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# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Tael

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​TAEL (Malay tail, tahil, weight, probably connected with Hind. tola, weight), the name current in European usage for the Chinese liang or ounce, the liang of line uncoined silver being the monetary unit throughout the Chinese empire. The tael is not a coin, the only silver currency, apart from imported dollars, being the ingots of silver known as “sycee ”; the only other native currency is the copper “cash.” As a money of account the tael is divided into 10 mace (tsien), 100 conderin or candereen (fun), 1000 li. The value varies with the price of silver. The “Haikwan tael,” i.e. the custom-house tael, that in which duties are paid to the Imperial Maritime Customs, is a weight of 58–77 grains Troy, the value of which varies; thus it was reckoned at 3s. 1/10d. in 1905, 3s. 31/2d. in 1906, 3s. 3d. in 1907, and 2s. 8d. in 1908 (see China: § Finance).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Tages

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​TAGES (Tăgēs), a minor Etruscan deity, grandson of Jupiter, and founder of the art of divination in Etruria. According to the story, during the ploughing of a field near Tarquinii a being of boyish appearance sprang out of the furrow. The shouts of the ploughman (Tarchon) brought to the spot all the people of Etruria, whom the boy proceeded to instruct in the art of divination. Having done this, he suddenly disappeared. His instructions were for some time handed down orally, but were subsequently committed to writing, and formed the twelve books of Tages, containing a complete system of Etruscan lore.
See Cicero, De Div. ii. 23; Ovid, Metam. xv. 553; Festus, s.v.; Mommsen, Hist. of Rome (Eng. tr.), bk. i. ch. 12.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Taenia

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​TAENIA (Gr. ταινία, ribbon, fillet), the term in architecture given to the projecting fillet which crowns the architrave of the Greek Doric order.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Warwick, Sir Philip

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​WARWICK, SIR PHILIP (1609-1683), English writer and politician, was the son of Thomas Warwick, or Warrick, a musician, and was born in Westminster on the 24th of December 1609. Educated at Eton, he travelled abroad for some time and in 1636 became secretary to the lord high treasurer, William Juxon; later he was a member of the Long Parliament, being one of those who voted against the attainder of Strafford and who followed Charles I. to Oxford. He fought at Edgehill and was one of the king's secretaries during the negotiations with the ​parliament at Hampton Court, and also during those at Newport, Charles speaking very highly of his services just before his execution. Remaining in England, Warwick was passively loyal to Charles II. during the Commonwealth and enjoyed the confidence of the royalist leaders. In 1660 the king made him a knight, and in 1661 he became a member of parliament and secretary to another lord treasurer, Thomas Wriothesley, earl of Southampton, retaining this post until the treasury was put into commission on Southampton's death in May 1667. He died on the 15th of January 1683. Warwick's only son, the younger Philip Warwick (d. 1683), was envoy to Sweden in 1680.
Warwick is chiefly known for his Memoirs of the reigne of King Charles I., with a continuation to the happy restauration of King Charles II., written between 1675 and 1677 and published in London in 1701.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Warwick, Sir Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of

