Delaroche
HIPPOLYTE (familiarly styled Paul), (de-lä-rōsh), a French painter; born in Paris, July 16, 1797. He studied landscape painting for a short time but applied himself afterward to historical painting, and rapidly rose to eminence. Notable among his works are: "St. Vincent de Paul preaching before Louis XIII. on behalf of Deserted Children," "Joan of Arc Interrogated in Prison by Cardinal Beaufort," the "Death of Queen Elizabeth," "The Children of Edward IV. in the Tower," "Cardinal Richelieu Conducting Cing Mars and De Thou up the Rhone to Execution," "Charles I. Mocked by His Guards," the "Execution of Lady Jane Grey," the "Death of the Duke of Guise," and the "Hemicycle," an immense work painted in oil on the wall of The Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. It represents an assemblage of the great painters, sculptors, and architects from the days of Giotto to those of Lesueur. He held a middle place between the classical and the romantic schools, and was regarded as the leader of the so-called "eclectic school." He died in Paris, Nov. 4, 1856.
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Delavigne
JEAN FRANCOIS CASIMIR (de-lä-vēn'), a French poet and dramatist; born in Havre, April 4, 1793. He produced in 1819 his tragedy of "The Sicilian Vespers"; "The Comedians" appeared in 1820, and the tragedy of "The Paria" in 1821. Of his other plays which followed these may be mentioned: "The School of Old Men"; "Marino Faliero"; and the dramas of Louis VI.-founded on Commines "Memoirs" and "Quentin Durward" and "Don John of Austria." His hymns, "The Parisienne" and "The Varsovienne," and the ballad "The Toilette of Constance," are among his more popular poetical pieces. He became in 1825 a member of the Academy. He died at Lyons, France, Dec. 11, 1843.
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Delaware Bay
an estuary or arm of the sea between the States of Delaware and New Jersey. At the entrance, near Cape Henlopen, is situated the Delaware Breakwater, which affords vessels a shelter within the cape. It was erected by the Federal government, and cost about $3,000,000.
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Deleb Palm
the Borassus Ethiõpum, a native of the interior and W. of Africa, allied to he Palmyra palm. Its leaves and fruits are used by the Africans for the same purposes as those of the Palmyra by the Asiatics, and the tender roots produced by the young plant are extensively used as an article of food.
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Delectable Mountains, The
The, in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress , a chain of mountains within sight of the Celestial City. The mountains were covered with "gardens and orchards, vineyards and fountains of water." Christian and Hopeful were welcomed and refreshed by the shepherds who fed their flocks there. From these mountains, too, the Pilgrims obtained their first faint glimpses of the gates of the City and "some of the glory of the place." See Bunyan
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Delegate
a person appointed and sent by another or by others, with powers to transact business as his or their representative. The title was given to members of the first Continental Congress in America, 1774. Representatives from United States territories are so designated.
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Delenda
things to be erased or expunged. Delenda est Carthago is the celebrated sentence with which Cato the elder was accustomed to conclude all his speeches in the Roman Senate. His hatred of Carthage arose from a jealousy of its flourishing state, and the consequent danger to Rome, and eventually led to its destruction in 146 b. c. DELESSERIA (named after M. Benjamin Delessert, a French patron of botany), a genus of florideous algæ, the typical one of the sub-order Delesserieæ. The species have a flat membranaceous rose-colored frond. The one best known is. D. sanguinea. Its fruit ripens in winter. DELESSERIEÆ, a sub-order of algæ, order Ceramiacea (rose-tangles). The frond is cellular, the coccidia inclosing closely-packed oblong granules arising from the base, within a spherical cellular envelope which finally bursts; tetraspores in definite heaps or collected in sporophylls.
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Deleuze, Jean Philippe François
French naturalist and adept in animal magnetism. He was born at Sisteron, in 1753, and died in 1835. It is by his advocacy of animal magnetism that he is principally remembered, and his works on this subject include: Histoire Critique du Magnétisme, (1813-1819); Insruction Pratique sur le Magnétisme Animale, (1819 and 1836); Défense du Magnétisme, (1819); Mémoire sur la Faculté de Prevision, (1836). He believed in rapport between patient and magnetiser, in diagnosis of disease by clairyovants, and other supernormal phenomena. (See Hypnotism .)
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Delftware
a kind of pottery originally manufactured at Delft, in Holland, in the 14th century. It was among the best of its day, being considered equal to the Italian in quality, but somewhat inferior in its ornamentation.
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Delibes
LEON (de-leb), a French ; composer born in St. Germain du Val, Feb. 21, 1836; entered the Paris Conser vatoire in 1848, and in 1855 produced an operetta , "Two Bags of Charcoal." At the Grand Opera, his music for the ballet The " Fountain" (1866) met with great success . The ballet-music for "Coppélia" (1870 ), is his finest work. He wrote music for a third ballet and for three comic operas. "The King Said So" (1873), became very popular. In 1880 stone wall 5½ miles long, strengthened he was appointed professor in the Conservatoire. He died Jan. 16, 1891. beloved of Samson. She persuaded him
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Delilah
a woman of the Philistines, to reveal to her the secret of his great strength, and when she learned that it lay in his long and thick hair, cut off his locks while he was asleep and then treacherously delivered the helpless man hands of his enemies. DELIQUESCENCE the which certain very soluble salts and other , property bodies possess of absorbing moisture from the atmosphere. This property is made use of in drying salts, etc., the substance being placed over another substance which absorbs water from the air, as sulphuric acid, chloride of calcium, quicklime, etc., in an air-tight vessel called a desiccator.
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Delirium
increased ideation ranging from simple confusion of thought to fixed delusion, accompanied by incoherence, restlessness, and frequently combined with some amount of unconsciousness, deepening at times into coma. It often occurs in the course of general specific diseases, in pneumonia, erysipelas, gout, acute mania, alcoholic poisoning as delirium tremens, and as a consequence of nervous exhaustion from mental overwork. DE LISLE. See LECONTE DE LISLE.
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