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kp-eb0713-022904-4400 | LENHAM, a town in the hundred of Eyhorne, and lathe of Aylesford, in the county of Kent, forty-five miles from London and ten from Maidstone, situated at the source of the river Len. It had formerly a market, which has been long discontinued. The population amounted in 1801 to 1434, in 1811 to 1509, in 1821 to 1959, an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022905-4400 | LENNEP, a city, the capital of a circle of the same name, in the Prussian government of Dusseldorf. It is the chief seat of the fine broad cloth manufacture, in which machinery has been much extended of late years. It contains 480 houses, and about 5000 inhabitants, who have much increased, from the state of the trade. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022906-4400 | LENKEROON, a port of Ghilan, in Persia, on the Caspian. Its harbour, being much safer than that of Reshd, is more frequented by the merchants. It exports silk in considerable quantity. The Russians attempted to storm it, but were repulsed with great loss. It is 110 miles northwest of Reshd. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022907-4400 | LENNOX, or Dumbartonshire, a county of Scotland. See Dumbartonshire. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022908-4400 | LENS, a piece of glass, or any other transparent substance, the surfaces of which are so formed that the rays of light, by passing through it, are made to change their direction, either tending to meet in a point beyond the lens, or rendered parallel after .converging or diverging, or, lastly, proceeding as if they had... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-022909-4400 | LENT, a solemn time of fasting in the Christian church, observed as a time of humiliation before Easter, and the great festival of our Saviour’s resurrection.
Those who belong to the Catholic church, and some of the Protestant communion, maintain that it was always a fast of forty days, and, as such, of apostolical in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-023001-4413 | LENTINI, a parliamentary city of the island of Sicily, in the kingdom of Naples, and province of Noto, 120 miles from Palermo. It is situated on some broken ground above the Leontine fields. The situation is subject to malaria, and, though it contains 1400 houses, the inhabitants scarcely exceed 5000. The surrounding d... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-023002-4413 | LEO X. Pope, second son of Lorenzo de’ Medicis, was born at Florence in December 1475, and received the baptismal name of Giovanni, or John. He received the tonsure at seven years of age, his father having destined him for the church. Being even at that early period declared capable of clerical preferment, he obtained ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-023101-4426 | LEOMINSTER, a borough and market-town of the hundred of Wolphy, in Herefordshire, situated on the river Wye, 137 miles from London. It has a corporation, consisting of a high steward, bailiff, recorder, and twelve burgesses, and still sends, as before, two members to parliament. The church is a neat and spacious buildi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-023102-4426 | LEOBSHL 1 TZ, a city, the capital of a circle of the same name, in Prussian Silesia, situated at the foot of the mountains. It is surrounded with walls, and contains five Catholic churches, an hospital, 530 houses, and 3670 inhabitants employed in making woollens, hosiery, and linen goods. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-023103-4426 | LEOBEN, a city of Austria, in the circle of Bruch, in the province of Steycrmark. It stands on the river Mur, and is the see of a bishop; contains 278 houses, and 2200 inhabitants, who are employed in making iron. It is remarkable for the peace concluded at it in 1798, between Austria and France. Long. 15. 0. 25. E. La... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 23' 36" N 15 0' 25" E | LEOBEN |
kp-eb0713-023104-4426 | LEON, a province, or, as it is more commonly called by the natives, a kingdom, of Spain. Asturias bounds it on the north side, Galicia on the west, Estremadura and Old Castile on the south, and New Castile on the east. Its extent is 1207 square leagues, and the number of its inhabitants is 714,037. It is frequently div... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-023201-4439 | LEONARD, St, a city of France, in the department of the Upper Vienne, and arrondissement of Limoges. It is situated on the Vienne; was formerly surrounded with walls, now converted into pleasing promenades, planted with trees. It contains 410 houses, and 4950 inhabitants, who carry on manufactories of flannels and drug... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 50' N 1 25' E | LEONARD |