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​WARWICK, SIR ROBERT RICH, 2nd Earl of (1587—1658), colonial administrator and admiral, was the eldest son of Robert Rich, earl of Warwick (see above) and his wife Penelope Rich (q.v.), and succeeded to the title in 1619. Early interested in colonial ventures, he joined the Bermudas, Guinea, New England and Virginia companies. His enterprises involved him in disputes with the East India Company (1617) and with the Virginia Company, which in 1624 was suppressed through his action. In 1627 he commanded an unsuccessful privateering expedition against the Spaniards. His Puritan connexions and sympathies, while gradually estranging him from the court, promoted his association with the New England colonies. In 1628 he indirectly procured the patent for the Massachusetts colony, and in 1631 he granted the “Saybrook” patent in Connecticut. Compelled the same year to resign the presidency of the New England Company, he continued to manage the Bermudas and Providence Companies, the latter of which, founded in 1630, administered Old Providence on the Mosquito coast. Meanwhile in England Warwick opposed the forced loan of 1626, the payment of ship-money and Laud's church policy, and with his brother the first lord Holland (q.v.) came to be recognized as one of the heads of the Puritans. In March 1642 the Commons, in spite of the king's veto, appointed him admiral of the fleet, and in July he gained the whole navy for the parliament. He raised forces in Norfolk and Essex on the outbreak of the war, and as lord high admiral (1643—1645) he did good service in intercepting the king's ships and relieving threatened ports. In 1643 he was appointed head of a commission for the government of the colonies, which the next year incorporated Providence Plantations, afterwards Rhode Island, and in this capacity he exerted himself to secure religious liberty. Reappointed lord high admiral in May 1648, in the vain hope that his influence with the sailors would win back the nine ships which had revolted to the king, he collected a new fleet and blockaded them at Helvoetsluys. Dismissed from office on the abolition of the House of Lords in 1649, he retired from public life, but was intimately associated with Cromwell, whose daughter Frances married his grandson and heir Robert Rich in 1657. He died on the 19th of April 1658. The suspicions cast by his enemies on his religious sincerity and political fidelity appear to be baseless.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Warwick (Australia)

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​WARWICK, a town of Merivale county, Queensland, Australia, 169 m. by rails. S. W. of Brisbane. Pop. (1901) 3836. It lies on the bank of the river Contadamine, in the heart of one of the best agricultural districts in Queensland, and is perhaps the most attractive inland town in the colony. It is well laid out with many substantial public and private buildings, and has two large parks, besides smaller recreation grounds. The district is famous for its vineyards, and quantities of excellent wine are made; wheat and maize are the principal crops, but tobacco, oats and lucerne are largely grown. Coal is found near the town, as are also marble, good building stone and brick clay.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Warton, Thomas (1688-1745)

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​WARTON, THOMAS (c. 1688-1745), English author, professor of poetry at Oxford, son of Anthony Warton, was born at Godalming about 1688. He was educated at Hart Hall and Magdalen College, Oxford. He was satirized for his incompetence as professor of poetry by Nicholas Amhurst in Terrae filius as “squinting Tom of Maudlin.” He was vicar of Basingstoke, Hampshire, and master of the grammar-school of the town, where he had among his pupils Gilbert White, the naturalist. He received further preferment's in the church, and died at Basingstoke on the 10th of September 1745. He published nothing during his lifetime, but after his death his son Joseph published some of his poetry under the title of Poems on Several Occasions (1748).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Microcosmic Salt

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​MICROCOSMIC SALT, or ammonium sodium hydrogen or tho phosphate, NH$_4$NaHPO$_4$.4H$_2$O, so named by the alchemists because it is contained in the decomposing urine of man (the “microcosm”). It is interesting historically as being the raw material from which Brand prepared phosphorus, whence it is also called “salt of phosphorus.” It may be obtained in large transparent crystals from a mixture of solutions of sal-ammoniac and disodium phosphate, or by saturating a solution of monosodium phosphate with ammonia. When heated to redness, it leaves a transparent glass of sodium metaphosphate, NaPO$_3$, which like borax dissolves most metallic oxides, with formation of glasses that often exhibit characteristic colours, and which may be used in the qualitative analysis of substances. (See Chemistry, § Analytical.)
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Micon

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​MICON, a Greek painter of the middle of the fifth century B.C. He was closely associated with Polygnotus of Thasos, in conjunction with whom he adorned the Painted Stoa, at Athens, with paintings of the battle of Marathon and other battles. He also painted in the Anaceum at Athens.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Micronucleus

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​MICRONUCLEUS, the smaller nucleus in Infusoria (q.v.). In fission it divides by mitosis, and in conjugation furnishes the pairing or gametonuclei, by whose reciprocal fusion a zygote-nucleus is formed, which gives rise to the meganuclei and micronuclei of the individuals of the next cycle of fission.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Mickle, William Julius

