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# The New International Encyclopædia/Main

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​MAIN, mīn. A river of Germany and the largest right affluent of the Rhine. It rises in two headstreams in the Fichtelgebirge in Northeastern Bavaria, and flows in a westerly direction through the northern part of Bavaria, and then on the borders of Hesse and the Prussian Province of Hesse-Nassau, joining the Rhine at Mainz (Map: Germany, C 4). The entire length of the Main is 307 miles, and it is navigable from its confluence with the Regnitz, a distance of about 205 miles. The principal towns on its banks are Würzburg and Frankfort. The Main, in spite of its length, is not very important from a commercial point of view, owing to frequently occurring shoals and the tortuousness of its course. It has, however, been canalized between Mainz and Frankfort, so as to admit vessels of 1000 tons, and its waters communicate with those of the Danube by means of the Ludwigs-Kanal.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Maisch, John Michael

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MAISCH, māsh, John Michael (1831—). An American pharmacist, born in Hanau, Germany. He was educated in his native town, and came to the United States in 1849. In 1861 he was appointed professor of materia medica in the New York College of Pharmacy, and later of materia medica and botany at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. He became editor of the American Journal of Pharmacy; assisted in the preparation of Griffith's Universal Formula (3d ed. 1874); with Stillé, edited the National Dispensatory (4th ed. 1879-86), and Manual of Organic Materia Medica (3d ed. 1882-87).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Maitreya

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​ MAITREYA, mī̇-trā′yȧ, A proper name derived from Sanskrit mitra, ‘friend,’ and designating in its Pali form Metteyya, the future Buddha, the Buddha of Friendship, who will appear 5000 years after Gautama. At present he is believed to be in the Tushita Heaven of the Blest. He is known in Tibet as Jampa (Tib. Byams-pa, pronounced Jam-pa or Cham-pa) and is believed to be of gigantic size, so that colossal statues are used to represent him. Consult: Rhys, David, Buddhism (London, 1900); Schlagintweit, Buddhism in Thibet (ib., 1868); Waddell, The Buddhism of Tibet (ib., 1895).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Manasseh

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MANAS'SEH (Heb. Mēnashsheh, of uncertain etymology). According to Gen. xli. 51, the eldest son of Joseph and eponymous ancestor of the tribe of Manasseh. Manasseh and Ephraim are thought by critics to represent two offshoots of a Joseph clan, the parent branch of which (see Joseph) apparently disappeared in Egypt. Of the two, Manasseh was the first to cut loose, and was therefore represented in tradition as the older; but the far more prominent part played in the history of the northern kingdom by Ephraim is reflected in the forty-eighth chapter of Genesis, where Jacob, in blessing the two, intentionally mentions Ephraim first, although the younger. Both Manasseh and Ephraim are represented as born in Egypt and sons of Joseph's Egyptian wife, which (if the tradition rests upon a genuine reminiscence) may be taken as an indication that the extension of the Joseph clan into several branches took place in that country. At the time of the conquest of Canaan, Manasseh and Ephraim appear as the most prominent of the tribes that afterwards formed the northern kingdom. The territory occupied by Manasseh on the west of the Jordan lay to the north of Ephraim and reached westward to the sea, including the plain of Sharon (Josh. xvii.), but the tribe continued to grow and a branch settled to the east of the Jordan, occupying part of Gilead, the rich pasture lands of Bashan and the country extending northward from a point above the River Jabbok to Mount Hermon (Josh. xiii. 29-31). The heroes Gideon and Jephthah (Judges vi. 15; xi. 1) belonged to Manasseh, but after the formation of the kingdom Ephraim entirely eclipses Manasseh, of which we hear again only at the time of the invasion of Tiglathpileser III. (B.C. 734), who carried off the eastern division of the tribe to Assyria (I. Chron. v. 26). The tribe also suffered severely during the various wars with Aram (II. Kings x. 32-33; cf. Amos i. 3).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Malte-Brun, Konrad

