Definitions containing mà hler, johann adam

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eve

Eve

(Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; God created Eve from Adam's rib and placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

— Princeton's WordNet

Bach

Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach, a German organist and composer

— Wiktionary

Adam and Steve

Adam and Steve

A phrase, often satirical, recasting the Biblical couple of Adam and Eve as a homosexual couple, Adam and Steve. In context, it may be used as a pejorative against either homosexuality or religious opposition to it.

— Wiktionary

Volapu00FCk

Volapu00FCk

An artificial language created in 1879 by Johann Martin Schleyer.

— Wiktionary

Goethean

Goethean

Of or relating to Johann Wolfgang Goethe, a German writer and thinker.

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BACH motif

BACH motif

A sequence of four notes (B flat, A, C, B natural), included in a piece of music as a homage to Johann Sebastian Bach.

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original sin

original sin

a sin said to be inherited by all descendants of Adam

— Princeton's WordNet

adapa

Adapa

a Babylonian demigod or first man (sometimes identified with Adam)

— Princeton's WordNet

prelapsarian

prelapsarian

of or relating to the time before the Fall of Adam and Eve

— Princeton's WordNet

Ads

Ads

A nickname for Adam

— Wiktionary

Adie

Adie

derived from Adam.

— Wiktionary

laryngeal prominence

laryngeal prominence

the Adam's apple

— Wiktionary

Adams

Adams

derived from Adam.

— Wiktionary

Enos

Enos

A grandson of Adam.

— Wiktionary

fall

Fall

the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve

— Princeton's WordNet

Preadamic

Preadamic

prior to Adam

— Webster Dictionary

Adam's apple

Adam's apple

see under Adam

— Webster Dictionary

Atkins

Atkins

meaning "son of Atkin (Adam)".

— Wiktionary

forbidden fruit

forbidden fruit

The fruit forbidden to Adam.

— Wiktionary

adamite

adamite

A descendant of Adam; a human being.

— Wiktionary

seth

Seth

(Old Testament) third son of Adam and Eve; given by God in place of the murdered Abel

— Princeton's WordNet

Adamesque

Adamesque

in the style of Robert Adam

— Wiktionary

Adamic

Adamic

Of, relating to, or resembling Adam.

— Wiktionary

tree of knowledge

tree of knowledge

the biblical tree in the Garden of Eden whose forbidden fruit was tasted by Adam and Eve

— Princeton's WordNet

Adamite

Adamite

a descendant of Adam; a human being

— Webster Dictionary

Seth

Seth

The third son of Adam and Eve.

— Wiktionary

Preadamite

Preadamite

an inhabitant of the earth before Adam

— Webster Dictionary

Preadamite

Preadamite

one who holds that men existed before Adam

— Webster Dictionary

pre-Adamite

pre-Adamite

A member of any race that predates Adam; an inhuman being.

— Wiktionary

pre-Adamite

pre-Adamite

Of or pertaining to a race that predates Adam; pre-human.

— Wiktionary

Preadamitic

Preadamitic

existing or occurring before Adam; preadamic; as, preadamitic periods

— Webster Dictionary

Edison

Edison

An English patronymic or metronymic surname derived from Adam and Edith.

— Wiktionary

Rib

Rib

a wife; -- in allusion to Eve, as made out of Adam's rib

— Webster Dictionary

Abel

Abel

The son of Adam and Eve who was killed by his brother Cain.

— Wiktionary

cataphatism

cataphatism

the religious belief that God has given enough clues to be known to humans positively and affirmatively (e.g., God created Adam `in his own image')

— Princeton's WordNet

eden

Eden, Garden of Eden

a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were driven from their paradise (the fall of man)

— Princeton's WordNet

garden of eden

Eden, Garden of Eden

a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were driven from their paradise (the fall of man)

— Princeton's WordNet

Egoism

Egoism

the doctrine of certain extreme adherents or disciples of Descartes and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which finds all the elements of knowledge in the ego and the relations which it implies or provides for

— Webster Dictionary

Eden

Eden

the garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence

— Webster Dictionary

Paradise

Paradise

the garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation

— Webster Dictionary

Adamical

Adamical

of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him

— Webster Dictionary

bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk

bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk

A sound which represents the symbolic thunderclap associated with the fall of Adam and Eve.

