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kp-eb0711-046807-5179 | HIRSCHBERG, a city, the capital of a circle of the same name, in the Prussian province of Silesia. It stands at the influx of the Zachen into the river Baber. It is well built and fortified, and contains four Catholic churches and one Lutheran, 944 houses, and 6458 inhabitants. It is the great market-place for the sale... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 54' 39" N 15 36' 35" E | HIRSCHBERG |
kp-eb0711-046808-5179 | HIRTIUS, Aulus, a noble Roman who attended on Caesar in his wars against the Gauls, and, when he returned to Rome, became the devoted friend of Cicero. He accompanied him to Tusculum, where he studied the art of declamation under that accomplished orator (Cic. Fam. v ü· 33); and when Caesar returned from his successful... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-046901-5192 | HISPANIA, called Hesperia Ultima, as being the westernmost part of Europe, and also Iberia, from the river Iberus. The name Hispania is of Phoenician origin, the Phoenicians, who settled several colonies on the coast, calling it Spanjah, from the great number of rabbits in the country. It has the sea on every side, exc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-046902-5192 | HISPANIOLA, called also St Domingo. See St Domingo. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-046903-5192 | HISSAR Ferozch, a large district of Hindustan, in the province of Delhi, situated between the 28th and 30th degrees of north latitude, on the western side of the river Jumna. The country is fertile, but labours under a scarcity of water, which detracts from its fertility. It is only watered by one small stream, namely,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 28 41' N 75 53' E | HISSAR |
kp-eb0711-046904-5192 | HISTORY.
History, in general, signifies an account of the remarkable events which have happened in the world, arranged in the order in which they actually occurred, together with an explanation of the causes to which they were owing, and of the different effects they have produced as far as can be discovered. The word... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-049901-5582 | HISTRIO, in the ancient drama, signified an actor or comedian; but more especially a pantomime, who exhibited his part by gestures and dancing. Livy informs us that the histriones were brought to Rome from Etruria, in the year of the city 391. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-049902-5582 | HIT, a village of Irak Arabia, situated on a river of the same name, which is a tributary of the Euphrates. There are abundant pits of bitumen in the neighbourhood, from which it is supposed that supplies were derived for the construction of ancient Babylon. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-049903-5582 | HITCHEN, a town in the county of Hertford, which gives its name to the hundred, thirty-four miles from London. It was once of some note for its manufactures, but none is left except that of making malt. It is a well-built town, with a good market held on Tuesday, at which much corn is sold. The inhabitants amounted in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-049904-5582 | HITTITES, the descendants of Heth. See Heth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-049905-5582 | HIVE, a convenient receptacle for bees. See Bee. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-049906-5582 | HIVITES, a people descended from Canaan, who dwelt at first in the country afterwards possessed by the Caph-torims or Philistines. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-049907-5582 | HOADLY, Benjamin, successively bishop of Bangor, Hereford, Salisbury, and Winchester, was born in the year 1676. His first preferment in the church was to the rectory of St Peter-le-Poor, and the lectureship of St Mildred’s in the Poultry. In the year 1706 he published some remarks on Bishop Atterbury’s sermon at the f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-049908-5582 | HOA1N-Gan-Foo, a large city of China, in the province of Kiangnan, situated on the bank of the great canal, which is above the level of the city, and occasions perpetual danger of inundation. It occupies a large area, including gardens and cultivated grounds; and, from the crowds of spectators seen by the British embas... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 53 30' N 118 47' E | HOA1N-Gan-Foo |
