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Las casas
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LAS CASAS, Babtolomé de (1474-1566), for some time bishop of Chiapa in Mexico, and known to posterity as “The Apostle of the Indies,” was a native of Seville, where he was born in 1474. His father, one of the companions of Columbus in the voyage which resulted in the discovery of the New World, was rich enough to be able to send him to Salamanca, where he graduated. In 1498 he accompanied his father in an expedition under Columbus to the West Indies, from which he returned in 1500; and in 1502 he went with Nicolas de Ovando, the governor, to Hayti, where eight years afterwards he was admitted to priestly orders, being the first person to receive that consecration in the colonies. In 1511, the conquest of Cuba having been resolved on, he passed over to that island to take part in the work of “population and pacification,” and in 1513 or 1514 he witnessed and vainly endeavoured to check the fearful massacre of Indians at Caonao. Soon afterwards there was assigned to him and his friend Renteria a large village in the neighbourhood of Xagua, with a number of Indians attached to it in what was known as “repartimiento” (allotment), and like the rest of his countrymen he sought to make the most of this opportunity for growing rich, but at the same time he occasionally celebrated ma?s and preached. Soon, however, having become deeply convinced of the injustice and other moral evils connected with the repartimiento system, he began to preach against it, at the same time giving up his own slaves. With the consent of his partner he resolved to go to Spain in the cause of the oppressed natives, and the result of his representations was that in 1616 Cardinal Jimenez caused a commission of three Hieronymites to be sent out for the reform of abuses, Las Casas himself, ...with the title of “protector of the Indians” being appointed, with a salary, to advise and inform them. This commission had not been long at San Domingo, however, before Las Casas became painfully aware of the indifference of his coadjutors to the cause which he himself had so closely at heart, and July 1517 found him again in Spain, where he developed his scheme for the complete liberation of the Indians,—a scheme which not only included facilities for emigration from Spain, but was intended to give to each Spanish resident in the colonies the right of importing twelve negro slaves. The emigration movement proved a failure, and Las Casas lived long enough to express his sorrow and shame for having been so slow to perceive that the Africans were as much entitled to the rights of man as were the natives of the New World. Overwhelmed with disappointment, he retired to the Dominican monastery in Hayti, where he joined the order in 1522, and devoted eight years of extreme seclusion to the acquisition of that store of classical and scholastic learning which appears so curiously in all his writings. About 1530 he appears to have revisited the Spanish court, but on what precise errand or with what result is not known; the vagueness and confusion of the records of this period of his life extends to the time when, after visits to Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Guatemala, in the cause of religion and of his order, he undertook an expedition in 1537 into Tuzulutlan or the Tierra de Guerra (“Land of War”), the inhabitants of •which were, chiefly through his tact and skill, peaceably converted to Christianity, mass being celebrated for the first time amongst them in the newly founded town of Rabinal in 1538. In 1539 Las Casas was sent to Spain to obtain Dominican recruits, and through Loaysa, general of the order, and confessor of Charles V., he was successful in obtaining many royal orders and letters which were supposed to be favourable to his enterprise, among others that which prohibited for the time being the entrance of any lay Spaniard into Tuzulutlan. During this stay in Europe, which lasted more than four years, he more than once visited Germany to see Charles, whom the business of the empire was detaining there; he also (1542) wrote his Veynte Iiazones (“Twenty Reasons ”) in defence of the liberties of the Indians and the Brevisima lielacion de la Destruycioη des las Indias, the latter of which was published some twelve years later, and has since been translated into several European languages. In 1543 he refused the Mexican bishopric of Cuzco, but was prevailed upon to accept that of Chiapa, for which he sailed in 1544. Thwarted at every point by the officials, and outraged with passionate hatred by his countrymen in his attempt to carry out the “new laws” which his humanity had procured (see the “Remedios que refirio” in the Seville edition of his Obras, 1552), he returned to Spain and resigned his dignity three years afterwards (1547). In 1550 he met Sepulveda in public debate on the theses drawn from the recently published Apologia pro Libro de Justis Belli Causis, in which the latter had maintained the lawfulness of waging unprovoked war upon the natives of the New World. The course of the discussion may still be traced in the account of the “Disputa” contained in the t‰∙αs(1552). In 1555 Las Casas successfully remonstrated with Philip II. against the financial project for selling the reversion of the “encomiendas,”—a project which would have involved the Indians in hopeless bondage. In July of the following year he died at Madrid, whither he had gone to urge (and with success) the necessity of restoring a court of justice which had been repressed in Guatemala.
A Histοriα de las Iηdias was left by Las Casas to the convent of San Gregorio at Valladolid, with directions that it should not be printed for forty years. Herrera, however, was permitted to consult it for his Historia General (1601). It afterwards lay neglected until the Royal Academy of History took it up with an intention of publishing it. That intention was afterwards abandoned; Prescott, who appears to have seen the MS., hopes that it may yet be given to the world. Sketches of the life of Las Casas have been given by Llorente and by Quintana. The English reader will find adequate notices in the appendix to bk. ii., chap, viii., of Prescott’s Conquest of Mexico, and in the copious monograph of Sir Arthur Helps (Life of Las Casas, 1868).
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Lascar
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LASCAR, an Anglo-Persian term (from lashkar, an army), which formerly meant a non-combatant, or public follower of the ordnance department. Later on it came to mean any supernumeraries, and especially the native sailors engaged to supplement the crews of European vessels in the Eastern waters. The term is at present applied generally to the seafaring populations of the Indian seaboard manning British vessels sailing between England and the East. The Peninsular and Oriental and other large steamship companies now employ the lascars almost exclusively, preferring them to European crews on account of their greater docility, temperance, and obedience to orders. Nearly all are Mohammedans, and, besides their several native tongues, speak among themselves a sort of lingua franca based on Hindustani, with a considerable admixture of English, Arabic, and other elements. The word lascar is still applied somewhat in its former sense to tentpitchers, inferior artillerymen, coolies, or sutlers.
