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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" - Volume 12, Slice 1GICHTEL, JOHANN GEORG (1638-1710), German mystic, was born at Regensburg, where his father was a member of senate, on the 14th of March 1638. Having acquired at school an acquaintance with Greek,...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" - Volume 12, Slice 8HALLER, ALBRECHT VON (1708-1777), Swiss anatomist and physiologist, was born of an old Swiss family at Bern, on the 16th of October 1708. Prevented by long-continued ill-health from taking part in boyish...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Gyantse" to "Hallel"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Gyantse" to "Hallel" - Volume 12, Slice 7GYANTSE, one of the large towns of Tibet. It lies S.E. of Shigatse, 130 m. from the Indian frontier and 145 m. from Lhasa. Its central position at the junction of the roads...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" - Volume 12, Slice 6GROUPS,1 THEORY OF. The conception of an operation to be carried out on some object or set of objects underlies all mathematical science. Thus in elementary arithmetic there are the fundamental...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" - Volume 12, Slice 5GREEK LAW. Ancient Greek law is a branch of comparative jurisprudence the importance of which has been long ignored. Jurists have commonly left its study to scholars, who have generally refrained from...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" - Volume 12, Slice 4GRASSHOPPER (Fr. sauterelle, Ital. grillo, Ger. Grashpfer, Heuschrecke, Swed. Grshoppa), names applied to orthopterous insects belonging to the families Locustidae and Acridiidae. They are especially remarkable for their saltatory powers, due to...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" - Volume 12, Slice 3GORDON, LORD GEORGE (1751-1793), third and youngest son of Cosmo George, duke of Gordon, was born in London on the 26th of December 1751. After completing his education at Eton, he...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" - Volume 12, Slice 2GLOSS, GLOSSARY, &c. The Greek word (whence our gloss), meaning originally a tongue, then a language or dialect, gradually came to denote any obsolete, foreign, provincial, technical or otherwise peculiar word...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Franciscans" to "French Language"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Franciscans" to "French Language" - Volume 11, Slice 1FRANCISCANS (otherwise called Friars Minor, or Minorites; also the Seraphic Order; and in England Grey Friars, from the colour of the habit, which, however, is now brown rather than grey), a religious...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "French Literature" to "Frost, William"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "French Literature" to "Frost, William" - Volume 11, Slice 2FRENCH LITERATURE. Origins.The history of French literature in the proper sense of the term can hardly be said to extend farther back than the 11th century. The actual manuscripts which we...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Germany" to "Gibson, William"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Germany" to "Gibson, William" - Volume 11, Slice 8Nothing could indicate more clearly than this fact how much of their old power the German kings had lost. It was not past hope that even yet some of their former splendour...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Geoponici" to "Germany"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Geoponici" to "Germany" - Volume 11, Slice 7GEOPONICI,1 or Scriptores rei rusticae, the Greek and Roman writers on husbandry and agriculture. On the whole the Greeks paid less attention than the Romans to the scientific study of these subjects, which...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Geodesy" to "Geometry"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Geodesy" to "Geometry" - Volume 11, Slice 6GEODESY (from the Gr. , the earth, and , to divide), the science of surveying (q.v.) extended to large tracts of country, having in view not only the production of a system of...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" - Volume 11, Slice 5GASSENDI1 [Gassend], PIERRE (1592-1655), French philosopher, scientist and mathematician, was born of poor parents at Champtercier, near Digne, in Provence, on the 22nd of January 1592. At a very early age he...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" - Volume 11, Slice 4G The form of this letter which is familiar to us is an invention of the Romans, who had previously converted the third symbol of the alphabet into a representative of a...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Frost" to "Fyzabad"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Frost" to "Fyzabad" - Volume 11, Slice 3FROST (a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch, vorst, Ger. Frost, from the common Teutonic verb meaning to freeze, Dutch, vriezen, Ger. frieren; the Indo-European root is seen in Lat. pruina, hoar-frost, cf. prurire,...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" - Volume 10, Slice 1EVANGELICAL CHURCH CONFERENCE, a convention of delegates from the different Protestant churches of Germany. The conference originated in 1848, when the general desire for political unity made itself felt...
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The Browning Cyclopaedia: A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert BrowningThe Browning Cyclopædia: A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert BrowningAs a companion to Brownings works the Cyclopdia will be most valuable; it is a laborious, if necessary, piece of work, conscientiously performed, for which present and future readers and students...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" - Volume 10, Slice 2FAIRBANKS, ERASTUS (1792-1864), American manufacturer, was born in Brimfield, Massachusetts, on the 28th of October 1792. He studied law but abandoned it for mercantile pursuits, finally settling in St Johnsbury, Vermont, where...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "France" to "Francis Joseph I."Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "France" to "Francis Joseph I." - Volume 10, Slice 8The Franco-German War marks a turning-point in the history of the exterior policy of France as distinct as does the fall of the ancient monarchy or the end of the Napoleonic...
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