government of the whole earth, and carry it on under the great king; by whose active ministry, by wnose speedy obedience, passing to and fro at will with angelic freedom and readiness, they shall preserve and maintain that peace and blessedness amongst the sojourners of the earth, in which the millennium will consist. And thus, without going into further particulars, it is that the change in the world's temper and condition will be accomplished; and thus that the elect church will be rewarded by being made the spouse, the sister of the king, the joint-heirs, the fellow-judges, and governors, and possessors of the kingdom.

'Such, in few words, is the form of doctrine concerning the second advent of our blessed Lord, which was made known to me in the much study of the Holy Scriptures; and which, after several months of secret meditation, I began last Christmas, with all discretion and with fear and trembling, to break up and deal out to the church which God hath committed to my charge, resting and grounding the substance of it all upon the very words of our Lord himself, and using the Old Testament only when the language manifestly carried me thither, and the other books of the New Testament for further exposition and unfolding of those seeds of truth which are all contained in our Lord's own recorded discourses. For I hold it to be a great principle, which may almost be laid down as a canon of exposition, that every fundamental truth of faith should be shown to be present under some form or other, in every part, or rather I should say in every period, of divine revelation, unfolding itself more and more onwards to the end.'

We cannot afford space for a more enlarged view of this new scheme. The above are extracts from the Preliminary Discourse of this popular commentator, prefixed to his Translation of a Spanish work entitled La Venida del Mesias en Gloria y Majestad, 1827.

MILLE PASSUS, or MILLIA PASSUUM, a very common expression among the ancient Romans for a measure of distance, commonly called a mile. Milliarium was rarely used. Heyschius made it to consist of seven stadia; Plutarch little short of eight; but Strabo, Polybius, and many others, make it just eight stadia. This distance is sometimes called lapis. Each passus consisted of five feet.

MILLEP'EDES, n. s. Fr. mille-pieds; Lat. mille and pes, foot. A species of wood-lice, well furnished with feet, as well as teeth.

If pheasants and partridges are sick, give them millepedes and earwigs, which will cure them.

Mortimer's Husbandry. MILLEPES, or wood-louse, in entomology, a species of oniscus. These insects are found in cellars, under stones, and in cold moist places; in the warmer countries they are rarely met with. Millepedes have a faint disagreeable smell, and a somewhat pungent, sweetish, nauseous taste.

MILLEPORA, in natural history, a genus of lithophytes, of a hard structure and full of holes, which are not stellate or radiated, and whose animal is the hydra. It differs from the madrepora, and comprehends fourteen different species.

The animal, which forms and inhabits the millepora, occupies the substance; and the millepora grow upon one another; these little animals produce their spawn, which, attaching itself either to the extremity of the body already formed, or underneath it, gives a different form to this production. Hence the various shapes of the millepora, which is composed of an infinite number of the cells of those little insects, which all together exhibit different figures, though every particular cellula has its essential form, and the same dimensions, according to its own species.

MILLER (Joseph), a witty actor, whose name is identified with a low kind of wit whereever the English language is known, was born in London in 1684, and was a favorite low comedian. He performed Sir Joseph Wittol, in Congreve's Old Bachelor; and Ben in Love for Love. Another of his characters was Teague, in The Committee. He died August 15th, 1738, and was buried in the church-yard of St. Clements, where a stone (recently renewed) was placed to his memory, with an epitaph, written by Stephen Duck.' The jests which have immortalised his name were collected by John Mottley, author of the Life of Peter the Great, and other works. They had run through eleven editions in 1751, and were reprinted, after a lapse of thirty years, by Barker, of Russel Street. A copy of the original edition was lately valued at ten guineas.

MILLER (James), an English dramatic writer, born in Dorsetshire, in 1703. He studied at Oxford, entered into orders, and published, 1. The Humors of Oxford, a comedy; acted in 1729 2. Mahomet, a tragedy; which had a great run: 3. A volume of Sermons : 4. Poems, &c. He died in 1743.

MILLER (Philip), F. R.S., a celebrated botanist and gardener, born in Scotland, in 1691. He succeeded his father as gardener to the Apothecaries' Company at Chelsea, in 1722. He published several works, the principal of which is his Gardener's Dictionary, in folio. He died in 1771.