kp-eb0713-023202-4439 | LEONARDO da Vinci. See Vinci. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-023203-4439 | LEONESSA, a city of the kingdom of Naples, in the province Abruzzo Ulteriore. It stands on the river Corno, at the foot of the mountain Triglia. It contains 4719 inhabitants, who have some trade in corn, from living in a frontier town. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-023204-4439 | LEONIDAS I. king of Sparta, a renowned warrior, slain in defending the straits of Thermopylae against Xerxes, 480 B. c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-023205-4439 | LEONINE, in poetry, is applied to a kind of verses which rhyme at every hemistic, the middle always chiming to the end. The origin of the word is somewhat obscure. Pasquier derives it from one Leoninus or Leonius, who excelled in this species of composition, and dedicated several pieces to Pope Alexander III.; others d... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-023206-4439 | LEONTICA, feasts or sacrifices celebrated amongst the ancients in honour of the sun. They were called Leontica and the priests who officiated at them Leones, because they represented the sun under the figure of a lion radiant, bearing a tiara, and griping in his two fore paws the horns of a bull, which struggled with h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-023207-4439 | LEOPARD. See Mammalia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-023208-4439 | LEPANTO, a town of Turkey in Europe, the capital of the province Ainabachti. It is situated in a bay celebrated for a victory over the Turkish fleet, by Don Juan, in 1751. It is defended by two forts, and contains a population of 2000 persons, chiefly Greeks, who carry on several tanneries, and other trades. Long. 21. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 38 30' N 21 57' E | LEPANTO |
kp-eb0713-023209-4439 | LEPER’S Island, one of the New Hebrides, in the South Pacific Ocean, so called by Monsieur Bougainville, by whom it was visited in 1768. Long. 168. 4. E. Lat. 15. 21. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 15 21' N 168 4' E | LEPER’S |
kp-eb0713-023210-4439 | LEPID OPTERA, in Zoology, an order of insects with four wings, which are covered with imbricated scales. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-023211-4439 | LEPROSY, a cutaneous disease, appearing in dry, white, thin scabs, either on the whole body, or only on parts of it, and usually attended with a violent itching and other pains. The leprosy is of various kinds, but the Jews were particularly subject to that called Elephantiasis. Hence the Jewish law excluded lepers fro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-023212-4439 | LEPTUM, in Antiquity, a small piece of money, which, according to some, was only the eighth part of an obolus; but others think it was a silver or brass drachm. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-023213-4439 | LEPUS, the hare, in Astronomy, a constellation of the southern hemisphere, the stars of which in Ptolemy’s catalogue are twelve, in that of Tycho’s thirteen, and in the Britannic nineteen. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-023214-4439 | LERIDA, a city of Spain, in the province of Catalonia. It is strongly fortified, and in a situation favourable for defence. It was the brilliant theatre of one of the campaigns of Julius Caesar, and continued to be a place of military importance down to the war of the succession, when it supported the Austrian family; ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-023215-4439 | LERWICK, the principal, and, indeed, with the exception of Scalloway, a village containing a few scattered cottages, the only town in the Zetland Islands. It is situated [7:13:233]on the east side of Mainland, the largest island of the group, in latitude 60. north, and longitude 1. west. It consists of one irregular, i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-023301-4452 | LESBOS, a large island in the Aegean Sea, on the coast of Aetolia, about 168 miles in circumference. It has been successively called Pelasgia, from the Pelasgi,ļby whom it was first peopled; Macaria, from Macareus, who settled in it; and Lesbos, from the son-in-law and successor of Macareus, who bore the same name. The... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-023302-4452 | LESCAILLE, James, a Dutch poet and printer, was born at Geneva. He and his daughter Catherine Lescaille excelled most of the Dutch poets. But the latter, who was surnamed the Sappho of Holland, and the tenth muse, died in 1711. A collection of her poems has been printed, in which are the tragedies of Genseric Wenceslau... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-023303-4452 | LESGHISTAN, a territory of the Caucasus, bounded on the north by Circassia, and on the east by Daghestan. It is a stupendous range of mountains running in a south-easterly direction, of great length, but of inconsiderable breadth, and forming the whole north-eastern frontier of Georgia. Dr Reineggs describes this mount... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-023304-4452 | LESKARD, a market and borough town of Cornwall, in the hundred of West, 237 miles from London. It was incorporated by Queen Elizabeth, and is governed by a mayor, recorder, and twelve capital burgesses. Upon the hills to the north are many tin mines at work, and the country surrounding feeds many sheep, so that the chi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-023305-4452 | LESLEY, John, bishop of Ross, was born on the 29th of September 1527. In an account of his life for which he must himself have supplied the materials, he is said to have been born of honourable parents, and to have been a descendant of the ancient and noble family of Lesleys which then continued to flourish in Scotland... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-024001-4543 | LESLIE, Charles, was the second son of Dr John Leslie, bishop of Clogher, in Ireland, who was descended from an ancient family in the north of Scotland, and, being an admirable scholar, rose to the dignity of bishop of Orkney in his own country, whence he was, in the year 1633, translated to Raphoe, and afterwards, in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-025201-4699 | LESNAIA Reka, a river of Asiatic Russia, which flows through the government of Tobolsk, in Russia. Its course is towards the north, and it flows into the Frozen Ocean. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-025202-4699 | LESPARRE, an arrondissement of the department of the Gironde, in France, 742 square miles in extent. It contains four cantons, which are divided into thirty-seven communes, and it is peopled by 32,500 inhabitants. The capital is a town of the same name, situated on a swampy spot, whence a brook runs to the Gironde. It ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-025203-4699 | LESSER Tone, in Music. See Tone. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-025204-4699 | LESSINA, a large island in the Adriatic Sea, being a part of the Austrian province of Dalmatia. It extends over 396 square miles, and contains one city, three market-towns, and thirty villages, with 8819 inhabitants. Although the surface is both woody and mountainous, it has some beautiful and productive valleys, yield... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-025205-4699 | LESSINES, a city of the Netherlands, in the province of Hennegau, and arrondissement of Tournay, situated on the left bank of the Dender. It contains 3800 inhabitants, and has several breweries, distilleries, tanneries, and oil-mills. Long. 3. 43. E. Lat. 51. 4L N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-025206-4699 | LESSOE, an island belonging to the Danish province of Aaland. It is situated in the Cattegat, and contains, in three parishes, 1570 inhabitants, who subsist partly by fisheries and by pilotage. Long. 10. 45. E. Lat. 57. 23. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-025207-4699 | LESSONS, amongst ecclesiastical writers, portions of the Holy Scripture, which were read in Christian churches at the time of divine service.
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kp-eb0713-025208-4699 | LETCHLADE, a market-town in the hundred of Brightwells Barron, in Gloucestershire, seventy-six miles from London. It has some trade, from standing on the canal which joins the Thames with the Severn. There is a market on Tuesday. The population amounted in 1801 to 917, in 1811 to 993, in 1821 to 1154, and in 1831 to 12... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-025209-4699 | LETHARGY, in Medicine (from oblivion, and agy∕α, numbness, laziness'), a disease consisting of a profound drowsiness or sleepiness, from which the patient can scarcely be awaked; or, if awaked, he remains stupid, without sense or memory, and presently sinks again into his former sleep. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-025210-4699 | LETHE (from λαvdavω, to hide or conceaD, in the ancient mythology, one of the rivers of hell, signifying oblivion or forgetfulness; its waters, according, to poetic fiction, having the peculiar quality of making those who drank them forget everything that was past. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-025211-4699 | LETT, Gregorio, an eminent Italian writer, was descended of a family which once made a considerable figure at Bologna. Jerom, his father, was page to Prince Charles de’ Medicis; served some time in the troops of the grand duke as captain of foot; and married at Milan, where lie settled in 1628. He was afterwards govern... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-025301-4712 | LETRIM, a county of Ireland. See Leitrim. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-025302-4712 | LETTER, a character used to express one of the simple sounds of the voice. As the different simple sounds are expressed’by different letters, these, by being differently compounded, become the visible signs or characters of all the modulations and varieties of sound used to express our ideas in a regular language. Thus... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-025401-4725 | LETTITSCHEW, a circle of the province Podolia, in Russia. It extends in north latitude from 49. 6. to 49. 37. and in east longitude from 25. 9. to 27. 52. It is well watered by the Bug and the Wotschik, and has many extensive forests, with some fertile soil. The capital, a city of the same name, is 950 miles from Peter... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 40 22' 30" N 27 39' E | LETTITSCHEW |
