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# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Weever

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​WEEVER. The weevers (Trachinus) are small marine fishes which are common on the coasts of Europe, and which have attained notoriety from the painful and sometimes dangerous wounds they are able to inflict upon those who incautiously handle them. They belong to a family of spiny-rayed fishes (Trachinidae), and are distinguished by a long low body with two dorsal fins, the anterior of which is composed of six or seven spines only, the posterior being long and many-rayed; their anal resembles in form and composition the second dorsal fin. The ventral fins are placed in advance of the pectorals, and consist of a spine and five rays. The caudal fin has the hind margin not excised. The body is covered with very small scales, sunk in and firmly adherent to the skin, but the upper surface of the head is bony, without integument. The head, like the body, is compressed, with the eyes of moderate size and placed on the side of the head; the mouth is wide, oblique, and armed with bands of very small teeth.
Several species of weevers are known, but two only occur on the British coasts, viz., the Greater Weever (Trachinus draco) and the Lesser Weever (T. vipera); the former is frequently found of a length of 12 in., and possesses some thirty rays in the second dorsal fin, whilst the latter grows only to about half that length, and has about ten rays less in the dorsal. The coloration of both is plain, but the short first dorsal fin is always of a deep black colour. The weevers are bottom fish, burying and hiding themselves in the sand or between shingle—the lesser species living close inshore and the greater preferring deeper water, and being found sometimes floating on the surface at a distance of several miles from the shore. Although weevers, especially the lesser, are in the habit of burying themselves in the sand, and are abundant in some localities much resorted to by bathers, accidents from stepping upon them are much more rare than from incautiously handling them after capture. They probably make their escape on perceiving the approach of a person. The wounds are inflicted by the dorsal and opercular spines, are very painful, and sometimes cause violent local inflammation. The spines are deeply grooved, and the poisonous fluid which is lodged in the grooves is secreted by small glands at their base. The flesh is not bad eating, and great numbers of the larger species (T. draco) are brought to the Paris market. On the poisonous properties, cf. G. J. Allman, Ann. and Mag. N.H., vi. (1841), p. 161; L. Gressin, Contribution à l'étude de I'appareil à venin chez les poissons du genre Vive (Paris, 1884); W. N. Parker, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1888), p. 359; C. Phisalix, Bull. Mus. Paris (1899), p. 256; A. Briot, C. R. Soc. Biol., liv. (1902), pp. 1169 and 1197, and Iv. (1903), p. 623.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Weever, John

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​WEEVER, JOHN (1576–1632), English poet and antiquary, a native of Lancashire, was born in 1576. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he resided for about four years from 1594, but he took no degree. In 1599 he published Epigrammes in the Oldest Cut and Newest Fashion, containing a sonnet on Shakespeare, and epigrams on Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, Ben Jonson, William Warner and Christopher Middleton, all of which are valuable to the literary historian. In 1601 he published The Mirror of Martyrs or The Life and Death of . . . Sir John Oldcastle, which he calls in his preface the "first trew Oldcastle," perhaps on account of the fact that Shakespeare's Falslaff first appeared as Sir John Oldcastle. In the fourth stanza of this long poem, in which Sir John is his own panegyrist, occurs a reminiscence of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar which serves to fix the date of the play. After travelling in France, the Low Countries and Italy, Weever settled in Clerkenwell, and made friends among the chief antiquaries of his time. The result of extensive travels in his own country appeared in Funerall Monuments (1631), now valuable on account of the later obliteration of the inscriptions.
The Huth Library contains a unique copy of a thumb-book Agnus Dei (1606), containing a history of Christ. The Mirror of Martyrs has been reprinted for the Roxburghe Club (1872).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Weehawken

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​WEEHAWKEN, a township of Hudson county, New Jersey, U.S.A., in the N.E. part of the state, on the Hudson river, adjoining Hoboken and opposite the city of New York. Pop. (1890) 1943; (1900) 5325; (1910 census), 11,228. It is served by the New York, Ontario & Western, and the West Shore railways (being a terminus of the latter), and by suburban electric lines, and is connected with New York City by steam ferries. The township consists of a narrow strip of land along the western bank of the Hudson, and at the southern extremity of the Palisades. The extensive water-front is lined with wharves, some of which can accommodate the largest ocean steamers. On a ledge below the crest of the Palisades is the famous duelling ground, where New York citizens and others once settled their quarrels. Originally a part of Hoboken and North Bergen, the township of Weehawken was separately incorporated in 1859. Its name is an Indian word said to mean “maize land.”
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Weeks, Edwin Lord

