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kp-eb0711-028303-2774 | HERSILLON, in the military art, a sort of plank or beam, ten or twelve feet in length, two sides of which are driven full of spikes or nails, to incommode the march of the infantry or cavalry. The word is a diminutive of herse; the hersillon doing the office of a little herse. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028304-2774 | HERSTAT, a town of the Netherlands, in the province of Liège, on the left bank of the Meuse. It is a place in which there are very large iron works, and near to it is abundance of coals. It contains 4710 inhabitants, chiefly employed in making ironmongery. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028305-2774 | HERTFORD, a town, the capital of the county of the same name, twenty-one miles from London, on the river Lea. It is supposed to have been a town as early as the time of the Britons. The Saxon kings held their court at this place; and Alfred, to check the irruptions of the Danes, constructed a castle, the remains of whi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028401-2787 | HERTFORDSHIRE, an inland English county, of great riches, derived principally from its vicinity to the metropolis of the British empire. It is bounded by Essex on the east, by Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire on the north, by Buckinghamshire on the west, and by Middlesex on the south. Its extreme length is thirty-eight ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028501-2800 | HERTHA, or Herthus, in Mythology, a deity worshipped by the ancient Germans, and mentioned by Tacitus, in his book De Moribus Germanorum (c. 40). Vossius conjectures, that this goddess was Cybele; but she was more probably Terra, or the Earth, because the Germans still use the word lιert for the earth, whence also the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028502-2800 | HERVEY, James, a divine of the church of England in the eighteenth century, and a writer of great popularity amongst a certain class of persons, was born at Harding-stone in the year 1714. He was educated at the free grammar school of Northampton, where he acquired a competent knowledge of the Greek and Latin languages... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028601-2813 | HERZBERG, a town of the kingdom of Hanover, the capital of a bailiwick of the same name, in the province of Grubenhagen, on the river Sieben. It stands at the foot of the Hartz Mountains, and contains 321 houses, with 2720 inhabitants, employed in cotton and linen weaving, and in making paper. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028602-2813 | HESBIN, a city of France, in the arrondissement of Montreuil, and department of Calais. It stands at the junction of the river Canche with the Ternaise, in a marshy situation, and is strongly fortified. It contains 938 houses, and 4160 inhabitants, who produce hosiery and cotton goods, and have some twist mills. Long. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028603-2813 | HESIODUS of Ascra, a celebrated poet, the son of Dius and Pycimede, of whose life and character history has left us very few particulars on which dependence can be placed. His father was a native of Cumae, in Aeolis, where he seems to have lived in the greatest indigence. Anxious to improve his circumstances, he emigra... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028604-2813 | HESIONE, a daughter of Laomedon, king of Troy, who was exposed to a sea monster which had been sent by Neptune to ravage the coast of Troy, as a punishment to the king for having defrauded the god of his stipulated reward. Hercules, who was then accompanying the Argonauts, delivered the princess, slew the monster, and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028605-2813 | HESPER, Hesperus, in Astronomy, the evening star; an appellation given to Venus when she follows or sets after the sun. The word is formed from the Greek ‘Εστί- ξος, and is supposed to have been originally the proper name of a man, brother of Atlas, and father of the Hesperides. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028606-2813 | HESPERIDES, nymphs who possessed a garden, in which grew the golden apples given by Jupiter to Juno on the day of her marriage. They were Aegle, Erythia, Vesta, and Arethusa. The garden was guarded by a dragon called Ladon, and is generally placed near Mount Atlas in Africa. It was one of the labours of Hercules to pro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028607-2813 | HESPERIDUM Insulae, in Ancient Geography, islands [7:11:287]near the ĩĩesperi Cornu ; but the accounts of them are so much involved in fable, that nothing certain can be affirmed respecting them. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028701-2826 | HESPERUS, in fabulous history, son of Cephalus by Aurora, was changed into a star, called Lucifer in the morning, and Hesperus in the evening. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028702-2826 | HESSE, a principality in Germany, commonly distinguished by the name of Hesse-Cassel. It was formerly a landgraviate, but, by the extinction of the Germanic empire, it lost that title, and the sovereign is now only called the prince or crown prince (Kurfürst). It is comprehended between long. 8. 26. and 9. 26. east, an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028801-2839 | HESTON, a parish in the hundred of Islesworth, of the county of Middlesex, ten miles from London, the chief part of which consists of the town of Hounslow, through which the great roads to the western counties pass. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1782, in 1811 to 2251, in 1821 to 2810, and in 1831 to 3407. