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# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Ammon

​AMMON. A descendent of Zarahemla, (either his son or grandson,) who led a party of sixteen picked men from Zarahemla to Lehi-Nephi in the reign of Mosiah II, in the endeavor to discover what had become of the people of Zeniff. They were unacquainted with the road and wandered for forty days in the wilderness before they reached their destination. Ammon then chose three companions, Amaleki, Helem and Hem, to go forward and reconnoiter. They were discovered by king Limhi and his guards when near the city and cast into prison, being mistaken for the apostate priests of king Noah. After two days they were again brought before the king, when mutual explanations ensued and Ammon to his joy found that he had reached those for whom he was in search. But Limhi's people were in great distress, and in bondage to the Lamanites. The next day Limhi assembled his people at the temple, that they might all hear of the prosperity of their brethren in Zarahemla, at the recital of which they greatly rejoiced. Limhi and his people also wished to make covenant with God by baptism, but there was no one among them authorized to administer this ordinance, and Ammon would not, considering himself an unworthy servant. Their next study was to escape from their Lamanitish taskmasters, which they shortly afterwards effected with the aid of Ammon and Gideon; Ammon and ​his brethren guiding them through the wilderness to the land of Zarahemla (B. C. 112).
# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Ammah

​AMMAH. A Christian Nephite elder who accompanied the four sons of Mosiah (B. C. 91) in their mission to the Lamanites, We first read of him preaching to the inhabitants of the village of Ani-Anti, and when rejected by them he, with Aaron and others, went over to the land of Middoni, where he was cast into prison, and with his fellow-laborers suffered all the indignities and hardships there inflicted upon those devoted servants of God. After many days' imprisonment they were delivered through the instrumentality of Ammon and king Lamoni. When the various missionaries recommenced their labors, the regions in which certain ones labored are stated, but no further mention is made of Ammah or his ministrations; yet there is no doubt but that he continued his faithful labors unto the end of this lengthy and most important mission.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Melusine

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Menter, Sophie

​MENTER, SOPHIE. See vol. iii. p. 16a.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Mendelssohn Scholarship

From volume 2 of the work.
​MENDELSSOHN SCHOLARSHIP. This is the most valuable musical prize in the United Kingdom. It originated in a movement among the friends of Mendelssohn at Leipzig, who, shortly after his death, resolved to found scholarships in his memory, to be competed for and held in that Conservatorium in the foundation of which, not long before, he had greatly assisted. They appealed for help in this undertaking to English admirers of the departed composer, and were met with ready sympathy and co-operation. A committee was formed in London, with Sir G. Smart as Chairman, Mr. Carl Klingemann, Mendelssohn's intimate friend, as Secretary, and Mr. E. Buxton, Treasurer.
The first effort towards raising money was made in the shape of a performance of the 'Elijah' on a large scale, to which Mlle. Jenny Lind gave her willing and inestimable services. This took place Dec. 15, 1848, under the direction of Sir Julius (then Mr.) Benedict, with a full band and chorus, the Sacred Harmonic Society and Mr. Hullah's Upper Schools contributing to the efficiency of the latter force. A large profit was derived from the performance; and this, with a few donations, was invested in the purchase of £1050, Bank 3 per cent annuities—the nucleus of the present Scholarship Fund.
The original plan of amalgamating the London and Leipzig projects fell through, and the money was allowed to accumulate till 1856, when the first scholar was elected—Arthur S. Sullivan, now Dr. Sullivan, head of the 'National ​Training School for Music.' He was then one of the 'Children of Her Majesty's Chapel Royal,' and he held the Scholarship for about four years, studying at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and afterwards at the Conservatorium at Leipzig.
In 1865, the funds having again accumulated, Mr. (now Dr.) C. Swinnerton Heap, of Birmingham, was elected to the Scholarship, which he held for rather more than two years. He was succeeded in the early part of 1871 by Mr. W. Shakespeare, a pupil of the Royal Academy of Music, who pursued his studies at Leipzig and subsequently in Italy. At the time of his election, a two years' Scholarship of £20 per annum was offered, out of the accumulated interest; and this was held for a year by Miss Crawford, and again (1873) by Mr. Eaton Faning. The Society's capital then consisted of £1350 in 5 per cent India Stock, now (1879) increased to nearly £2000 by fresh subscriptions and donations, enabling the Society to give their Scholar a stipend of about £90 per annum.
In June, 1875, Mr. F. Corder was elected Mendelssohn Scholar; and he held the Scholarship for four years, studying at Cologne under Dr. Hiller. Miss Maude V. White, the present scholar [App. p.717 "omit the words the present scholar."], was elected in February, 1879. [App. p.717 "Eugene d' Albert held the scholarship in 1881–2, and that the late scholar, Miss Marie Wurm, was elected in Jan. 1884."]
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Mengozzi, Bernardo