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​MICKLE, WILLIAM JULIUS (1735–1788), Scottish poet, son of the minister of Langholm, Dumfries-shire, was born on the 28th of September 1735. He was educated at the Edinburgh high school, and in his fifteenth year entered business as a brewer. His father purchased the business, and on his death William Mickle became the owner; but he neglected his affairs, devoting his time to literature, and before long became bankrupt. In 1763 he went to London, where in 1765 he published “a poem in the manner of Spenser” called the Concubine (afterwards Syr Martyn); was appointed corrector to the Clarendon Press, and translated the Lusiad of Camoens into heroic couplets (specimen published 1771, whole work, 1775). So great was the repute of this translation that when Mickle—appointed secretary to Commodore Johnstone—visited Lisbon in 1779, the king of Portugal gave him a public reception. On his return to London he was appointed one of the agents responsible for the distribution of prize-money, and this employment, in addition to the sums brought him by his translation of the Lusiad, placed him in comfortable circumstances.
It has been suggested that the Scottish poem “There’s nae luck aboot the hoose” was Mickle’s. It is more likely, however, that Jean Adams was the author. Scott read and admired Mickle’s poems in his youth, and founded Kenilworth on his ballad of Cumnor Hall, which appeared in Thomas Evans’s Old Ballads . . . with some of Modern Date (1784).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Microcline

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​MICROCLINE, a rock-forming mineral belonging to the feldspar group (see Felspar). Like orthoclase it is a potash-feldspar with the formula KAlSi$_3$O$_8$, but differs from this in crystallizing in the anorthic system. The name (from Greek μικρός, small, and κλίνειν, to incline) was given by A. Breithaupt in 1830, and has reference to the fact that the angle (89° 30′) between the two perfect cleavages differs but little from a right angle: the species was, however, first definitely established by A. Des Cloizeaux in 1876. The crystals and cleavage masses are very like orthoclase in appearance, and the hardness (6) and specific gravity (2·56) are the same for the two minerals; there are, however, important differences in the twinning and in the optical characters. In addition to being twinned according to the same laws as orthoclase, microcline is repeatedly twinned according to the albite-law and the pericline-law, producing a very characteristic grating or cross-hatched structure which is especially prominent when thin sections of the mineral are examined in polarized light. This lamellar structure is often on a very minute scale, sometimes so minute as to be almost indistinguishable: it has therefore been suggested that orthoclase is really a microcline in which the twin-lamellae are ultra-microscopic. In a section parallel to the basal plane c (001) of a microcline crystal the lamellae do not extinguish optically parallel to the edge bc as in orthoclase, but at an angle of 15° 30′; further, the obtuse bisectrix of the optic axes in microcline is inclined to the normal of the plane b (010) at an angle of 15° 26′. Green microcline is distinctly pleochroic.
Microcline occurs, usually with orthoclase, as a constituent of pegmatites, granites and gneisses; it is rare in porphyries and is not known in volcanic rocks. A beautiful crystallized variety of a bright verdigris-green colour is known as amazon-stone (q.v.). Chesterlite is a variety occurring as crystals on dolomite in Chester county, Pennsylvania.
Closely allied to microcline is the anorthic soda-potash-feldspar known as anorthoclase or natron-microcline. Here sodium predominates over potassium and a little calcium is also often present, the formula being (Na, K) AlSi$_3$O$_8$. It resembles microcline in having a cleavage angle of very nearly 90° and in the cross-hatched structure, the latter being usually very minute and giving rise to a mottled ​extinction. It is the characteristic feldspar of volcanic rocks which are rich in soda, and is typically developed in the lavas of the island of Pantelleria near Sicily and those of Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya in East Africa: the rhomb-shaped porphyritic feldspars of the “rhomb-porphyry” of southern Norway also belong here.  (L. J. S.)
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Microcosm