kp-eb0711-050001-5595 | HOANGHO, or Yellow River, a great river of China, which has its rise in the unknown and mountainous regions of Thibet, probably the loftiest portion of the Asiatic continent. The Hoangho, after entering China, turns to the north, and flows even beyond the limits of the empire. But after winding for a short time, it re-... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050002-5595 | HOARSENESS, in Medicine, a diminution of the voice, commonly attended with a great asperity and roughness of intonation. The parts usually affected are the arteria aspera and the larynx. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050003-5595 | HOBAL, in Mythology, an idol of the ancient Arabs, the worship of which at Mecca was destroyed by Mahommed. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050004-5595 | HOBBES, Thomas, a metaphysical and political writer of the greatest eminence, was born at Malmesbury on the 5th of April 1588. He was the son of a clergyman; and having completed his studies at Oxford, he was appointed governor to the eldest son of William Cavendish, earl of Devonshire. He travelled with that young nob... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050101-5608 | HOBGOBLIN is a name vulgarly applied to spectres or apparitions. Skinner calls the word robgoblins, and derives it from Robin Goodfellow, Hob being the nickname of Robin; but Wallis and Junius, with greater probability, derive it from hopgoblins, because they are supposed to hop without moving both their feet. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050102-5608 | HOBLERS, or Hobilers, Hobelarii, in our ancient customs, were men who, by their tenure, were obliged to maintain a light horse or hobby, for announcing any invasion from the seaward. The name was also employed to signify certain Irish knights, who used to serve as light horsemen upon hobbies. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050103-5608 | HOB-NAIL, a nail with a thick strong head, used in shoeing a hobby or little horse. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050104-5608 | HOB-NOB, or Hab-nab, a cant word formed from hap ne hap, and denoting an event which happens at random, or by mère chance. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050105-5608 | HOBSON’S Choice, a vulgar proverbial expression, applied to that kind of choice in which there is no alternative. It is said to be derived from the name of a carrier at Cambridge, who let out hackney horses, and obliged each customer to take in his turn that horse which stood next the stable door. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050106-5608 | HOCHHEIM, a market-town of the duchy of Nassau, in Germany, the capital of a bailiwick of the same name. It stands on an elevated spot, at the junction of the Nidda with the Maine. It contains a church, and 440 houses, with 1β50 inhabitants. The neighbourhood is celebrated for producing the best wines of the Rhine, whi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050107-5608 | HOCHOU, a walled city of China, in the province of [7:11:502]Kiangnan, about three miles from the banks of the Yang-tse-Kiang. It appears to be about three or four miles in circuit, and to have been at one time more populous than at present. The country around is highly cultivated. It is thirty miles south-west of Nank... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 29 57' N 118 14' E | HOCHOU |
kp-eb0711-050201-5621 | HOCHSTEDT, a town of Bavaria, the capital of the bailiwick of the same name in the circle of the Upper Danube. It stands on the Danube, and contains two churches, 396 houses, and 2240 inhabitants. It is celebrated as the scene of one of Marlborough’s most splendid victories gained in 1704, and as the field of defeat of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 36' 30" N 10 28' 25" E | HOCHSTEDT |
kp-eb0711-050202-5621 | HOCUS POCUS, a cant expression, with which the exhibitors of legerdemain tricks generally prefaced their feats. This term is supposed to be a corruption of the words hoc est corpus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050203-5621 | HOD, a sort of tray for carrying mortar, in use among bricklayers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050204-5621 | HODDESDON, a town of the county of Hertford, in the parishes of Amwell and Brockborn, seventeen miles from London. It stands on the river Lea, and on the great road to the eastern counties. It consists of one long street, in the middle of which is a fountain that supplies the town with water. There is a market which is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050205-5621 | HODMAN, a cant term formerly used for a young scholar admitted from Westminster school to be student in Christ Church in Oxford. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050206-5621 | HODNET, a town, or rather a parish, in the hundred of North Bradford, in the county of Salop, on the river Terne, 135 miles from London. It is only remarkable as the birth-place and residence of the late Bishop of Calcutta, Hcbcr. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1S86, in 1811 to 1499, in 1821 to 1795, and in 1831 t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050207-5621 | HODY, Humphry, an eminent English divine, was born at Odcombe, in Somersetshire, on the 1st of January 1659. Whilst yet a boy he discovered a strong propensity to learning, and in 1676 was admitted into Wadham College, Oxford, of which he was chosen fellow in 1684. At the age of twenty-one he published his Dissertation... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050208-5621 | HOE, or How, a husbandman’s tool, made like a cooper’s adze, to cut up weeds in gardens, fields, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050209-5621 | HOF, a city of Bavaria, in the circle of Upper Maine. It is situated on the river Saale, is surrounded with walls, and is the seat of the revenue officer of the circle. It contains four churches, an orphan-house, an hospital richly endowed, and 650 houses, with 5730 inhabitants, who find occupation in manufactures of w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050210-5621 | HOFFMANN, John James, a celebrated philologist, was born at Basil in 1635. His father, who was professor of law in the academy of that city, inspired him betimes with a taste for application, and directed his early studies. Young Hoffmann went through his courses of philosophy and theology with distinction, and was ord... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050301-5634 | HOFFMANNISTS, in Ecclesiastical History, are those sectaries who espoused the sentiments of Daniel Hoffmann, professor in the university of Helmstadt, who maintained that philosophy was a mortal enemy to religion, and that what was true in philosophy was false in theology. These absurd and pernicious tenets occasioned ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050302-5634 | HOFGEISMAR, a city of the principality of Hesse Cassel, in the province of the Lower Hesse. It is on the river Esse, is walled, and has two churches, an hospital, and stadthouse, with 420 dwellings, and 2586 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050303-5634 | HOG. See Mammalia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050304-5634 | HOG Isle. There are two small islands of this name in the Eastern Seas, one about twenty miles in circumference, lying off the north-eastern extremity of Java. Long. 114. 55. E. Lat. 7. 5. S. This is also the name of another island, sixty miles off the west coast of Sumatra, about forty miles in length, and three in av... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 7 5' S 114 55' E | HOG |
kp-eb0711-050305-5634 | HOGARTH, William, an artist, a truly great and original genius, was born in 1697 or 1698, in the parish of St Martin, Ludgate. The outset of his life, however, was unpromising. “He was bound,” says Lord Orford, “to a mean engraver of arms on plate.” Hogarth probably chose this occupation as it required some skill in dr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050601-5673 | HOGGRY, a river of Hindustan, which has its rise in the Mysore territory, near the fortress of Seva, whence it flows in a northerly direction, and joins the Krishna or Kistnah. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050602-5673 | HOGSHEAD, in Commerce, a measure of capacity containing sixty-three gallons, equal to sixteen gallons in Scotland. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050603-5673 | HOGYESK, a market-town of the circle of Toln, in the province of the Farther Danube, in the kingdom of Hungary. Near to it is the castle, with a fine park of Count Apony. It contains 3100 inhabitants, employed in the cultivation of tobacco and wine. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050604-5673 | HOHENELBE, a town of the circle of Bidschow, in the Austrian kingdom of Bohemia. It is situated in a mountainous district, on the river Elbe, near the frontier of Saxony. It contains two churches, 357 houses, and 3307 inhabitants, who carry on a flourishing trade in manufacturing muslins, linen goods, and writing paper... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050605-5673 | HOHENGEROLDSECK, a small territory denominated a grafschaft or county, belonging to the empire of Austria. It is the only part of the dominion detached from the rest, and is surrounded by the territory of the Prince of Baden. It extends over fifty square miles, and contains about 5000 inhabitants. It is composed chiefl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050606-5673 | HOHENSTEIN, a city of the kingdom of Saxony, in the circle of Freyburg, formerly the capital of the mediatized principality of the same name. It stands on the side of a remarkable mountain, in which are veins of gold, silver, and arsenic. It contains 450 houses, and 3400 inhabitants, some employed in the mines, but mor... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050607-5673 | HOHNSTEIN, a small province of the kingdom of Hanover, formerly belonging to the Counts of Stolberg; but being sequestrated, it was, in 1777, transferred to Hanover, which assumed the debts upon it, amounting to about L.30,000 sterling. It lies between the Prussian province of Saxony and the duchy of Brunswick. It exte... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050608-5673 | HOIST, in sea-language, denotes the perpendicular height of a flag or ensign, as opposed to the fly, which signifies its breadth from the staff to the outer edge. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050609-5673 | HOISTING signifies the operation of drawing up any body by the assistance of one or more tackles. Hoisting is never applied to the act of pulling up any body by the help of a single block, except in extending the sails by drawing them upwards along the masts or stays, to which it is invariably applied.
