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DOY with O'Connell. O'Connell avowed himself at four distinct periods in their favour, and on five or six occasions against them; whereupon Dr. Doyle made his celebrated declaration that anything which vacillates must be weak—that a man who changes his mind so often was not an authority to be followed—and that, in short, he was unfit to be the leader of the Irish people. Until the concession of emancipation of 1829, Dr. Doyle and O'Connell cordially co-operated, but after that period they differed; Dr. Doyle regarding the repeal agitation as a mere phantom, and a waste of that popular energy which the bishop would have preferred to see concentrated on other vexed questions. Dr. Doyle's death was most touching. For three hours during his agony he uttered, in language of surpassing and extempore eloquence, the most lively expressions of faith, hope, and charity. His couch was surrounded by several prelates and priests. He ordered them to lift his body from the bed, and place it on the hard and uncarpeted floor, in order that his death might resemble as closely as possible that of the Master whom he had so worthily served. On Sunday morning, June 16, 1834, Dr. Doyle at the age of forty-eight passed tranquilly into eternity. In the stately cathedral of Carlow his remains repose, surmounted by one of the finest pieces of statuary from Hogan's chisel. Mr. W. J. Fitzpatrick, is preparing for publication the life and correspondence of Dr. Doyle.—W. J. F.  DOYLE, ., a British officer, born in Dublin in 1756, entered the army at a very early age, and had not reached manhood when he embarked for America to support the royal cause in the insurgent colonies. He had active employment there till the peace of Versailles, being present in all the principal engagements of the war, and winning by his services his promotion to the rank of major, and the office of adjutant-general. On his return home he entered the Irish parliament, and acquired new distinction as an earnest advocate of the rights of his native country. But the events of 1793 called him again into the field. Having raised a regiment he led it to the continent, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel; fought at its head under Earl Moira and the duke of York; and was dangerously wounded at Alost. After his recovery he conducted an expedition to the Texel; and at a later period he took office under Lord Rawdon, as secretary-at-war in Ireland. In 1799 he accompanied Sir R. Abercromby, with the rank of general of brigade, in the expedition to the Mediterranean and Egypt, where he had a share in the operations by which the schemes of the French were baffled, and specially distinguished himself by leaving a sickbed to take part in the repulse of Menon's attack on Alexandria. Being compelled to leave active service for the re-establishment of his health, he spent some time in Italy, and was subsequently appointed governor of Guernsey, where his administration was commemorated by the erection of a public monument in 1815. He died in 1834, having been created a knight of the bath and a baronet.—W. B.  * DOYLE,, for many years the cleverest and most original contributor to the illustrations of Punch, was born in London in 1826, ranks, by the fertility of his imagination, and the apropos of his artistical witticisms, amongst the highest champions of popular and spiritual art. His caricatures have often, if not always, proved of greater benefit, not amusement merely, to society at large, than many and many of the insipid euletic daubs which pretentiously crowd the perennial exhibitions. Having, out of respect for his coreligional connections with the Roman catholic clergy, abandoned Punch, he has since contributed to illustrate many of the most attractive Christmas books, and, on two or three occasions, the writings of some of the leading novelists of the day. His "Continental Tour of Brown, Jones, and Robinson" is deservedly considered one of his best works.—R. M.  