Each of these 8 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
the E. end of a church, in which the altar is placed. It was formerly, and is even now in places, divided from the body of the church by a screen or lattice-work, and is raised by steps above the level of the body of the church.
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BATTLE OF, one of the great battles of the American Civil War, fought at Chancellorsville, Va., May 2 and 3, 1863. Gen. Joseph Hooker commanded the Federal force, and Gen. Robert E. Lee the Confederate force. Although Hooker's army was superior in numbers, being about 130,000 against 60,000 of the Confederates, the advantage at the end of the battle lay with the latter. During a flank movement the 11th corps of the Federal army, under Gen. O. O. Howard, was surprised and thrown into a panic near nightfall of the first day. The flank movement extended so far that the bullets of the Confederates were turned upon their own troops, and by their fire "Stonewall" Jackson was mortally wounded. The Federal loss was 18,000, the Confederate loss 13,000.
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in law, a court having special defined power. The English Court of Chancery was the highest court of judicature next to the House of Lords. The Lord Chancellor presided in this court, having under him the Lords Justices and Vice-Chancellors, who acted for him in separate courts, and the Master of the Rolls, who had the keeping of all the rolls and records of the Court of Chancery, and also presided in a court of his own. The Court of Chancery was a court of equity. Under the Judicature Act of 1873 the powers and jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery were transferred to the High Court of Justice, and it now exists as the chancery division of that court. In the United States it is a court hav ing equity jurisdiction. American courts of equity are, in some instances, distinct from those of law; in others, the same tribunals exercise the jurisdiction both of courts of law and equity, though their forms of proceeding are different in their two capacities. The Supreme Court of the United States, and the Circuit Courts, are invested with general equity powers, and act either as courts of law or equity.
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a great English family, descended from a follower of William the Conqueror, the last representative in the direct male male line being Sir John Chandos (died 1428), whose sister married one Giles Brydges. Their descendant, Sir John Brydges, was lieutenant of the Tower under Queen Mary, and was created Baron Chandos in 1554. James Brydges (1673-1744), eighth Lord Chandos, sat in Parliament for Hereford from 1698 to 1714, and was created Duke of Chandos in 1719. The lucrative post of paymaster of the forces abroad (1707- 1712) supplied means for building a palace at Canons, near Edgeware, which cost £200,000, but was torn down at the duke's death. Here Handel lived two years, wrote anthems for the chapel service, and produced "Esther." In 1796 the title passed by marriage to the family of Grenville, the present dukes of Buckingham and Chandos. The third and last duke of this line died in 1889.
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a city of China, capital of the province of Hu-Nan, on the Hang- Kiang, a tributary of the Yang-tse- Kiang. Chang-Sha has an important rade, manufactures silk extennative trade, sively. Pop. about 250,000.
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a child left in place of another. During the Middle Ages there was a popular superstition that the fairies were likely to take away a babe and place their own in its stead. The more vigorous a young child, the more likely the fairies were to desire it. The exchange might be made any time before the christening. Young babes were watched, therefore, closely, until that ceremony had been performed. A stunted, dwarfed, crippled, or underwitted child was believed commonly to be a changeling. Spenser speaks of changelings changed by "faeries' theft." The term is employed frequently by the British poets. Lowell, who lost a little daughter, uses the idea beautifully. He speaks of the memory of his little child as though it were a changeling left in its place by the angels. This child is not mine as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it up fatherly, And bless it upon my breast; Yet it lies in my little one's cradle, And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she's gone to Transfigures its golden hair.
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The substitution of a little old mannikin of the elf race, for a young child. There are many tales representative of this belief in Scotland . The changeling grows up peevish and misshapen, always crying, and gives many proofs of its origin to those versed in such matters. There are many ways of getting rid of him, such as sticking a knife into him, making him sit on a gridiron with a fire below, dropping him into a river, etc., - which one would Charnock imagine would prove fairly successful The changeling sometimes gives himself away by unthinking reference to his age.
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WILLIAM ELLERY, Academy. He soon came to be regarded an American preacher and writer, born in Newport, R. I., April 7, 1780. He studied at Harvard College, became a decided Unitarian , and propagated Unitarian tenets with great zeal and success. His first appointment as a pastor was in 1803, when he obtained the charge of a congregation in Boston, and ere long he became known as one of the most popular preachers of America. His reputation was still further increased by the publication of writings, chiefly sermons, reviews, etc., on popular subjects. He died in Bennington , Vt., Oct. 2, 1842.
WILLIAM HENRY, an American Unitarian clergyman and biographer; nephew of W. E. Channing, the elder; born in Boston, May 25, 1810. Settling in England, he succeeded James Martineau as pastor at Liverpool. His daughter married Sir Edwin Arnold. His principal work was "Memoir of William Ellery Channing" (3 vols., 1848). He died in London, Dec. 23, 1884.
WILLIAM ELLERY, an American poet; nephew of William E. Channing , the elder; born in Boston, Mass., June Ju 10, 1818. He is author of "Poems" (1843-1847); "The Woodman" (1849); "Near Home" (1858); "The Wanderer" (1872); " Conversations in Rome" (1847); and " Thoreau" (1873). He died in 1901.
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