— Wiktionary

Cain

Cain

The eldest son of Adam and Eve as described in Genesis. (see Cain and Abel).

— Wiktionary

Adam

Adam

(with second or last) Jesus Christ, whose sacrifice, in Christian theology, makes possible the forgiveness of Adam's original sin.

— Wiktionary

General

General

having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire

— Webster Dictionary

Throatboll

Throatboll

the Adam's apple in the neck

— Webster Dictionary

abel

Abel

(Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man; Abel was killed by Cain

— Princeton's WordNet

cain

Cain

(Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man; Cain killed Abel out of jealousy and was exiled by God

— Princeton's WordNet

genesis

Genesis, Book of Genesis

the first book of the Old Testament: tells of Creation; Adam and Eve; the Fall of Man; Cain and Abel; Noah and the flood; God's covenant with Abraham; Abraham and Isaac; Jacob and Esau; Joseph and his brothers

— Princeton's WordNet

book of genesis

Genesis, Book of Genesis

the first book of the Old Testament: tells of Creation; Adam and Eve; the Fall of Man; Cain and Abel; Noah and the flood; God's covenant with Abraham; Abraham and Isaac; Jacob and Esau; Joseph and his brothers

— Princeton's WordNet

Eden

Eden

A garden built by God as the home for Adam and Eve; sometimes identified as part of Mesopotamia

— Wiktionary

Lilith

Lilith

A Mesopotamian storm demon, a bearer of disease and death; also the first wife of Adam in Jewish folklore.

— Wiktionary

Garden of Eden

Garden of Eden

In the book of Genesis, the place where Adam and Eve first lived after being created by God.

— Wiktionary

original sin

original sin

The state of sin, present in each human at birth, that is a direct result of Adam's disobedience to God.

— Wiktionary

Adamos

Adamos

A transliteration of the Greek male given name u1F0Cu03B4u03B1u03BCu03BFu03C2 (Adamos), the equivalent of Adam.

— Wiktionary

crew neck

crew neck

Occasionally, a collar whose front is meant to ride up onto the neck, sometimes to Adam's apple level, more often termed as high crew.

— Wiktionary

fall of man

Fall of Man

(Judeo-Christian mythology) when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, God punished them by driving them out of the Garden of Eden and into the world where they would be subject to sickness and pain and eventual death

— Princeton's WordNet

Eblis

Eblis

in Mohammedan tradition the chief of the fallen angels, consigned to perdition for refusing to worship Adam at the command of his Creator, and who gratified his revenge by seducing Adam and Eve from innocency.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Eve

Eve

According to the Bible and Qur'an, the first woman and mother of the human race; Adam's wife.

— Wiktionary

Mandaeism

Mandaeism

A monotheistic religion of the Iraq region with a strongly dualistic worldview, whose adherents (the Mandaeans) revere Adam and other Biblical figures, especially John the Baptist.

— Wiktionary

Fall

Fall

The sudden fall of humanity into a state of sin, as brought about by the transgression of Adam and Eve.

— Wiktionary

Original Sin

Original Sin

the name given by the theologians to the inherent tendency to sin on the part of all mankind, due, as alleged, to their descent from Adam and the imputation of Adam's guilt to them as sinning in him.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Smithian

Smithian

of or characteristic of the theories of the political economist Adam Smith

— Wiktionary

Thyroid Cartilage

Thyroid Cartilage

The largest cartilage of the larynx consisting of two laminae fusing anteriorly at an acute angle in the midline of the neck. The point of fusion forms a subcutaneous projection known as the Adam's apple.

