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Modern Art Nded: Parliament raised an army d civil war broke out. Charles scored many victories at first, it in 1644 the Parliamentarians - called undheads from their close-cropped hair -ined the upper hand over the Royalists, own as Cavaliers from their superiority cavalry. Two final defeats in 1645 led larles to surrender to the Scots, who nded him over to his enemies. In 1649 he s tried for treason, condemned and bended. From then on the army rather than rliament assumed control, under a leading icral, Oliver Cromwell.
The first was an outbreak of bubonic ,gue, the last and worst of a series which i started in the 1300s. The Great Plague, it was called, began late in 1664, and raged over a year; more than 75,000 people :d and many fled to the country. Hardly had the disease died down than a : broke out in a bakery near London idge.
The final consonants -b, -d, -g, and -r were dropped, and final semivowels appeared, to form diphthongs with the main vowel. The number of tones increased to four. In the majority of the modern art nded Chinese dialects there are usually only two grades of consonants (p and p') and, as we have noted, three consonant endings (-n, -ng, and a modern art nded -r). The four tones of modern art nded Chinese differ from "those of ancient Chinese in that the old first tone has been subdivided into the modern art nded first and second tones and the old fourth-tone words have been distributed among the other modern art nded tones.
RAMBOUILLET. raii-boo-ya, Catherine >E VIVONNE), MARQUISE DE, French social ader: b. Rome, 1S88; d. Paris, 2 Dec. 1665. IB is worthy of remark as the founder of the otel de Rambouillet, whose hospitality was ex-nded to the learning and wit of Paris, and hich became a literary and political centre. lis salon was developed in opposition to the ench court circle, whose vulgar and bar-rous manners and speech it strove to offset elegance and refinement in both, and it soon came the rendezvous of celebrity and wit. mong the critics, poets and scholars who re-rted thither were Malherbe, Corneille, lapalain, Scarron, Saint-Evremond, La Roche-ucauld, Mme. de SevieTtie. |
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