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 CAPPADOCIA CAPPONI 759 des, where he became obnoxious to the people, who called him Viaro Pasha. Nevertheless his brother intrusted him with the formation of a new code of laws. In 1831, in consequence of the popular feeling against him, he was remov- ed from office. III. Angnstine, brother of the preceding, born in 1778, died in Corfu in 1857. lie was appointed by his brother military and political chief of continental Greece in 1829. Two of the foremost leaders, Gen. Church and Demetrius Ypsilanti, absolutely refused to rec- ognize his authority. After the assassination of his brother he assumed the government as chairman of the board of regency, and was elected president by the national convention assembled at Argos in December, 1831. The Russian government assured him of its sympa- thies, and he was recognized by the London conference of the allied powers. A few weeks later the opposition became so powerful that the great powers retracted their former action and compelled him to resign. He left Greece for St. Petersburg, April 13, 1832, taking the corpse of his brother with him. CAPPADOCIA, an ancient division of Asia Mi- nor, in the east of that peninsula, between the Taurus, which separated it from Cilicia, and the Euxine, and the middle Halys and the up- per Euphrates. It was traversed by the Anti- Taurus, and watered, besides the rivers men- tioned, by the Melas, the Sarus, and the Pyra- mus. It was inhabited by a sturdy people of Semitic race, often designated as White Syrians. It was conquered by the Persians under Cy- rus. After the era of Alexander the Great and his immediate successors it was ruled by inde- pendent kings till A. D. 17, when it was re- duced to a Roman province by Tiberius. Chris- tianity was early introduced into Cappadocia, as we learn by the First Epistle of St. Peter. Under the Persians or Macedonians the prov- ince was divided into two parts, Cappadocia .id Pontum, or simply Pontus, in the north, and Cappadocia ad Taurum, called afterward by the Romans Cappadocia Magna, also Cap- padocia simply. The chief town of the latter was Mazaca, afterward Owsarea, and the coun- try was celebrated for its fine pastures and its superior breed of horses, mules, and sheep. Cappadocia shared the fate of the Eastern em- pire until it fell into the power of the Turks, in whose possession it still remains, forming part of several modern eyalets of Asiatic Turkey. CAPPE, Newfome, an English clergyman, born in Leeds, Feb. 21, 1732, died in York, Dec. 24, 1800. His early education was conducted by his father, a dissenting clergyman of Leeds. In 1749 he entered the theological seminary at Northampton, under charge of Philip Dod- dridge, where he remained two years. Some doubts which he had entertained as to the va- lidity of the evidences of revealed religion were here dispelled, but his theological views took the form of Unitarianism, as taught by Dr. Priestley. In 1752 he went to the university of Glasgow, where he remained three years, and became intimate with Adam Smith, Black, Moore, and other eminent men. In 1756 he became pastor of the dissenting congregation at St. Saviour's Gate, York, a position which he retained for more than 40 years. He is recognized as one of the ablest, most eloquent, and most learned of the English Unitarians. Besides several polemical essays, he wrote "Discourses on the Providence and Govern- ment of God," and "Critical Remarks on several important Passages of Scripture," pub- lished after his death ; and he compiled a " Se- lection of Psalms for Social Worship." CAPPEL, the name of a French family which produced many jurists and theologians during the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries. I. (inillaume, advocate general of the parliament of Paris, and in 1491 rector of the university. He op- posed the claim of Pope Innocent VIII. to im- pose tithes upon the university. He afterward became a priest, and at his death was dean of the faculty of theology. II. Jacques, nephew of the preceding, also advocate general of the parliament, about 1520. He was author of several works, among which is Memoire pour le roi et V&gli*e gallicane, in opposition to papal claims. III. Loots, the elder, born in Paris, Jan. 15, 1534, died at Sedan, Jan. 6, 1586. At 16 he was regent of humanities in the college of Cardinal Lemoine, and afterward professor of Greek at Bordeaux. He embraced the reformation, and after the massacre of St. Bartholomew was sent to Germany to solicit the aid of the German princes. William of Orange appointed him professor of theology in the newly founded university of Leyden. He returned to France, became chaplain in the Huguenot army, and finally took up his resi- dence at Sedan as pastor and professor of the- ology. IV. Jaeqnes, seigneur du Tilloy, grand- son of Louis, born at Rennes in March, 1570, died there, Sept. 7, 1624. He was professor of Hebrew and theology in his native city, and author of several works, among which are val- uable notes on the Old Testament, which are printed among the commentaries of his brother. V. l.iinK the younger, brother of the preceding, born at Sedan, Oct. 15, 1585, died at Saumur, June 18, 1658. He gained a high reputation as professor of divinity and oriental languages at the university of Saumur, and as an exegetical and critical writer. His principal work is the Critica Sacra, upon which he was engaged for 36 years ; it contains a list of many errors and various readings that have crept into the Scrip- tural text. He also engaged in a controversy with the Buxtorfs in regard to the Hebrew vowel points. They maintained that these are coeval with the alphabet ; he, that they are not older than the 7th century. CAPPONI, Cino, marquis, an Italian author, ( born in Florence, Sept. 14, 1792. His ances- ' tors were called the Scipios of the Florentine travel he became chamberlain of the grand duke of Tuscany, but not approving of his policy
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