Leutze
EMANUEL, an American ANUEL, an American artist; born in Gmünd, Württemberg, May 24, 1816; was Gmünd, Württemberg, brought to the as brought to the United States in infancy. In 1840 he began to United display a remarkable In 1840 he began to talent for portrait talent for portrait painting. Subsequently he devoted himself to the painting of historical he devoted himsubof historical subjects. His works include "Columbus clude "Columbus Before the Council of Salamanca"; Salamanca"; "Columbus in Chains"; "Columbus Before the Queen"; "Landing of "Columbus Bethe Norsemen in America"; of the Norse- '; "Washington Crossing hington Crossing the Delaware"; "Washington at Princeton"; "Lafayette in ingten at Prince- Prison at Olmütz Visited by His Prison at Olmlitz Relatives"; etc. In 1860 he was ves"; etc. In 1860 employed by the United States the United States Government to make a large m a large mural painting entitled "Westward the Star of mural 'Westward the Star of Empire Takes Its Way" on one of the Way" on one of the staircases in the National Capitol. He National Capitol. He died in Washington, D. C., July 18, 1868. gton, D. C., July 18,
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Levant
le-vant', a term applied originally by the Italians to countries lying to the eastward of them or toward the sunrise, and more specifically to Asia Minor and Syria. It is a convenient name by which to designate the coast region and the islands of the eastern Mediterranean. The Venetian sailor calls an east wind a levanter. Levant morocco is a superior kind of leather prepared originally in the Levant from the skin of the Angora goat.
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Levee
the act lev-a'), the act or time of rising. In the United States this or he United States this term is applied to any assemblage of any assemblage of guests, whether held in the morning or in the morning or in the evening. In England the term is confined to a morning reception held by eception held by a sovereign, prince, or personage of high sonage of high rank; especially the state receptions held by the eceptions held sovereign. In hydraulic engineering an aulic engineerembankment to restrain water, and of a magnitude such as those of the restrain water, ich as those of the Mississippi, the Ganges, Holland, and the Holland, and the
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Lever
CHARLES JAMES, an Irish AMES, an Irish novelist; born in Dublin, Aug. 31, 1806. Aug. 31, 1806. He was graduated in arts at Trinity in arts at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1827, and in medicine and in medicine 1831 later, taking his doctor's degree a litat Göttingen. He then returned doctor's degree a lit agen. He then returned actice. Ireland to practice. In March, 1834, In March, 1884 contributed his first paper to the his first paper to the - started " Dublin University Maga - Dublin University Maga The zine, " first of which he became editor in 1842. xiii. 9), chapter of " Harry Lorrequer " ual, social, appeared in that magazine in 1837. Meanwhile he was attached as physician to the British legation at Brussels, where he practiced for three years. During his three years' editorship of the "Dublin University Magazine" he resided near Dublin, and afterwards lived on the Conmaritan (Luke x: 32). tinent devoting himself to fiction writing -"Charles O'Malley," "Tom Burke," "Jack Hinton" are representative novels, and in a class by themselves. He obtained a diplomatic post at Florence about 1845, was appointed vice-consul at Spezzia in 1857, and in 1867 at Trieste, where he died, June 1, 1872.
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Lever
The lever is the simplest of all machines, and is only a straight bar of iron, wood, or other material, supported on and movable round a prop called the fulcrum, and having the weight to be moved and the power to move it applied at two other points. The law is that the power and weight are in the inverse ratio of their distances from the fulcrum. This is equally true for straight or bent levers, and holds good whatever be the relative positions of the power, weight, and fulcrum; and as there can be three different arrangements of these, we thus obtain what are called the three kinds of levers. The first kind is where the fulcrum is placed between the power and the weight; levers of the second kind are those in which the weight is betwixt the power and the fulcrum; in levers of the third kind the power is betwixt the weight and the fulcrum. To produce equilibrium in levers of the first kind, the power may, according to the ratio of the lengths of the arm, be either greater or less than the weight: in the second kind it must always be less, and in the third kind always greater.
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Lever (O white Wine olive oil)
O "white"). Wine, olive oil, and currants velist; born are the principal products. The island was gre is much subject to earthquakes. Pop. llege, Dahl between Greeks. The 25,000 W. coast and is 27,000 bold, and chiefly pre- tle in cipitous, and terminates S. in the ab- 1831, rupt headland ( 200 feet) known to the he to ancients as the Leucadian rock, on which newly wly-star stood a temple to Apollo, and from and from which once a year a criminal was hurled was hurled into the sea by way of sacrifice. It was from f sacrifice) It the same point that Sappho, the hat Sappho, poetess, and Artemisia of Halicarnassus of Halicarthrew themselves into the waves. the waves. The capital, Amaxichi or Leukas, on the E. coast, is or Leukas, on the the seat of an archbishop, and of an archbishop, has a population of 3,800. It was nearly of 3,800. It was destroyed by an earthquake in 1825. an earthquake in Collen), a village of Prussia, in Lower Silesia, 10 miles W.
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Lever, Charles James
le'ver, Charles James (1806-1872), an Irish novelist. He was born at Dublin and died at Triest, where he held a consular position. He was educated for medicine at Trinity College, Dublin, and at Gottingen, Germany. He made a reputation during the epidemic of cholera in 1832, and later entered the consular service. He began writing serials for the Dublin University Magazine. The first chapter of Harry Lorrequer appeared in February, 1837. Its success was such that he used the title as a pen name . Other tales are Charles O'Malley, Tom Burke of Ours, and Lord Kilgobbin. As a whole, his novels are light and rollicking, and of no great permanent value. Ax. Mallet. Lever
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