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kp-eb0713-028503-5128 | LIBNA, in Ancient Geography, a sacerdotal city in the f tribe of Judah, a place of strength, as appears from Sennacherib’s laying siege to it (2 Kings, xix.; Isaiah, xxxvii.). In Jerome’s time, it was a village, called Lobna, in the territory of Elcutheropolis∙ | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-028504-5128 | LIBOURNE, an arrondissement of the department of the Gironde, in France, 544 square miles in extent. It comprehends nine cantons, which are divided into 143 communes, and contain 105,400 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on the right bank of the Dordogne, where the water of the river Isle ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-028505-5128 | LIBRA, or Balance, one of the mechanical powers. See Balance. Libra, in Astronomy, one of the twelve signs of the zodiac, exactly opposite to Aries, and so called because when the sun is in this sign at the autumnal equinox, the days and nights are equal, as if weighed in a balance. The stars in this constellation are,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-028506-5128 | LIBRARII, amongst the ancients, were a sort of copyists who transcribed in beautiful or at least legible characters, what had been written by the notarii in notes and abbreviations. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-028507-5128 | LIBRARIES.
Library, in common language, means either an apartment or edifice destined to contain books placed regularly upon shelves, or the books themselves which are therein disposed and arranged. It is in the latter sense only that the term is employed in the present article. The necessity of preserving, in distinc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-031801-5557 | LIBRATION, in Astronomy, an apparent irregularity of the moon’s motion, by which she seems to librate about her axis, sometimes from the east to the west, and at other times from the west to the east. See Astronomy, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-031802-5557 | LIBURNIA, in Ancient Geography, a district of Illyricum, extending towards the Adriatic, between Istria on the west, Dalmatia on the east, and Mount Albius on the north. The people were called Liburni. The apparitors, who at the command of the magistrate summoned the people from the country, were called Liburni, becaus... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-031803-5557 | LIBURNUS, in Ancient Geography, a mountain of Campania. It was also a port of Tuscany, and is now Livorno, or Leghorn. Long. 11. E. Lat. 43. 30. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-031804-5557 | LIBYA, in general, a term which, according to the Greeks, denoted Africa. It was derived from Lub, thirst, being a dry and thirsty country. See Africa. Libya, in a more limited sense, was the middle part of Africa, extending north and west, between the Mediterranean to the north, and Ethiopia to the east. It was divide... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-031805-5557 | LICENSE, in Larv, an authority given to a person to do some lawful act. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-031806-5557 | LICENSER of Books, an officer without whose permission, formally granted, no book could be published. It has been proved by Beckman that such an office was established, not only in the Roman empire, but also in the states of Greece. All the copies of the works of Protagoras which could be procured were burned at Athens... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-031807-5557 | LICENTIATE, one who has obtained the degree of a license. The greater number of the officers of justice in Spain are distinguished by no other title than that of licentiate. In order to pass as licentiate in common law, civil law, and physic, they must have studied seven years, and in divinity ten. Amongst us a licenti... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-031808-5557 | LICETUS, a celebrated physician of Italy, was born at Rappollo, in the state of Genoa, in the year 1577. He came into the world in the seventh month; but his father, an ingenious physician, wrapped him up in cotton, and nurtured him so carefully that he lived to be seventy-seven [7:13:319]years of age. He was trained w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-031901-5570 | LICHTENBERG, a part of the duchy of Saxe-Coburg, but detached from the other territory of that state. It is situated to the west of the Rhine, surrounded by the lands of Prussia, Bavaria, and Hesse-Homberg. It extends over 248 square miles, contains two towns, ninety-six villages, 4038 houses, and 26,315 inhabitants. T... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-031902-5570 | LICHTENSTEIN, a sovereign principality, one of the smallest in Germany. It is situated on the frontier of Switzerland and the Tyrol, and borders on the Rhine. It is fifty-five square miles in extent, and contains 1207 houses, in two towns and nine villages, with 5800 inhabitants. The revenue is said to be about L.2000 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-031903-5570 | LICHTERVELDE, a town of the Netherlands, in the province of West Flanders, and arrondissement of Bruges. It contains 4250 inhabitants, who are employed in linen manufactures. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-031904-5570 | LICINIUS Stolo, a Roman tribune, styled Stolo on account of a law he made, whilst tribune, that no Roman citizen should possess more than 500 acres of land; alleging,-that when they occupied more, they could not cultivate it with care, nor pull up the useless shoots (stolones) which grow from the roots of trees. He is ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-031905-5570 | LICNON, in the Dionysiae solemnities, the mystical van of Bacchus, a thing so essential to all the solemnities of this god, that they could not be duly celebrated without it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-031906-5570 | LICNOPHORI, in the Dionysiae solemnities, those who carried the licnon. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-031907-5570 | LICODIA, a city of the island of Sicily, in the kingdom of Naples, and province of Noto. It stands on a steep rock, rising above the river Dirillo, known as the Euboea of Strabo. It is in a healthy situation, and contains 6950 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-031908-5570 | LICOLA, or Lago di Licola, a lake in the kingdom of Naples, anciently famous for excellent fish; but, in the year 1538, an explosion of a volcano changed one part of it into a mountain of ashes, and the other into a morass. It was anciently known by the name of the Lucrine Lake, the oysters of which are highly commende... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-031909-5570 | LICTORS, amongst the Romans, were officers established by Romulus, who always attended the chief magistrates when they appeared in public. The duty of their office consisted of three parts: 1. Suhmotiο, or clearing the way for the magistrate they attended. This they did by word of mouth; or, if there was occasion, by u... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-031910-5570 | LIE, in morals, denotes a criminal breach of veracity. Archdeacon Paley, in treating of this subject, observes, that there are falsehoods which are not lies, that is, which are not criminal; and that there are lies which are not literally and directly false.