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Lascaris
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LASCARIS, Constantine (? -1493), an eminent Greek scholar, was a member of the family which in the 13th century had furnished three emperors of Nicaea, and was born at Constantinople, but in what year is unknown. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, he took refuge in Italy, where Francesco Sforza, duke of Milan, appointed him Greek tutor to his daughter Hippolyta, afterwards married to Alphonso, king of Naples. It was at Milan that Zarot published in 1476 the Grammatica Graeca, sive Compendium octo Orationis Partium, of Lascaris, remarkable as being the first book entirely in that language issued from the printing press. After leaving Milan, Lascaris taught for some time in Rome and in Naples, but ultimately, on the invitation of the inhabitants, settled in Messina, where he continued to teach publicly until his death in 1493. Among his numerous pupils here was the celebrated Pietro Bembo. Lascaris bequeathed his library of valuable MSS. to the senate of Messina; the collection was afterwards carried off to Spain and lodged in the Escorial.
Besides the Grαmmαticα, which has often been reprinted, Lascaris wrote little of any kind and nothing of any value apart from the importance which attaches to his position as one of the promoters of the revival of Greek learning in Italy. Two little treatises by him on Sicilians and Calabrians who had written in Greek were first published by Maurolico in 1562, and afterwards reprinted by Zaccaria in the Biblioteca di Storia Letteraria. His dissertation on Orpheus is to be found in the first volume of the Marmora Taurinensia. Iriarte gives some letters of Lascaris in the Regiae Bibliothccae Matritensis Codices Graeci manuscripti. See Villemain, Lascaris, ou les Grecs du quinzième siècle, Paris, 1825....
LASCARIS, Joannes or Janus (c. 1445-1535), surnamed Rhyndacenus from the river Rhyndacus in Bithynia, his native province, was born about 1445. He was a member of the imperial family of Lascaris, and after the fall of Constantinople fled into Italy, where ultimately he found refuge at the court of Lorenzo de’ Medici, whose intermediary he was with the sultan Bajazet II. in the purchase of Greek MSS. for the Medicean library. On the expulsion of the Medici from Florence, he, at the invitation of Charles VIII. of France, removed to Paris (1495), where he taught publicly, although he does not appear to have had any official or salaried connexion with the university. Among his pupils were Gulielmus Budaeus and Danesius. By Louis XII. he was several times employed on various public missions; and in 1515 he appears to have accepted the invitation of Leo X. to take charge of the Greek college he had founded at Rome. We afterwards find Lascaris employed along with Budaeus by Francis I. in the formation of the royal library at Fontainebleau, and also again sent in the service of the French crown to Venice. He died at Rome in 1535.
He edited or wrote Anthologia Epigrammatum Graecorum, in seven books, Florence, 1494; Callimachi Hymni, cum Scholiis Graecis, Florence, about 1494; Scholia Graeca in Iliadem, in integrum restituta, Rome, 1517; Homericarum quaestionum liber, et de Nympharum antro in Odyssea opusculum, Rome, 1518; De vens Graecarum litterarum formis ac causis apud antiquos, Paris, 1536. See Jovius, Elogia clarorum virorum·, Hody, De Graecis Illustribus·, and Bayle’s Dictionary, s.v.
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Loose; lascivious.
LASCIVIENCY , LASCIVIENT. [Not used. See the next words.]
LASCIVIENCY, LASCIVIENT [Not used. See the next words.]
2. Tending to produce voluptuous or lewd emotions.
2. Who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lasciviousness EphesiansÃÂ 4:19 .
3. Tendency to excite lust, and promote irregular indulgences.
4. The reason pretended by Augustus was, the lasciviousness of his Elegies and his Art of Love.
Lasco
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LASCO, or Lascki, John. See Alasco, vol. i. p. 443.
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Laserpitium, a genus of plants of several species, natives of Germany, Italy, France, etc.
Any plant of the umbelliferous genus Laserpitium, of several species (as L. glabrum, and L. siler), the root of which yields a resinous substance of a bitter taste. The genus is mostly European.
2. I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it.
3. A leash or string.
6. The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well.
3. To lash out, is to be extravagant or unruly.
2. We lash the pupil and defraud the ward.
3. To throw up with a sudden jerk.
4. He falls; and lashing up his heels, his rider throws.
5. To beat, as with something loose; to dash against.
7. To tie or bind with a rope or cord; to secure or fasten by a string; as, to lash any thing to a mast or to a yard; to lash a trunk on a coach.
8. To satirize; to censure with severity; as, to lash vice.
6. In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
2. To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash; as, a whale lashes the sea with his tail.
3. To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
One that whips or lashes.
1. One who whips or lashes.
2. A piece of rope for binding or making fast one thing to another; -- called also lashing.
3. A weir in a river.
1. A piece of rope for binding or making fast one thing to another.
2. Extravagance; unruliness.
1. The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement.
2. See 2d Lasher.
A youth woman; a girl; a sweetheart.
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And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.
And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, “At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.
Once again Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So he was named Levi.
It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
I have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”
And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
And with her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni. But his father called him Benjamin.
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
Then Jacob called for his sons and said, “Gather around so that I can tell you what will happen to you in the days to come:
And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
When Jacob had finished instructing his sons, he pulled his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and he was gathered to his people.
According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous; let my end be like theirs!”
And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants.