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DUALLA , one of the See also:principal See also:negro peoples of Cameroon See also:estuary, See also:West See also:Africa. When the Germans established themselves in that region, the Dualla were under many See also:petty chiefs, whose domains were usually restricted to one See also:village. Over these were two greater chiefs, See also:- BELL
- BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
- BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
- BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
- BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
- BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
- BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
- BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
- BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
- BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
- BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
- BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)
Bell (Mbeli) and Akwa, representing the principal families of the tribe. The Dualla are physically a See also:fine See also:race. They are proud of their racial purity, and it was formerly usual for all See also:half-See also:caste See also:children to be strangled at See also:birth. The Dualla See also:tattoo themselves, the See also:women the whole See also:body, the men the See also:face only. They also pull out their eyelashes, which they believe prevent See also:sharp sight. The monarchical See also:system is more See also:developed among the Dualla than any other of the peoples of Cameroon. The See also:kings, many of whom have grown See also:rich through See also:trade, retain See also:part of their former See also:power, subject to the See also:German See also:government. The Dualla, who are laborious, industrious and capable of See also:great See also:physical endurance, are great traders and are proportionately prosperous. The See also:average See also:price for a wife among the Dualla is from £90 to £120; but sometimes a great See also:deal more is paid. Girls are usually betrothed See also:young and may be divorced if sterile. The See also:penalty for See also:adultery is a fine imposed on the seducer; if he cannot pay he becomes the See also:husband's slave. See also:Cannibalism as a religious rite was formerly See also:common among the Dualla. All accessioffs to power were preceded by a See also:sacrifice, a 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 having no authority till his hands were stained with See also:blood. The See also:religion is fetish blended with ancestor-See also:worship, and certain See also:secret See also:societies exist among them which seem to have a religious connexion. The dead are buried within the hut, which is abandoned shortly afterwards; slaves were formerly buried with men of importance. Missionary efforts have yielded many converts, and some churches have been built. Many of the natives can read. The Dualla are in See also:possession of an interesting See also:code, in accordance with which messages can be sent and even conversations maintained by means of drums, or rather gongs, giving two notes. (See CAMEROON.)
DU See also:BARRY, See also:MARIE JEANNE B$CU, COMTESSE (1746-1793), See also:French adventuress, See also:mistress of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XV., was the natural daughter of a poor woman of Vaucouleurs, and was See also:born there on the 19th of See also:August 1746. Placed in a See also:convent in See also:Paris at an See also:early See also:age, she received a very slight See also:education, learning little but the See also:catechism and See also:drawing; and at the age of sixteen entered a See also:milliner's See also:shop in the See also:rue St Honore. Subsequently she lived as a courtesan under the name of Mdlle See also:Lange. Her great See also:personal charms led the adventurer See also:Jean, See also:comte du Barry, to take her into his See also:house in 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 to make it more
attractive to the dupes whose See also:money he won by gambling. Her success surpassing his expectations, his hopes took a higher See also:flight, and through See also:Lebel, See also:valet de chambre of Louis XV., and the duc de See also:Richelieu, he succeeded in installing her as mistress of the king. In order to See also:present her at See also:court it was necessary to find a See also:title for her, and as See also:Count Jean du Barry was married himself his See also:brother See also:Guillaume offered himself as nominal husband. The comtesse du Barry was presented at court on the 22nd of See also:April 1769, and became See also:official mistress of the king. Her See also:influence over the monarch was See also:absolute until his See also:death, and courtiers and ministers were in favour or disgrace with him in exact accordance with her wishes. The duc de See also:Choiseul, who refused to acknowledge her, was disgraced in 1771; and the duc d'See also:Aiguillon, who had the reputation of being her See also:lover, took his See also:place, and in See also:concert with her governed the monarch. Louis XV. built for her the magnificent See also:mansion of Luciennes. At his death in 1774 an order of his successor banished her to the See also:abbey of See also:Pont-aux-Dames, near See also:Meaux, but, the See also:queen interceding for her, the king in the following See also:year gave her permission to reside at Luciennes with a See also:pension. Here she led a retired See also:life with the comte de Cosse-See also:Brissac, and was visited there by See also:Benjamin See also:Franklin and the See also:emperor See also:Joseph II., among many other distinguished men. Having gone to See also:England in 1792 to endeavour to raise money on her jewels, she was on her return accused before the Revolutionary Tribunal of having dissipated the treasures of the See also:state, conspired against the See also:republic, and worn, in See also:London, " See also:mourning for the See also:tyrant." She was condemned to death on the 7th of See also:December 1793, and beheaded the same evening. Her contemporaries, scorning her See also:low birth rather than her vices, attributed to her a malicious See also:political role of which she was at See also:heart incapable, and have done scant See also:justice to her See also:quick wit, her See also:frank but gracious See also:manners, and her seductive beauty. The See also:volume of Lettres et Anecdotes (1779) which bears her name was not written by her.