— U.S. National Library of Medicine

Doppler Effect

Doppler Effect

Changes in the observed frequency of waves (as sound, light, or radio waves) due to the relative motion of source and observer. The effect was named for the 19th century Austrian physicist Johann Christian Doppler.

— U.S. National Library of Medicine

postlapsarian

postlapsarian

The state of being which followed the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden.

— Wiktionary

Jared

Jared

A man mentioned in the Book of Genesis, a descendant of Adam and of Seth, the father of Enoch, an ancestor of Noah.

— Wiktionary

Adamite

Adamite

one of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies

— Webster Dictionary

Theory

Theory

the philosophical explanation of phenomena, either physical or moral; as, Lavoisier's theory of combustion; Adam Smith's theory of moral sentiments

— Webster Dictionary

Adam's Peak

Adam's Peak

a conical peak in the centre of Ceylon 7420 ft. high, with a foot-like depression 5 ft. long and 2½ broad atop, ascribed to Adam by the Mohammedans, and to Buddha by the Buddhists; it was here, the Arabs say, that Adam alighted on his expulsion from Eden and stood doing penance on one foot till God forgave him.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

fig leaf

fig leaf

A representation of leaf of a fig plant used to cover the genitals of a nude figure in a work of art (alluding to Genesis iii 7, in which Adam and Eve use fig leaves to hide their nakedness).

— Wiktionary

Puttyroot

Puttyroot

an American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve

— Webster Dictionary

businessworthy

businessworthy

Of business conduct in accordance with Adam Smith's dictum that "Markets could not flourish without a strong underlying moral culture, animated by empathy and Fellow-feeling, by our ability to understand our common bond as human beings and to recognize the needs of others."

— Wiktionary

imputation

imputation

A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another; as, the imputation of the sin of Adam, or the righteousness of Christ.

— Wiktionary

Imputation

Imputation

a setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another; as, the imputation of the sin of Adam, or the righteousness of Christ

— Webster Dictionary

Rauhes Haus

Rauhes Haus

a remarkable institution for the reclamation and training of neglected children, founded (1831), and for many years managed by Johann Heinrich Wichern at Hoon, near Hamburg; it is affiliated to the German Home Mission.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Illuminati

Illuminati

members of certain associations in Modern Europe, who combined to promote social reforms, by which they expected to raise men and society to perfection, esp. of one originated in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, which spread rapidly for a time, but ceased after a few years

— Webster Dictionary

Danites

Danites

or Destroying Angels, a band of Mormons organised to prevent the entrance into Mormon territory of other than Mormon immigrants, but whose leader, for a massacre they perpetrated, was in 1827 convicted and shot.

Dannecker, Johann Heinrich von

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Prohibit

Prohibit

to forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, and also the doing of the thing; as, the law prohibits men from stealing, or it prohibits stealing

— Webster Dictionary

A`bul-faraj

A`bul-faraj

a learned Armenian Jew, who became bishop of Aleppo, and wrote a history of the world from Adam onwards (1226-1286).

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Palk's Strait

Palk's Strait

the channel which separates Ceylon from the mainland of India, 100 m. long and 40 m. wide, generally shallow. See Adam's Bridge.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

German Catholics

German Catholics

a sect formed in 1844 by secession from the Catholic Church of Germany, under the leadership of Johann Ronge, on account of the mummery under papal patronage connected with the exhibition of the Holy Coat of Trèves and the superstitious influence ascribed to it.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Pre-Adamites

Pre-Adamites

a race presumed to have existed on the earth prior to Adam; traditional first fathers of the Jews.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Paludan-Müller, Frederick

Paludan-Müller, Frederick

distinguished Danish poet, born in Fünen; his greatest poem, "Adam Homo," a didactico-humorous composition; was an earnest man and a finished literary artist (1809-1876).

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Billaut, Adam

Billaut, Adam

the carpenter poet, called "Maître Adam," born at Nevers, and designated "Virgile au Rabot" (a carpenter's plane); d. 1662.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Cocceius

Cocceius

or Koch, Johann, a Dutch divine, professor at Leyden; held that the Old Testament was a type or foreshadow of the New, and was the founder of the federal theology, or the doctrine that God entered into a threefold compact with man, first prior to the law, second under the law, and third under grace (1603-1669).