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​WEEKS, EDWIN LORD (1849 – 1903), American artist, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1849. He was a pupil of Léon Bonnat and of J. L. Gérôme, at Paris. He made many ​voyages to the East, and was distinguished as a painter of oriental scenes. In 1895 he wrote and illustrated a book of travels, From the Black Sea through Persia and India, and two years later he published Episodes of Mountaineering. He died on the 17th of November 1903. He was a member of the Legion of Honour, France, an officer of the Order of St Michael, Germany, and a member of the Secession, Munich.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Weenix, Jan Baptist

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​WEENIX, JAN BAPTIST (1621-1660), Dutch painter, the son of an architect, was born in Amsterdam, and studied first under Jan Micker, then at Utrecht under A. Bloemaert, and at Amsterdam under Moijaert, and finally, between 1643 and 1647, in Rome. In that city he acquired a great name and worked for Pope Innocent and Cardinal Pamphili. He returned to his native country in 1649, in which year he became master of the gild of St Luke at Utrecht, where he died in 1660. He was a very productive and versatile painter, his favourite subjects being landscapes with ruins and large figures, seaports, and, later in life, large still-life pictures of dead game. Now and then he attempted religious genre, one of the rare pieces of this kind being the “Jacob and Esau” at the Dresden Gallery. At the National Gallery, London, is a “Hunting Scene” by the master, and the Glasgow Gallery has a characteristic painting of ruins. Weenix is represented at most of the important continental galleries, notably at Munich, Vienna, Berlin, Amsterdam, and St Petersburg. His chief pupils were his son Jan, Berchem, and Hondecoeter.
His son, Jan Weenix (1640-1719), was born at Amsterdam and was a member of the Utrecht gild of painters in 1664 and 1668. Like his father he devoted himself to a variety of subjects, but his fame is chiefly due to his paintings of dead game and of hunting scenes. Indeed, many of the pictures of this genre, which were formerly ascribed to the elder Weenix, are now generally considered to be the works of his son, who even at the early age of twenty rivalled, and subsequently surpassed, his father in breadth of handling and richness of colour. At Amsterdam he was frequently employed to decorate private houses with wall-paintings on canvas; and between 1702 and 1712 he was occupied with an important series of large hunting pictures for the Prince Palatine Johann Wilhelm's castle of Bensberg, near Cologne. Some of these pictures are now at Munich Gallery. He died at Amsterdam in 1719. Many of his best works are to be found in English private collections, though the National Gallery has but a single example, a painting of dead game and a dog. Jan Weenix is well represented at the galleries of Amsterdam, The Hague, Haarlem, Rotterdam, Berlin, and Paris.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Zeitz

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​ZEITZ, a town of Germany, in the extreme south of the Prussian province of Saxony, pleasantly situated on a hill on the Weisse (White) Elster, 28 m. by rail S.S.W. of Leipzig on the line to Gera, and with branches to Altenburg and Weissenfels. Pop. (1885) 19,797; (1900) 27,391. The river is here crossed by two iron bridges, and one stone and one timber bridge, and the upper and lower towns are connected by a funicular railway. The Gothic abbey church dates from the 15th century, but its Romanesque crypt from the 12th. The old Franciscan monastery, now occupied by a seminary, contains a library of 20,000 volumes. Just outside the town rises the Moritzburg, built in 1564 by the dukes of Saxe-Zeitz, on the site of the bishop's palace; it is now a reformatory and poorhouse. Zeitz has manufactures of cloth, cottons and other textiles, machinery, wax-cloth, musical instruments, vinegar, cigars, &c.; and wood-carving, dyeing and calico-printing are carried on. In the neighbourhood there are considerable deposits of lignite, and mineral-oil works.
Zeitz is an ancient place of Slavonic origin. From 968 till 1028 it was the seat of a bishopric, afterwards removed to Naumburg, 15½ m. to the N.W., and styled Naumburg-Zeitz. In 1564 the last Roman Catholic bishop died, and his dominions were thenceforward administered by princes of Saxony. From 1653 till 1718 Zeitz was the capital of the dukes of Saxe-Zeitz or Sachsen-Zeitz. It thereafter remained in the possession of the electors of Saxony until 1815, when it passed to Prussia.
See Rothe, Aus der Geschichte der Stadt Zeitz (Zeitz, 1876); and Lange, Chronik des Bisthums Naumburg (Naumburg, 1891).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Zenana

