None of the above explanations of the difficult term in question appear satisfactory. Those that proceed upon the supposition that the substance designated was not intended as an article of food, give us only other purposes which are too petty to deserve such emphatic notice as marks of famine in a siege, and the rest fi&il to identify any substance with the terms employed. Nevertheless, having seen that the name " pigeons' dung** has been, and probably still is, ap- plied by the Arabs to different vegetable substances, we are not disposed to adopt the literal meaning of the term, since doves* dung, being devoid of nutriment, was not likely to have served as food, even during the famine, especially as we find that an ass's head was sold for sixty pieces of silver. Now, if any asses re- mained for sale, or ass-loads of com, as the expression has been interpreted, there is no reason for supposing that other substances may not have remained stored up in secret for those who had money to buy. But it is not easy to say what vegetable substance, serving as an article of diet, is alluded to by the name of " doves' dung." We must therefore rest, for the pres- ent, with the conclusion that it was a preparation from some plant, which, as being popularly losown by this repulsive name, was not ordinarily resorted to for food, and of which, therefore, there has been no occasion elsewhere to make mention. Future naturalists may hereafter succeed in determining the point more defi- nitely. Or it may be true that several species of |
igUMted by this and similar terms, as t^ duced above seem to show ; and analogs iaa| the popular nomenclature of roodeni udosip^ justify this assumption (see Thomson, XfOitfarfM ii,200).
Dove, John, commonly called *^the fieher^ or," on account of his trade, was datingii^ii Hutchinsonian. He possessed a good kaovfa^tf the Hebrew language, and was eoiuideiedaBatf learning, but intemperate in his l«yi>p q, ^ in 1772. His principal works are, TV /lyataaif Rabbinical Learning^ etc. (Anon.) (Lond. 174$,!^:- A Creed fcmdtd on Truth and C(mmm8mt,f$t.\\M^ don, 1750, 8vo) :^A% Essay on InspMm (iMLT3i Svo):— Plain Trutk; or^ Qmktrism mmakd[\a^ 1756, 8vo) I— A Dissertation ttpon At gi^pmiEsa^ of a Moral Law of Nature, ami h^m tht Bemg ifs Tn. une God (Lond. 1757, 8vo) '.—MiseeBoMem DimiAm on Marriage, CeHbacg, Covetoitsnem,VirtK,«k.iJjaL 1769, 8 vo).— Darling, Cyclop. JB^^ft^rapfttea^ir.
Dow, Daniel, D.D., a Coogregatiottl m^sB. was bom in Ashford, Conn., Feb. 19, ITTl He gn» ated at Yale in 1793; entered the inimatiylbT,!:)^ and was installed pastor at ThompMm,A|irilil.l^l where he labored until his death, Jol? 19, IMi h was chosen fellow of Tale in 1824, and was made DD by Williams' College in 1840. Among his pattaos were Familiar Letters to Hev, John SkemoM i}^)^:- The Pedo-Baptisi Catechism (1807) :— i Ditta*ala a the Sinaitic and Abrahamic Covaumtt {I911):-0m. Election Sermon (1825) :— /Vve InjiAy ncommdii a the Subject of Freemasonry (1829).--Spng«,ijuL ii,869.
Dow, John G., a Methodist EiHscopal vse^ was bom at Gilmanton, N. H., June 15, 1785; efi2& the New England Conference in 1822; m 1KS3t« made presiding elder ; in 1839 was agent of 5«vkrT Seminary; was superannuated m 1857; aad £^£ Chelsea, Mass., May 18, 1858, havmg preacbed tlitrp six years. Mr. Dow was " an excellent maa and r^ ister, sound in doctrine, deep in experience, sxA b^o in piety. Hb preaching was full of tboudit ni n demonstration of the Spirit.**— i/iiwrte* ofCv^tKO. 1859, p. 141.
Do'W, Lorenzo, an eccentric AmoieiBpreKfe was bom in Coventry, Conn., Oct 18, 1777. He ^ gan travelling and preaching in the MeUwdut EfK*- pal Church ui 1798, and in 1799 he was appoiatedii Essex Curcuit, but soon departed for Eorope, w^^ impression that he had a special misiiQB to hdtfi He was ** dropped'* by the Conference, and ew ia» continued to travel and preach indejNiideatiT. al- though still adhering to Methodist doctrimc fiei^ at the rate of forty to fifty miles a day, aadprw^ often four or five times daily. In his seniMW b< F<^ ticularly " argued against Atheism, Deism, Uaitoa^ ism, and Calvinism." His final efforts inw &«&i against the Jesuits, whose influence he tboogbt nsU be &tal to the country. He died soddenly st Vfi^ mgton, Feb. 2d, 1884. Dow figured conadenblT ij i writer. Among his pubUcations are, A AaH AasM of a long Travel; vith Beauties of IFe»£9 (PhOil^ Svo) i—ffistory of a Cosmcpolite; orrts Frni%»# Rer, Lorenzo Dow, containing his Expenatt ni Ti* els in Europe and America up to near MsffiA rer* also his Polemic Writings" (often reprinted; Uteft,Oa- cinnati, 1851, 1856, 8vo) i—The Stranger k CMitn, or the Trial and Confession ofLorenao Don (FbOs. 1& 8vo) '.^Polemical Worb (N. Y. 1814, ItooX e«c ^ Peck, Earfy Methodism (New York, 1860, 12iDO,p.l9t^ Dealings of God, Man, and the Devil, contaiDiBg Dov^ Life and Miscellaneous Writings (N. Y. 1854,2 wia 1, 8vo); Stevens, ffistory of the Methoditt J^uefi CAtcrcA, iii and iv.
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3x^dall, Geoboe, archbishop of Armagh, a na- >f Lo-wrth, was appointed to the see of Armagh in by Henry VIII. The pope refused to con Arm Qomination, but Dowdall, nevertheless, retained Be. He was a sealoos papist, and introduced the its into Ireland. He resisted the introduction of •InKlisb Prayer-book in 1661, and the viceroy (Sir is Crafts) summoned him to a confierence with the >p of Meath. Their curious colloquy on points of , is ^ven in Hook, Ecckt, Biograpl^^ iv, 498 sq. dall was deprived of his primacy, which was given rowne, archbishop of Dublin (q. v.). He fled to Continent, but was restored to his see by queen y in 1553, and labored earnestly to re-establish try. He died in London in 1568. — Mant, Uutory hr. Chutch of Ireland, ' Hook, Eccks. Biogrcq>hy, 1. Rose, I^ew JBiog, Did. s. v.