ELIZABETH 
 
 
  El'ion, consort of Beruth, and father of 
Che.-Sanchoniathon. 
 
  Eliot (John). Of the Apostle to the 
North  American    Indians, Dr. Cotton 
Mather writes: 
  "He that will write of Eliot must write of 
charity, or say nothing. His charity was a star 
of the first magnitude in the bright constellation 
of his virtues, and the rays of it were wonder- 
fully various and extensive."--Cotton Mather, 
Magna Christi Americana (1702). 
 
  Eliot (George), Marian Evans (or "Mrs. 
Marian Lewes "), author of Adam Bede 
(1858), Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner 
(1861), etc. 
 
  Elisa, often written Eliza in English, 
Dido, queen of Carthage. 
    ... nec me meminisse pigebit Elisaw, 
Dum memor ipse mei, dum spiritus hos reget 
    artus. 
                Virgil, A.Eneid, iv. 335, 336. 
    So to Eliza dawned that cruel day 
    Which tore ýEneas from her sight away, 
    That saw him parting, never to return, 
    Herself in funeral flames decreed to burn. 
       Falconer, The Shipwreck, iii. 4 (1756). 
 
  Elis'abat, a   famous surgeon, who 
attended Queen Madasi'ma in all her 
solitary wanderings, and was her sole 
companion.-Amadis de Gaul (fifteenth 
century). 
 
  ilisabeth ou Les ExilUs de Siberie, 
a tale by Madame     Cottin  (1773-1807). 
The family being exiled for some political 
offence, Elizabeth walked all the way from 
Siberia to Russia, to crave pardon of the 
Czar. She obtained her prayer, and the 
family returned. 
 
  Elisabetha (ilfiss.) "She is not young. 
The tall, spare form stiffly erect, the little 
wisp of hair behind ceremoniously braided 
 
 
and adorned with a high comb, the long, 
thin hands and the fine network of wrinkles 
over her pellucid, colorless cheeks, tell 
this." But she is a gentlewoman, with 
generations of gentlewomen back of her, 
and lives for Doro, her orphan ward, whom 
she has taught music. She loved his 
father, and for his sake-and his own- 
loves the boy. She works for him, hoards 
for him, and is ambitious for him only. 
When he grows up and marries a low- 
born girl,-" a Minorcan "-and fills the 
old home with rude children, who break 
the piano-wires, the old aunt slaves for 
them. After lie dies, a middle-aged man, 
she does not leave them. 
  "I saw her last year-an old woman, but 
working still."--Constance Feunimore Woolson, 
Southern Sketches (1880). 
 
  Elise (2 syl.), the motherless child of 
Harpagon the miser. She was affianced 
to Val~re, by whom she had been "rescued 
from  the waves."   Valire turns out to 
be the son of Don Thomas d'Alburci, a 
wealthy nobleman of Naples.-Moli6re, 
L'A rare (1667). 
 
  Elis'sa, step-sister of Medi'na and 
Perissa.  They could never agree upon 
any subject.-Spenser, Iairy Queen, ii. 2 
(1590). 
  "Medina" (the golden mean), "Elissa" 
and "Perissa" (the two extremes). 
 
  Elizabeth (Le Marchant.) Nice girl 
whose life is darkened by a frustrated 
elopement, by which she is apparently 
compromised. All comes well in the end. 
-Rhoda Broughton, Alas! (1890). 
 
  Elizabeth (The Queen), haughty, imperi- 
ous, but devoted to her people.     She 
loved the earl of Essex, and, when she 
heard that he was married to the countess 
of Rutland, exclaimed that she never 
 
 
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