See E. and J. de See also:Goncourt, La du Barry (Paris, 188o) ; C.
Vatel, Histoire de Madame du Barry (1882-1883), based on See also:sources; R. See also:Douglas, The Life and Times of Madame du Barry (London, 1896).
DU BARTAS, GUILLAUME DE SALUSTE, SEIGNEUR (1544–1590), French poet, was born near See also:Auch in 1544. He was employed by 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 IV. of See also:France in England, See also:Denmark and See also:Scotland; and he commanded a See also:troop of See also:horse in See also:Gascony, under the See also:marshal de Martingan. He was a convinced Huguenot, and cherished the See also:idea of See also:writing a great religious epic in which biblical characters and See also:Christian sentiment were to supplant the See also:pagan See also:mise en See also:scene then in See also:fashion. His first epic, See also:Judith, appeared in a volume entitled La Muse chretienne (See also:Bordeaux, 1573). This was followed five years later by his principal See also:work, La Sepmaine, a poem on the creation of the See also:world. This work was held by admirers of du Bartas to put him on a level with See also:Ronsard, and See also:thirty See also:editions of it were printed within six years after its See also:appearance. Its religious See also:tone and fanciful See also:style made it a great favourite in England, where the author was called the " divine " du Bartas, and placed on an equality with See also:Ariosto. See also:Spenser, See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall and See also:Ben See also:Jonson, all speak in the highest terms of what seems to us a most uninteresting poem. King See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James VI. of Scotland tried his " prentice See also:hand " at the See also:translation of du Bartas's poem L' Uranie, and the compliment was returned by the French writer, who translated, as La Lepanthe, James's poem on the See also:battle of See also:Lepanto. Du Bartas began the publication of the Seconde Semaine in 1584. He aimed at a great epic which should stretch from the See also:story of the creation to the coming of the See also:Messiah. Of this great See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme he only executed a part, marked by a certain See also:elevation of style, but he did not succeed in acclimatizing the religious epic in France. The work is spoiled by a See also:constant tendency to moralize, and is filled with the in-discriminate See also:information that passed under the name of See also:science in the 16th See also:century. Du Bartas, perhaps more than any other writer, brought the Ronsardist tradition into dispute. He introduced many unwieldy compounds See also:foreign to the See also:genius of the French See also:language, and in his borrowings from old French, from provincial dialects and from Latin, he failed to show the sure See also:instinct and prudence of Ronsard and du Bellay. He wasalso guilty of reduplicating the first syllables of words, producing such expressions as pepetiller, sousouflantes. Du Bartas died in See also:July 1590 in Paris from wounds received at the battle of Ivry.
See also:Joshua See also:Sylvester translated the Sepmaine in 1598; other See also:English See also:translations from du Bartas are The Historie of Judith . (1584)„ by See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Hudson; of portions of the " See also:Weeks (1625) by 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:Lisle (1569-1637), the Anglo-Saxon See also:scholar; Urania (15899, by See also:Robert See also:Ashley (1565–1641); and See also:Sir See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Sidney (see See also:Florio's See also:dedication of the second See also:book of his translation of See also:Montaigne to See also:Lady Rich) wrote a translation of the first " See also:Week," which is lost. The Euvres completes of du Bartas were printed at Paris (1579), Paris and Bordeaux (1611). See also G. Pellissier, La See also:Vie et See also:les oeuvres de du Bartas (1883).
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