D'OYLY,, D.D., a theological writer and commentator on the bible, was born in London on the 31st October, 1778—the fourth son of the archdeacon of Lewes. His alma mater was Cambridge, and his college Benét, where he highly distinguished himself, and of which he was chosen a fellow. He became afterwards moderator of the university, and christian advocate. One of his earliest polemical performances was a reply to the observations of Sir William Drummond on the Old Testament, in that almost forgotten sceptic's "Œdipus Judaicus." Appointed in 1810 chaplain-in-ordinary to George III., and in 1813 domestic-chaplain to Dr. Manners Sutton, archbishop of Canterbury, he became eventually rector of Lambeth, Surrey, and of Sundridge, Kent; and while holding these preferments he died on the 8th January, 1846. He was an industrious ecclesiastic, busy with his pen, and in connection with the religious societies and movements. In theological literature, his chief feat was his joint-editorship with Bishop Mant, of the well-known "D'Oyly's and Mant's Bible"—an edition of the scriptures, with copious and laborious commentaries, projected for the Christian Knowledge Society, completed in the year 1814, and which has had a great success, and gone through several editions. He is also to be had in remembrance as the person who, in a published letter addressed to the late Sir Robert Peel, first suggested the idea of King's college, London, where religion is combined with secular education, in opposition to the then popular scheme of London University college, where, it was proposed, secular instruction should alone be imparted. Of his miscellaneous writings, his "Life of Archbishop Sancroft," which was published in 1821, and came to a second, edition was the most striking. A volume of his sermons, with a prefatory memoir, was published by his son in 1847, the year after his death.—F. E.  * DOZY,, one of the most learned Oriental scholars of the present day, was born, February 21, 1820, at Leyden in Holland. He is descended from a family of respectable French emigrants, who left their native country in consequence of the edict of Nantes. Evincing almost from his infancy a great inclination for the study of languages, he was early placed under the charge of eminent professors, and at the age of seventeen entered the university of Leyden. Gaining the degree of doctor in 1844, he was nominated at once librarian of the collection of Oriental manuscripts of the university, and in 1850 was called to the chair of history which he still occupies. Besides many able articles in various periodicals, and chiefly the Journal Asiatique, he has published—"Dictionnaire detaillé des noms des vêtements chez les Arabes," Amsterdam, 1845; "Recherches sur l'histoire politique et littéraire de l'Espagne pendant le moyen Age," Leyden, 1849; "Historia Abbaditarum," 2 vols., Leyden, 1846-52, and several translations.—F. M.  DRABICIUS,, a notorious Moravian fanatic, was born at Stransnitz about the year 1587. He exercised the functions of a protestant minister at Drakotutz from 1616 till 1629, when he was forced to take refuge in Hungary in consequence of the edict of the emperor against the communion to which he belonged. He then engaged in the trade of a woollen draper at Leidnitz. His suspension from the office of the ministry for his notorious drunkenness produced an amendment in his behaviour; but his dissipated habits having unhinged his mind, he became an incurable enthusiast and believed himself endowed with the gift of prophecy. In 1638 he began to fancy that he was divinely chosen to denounce the vengeance of heaven against the house of Austria, and to assure his brethren of the dispersion of a speedy restoration to their own country by means of armies which were to come from the north and the east. He announced Ragotski, prince of Transylvania, as the leader of the latter. His visions and prophecies, which soon became numerous, were treated with the neglect which they deserved; but his zeal suffered no abatement, and was at length rewarded by the conversion of Comenius. He visited the camp of Ragotski for the purpose of notifying to that prince, that it was the will of heaven that he (Ragotski) should prove the ruin of the pope and of the house of Austria. To this communication he appended a threatening to the effect, that if these punishments did not speedily find their proper destination, they would inevitably descend upon the house of the Transylvanian prince. The prophecies of Drabicius were constantly falsified by the event; but his craze had become incurable, and he went on till the day of his death denouncing wrath and judgment against the pope and the house of Austria. He was confirmed in his delusions by the adherence of his fellow-enthusiast Comenius, whom he commanded, in the name of heaven, to make his visions known to all the nations of the earth, and especially to the Turks and Tartars. Comenius accordingly published them in 1657, along with those of Christopher Kotlerus and Christina Poniatovia, under the title of Lux in Tenebris. The book was reprinted, with additions, in 1666. The fate of Drabicius is involved in uncertainty. Some affirm that the court of Vienna at length got him in its clutches, and had him burned as an impostor and false prophet; by others he is said to have died in Turkey. Strange to say, he had been restored to the exercise of the ministry in 1654.—R. M., A. 