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anding of the nature of which has led to endless diversity, debate, and alienation all over the Churches of Christendom. Baptiste, Jean , a name given to the French Canadians. Baptistry , a circular building, sometimes detached from a church, in which the rite of baptism is administered; the most remarkable, that of Pisa. Baptists , a denomination of Christians, sometimes called Anabaptists to distinguish them from Pædobaptists, who, however they may and do differ on other matters, insist that the rite of initiation is duly administered only by immersion, and to those who are of age to make…

France during the minority of her sons, Clovis III., Childéric II., and Thierry; died 680, in the monastery of Chelles. Bath`ori, Elizabeth , a Polish princess, a woman of infamous memory, caused some 650 young girls to be put to death, in order, by bathing in their blood, to renew her beauty; immersed in a fortress for life on the discovery of the crime, while her accomplices were burnt alive; d . 1614. Bathos , an anti-climax, being a sudden descent from the sublime to the commonplace. Bath`urst (8), the capital of British Gambia, at the mouth of the river Gambia, in Western Africa;…

part of a love-song which Richard and he had composed together, and by the voice of Richard in responding to the strain. Blondin, Charles , an acrobat and rope-dancer, born at St. Omer, France; celebrated for his feats in crossing Niagara Falls on the tight-rope; b . 1824. Blood, Thomas, Colonel , an Irish desperado, noted for his daring attempts against the life of the Duke of Ormonde, and for carrying off the regalia in the Tower; unaccountably pardoned by Charles II., and received afterwards into royal favour with a pension of £500 per annum. He was afterwards charged with conspiracy, and…

ngs. Anti′bes (5) a seaport and place of ancient date on a peninsula in the S. of France, near Cannes and opposite Nice. Antichrist , a name given in the New Testament to various incarnations of opposition to Christ in usurpation of His authority, but is by St. John defined to involve that form of opposition which denies the doctrine of the Incarnation, or that Christ has come in the flesh. Anticosti , a barren rocky island in the estuary of St Lawrence, frequented by fishermen, and with hardly a permanent inhabitant. Antig′one′ , the daughter of Oedipus, king of Thebes, led about her father…

Prince, Duke of Brittany , heir to the throne of England by the death of his uncle Richard I.; supplanted by King John. Arthur Seat , a lion-shaped hill 822 ft., close to Edinburgh on the E., from the top of which the prospect is unrivalled; “the blue, majestic, everlasting ocean, with the Fife hills swelling gradually into the Grampians behind it on the N.; rough crags and rude precipices at our feet ('where not a hillock rears its head unsung'), with Edinburgh at their base, clustering proudly over her rugged foundations, and covering with a vapoury mantle the jagged, black, venerable…