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MALTE-BRUN, mäl'te-brōōn', Fr. pron. mȧlt'brēN', Konrad, properly Malte Bruun (1775-1826). A Danish geographer, born at Thisted, Jutland. He studied in Copenhagen, and because of sympathy with the French Revolution and bitter pamphleteering against the Government, was in 1800 condemned to perpetual banishment. He sought refuge in Paris, where he maintained himself by teaching and literary labors. In 1808 he began the Annales des voyages, de la géographie et de l'histoire (24 vols.), which he concluded in 1814, and in 1818 began, with Eyriès, the Nouvelles annales des voyages. For some time he was joint editor of the Journal des Débats, but is principally known for his geographical works, chief of which is the Précis de la géographie universelle, completed by Huot, 8 vols., with an atlas (Paris, 1810-29; 6th ed. 1853). He took part also in the preparation of the Dictionnaire de la géographie universelle (Paris, 1821 et seq.), and was secretary to the Geographical Society of Paris.—His son, Victor Adolphe (1816-89), was one of the eminent geographers of France, taught at various institutions, and succeeded his father as secretary of the Geographical Society of Paris. He published La Franee illustrée (1855), Géographie universelle (1874), L'Allemagne illustrée (1884-85), and other geographical works.
# The Palace of Pleasure (1890)/Volume 1/Tome 1/Novel 15

THE FIFTEENTH NOUELL.
Of Lais and Demosthenes.
Phocion a peripatetique Philosopher, in a booke which he made, intituled Cornucopia, writeth this historie of Demosthenes and Lais the harlot of Corinthe, saying: that Lais by reason of her excellent beautie, and pleasaunt fauour, demaunded for the vse of her body, a great somme of money: vnto whom was resorte of all the ryche men of Græcia: but she woulde not admitte them to that facte, except they would first giue vnto her, her demaunde. The quantitie of whiche somme was exceading greate, whereof rose the prouerbe. Non cuiuis homini contingit, adire Corinthum.
Not euery man can well attaine To goe to Corinthe towne.
He that traueiled to Corinthe to Lais, not able to giue and bestowe, that somme vpon her went in vaine. To this woman that noble Philosopher Demosthenes secretly repayred, praying her to giue him leaue: but shee demaunding of him tenne thousand Denarios (amounting very nere to three hundred pounde of our money) astonied at the wantonnesse of the woman, and discouraged with the greatnesse of the somme, retourned backe again, saying: I come not to buye repentaunce so dere.
# The Palace of Pleasure (1890)/Volume 1/Tome 1/Novel 19

THE NINETEENTH NOUELL.
How Plutarche did beate his man, and of pretie talke touching signes of anger.
Avlus Gellius demaunding of the Philosopher Taurus, whether a wise man could be angrie? Taurus after he had disputed much of that affection, turned to Gellius and said: "This is mine opinion of the angrie man: but what the Philosopher Plutarche iudgeth thereof, I thincke it not a misse to tell thee. Plutarche had a bondman which was an vnthrift and wicked verlet, but geuen to learning and to disputation of Philosophie, whom vppon a time he did beate, making him to put of his coate, and to be whipped, for what offence I know not: he began to beate him: the fellow cryed out, that he had deserued no cause, why he ought to be so beaten. At length in continuance of his beating, he gaue ouer his crying complaintes, and began to vtter earneste and serious woordes, saying. 'It was not Plutarche the Philosopher, that beate him: (he said) it was a shame for Plutarche to be angrie, and how he had heard him many times dispute of that vice of anger, and yet he had written a goodly booke thereof:' with manye such words. 'Why, (quoth Plutarche, with gentle and quiet debating of the matter:) thou lubbor, do I seeme to be angry with thee? Doest thou either by my countenaunce, by my talke, by my colour, or words, perceyue that I am angrie? Nether mine eyes be fierce, nor my mouth troubled: I cry not out a loude: I chaufe not in rage or fume: I speake no vnseemely woordes, whereof I take repentaunce: I tremble not. All which be signes and tokens of anger: which pretie notes of that vnseemely passion, ought to minister to all men, occasion to auoyde that vice.'"
# The Palace of Pleasure (1890)/Volume 1/Tome 1/Novel 18