From volume 2 of the work.
​MENGOZZI, Bernardo, distinguished both as a singer and a composer, was born in 1758 at Florence, where he first studied music. He afterwards had instruction at Venice from Pasquale Potenza, cantor of St. Mark's. In Lent of 1785, Lord Mount-Edgcumbe found him singing in oratorio at Naples, with Signora Benini, whom he soon afterwards married. After singing together at several Italian theatres, the two came to London in 1786, but our climate was very ill-suited to Mengozzi, whose voice, a good tenor, but wanting in power, suffered much and permanently from its rigour. He was too ill, indeed, to appear with Benini in the first opera in which she sang here, the 'Giannina e Bernardone' of Cimarosa, with new songs by Cherubini. He played, however, the principal part in 'Il Tutor Burlato' of Paisiello, and showed himself 'a good musician, with a good style of singing, but still too feeble to excite any other sensation in the audience than pity for the state of his health' (Burney). In March, Handel's 'Giulio Cesare' was revived, with additions from others of his works; and in this pasticcio (1787) Mengozzi took part. But he did not do himself justice, and was soon superseded by Morelli, as his wife was by la Storace.
From London Mengozzi went to Paris, where he was heard to advantage in the concerts given by Marie Antoinette, and among the Italian company of the Théâtre de Monsieur, with Mandini and Viganoni. He remained at Paris after the Revolution, and supported himself by giving lessons and writing operettas for the Feydeau and Montansier Theatres. When the Conservatoire was established, he was named 'Professeur de Chant,' and is remembered as having formed several distinguished pupils.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Meno mosso

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Menter, Joseph

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Merbecke, John

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Mendelssohn Quintette Club, The

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Mendel, Hermann

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Seguier, Anne de

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SEGUIER, ANNE DE,
Daughter to Pierre Seguier, whose family gave to France so many illustrious magistrates, married Francis du Prat, Baron de Thiers, by whom she had two daughters, Anne and Philippine, who were educated in the court of Henry the Third of France. Anne de Seguier was a celebrated poetess; she was living in 1573. Her daughters, also, were distinguished for their literary attainments, and for their skill in the Greek and Latin languages.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Schoppe, Amalia von

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SCHOPPE, AMALIA VON,
Whose maiden name was Weise, is a German novel-writer who has distinguished herself for the number of her works, comprising About one hundred and fifty volumes. We know little of her private history except from her own pen. In 1838 she published "Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben," which is said to contain many incidents of her own life, and pourtraying her own character under that of her heroine, Clementine. "If so," says a British critic, "she presents herself to the public as a woman of no ordinary character; Intelligent but unimpassioned; of a frank and energetic disposition, and devoid of prudery and false sentiment" Her first work was published' in 1829, and as she has written at the rate of six or seven volumes per year, it is not strange that the same critic should observe that "Madame von Schoppe is a woman of talent, though her works are hastily planned and imperfectly finished." Her historical tales show extensive reading; among these, the collection entitled "Myoiotis," published in 1841, attracted considerable attention. A son of Madame von Schoppe is also an author.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Schroeder, Sophia