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Cain

Cain

according to Genesis, the first-born of Adam and Eve, and therefore of the race, and the murderer of his brother Abel.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Abel

Abel

the second son of Adam and Eve; slain by his brother. The death of Abel is the subject of a poem by Gessner and a tragedy by Legouvé.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Arafat`

Arafat`

a granite hill E. of Mecca, a place of pilgrimage as the spot where Adam received his wife after 200 years separation from her on account of their disobedience to the Lord in deference to the suggestion of Satan.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

EVOLUTION

EVOLUTION

A clever trick performed by one Darwin, who made a monkey of Adam.

— The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz

Satan

Satan

an archangel who, according to the Talmud, revolted against the Most High, particularly when required to do homage to Adam, and who for his disobedience was with all his following cast into the abyss of hell. See Devil.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Socinianism

Socinianism

the tenets or doctrines of Faustus Socinus, an Italian theologian of the sixteenth century, who denied the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the personality of the Devil, the native and total depravity of man, the vicarious atonement, and the eternity of future punishment. His theory was, that Christ was a man divinely commissioned, who had no existence before he was conceived by the Virgin Mary; that human sin was the imitation of Adam's sin, and that human salvation was the imitation and adoption of Christ's virtue; that the Bible was to be interpreted by human reason; and that its language was metaphorical, and not to be taken literally

— Webster Dictionary

ADAMANT

ADAMANT

From "Adam's Aunt," reputed to be a hard character. Hence, anything tough, or hard.

— The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz

Regiomontanus

Regiomontanus

name adopted by Johann Müller, a celebrated German astronomer and mathematician, born at Königsberg, in Franconia; appointed professor of Astronomy in Vienna (1461); sojourned in Italy; settled in Nüremberg, where much of his best work was done; assisted Pope Sixtus IV. in reforming the Calendar; was made Bishop of Ratisbon; died at Rome; was regarded as the most learned astronomer of the time in Europe, and his works were of great value to Columbus and other early navigators (1436-1476).

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Kirkcaldy

Kirkcaldy

a manufacturing and seaport town in Fifeshire, extending 4 m. along the north shore of the Forth, known as the "lang toon." It was the birthplace of Adam Smith, and one of the scenes of the schoolmastership period of Thomas Carlyle's life; manufactures textile fabrics and floorcloth; is a busy town.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Friday

Friday

the sixth day of the week, so called as consecrated to Freyia or Frigga, the wife of Odin; is proverbially a day of ill luck; held sacred among Catholics as the day of the crucifixion, and the Mohammedan Sunday in commemoration as the day on which, as they believe, Adam was created.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Bagge`sen, Jens Emmanuel

Bagge`sen, Jens Emmanuel

a Danish poet, travelled a good deal, wrote mostly in German, in which he was quite at home; his chief works, a pastoral epic, "Parthenais oder die Alpenreise," and a mock epic, "Adam and Eve"; his minor pieces are numerous and popular, though from his egotism and irritability he was personally unpopular (1764-1826).

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Lilith

Lilith

or Lilis, the name of Adam's first wife, whom, according to Jewish tradition, he had before Eve, and who bore him in that wedlock the whole progeny of aërial, aquatic, and terrestrial devils, and who, it seems, still wanders about the world bewitching men to like issue and slaying little children not protected by amulets against her.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

honeymoon

honeymoon

1. A happiness not quite worn out.

2. A postlude to a wedding-march and a prelude to a funeral ditto. _E. g._, "I did not drive Adam and Eve out of Eden because they ate my pet pippin, but because they insisted on carrying on their honeymoon before the modest animals."--From _The Private Journal of Démiurge_.