MILLER (Edward), music doctor, was of humble parentage and born at Norwich in 1736. Eloping from his father, he went to Lynn, where Dr. Burney first discovered his genius for music. He obtained in 1756 the appointment of organist at Doncaster, and after continuing in this situation thirty years took his doctor's degree at Cambridge. To his skill on the organ, he added that of an excellent flute player, and performed upon this instrument in Handel's oratorios. Dr. Miller was the author of The elements of Thorough Bass and Composition; The Institutes of Music; and of a topographical work of merit on the History and Antiquities of Doncaster. He also arranged and published a set of new melodies for the Psalms. His death took place at Cambridge in 1807.

MILLERIA, a genus of the polygamia necessaria order, and syngenesia class of plants; natural order, forty-ninth, compositæ.

MILLES (Jeremiah), F. R.S., a learned antiquary and divine, born in Hampshire, in 1713, and educated at Eton and Baliol Colleges, Oxford; of which his father, Jeremiah, was tutor and

fellow. He took his degree of A. M. in 1735, and of D.D. in 1747. His uncle, Thomas Milles, bishop of Waterford, gave him a prebend, and left him a large fortune in 1740. He married a daughter of archbishop Potter, through whom he obtained various preferments in England, the last of which was the deanery of Exeter, in 1762. In 1759 he was elected president of the Antiquarian Sociey. He published an elegant edition of Rowley's Poems, with a glossary; but was treated with great asperity by his opponents in that controversy. He also published a sermon, several papers in the Archeologia, and

left many curious MSS. on Doomsday Book, on the Danish coinage, and ample materials for a history of Devonshire. He died at London, February 13th, 1784, aged seventy-one, leaving three sons and two daughters.

MILLESIMO, a town of France, in the department of the Stura, and late duchy of Montserrat, ten miles east of Ceva. On the 11th of April, 1796, the defiles leading to it were forced by the French under Buonaparte and Augereau, and the Austrians under general Provera, defeated with the loss of 1500 grenadiers; and on the 16th a second battle took place, in which the Austrians were again defeated, about 1000 men killed, and general Provera obliged to surrender with 9000 men, thirty-two pieces of cannon, and fifteen pairs of colors.

MIL'LET, n. s. Fr. millet; Ital. milgio; Lat. milium. A plant, see MILIUM. Also misprinted for MULLET, a fish, which see.

Some fish are gutted, split, and kept in pickle; as whiting, mackerel, millet.

Carew.

In two ranks of cavities is placed a roundish stud, about the bigness of a grain of millet. Woodward on Fossils. Millet is diarrhoetick, cleansing, and useful in diseases of the kidneys. Arbuthnot on Aliments.

The millet hath a loose divided panicle, and each single flower hath a calyx, consisting of two leaves, which are instead of petals, to protect the stamina and pistillum of the flower which afterwards becomes an oval shining seed. This plant was originally brought from the eastern countries, where it is still greatly cultivated, from whence we are annually furnished with this grain, which is by many persons much esteemed for puddings. Miller.

MILLET, in botany. See MILIUM. MILLET GRASS. See PANICUM. MILLET, INDIAN. See HOLCUS. MILLETIERE (Theophilus Brachet), lord of, a Protestant French advocate of the seventeenth century, who studied the law at Heidelberg; afterwards studied Hebrew, became a divine, and obtained an office in the consistory of the church of Paris. Being elected a representative of the assembly of Rochelle, he had a principal hand in their most spirited resolutions, and wrote a work encouraging the reformers to take up arms; upon which he was imprisoned and put to the torture. Yet, after all this, being liberated, he turned Roman Catholic, in 1645, and wrote several tracts for the purpose of reconciling the Huguenots to the mother-church, which only procured him the ill will of both parties. He died in 1665.

MILLIARIUM AUREUM was a gilded pillat in the forum of Rome, at which all the highways

of Italy met, as one common centre. From this pillar the miles were counted, and at the end o every mile a stone was put down. The miliary column was erected by Augustus Cæsar, and is still to be seen.

MILLINER, n. s. I believe from Milaner, an inhabitant of Milan, as a Lombard is a banker.-Johnson. But there is a Goth. and Swed. milla and molla, to divide, and also to deal. One who sells ribands and dresses for women. He was perfumed like a milliner ; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet box, which ever and anon He gave his nose.

