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<^ Great Mother. The Earth. It is related of Eucius Junius Brutus and the sons of Tarquin that, having con- Five Thousand Facts and Fancies 345 suited the oracle at Delphi to ascertain who should succeed Superbus on the throne of Rome, they received the fol- lowing answer : " He that shall first kiss his mother ! " The two princes hastened to fulfil what seemed to them to be the meaning of the oracle ; but Brutus, prostrating himself upon the ground, exclaimed : " Thus do I kiss thee, O Earth, the great Mother of us all !" Qreat Pacificator. A nickname given to Henry Clay (1777-1852), the American statesman, in allusion to his great skill in reconciling sectional dif- ferences by his passage of the Missouri Compromise. See Missouri Compro- mise. Qreat Paul. See Great Bell of St. Paul' s. ' Great Plague of London. The name given to a fearful pestilence that ravaged London in 1665, and carried off nearly 100,000 persons. The popu- lation of the city at that time numbered 500,000 ; hence it will be seen that about one-fifth of the inhabitants per- ished.
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<^ Great Mother. The Earth. It is related of Eucius Junius Brutus and the sons of Tarquin that, having con- Five Thousand Facts and Fancies 345 suited the oracle at Delphi to ascertain who should succeed Superbus on the throne of Rome, they received the fol- lowing answer : " He that shall first kiss his mother ! " The two princes hastened to fulfil what seemed to them to be the meaning of the oracle ; but Brutus, prostrating himself upon the ground, exclaimed : " Thus do I kiss thee, O Earth, the great Mother of us all !" Qreat Pacificator. A nickname given to Henry Clay (1777-1852), the American statesman, in allusion to his great skill in reconciling sectional dif- ferences by his passage of the Missouri Compromise. See Missouri Compro- mise. Qreat Paul. See Great Bell of St. Paul' s. ' Great Plague of London. The name given to a fearful pestilence that ravaged London in 1665, and carried off nearly 100,000 persons. The popu- lation of the city at that time numbered 500,000 ; hence it will be seen that about one-fifth of the inhabitants per- ished.
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