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kp-eb0713-032001-5583 | LIEFKENSHOEK, a strong fortress of the Netherlands, in the province of East Flanders. It stands on the left bank of the Scheldt, opposite Lillo, and with it forms the chief defence of that river. It has four bastions, two ravelins, a ditch, and counterscarp, with only one gate towards the water; and the whole country o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-032002-5583 | LIEGE (Ligius) properly signifies a vassal, who holds a kind of fee, that binds him in a closer obligation to his lord than other people. The term seems to be derived from the French lier, to bind, on account of a ceremony used in rendering faith or homage; which was by locking the vassal’s thumb or his hand in that of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-032003-5583 | LIEGNITZ, one of the governments into which the Prussian province of Silesia is divided, comprising the north-western part of Upper Silesia, and a part of Upper Lausatia. It extends over 4158 square miles. It comprises thirty-five cities or walled towns, and 1383 smaller [7:13:321]towns and villages, and 713,362 inhabi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-032101-5596 | LIER, or Lierre, a city of the Netherlands, in the province of Antwerp, and arrondissement of Mechlin. It stands at the junction of two small streams, which, when united, form the river Neethe. It contains 10,500 inhabitants, who are industriously occupied in distilleries, breweries, oil-mills, salt-works, and in print... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-032102-5596 | LIEVENS, John or Jan, a celebrated painter, was born at Leyden in 1607. He discovered an early inclination for the arts, and was the disciple, first of Joris van Schooten, and afterwards of Peter Lastman. He excelled principally in painting portraits, but he also executed several historical subjects with great success.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-032103-5596 | LIEOU-KIEOU, or Loo-Choo. See Loo-Choo. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-032104-5596 | LIEUTAUD, Joseph, counsellor of state and first physician at the court of France, was born at Aix, in Provence, and resided principally there till he took the degree of doctor of physic. After this he prosecuted his studies for some years at Montpellier, and having returned to Aix, he soon acquired extensive practice, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-032105-5596 | LIEUTENANT, an officer who supplies the place and discharges the office of a superior in his absence. Of these, some are civil, as the lord-lieutenants of kingdoms, and the lord-lieutenants of counties; and others are military, as the lieutenant-general, lieutenant-colonel, &c.
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kp-eb0713-032106-5596 | LIFE is peculiarly used to denote the animated state of living creatures, or the time during which the union of the soul and body lasts. See Physiology. Life, Duration of. See Mortality. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-032107-5596 | LIFE-PRESERVERS.
Although it too frequently happens, that an accident, which materially endangers the life of an individual, deprives him, in the mean time, of that presence of mind which alone would enable him to take proper measures for his safety; yet to have meditated, in an interval of leisure, upon the best meth... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-032801-5687 | LIGATURE, in Surgery, is a cord, band, or string, or the binding any part of the body with a cord, band, fillet, &c. whether of leather, linen, or any other matter. See Surgery. Ligature is also used to signify a kind of bandage or fillet, tied round the neck, arm, leg, or other part of the bodies of men or beasts, to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-032802-5687 | LIGATURES, amongst printers, are types consisting of two letters or characters joined together; as φ, ff,fl, fi. The old editions of Greek authors are extremely full of ligatures; but the ligatures of Stephens are by much the most beautiful. Some editions have been printed without any ligatures at all; and there was a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-032901-5700 | LIGHT.
SECT. I. HISTORY OF THE SUBJECT.