kp-eb0713-025402-4725 | LEUCA, in Antiquity, a geographical measure of length, in use amongst the later Gauls, and which, according to Jornandes, who calls it leuga, contained fifteen hundred paces, or one mile and a half. Hence the name of league, in the lower age called leuva, and now reckoned at about threejʼnfiles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-025403-4725 | LEUCATA, or Leucate, in Ancient Geography, a promontory of Leucadia, being a white rock projecting into the sea towards Cephalonia, on which stood a temple of Apollo surnamed Leucadius. At the festival which was annually celebrated here, the people were accustomed to offer an expiatory sacrifice to the god, to avert al... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-025501-4738 | LEUCIPPUS, a celebrated Greek philosopher, respecting the exact period of whose birth and death we are ignorant. Neither is his birth-place known; but Diogenes Laertius, who furnishes us with a few facts respecting him, states that he was a native either of Velia in Italy, Abdera, or Miletus. According to Jamblichus, h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-025502-4738 | LEUCOMA, in Antiquity, was a public register amongst the Athenians, in which were inserted the names of all the citizens as soon as they were of age to enter upon their paternal inheritance. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-025503-4738 | LEUCOPETRIANS, in Ecclesiastical History, the name of a fanatical sect which sprang up in the Greek and eastern churches towards the close of the twelfth century. The fanatics of this denomination professed to believe in a double trinity; rejected wedlock; abstained from flesh; treat- -ed with the utmost contempt the s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-025504-4738 | LEUCOTHOE, or Leucothea, in fabulous history, the wife of Athamas, who was changed into a sea deity. She was the Matuta of the Romans, and had a temple at Rome, where all the people, particularly women, offered vows for their brothers’ children. They did not entreat the deity to protect their own children, because Ino ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-025505-4738 | LEUCTRA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Boeotia, to the west of Thebes, situated between Plataea and Thespia, where the Lacedaemonians sustained a terrible defeat by the Thebans under Epaminondas and Pelopidas. See Sparta. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-025506-4738 | LEUSDEN, John, a celebrated philologist, born in 1624. He studied the learned languages and mathematics at Utrecht, and then went to Amsterdam to converse with the rabbin, and perfect himself in the Hebrew tongue; after which he became professor of Hebrew at Utrecht, where he acquired a great reputation, and died in th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-025507-4738 | LEUTMERITZ, a circle in the Austrian kingdom of Bohemia, extending over 1394 square miles, containing forty-two cities and towns, 942 villages, and 54,060 houses, inhabited by 300,711 individuals. It is a romantic district of hills, covered with wood, and narrow valleys of considerable natural fertility. The Elbe carri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 31' 38" N 13 1' 33" E | LEUTMERITZ |
kp-eb0713-025508-4738 | LEUTSCHAU, a city of the circle of Zips, in the province of Hither Theiss, in Hungary. It is unfortified, and irregularly built, has a Catholic and a Lutheran church, and contains 866 houses, with 4340 inhabitants. It has much trade in brewing and distilling, and in wine, and is much frequented by pilgrims, who visit t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 49 0' 58" N 20 21' 5" E | LEUTSCHAU |
kp-eb0713-025509-4738 | LEUWENHOECK, Antony, a celebrated naturalist, was born at Delft in the year 1632, and died on the 26th of August 1723. The peculiar talent he displayed in cutting glasses for microscopes and spectacles at first procured him much reputation, owing to the superiority of the instruments he constructed; and he afterwards a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-025601-4751 | LEUZE, a city of the Netherlands, in the province of Hennegau, and arrondissement of Tournay. It is situated on the river Dender, about six miles from its source, contains 4500 inhabitants, and has a considerable trade in linen. Long. 3. 33. E. Lat. 50. 34. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 34' N 3 33' E | LEUZE |
kp-eb0713-025602-4751 | LEVANSO, an island in the Mediterranean Sea, near the western extremity of Sicily, four miles from Favignana. It is the Phorbantia of antiquity. It is nearly six miles in circumference, lofty, rugged, and, excepting at two or three places, inaccessible. It is inhabited, and furnishes corn, wine, oil, and cotton, and fa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 38 1' 36" N 12 20' 29" E | LEVANSO |
kp-eb0713-025603-4751 | LEVANT, in Geography, signifies any country situated to the eastward of us, or in the eastern part of any continent or country, or in that quarter where the sun rises.
Levant is also a name given to the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, bounded by Anatolia or Asia Minor on the north, by Syria and Palestine on' th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-025604-4751 | LEVEL, an instrument which enables us to find a line or surface exactly level; that is, such as shall be everywhere parallel to the true horizon, or at right angles to the plumb-line or direction of gravity. It also enables us to find the difference between the heights of two or more places on the surface of the earth.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-025901-4790 | LEVELLING may be defined the art which enables us to find a line or surface exactly level, as also to find how much higher or lower any given point on the surface of the earth is than another.
The practice of levelling, therefore, consists, 1. in finding and marking two or more points that shall be on a level, as alre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026301-4842 | LEVEN, the name of arriver in Dumbartonshire, another in Fifeshire, and of a loch in Kinross-shire.