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​MICROCOSM, a term often applied in philosophical and in general literature to man regarded as a “little world” (Gr. μικρός κόσμος) in opposition to the “macrocosm,” great world, in which he lives. From the dawn of speculative thought in Greece the analogy between man and the world has been a common-place, and may be traced from Heraclitus and Empedocles, through Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, the Schoolmen and the thinkers of the Renaissance down to the present day. Thus Lotze’s comprehensive survey of mental and moral science is termed Microcosmus. The most systematic expression of the tendency indicated by the term is the monadology of Leibnitz, in which the monad is regarded as containing within its own closed sphere an expression of the universe, the typical created monad being the human soul.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Micmac

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​MICMAC, a tribe of North American Indians of Algonquian stock. They formerly occupied all Nova Scotia, Cape Breton and Prince Edward Islands, and portions of New Brunswick, Quebec and Newfoundland. They fought on the French side in the colonial wars. They are now civilized and almost all profess Catholicism. They number some 4000 in settled communities throughout their former territory.
There is an excellent account of the Micmac Indians in J. G. Millais’s Newfoundland and its Untrodden Ways (1908).
# A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/Sing hey diddle diddle

​X.
Sing hey diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon, The little dog laughed To see such craft, And the dish ran away with the spoon.
# A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/Solomon Grundy, born on a Monday

​LXXVII.
Solomon Grundy, born on a Monday, Christened on Tuesday, married on Wednesday, Took ill on Thursday, worse on Friday, Died on Saturday, buried on Sunday, This is the end of Solomon Grundy.
# A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/Taffy was a Welshman

​LXXVIII.
Taffy was a Welshman; Taffy was a thief; Taffy came to my house, And stole a piece of beef. I went to Taffy's house; Taffy wasn't at home; Taffy came to my house, And stole a marrow-bone. I went to Taffy's house; Taffy was in bed; I took up the marrow-bone And flung it at his head!
# A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/Simple Simon met a pieman

​LXXIX.
Simple Simon met a pieman Going to the fair; Says Simple Simon to the pieman, 'Let me taste your ware.'
Says the pieman to Simple Simon, 'Show me first your penny.' Says Simple Simon to the pieman, 'Indeed I have not any.'
Simple Simon went a-fishing For to catch a whale; All the water he had got Was in his mother's pail.
Simple Simon went to look If plums grew on a thistle; He pricked his fingers very much, Which made poor Simon whistle.
# A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/Sing a Song of Sixpence

​XXXIX. SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE
Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds, Bakèd in a pie. When the pie was opened The birds began to sing, Was not this a dainty dish To set before the king?
The king was in his counting-house, Counting out his money; ​The queen was in the parlour, Eating bread and honey; The maid was in the garden, Hanging out the clothes; By came a blackbird And pecked off her nose.
# A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/The Babes in the Wood

​XXVII. THE BABES IN THE WOOD
Poor babes in the wood, poor babes in the wood, So hard was the fate of the babes in the wood. When a child on the knee, how silent I'd be, While my mother related the story to me.
My dear, you must know that a long time ago, Two poor little children whose names I don't know, Were stolen away on a fine summer's day, And left in a wood, as I've heard people say. Poor babes in the wood, poor babes in the wood! So hard was the fate of the babes in the wood.
And when it was night, so bad was their plight, The sun it went down, and the stars gave no light. ​They sobbed and they sighed, and they bitterly cried, And the poor little things they lay down and died. Poor babes in the wood, etc.
And when they were dead, the robins so red, Brought strawberry leaves, and over them spread. And all the day long, the branches among, They mournfully whistled, and this was their song: Poor babes in the wood, etc.
# A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/The Bonnie Pit Laddie

​LXXI. THE BONNIE PIT LADDIE
The bonnie pit laddie, the canny pit laddie, The bonnie pit laddie for me, O! He sits in a hole as black as a coal, And brings the white siller to me, O!
The bonnie pit laddie, the canny pit laddie, The bonnie pit laddie for me, O! He sits in his cricket, and hews in his jacket, And brings the white siller to me, O!
My bonnie keel laddie, my canny keel laddie , The bonnie keel laddie for me, O! He sits in his keel as black as the deil, And brings the white siller to me, O!
# A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/Shoe the little horse

