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OCTAVE (from See also: period or series of eight members
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In ecclesiastical usage the octave is the eighth See also: day after a particular See also: church festival, the feast day itself and the " octave " being counted
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The octave thus always falls on the same day of the week as the festival, and any event occurring during the period is said to be " in the octave." In
See also: music, an octave is the eighth full See also: tone above or below any given note
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It is produced by See also: double or See also: half the number of vibrations corresponding to the given note
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In the See also: interval between a note and its octave is contained the full See also: scale, the octave of a note forming the starting-point of another scale of similar intervals to the first
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The interval between a note and its octave is also called an octave
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The name is also applied to an open See also: metal stop in an See also: organ, and to a See also: flute (more usually known as the piccolo) one octave higher in See also: pitch than the See also: regular flute
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It is also a See also: term for a " parade " in See also: fencing
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The " See also: law of octaves " was a term applied in 1865 to a relation-See also: ship among the chemical elements enunciated by J
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A
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R
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Newlands
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In literature an octave is a See also: form of verse consisting of eight See also: iambic lines, and See also: complete in itself
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From its use by the poets of See also: Sicily, the recognized type of this form is usually called the Sicilian Octave
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It is distinguished from a single stanza of ottava rima, in which the See also: rhyme-arrangement is abababcc, by having only two rhymes, arranged abababab
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In See also: German literature the octave has been used not infrequently since 1820, when Ruckert published " Sicilianen," as they are called in German, for the first See also: time
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The word octave is also often used to describe
paralysed, wholly collapsed
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O'Connell died on the 15th of May 1847, at Genoa, whilst on his way to See also: Rome
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His See also: body was brought back to See also: Dublin and buried in Glasnevin cemetery
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O'Connell was a remarkable See also: man in every sense of the word, of splendid physique, and with all the attractions of a popular See also: leader
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Catholic See also: Ireland calls him her " Liberator " still; and See also: history will say of him that, with some failings, he had many and See also: great gifts, that he was an orator of a high See also: order, and that, agitator as he was, he possessed the wisdom, the caution and the tact of a real statesman
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Nevertheless he not only failed to accomplish the chief aim of his See also: life, but Lecky trenchantly observes that " by a singular fatality the great advocate of repeal did more than any one else to make the Union a See also: necessity
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He destroyed the sympathy between the See also: people and their natural leaders; and he threw the former into the hands of men who have subordinated all See also: national to ecclesiastical considerations, or into the hands of reckless, ignorant, and dishonest adventurers." O'Connell married in 1802 his See also: cousin Mary O'Connell, by whom he had three daughters and four sons, See also: Maurice, See also: Morgan, See also: John (1810—1858), known as the "
See also: Young Liberator," and Daniel, who all sat in parliament
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His son John published a Life in 1846 and Recollections and Experiences in 1849 . There are also See also: biographies by W
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Fagan (1847), M
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F
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Cusack (1872), J
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O'Rourke and O'Keeffe (1875), and J
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See also: Hamilton (1888)
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See especially W
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H
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Lecky's essay in the revised edition of his Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland vol
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H . (1903) . (W . O . M.) O' CONNOR, FEARGUSSee also: EDWARD (1794-1855), Chartist leader, was a son of the Irish Nationalist politician See also: Roger O'Connor (1762—1834), and See also: nephew of Arthur O'Connor (1763—1852), who was the See also: agent in See also: France for Emmet's See also: rebellion; both belonged to the " See also: United Irishmen." He entered parliament as member for the county of See also: Cork in 1832
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Though a zealous supporter of repeal, he endeavoured to supplant O'Connell as the leader of the party, an attempt which aroused against him the popular antipathy of the Irish
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In 1835 he was unseated on petition, and after See also: standing unsuccessfully for Oldham he took to stumping See also: England in favour of the new See also: Radical doctrines of the day, and the use of See also: physical force for their adoption
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In 1837 he established the See also: Northern See also: Star newspaper at See also: Leeds, and became a vehement advocate of the Chartist See also: movement
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He was imprisoned for seditious See also: libel in 1840, and after his See also: release became prominent for his attack on John Bright, and the See also: anti-corn-law See also: league
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In 1847 he was returned for Nottingham, and in 1848 he presided at a Chartist demonstration on See also: Kennington See also: Common, which caused great alarm (see See also: CHARTISM)
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But the projected See also: march on
See also: Westminster fizzled out when the preparations made to receive it became known
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The eccentricity which had characterized his opinions from the beginning of his career gradually became more marked until they See also: developed into insanity
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He began to conduct himself in a disorderly manner in the See also: House of See also: Commons, and in 1852 he was found to be of unsound mind by a commission of lunacy
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He died at See also: London on the 3oth of See also: August 1855, and was buried in Kensal See also: Green cemetery
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