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LESTE , a See also:desert See also:wind, similar to the See also:Leveche (q.v.), observed in See also:Madeira. It blows from an easterly direction in autumn,See also:winter and See also:spring, rarely in summer, and is of intense dryness, sometimes reducing the relative humidity at See also:Funchal to below 20%. The Leste is commonly accompanied by clouds of See also:fine red See also:sand.
L'ESTRANGE, See also:SIR See also:ROGER (1616-1704), See also:English pamphleteer on the royalist and See also:court See also:side during the Restoration See also:epoch, but principally remarkable as the first English See also:man of letters of any distinction who made journalism a profession, was See also:born at See also:Hunstanton in See also:Norfolk on the 17th of See also:December 1616. In 1644, during the See also:civil See also:war, he headed a See also:conspiracy to seize the See also:town of See also:Lynn for 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, under circumstances which led to his being condemned to See also:death as a See also:spy. The See also:sentence, however, was not executed, and after four years' imprisonment in Newgate he escaped to the See also:Continent. He was excluded from the See also:Act of See also:Indemnity, but in 1653 was pardoned by See also:Cromwell upon his See also:personal solicitation, and lived quietly until the Restoration, when after some delay his services and sufferings were acknowledged by his See also:appointment as licenser of the See also:press. This 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 was administered by him in the spirit which might be expected from a zealous See also:cavalier. He made himself notorious, not merely by the severity of his See also:literary censorship, but by his vigilance in the suppression of clandestine See also:printing. In 1663 (see See also:NEws-PAPERS) he commenced the publication of the Public Intelligencer and the News, from which eventually See also:developed the famous See also:official See also:paper the See also:London See also:Gazette in 1665. In 1679 he again became prominent with the Observator, a See also:journal specially designed to vindicate the court from the See also:charge of a See also:secret inclination to popery. He discredited the Popish See also:Plot, and the suspicion he thus incurred was increased by the See also:conversion of his daughter to See also:Roman Catholicism, but there seems no See also:reason to question the sincerity of his own See also:attachment to the 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:England. In 1687 he gave a further See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof of See also:independence by discontinuing the Observator from his unwillingness to See also:advocate 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 II.'s See also:Edict of See also:Toleration, although he had previously gone all lengths in support of the See also:measures of the court. The Revolution cost him his office as licenser, and the See also:remainder of his See also:life was spent in obscurity. He died in 1704. It is to L'Estrange's See also:credit that among the agitations of a busy See also:political life he should have found 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 for much purely literary See also:work as a translator of See also:Josephus, See also:Cicero, See also:Seneca, Quevedo and other See also:standard authors.
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