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SCHROEDER, SOPHIA,
Engaged at the Imperial theatres of Vienna, was born in Paderborn, in 1781. Her father's name was Burger. Her mother, after the death of her first husband, married the celebrated actor Keilholz, and went with her daughter to St. Petersburg. Sophia had not been destined for the stage; yet, as the company of players in St Petersburg was very limited, and by the death of Mrs. Stallmers the juvenile parts had become vacant, she yielded to the entreaties of the director, and began her theatrical course in the charming little opera, "The Red Cap." When fourteen years old, she married the actor Stallmers. In Reval, she was introduced to Kotzebue, by whose recommendation she received an engagement at the theatre of Vienna. She performed exclusively comic and naif parts, and was much applauded as Margaret in the "Affinities." After twelve months, she left Vienna to go to Breslau, where she was engaged for the opera. In the part of Hulda, in the "Nymph of the Danube," she was very successful. In 1801, she was invited to Hamburgh There she entered on a new career, in which she shone like a star of the first magnitude; for she devoted herself entirely to tragedy. Domestic grief had turned her cheerful spirits into melancholy; and the slumbering spark of her genius kindled into a mighty blaze In 1804, she married her second husband, Schroeder, director of the Hamburg theatre, and lived twelve years in Hamburg, under the most favourable auspices, until the warlike events of 1813 compelled her to leave this city. After having made a journey, on which she everywhere gained laurels, she accepted an engagement in Prague, whore she remained two years. When the time of her contract had elapsed, she returned to Vienna. Her characters of Phedre. Lady Macbeth, Merope, Sappho, Johanna von Morteaucan, are masterly performances, and excited uabounded admiration.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Scuderi, Magdaleine de

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SCUDERI, MAGDALEINE DE,
A woman of more wit and talent than taste, was born in 1607, at Havre de Grace. She went when very young to Paris, where ​her brother, George de Scuderi, also an eminent French writer, was living; and her wit and acquirements soon gained her admission into the best literary society of that day. Being obliged to support herself, she resolved to do so by her pen; and the taste of that age being for romances, she turned her attention that way, and succeeded wonderfully. Her books were eagerly sought, and her reputation became very great. She was chosen to succeed the learned Helena Comaro, by the celebrated academy of the Ricovrati at Padua. Several great personages gave her many marks of their regard; among others, Christina of Sweden often wrote to her, settled on her a pension, and sent her her picture; Cardinal Mazarin left her an annuity by his will; and, in 1683, Louis the Fourteenth, at the solicitation of Madame de Maintenon, settled a good pension on her.
Mademoiselle de Scuderi corresponded with many learned men; and her house at Paris was a kind of little court, to which all persons of genius, learning, or wit were accustomed to resort. At her death, two churches contended fiercely for the honour of possessing her remains. She was a very voluminous writer, and obtained the first prize of eloquence bestowed by the academy of Pans. Her principal romances were entitled "Almahide," "Clelia," "Artamenes," "Le Grand Cyrus," and "Ibrahim." She also wrote fables and poetry, and a work called "Conversations." Her narratives are tedious and prolix; but the praise of ingenuity, of elevated sentiment, and of purifying and ennobling the particular species of writing to which she devoted herself, cannot be denied to her. She was very plain in person, and this, joined with her wit, gained for her the name of Sappho. Mademoiselle Scuderi died in 1701, aged ninety-four.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Seidelmann, Apollonia

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SEIDELMANN, APOLLONIA,
The wife of James Seidelmann, Professor of the Fine Arts at the academy of Dresden. In Venice, her native city, she had received instructions in drawing, and afterwards perfected herself in this accomplishment under the direction of her husband. In the year 1790, she went with him to Italy, where she devoted herself for three years to miniature painting, assisted by the celebrated Teresa Maron, sister of Raphael Mengs. After her return to Dresden, she painted more after the manner of her husband, and showed herself a rare artist, by her fine copies of the best pictures of the academy. One of her master copies is the Madonna of Raphael. The eminent talent of this artistic couple for conversation deserves to be mentioned likewise; their soirées, which they gave abroad and at home, and to which their charming daughter, Luise Seidelmann, aided greatly by her musical powers, were the delight of all who loved genius and art.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Scott, Julia H.

