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MARCET 



MAREMMA 



In hi. fifth con-.il.liip, 908 B.C., he fell in a skir- 

 mink against HannibaL 



Marcel. JAXB. known an MM MARCCT, the 

 author of a very |>pular elementary introduction 

 to rhiaakTrr entitled I \-nrrrailioiu ON CAemutry. 

 through which Faraday maile his Orel acquaintance 

 with th<- Mihjrrt. She was Uie daughter of a rich 

 London merchant, a Swiss by birth, and was her 

 elf born at (^neva in 1769. She married Alcv 

 andrt Marrrt, a t;>nrvan. who setlle<l in London 

 is a .U-t-r in the last years of the 18th ccnuir>, 

 and later in life devotol himself to experimental 

 chetnulrv. Beside* the l'k on chemistry, which 

 reached the 16th ed. in 1H.V1, she wrote Coarrrimtiont 

 M Polittral Economy (1816; 7th ed. IH-TO). which 

 was warmly praised by J. B. Say, by M-Cullix-li, 

 ami by Loril Slacaiilav': Coitrertnliotu on \iilnrtit 

 Pktlafopky (1819; i:lh ed. 1858), and similar 

 books on Botanv (9th ed. 1H40). Vegetable Phy.i- 

 ology. &c,, beside* numerous charming Stunt-t fur 

 Mry Little CkUilrrn, in the estimation of many Mf 

 beat work. She .lied in Indon on 'J.sth June 

 Bee Harriet MarUneao's Bioyn</>h,ral Skttclx* 



March (Slav. Morant). the principal river of 

 Moravia, riMH on tin- Umndan IH-IWI-.-U that country 

 and Pruiuaan Silesia, and flows 214 miles soutli 

 to the Danube, which it joins 6 miles al.\ < Pic- 

 burx- It receives on the right the Thuya. In its 

 lower course it form* the boiimlnry U-tweeu Austria 

 and Hungary. It i* navigable for small bouts from 

 nig. 30 mihM from its mouth. 



March, a maiket town of rambridgesliirc. on 

 the Sen. 14 mile. K. of PeterU.nmgh and Hi N\V. 

 of Ely. Its church has a fine Peqx-ndicular clere- 

 story, with splendid roof. Pop. of parish (1851) 

 Ml ; ( 1881 ) 6190 ; ( 1891 ) 6995. 



March, the fin* month of the Koman year, and 

 UM third according to our present calendar, con-i-ts 

 of thirty-imp day*. It was considered an the ln-t 

 month of the ynar in Kngland until the change of 

 style in I7.VZ, and the legal year was reckoned from 

 the 15th March. lU laot tluec da>> (old style) 



ixipiilarK .iip|Miml to have IHM-II Imrrowecl 

 by March irom April, and are proverbially stormy. 

 March, a musical coni|Hisitioii, chielly for 

 military liands, with wind inlriinient<i, intended 

 In accompany the marching of tioop. There are 

 slow and quick man-In-., and marchni peculiar to 

 different conntriea. Marches are alwi inn. flu. -.-.I 

 lain oratorioa, the best-known examples bring tin* 

 March ' from the oratorio of Haul, and 

 lin'n ' Wedding March.' 



I.IVKRWOBm. 



.j a toon of sp'iin. 47 milm by rail 

 B. hy 8. of S.-MII.'. with a ducal (Areas) palace, 

 1 mtlphnr hath*. Pop n.76K 



, the l>r.l.-r dilrirt- tlmt run contigti- 

 of the boundary line between 



Kajrland and Snilland. and lietwern Kngland and 

 M'al*. Tbe I>inl of the March 



corresponding to the Knglish and Scottish Vi 



Man-lies (see MAI:^I is i. The ancient Cer- 

 man trilie of .Murruiiuiinii were ' Marchmen.' In 

 Italy Thr Mnii-hn include the march of Ancona 

 q.v.) and three other province* (see ITALY). 



