Bible Encyclopedias

Al`tenburg
capital of saxe-altenburg, and 4 m. s. of leipsic; its castle is the scene of the famous "prinzenraub" ( q. v .), related by carlyle in his "miscellanies."

Anselm, St.
Archbishop of Canterbury, a native of Aosta, in Piedmont, monk and abbot; visited England frequently, gained the favour of King Rufus, who appointed

Antigone, the Modern
the duchess of angoulême, daughter of louis xv. see the parting scene in carlyle's "french revolution."

Aub`rey, John
An eminent antiquary, a friend of Anthony Wood's; inherited estates in Wilts, Hereford, and Wales, all of which he lost by lawsuits and bad management;

A`li
The cousin of Mahomet, and one of his first followers at the age of sixteen, "a noble-minded creature, full of affection and fiery daring. Something

Bastille
The Building), a State prison in Paris, built originally as a fortress of defence to the city, by order of Charles V., between 1369 and 1382, but used

Ba`laam
a midianitish soothsayer; for the account of him see num. xxii.-xxiv., and carlyle's , essay on the "corn-law rhymes" for its application to modern state councillors of the same time-serving type, and their probable fate.

Belleisle, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, Count of
Marshal of France; distinguished in the war of the Spanish Succession; an ambitious man, mainly to blame for the Austrian Succession war; had grand schemes

Bouillé, Marquis de
A French general, born in Auvergne, distinguished in the Seven Years' War, in the West Indies and during the Revolution; "last refuge of royalty in all

Burns, Robert
Celebrated Scottish poet, born at Alloway, near Ayr, in 1759, son of an honest, intelligent peasant, who tried farming in a small way, but did not prosper;

Bury St. Edmunds
or market-town in suffolk, 26 m. nw. of ipswich, named from edmund, king of east anglia, martyred by the danes in 870, in whose honour it was built; famous for its abbey, of the interior life of which in the 12th century there is a matchlessly graphic account in carlyle's "past and present."

Cagliostro, Count Alessandro Di
Assumed name of an arch-impostor, his real name being Giuseppe Balsamo, born in Palermo, of poor parents; early acquired a smattering of chemistry and

Carlyle, Thomas
Born in the village of Ecclefechan, Annandale, Dumfriesshire; son of James Carlyle, a stone-mason, and afterwards a small farmer, a man of great force,

Clemens Alexandrinus
One of the Greek Fathers of the Church, of the 2nd and 3rd centuries; had Origen for pupil; brought up in Greek philosophy; converted in manhood to Christianity

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Poet, philosopher, and critic, born in Devonshire; passionately devoted to classical and metaphysical studies; educated at Christ's Hospital; had Charles

Conradin the Boy
Or he last representative of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Romish Kaisers, had fallen into the Pope's clutches, who was at mortal feud with the empire,

Craigenputtock
A craig or whinstone hill of the puttocks (small hawks), "a high moorland farm on the watershed between Dumfriesshire and Galloway, 10 m. from Dumfries,"

Dante Alighieri
The great poet of Italy, "the voice of ten silent centuries," born in Florence; was of noble birth; showed early a great passion for learning; learned

Danton, Georges Jacques
"The Titan of the Forlorn Hope" of the French Revolution, born at Arcis-sur-Aube, "of good farmer people ... a huge, brawny, black-browed man, with a