Talmud

Park and canonical is the law, fundamental by which—in code addition of the Jewish to the civil Old TAUCHNITZ, removed Testament the conduct of the people is regulated set It Is practically the interpretation of the Mosaic Law in by the ancient rabbins. After the second destruction of Jerusalem, the dispersion of the Jews raised fears the oral traditions should be entirely lost, amj arose the nece ity of committing them to writ The original text of them, or Mishna, was up in 190 A.D., but subsequently two com men were added—the Babylonian Geinara about 430 to which the Jews always refer, and the Gemara, which was earlier and shorter. or TIMUR THE Lame, the great conwas born near Sam arc and in 1336, and he raised to the throne of Sam arc and in 1369. He first his kingdom, and then star tea on his raids. conquered nearly all Persia, India, Syria, Asiaetc., and would probably have conquered if he had lived. He died in 1405. was an Indian Chief, of the Delaware tribe, lived in the middle of the seventeenth century. is said to have had a motto, “ Unite in peace for and in war for defence." This seems to been the reason why the New York democracy him as their patron saint. The Crusader, was born in 1078. He the beau ideal of crusading chivalry, and the of Ta o's great epic. Robert, the weaver-poet, was bom in and owed much of his enrly inspiration to the of Bums, Fergu on, and Ramsay. He pubhis “ Poems and Songs ” in 1807. the hero of the German legend, per the regret of the people for the old paganism the stern treatment of it by the Church of Rome. was a real Tannhauser, who was a knight and of the 13th century. was known to the Greeks, and had been to a high state of perfection at Athens, but it usually a ociated with the Flemish weavers of Arras the 15th and 16th centuries. It was intro in to England by William Sheldon in Henry reign, and into Paris by Henri IV. about the Gobelins Tapestry being due to Louis XIV. ‘ Bayeux Tapestry ’ is simply a roll of linen cloth with coloured thread. is a Chaldee paraphrase or version of the Old There are eleven of them altogether, by far the best is that of Onkelos on the Penthe author having been a disciple of Hillel 65 B.C. takes its name from the town and cape of Tarifa,’ where, during the Moorish dominion in dues were collected from ships using the of Gibraltar. ought to be called ‘Tatars,’ but the name changed apparently because they were looked as ‘fiends from hell (Tartar us). Torquato, was bom ’ in 1544, the son of a highly esteemed in his own day, and whose in exile he shared. He published his poem ‘ Rinaldo ’ in 1560. In 1565 he entered service of Cardinal Luigi d’Este, who took him the court of his brother Alfonso II. d’Este, Duke of where, under the encouragement of the two beautiful sisters, Lucrezia and Leonora, began his great epic " La Gerusalcnime Liber at a,” was completed in 1575. He wrote the sweet play of “ Aminta’Mn 1573, and died in 1595. several years he was kept confined, as he had of homicidal mania. Aesthetic, is the mental faculty by which wo and distinguish the beautiful and the It is generally looked upon as the result of or fashion, ana it is so very often, especially reference to women’s dre but it is really a habit mind, and there are uniform; and permanent prinon which to ground its decisions. (See above.) Horse Mart takes its name from Tattersall, an auctioneer of last century. In he took a 90 years’ lease of premises at Hyde Corner, on the expiration of which the mart was to Knights bridge Green. the famous printer, was born in 1761, and up a small printing busine of his own in Leipzig 1796. In 1809 he began to i u« his famous editions the Cla ics, and in 1816 he introduced stereotyping