THE EIGHTEENTH NOUELL.
The Historie of Papyrius Pratextatus.
The same historie is written by Cato, in an oration which he made to his souldiours against Galba, contayninge in effecte as foloweth. The Senatours of Rome vsed before this time, to enter into the Senate house with their sonnes, Prætextatis, that is, in long robes garded about the skirtes with purple silke. When the Senate debated of graue and waightie matters, they euer deferred the same till the next day, forbiddinge that those causes should not be published, before they were throughly decreed. The mother of this yong gentleman Papyrius, which had been with his father in the Senate house, asked of him, what the fathers had done in the Senate house that day? Papyrius aunswered, that in any wife, he ought not to tell the secretes of the same. The mother more desirous to know then she was before, went about by faire meanes, foule wordes and correction, to vnderstand the secretes of the Senate, and the cause why the same were kept so silente. Wherefore she more earnestlye endeuoured to learne the same of her sonne. The yong man by compulsion of his mother, toke occasion to inuent a pleasaunt and mery lie, in this wife. "Mother (quoth he) the Senate doth deliberate and consult, whether it be more commodious and profitable for the common wealthe, that one man mould haue two wiues, or whether one wife shoulde haue two husbandes." When the old Ladie heard this she was abashed, and in fearefull wife goeth to the other Ladies and matrones of Rome, tellinge them, where about their husbands did consult. The next day the women flocked together in great traines, and in lamentable wife repaired to the Senate, beseching them that one woman might rather be maried to two husbands, then two wiues to one man. The Senatours entring into the Court, marueyled what toyes were in the womens heads, to make that demaunde. The yong gentleman Papyrius stepped foorth, declaring how ​importunate his mother was, to know whereuppon they consulted the day before, and therefore he deuised that fained tale, to pacifie her desire. The Senatours hearing and perceyuing his good and honeste disposition, greatly commended and extolled his fidelity and witte. Howbeit, they made a lawe that from that time forth, none of their sonnes mould come into the house with their father, but onely Papyrius. Who afterwardes receiued the surname of Praetextatus, to honour and beautifie his name, for his notable wysedome in keeping secretes, and holding his peace, in the time of that youthly age.
# The Palace of Pleasure (1890)/Volume 2

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# The Palace of Pleasure (1890)/Volume 3

THE
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VOL. III
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Palace of Pleasure
ELIZABETHAN VERSIONS OF ITALIAN AND FRENCH NOVELS FROM BOCCACCIO, BANDELLO, CINTHIO, STRAPAROLA, QUEEN MARGARET OF NAVARRE, AND OTHERS
DONE INTO ENGLISH
BY WILLIAM PAINTER
NOW AGAIN EDITED FOR THE FOURTH TIME
BY JOSEPH JACOBS
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# The Palace of Pleasure (1890)/Volume 1/Tome 1/Novel 25

THE TWENTY-FIFTH NOUELL.
Of the bookes of Sybilla.
In auncient Chronicles, these things appere in memorie, touchinge the bookes of Sybilla. A straunge and vnknown old woman, repaired to the Romaine kyng Tarquinius Superbus, bearing in her armes nine bookes, which she sayde were deuine Oracles, and offered them to be solde. Tarquinius demaunded the price. The woman asked a wonderfull somme. The king making semblaunce as though the olde woman doted, began to laughe. Then shee gotte fyre in a chafing dishe, and burned three bookes of the nyne. She asked the kyng again, if he would haue the fixe for that prise, wherat the king laughed in more ample sorte, saying: "that the olde woman no doubt did dote in deede." By and by she burned other three, humbly demaunding the king the like question, if he would buye the reste for that price. Wherevpon the kyng more earnestlye gaue hede to her requeste, thinking the constante demaundes of the woman not to be in vain, bought the three bookes that remained for no lesse price, then was required for the whole. Therewithall the woman departed from Tarquinius, and was neuer seene after. These bookes were kept in the Capitole at Rome, whereunto the Romaines resorted, when they purposed to aske counsayle of the Goddes. A good example for wyse men to beware, howe they despyse or neglecte auncient bookes and monumentes. Many the like in this Realme haue bene defaced, founde in Religious houses, whiche no doubte woulde haue conduced great vtilitie and profite both to the common wealth and countrie, if they had bene reserued and kepte, whiche bookes by the ignoraunt, haue ben torne and raised, to the great griefe of those that be learned, and of them that aspire to learning and vertue.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Taft, William Howard