Shakspeare. Henry IV. publick spirit. The mercers and milliners complain of her want of Tatler.

If any one asks Flavia to do something in charity, she will toss him half a crown, or a crown, and tell him, if he knew what a long milliner's bill she had just received, he would think it a great deal for her to give.

Law.

MILLO, a part of mount Zion at its extremity; and therefore called Millo of the city of David (2 Chron. xxxii.), taken in with the wall that encompassed mount Zion. It is uncertain whether Beth-Millo (Judges ix. 20) denotes a place; if it did, it lay near Shechem.

MILLOT (Claude Francis Xavier), a member of the French academy, born at Besançon, in March 1726, and for some time a Jesuit. He continued to preach after he left the Society: but the weakness of his voice and his timidity, not permitting him to continue in this profession, he relinquished it. The marquis of Felino, minister of Parma, having instituted an historical class for the benefit of the young nobility, he gave the charge of it to abbé Millot. After having filled the historical chair, with great approbation, he returned to France, and was appointed preceptor to the duke of Enghien. In this situation he died, A. D. 1785, aged fifty-nine. He composed several works, which are digested with great care, and written in a pure, simple, and natural style. The principal are, 1. Elemens de l'Histoire de France, depuis Clovis jusque a Louis XIV. 3 vols. 12mo, 2. Elemens de l'Histoire d'Angleterre, depuis son origine sous les

Romains, jusqu'à George II.; 3 vols. 12mo. 3. Elemens de l'Histoire Universelle, 9 vols. 12mo. 4. L'Histoire des Troubadours, 3 vols. 12mo, compiled from the MSS. of M. de Sainte-Palaie. 5. Memoires Politiques et Militaires, pour servir à l'Histoire de Louis XIV, et de Louis XV., composed from original papers collected by Adrian Maurice, duke of Noailles, marshal of France, in 6 vols. 12mo. 6. Several Discourses on Philosophical Questions; and 7. Translations of the most Select Harangues in the Latin Historians. MILMAN (Sir Francis), M. D., baronet, was the son of a clergyman of Devonshire, where he was born in 1746. After receiving a grammatical education with a view to the church he entered of Exeter College, Oxford, where, in 1767, he took the degree of M. A., but directed his attention to physic: in 1770 he proceeded to the degree of bachelor in that faculty. In 1776 he completed his graduation as a doctor, and now entered into orders, actually taking his degree of B. D. in 1778. Returning to the practice of physic, he travelled on Dr. Radcliff's foundation, and attended the duke of Gloucester at Rome. This circumstance fixed his professional pursuits; on his return to England, he became a member of the Royal Society, and a fellow of the College of Physicians, by whom, in 1780, he was appointed to deliver the Gulstonian lecture. After this he was nominated physician to the king and the royal household; which procured his elevation to the baronetage. He died June 24th 1821. Sir Francis was the author of Animadversiones de Natura Hydropis ejusque curatione, 8vo. 1779; and A Treatise on the Source of the Scurvy and Putrid Fever, 8vo.

1782.

MILNE (Colin), LL. D., a divine and botanist, was born at Aberdeen, and educated at the Marischal College there, under his uncle, Dr. Campbell. Thence he removed to Edinburgh; after which, becoming tutor to lord Algernon Percy, he took orders in the church of England, and was presented to the rectory of North Chapel, Essex. He was also chosen lecturer of Deptford, and obtained the degree of doctor of laws from Aberdeen. He died in 1815. He published 1. A Botanical Dictionary, 8vo. 2. Linnæi Institutiones Botannicæ, 4to. 3. Indigenous Botany, or the Habitats of English Plants. 4. A volume of sermons, 8vo.

MILNER (Joseph), a modern divine, and ecclesiastical historian, was the son of a poor weaver at Leeds, and born there in 1744. He was educated at the free grammar-school, and at Catherine Hall, Cambridge, where he took his bachelor's degree in 1766, and obtained one of the chancellor's medals. Entering into orders he became master of the grammar-school, and afternoon lecturer, at Hull. He was afterwards presented to the vicarage of North Ferriby; and latterly to that of the Holy Trinity church in Hull. He died November 15th, 1797. His works are, 1. The Life of William Howard. 2. Answer to Gibbon's Attack on Christianity. 3. Essays on the Influence of the Holy Spirit. 4. A History of the Church of Christ, 4 vols. 8vo. 5. Two volumes of sermons, with his life prefixed.

