Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . e way ofDarkness, and closes witli an exhortation that those who read itmay so live that they may be blessed to all eternity. It is a siiniile,pious, and earnesL work; but makes a far more judicious use ofthe New Testament than of the Old. BARNABITES, an order of monks which sprung up at Milanin They were so called because the church of St. that city was granted them to preach in. They were approvedof by Poiie Clement VII. and Pope Paul III. Their special dutieswere, to attend the sick, to preach
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . e way ofDarkness, and closes witli an exhortation that those who read itmay so live that they may be blessed to all eternity. It is a siiniile,pious, and earnesL work; but makes a far more judicious use ofthe New Testament than of the Old. BARNABITES, an order of monks which sprung up at Milanin They were so called because the church of St. that city was granted them to preach in. They were approvedof by Poiie Clement VII. and Pope Paul III. Their special dutieswere, to attend the sick, to preach, to instruct the young, and totake the of .souls. They soon established themselves in Italy,Prance, Austria, and Spain, and enjoyed the privilege of teachingtheology in the schools of Milan and Pavia. Many eminent menhave been sent forth by them. Besides the three usual monasticvows, they took a fourth, viz., not to sue for church France and Austria, they were employed in the conversion ofProtestants; but thej have now-, as a body, almost fallen into. Gronp of Barnacles. oblivion. Only a few monasteries exist liere and there in Franceand Italy. BARNACLE, or BERNICLE (Lejios, also called Anatifa andPentalasmis), a kind of shell fish, a genus of Oirrhopodalq. y.),the type of a family of articulate ani- _mals distinguished by a long flexiblestalk or peduncle, which is ])rovidedwith muscles, upon the summit of which,in the true barnacles, are shelly valves,five in number, enclosing the jirincipalorgans of the animal, and opening andclosing on one side like the oiiercularvalves of Balanus (q. v.), to admit of itsspreading out and retracting its net—anapparatus similar to that by which theanimals of that genus obtain their abound in almost all seas, at-taching themselves in great numbers tologs of wood, ships bottoms, &c. Theygrow very rapidly. Some of the speciesare eaten in some parts of the world,and perhaps they were among the balaniwhich
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