Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879* Excerpt: ...from Mary Magdalene or Mary of Mog'dala, "out of whom Jesus cast sevon devils," a great profligate till she mot with the Lord and Saviour. Mag'deburg Centuries. The first great work of Protestant divines on the history of the Christian church. It was begun at Magdeburg by Matthias Flacius, in 1552; and, as each century occupies a volume, the thirteen volumes complete the history to 1300. Magellan. Straits of Magellan. so called after Magellan or Magafbaens, the Portuguese navigator, who discovered them in 1520. Magen'ta, A brilliant blue-red colour derived from coal-tar, named in commemoration of the battle of Magenta in 1859. Maggot, Maggoty. Whimsical, full of whims and fancies. Fancy tunes used to be called maggots, hence we have "Barker's maggots, "Cary's maggots," "Draper's maggots," &c.--"Dancing Master' (1721). When the mar/got bites. When the fancy takes us. Swift tells us that It was tbe opinion of certain virtuosi that the brain is filled with little worms or maggots, and that thought is produced by these worms biting the nerves. "If the bite is hexagonal itproduces poetry; if circular, eloquence; if conical, politics; &o.--"The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit." Instead of maggots the Scotch say, "His head is full of bees;" the French, "11 a des rats dans la teto;" and in Holland, "He has a mouse's nest in his head." (See Bee.) Ma'gi (The), according to one tradition, wore Mel'chior, Gasper, and Balthazar, three kings of the East. Tho first offered gold, tie emblem of royalty, to the infant Jesus; the second, frankincense, in token of divinity; and the third, myrrh, in prophetio allusion to the persecution unto death which awaited the " Man of Sor...