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SCOTT, JULIA H.,
Was born in 1809, in the northern part of Pennsylvania. Her maiden name was Kinney. She began to write verses when she was very young, and her first pieces were published when she was little more than sixteen. For several years Miss Kinney continued to write with much ability for several of the different periodicals. In 1835 she was married to David L. Scott, of Towanda, where she died in 1842. Her poems, together with a biography of the writer, by Miss S. C. Edgarton, were published in 1843. Her songs are those of "the household;" full of gentle and feminine feeling and tender pathos.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Scott, Lady Anne

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SCOTT, LADY ANNE,
Was the only daughter of Francis, Earl of Buccleugh, and the greatest heiress in the three kingdoms. When she was but thirteen, she was selected by Charles the Second to be the wife of his son, the unfortunate Duke of Monmouth, who was only a year older than his bride. These early marriages were the vice of the times, and rarely produced satisfactory results; and this one was not an exception. Brave to a fault, exquisitely handsome, courted, flattered, caressed by the court, and adored by the people, Monmouth ran. even in his boyish days, a career of vice and profligacy which appears to have been the almost inevitable consequence of his bringing up. Anne Scott possessed many estimable qualities, but he was unable to attach the heart of her fickle husband. She was a woman of taste and accomplishments; the encourager of learning and genius; and the patroness of men of letters. Without possessing beauty, she had an agreeable countenance; and her wit, virtue, and good sense, rendered her attractive. The turbulence of her husband, the dangers he was continually hurrying into, imposed upon the duchess a life of anxiety, privation, and sorrow. She was for ever at her post as mediator with Charles the Second and King James; and to the last strove to interpose her influence for his safety. When he was condemned to death, she visited him in the Tower. He exonerated her from all blame or knowledge of his rebellious schemes, paid a just tribute to her virtues and excellence, and recommended their children to her care; but exhibited no tenderness towards her, his whole affections being absorbed in his romantic attachment to Lady Henrietta Wentworth, who he professed to consider his wife in the eyes of God. His duchess he said he had married when a child; she was his wife by the law of the land; the other was his true wife in the sight of heaven.
The Duchess of Buccleugh was the mother of six children, three of whom died in infancy. Her oldest son inherited the title and estates, which had been confirmed to the children of Monmouth by James the Second. The present Duke of Buccleugh is a lineal descendant of the neglected duchess and her ill-fated lord. Three years after the death of Monmouth, the duchess became the second wife of Charles, third Lord Cornwallis. By this marriage she was the mother of three children, who all died unmarried. The duchess died on the 6th. of February, 1732, in her eighty-first year.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Laurenson (G.)

​LAURENSON (G.), (?) bookseller in London, 1649. His name occurs in the imprint to a pamphlet entitled The King of Scots his message and Remonstrance, 1649. [E. 562 (8).]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Lawson (Thomas)

​LAWSON (THOMAS), bookseller in Edinburgh, 1645. Died May 11th, 1645. Inventory states: "His haill librarie and books withine his booth, being sold and roupeit, are estimat to the sowme of j$^m$ ix$^c$ and ffowrtie marks." [H. G. Aldis, List of Books, p. 116.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Leach (Francis)

​LEACH (FRANCIS), printer in London; Faulcon in Shoe-Lane, Fleet Street, 1641-57. Took up his freedom June 30th, 1631. [Arber, iii. 686.] Printer of the news-sheet called A Continuation of certain special and remarkable passages from both Houses of Parliament. Administration of his effects was granted to his widow Joane, on July 8th, 1658. [Admon. Act Book, 1658.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Larkin (George)

​LARKIN (GEORGE), bookseller and printer in London; Two Swans without Bishopsgate, 1666–90. Publisher of John Bunyan's Grace Abounding, 1666, 8$^o$. Afterwards became a printer. [Gray's Index to Hazlitt, p. 435.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Larner (William)

