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took refuge in England from her subjects in 1568, and was keptin confinement till 1586, when she was basely tried and executed.Elizabeth endeavoured to clear herself of the odium of tiiis trans-action, by causing her secretary, Davison, to be prosecuted forissuing a warrant for the execution without her knowledge. TheFrench and Spaniards having formed a league for the extirpationof heresy, induced Elizabeth to protect the Protestants , and thisshe did so effectually as to separate the United Provinces fromthe dominion of the latter power. The king of Spain , in return,sent a body of troops to invade Ireland , but they were all cut offbv lord Grey, the deputy. In the mean time various offers ofmarriage were made to the queen, the most remarkable of w hichwas that of the duke of Anjou, who came to England f or the pur-pose, but after staying some lime, the aliair was broken oil'. Jtt1588 Pi,dip sent against England his famous armada, to which thepope gave the appellation of invincible. On this occasion thequeen distinguished herself by her great presence of mind, and in-flexible courage. She rode on horseback in the camp at Tilbury,and inspired Iter people w ith heroism by her deportment and herspeeches. The English fleet, however, assisted by the winds, pre-vented the Spaniards from landing, and their boasted armada wasdestroyed. On the death of Leicester, Robert Devereux, earl ofEssex, became the queen’s favourite, who was, however, executedfor treason in 1601. Her attention to government, did not sus-pend her pursuit of learning. Ascham, in his Schoolmaster, tellsus, that about 1563, five years alter her accession, she being thenat Windsor, besides iter perfect readiness in Latin, Italian, French ,and Spanish , she read more Greek in one day than some preben-daries of that church read Latin in a whole week. She employedSir John Fortescue to read to her Thucydides, Xenophon, Poly-bius, Euripides, Aeschines, and Sophocles . She was also skilledin the art of poetry, as appears from the several scraps which havebeen preserved, from the testimony of Puttenham, a contemporarywriter. Mr. Walpole mentions as an instance of her genius, andknowledge of Latin , her extempore reply to an insolent prohibi-tion delivered to her from Philip II. by his ambassador, in this te-trastic:

Te veto ne pergas hello defendere Belgas:

Qua: Dracus eripuit, mine restituantur oportet:

Quas pater evertit, jubeo te condere eellas:

Relight papa: fac restituatur ad unguent.

" She instantly answered him, with as much spirit as she used toreturn his invasions,” ,

Ad Gratcas, bone rex, fient mnndala kalendas.

Being pressed by a Romish priest, during her persecution, to de-clare her opinion concerning the real presence of Christ’s body inthe water, she answered,

ChriA was the Word that spake it;

He took the bread, and brake it;

And what that Word did make it,

’['hat 1 believe, and take it.

Fuller.

She died at Richmond, the 24th March .1603, aged 70, havingreigned 44 years; and was interred in the chapel of Henry VII. in Westminster Abbey . Her successor James erected a magnifi-cent monument to her memory. Several of her letters, prayers,translations, &c. written with her own hand, are extant.

Elizabeth, empress of Russia, daughter of Peter the Great ,(whence Iter patronymic title of Petrowna,) distinguished .herselfby her signal clemency. Site made a vow, that no person shouldRe put to death in her reign, and she strictly observed it. Theexample was followed, and confirmed by law, under the late Ca-tharine IE Elizabeth died in 1/62, in the 21st year of her reign,atM 52d of her age. '

Elizabeth Islands, 16 small islands of Massachusetts hay, onthe S. E. side ot Buzzard’s llav, extending S. W. from Rarnstablecounty, and hearing X. W. from Martha’s vineyard. Cattahunk,Nashawn, Nashawenna, Pasqui,’ and l’inequese, are the chief ofthem. 1 hey are situated between Lon. 70. 38. and 70. 56. W,and between" Eat. 41. 24. and 41. 32. h".

Ei.izAiiKTH-TowN, a post-town of N. Carolina, capital of Bla-den countv, 47 miles N, W. of W ilmingion.

Elizaiietii-town, a town of New Jersey , in Essex couuty, 6miles S. ot Newark, and 15 S. W. by W. of New York .

