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Canterbury (128), a district in New Zealand, in the centre of the South Island, on the east facet of which are the Canterbury Plains or Downs, a fantastic pasture-land for sheep of over three million acres. Campbell, Alexander, an Anti-Calvinistic Baptist, born in Antrim; emigrated to America in 1807, and founded a sect called the "Disciples of Christ"; disowned creeds, and owned no authority in religion but the Bible; the sect has upwards of 5000 meeting-houses in America, and over half one million members. Calvaert, Denis, a painter, born at Antwerp; settled at Bologna, the place he based a faculty, from whence issued many eminent artists, amongst others Guidi Reni, Domenichino, and Albani; his masterpiece, "St. Bologna, within the courtyard of the castle of which the Emperor Henry IV. Campeggio, Lorenzo, cardinal; twice visited England as legate, the last time in reference to the divorce between Henry VIII. High style beneath Henry VIII. |
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