​LXXXIV.
Shoe the little horse, And shoe the little mare, And let the little colt Run bare, bare, bare.
# A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/Some little mice sat in a barn to spin

​LXVI.
Some little mice sat in a barn to spin; Pussy came by, and popped her head in; 'Shall I come in, and cut your threads off?' 'Oh no, kind sir! you will snap our heads off.'
# A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/Song of Spring

​XXXII. SONG OF SPRING
The country's now in all its pride, Now dressed in lovely green, The earth with many colours dyed, Displays a lovely scene. ​Ten thousand pretty flowers appear, To deck the little children's hair, Fa-la-la-la, fa-la.
The cuckoo's picked up all the dirt. The trees are all in bloom. If pleasant music may divert, Each bush affords a tune. The pigeon sings in every grove, And milkmaids warble songs of love, Fa-la-la-la, fa-la.
Come out into the cowslip-meads, The pleasant wood and spring, And listen in the beeches' shades Where nightingale doth sing. Sweet nightingale whose warbling throat, Far, far excels my sorry note, Fa-la-la-la, fa-la.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Puisieux, (Magdalen Darsaut, Madame la M. de)

PUISIEUX (MAGDALEN DARSAUT, WIFE OF M. DE); born at Paris;
Cultivated the belles lettres with such success, that her first works are ranked among chef d'œuvres. Her works are moral; Caracteres; L'Education du Marquis de Zuloo; Mémoires d'un Homme de Bien; Conseil à une Amie, in which there are admirable instructions respecting the education of women. She has also written works of fiction.
F. C.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Radhia

R.
RADHIA, a Moorish Spaniard, of Corduba, the Free-Woman of King Abdelrahman,
A woman well skilled in the art of speaking; inasmuch as she wrote many volumes on Rhetoric. She is said to have lived 107 years, and to have died the 432d year of the Hegira.
Bibliothecæ Arabico–Hispanæ Escurialiensis.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Premontval, (Madame)

PREMONTVAL (MADAME), born at Paris, 1724,
The wife of a writer of considerable repute, in some of whose works she had a share, published some of her own, amongst which is the following:
Le Mechaniste Philosophe; Mémoires concernant plusieurs Particularités de la Vie du Dr. Jean Pigeon (her father) Mathématicien, 8 vo. 1750. She was a great favourite at the Prussian court, for her learning and many other excellent qualities.
F. C.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Priscilla

There they became acquainted with St. Paul, who wrought with them as a tent-maker, being of the same occupation; as every Jew, whether rich or poor, was obliged to follow a trade. After the departure of St. Paul, they instructed the eloquent and zealous Apollos in christianity, which he before knew no more of, than what was contained in the system of John the Baptist. Both Priscilla and her husband appear to have been highly esteemed by St. Paul; to have laboured with him, both in a spiritual and temporal sense, at Corinth; and on their return to Rome, some ​years after, to have laid the foundation of the Christian church there, before the arrival of an apostle. They also went to Ephesus, and after the departure of St. Paul from that city, remained, steadily going on in pursuit of their holy purpose, in which they were afterwards assisted by their former proselyte, Apollos.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Proba-Falconia

PROBA-FALCONIA, Author of a Virgilian Canto on the Life of our Saviour, written in the Reign of Theodosius and Honorius.
This lady, who was married to a person of proconsular dignity, was accused by some of having betrayed Rome into the hands of Alaric the Goth; but Cæsar Baronius has fully cleared her from that disloyal imputation.
Grainger.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Quentin, (Mademoiselle de St.)

Q.
QUENTIN (MADEMOISELLE DE ST.), Daughter of a learned Advocate of Paris, at the End of the 17th Century,
Wrote a Treatise on the Possibility of Corporeal Immortality, with an answer to the objections made to it; and treated her subject with much good sense, and profound depth of argument.
F. C.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Pringis, (Madame de)

PRINGIS (MADAME DE), a learned French Lady, of the 17th Century,
Wrote Les Caractères des Femmes; Junie, ou les Sentimens des Romains; and other works.
F. C.