Jeffrey, Francis
jef'ri, Francis (1773-1850), a Scottish lawyer and man of letters. He was well educated at the high school and University of Glasgow. He attended Oxford also. He studied law at Edinburgh and was admitted to the bar. He had little practice as a lawyer. With Sydney Smith he entered into a project to establish a political magazine. October 10, 1802, the first number of the Edinburgh Review appeared. The editorial management belonged to no one in particular at first, but later it devolved on Jeffrey. Constable was the publisher. Jeffrey was a writer of ability. His own contributions to the Review exceed 200. He had a faculty of discovering young writers and of giving talent free scope. Sir Walter Scott, Carlyle, and Macaulay were among his contributors. His judgment was not always correct. He attacked Byron bitterly, and failed to recognize the merits of Coleridge, Southey, and Wordsworth. Despite his faults and his bitter partisanship as a Whig, Jeffrey will rank always as one of the greatest review editors the world has known. His editorial work came to a close in 1829. He represented Edinburgh in Parliament for several years, and sat on the supreme bench of Scotland for sixteen years, leaving a reputation as a popular, upright judge. See Macaulay
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Jeffreys
or GEORGE, LORD, an English jurist; born in Acton, England, in 1648. By attaching himself to the Duke of York he obtained the appointment of Welsh judge, the honor of knighthood, and the chiefjusticeship of Chester. In 1683 he was appointed Chief-Justice of the King's Bench, and, in 1685 , Lord Chancellor. His cruelties on the Western circuit toward the deluded followers of the Duke the tit Rowever London of the ucceeded nty, 867 to his atry bei a. Aft years KKin younge usion o to ac tal as a ol'ä-kim to the butary o to whe Le gave phet Je amilie rone r him sor f Jerus among C. CHIN ongolia of the ing of the an er, Asd of his ing ent suffe and he son Joh LLEY of God. lace wh His pecol as been rrow gl nd S. f Olives -dron. of Monmouth were excessive; earning for him
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Jehol
(ya'hol), or CHING-TE-FU ), a city 8). (-fö of inner Mongolia, containing a summer
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Jehoshaphat
King of Judah, the throne 70 of Ahab's children, ascended at the age of 35, in succession to his and the priests of Baal in the temple their idol. Baal in the temple ple of aple of Afterward relapsing into idolatry, he was father, Asa, 914 b. c. During the ward relapsing into punished by the delivery of his early part of his reign his people prospered punished by the de.. kingdom to Hazael, King of Syria. He , but having entered into an alliance with dom to Hazael, King died in 857 b. c. Ahab he suffered many in 857 b. c. disasters, which were at length averted by prayer and
VALLEY OF, the of the 1841-1842 by the British forces under British forces under valley judgment of God, a metaphorical name of some Sir Robert Sale. Also the place where God would judge the Also the capital of Seistan, Southwest Afghanistan. Pop., capital of est., 10,000. There foes of His people (Joel iii: 2, 12). st Afghanistan. Pop., are several towns of re are several towns of The name has been appropriated to the deep this name in British India. ish India. and narrow glen E. of Jerusalem, running N. and S. between the city and the
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Jehovah
the most sacred of the most sacred of the among the people the title of "Bloody names given in the Old Testament to the Old Testament to the Jeffries." His acts, however, pleased his Supreme Being, regarded also as the God arded also as the Goo royal master James II. He died a prisoner in specially of the Jewish people. So holy was the name wish people. So holy the Tower of London in 1689. deemed that the Jews were ed that the Jews were afraid to allow it to escape
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Jehu
the 10th King of residence of the Emperor King of Israel; had i been commander in the army of Jehoram, Israel; had his king, whom he shot with of China. the army of Jehoram, an arrow, and put shot with an arrow, to death 70 of Ahab's children,
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Jejeebhoy, Sir Jamsetjee
Sir Jamsetjee (1783-1859), a Bombay merchant. A story runs to the effect that he began mercantile life when a small lad with half a dozen empty bottles, which he sold for enough to purchase seven, etc. By energy and thrift he accumulated a fortune. He was not a Hindu; he belonged to the sect of Parsees, or Fire Worshipers , but was a man of broad charity. He presented the public an immense hospital at Bombay, and established a school for the education of poor Parsee children. He built roads and established inns for travelers. Among other public works, the expense of which was borne by him, was a causeway connecting the island on which Bombay was situated with the mainland. Although a native of India, he ranks with the world's renowned millionaires who have risen from poverty to wealth, and who have known how to use that wealth to good purpose. The gifts made by him without reference to nationality or creed amount to $1,500,000. Queen Victoria knighted him, and in 1857 made him a baronet. A statute in his honor was erected in the town hall of Bombay.
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Jelaleddin, Rumi
A Sufi poet of the thirteenth century, A.D. He teaches the Sufi doctrine that the chief end of man is so to emancipate himself from human thoughts and wishes, human needs and the outward impressions of the senses, that he may become a mere mirror for the Deity. So refined an essence does his mind become that it is as nearly as possible nothing; yet while in this state it can, by a union with the Divine Essence, mysteriously become the All. In his teachings he declares that names and words must not be taken for the things they represent:- "Names thou mayst know; go, seek the truth they name Search not the brook, but heaven, for the moon."
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