Leven, a town or large village of Scotland, on the coast of Fife. It consists of two principal streets, with numerous by-lanes and detached mansions. The staple trade of Leven is the weaving of linen goods, which employ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026302-4842 | LEVER, in Mechanics, is a bar of iron or wood, one part of which being supported by a fulcrum, all other parts turn upon that as their centre of motion. This instrument is of two kinds. First, the common sort, where the weight which we desire to raise resting at one end, our strength is applied at the other, and the fu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026303-4842 | LEVERET, amongst sportsmen, denotes a hare in the first year of her age. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026304-4842 | LEVIGATION, in Pharmacy and Chemistry, the reducing hard and ponderous bodies to an impalpable powder, by grinding them on a porphyry, or in a mill. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026305-4842 | LEVITE, in a general sense, means all the descendants of Levi, amongst whom were the Jewish priests themselves, who, being descended from Aaron, were likewise of the race of Levi. In a more particular sense, Levite is used to signify an order of officers in that church, who were employed in performing the manual servic... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026306-4842 | LEVITICUS, a canonical book of the Old Testament, so called from its containing the laws and regulations relative to the priests, Levites, and sacrifices. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026307-4842 | LEVROUX, a town of France, in the department of the Indre, and the arrondissement of Chateauroux. It stands on the river Nahon, and contains 330 houses, with 2900 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026308-4842 | LEWES, a borough-town of the rape of Swanbrough, in the county of Sussex, situated on the right bank of the Ouse, from which it gradually rises, forty-nine miles from London. It stands at the foot of the chalk hills, and is well built and pleasantly situated. It was anciently walled, and still retains the remains of an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026309-4842 | LEWIS, one of the largest of the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland, extending about eighty miles in length from north to south, and from thirteen to fourteen in breadth, consisting of a great number of isles and rocks, and parted by the sea into two divisions, called Lewis and Harris, the’ former lying to the we... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026501-4868 | LEWISHAM, a parish in the hundred of Blackheath 'and county of Kent, six miles from London, situated on a branch of the river Broxbourne. It is chiefly inhabited by the richer class of citizens of the metropolis as their country retreats. The church is an elegant modern structure, rebuilt since it was destroyed by a fi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026502-4868 | LEXIARCHI, at Athens, six officers, assisted by thirty inferior ones, whose business it was to impose fines upon such as came not to the public assemblies, and also to make scrutinies amongst such as were present. The lexiarchi kept a register of the age, manners, and abilities of the citizens, who were always enrolled... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026503-4868 | LEXICON, the same with dictionary. The word is chiefly used in speaking of Greek dictionaries, and is derived from the Greek λεξις, word, diction, from λεγω,' I speak. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026504-4868 | LEXINGTON, a town of Kentucky. See Kentucky. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026505-4868 | LEYDEN, a circle of Holland, divided into three cantons, viz. Leyden, Noordwyk, and Woubrugge, and containing about 60,000 inhabitants. The city of Leyden, which gives its name to the circle, is situated on both sides of a branch of the river Rhine, which, though diminished by other branches that take their course to t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026801-4907 | LEYRIA, a city of Portugal, in the province of Estremadura. It is situated on the banks of the river Lis, at its confluence with a smaller stream, and was formerly a royal residence, well fortified. Its inhabitants are now estimated to amount to 4000. It is the see of a bishop, and contains a cathedral, two parish chur... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026802-4907 | LEYTA, one of the southernmost of the Philippines, ninety-five miles in length by thirty-eight in breadth. The soil is fertile, and the mountains abound in deer, wild hogs, and fowls. The air is pure, healthy, and temperate. A chain of mountains runs through the island in a direction north-west and south-east; and so m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026803-4907 | LEYTON, Low, a village in the hundred of Becontree, in the county of Essex, six miles from London, on the border of Epping Forest. It is chiefly filled with houses used as country-seats by the richer traders of the metropolis, and is supposed to have been a Roman station under the name of Durolitum. The population amou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026804-4907 | LEZOUX, a city of France, in the department of the Puy-de-Dôme, 4 and arrondissement of Rioum, containing an hospital, 570 houses, and 3450 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026805-4907 | LHUYD, or Lhoyd, Humphrey, a learned antiquary of the sixteenth century, born at Denbigh. He applied himself to the study of physic, and, living mostly within the walls of Denbigh Castle, practised there as a physician, and died in 1570, with the character of a well-bred gentleman. He wrote and translated several piece... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026901-4920 | LIANCOURT, a town of the arrondissement of Clermont, in the department of the Oise. It is situated on the river Bresche, and contains about 1200 inhabitants; and it is remarkable for the castle and park of the duke of the same name. It is celebrated for its manufactures of cambrics, lenos, lawns, and cotton goods of th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026902-4920 | LIBANIUS, a Greek rhetorician and sophist in the fourth century, was born at Antioch, and shared the friendship of Julian the Apostate. That prince offered him the dignity of profectus proctorio ; but Libanius refused it, thinking the name of sophist, or professor of eloquence, much more honourable. There are still ext... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026903-4920 | LIBANOMANTIA, in Antiquity, a species of divination, performed with frankincense, which, if it presently caught fire, and sent forth a grateful odour, was esteemed a happy omen, and vice versa. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026904-4920 | LIBANUS, a lofty mountain of Syria, the ancient Lebanon, so celebrated in Scripture. Its direction is nearly north and south, from the vicinity of Tripoli to the borders of Palestine. Its distance from the Mediterranean is from thirty to forty miles. To the east there is the parallel chain of Anti-Libanus, which is cov... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026905-4920 | LIBATION, amongst the Greeks and Romans, was an essential part of solemn sacrifices. It was also performed alone, as a drink-offering, by way of procuring the protection and favour of the gods in the ordinary affairs of life. Libations, according to the nature of the gods in honour of whom they were made, consisted of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026906-4920 | LIBEL (libellus famosus), taken in its largest and most extensive sense, signifies any writing, picture, or the like, of an immoral or illegal tendency; but, in a peculiar sense, it denotes a malicious defamation of any person, and especially of a magistrate, made public either by printing or by writing, by signs or by... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026907-4920 | LIBELLA, a piece of money amongst the Romans, being the tenth part of the denarius, and equal in value to the as. It was called libella, as being a little pound, because equal to a pound of brass. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-026908-4920 | LIBELLI, the name given to the bills which were put up amongst the Romans, giving public notice of the time [7:13:270]when a show of gladiators would be exhibited, with the number of the combatants, and other circumstances. This was called munus pronunciare or proponere. The libelli or bills were sometimes termed edict... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-027001-4933 | LIBERA, in Mythology, the name of a goddess, which Cicero, in his book De Naturd Deorum, represents as the daughter of Jupiter and Ceres. Ovid, in his Fasti, says, that the name was given by Bacchus to Ariadne. Libera is exhibited on medals as a kind of female Bacchus, crowned with vine leaves. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-027002-4933 | LIBERAL ARTS, are such as depend more on the labour of the mind than on that of the body; or, which consist more in speculation than operation, and have a greater regard to enlightened amusement and curiosity than to necessity. The word comes from the Latin liberalis, which amongst the Romans signified a person who was... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-027003-4933 | LIBERALIA, feasts celebrated by the ancient Romans, in honour of Liber or Bacchus, and the same with those which the Greeks called Dionysiaca. They derived their name from liber, free, a title conferred on Bacchus in memory of the liberty or freedom which he granted to the people of Boeotia; or, perhaps, because wine, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-027004-4933 | LIBERIA, an American colony, situated on the western coast of Africa. This territory was purchased from the native chiefs in 1821, by the American Colonization Society, for the purpose of forming an establishment for liberated negroes belonging to America, who, by the prejudices of the country, are regarded as beings o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-027101-4946 | LIBERTINES, Libertini, in ecclesiastical history, a religious sect which arose in the year 1525, and the principal tenets of which were, that the Deity was the sole operating cause in the mind of man, and the immediate author of all human actions; that, consequently, the distinctions of good and evil, which had been es... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-027102-4946 | LIBERTUS, or Libertinus, amongst the Romans, a freedman, or a person set free from a legal servitude.
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kp-eb0713-027103-4946 | LIBERTY denotes a state of freedom, in contradistinction to slavery or restraint, and may be considered either as natural or as civil.
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kp-eb0713-027201-4959 | LIBERTY OF THE PRESS.
I. nature and objects of the inquiry. The task of pointing out which of the acts, capable of being committed by the press, it would be expedient to prohibit under penalties, we trust will be found to be greatly diminished, by what we have already established in the articles Government and Jurispr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-028501-5128 | LIBITINA, in the Roman mythology, the goddess who presided over funerals. This goddess was the same with the Venus Infera or Epithymbia of the Greeks. She had a temple at Rome, where a certain piece of money was lodged for every person who died, and whose name was recorded in a register called Libitinoe Patio. This pra... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-028502-5128 | LIBITINARII, were undertakers whose office it was to take care of funerals, prepare all things necessary upon this solemn occasion, and furnish every article required. They obtained their livelihood by this gloomy business, and kept a number of servants to perform the working part of the profession, such as the pollinc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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