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​ZENANA (Persian zanana), the apartments of an Eastern house in which the women of the family are secluded (see Harem). This is a Mahommedan custom, which has been introduced into India and has spread amongst the Hindus. The zenana missions are missions to Indian women in their own homes.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Zeissberg, Heinrich, Ritter von

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​Zeissberg, Heinrich, Ritter von (1839–1899), Austrian historian, was born in Vienna on the 8th of July 1839, and in 1865 became professor of history at the university of Lemberg. In 1871 he removed to Innsbruck; in 1873 he was appointed professor at the university of Vienna, and here he was historical tutor to the crown prince Rudolph. In 1891 he was made director of the Vienna institute for historical research, and in 1896 director of the imperial court library at Vienna. He resigned his professorial chair in 1897 and died on the 27th of May 1899.
Zeissberg’s writings deal mainly with the history of Austria and of Poland, and among them the following may be mentioned:—Die polnische Geschichtsschreibung des Mittelalters (Leipzig, 1873); Arno, erster Erzbischof von Salzburg (Vienna, 1863); Die Kriege Kaiser Heinrichs II. mit Herzog Boleslaw I. von Polen (Vienna, 1868); Rudolf von Habsburg und der österreichische Staatsgedanke (Vienna, 1882); Über das Rechtsverfahren Rudolfs von Habsburg gegen Ottokar von Böhmen (Vienna, 1887); and Der österreichische Erbfolgestreit nach dem Tode des Königs Ladislaus Posthumus, 1457–58 (Vienna, 1879). Dealing with more recent times he wrote:—Zur deutschen Kaiserpolitik Oesttrreichs: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Revolutionsjahres 1795 (Vienna, 1899); Zwei Jahre belgischer Geschichte 1791–92 (Vienna, 1891); Belgien unter der Generalstatthalterschaft Erzherzog Karls 1793–94 (Vienna, 1893–94); Erzherzog Karl von Oesterreich. Lebensbild (Vienna, 1895); and Franz Josef I. (Vienna, 1888). He edited three volumes of the Quellen zur Geschichte der Deutschen Kaiserpolitik Oesterreichs während der französischen Revolutionskriege 1790–1801 (Vienna, 1882–1885, 1890).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Zenata

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​ZENATA, or Zanátà, a Berber tribe of Morocco in the district of the central Atlas. Their tribal home seems to have been south of Oran in Algeria, and they seem to have early claimed an Arab origin, though it was alleged by the Arabs that they were descendants of Goliath, i.e. Philistines or Phoenicians (Ibn Khaldun, vol. iii. p. 184 and vol. iv. p. 597). They were formerly a large and powerful confederation, and took a prominent part in the history of the Berber race. The Beni-Marin and Wattasi dynasties which reigned in Morocco from 1213 to 1548 were of Zenata origin.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Zeehan

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​ZEEHAN, a town of Montagu county, Tasmania, 225 m. direct N.W. of Hobart, on the Little Henty river. Pop. (1901) 5014. It is an important railway centre, and from it radiate lines to Strahan, its port on the Macquarie Harbour, to Dundas, to Williamsford; and to Burnie, where connexion is made to ​Launceston and Hobart. The town is lighted by electricity and has an academy of music and a state-aided school of mines. It is the principal centre of the silver-lead mining district, and has large smelting works.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Zeitun

