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ANTIMACHUS , of See also:Colophon or Claros, See also:Greek poet and grammarian, flourished about 400 B.C. Scarcely anything is known of his See also:life. His poetical efforts were not generally appreciated, although he received encouragement from his younger See also:con-temporary See also:Plato (See also:Plutarch, See also:Lysander, 18). His See also:chief See also:works were: a See also:long-winded epic Thebais, an See also:account of the expedition of the Seven against See also:Thebes and the See also:war of the See also:Epigoni; and an elegiac poem Lytle, so called from the poet's See also:mistress, for whose See also:death he endeavoured to find See also:consolation by ransacking See also:mythology for stories of unhappy love affairs (Plutarch, Consol. ad Apoll. 9; See also:Athenaeus xiii. 597). Antimachus was the founder of " learned " epic See also:poetry, and the forerunner of the Alexandrian school, whose critics allotted him the next See also:place to See also:Homer. He also prepared a See also:critical recension of the Homeric poems.
Fragments, ed. Stoll (1845); See also:Bergk, Poetae Lyrici Graeci (1882); See also:Kinkel, Fragmenta epicorum Graecorum (1877).
See also:ANTI-MASONIC PARTY, an See also:American See also:political organization which had its rise after the mysterious disappearance, in 1826, of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Morgan (c. 1776-c. 1826), a Freemason of See also:Batavia, New See also:York, who had become dissatisfied with his See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
Order and had planned to publish its secrets. When his purpose became known to the Masons, Morgan was subjected to frequent annoyances, and finally in See also:September 1826 he was seized and surreptitiously conveyed to Fort See also:Niagara, whence he disappeared. Though his ultimate See also:fate was never known, it was generally believed at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time that he had been foully dealt with. The event created See also:great excitement, and led many to believe that See also:Masonry and See also:good citizenship were incompatible. Opposition to Masonry was taken up by the churches as a sort of religious crusade, and it also became a See also:local political issue in western New York, where See also:early in 1827 the citizens in many See also:mass meetings resolved to support no See also:- MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
- MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
- MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
- MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
- MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
- MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
- MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
- MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
- MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
- MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)
Mason for public See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office. In New York at this time the See also:National Republicans, or " See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams men," were a very feeble organization, and shrewd political leaders at once determined to utilize the strong anti-Masonic feeling in creating a new and vigorous party to oppose the rising Jacksonian See also:Democracy. In this effort they were aided by the fact that See also:Jackson was a high Mason and frequently spoke in praise of the Order. In the elections of 1828 the new party proved unexpectedly strong, and after this See also:year it practically superseded the National Republican party in New York. In 1829 the See also:hand of its leaders was shown, when, in addition to its antagonism to the Masons, it became a See also:champion of See also:internal improvements and of the protective See also:tariff. From New York the See also:movement spread into other See also:middle states and into New See also:England, and became especially strong in See also:Pennsylvania and See also:Vermont. A national organization was planned as early as 1827, when the New York leaders attempted, unsuccessfully, to persuade See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Clay, though a Mason, to renounce the Order and See also:head the movement. In September 1831 the party at a national See also:convention in See also:Baltimore nominated as its candidates for the See also:presidency and See also:vice-presidency William Wirt of See also:Maryland and See also:Amos Ellmaker (178'7-1851) of Pennsylvania; and in the tlection of the following year it secured the seven electoral votesof the See also:state of Vermont. This was the high See also:tide of its prosperity; in New York in 1833 the organization was moribund, and its members gradually See also:united with other opponents of Jacksonian Democracy in forming the Whig party. In other states, however, the party survived somewhat longer, but by 1836 most of its members had united with the Whigs. Its last See also:act in national politics was to nominate William Henry See also:Harrison for See also:president and See also:John See also:Tyler for vice-president at a convention in See also:Philadelphia in See also:November 1838.
The growth of the anti-Masonic movement was due to the political and social conditions of the time rather than to the Morgan See also:episode, which was merely the See also:torch that ignited the See also:train. Under the name of " Anti-Masons " able leaders united those who were discontented with existing political conditions, and the fact that William Wirt, their choice for the presidency in 1832, was not only a Mason but even defended the Order in a speech before the convention that nominated him, indicates that See also:simple opposition to Masonry soon became a See also:minor See also:factor in holding together the various elements of which the party was composed.
See See also:Charles McCarthy, The Antimasonic Party: A Study of Political Anti-Masonry in the United States, 1827-184o, in the See also:Report of the American See also:Historical Association for 1902 (See also:Washington, 1903) ; the Autobiography of See also:Thurlow See also:Weed (2 vols., See also:Boston, 1884); A. G. Mackey and W. R. Singleton, The See also:History of See also:Freemasonry, vol. vi. (New York, 1898) ; and J. D. See also:Hammond, History of Political Parties in the State of New York (2 vols., See also:Albany, 1842).
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