​LARNER (WILLIAM), bookseller in London, (1) Golden Anchor, neere Paul's Chain, 1641; (2) The Bible in East Cheap, 1642; (3) Blackmoor in Bishopsgate Street, 1650; (4) Blackmoor near Fleet Bridge, 1652 (1641–59). A noted Puritan and Independent bookseller. In 1642 he published a kind of history of Lilburne’s sufferings, which he entitled the Christian Man's Trial. He served in the Parliamentary army, but was invalided home and resumed his trade as a bookseller at the sign of the Blackamoor in Bishopsgate Street. He assisted Henry Robinson, Robert and Richard Overton, and John Lilburne to print books secretly, and is believed to have taken an active part in the working of the Coleman Street Press, 1643 (?)–44/5; the Martin Mar Priest Press, 1645–46; the Goodman's Fields Press, 1645, and a press in Bishopsgate Street, 1646. Larner's premises were searched on several occasions, and he was at last thrown into prison, where he remained for many months. No more is heard of him after 1659. [Plomer, Secret Printing during the Civil War; Library, October, 1904, p. 374 et seq.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Leach (John)

​LEACH (JOHN), bookseller in Dublin; Castle Street, 1666. Only known from the imprint to: Bladen (Thos.), Praxis Francisci Clarke … 1666. [B.M. 5063. aa. 1.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Latham (George)

​LATHAM (GEORGE), bookseller in London, (1) Brazen Serpent, St. Paul's Churchyard; (2) Bishop's Head, St. Paul's Church Yard. 1622–58. Took up up his freedom January 31st, 1620, and the same day took over several copyrights from the widow of George Bishop. [Arber, iii. 664, 685.] On November 6th, 1628, he received another assignment from Humphrey Lownes, but these he reassigned to Robert Young on December 6th, 1630. Latham was master of the Company of Stationers in 1650. His death ​took place on April 21st, 1658 [Smyth's Obituary, p. 46], and his will was proved on May 10th following. From this it appears that he had a son George, who was at one time in partnership with him, but who had set up for himself; his daughter Ann married Edward Curle, and another daughter, Mary, was the wife of Timothy Garthwaite, q.v. [P.C.C. 244, Wotton.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Latham (J )

​LATHAM (J), bookseller (?) in London; Mitre, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1661. Only known from the imprint to the Marquis of Argyle's Instructions to a son, 1661.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Langford (Toby)

​LANGFORD (TOBY), bookseller in Gloucester, 1646. Mentioned in Hyett and Bazeley's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature, vol. i, p. 258, as publisher of Giles Workman's Private men no pulpit men, 1646.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Latham (Christopher)

​LATHAM (CHRISTOPHER), bookseller in London. 1641–2. Took up his freedom January 18th, 1636. [Arber, iii. 687.] Edward Griffin printed for him. In 1642 he was associated with T. Creake in publishing several political pamphlets. His name disappears after July, 1642.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Sinclair, Catharine

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SINCLAIR, CATHARINE,
Daughter of Sir John Sinclair, the celebrated agricultural writer was born in Edinburgh. She is the author of many elegant and ingenious books, and has a great deal of vivacity, a good understanding, and a well-cultivated mind. Her observations upon character are acute, and her delineations of society happily executed. Superior to her other merits is the guiding principle of religion and high-toned morality that pervades all she has written. The following are her principal works: "Hill and Valley, or Wales and the Welch," 1839, "Shetland and the Shetlanders, or the Northern Circuit," "Scotland and the Scotch, or the Western Circuit," "Modern Society, or the March of Intellect; Tale," "Modern Accomplishments," 1838, "Modern Flirtations, or a Month at Harrogate," 1841, "Scotch Courtiers and the Court," dedicated to the Poet Laureate, 1842, "Holiday House;—Tales for Children," "Lord and Lady Harcourt," 1850, and "Jane Bouveric," 1851.
In one of Sir John Sinclair's works he alludes to the influence which his sister's writings had had on their father—making him a convert to the religion of the Bible; very different from nominal Christianity. No higher praise could be given to her genius and her piety.