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​Zeitun (= “olive”), the name of several places in Turkey and Egypt, but principally an Armenian town in the Aleppo vilayet, altitude about 4000 ft., situated in the heart of Mt. Taurus, about 20 m. N.N.W. of Marash. The inhabitants, about 10,000, all Christians, are of a singularly fine physical type, though too much inbred, and are interesting from their character and historical position as a remnant of the kingdom of Lesser Armenia. The importance of Zeitun dates from the capture of Leo VI. by the Egyptians in 1375, and it probably became then a refuge for the more active and irreconcilable Armenians; but nothing certain is known of the place till 300 years later. It long maintained practical independence as ​a nest of freebooters, and it was only in 1878 that the Turks, after a long conflict, were enabled to station troops in a fort above the town. In 1890 there was a serious revolt, from the worst consequences of which the town was saved by the intercession of the British consul at Aleppo warned in time by the devoted energy of T. Christie, American missionary at Marash; and in 1895, after the Armenian massacres had commenced elsewhere, the people again rose, seized the fort, and, after holding out for more than three mouths against a large Turkish force, secured honourable terms of peace on the mediation of the consuls of the Powers at Aleppo. The inhabitants seem to be abandoning their robber customs and devoting themselves to oil and silk culture. In consequence transit trade through the passes of eastern Taurus (see Marash), long almost annihilated by fear of the Zeitunli marauders, revived considerably. The governor must be a Christian, and certain other privileges are secured to the Zeitunlis during their good behaviour.  (D. G. H.)
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Zeerust

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​Zeerust, a town of the Transvaal, 149 m. by rail, via Krugersdorp, N.N.W. of Pretoria and 33 m. N.E. of Mafeking. Pop. (1904) 1945. It was founded in 1863 and is the chief town of the Marico district, one of the most fertile regions of South Africa. In the neighbourhood are lead, zinc and silver mines, and some 20 m. S. are the Malmani goldfields. The Marico Valley was occupied early in the 19th century by Matabele, who had come from Zululand. They were driven out by Boer trekkers in 1837. To Boer cultivation the valley of the Marico river owes its fertility. Wheat and oats are largely cultivated and almost all sub-tropical fruits flourish. Following the relief of Mafeking, 17th of May 1900, Zeerust was occupied by the British under General R. S. S. Baden-Powell. Railway connexion with Pretoria was established in 1907.
# A Collection of Loyal Songs Written Against the Rump Parliament/Volume 2

A Collection of Loyal Songs Written against the Rump Parliament, Between the Years of 1639 and 1661.
Containing,
A great Variety of Merry and Diverting Characters of the Chief Sectaries, who were the Principal Actors in that whole Scene of Affairs.
With an Historical Introduction to the Whole.
In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
London:
# A Collection of Loyal Songs Written Against the Rump Parliament

* Volume 1
* Volume 2
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# A Collection of Loyal Songs Written Against the Rump Parliament/Volume 2/Song 14

XIV. Chips of the Old Block; or, Hercules Cleansing the Augæan Stable.
To the Tune of, The Sword
# A Collection of Poems

A COLLECTION
OF POEMS, VIZ.
By Mr. William Shakespeare.
LONDON,
Price bound One Shilling Six-pence.
Advertisement.
THE Remains of Mr. William Shakespeare, call'd, The Passionate Pilgrime, and, Sonnets to sundry Notes of Musick, (at the End of this Collection) came to my hands in a little stitch'd Book, printed at London for W. Jaggard, in the Year 1599. It is generally agreed he dy'd about the Year 1616. so that it appears plainly they were published by himself, being printed 17 Years before his Death.
I will say nothing of Venus and Adonis, nor of the Rape of Lucrece, they being universally allow'd to be Shakespear's, only that I have printed them from very old Editions, which I procur'd, as the Reader will find by my keeping close to his Spelling.
The Writings of Mr. Shakespeare are in so great Esteem, that several Gentlemen have subscrib'd to a late Edition of his Dramatick Works in Six Volumes; which makes me hope, that this little Book will not be unacceptable to the Publick.
​I shall not take upon me to say any thing of the Author, an ingenious Person having compil'd some Memoirs of his Life, and prefix'd it to the late above-mention'd Edition; But I cannot omit inserting a Passage of Mr. Shakespeare's Life, very much to his Honour, and very remarkable, which was either unknown, or forgotten by the Writer of it.
That most learn'd Prince, and great Patron of Learning, King James the First, was pleas'd with his own Hand to write an amicable Letter to Mr. Shakespeare; which Letter, tho now lost, remain'd long in the Hands of Sir William D'avenant, as a credible Person now living can testify.
* Venus and Adonis
* The Rape of Lucrece
* The Passionate Pilgrime
* Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Musicke
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# A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists (1876)/Part 5

