As historical past has clearly shown, they are, and have been the ENEMY for all 1400 years of their miserable, rotten, murderous existence-and so they nonetheless are! Strabo, historic geographer, born at Amasia, in Pontus; flourished in the reign of Augustus, and the early a part of that of Tiberius; was a discovered man, lived some years in Rome, and travelled much in numerous countries; wrote a historical past of 43 books, all misplaced, and a work on geography, in 17 books, which has come right down to us entire all to the 7th; the work is generally not descriptive; it comprehends principally vital political events in connection with the countries visited, with a notice of their illustrious men, or no matter seemed to him characteristic in them or was of curiosity to himself; born about sixty three B.C. Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, writer of a well-known collection of stories after the style of Boccaccio’s “Decameron,” partly borrowed and partly real folk-tales, which ranks as an Italian basic, and has been translated into varied European languages; flourished in the 16th century. Stubbs, William, historian, born at Knaresborough; studied at Oxford; became a Fellow of Trinity and of Oriel, professor of Modern History at Oxford, and at last bishop; was creator of “Constitutional History of England,” an epoch-making ebook in three volumes, and editor of a group of mediæval Chronicles, with valuable prefaces accompanying; his writings are distinguished by their learning and accuracy; b.
Strauss, David Friedrich, German theological and biblical critic, born at Ludwigsburg, in Würtemberg; studied in the Theological Institute of Tübingen below Baur, was ordained in 1830, and went in 1834 to Berlin to attend the lectures of Hegel and Schleiermacher, and returning to Tübingen gave lectures on Hegel in 1832, he the whereas maturing his famous idea which, published in 1835, made his title known over the whole theological world; this was his “Leben Jesu,” the primary volume of which appeared that 12 months, in which he maintained that, while the life of Christ had a historic foundation, all of the supernatural ingredient in it and the accounts of it have been merely and purely legendary, and the fruit of the idea of His person as Divine which at the foundation of the Christian religion took possession of the mind of the Church; the guide proved epoch-making, and the affect of it, whether as accepted or as rejected, affected, because it still does, the whole theology of the Church; the impact of it was a shock to the whole Christian world, for it seemed as if with the denial of the supernatural the entire Christian system fell to items; and its writer discovered all the Christian world opposed to him, and he was cast out of the service of the Church; this, however, didn’t daunt his ardour, for he by no means abandoned the bottom he had taken up; his last work was entitled “Der Alte und der Neue Glaube,” wherein he overtly repudiates the Christian religion, and assigns the sovereign authority in spiritual issues to science and its handmaid artwork.
Styx, name (from the Greek verb signifying “to abhor”) of the principal river of the nether world, which it flows sluggishly round seven occasions; is correctly the river of death, which all must cross to enter the unseen world, and of which, within the Greek mythology, Charon was the ferryman. In their solemn engagements it was by this river the gods took oath to signify that they might forego their godhood if they swore falsely. N. of Blackburn; established in 1794 by certain Jesuit fathers who, after the suppression of their seminary at St. Omer, in France, by the Bourbons, took up their residence at Bruges after which at Liège, however fled thence to England during the Revolution, and accepted the shelter offered them at Stonyhurst by Mr. Weld of Lulworth; there are about 300 students, and upwards of 30 masters; a preparatory faculty has been established at Hodder, a mile distant; in 1840 was affiliated to the University of London, for the degrees of which its students are mainly skilled; retains in its numerous institutions many marks of its French origin.
Straits Settlements (507, of which a hundred and fifty are Chinese), British colony within the East Indies, embracing the British possessions in the Malay Peninsula (on the Strait of Malacca), Singapore, Malacca, Penang, and the Keeling Islands and Christmas Island; had been underneath the jurisdiction of the Governor-General of India till 1867, wherein 12 months they handed below the management of the Colonial Office at residence. Stonyhurst, a celebrated Roman Catholic faculty in East Lancashire, 10 m. NW. of London; endlessly well-known as the delivery and burial place of Shakespeare, with whom all that’s of chief interest within the town is related, the house he was born in, his old fashioned, Anne Hathaway’s cottage on the outskirts, the fine Early English church (14th century), where he lies buried, the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, museum, &c.; is Visited yearly by some 20,000 pilgrims; a thriving agricultural centre. Croatia and Slavonia on the SE., and flanked by Hungary on the E.; a mountainous area crossed by numerous japanese ranges of the Alpine system, and drained by the Drave, Save, Inn, and other rivers; more than half lies underneath forest; agriculture flourishes, however mineral merchandise, iron, salt, coal, &c., constitute the chief wealth.