MILNER (Isaac), D. D., younger brother of the VOL. XIV.

preceding, was actually brought up to the weaving business; but, while at the loom, was so intent on study, and so devoted to the classics and mathematics, that his brother took him for an assistant in the grammar-school, and afterwards sent him to Queen's College, Cambridge, where, in 1774, he was senior wrangler, and gained the first mathematical prize. He soon became a tutor in that science; and, among other pupils, had Mr. Wilberforce and Mr. Pitt, with whom he made a tour on the continent. In 1783 he was appointed professor of natural philosophy; and in 1788 elected master of his college. The same year he was made dean of Carlisle; in 1792 he served the office of vicechancellor; and in 1798 succeeded Waring as Lucasian professor of mathematics. He died in 1820. His publications are, 1. Animadversions on Hawker's Church History. 2. A Continuation of his brother's Ecclesiastical History. 3. Strictures on the Publications of Dr. Marsh, respecting the Bible Society. 4. Life of Mr. Joseph Milner, prefixed to his sermons.

MILO, the son of Diotimus, a celebrated athlete of Crotona in Italy. He early accustomed himself to carry the greatest burdens, and by degrees became a prodigy of strength. It is said that he carried on his shoulders a young bullock, four years old, for above forty yards; afterwards killed it with one blow of his fist, and ate it up in one day. He was seven times crowned at the Pythian games and six at the Olympian. He presented himself a seventh time; but no one had the courage or boldness to enter the lists against him. He was a disciple of Pythagoras; and to his uncommon strength, it is said, the learned preceptor and his pupils owed their lives. The pillar which supported the roof of the school suddenly gave way, but Milo supported the whole weight of the building, and gave the philosopher and his auditors time to escape. In his old age, Milo attempted to split a growing tree, and partly effected it; but his strength being gradually exhausted, the tree, when half cleft, reunited, and his hands remained pinched in the body of the tree. He was then alone; and, being unable to disentangle himself, he was devoured by wild beasts, about A. A. C. 500.

MILO (T. Annius), a native of Lanuvium, whe attempted to obtain the consulship at Rome. Clodius the tribune opposed his views, yet Milo would have succeeded had not an unfortunate circumstance taken place between his suite and that of Clodius as he was going to the country. Clodius and eleven of his servants were killed, and the body of the murdered tribune was carried to Rome and exposed to public view. Cicero, as is well known to every classical student, undertook the defence of Milo, but with no effect; he was condemned and banished to Massalia.

MILO, an island in the Archipelago, anciently called Melos, about sixty miles in circumference, with a harbour, which is one of the largest in the Mediterranean. This island was formerly rich and populous. From the earliest times of antiquity it enjoyed liberty; but, the Melians having refused to join the Athenians in the Peloponnesian war, the latter made a descent upon the 2 S