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SECTION I. FOR THE SOCIETY ON MEETING.
* And are we yet alive
* Peace be on this house bestowed
* Glory be to God above
* All thanks to the Lamb, Who gives us to meet!
* Saviour of sinful men
* Jesu, to thee our hearts we lift
* Appointed by thee, We meet in thy name
* Jesu, we look to thee
* See, Jesus, thy disciples see
* Two are better far than one
SECTION II. FOR THE SOCIETY GIVING THANKS.
* How happy are we
* How good and pleasant 'tis to see
* Brethren in Christ, and well-beloved
* Come away to the skies
* What shall we offer our good Lord
* The people that in darkness lay
* Lo! God is here! let us adore
* Come, let us arise
* The earth is the Lord's, And all it contains
* Come, all whoe'er have set
* Come, let us anew
* Come, let us ascend
* All praise to our redeeming Lord
SECTION III. FOR THE SOCIETY PRAYING.
* Jesus, great Shepherd of the sheep
* Come, thou omniscient Son of man
* Try us, O God, and search the ground
* Jesus, united by thy grace
* Unchangeable, almighty Lord
* Father of our dying Lord
* Saviour of all, to thee we bow
* God of Love, that hear'st the prayer
* Jesus, Lord, we look to thee
* Thou God of truth and love
* Forgive us, for thy mercy's sake
* Centre of our hopes thou art
* Jesus, with kindest pity see
* Father, at thy footstool see
* Father, Son, and Spirit, hear
* Other ground can no man lay
* Christ, our Head, gone up on high
* Christ, from whom all blessings flow
* Come, and let us sweetly join
* Come, thou high and lofty Lord!
* Let us join, ('tis God commands)
* Partners of a glorious hope
* O thou, our Husband, Brother, Friend
* Our friendship sanctify and guide
* Jesu, thou great redeeming Lord
* Except the Lord conduct the plan
* Come, wisdom, power, and grace divine
* O Saviour, cast a gracious smile!
* Holy Lamb, who thee confess
* Come, thou all-inspiring Spirit
* Christ, whose glory fills the skies
* Come, let us use the grave divine
SECTION IV. FOR THE SOCIETY AT PARTING.
* Lord, we thy will obey
* Blest be the dear uniting love
* And let our bodies part
* Jesus, accept the praise
* God of all consolation, take
* Jesus, soft harmonious name
* Lift up your hearts to things above
# A Collection of Poems/Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Musicke

None of the eight works herein has a title, so they have been identified by their first lines.
SONNETS To Sundry Notes of MUSICKE.
By Mr. William Shakespeare.
LONDON, Printed in the Year 1599.
* 'It was a Lording's Daughter, the fairest one of three'
* 'On a day (alacke the day)'
* 'My flocks feede not, my Ewes breed not'
* 'In black morne I, all fears scorne I'
* 'Cleare wells spring not, sweete birds sing not'
* 'When as thine eye hath chose the Dame'
* 'Live with me and be my Love'
* 'As it fell upon a Day'
# 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Forbes-Robertson, Sir Johnston

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​FORBES-ROBERTSON, SIR JOHNSTON (1853-), English actor (see 10.639), was knighted in 1913, and retired from regular work on the stage in the following year.
# 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Fowler, William Warde

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FOWLER, WILLIAM WARDE (1847-1921), British classical scholar and ornithologisr, was born at Langford Budville, Som., May 16 1847, the second son of John Coke Fowler, stipendiary magistrate Swansea. He was educated at Marlborough and at Lincoln College, Oxford, graduating first class in literae humaniores 1870, and being elected to a fellowship at his college two years later. From 1882 to 1904 he was sub-rector under W. W. Merry. In 1909-10 he was Gifford lecturer at Edinburgh. He combined exact scholarship with a living interest in the ancient world which made his classical studies, especially of Roman history, both readable and popular. They included a Life of Julius Caesar (1892); The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic (1899); Social Life at Rome in the Age or Cicero (1909); The Religious Experience of the Roman People (1911) and Roman Ideas of Deity (1914). Equally delightful were his writings on birds, A Year with the Birds (1886); Tales of the Birds (1888); Summer Studies of Birds and Books (1895); More Tales of the Birds (1902) and many occasional papers. His latest work included Essays in Brief for War Time (1916) and studies of Virgil's Aeneid. He died at Kingham, Oxon., June 14 1921.