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028802-2839 | HESYCHIUS, the most celebrated of all the ancient Greek grammarians whose works are now extant, was a Christian; and, according to some, the same with Hesychius, patriarch of Jerusalem, who died in the year 609. He wrote a Greek lexico, which, in the opinion of Casaubon, is the most learned and useful work of that kind... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028803-2839 | HETERIARCH, Hetaeriarcha, in Antiquity, an officer in the Greek empire. There were two kinds of heteriarchs; the one simply so called, and the other denominated great heteriarch, who had the direction of the former. The principal function of these officers was to' command the troops of the allies. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028804-2839 | HETEROCLITE, in Grammar, an irregular or anomalous word, which, either in declension, conjugation, or regimen, deviates from the ordinary rules of grammar. The word is Greek, ŝrífoxX/rov, formed from tτtζoς, alter, another, different, and κλ∕vω, I decline. Heteroclite is more peculiarly applied to nouns which vary or a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028805-2839 | HETERODOX, in Polemical Theology, something which is contrary to the faith or doctrine established in the true church. The word stands in opposition to orthodox. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028806-2839 | HETEROGENEITY, in Physics, the quality or disposition which renders a thing heterogeneous. The word is also used for the heterogeneous parts themselves; in which sense the heterogeneities of a body are the same thing with its impurities. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028807-2839 | HETEROGENEOUS, or Heterogeneal, literally [7:11:289]imports something of a different nature, or which consists of parts of different or dissimilar kinds; in opposition to homogeneous. Heterogeneous Light was defined by Sir Isaac Newton to be that which consists of rays of different degrees of resrangibility. Thus the c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028901-2852 | HETEROSCII, in Geography, a term of relation, denoting such inhabitants of the earth as have their shadows falling but one way. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028902-2852 | HETRURIA. See Etruria, and Etruscans. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028903-2852 | HETTOWRA, a town of Hindustan, in the Napaul territories, and the centre of all commerce carried on between the Napaul dominions and those of Oude and the Company. It is situated on the Rapti river, and is a miserable village, consisting only of about sixty houses. Long. 85. 22. E. Lat. 27. 14. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028904-2852 | HEUSDEN, a city of the Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant. It is strongly fortified, commands the navigation of the river Maas, and contains 280 houses, with (in 1830) 1834 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028905-2852 | HEVELIUS, or Hevelke, John, an eminent astronomer, was born at Dantzig on the 28th of January 1611. He studied in Germany, England, and France, and everywhere obtained the esteem of the learned. He was the first who discovered a kind of libration of the moon, and made several important observations on the other planets... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028906-2852 | HEWSON, William, a very ingenious anatomist, was born in 1739. He became assistant to Dr Hunter, and afterwards entered into partnership with him; but on their disagreement, he read anatomical lectures at his own house, in which he was seconded by Mr Falconer. He wrote Inquiries into the Properties of the Blood, and th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028907-2852 | HEXACHORD, in ancient music, a concord called by the moderns a sixth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028908-2852 | HEXAGON, in Geometry, a figure of six sides and angles; and if these sides and angles be respectively equal, it is called a regular hexagon. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028909-2852 | HEXAHEDRON, in Geometry, one of the five platonic bodies, or regular solids, being the same with a cube. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028910-2852 | HEXAMETER, in ancient poetry, a kind of verse consisting of six feet, the first four of which may be indifferently either spondees or dactyles; while the fifth is generally a dactyle, and the sixth always a spondee. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-028911-2852 | HEXAPLA (formed from iξ, six, and αcraoω, I open, I unfold), in Ecclesiastical History, a bible disposed in six columns, containing the text, and different versions thereof, compiled and published by Origen, with a view to secure the sacred text from future corruptions, and to correct those which had been already intro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-029001-2865 | HEXASTYLE, in Architecture, a building with six columns in front. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-029002-2865 | HEXHAM, a market-town of the county of Northumberland, in the ward of Tindal, 286 miles from London. It stands at the head of a beautiful valley, at the junction of the North with the South Tyne. The church, formerly a cathedral, is ancient and spacious, and the interior highly ornamented; and adjoining to it are some ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-029003-2865 | HEYDON, John, sometimes called Eugenius Theodi-dactus, was a great pretender to skill in the Rosicrucian philosophy and the celestial signs, in the reign of King Charles 1., and wrote a number of chemical and astrological works. This empiric was much consulted by the Duke of Buckingham, who believed in judicial astrolo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-029004-2865 | HEYLIN, Dr Peter, an English divine, was born at Burford, Oxfordshire, on the 29th of November 1600. He studied at Oxford, where he took his degrees in arts and divinity, and became a geographer and an historian. He was appointed one of the chaplains in ordinary to King Charles L, was presented to the rectory of Heming... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-029005-2865 | HEYNE, Christian Gottlob, an illustrious classical scholar and archaeologist, was born on the 25th of September 1729, in a suburb of the city of Chemnitz, in Saxony, where his father, having been compelled by some religious persecutions to abandon his native country of Silesia, had settled, supporting his family in gre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-029201-2891 | HEYTESBURY, a borough-town in the hundred of that name, in the county of Wilts, ninety-three miles from London. It stands on the river Whiley, and has on it some mills for the cloth manufacture, which is extensively carried on. It is an ancient burgage tenure borough, and returned two members to the House of Commons, t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-029202-2891 | HEYWOOD, John, an English dramatic poet, was born at North Mims, near St Albans, in Hertfordshire, and educated at Oxford. But the sprightliness of his disposition not being well adapted to the sedentary and plodding life of an academician, he retired to the place of his nativity, where he had the good fortune to becom... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-029203-2891 | HIATUS properly signifies an opening, chasm, or gap; but it is particularly applied to those verses where one word ends with a vowel, and the following word begins with one, thereby occasioning a disagreeable opening of the mouth, and harshness of sound. The term hiatus is also used in speaking of manuscripts, to denot... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-029204-2891 | HICETAS of Syracuse, an ancient philosopher and astronomer, who taught that the sun and stars were motionless, and that the earth revolved round them. This is mentioned by Cicero, and probably afforded Copernicus the first hint of the true system of the world. He flourished 344 b. c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-029205-2891 | HICKES, George, an English divine of extraordinary parts and learning, was born at Newsham in Yorkshire on the 20th of June 1642. In 1681 he was made king’s chaplain, and two years afterwards dean of Worcester.
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kp-eb0711-029301-2904 | HIDAGE (JIidagium) was an extraordinary tax payable to the kings of England for every hide of land. This tax was levied not only in money, but in provision, armour, and other articles; and when the Danes landed in Sandwich in 994, King Ethelred taxed all his lands by hides, so that every three hundred and ten hides fou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-029302-2904 | HIDALGO, in modern history, a title given in Spain to all who are of a noble family. See Spain. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-029303-2904 | HIDES, in a general sense, are the skins of beasts; but the term more particularly denotes those of large cattle, such as bullocks, horses, buffaloes, and the like. Hides are called raw when in the state in which they were taken from the carcass; and green when dressed with some of the neutral salts, such as alum, to p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-029304-2904 | HIDJELLEE, a town and district of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal, situated upon the west bank of the Hooghly river. It is the first town which is seen after entering the river. Here ships formerly used to anchor, but they now run up to Kedjeree or Diamond Harbour. There is here an extensive salt manufactory belon... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-029305-2904 | HIERACITES, in Ecclesiastical History, Christian heretics in the third century, so called from their leader Hicrax, a philosopher of Egypt, who taught that Melchizedek was the Holy Ghost, denied the resurrection, and condemned marriage. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-029306-2904 | HIERAPOLIS, in Ancient Geography, a town of Phrygia, abounding in hot springs, and so called from the number of its temples. There are coins extant exhibiting figures of various gods who had temples here. Of this place Epictetus the Stoic philosopher was a native. It is now called Pambouh ; and is situated near the Sca... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-029307-2904 | HIERARCHY, amongst divines, denotes the subordination of angels. Some of the Rabbin reckon four, others ten, orders or ranks of angels, and give them different names, according to their different degrees of power and knowledge.
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kp-eb0711-029308-2904 | HIERO I. and II. kings of Syracuse. See Syracuse. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-029309-2904 | HIEROCLES, a violent promoter of the persecution of the Christians under Diocletian, flourished in the year 302. He wrote against the Christian religion some books, in which he pretends to expose inconsistencies in the Holy Scriptures, and compares the miracles of Apollonius Tyanaeus with those of Jesus Christ. He was ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-029401-2917 | HIEROGLYPHICS.
