ctical, half-clever man, a great
speechifier, letter writer, projector of bubble schemes, and, though
confident of success, never succeeding. Having failed in everything in
the old country, he migrated to Australia, and became a magistrate at
Middlebay.--C. Dickens, _David Copperfield_ (1849).

[Asterism] This truly amiable, erratic genius is a portrait of Dickens's
own father, "David Copperfield" being Dickens, and "Mrs. Nickleby" (one
can hardly believe it) is said to be Dickens's mother.

=Mi'chael= (2 _syl._), the special protector and guardian of the Jews.
This archangel is messenger of peace and plenty.--Sale's _Kor[^a]n_, ii.
notes.

[Asterism] That Michael was really the protector and guardian angel of
the Jews we know from _Dan._ x. 13, 21; xii. 1.

Milton makes Michael the leader of the heavenly host in the war in
heaven. The word means "God's power." Gabriel was next in command to the
archangel Michael.

Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince

_Paradise Lost_, vi. 44 (1665).

[Asterism] Longfellow, in his _Golden Legend_, says that Michael is the
presiding spirit of the planet Mercury, and brings to man the gift of
prudence ("The Miracle-Play," iii., 1851).

_Michael_, the "trencher favorite" of Arden of Feversham, in love with
Maria, sister of Mosby. A weak man, who both loves and honors Arden, but
is inveigled by Mosby to admit ruffians into Arden's house to murder
him.--Geo. Lillo, _Arden of Feversham_ (1592).

=Michael, God of Wind= (_St._). At the promontory of Malea is a chapel
built to St. Michael, and the sailors say when the wind blows from that
quarter it is occasioned by the violent motion of St. Michael's wings.
Whenever they sail by that promontory, they pray St. Michael to keep his
wings still.

_St. Michael's Chair._ It is said that any woman who has sat on
Michael's chair (on St. Michael's Mount, in Cornwall), will rule her
husband ever after.

=Michael Angelo of Battle-Scenes= (_The_), Michael Angelo Cerquozzi, of
Rome (1600-1660).

=Michael Angelo of France= (_The_), Jean Cousin (1500-1590).

=Michael Angelo des Kermesses=, Peter van Laar, called _Le Bamboche_, born
at Laaren (1613-1673).

Or _Michel-Ange des Bamboches_.

=Michael Angelo of Music= (_The_), Johann Christoph von Gl[:u]ck
(1714-1787).

=Michael Angelo of Sculptors= (_The_), Pierre Puget (1623-1694).

R['e]n['e] Michael Slodtz is also called the same (1705-1764).

=Michael Angelo