island, and, although in two different expeditions they failed of their purpose, they accomplished it in the third, and killed or carried captive all the inhabitants. See MELOS. This act of cruelty disgraces the Athenian name. But Lysander, the Lacedemonian general, expelled the Athenian colony and re-established the remains of its original inhabitants. Melos afterwards lost its liberty when the Romans conquered all the isles of the Archipelago. In the partition of the empire, it fell to the eastern emperors, was governed by dukes, and was at last conquered by Soliman II. Since that period it has groaned under the yoke of Turkish despotism, and has lost its opulence and splendor. At the commencement of the eighteenth century it had seventeen churches, eleven chapels, and above 20,000 inhabitants. It was very fertile in corn, wine, and fruits; and the whole space from the town to the harbour, which is nearly two miles, was laid out in beautiful gardens. M. Tournefort, who visited it in 1700, gives the following fine description of it. The earth, being constantly warmed by subterraneous fires, produced almost without interruption plentiful crops of corn, barley, cotton, vines, and melons. St. Elias, the finest monastery in the island, and on the most elevated spot, is encircled with orange, citron, cedar, and fig trees. Its gardens are watered by a copious spring. Olive trees grow in great abundance around it. The vineyards afford excellent wine. In a word, all the productions of the island are the very best of their kinds; its partridges, quails, kids, and lambs, are highly valued, and yet may be bought at a very cheap price.' But M. Savary says, in his forty-second Letter on Greece, that were M. Tournefort to return to Milo, he would no longer see the fine island which he has described. He might still see alum, in the form of feathers, and fringed with silver thread, hanging from the arches of the caverns; pieces of pure sulphur filling the cliffs of the rocks; a variety of mineral springs; hot baths, though these are now only a set of small dirty caves; the same subterraneous fires which in his days warmed the bosorn of the earth, and were the cause of its extraordinary fertility but instead of 5000 Greeks, paying the capitation tax, he would now find no more than about 700 inhabitants on an island eighteen leagues in circumference. He would sigh to behold the finest lands lying uncultivated, and the most fertile valleys converted into morasses; of the gardens scarcely a vestige left; three-fourths of the town in ruins, and the inhabitants daily decreasing. During the last fifty years, Milo has assumed a quite different appearance. The plague, which the Turks propagate every where, nas cut off one part of its inhabitants; the injudicious administration of the Porte, and the oppressive extortions of the pacha, have destroyed the rest. For want of hands, they cannot cut out a free channel for their waters, which stagnate in the valleys, corrupt, and infect the air with their putrid exhalations. The salt marshes, being equally neglected, produce the same effects. Sulphureous exhalations arise all over the island, by which the inhabitants of Milo are afflicted with dangerous fevers during threefourths of the year. Yet a judicious and en

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lightened government might expel those evils. The whole inhabitants of this island are now be low 1000, of whom not the fifth part inhabit the petty village which is the chief place. Long, of the harbour of Milo, 24° 13′ 32′ E., lat. 36° 42′ 30′′ N.

MILT, n. s. & v. a. I Saxon mile Belgic MILTER, Smildt; Teut. miltz; Ital. millte. The spleen; the sperm of a male fish: to milt is to impregnate the roe or spawn of the female fish: milter is a name for the male.

You shall scarce take a carp without a melt, or a female without a roe or spawn. Walton's Angler. The spawner and milter labor to cover their spawn with sand.

Id.

MILT, or MELT, in natural history, the soft roe in fishes, thus called from its yielding, by expression, a whitish juice resembling milk.

MILTHORP, a town of Westmoreland, at the mouth of the Can, five miles from Kendal. It is the only sea-port in the county, and goods are brought hither in small vessels from Grange in Lancashire. Here are two paper-mills. I has a market on Friday, with a fair on old Mayday; and a good stone bridge over the river Betha, which runs through the town.

MILTIADES, an Athenian general, son of Cypselus. He obtained a victory in a chariotrace at the Olympic games. He led a colony of Athenians to the Chersonesus. The causes of this appointment are striking and singular. The Thracian Dolonci, harassed by a long war with the Absynthians, were directed by the oracle of Delphi to take for their king the first man they should meet in their return home, who should invite them to come under his roof, and partake his entertainments. They met Miltiades, whom their appearance, with their strange arms and garments, struck. He invited them to his house, and was made acquainted with the commands of the oracle. He obeyed; and, when the oracle of Delphi had approved a second time the choice of the Dolonci, he departed for the Chersonesus, and was invested by the inhabitants with sovereign power. The first measure he took was to stop the further incursions of the Absynthians by building a strong wall across the Isthmus. When he had established himself, and fortified his dominions, he turned his arms against Lampsacus. He was afterwards taken in an ambuscade, but Croesus, king of Lydia, procured his release. He lived a few years after he had recovered his liberty. As he had no issue he left his kingdom and possessions to Stesagoras, the son of Cimon, who was his brother by the same mother. The memory of Miltiades was greatly honored by the Dolouci; and they regularly celebrated festivals in commemoration of a man to whom they owed their preservation and greatness.

MILTIADES, the son of Cimon, and brother of Stesagoras above mentioned, was, some time after the death of the latter, who died without issue, seat by the Athenians, with one ship, to take possession of the Chersonesus. At his arrival Miltiades appeared mournful, as if lamenting the recent death of his brother. The principal inhabitants of the country visited the new governor to cobdole with him; but Miltiades abused their con