Elizabktm-town, a post town of Man land, capital of Wash-

ington county, formerly called Ilagar’s town, seated in the. vale ofConccocheaque, 6 miles from the Potomac . •

ELK, in zoology. See Cervus.

Elk, a navigable l iver of the United States in Mara land.

KLKIIOLM, a sea-port of Sweden , in Bkking, on the Baltic,

24 miles W. of Carlscroon.

ELKIUDGE, a town of Maryland, 8 miles S. W. of Baltimore ,and 19 N. W. of Annapolis .

ELKTON, a town of Maryland, in Cecil county , 47 milesS. W. of Philadelphia .

ELI-,, [eln, Sax.] a measure containing 45 inches, or a yardand a quarter.

Ell, is a measure, which obtains, under different denomina-tions, in most countries, whereby cloths, stuffs, linens, silks, &c.are usually measured; answering nearly to. the yard of England,the canna of Italy, the vara of Spain, the palm ot Sicily , ike. Theells most frequently used with us are the Engbsh and Flemish;the former containing three feet nine inches, or one yard and aquarter; the latter only 27 inches, or three quarters of a yard.The ell in Scotland contains 374 English inches.

ELLERENA, or El.Eli UNA, a town of Spain , in Estre-madura, 55 miles N. of Seville .

ELLESDON, a town of Northumberland, 28 miles N.W. ofNewca-’tle. Lon. 1. 49. W. Lat. 55. 20. N.

ELLESMERE, a town and fertile district, in Shropshire , 16miles N T . N. W. of Shrewsbury.

El.LiCHPOUU, a city of Ilindostan, and capital of a circa*of the same name, in the county of Bcrar, 144 miles N. E. ofAurungabad.

ELLIPSIS, [from‘XXo+rf, of iM.umi, / want,'] in geometry, afigure produced from the section of a cone. The reason of thename is this: let B A, ED, he any two conjugate diameters ofan ellipsis, (tig. 16. Plate J, IV, where they are the two axes,) attlieend A, of the diameter All, raise the perpendicular A F, equal tothe latus rectum, or parameter, being a third proportional to A B,E D, and draw the right line U F ; then if any point P he takenin B A, and an ordinate P M be drawn, cutting P> F in X, therectangle under the absciss A P, and the line P N will be equal tothe square of the ordinate PM. Hence drawing N O parallel toA B, it appears that this rectangle, or the square of the ordinate, *>less t!;an that under the absciss A P, and the parameter A F, bythe rectangle under A P and O F, or N O and O F; on accountof which deficiency, Apollonius first gave this curve the name ofan ellipsis, from em's/tt/iy, to he deficient.

Ellipsis, in grammar, a figure of syntax, wherein one or morewords are not expressed ; and trom this deficiency it has got thename ellipsis.

Ellipsis, [eXx^L?,] in rhetoric, a figure nearly' allied to pretc-rilicn, when the orator, through transport of passion, passes overmany things: which had he been cool, ought to have been men-tioned. In preterition, the omission is designed; which, in theellipsis, is. owing to the vehemence of the speaker’s passion, andhis longue not being able to keep pace with the emotion of hismind.

ELLIPTIC, or ELLIPTICAL, something belonging to atiellipsis. 'l ints we meet with elliptical compasses, elliptic conoid,elliptic space, elliptic stairs, & The ellijjtic space is the areacontained within the curve of tiie ellipsis, which is to that of a cir-cle described on the transverse axis, as the conjugate diameter isto the transverse axis; or it is a mean proportional between twocircles, described on the conjugate and transverse axis.

ELLIPTOIDES, in geometry, a name used by some to de-

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note infinite ellipses, defined by the equation ay — bxn.

(a — x ) Of these there are several sorts: thus, if ai/ 3 —bx i(a — x) it is a cubical elliptoid; and if ay' = bx~(a — trj-, it de-notes a biquadratic elliptoid, which is an ellipsis of the third orderin respect of the Apollonian ellipsis.

ELLISIA, a genus of the monogynia order, and pentandriaclass of plants; natural order, Lurida-. Corolla monopetalous,funnel-shaped; berry carnous, bilocular; seeds two, muricated orset with small raised points, the one higher than the other: Onespecies, a native of Virginia .

ELM, [ uhnus ,] in botany. See Ulmus . The elm is very

serviceable