The term Hieroglyphics (Tεg07λup∕zα, from/í¢oç, sacred, and yaupw, to carve or engrave) literally denotes sacred sculptures, or characters, and appears to have been applied by the Greeks to that particular species of writing which they found inscribed or engraven on the palaces, temples, sepulchres, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-036501-3840 | HIEROMANCY, in Antiquity, that part of divination which predicted future events from observing the various things offered in sacrifice. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-036502-3840 | HIEROMNEMON, amongst the ancient Greeks, signified a delegate chosen by lot, and sent to the great council of the Amphictyons, where it was his business to take care of all that concerned religion. The hieromne-monies were reekoned more honourable than the other members of that assembly, the general meetings of which w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-036503-3840 | HIEROPHANTES, or Hierophanta (from ∕⅛oς, holy, and φaiwμaι, 1 appear), a priest amongst the Athenians. The hierophantes was properly the chief person who officiated in the Eleusinian mysteries. This office was first executed by Eumolpus, and continued in his family for about twelve hundred years, though when any person... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-036504-3840 | HIEROPHYLAX, an officer in the Greek church who officiated as guardian or keeper of the holy utensils, vestments, &c. and who answered to our saerista or vestry keeper. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-036505-3840 | HIERES, four small islands in the Mediterranean Sea, a part of the department of the Var in France. They are near Toulon, and form shelter for a roadstead of the same name, where ships are protected by the town of Hiérès on the mainland. That town is small, but is remarkable for the mildness of the climate, and for the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-036506-3840 | HIGH, a term or relation, importing that one thing is superior to or above another. Thus we say a high mountain, the high court of parliament, high relief, and the like.
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kp-eb0711-036507-3840 | HIGHAM-FERRERS, a town of the county of Northampton, which gives name to the hundred in which it stands, and is sixty-four miles from London. It is an ancient borough, formerly returning one member to parliament, but disfranchised by the law of 1832. There is a small market on Saturday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-036508-3840 | HIGHGATE, a populous village, four miles from London, on the great north road. It is situated on a hill over-lookingthe metropolis, and commanding extensive views to the south beyond it. It is the residence of several of the opulent merchants and traders of the city, some of whose houses are of great elegance. It is pa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-036509-3840 | HIGHLANDERS, a general appellation for the inhabitants of the mountainous parts of any country. In Britain, the name is appropriated to the people who inhabit the mountainous parts of Scotland, to the north and northwest, including , those of the Hebrides or Western Isles. See Scotland. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-036510-3840 | HIGHMORE, Joseph, a painter and writer of some eminence in his day, was born in the parish of St James’s, Garlickhithe, London, on the 13th of June 1692, being the third son of Mr Edward Highmore, a coal-merchant in Thames Street. Having such an early and strong inclination to painting that he could think with pleasure... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-036601-3853 | HIGHNESS, a quality or title of honour given to princes. The kings of England and Spain had formerly no other title but that of Highness; the former till the time of James I. and the latter till that of Charles V. The petty princes of Italy first began to be complimented with the title of Highness in the year 1630; and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-036602-3853 | HIGHWORTH, a market-town of Wiltshire, which gives its name to the hundred. It is situated on a pleasant hill near the Valley of the White Horse, seventy-seven miles from London, has a market, which is held on Wednesday, and was formerly a corporate, place. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1493, in 1811 to 1580, in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-036603-3853 | HIJA, or Hixar, a city of Spain, in the kingdom of Aragon, about thirty miles from Saragossa. It contains a church, a monastery, and two hospitals or poor-houses, with 2800 inhabitants, and confers the dignity of a duke on one of the oldest families of Spain. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-036604-3853 | HILARIA, in Antiquity, feasts celebrated every year by the Romans, on the 8th of the kalends of April, or the 25th of March, in honour of Cybele, the mother of the gods. The hilaria were celebrated with great pomp and rejoicing. Every person dressed himself as he pleased, and assumed the marks or badges of whatever dig... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-036605-3853 | HILARIUS, an ancient father of the Christian church, who flourished in the fourth century. He was born, as St Jerome informs us, at Poictiers, being descended of a good family, and he received a liberal education in the Pagan religion, which he did not forsake till he had arrived at maturity. He was advanced to the bis... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-036606-3853 | HILARODI, in the ancient music and poetry, a sort of poets amongst the Greeks, who went about singing little gay poems or songs, somewhat graver than the Ionic pieces, accompanied with some instrument. From the streets they were at last introduced into tragedy, as the magodi were into comedy. They appeared dressed in w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-036607-3853 | HILARY, St, a town, the capital of the island of Jersey. It has a very convenient and secure harbour, defended by a strong castle; and the town is powerfully fortified both on the land and the sea sides, and the entrance from the country is protected by a drawbridge and an iron gate. The town is well built, with broad ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-036608-3853 | HILBURGHAUSEN, a city, the capital of the duchy of Saxe-Hilburghausen, in Germany. It stands on the right bank of the river Werra, is surrounded with walls, and contains the magnificent palace of the sovereign, two Lutheran churches and one Reformed, and several other public buildings. It is divided into three parts, t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-036609-3853 | HILDESHEIM, a province of the kingdom of Hanover, formerly an ecclesiastical state, but secularized and transferred to Prussia in 1803, and in 1805 delivered over, with Goslar, to the Hanoverian government. It is bounded on the north by Luneburg, on the east by Brunswick, on the south-east by Saxon Prussia, on the sout... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-036701-3866 | HILL, Aaron, a poet of considerable eminence, the son of a gentleman of Malmesbury Abbey, in Wiltshire, was born in 1685. His father’s imprudence having ruined his paternal inheritance, he left Westminster School at fourteen years of age, and embarked for Constantinople to visit Lord Paget, the English ambassador there... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-036702-3866 | HILVERSUM, a town of the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland, between Amsterdam and Norden. It contains 3520 inhabitants, who carry on extensive manufactories of carpets, floor-cloths, woollen baize, and kerseys, and make some cotton goods. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-036703-3866 | HILLAH. This town stands on a portion of the site of the ancient Babylon. It is situated about sixty miles to the south of Bagdad, on the western bank of the Euphrates. It is inclosed with a mud wall, and is said to have been built in the twelfth century, partly out of the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon. The land... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-036801-3879 | HIMALEH, or Himalaya (literally the Seat of Snow), sometimes Himachal (Snowy Mountains), are the names given to a vast range of lofty mountains which separates India from the two Thibets, and forms the highest part of that extended chain which was known to the ancient writers of Europe by the names of Imaus or Emodus, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-037201-3931 | HIMILCO, a celebrated navigator of Carthage, a contemporary of Hanno, and equally distinguished for his maritime discoveries. He was the first who ventured to traverse the Northern Ocean, and to examine the shores of Great Britain; but the details of this voyage, which must have been remarkable for its boldness at that... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-037202-3931 | HIN, a Hebrew measure of capacity for things liquid, containing the sixth part of an ephah, or one gallon two pints English measure. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-037203-3931 | HINCKLEY, a town of the hundred of Sparkenhoe, in the county of Leicester, 100 miles from London. It is built on an eminence in a fertile country, and is chiefly inhabited by persons employed in the hosiery trade. There was formerly a castle, now converted into a modern dwelling, and a Benedictine monastery; and the to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-037204-3931 | HINDIA, a district of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, in the province of Khandesh. It is situated between the twenty-second and twenty-third degrees of north latitude, and is bounded on the north by the Nerbuddah, and on the south by the Cattygong hills. The country is fertile. Hindia, the capital of this distr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 22 31' N 77 10' E | HINDIA |
kp-eb0711-037205-3931 | HINDON, a borough-town of the county of Wilts, formerly a part of the pari >h of East Knowle, in the hundred of Downton. It is ninety-six miles from London, has a small market on Thursday, and its population amounted in 1801 to 793, in 1811 to 781, in 1821 to 830, and in 1831 to 932. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-037206-3931 | HINDONE, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Agra. It was formerly a large city, but has suffered severely from the depredations of the Mahrattas. Long 77. E. Lat. 26. 45. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-037207-3931 | HINDU Coosh, or Kosh, a portion of the Himalaya range of mountains, in Afghanistan. They form the north-west boundary of the province of Caubul, separating it from Balk and Buduckshan. The range of mountains so denominated extends in a south-westerly direction as far as the snowy peak of Hindu Coosh, nearly north of Ca... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-037301-3944 | HINDUSTAN.