— The Roycroft Dictionary

FIG

FIG

Nothing. Note, "I don't care a fig," etc. =FIG LEAF= A small outer garment, next to nothing, worn by Adam 4000 B.C. and occasionally revived by Bostonian Art Committees.

— The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz

From

From

out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; -- the aritithesis and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield; he took his sword from his side; light proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds; men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony

— Webster Dictionary

Kepler, John

Kepler, John

illustrious astronomer, born at Weil der Stadt, Würtemberg, born in poverty; studied at Tübingen chiefly mathematics and astronomy, became lecturer on these subjects at Grätz; joined Tycho Brahé at Prague as assistant, who obtained a pension of £18 for him from the Austrian government, which was never paid; removed to Lintz, where Sir Henry Wotton saw him living in a camera obscura tent doing ingenious things, photographing the heavens, "inventing toys, writing almanacs, and being ill off for cash ... an ingenious person, if there ever was one among Adam's posterity ... busy discovering the system of the world—grandest conquest ever made, or to be made," adds Carlyle, "by the sons of Adam"; he was long occupied in studying the "'motions of the star' Mars, with calculations repeated seventy times, and with the discovery of the planetary laws of the Universe"; these last are called from his discovery of them Kepler's Laws; the first, that the planets move on elliptic orbits, the sun in one of the foci; the second, that, in describing its orbit, the radius vector of a planet traverses equal areas in equal times; and the third, that the square of the time of the revolution of a planet is proportional to the cube of its mean distance from the sun; poverty pursued Kepler all his days, and he died of fever at Ratisbon (1571-1630).

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Carlyle, Alexander

Carlyle, Alexander

surnamed Jupiter Carlyle, from his noble head and imposing person, born in Dumfriesshire; minister of Inveresk, Musselburgh, from 1747 to his death; friend of David Hume, Adam Smith, and Home, the author of "Douglas"; a leader of the Moderate party in the Church of Scotland; left an "Autobiography," which was not published till 1860, which shows its author to have been a man who took things as he found them, and enjoyed them to the full as any easy-going, cultured pagan (1722-1805).

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

BOHEMIA

BOHEMIA

(Not on the map.) A land flowing with canned milk and distilled honey and untroubled by consistency, convention, conscience or cash. A land to which many are called and few chosen. BONE One Dollar--the original price of a wife. Note, Adam, who had to give up one bone before he got Eve.

— The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz

Imputation

Imputation

the theological dogma of the transference of guilt or merit from one to another who is descended naturally or spiritually from the same stock as the former, as of Adam's guilt to us by nature or Christ's righteousness to us by faith; although in Scripture the term generally, if not always, denotes the reckoning to a man of the merit or the demerit involved in, not another's doings, but his own, as in a single act of faith or a single act of unbelief, the one viewed as allying him with all that is good, or as a proof of his essential goodness, and the other as allying him with all that is evil, or as a proof of his essential wickedness.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Free Trade

Free Trade

the name given to the commercial policy of England, first elaborately set forth with cogent reasoning by Adam Smith in his "Wealth of Nations," and of which the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 was the first step towards its adoption. Strictly used, the term is applicable only to international or foreign trade, and signifies a policy of strict non-intervention in the free competition of foreign goods with home goods in the home markets. Differential duties, artificial encouragements (e. g. bounties, drawbacks), to the home producer, all of which are characteristic of a protective system of trading, are withheld, the belief being entertained by free-traders that the industrial interests of a country are best served by permitting the capital to flow into those channels of trade into which the character and resources of the country naturally dispose it to do, and also by bringing the consumer as near as possible to the cheapest producer. But it is not considered a violation of the Free Trade principles to impose a duty for revenue purposes on such imported articles as have no home competitor, e. g. tea.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Stewart, Dugald

