvern Hill, and were unsucce fully a ailed there by Lee, July 1. A few weeks later the Army of the Potomac was withdrawn from the James, and the Peninsular campaign was ended. Seven Days' Campaign. A name sometimes given to the series of battles in Bohemia between Austria and Pru ia in 1866, ending with the decisive Pru ian victory of Sadowa, July 3, 1866. Seven Deadly Sins of London, The. A pamphlet by Thomas Dekker, published in 1606. It is described on the title-page as "Opus Sep tem Dierum." Seven Dials. A locality in London, about midway between the British Museum and Trafalgar Square. It was long notorious as a center of poverty and crime. Seven-hilled City, The. Rome. Seven Hills of Rome, The. The seven hills on which Rome was originally built, included within the circuit of the Servian Wall. They are the Palatine, the Capitoline, the Quirinal, the Aventine, the Cælian, the Esquiline, and the Viminal. The elevations are inconsiderable, the highest, the Quirinal, rising 226 feet above the sea, and the lowest, the Aventine, 151. The Capitoline and the Aventine rise above the left bank of the Tiber, the former to the north. The Palatine lies between them, a little back from the river. North of the Palatine, the furthest north of the seven, is the Quirinal, and on the east are the Viminal, the Esquiline, and the Cælian, respectively northeast, east, and southeast of the Palatine. Seven Lamps of Architecture, The. A treatise on architecture by Ruskin, published in 1849. IMG:content-0894.png:[blocks in formation] Seventy, The. 1. The Jewish Sanhedrim.-2. The body of disciples mentioned in Luke x. as appointed by Christ to preach the gospel and heal the sick.-3. The body of scholars who, according to tradition, were the authors of the Septuagint (which see): so called from their number, which, however, is given as seventy two.-4. Certain officials in the Mormon Church whose duty it is, under the direction of the Twelve Apostles, "to travel into all the world and teach the Gospel and administer its ordinances" ( Mormon Catechism ). Seven Weeks' War. The war of 1866 (sometimes called the Austro-Pru ian war), caused immediately by the Schleswig-Holstein question and indirectly by the long rivalry between Austria and Pru ia. Austria was supported by the South German states and by Hannover, Na au, Frankfort, etc., while Pru ia was supported by most of the North German states and by Italy. The main interest of the war is in the rapid succe es of the Pru ian army under the direction of Von Moltke. Bohemia was invaded and the Austrian army was overthrown at the battle of Sadowa or Königgrätz July 3. Elsewhere the Pru ians were almost uniformly succe ful; but their Italian allies were defeated on land at Custozza June 24, and on sea at Li a July 20. The war was ended, after about seven weeks of fighting, by the preliminaries of Nikolsburg, July 26, confirmed by the peace of Prague, etc. Pru ia became the leading political and military power in Germany, and Italy acquired Venetia. Seven Wise Masters, The. An old collection of tales, of Eastern origin, which has undergone many transformations. It consists, in the main, of the story of a king who is di uaded from executing his son (on the false accusation of one of his queens) by his son's instructors, each of whom narrates one or more stories (which are answered by the king), showing the dangers of hasty punishment. The collection is an important one in the history of popular fictions. See Sandabar . Seven Wise Men of Greece, The. Same as The Seven Sages , 1. Seven Wonders of the World, The. The seven most remarkable structures of ancient times. These were the Egyptian pyramids, the mausoleum erected by Artemisia at Halicarna us, the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the walls and hanging gardens at Babylon, the colo us at Rhodes, the statue of Zeus by Phidias in the great temple at Olympia, and the Pharos or lighthouse at Alexandria. Seven Years' War. One of the greatest wars of the 18th century. It was waged against Frederick the Great of Pru ia by an alliance whose chief members were Austria, France, and Ru ia. Frederick had the a istance of British subsidies and of the Han over i an troops. Saxony and Sweden were against him. The chief events were the following: battle of Lobositz, Oct. 1, 1756; Frederick's invasion of Bohemia in 1757; his victory over the Austrians at Prague, May 6; his defeat at Kolin, June 18; the French victory at Hasten beck, July 26, leading to the Convention of Closter-Zeven; the Ru ian victory at