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EMPEDOCLES 
 
 
   Emil'ia, the lady  who attended  on 
 Queen Hermi'oný in prison.-Shakespeare, 
 The Winter's Tale (1604). 
 
   Emilia, the  lady-love of  Peregrine 
 Pickle, in Smollett's novel called The 
 Adventures of Pereqrine Pickle (1751). 
 
 Emilia Galotti. Beautiful daughter of 
 Odoardo, an Italian noble. She is affi- 
 anced to Count Appiani, and beloved by 
 the Prince Guastalla, who causes her 
 lover's death on their wedding-day. To 
 save her from the prince, Odoardo stabs 
 Emilia.-.G. E. Lessing, EmiliaGalotti. 
 
 Emily, the fiancee of Colonel Tamper. 
 Duty called away the colonel to Havana, 
 and on his return he pretended to have lost 
 one eye and one leg in the war, in order to 
 see if Emily would love him still. Emily 
 was greatly shocked, and Mr. Prattle 
 the medical practitioner was sent for. 
 Amongst other gossip, Mr. Prattle told his 
 patient he had seen the colonel who looked 
 remarkably well, and most certainly was 
 maimed neither in his legs nor in his eyes. 
 Emily now saw through the trick, and 
 resolved to turn the tables on the colonel. 
 For this end she induced Mdlle. Florival 
 to appear en militaire, under the assumed 
 name of Captain Johnson, and to make 
 desperate love to her. When the colonel 
 had been thoroughly roasted and was 
 about to quit the house forever, his friend 
 Major Belford entered and recognized 
 Mdlle. as his fiancde'; the trick was dis- 
 covered, and all ended happily.-G. Col- 
 man, sen., The Deuce is in Him (1762). 
 
 Emir or Ameer, a title given to lieu- 
tenants of provinces and other officers of 
the sultan, and occasionally assumed by 
the sultan himself. The sultan is not un- 
frequently call" The Great Ameer," and 
 
 
the Ottoman empire is sometimes spoken 
of as "the country of the Great Ameer." 
What Matthew Paris and other monks call 
"ammirals" is the same word. Milton 
speaks of the "mast of some tall ammiral 
(Paradise Lost, i. 294). 
   The difference between xariff or sariff 
 and amir is this: the former is given to the 
 blood successors of Mahomet, and the lat- 
 ter to those who maintain his religious 
 faith.-Selden, Titles of Honor, vi. 73-4 
 (1672). 
 
 Em'ly (Little), daughter of Tom, the 
 brother-in-law of Dan'el Peggotty, a Yar- 
 mouth fisherman, by whom the orphan 
 child was brought up. While engaged to 
 Ham Peggotty (Dan'el's nephew) little 
 Em'ly runs away with Steerforth, a hand- 
 some but unprincipled gentleman. Being 
 subsequently reclaimed, she emigrates to 
 Australia with Dan' el Peggotty and old 
 Mrs. Gummidge.-C. Dickens, David Cop- 
perfield (1849). 
 
  Emma "the Saxon "or Emma Plantage- 
net, the beautiful, gentle, and  loving 
wife  of David, king of North Wales 
(twelfth century). - Southey, Madoc 
(1805). 
 
  Emmons (David), slow, gentle fellow 
who never "comes to the point" in his 
courtship, but visits the "girl "for forty 
years, and gasps out in dying, "I allers- 
meant to-have-asked-you to marry 
me."-Mary E. Wilkins, Two Old Lovers 
(1887). 
 
  Emped'oeles, one     of Pythagoras's 
scholars, who threw himself secretly into 
the crater at Etna, that people might 
suppose the gods had carried him to 
heaven; but alas! one of his iron pattens 
 
 
EMILIA 
 
 
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