The nature and properties of the agent on which vision depends have been objects of philosophical disquisition from ancient times. The earliest speculations which have reached us on this subject are those of Pythagoras, who considered vision as produced by particles continually... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-034301-5882 | LIGHTER, a large, open, flat-bottomed vessel, generally managed with oars, and employed to carry goods to or from a ship when she is to be laden or delivered. There are also some lighters furnished with a deck throughout their whole length, in order to contain those merchandises which would be damaged by rainy weather.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-034302-5882 | LIGHTFOOT, John, a learned English divine, was the son of a divine, and born in March 1602, at Stoke-upon-Trent, in Staffordshire. After having finished his studies at a school on Morton Green, near Congleton in Cheshire, he was removed in 1617 to Cambridge, where he applied himself to the study of eloquence, and succe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-034401-5895 | LIGHTING of Streets. This invention, which is generally considered as of modern date, contributes greatly to the convenience and safety of the inhabitants of large cities, as well as to the ornament of their streets. It is not probable that the streets of ancient Rome were lighted, since the Romans considered the use o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-034501-5908 | LIGHTNING, a bright and. vivid flash of fire, suddenly appearing in the atmosphere, and commonly disappearing in an instant, sometimes attended with clouds and thunder, and sometimes not.
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kp-eb0713-034502-5908 | LIGULATED, amongst botanists, is an appellation given to such flosculesas have a straight end turned downwards, with three indentures, but not separated into segments. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-034503-5908 | LIGURIA, in Ancient Geography, a country of Italy, bounded upon the south by the Mediterranean Sea, upon the north by the Appenine Mounta⅛s, upon the west by part of Transalpine Gaul, and upon the east by Etruria. There is a great disagreement amongst authors concerning the origin of the Ligurians, though most probably... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-034504-5908 | LILBURNE, John, an enthusiastic demagogue, who was tyrannically punished by the star-chamber court, being put in the pillory, whipped, fined, and imprisoned, for importing and publishing seditions pamphlets, printed in Holland, and which chiefly reflected on the church of England and its bishops. He suffered imprisonme... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-034505-5908 | LILIACEOUS, in Botany, an appellation given to such flowers as resemble those of the lily. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-034506-5908 | LILLO, George, an excellent dramatic writer, was born at London in 1693. He was a jeweller by profession, and followed his business for many years in that neighbourhood with a fair reputation. He was at the same time strongly attached to the muses, yet seemed to have laid it down as a maxim, that the devotion paid to t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-034507-5908 | LILLY, John, a dramatic poet, was born in the Wealds of Kent, about the year 1553, and educated in Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took the degree of bachelor of arts in 1573, and that of master in 1575. From Oxford he removed to Cambridge; but how long he continued there is uncertain. On his arrival in London, he b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-034601-5921 | LILYBAEUM, in Ancient Geography, a city of Sicily, situated on the most westerly promontory of the island, and said to have been founded by the Carthaginians on their expulsion from Motya by Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse. It is remarkable for the three sieges it sustained; one by Dionysius the tyrant, another by Pyrrhu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-034602-5921 | LILYE, William, a grammarian, was born in the year 1466 at Oldham in Hampshire, and in 1486 admitted a serai-commoner o. Magdalen College, Oxford. Having taken the degree of bachelor of arts, he left the university, and travelled to Jerusalem. Returning thence, he continued five years in the island of Rhodes, where he ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-034603-5921 | LIMA, a department of the republic of Peru, in South America, bounded on the north by Truxillo, on the east by Junin and Ayacucho, on the south by Arequipa, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. The Cordillera of the Andes ranges along its eastern side. The climate is considered as fine; and although the atmosphere is ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-034701-5934 | LIMASSOL, or Limisso, a town of Cyprus, in the south of the island. Of the ancient city, nothing but ruins now remain, though it was a celebrated place, even under the government of the dukes. King Richard, the conqueror of the last of these vassals of the empire, razed it in 1191, and it was never afterwards rebuilt. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-034702-5934 | LIMB, in general, denotes the border or edge of a thing. Thus we say, the limb of a quadrant, of the sun, t of a leaf, and so forth.
Limb, in Anatomy, an appellation given to the extremities of the body, as to the arms and legs.
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kp-eb0713-034703-5934 | LIMBAT, the name of a periodical wind, common in the island of Cyprus, and of great service in moderating the heats of the climate, which would otherwise be intolerable. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-034704-5934 | LIMBORCH, Philip, a learned writer amongst the Remonstrants, was born at Amsterdam in 1633. After having made great proficiency in his studies, he was, in 1655, admitted to preach in public, which he did first at Haerlem. His sermons had in them no affected eloquence, but were solid, methodical, and edifying. He was ch... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-034801-5947 | LIMBURG, a city of the Netherlands, in the province of Liège, and arrondissement of Verviers. It is fortified, and stands on the river Besdre, and, including its suburb Dalhem, contains 320 houses, and 2000 inhabitants. Long. 5. 58. E. Lat. 50. 40. N.