Miirrliclll. I n-ii-ro, an operatic comi>oser, 

 horn at Home in 183J, became in 18X1 president 

 of a munical college in Koine. Hi- he-t known 

 operas ar.- HUUKU e Uiulntin ( 18(55) and liny 



I were the Hollies 



la wbasn esl>i on the lionlen. were given, on 

 condition that th<-> defciidod the coiintrv ugain-t 

 UM agpMsjon* of the people on the other sid 

 t'sxtw UM Norman ami Plant.igMiei k 

 Kajriaaxl UMT* a alm<t chnmic war l'tui-.'n 

 UM KujrlMi U.nl- -f th<- March-, and the WeNh. 



i . ,. BOHMB 



Tb* Mottteera, Karls of March, took their till, 



ie.|H,nili 

 inl U.i'-' WMI In like manner spplii-d to 



-!..: R 



esplre, oaagnd from nri((hliuiing nation- th.- 

 arks of Aootria. of Hrandenhtirg. Altmark 

 mark. Ac. Tfce nrerorsfltruU.I with the charge 

 of UMW Mark* wen called mark-grab or margrave*, 



>larrlnisi. an agricultural town of Italy, 

 tiiiu.-.! 111 a iiiai>hy di.-tiict, 12 miles hy rail N. of 

 Naplex. Pop. 11,083. 



Man ion. the founder of the Miireionites, a 

 rigoroiudy aocetic MH-I whieh attained a p 

 importance U'tween the years 15O and 230 A.n. 

 He \\ILS a native of SinoiM! in I'ontu-. became 

 wealthy . a hi|oner, ami aliout 140 repaired to 

 Koine.' There he laWired to correct tin ]>ievailing 

 \iev\> of Christianity, whieh lie considi'vcd to lie 

 a corruption of Jewish errors with the gospel of 

 Christ as expounded by Paul, it U-st interpreter. 

 The oppoMtion which lie encounteretl drove him to 

 found a new coinniiinitv alxmt 144, and he lalnmred 

 earnestly pioiuigating liis theology until his death 

 alnuit lti.">. Maicion was luirdly 11 < IimMii-, alllioiigh 

 he I. a.l INM-II intimate with (Vrdo, and Cn.Mir 

 speculalionH certainly inllneiiceil the development 

 of tin- Marcionite theology. Failing to re<-ogni-e 

 the New Testument Ood of love in the Old Testa- 

 ment, and profoundly influenced l>y the radical 

 Pauline antithesis of law and gospel, he con- 

 st ruclfd an ethieo-dnalistlc philosophy of religion, 

 and priK-eeded txi cosmological speculations which 

 are not free from contradictions. He set aside as 

 spuii.nis all the gos|ieU save Luke, and it, as well 

 as the Pauline epistles, he purged of Jndaising 

 inter|>olatioiis. He was thus the erlic-t to make 

 a canonical collection of New Testament writing-. 

 From alxiut the licgiiiiiing of the 4th century the 

 Marrionite.- IH'X.-IM to IK' alisorlied in the Muni- 

 cha-aii-. Maiciun's ductrines can IM> discovered 

 fnmi the controversial writings of Fathers, as Ter- 

 tullian. Himwilytus, I'.piphanius, \'c. See works 

 of liaiir, Moller, Lipsius, and Harnnck quoted 



.mil. -I liMlM H'ls.M. 



Marco Polo. See POLO. 

 Mardi iiras. See SIIUOVK-TIDE. 



Manlill. a town of Asiatic Turkey, is strikingly 

 situated on the southern slopes of the Mai din Hills, 

 60 miles SK. of Itiailii-kii. Pop. 12.0UO, of whom 

 half are Moslem Kurds. 



. I.<K - H. a lH>autiful lake of Ross-shire, 

 40 miles \V. of liingwall. Lying :ft! feet aliove 

 wa-le\i'l, it is PJJ milc>s long, .'f furlongs to 2J 

 mill- hroad, IWKI feet deep, and II si|. m. in area- 

 It i- overhung by mountains, :HX) feet high ; sends 

 oil" the Kwe. .'t mili-s long, to the sea: and contains 

 twentv-seven islets, one with remains of an ancient 

 chapel and a graveyard. Queen Victoria's residence 

 at Ln-li Miui'i- in 1877 is described in her More 



Marc in III a (comiptH from 3ffirittinm, 'situ- 

 alnl on the M-JI ' ), a marshy region of Italy, extend- 

 ing along the sea coast of Tuscany from the river 

 :ia to (Irl.itello. ami embracing an area of alioiit 

 1OOO nq. m. Tin- Pontine Marshes and the Cam- 

 piigna of Koine are similar districts. In Komaii 

 tiini-s ninl earlier the Mareniina was a fruitful and 

 |KI|III|IIU- plain ; hut tbn decay of agriculture, con- 

 MMjiii'iil II|MIII unsettled |Kilitical history, i< 

 the -in TUMI -hmi'iits of malaria, which now reigns 

 iipieme in great part of these stricken districts. 

 l/eo|ild II. of Tuscany ditecteil especial attention 

 (ItfiM 44) to the draimige and amelioration of the 

 Marcmnia, and his effort* and ulHtei{ueiit mcasnres 



