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DACOIT , a See also:term used in See also:India for a robber belonging to an armed gang. The word is derived from the Hindustani dakail, and being current in See also:Bengal got into the See also:Indian penal See also:code. By See also:law, to constitute dacoity, there must be five or more in the gang committing the See also:crime. In 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 of the See also:Thugs (q.v.) a See also:special See also:police See also:department was created in India to See also:deal with thuggy and dacoity (thagi and dakaiti), which exists down to the See also:present See also:day. In See also:Burma also the word dacoit came to be applied in a special sense to the armed gangs, which maintained a See also:state of guerilla warfare for several years after the defeat of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king and his See also:army. (See BURMESE See also:WARS.)
DA See also:COSTA, ISAAK (1798-186o), Dutch poet and theologian, was See also:born at See also:Amsterdam on the 14th of See also:January 1798. His See also:father was a See also:Jew of Portuguese descent, and claimed kindred with the celebrated Uriel D'See also:Acosta. An See also:early acquaintance with See also:Bilderdijk had a strong See also:influence over the boy both in See also:poetry and in See also:theology. He studied at Amsterdam, and after-wards at See also:Leiden, where he took his See also:doctor's degree in law in 1818, and in literature in 1821. In 1814 he wrote De Verlossing See also:van Nederland, a patriotic poem, which placed him in See also:line with the contemporary See also:national romantic poets in See also:Germany and in See also:France. His Poesy (2 vols., 1821-1822) revealed his emancipation from the Bilderdijk tradition, and the See also:oriental colouring of his poems, his hymn to Lamartine, and his See also:translation of See also:part of See also:Byron's See also:Cain, establish his claim to be considered as the earliest of the Dutch romantic poets. In 1822 he became a convert to See also:Christianity, and immediately afterwards asserted himself as a See also:champion of orthodoxy and an assailant of latitudinarianism in his Beawaren tegen den Geest der Eeuw (1823). He took a lively See also:interest in See also:missions to the See also:Jews, and towards the See also:close of his See also:life was a director of the See also:seminary established in Amsterdam in connexion with the See also:mission of the See also:Free See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church of See also:Scotland. He died at Amsterdam on the 28th of See also:April 186o. Da Costa ranked first among the poets of See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland after the See also:death of Bilderdijk. His See also:principal poetical See also:works were: Alphonsus I. (1818), a tragedy; Poezy (Leiden, 1821); See also:God melons (1826); Fesiliedern (1828); Vijf-en-twintig jaren (184o) ; Hagar (1852); De Slag bij Nieupoort (1857). He also translated The Persians (1816) and the See also:Prometheus (1818) of See also:Aeschylus, and edited the poetical works of Bilderdijk in sixteen volumes, the last See also:volume being an See also:account of the poet. He was the author of a number of theological works, chiefly in connexion with the See also:criticism of the gospels.
His See also:complete poetical works were edited by J. P. Hasebroek (3 vols., See also:Haarlem, 1861-1862). See G. Groen van Prinsterer, Brieven van Mr I. da Costa, 1830-1849 (1872), and J. ten Brink, Geschiedenis der Noord-Nederlandsche Letteren in de XIX' Eeuw (vol. i., 1888), which contains a complete bibliography of his works.
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