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N.B.—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.

Mice (King of the), Troartes (gnawloaf) truw, to gnaw, artoV, a loaf (of bread).

Michael , the special protector and guardian of the Jews. This archangel is messenger of peace and plenty.—Sale’s Korân, ii. notes.

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. Gabriel means “God’s power.” He was next in command to the archangel Michael.)

Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince.
   —Milton: Paradise Lost, vi. 44 (1665).

N. B.—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 favourite” of Arden of Feversham, in love with Maria sister of Mosby. A weak man, who both loves and honours Arden, but is inveigled by Mosby to admit ruffians into Arden’s house to murder him.—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, Cornwall), will rule her husband ever after. (See Keyne, St., p. 566.)

Michael Angelo of Battle-Scenes (The), Michael Angelo Cerquozzi of Rome (1600–1660).

Michael Angelo of France, Jean Cousin (1500–1590).

Michael Angelo de Kermesses, Peter van Laar, called Le Bamboche, born at Laaren (1613–1673).

Or Michel-Ange des Bamboches.

Michael Angelo of Music, Johann Christoph von Glück (1714–1787).

Michael Angelo of Sculptors, Pierre Puget (1623–1694).

Réné Michael Slodtz is also called the same (1705–1764).

Michael Angelo of the Lyre, Palestrina (1529–1594).

Michael Angelo Titmarsh, one of the pseudonyms under which Thackeray contributed to Fraser’s Magazine (1811–1863).

Michael Armstrong, “the factory boy.” The hero and title of a novel by Mrs. Trollope (1839). The object of this novel is to expose what the authoress considered to be the evils of the factory system.

Michael Perez, the copper captain. (See Perez.)