These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Theurgia Goetia, Theurgy, Theuriet.
(See Key of Solomon the King .) Thian-ti-hwii-or Heaven and Earth League; an ancient esoteric society in China , said to have still been in existence in 1674. The candidate before reception had to answer 333 questions. It professed to continue a system of brotherhood derived from ancient customs. 66 66 دو 66
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the working of some divine or supernatural agency in human affairs; a working or producing effect by supernatural means; effect of phenomena brought about among men by spiritual agency; specifically: (1) Divine agency or direct interference of the gods in human affairs, or the government of the world. (2) The act or art of invoking deities or spirits, or by their intervention conjuring up visions, interpreting dreams, receiving or extaining from the gods, by means of certain observances, words, symbols, or the like a knowledge of the secrets which surpass the power of reason, to lay open the future, etc. (3) That species of magic which more modern professors of the art allege to produce its effects ts by by supernatural agency, as contradistinguished from natural magic. (4) A system of supernatural knowledge or power believed by the Egyptian Platonists to have been divinely communicated to a hierarchy, and by them handed down from generation to generation.
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ANDRE, a French author; born in Marly le Roi, near Paris, law in Paris, and Oct. 8, 1833; studied received in 1857 a place in the office of the minister of finance. He published in 1867 "The Woodland Road," a volume of poems. Later poems were "The Peas- (1871), and ants of Argonne, 1792" "Blue and Black" (1872). But Theuriet is best known by his novels, which include: "Mlle. Guignon" (1874); ; "The Marriage of Gerard" (1875); "The Fortune of Angeli" (1876); "Our Children" 23, 1907. (1892); etc. He died April THEVETIA (named by Linnæus after its describer, Thevet, a French Franciscan, of the 16th century), in botany, a genus of Carisseæ. Inflorescence consisting of terminal or lateral cymes. Calyx five-parted, with many glands inside at its base; corolla salver-shaped, closed by four scales; fruits slightly fleshy, with a hard stone inside. T. neriifolia is cultivated in tropical America, whence it has been introduced into India. The milky juice is very poisonous, the bitter and cathartic bark is a febrifuge, and an oil extracted from the kernels is emetic and purgative.
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Daughter of Uranus and Ge, one of the female Titans, who became by Hyperion the mother of Helios (Sol), Eos ( Aurora ), and Selene (Luna)-that is, she was regarded as the deity from whom all light proceeded.
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a land in Central Asia; a dependency of China. See Tibet
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in ordinary language, one who steals or is guilty of theft; one who takes the goods or personal property of another without his knowledge or consent, and without any intention of returning it; one who deprives another of property secretly or without open force, as opposed to a robber, who uses open force or violence. In the times of Queen Elizabeth and James I. no such sharp distinction was made as we now draw between a robber and a thief. The word is also used as a term of reproach, and applied especially to a person guilty of cunning, deceitful, or secret actions .
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AMÉDÉE SIMON DOM- INIQUE, a French historian; born in Blois, France, Aug. 2, 1797; was made a member of the Institute, 1841, and senator, 1860. He assisted his brother Augustin in several of the great works produced by the latter, and himself wrote "History of the Gauls" (1828); "History of Gaul under the Normans" (1840); "Stories and Tales of Roman History" (1860); "History of Attila and his Successors"; etc. He died in Paris March 27, 1873.
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JACQUES NICOLAS AU- GUSTIN, a French historian; born in Blois, France, May 10, 1795. He was for some time associated as secretary and coadjutor with St. Simon, whose socialistic views he embraced. In 1816 he published a treatise entitled "The Nations and Their Mutual Relations." His celebrated work on the Norman conquest of England was published at Paris in 1825, and attained great success both in France and in England. "Letters on French History" appeared in 1827, and "Ten Years of Study" (essays) in 1834 . He was summoned by Guizot, then minister of public instruction, to Paris, and intrusted with the editing of the "Account of the Unedited Historical Works on the Third Estate," for the collection of documents relative to the history of France. In 1840 he published "Account of the Times of the Merovingians. " He died in Paris May 22, 1856.
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JEAN BAPTISTE (tē-ār'), a French theological writer ; born in Chartres, France, France , in 1636. His treatises on theological and ecclesiastical subjects are very numerous; but he owes whatever celebrity he has to his "History of Wigs, wherein is Shown their Origin , their Use, their Form, the Abuse and Irregularity of Ecclesiastics ' Wigs" (1690). He died in Vibraye , France, in 1703. Origin,
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te-er', Louis Adolphe (1797-1877), a distinguished French statesman and historian. His father was a locksmith of Marseilles. The young Louis was educated for the law but took to literature. In 1821 we find him in Paris contributing literary and political articles to the newspapers. His politics were liberal in cast. In 1823-27 he wrote a ten-volume History of the French Revolution . It became immensely popular. Carlyle, who had himself written a history of this period, and who thought Thiers had not gone to the bottom of the matter, said of him, "Thiers is a brisk man in his way and will tell you much if you know nothing," and again, "The history is as far as possible from meriting its high reputation." A twenty-volume continuation he termed A History of the First Consulate and the Empire. On the downfall of Napoleon III in 1871, Thiers was made the head executive of the new French Republic and was later elected president. It fell to his part to negotiate the treaty of peace with the Germans. He went to Versailles to William and his advisers. It is said that tears poured down his face, because he could not induce Bismarck to forego Alsace-Lorraine, even at the offer of a fabulous ransom. Thiers is recognized universally as a man of gifts, statesmanship, and patriotism. See Alsace-Lorraine ; Versailles ; French Revolution ; Franco-Prussian War ; Napoleon Iii
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