Acra′sia (Self-indulgence). An enchantress who lived in the “Bower of Bliss,” situate in “Wandering Island” She transformed her lovers into monstrous shapes, and kept them captives. Sir…
or “the Grave of the Greyhound.” A ballad by the Hon. William Robert Spencer. The tale is that one day Llewellyn returned from hunting, when his favourite hound, covered with gore, ran to…
A contraction of navigator. One employed to make railways. “Canals were thought of as lines of inland navigation, and a tavern built by the side of a canal was called a `Navigation Inn.'…
A name given (1729) by a student of Christ Church to the brothers Wesley and their friends, who used to assemble on given evenings for religious conversation. This word was in use many…
The chief excellence; the highest attainable good. SOCRATES said knowledge is virtue, and ignorance is vice. ARISTOTLE said that happiness is the greatest good. BERNARD DE MANDEVILLE and…
by John Gettings From the Spotlight Archive: This feature appeared in June 1998 The Duke and Duchess of Kent politely applaud American Pete Sampras' victory in 1997, but the royals and the home…
The theory in Ethics which places man's summum bonum in self. The correlative of altruism, or the theory which places our own greatest happiness in making others happy. Egoism is…
(St.) is represented in Christian art accompanied by lions, or chained and exposed to them, in allusion to his martyrdom. The legend is that he was brought before the Emperor Trajan, who…
(To). To kiss the hand of the sovereign either on accepting or retiring from a high government office. (See Kiss.) “Kissing the hand to the statute of a god was a Roman form of adoration…
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