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Eatanswill Gazette, the persistent opponent of the Eatanswill Independent.—Dickens: Pickwick Papers (1836).

Eberson (Earl), the young son of William de la Marck “The Wild Boar of Ardennes.”—Sir W. Scott: Quentin Durward (time, Edward IV.).

Eblis, monarch of the spirits of evil. Once an angel of light, but, refusing to worship Adam, he lost his high estate. Before his fall he was called Azazel. The Koran says, “When We [God] said unto the angels, ‘Worship Adam,’ they all worshipped except Eblis, who refused…and became of the number of unbelievers” (ch. ii.).

His person was that of a young man, whose noble and regular features seemed to have been tarnished by malignant vapours. In his large eyes appeared both pride and despair. His flowing hair retained some resemblance to that of an angel of light. In his hand (which thunder had blasted) he swayed the iron sceptre that causes the afrits and all the powers of the abyss to tremble.—Beckford: Vathek (1784).

Ebon Spear (Knight of the), Britomart, daughter of king Ryence of Wales.—Spenser: Faërie Queene, iii. (1590).

Ebony, a punning appellation given by James Hogg to William Blackwood, publisher of Blackwood’s Magazine.

And I looked, and behold a man clothed in plain apparel stood in the door of his house; and I saw his name…and his name as it had been the colour of ebony.—J. Hogg: The Chaldee MS. (1817).

Ebrauc, son of Mempric (son of Guendolen and Madden) mythical king of England. He built Kaer-brauc [York], about the time that David reigned in Judæa.—Geoffrey: British History, ii. 7 (1142).

By Ebrauk’s powerful hand
York lifts her towers aloft.
   —Drayton: Polyolbion, viii. (1612).

Ebudæ, the Hebridês.

Ecce Homo, a theological work attributed to professor Seeley, the object being to show the humanity of Jesus (1865).

Ecclesiastes (The Book of), one of the poetical books of the Old Testament, the object of which is to show that only holiness and submission to the will of God will secure happiness.

Wisdom and pleasure will not ensure happiness (chs. i., ii.); nor will industry and the performance of one’s duties (chs. iii., iv.); nor yet riches and prosperity (chs. v., vi.).

Ecclesiastical History (The Father of), Eusebius of Cæsarea (264–340).

His Historia Ecclesiastica, in ten books, begins with the birth of Christ and concludes with the defeat of Licinius by Constantine, A.D. 324.

Ecclesiastical Politie (The Laws of), by Richard Hooper, in four books (1594). Four other books were subsequently added.

Ecclesiasticus, one of the books of the “Apocrypha.”

Echephron, an old soldier, who rebuked the advisers of king Picrochole , by relating to them the fable of The Man and his Hap’orth of Milk, The fable is as follows:-

A shoemaker bought a ha’p’orth of milk; with this he was going to make butter; the butter was to buy a cow; the cow was to have a calf; the calf was to be changed for a colt; and the man was to become a