Hindustan has from the earliest ages been celebrated as one of the most highly favoured countries on the globe, and as abounding in the choicest productions both of nature and art. In ancient times, this distant region was very imperfectly known to the Greeks and other nations of the West; but they imported... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-046601-5153 | HINGHAM, a town of the county of Norfolk, in the hundred of Forehoe, ninety-six miles from London, situated at the source of the river Yare. The land around is fertile, and there is a market on Thursday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1203, in 1811 to 1311, in 1821 to 1442, and in 1831 to 1539. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-046602-5153 | HINNOM, or the Valley of Hinnom, in Ancient Geography, a place which lay to the south of J crusalem. It was also called the Valley of Tophet, and was remarkable for the cruel and barbarous worship of Moloch, being the place where parents made their children pass through the fire in honour of that idol. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-046603-5153 | HINZUAN, oneofthe Comora Islands, situated between Madagascar and the continent of Africa, and otherwise called Anzuame, Anjuan, Juanny, and Johanna.
Hinzuan resembles, according to Sir William Jones’s description of it, a vast amphitheatre, of which a general notion may be formed by conceiving a multitude of hills in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-046604-5153 | HIPPARCHUS, the most celebrated astronomer of antiquity, was a native of Nicaea, a city of Bithynia. We have no means of discovering the exact date of his birth or of his death, but we find from Ptolemy that his observations of the heavenly bodies extended from b. c. 162 to 127. His observations were principally taken ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-046701-5166 | HIPPOCENTAUR (composed of ⅛sχ, horse, “ma, pungo, I spur, and ravgος, bulD, in Antiquity, a fabulous monster, supposed to be half horse and half man. The hippocentaurs seem to have differed from the centaurs in this, that the latter only rode on bullocks, and the former on horses, as the names themselves indicate. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-046702-5166 | HIPPOCRATES, the greatest physician of antiquity, was born in the island of Cos, in the eightieth Olympiad, and flourished during the Peloponnesian war. He was the first who laid down precepts concerning physic; and, if we may believe the author of the life, which goes under the name of Soranus, he derived his material... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-046703-5166 | HIPPOCRENE, in Ancient Geography, a fountain of Mount Helicon, on the borders of Boeotia, sacred to the Muses. Some of the poets, as Ovid, make Hippocrene the same with Aganippe. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-046704-5166 | HIPPODROME, Hippodromus (composed of ίππος, horse, and bgομος, course), in Antiquity, a list or course where chariot and horse races were performed, and horses exercised. The Olympian hippodrome or course was a space of ground of six hundred paces in length, surrounded with a wall, near the city Elis, on the banks of t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-046705-5166 | HIPPOLYTE, St, a city of the arrondissement of St Vigan, in the department of the Gard, in France, situated on the river Bidourle, at the foot of the Cevennes, containing 650 houses and 5479 inhabitants, who carry on many tanneries, and considerable manufactures of silk, woollen, and cotton goods.
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kp-eb0711-046706-5166 | HIPPOLYTUS, a son of Theseus and Hippolyte, and celebrated in fabulous history for his virtue and his misfortunes. His stepmother Phaedra fell in love with him, and when he refused to pollute his father’s bed, she accused him to Theseus of offering violence to her person. Her accusation was readily believed, and Theseu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-046801-5179 | HIPPOMANES, a sort of poison, famous amongst the ancients as an ingredient in love-charms. The word is Greek, i<ιrκομavtς, composed of ∕⅛05, a horse, and μαvta, fury or madness. At the end of Bayle’s dictionary there is a very learned dissertation on the hippomanes, and all its virtues, both real and pretended. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-046802-5179 | HIPPONAX, a Greek poet of Ephesus, son of Pythes and Protis (Suid.), who seems to have flourished in the times of Croesus and Cyrus, B. c. 546 (Marm. Arund.), which agrees sufficiently with the statement of Pliny, that he lived about the sixtieth Olympiad (b. c. 540). He was thus about half a century subsequent to Arch... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-046803-5179 | HIPPOPODES, Hippopedes, or Hippopodice (composed of i<κ t κος, horse, and <zovς, foot), in Ancient Geography, an appellation given to a certain people on the shores of the Scythian Sea, who were supposed to have had horses’ feet. The hippopodes are mentioned by Dionysius (Geogr. V. 310.), Mela (lib. iii. cap. 6), Pliny... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-046804-5179 | HIPPOPOTAMUS, the River-Horse. See Mammalia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-046805-5179 | HIRCUS, in Astronomy, a fixed star of the first magnitude, the same with Capella. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-046806-5179 | HIRE, Philip de la, one of the most laborious and most useful of the French geometricians, was born at Paris in the year 1640. His lather, who was painter to the king, designed to bring up his son to the saïnc profession, and with this view taught him drawing and such parts of the mathematics as are intimately connecte... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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