Stewart, Dugald

Scottish philosopher, born in Edinburgh, son of Matthew Stewart; attended the High School and the University; studied one session at Glasgow under Dr. Reid; assisted his father in conducting the mathematical classes in Edinburgh, and succeeded Adam Ferguson in the Moral Philosophy chair in 1785, a post, the active duties of which he discharged with signal success for twenty-five years, lecturing on a wide range of subjects connected with metaphysics and the science of mind; he wrote "Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind," "Philosophical Essays," &c.; "His writings," says Carlyle, who held him in high veneration, "are not a philosophy, but a making ready for one. He does not enter on the field to till it; he only encompasses it with fences, invites cultivators, and drives away intruders; often (fallen on evil days) he is reduced to long arguments with the passers-by to prove that it is a field, that this so highly-prized domain of his is, in truth, soil and substance, not clouds and shadows. It is only to a superficial observer that the import of these discussions can seem trivial; rightly understood, they give sufficient and final answer to Hartley's and Darwin's and all other possible forms of Materialism, the grand Idolatry, as we may rightly call it, by which, in all times, the true Worship, that of the Invisible, has been polluted and withstood" (1753-1858).

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Eliot, George

Eliot, George

the nom de plume of Mary Ann Evans, distinguished English novelist, born at Arbury, in Warwickshire; was bred on evangelical lines, but by-and-by lost faith in supernatural Christianity; began her literary career by a translation of Strauss's "Life of Jesus"; became in 1851 a contributor to the Westminster Review, and formed acquaintance with George Henry Lewes, whom she ere long lived with as his wife, though unmarried, and who it would seem discovered to her her latent faculty for fictional work; her first work in that line was "Scenes from Clerical Life," contributed to Blackwood in 1856; the stories proved a signal success, and they were followed by a series of seven novels, beginning in 1858 with "Adam Bede," "the finest thing since Shakespeare," Charles Reade in his enthusiasm said, the whole winding up with the "Impressions of Theophrastus Such" in 1879; these, with two volumes of poems, make up her works; Lewes died in 1878, and two years after she formally married an old friend, Mr. John Cross, and after a few months of wedded life died of inflammation of the heart; "she paints," says Edmond Scherer, "only ordinary life, but under these externals she makes us assist at the eternal tragedy of the human heart... with so much sympathy," he adds, "the smile on her face so near tears, that we cannot read her pages without feeling ourselves won to that lofty toleration of hers" (1819-1880).

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Oxford University

Oxford University

Oxford is spoken of as a seat of learning as early as the 11th century. Cloistral schools existed before that. Schools of divinity, law, and topography were founded in the 12th century. In the 13th Dominican and Franciscan scholars raised it to a level only second to Paris, and by the end of the 14th century there were thousands of students in attendance. Oxford responded quickly to the Renaissance, and by the time of the Reformation 13 colleges were founded. Her Protestantism stood firm through Mary's reaction, sank into passive obedience under the Stuarts, but woke up to resist James II.'s Catholic propaganda. Thereafter followed a serious lapse in efficiency, but this century has seen a complete revival. Oxford has now 21 colleges, among which are Balliol, Christ Church, Magdalen, Oriel, Trinity, and University College; 64 professors and teachers, and 3000 students. It is rich in museums and libraries; the Bodleian Library is of great value, the Taylor Library is devoted to modern literature. The Oxford or Tractarian Movement, one of the most remarkable religious impulses of modern times, had its centre in the University between 1834 and 1845. Among distinguished Oxford alumni were Hooker, Jeremy Taylor, Wesley, Newman; Hobbes, Locke, Adam Smith; Johnson, Gibbon, Freeman, Green; Chatham, Gladstone; Ruskin; Shelley, Keble, Arnold, and Clough. Of the colleges of which the University consists, the University was founded in 1249, Balliol in 1269, Merton in 1264, Exeter in 1314, Oriel in 1326, Queen's in 1340, New in 1379, Lincoln in 1427, All Souls' in 1437, Magdalen in 1468, Brasenose in 1509, Corpus in 1516, Christ Church in 1546, Trinity in 1554, St. John's in 1555, Jesus in 1571, Wadham in 1612, Pembroke in 1624, Worcester in 1714, Keble in 1870, and Hertford in 1874.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia


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