Arnim, Ludwig

ACHIM VON, a distinguished German roman cist; B. in 1781, at Berlin. His fictions are too fantastic and bizarre; but he po e es deep feeling, considerable humor, and great powers of observation. His Complete Works were published at Berlin, in 18391846, in 19 vols. D. 1831. Ar'nis, an island of Denmark, containing a small fishing town of the same name, on the Schlei. Ar'no, a large and famous river of Italy. in Tuscany, rising in the A pennines, at Monte Falter on a, and pursuing generally a W. course, by Florence and Pisa, enters the Mediterranean sea 5 miles below the latter city. Its entire length is estimated at about 175 miles. This river has an uncertain navigability, dependent upon the influences of the seasons, and is so liable to floods at times, that it has been embanked for a great distance from its mouth. A. is the Arnus of the Romans. The Val d'Arno ("Valley of Arno"), between Florence and Pisa, is one of the richest and loveliest vales in Italy. Ar'no, in Illinois , a village of Coles co., about 6 m. N.Ε. of Mattoon. Ar'no, in Mi ouri , a post-office of Douglas co. Arnold, BENEDICT, an American general, was B. at Norwich, Connecticut, in 1740. He was settled in extensive busine at New Haven when the war of Independence broke out. After the news of the battle of Lexington, he raised a body of volunteers, and received a colonel's commi ion. After commanding, for a short time, a small fleet upon Lake Cham plain, he was, along with General Montgomery, charged with the difficult duty of leading a force of 1,100 men acro the wilds of the country to Quebec, to stir up rebellion there, and displace the British garrison. In this unsucce ful attempt, Montgomery was killed, and A. severely wounded. After this, we find him in various important commands, but as often involved in quarrels with Congre and his fellow-officers. It would be of little interest now to enter into a detail of his grievances. He seems to have been a singularly brave, but reckle and unprincipled man. Washington valued him for his acts of daring, and would gladly have overlooked his faults; but Congre and his brother-officers regarded him with dis Like Bayard, he was pre-eminently sans peur et sans re proc he. His life has been written by Dean Stanley, one of his old pupils. Arnold OF BRESCIA, one of the reformers prior to the Reformation, a disciple of Abelard of Paris. and of Be-rengarius. As early as the middle of the 12th century, his bold spirit, his scriptural knowledge, and his eloquence, had succeeded in arousing France and Italy against the abuses of the Roman Church. Driven by the clergy from Itały, he sought refuge in Zurich, where he made many converts. At length, through the instigation of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, he was charged with heresy, and excommunicated by Pope Innocent II. At this juncture, serious popular tumults occurred at Rome, and A. , hastening thither, was received with great cordiality, and soon vested with supreme power. In 1155, however, Adrian IV. interdicted and expelled him the city. For a time he sheltered in Campagna, but was seized, and taken back to Rome, where he was executed, and his ashes were thrown into the Tiber. A. was a man of great eloquence and sanctity. He taught that Christ's kingdom was not of this world; that temporal dignities and large independent revenues ought not to be held by the clergy; and that nothing should be left. to them but spiritual authority, and a moderate subsistence. Ile is also reckoned by Dr. Wall among those who denied the scriptural authority of infant laptism His followers were called Arn ldists , and held the same opinions as the Waldenses.