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kp-eb0711-050701-5686 | HOLBEACH, a town of the county of Lincoln, in the hundred of Elloe, in the parish of Holland, 106 miles from London. It is situated in a marshy district, surrounded with excellent fen pasture. It is a place of great antiquity, but not well built. There is a market, which is held on Thursday. The inhabitants amounted in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050702-5686 | HOLBEIN, Hans, a celebrated painter, born at Basil in Switzerland in 1498. He learned the rudiments of his art under his father, who was a painter; but soon showed superior genius. In the town-house of Basil he painted Christ’s Passion, and in the fish-market of the same city Death’s Dance, and a Dance of Peasants, whi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050703-5686 | HOLD, the interior cavity of a ship, or all that part of her inside which is comprehended between the floor and the lower deck throughout her whole length. This capacious apartment usually contains the ballast, provisions, and stores of a ship of war, and the principal part of the cargo in a merchantman. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050704-5686 | HOLDER, William, an English divine, was born in Nottinghamshire, educated in Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and appointed rector of Blechingdon of Oxford in 1642. In 1660 he received the degree of doctor in divinity, and afterwards became canon of Ely, fellow of the Royal Society, canon of St Paul’s, sub-dean of the chapel ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050801-5699 | HOLDSWORTH, Edward, a polite and elegant scholar, was born about the year 1688, and educated at Winchester school. He was thence elected demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, in July 1705; took the degree of master of arts in April 1711; and then became a collegetutor, and had many pupils. In 1715, when about to be chosen ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050802-5699 | HOLDSWORTHY, a town of the county of Devon, in the hundred of Black-Torrington, 214 miles from London. It is in a pleasant situation between two branches of the river Tamar, which unite and run to Plymouth. There is a small market, which is held on Saturday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1045, in 1811 to 1206, in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050803-5699 | HOLESCHAU, a city of the circle of Hradesch, in the Austrian province of Moravia, on the river Nussawa. It contains 305 houses and 3733 inhabitants, of whom one third are Jews. It has considerable manufactures of woollens, and much internal trade. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050804-5699 | HOLINESS, or Sanctity, a quality which constitutes or denominates a person or thing holy, that is, pure, or exempt from sin. The word is also used in respect of persons and things that are sacred, or, in other words, set apart to the service of God, and the uses of religion.
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kp-eb0711-050805-5699 | HOLINSHED, Raphael, one of that humble but useful class of historians called chroniclers, was descended of a family which lived at Bosely in Cheshire; but neither the time nor place of his birth is known, nor indeed any other circumstance of his life. According to Bishop Tanner, he was educated at Cambridge, and became... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050806-5699 | HOLLAND, Dr Philemon, a noted translator, was descended of an ancient family in Lancashire, and educated in the university of Cambridge. He was for many years a schoolmaster at Coventry, where he also practised physic. He translated into English, Livy, Pliny’s Natural History, Plutarch’s Morals, Suetonius, Ammianus Mar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-050901-5712 | HOLLAND.
Holland is an European kingdom, formed in part of islands, but chiefly of that part of the Continent where the mouths of the Rhine are divided into several branches before it enters the German Ocean. This district is said to have owed the ancient name of Batavia, by which it was known to the Romans, to one Ba... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-053301-6024 | HOLLAND, New, the largest island in the world, reaching from 10° to 40° south latitude, and between 114° and 153° of east longitude from London. See the article Australasia for a general account of this immense island; and the article Wales, New South, for an account of the British Penal Colony established in it.
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kp-eb0711-053302-6024 | HOLLAR, Wenceslaus, a celebrated engraver, born at Prague in 1607. His parents were respectable, and he was at first designed for the study of the law. But the civil commotions which happened in his youth having ruined his family affairs, he was obliged to shift for himself; and discovering some genius for the arts, he... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-053303-6024 | HOLLOA, in nautical language, an exclamation of answer, to any person who calls to another to ask some question, or to give a particular order. It is also the answer in hailing a ship at a distance. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-053304-6024 | HOLM (Saxon, Hulmus, insula amnica), denotes an isle or fenny ground, according to Bede, or a river island. And where any place is called by that name, and this syllable is joined with any other in the names of places, it signifies a place surrounded with water, as the Flatholmes and Stepholmes in the Severn near Brist... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-053305-6024 | HOLMS, two islands in the Bristol Channel, distinguished by the appellation of the flat and the steep, which form part of the Welsh county of Glamorgan. On the former is a light-house, and a dwelling for those who superintend the lights, and a few other houses, with about fifty acres of cultivated land. The latter is a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-053306-6024 | HOLOCAUST (formed from caoj, whole, and κα∕w, to consume with fire), a kind of sacrifice, in which the whole offering is burned or consumed by fire, as an acknowledgment that God, the creator, preserver, and lord of all, was worthy of all honour and worship, and as a token of men’s giving themselves entirely up to him.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-053307-6024 | HOLOFERNES, lieutenant-general of the armies of Nebuchadonosor, king of Assyria, who having in a remarkable encounter overcome Arphaxad, king of the Medes, sent to all the neighbouring nations with an intention of obliging them to submit to his empire, pretending that there was no power capable of resisting him. At the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-053401-6037 | HOLOGRAPHUM (composed of οκος, all, and I write), in the civil law, something written wholly in the hand-writing of the person who signs it. The word is chiefly used in speaking of a testament written wholly in the testator’s own hand. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-053402-6037 | HOLSTEIN, a province of the kingdom of Denmark, one of those by which the king becomes a member of the Germanic confederacy. It was an ancient duchy, and the termination of the ancient German empire, from the year 811 till its dissolution. It is bounded on the north by Sleswick, from which it is separated by the river ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-053403-6037 | HOLT, Sir John, Lord Chief-Justice of the Court of King’s Bench in the reign of King William, eldest son of Sir Thomas Holt, serjeant-at-law, was born at Thame, Oxfordshire, in 1642. He entered himself at Gray’s Inn in 1658, and applied to the common law with so much industry that he soon became an eminent barrister. I... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-053501-6050 | HOLY GHOST, one of the persons of the Holy Trinity. See Trinity. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-053502-6050 | HOLYHEAD, a sea-port town in the island of Anglesey, in North Wales. It is situated on a peninsula at the western side of the island, and of late some great improvements have been made on the harbour, on one side of which is a light-house, on Salt Island, and another to the north-east, giving additional guidance to ves... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-053503-6050 | HOLY Island, a small island situated on the coast of England, ten miles south-east of Berwick, in Northumberland. Bede calls it a semi-island, being, as he observes, vice island and twice continent in one day; for at the flowing of the tide it is encompassed by water, and at the ebb there is a passage almost dry both f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-053504-6050 | HOLYWELL, a considerable town in the hundred of Mold, of the county of Flint, in North Wales, 207 miles from London. It derives its name from a spring to which numerous pilgrimages were formerly made, and which is still visited by some devout Catholics, who pay their devotions at the place once filled by the image of t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-053505-6050 | HOLZMINDEN, a city of the duchy of Brunswick, in Germany, the capital of the circle of the same name. It stands on the river Weser, and has on its banks excellent quays for landing and shipping goods. It is a well-built town, with a spacious market-place, two churches, a public school moderately endowed, and a good lib... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-053506-6050 | HOMBERG, William, a celebrated chemist, born at Batavia on the 8th of January 1652, was the son of a Saxon gentleman employed in the service of the Dutch East India Company. His father intended him for the army, but having afterwards settled at Amsterdam, William prosecuted his studies at that place, whence he removed ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-053601-6063 | HOMBURG, a market-town of France, in the department of the Moselle, and arrondissement of Sarguemi-nes. It contains 380 houses, and 1620 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-053602-6063 | HOME, Henry, Lord Kames, an eminent Scottish lawyer, and author of many celebrated works on various subjects, was descended of an ancient family, and born in Berwickshire in the year 1696. In his early youth he was lively, and eager in the acquisition of knowledge. He never attended a public school, but was instructed ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-053701-6076 | HOME, John, a Scottish dramatic writer of great celebrity, was born at Leith, on the 13th of September 1722. His father, Mr Alexander Home, was town-clerk of that place, and his mother was a daughter of Mr John Hay, a writer, or solicitor, in Edinburgh. He acquired the elementary branches of his classical education und... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-054101-6128 | HOMER, the greatest, and perhaps also the least known, of all poets. After so many ages, all the details of his life are still an object of doubt, and even his existence is a problem. Some represent him as a native of Egypt, the son of Damasgoras and Echras, whilst his nurse, a daughter of Horus, priest of Isis, was a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-054901-6232 | HOMICIDE signifies in general the taking away of the life of a human being. It is of three kinds; justifiable, excusable, and felonious. The first has no share of guilt at all; the second very little; but the third is the highest crime against the law of nature that man is capable of committing. See Penal Jurisprudence... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-054902-6232 | HOMILY, in ecclesiastical writers, a sermon or discourse upon some point of religion, delivered in a plain manner, so as to be easily understood by the common people. The word is Greek, i>μιλιa, formed from o∕z,∕λog, coetus, assembly or council.
