Chapter Fastolfe to Fatherless of F by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Julius Cæsar, after he had quelled the Spanish insurrection (B.C. 100–44).

Augustus, Pater atque Princeps (B.C. 63–31 to A.D. 14).

Cosmo de Medici (1389–1464).

Andria Dorea; called so on his statue at Genoa (1468–1560).

Andronicus Palæologus assumed the title (1260–1332).

George Washington, “Defender and Paternal Counseller of the American States” (1732–1799).

Father of the People.

Louis XII. of France (1462, 1498–1515).

Henri IV. of France, “The Father and Friend of the People” (1553, 1589–1610).

Louis XVIII. of France (1755, 1814–1824).

Gabriel du Pineau, a French lawyer (1573–1644).

Christian III. of Denmark (1502, 1534–1559).

For other “Fathers,” see under the specific name or vocation, as Botany, Literature, and so on.

Father’s Head Nursed by a Daughter after Death. Margaret Roper “clasped in her last trance her murdered father’s head.” (See Daughter.)

Fathers (Last of the), St. Bernard (1091–1153).

The “Fathers of the Church” were followed by “the Schoolmen.”

Fatherless. Merlin never had a father; his mother was a nun, the daughter of the king of Dimetia. N.B.—Melchisedec, king of Salem, was “without father, without mother, having neither beginning of days, nor end of years” (Heb. vii. 3). Probably the meaning is, the priests of the Levites had a regular genealogy, both on the father’s and mother’s side, and not only was their birth kept on record, but also the date of their consecration, the years they lived, and the time of their death; but in regard to Melchisedec, none of these things were known, because he was not a Levite, though he was a priest.