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TAFT, William Howard (1857—). An American jurist and administrator, son of Alphonso Taft, born in Cincinnati. He graduated at Yale in 1878, and at the Law School of Cincinnati College two years later. In 1881-82 he was prosecutor of Hamilton County, and later for a time was a collector of internal revenue. From 1887 to 1890 he was a judge of the Superior Court of Ohio, was Solicitor-General of the United States in 1890-92, and was a judge of the United States Circuit Court (sixth circuit) from 1892 to 1900, when at the request of President McKinley he resigned to become chairman of the commission appointed to establish civil government in the Philippines. The following year, on June 5th, he was appointed the first civil Governor of the islands. In 1903 Taft resigned this position to accept the appointment of Secretary of War, as successor of Elihu Root. Consult: American Monthly Review of Reviews, vol. xxiv. (1901); and The Outlook, vols. lxiv., lxix., and lxx. See Philippine Islands.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Taft, Lorado

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TAFT, Lorado (1860—). An American sculptor, born at Elmwood, Ill. He was educated at the University of Illinois (Champaign, Ill.) and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1880-83). In 1880 he became an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago, and in 1893 a lecturer in the university extension department of the Chicago University. His works include statues of Schuyler Colfax (Indianapolis) and of General Grant (Fort Leavenworth, Kan.), and the sculptural decorations for the Horticultural Building of the World's Columbian Exhibition (1893).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Taliesin

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​ TALIESIN, tăl′ĭ-sĭn. A British bard, who is supposed to have lived about the middle of the sixth century. Nothing definite is known as to his career, and some scholars hold that he is a mythical personage. According to legend he was called ‘the chief of the bards.’ The “Book of Taliesin” contains 50 poems, which were formerly attributed to Taliesin. All are now generally believed to be of a later date. Consult: Skene, The Four Ancient Books of Wales (2 vols., Edinburgh, 1868), in which the “Book of Taliesin” is included; for the legends, Guest, Mabinogion (2d ed., London, 1877).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Tacna (capital)

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​ TACNA. The capital of the Province of Tacna, Chile, in the northwestern part of the province, about 40 miles by rail from Arica (Map: Bolivia, C 7). It was formerly a place of considerable commercial importance with notable municipal and industrial establishments, but the construction of railway lines in the Province of Antofagasta diverted the trade southward. Population, in 1895, 9418, as against 14,000 in 1885. In the vicinity a battle took place on May 26, 1880, between the Chilean and the allied Peruvian and Bolivian forces, in which the former were victorious.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Taliaferro, William Booth

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​ TALIAFERRO, tǒl′ĭ-vẽr, William Booth (1822-98). A Confederate soldier, born at Belleville, in Gloucester County, Va. He attended Harvard College, and then William and Mary College, where he graduated in 1841. At the beginning of the Civil War he was made a colonel in the Provisional Army of Virginia. He participated in most of the battles fought by the Army of Northern Virginia prior to March, 1863, and was promoted brigadier-general in March, 1862. In March, 1863, he was put in command of the district of Savannah, Ga. In the following July, at the time of the desperate attacks on Fort Wagner, he was in command of the defenses on Morris Island, and in August of those on James Island. In 1864 he commanded the Seventh Military District, comprising a part of South Carolina, and in December was given command of the entire State. He was promoted major-general January 1, 1865. After the war he resumed the practice of law, and served for ten years in the Virginia House of Delegates. He contributed “Jackson's Raid Around Pope” to Battles and Leaders of the Civil War.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Talipes

