[Sachs, Julius], a German botanist and professor, born at Breslau; has written several works on botany, and experimented on the physiology of plants; b. 1832.
[Sackville, Thomas, Earl of Dorset], poet and statesman, born at Buckhurst; bred for the bar; entered Parliament in 1558; wrote with Thomas Norton a tragedy called "Gorboduc," contributed to a collection of British legends called the "Mirror of Magistrates" two pieces in noble verse (1536-1608).
[Sacrament], a ceremonial observance in the Christian Church divinely instituted as either really or symbolically a means, and in any case a pledge, of grace.
[Sacramentarian], a High Churchman who attaches a special sacred virtue to the sacraments of the Church.
[Sacramento], largest river of California, rises in the NE. in the Sierra Nevada; follows a south-westerly course, draining the central valley of California; falls into Suisund Bay, on the Pacific coast, after a course of 500 miles, of which 250 are navigable.
[Sacramento] (29), capital of California, situated at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers, 90 m. NE. of San Francisco; industries embrace flour and planing mills, foundries, potteries, &c.; has an art gallery, court-house, &c.; the tropical climate is tempered at night by cool sea breezes.
[Sacred Wars]. See [Amphictyonic Council].
[Sacrifice], anything of value given away to secure the possession of something of still higher value, and which is the greater and more meritorious the costlier the gift.
[Sacring-bell], or Sanctus-bell, the bell which rings when the Host is elevated at the celebration of High Mass.
[Sacy, Antoine Isaac, Baron Silvestre de], the greatest of modern Orientalists, born at Paris; by twenty-three was a master of classic, Oriental, and modern European languages; was appointed in 1795 professor of Arabic in the School of Oriental Languages, and in 1806 of Persian in the College de France, besides which he held various other appointments; founded the Asiatic Society in 1822; was created a baron by Napoleon Bonaparte, and entered the Chamber of Peers in 1832; published "Biographies of Persian Poets," a standard Arabic grammar, &c.; his writings gave a stimulus to Oriental research throughout Europe (1758-1838).