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kp-eb0711-054903-6232 | HOMOGENEOUS, or Homogeneal (composed of the Greek words ô/jło¢, like, and /ív¢g, kind), is a term applied to various subjects, to denote that they consist of similar parts, or of parts of the same nature and kind; in contradistinction to heterogeneous, where the parts are of different natures or kinds. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-054904-6232 | HOMOLOGATION, in the civil law, the act of confirming or rendering a thing more valid and solemn, bÿ publication, repetition, or recognition thereof. The word comes from the Greek 6 1 uoaoy∕α, consent or assent, formed from 0 i <Aoς, similis, like, and aoyoς, from λsγeiv, dicere, to say; that is, to say the same thing,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-054905-6232 | HOMOLOGOUS, in Geometry, an appellation given to the corresponding sides and angles of similar figures. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-054906-6232 | HONDEKOOTER, Melchior, a Dutch painter, born at Utrecht, who excelled in painting animals, and especially birds. His father and grandfather were of the same profession, and their subjects the same. He was trained to the art by his father; but surpassed him, and even the best of his contemporaries. Till he was seventeen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-054907-6232 | HONDURAS, a settlement of Great Britain, in the southern part of the North American continent, and province of Yucutan. It is situated between the parallels of 17. and 19. north latitude, and 88. and 90. west longitude, on a peninsula which forms the Bay otCampeachy on the west and the Bay of Honduras on the east. Its ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-055201-6271 | HONE, a fine kind of stone, used for setting razors, pen-knives, and other cutting instruments. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-055202-6271 | HONEY, a sweet vegetable juice, collected by the bees from the flowers of various plants, and deposited in the cells of the honey-comb. See Bee. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-055203-6271 | HONFLEUR, a maritime city of France, in the arrondissement of Pont l ’ Eveque and department of Calvados. It is an ill-built town, situated on the Seine, opposite to Harfleur. There are four churches, 1027 houses, and 9780 inhabitants, who subsist partly by the fishery, and carry on some manufactures of vitriol, of alu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-055204-6271 | HONDSCHOOTE, a town of France, in the arrondissement of Dunkirk, in the department of the North. It stands on the canal leading from Bergucs to Fumes, contains 539 houses, and 3168 inhabitants. It is remarkable on account of the battle fought there in 1793, when the Duke of York, with the combined armies, advanced to t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-055205-6271 | HONITON, a market-town of the hundred of Axminster, in the county of Devon, 159 miles from London. It consists of one long street, on the great road from the metropolis to Exeter. It has suffered by frequent fires, and good houses have been constructed instead of those which were burned. The parish church is half a mil... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-055206-6271 | HONORIACI, in Antiquity, an order of soldiery under the eastern empire, who introduced the Goths, Vandals, Alani, Suevi, and other tribes, into Spain. Didymus and Verinianus, two brothers, had, with great vigilance and valour, defended the passages of the Pyrenees against the barbarians; but being at length killed, the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-055207-6271 | HONOUR, a testimony of esteem or submission, expressed by words, actions, and an exterior behaviour, by which we make known the veneration and respect ween-tertain[7:11:553] for any one on account of his dignity or merit. The word honour is also used in general for the esteem due to virtue, glory, and reputation. It is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-055301-6284 | HONOURABLE, a title conferred on the younger sons of earls and the sons of viscounts and barons; as also on such persons as have the king’s commission, and upon those who enjoy places of trust and honour. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-055302-6284 | HOOD, Robin, a famous outlaw and deer-stealer, who chiefly harboured in Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire. He was a man of family, and played his pranks about the end of the twelfth century. He was famous for archery, and for his hospitable treatment of all travellers who came in the way; levying contributions on the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-055303-6284 | HOOGHLY, anextensivedistrictin the province of Bengal, formerly called Saatgong, situated principally between the 21st and 22d degrees of north latitude, and extending a considerable distance along both sides of the river Hooghly. It is bounded on the north by the districts of Burdwan and Kishenagur, on the south by th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-055401-6297 | HOOK, in Angling. See Angling. Hooks of a Ship, are all those forked timbers which are placed directly upon the keel, as well in her run as in her rake.
Can-Hooκs, those which being made fast to the end of a rope with a noose, like that which brewers use to sling or carry their barrels on, are made use of for slings.
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kp-eb0711-055402-6297 | HOOKAH, amongst the Arabs and other nations of the East, is a pipe of a singularly-complicated construction, through which tobacco is smoked. Out of a small vessel of a globular form, and nearly full of water, issue two tubes, one perpendicularly, on which is placed the tobacco, the other obliquely from the side of the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0711-055403-6297 | HOOKE, Robert, an eminent English mathematician and philosopher, was the son of John Hooke, minister of Freshwater, in the Isle of Wight, where he was born in 1635. He very early discovered a genius for mechanics, by making curious toys with great art and dexterity. He was educated under Dr Busby in Westminster school,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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