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​ TALIPES, tăl′ĭ-pēz. The technical term for club-foot (q.v.).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Talipot Palm

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​ TALIPOT PALM (Hind, tālpāt, from Skt. tālapatra, palm-tree leaf, from tāla, palm-tree + patra, leaf), Great Fan Palm (Corypha umbraculifera). The noblest palm of the East Indies, a native of Ceylon, Malabar, etc. Its straight cylindrical trunk, 60 to 100 feet high, is crowned with a tuft of enormous palmate plaited leaves, divided near the outer margin into numerous segments, and united to the trunk by spiny leafstalks. The leaves are usually about 8 or 10 feet long, exclusive of the leafstalk, which is 7 or 8 feet long. At the age of thirty or forty years the tree produces a long pyramidal cluster of whitish flowers rising to the height of 30 feet from the midst of its crown of leaves, and dividing into simple alternate branches, the lower of which sometimes extends laterally 20 feet. After maturing the numerous globose fruits about an inch and one-half in diameter the tree generally dies. The leaves are used for covering houses, for making tents, and for many other purposes. The leaves of this palm are used in Malabar for writing upon, characters being traced upon them with an iron style. They are prepared for this purpose by boiling, drying, damping, rubbing, and pressing. The soft central part of the stem, like that of many other palms, yields a kind of sago.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Tacna (province)

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​ TACNA, täk′nȧ. The northernmost province of Chile, bounded by Peru on the north, Bolivia on the east, the Chilean Province of Tarapacá on the south, and the Pacific on the west (Map: Bolivia, C 7). Area, 8688 square miles. Its level and arid interior is inclosed by the slopes of the Andes on the east and the coast range on the west. The rainfall is very scanty, and with the exception of the river valleys, the interior is an arid desert. The climate is unhealthful and earthquakes are not infrequent. There are deposits of nitrate, silver, and copper, which are mined to a limited extent. Population, in 1895, 24,160; in 1900 (estimated), 25,031, concentrated chiefly in the capital, Tacna (q.v.), and the port Arica. The province formerly belonged to Peru and was ceded to Chile for a period of ten years in 1884. At the expiration of that period, according to the provisions of the treaty, the ownership of the province was to have been determined by a plebiscite of the inhabitants. The political state of Peru, however, made it impossible to carry out the provisions of the treaty, and Chile still exercises control.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Tacoma, Mount

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​ TACOMA, Mount. A peak of the Cascade Range. See Rainier, Mount.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Columbus, Georgia

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​ Colum′bus, Georgia, a railroad center at the head of navigation on Chattahoochee River. It has wonderful waterpower, aggregating 136,000 horsepower at and above the city, 27,000 of which is already developed and in use. It is a large manufacturing center, having 16 cotton-factories, two large iron-mills, two flour-mills, clothing-factories, the largest show-case factory south of the Potomac and a variety of industrial establishments. It has the distinction of selling electric power more cheaply than it is sold anywhere else in the united States, surpassing even Niagara Falls. It has an excellent school-system, providing for all children from kindergarten to college. The latest addition to its school-system is the secondary industrial school which is an academic trade-school of high-school rank. According to the census of 1900, the population was 17,614. It has had a steady growth of recent years, and its population by latest census (1910) is 20,554.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Columella

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​ Columel′la (in plants), an axis of sterile tissue which passes through the center of the spore-case of mosses. See Musci.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Commons, House of

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Commons, House of (English). See Parliament.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Columbus, Ind.

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​ Columbus, Ind., a city and county-seat of Bartholomew County, situated on a branch of White River. It has flour and starch-mills, and manufactures agricultural implements, furniture and cerealine. It has the service of the Big Four and Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis railroads. Population, 8,813.