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kp-eb0713-034802-5947 | LIMERICK, a maritime county of the province of Munster, in Ireland, is bounded on the north by the estuary of the Shannon and the county of Tipperary, on the east by the same county, on the south by the county of Cork, and on the west by that of Kerry. In extent of surface it ranks as tenth amongst the counties of Irel... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-035001-5973 | LIMIT, in a restricted sense, is used by mathematicians for a determined quantity to which a variable one continually approaches; in which sense, the circle may be said to be the limit of its circumscribed and inscribed polygons. In Algebra, the term limit is applied to two quantities, one of which is greater and the o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-035002-5973 | LIMITED Problem denotes a problem that has but one solution, or some determinate number of solutions; as to describe a circle through three given points that do not lie in a right line, which is limited to one solution only; to divide a parallelogram into two equal parts by a line parallel to one side, which admits of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-035003-5973 | LIMNING, the art of painting in water-colours, in contradistinction to painting executed in oil-colours.
Limning is by much the more ancient kind of painting.
Till a Flemish painter, John van Eyck, better known by the name of John of Bruges, found out the art of painting in oil, the painters all painted in water and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-035004-5973 | LIMOGES, an arrondissement in the department of the Upper Vienne, in France, 769 square miles in extent. It comprehends nine cantons, divided into eighty-three communes, containing 89,500 inhabitants. The capital of the department, as well as that of the arrondissement, is the city of the same name, situated on the rig... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-035005-5973 | LIMOUX, an arrondissement of the department of the Aude, in France, 762 square miles in extent. It comprehends eight cantons, divided into 151 communes, and is inhabited by 71,800 persons. The capital is a city of the same name, situated in a district abounding in good wine, on the river Aude. It contains 1050 houses, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 43 5' N 2 11' E | LIMOUX |
kp-eb0713-035006-5973 | LINACRE, Thomas, a physician, was born at Canterbury about the year 1460, and educated there under the learned William Selling. He thence removed to Oxford, and in 1484 was chosen fellow of All-Souls’ College. Selling, his former instructor, being at this time appointed ambassador from King Henry VII. to the court of R... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-035101-5986 | LINCOLN, a city, the capital of the county of that name, 133 miles from London, situated at the bottom, on the side, and the top of a lofty hill, which rises from the banks of the river Wilham. It was formerly walled, and the castle, now converted into the county prison, still remains. The cathedral is on the summit of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-035102-5986 | LINCOLNSHIRE, an English maritime county. It is bounded on the north by Yorkshire, on the east by the German Ocean and Norfolk, on the south by Cambridge, Northampton, and Rutland shires, and on the west by Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire. Its greatest length is seventy-three miles, and its greatest breadth forty-ei... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-035301-6012 | LINDESFARN, or Landisfarn. See Holy-Island. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-035302-6012 | LINDSAY, Sir David, a Scotish poet of high reputation, descended from a younger branch of the family of Lord Lindsay of Byres, was the eldest son of David Lindsay, who possessed the estate of Garmylton in the county of Haddington, and that of the Mount in the county of Fife. The honour of the poet’s birth belongs to Fi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-035801-6077 | LINDSEY, the third and largest division of the county of Lincoln, in England. On the east and north it is washed by the sea, into which it runs out with a large front; on the west it has Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, from which it is parted by the rivers Trent and Dun; on the south it has Kestoven, from which it is se... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-035802-6077 | LINDUS, in Ancient Geography, a town of Rhodes, situated on a hill on the western side of the island. It was built by Elepolemus the son of Hercules, according to Diodorus Siculus; but by one of the Heliades, grandsons of the Sun, named Lindus, according to Strabo. It was the native place of Cleobulus, one of the wise ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-035901-6090 | LINE, in Geometry, a quantity extended in length only, without breadth or thickness. It is formed by the flux or motion of a point.
Line, in the art of war, is understood of the disposition of an army ranged in order of battle, with the front extended out, so that it may not be flanked.
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kp-eb0713-035902-6090 | LINEAMENT, amongst painters, is used for the outlines of a face. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-035903-6090 | LINEAR Numbers, in Mathematics, such as have relation to length only; like a number which represents one side of a plain figure. If the plain figure be a square, the linear figure is called a root. Linear Problem, that which may be solved geometrically by the intersection of two right lines. This is called a simple pro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-035904-6090 | LINEN (in German, linηeη, leinwand’), a species of cloth usually made of thread of flax, but sometimes also of hemp. Linen seems to have been known and manufactured in Egypt from the earliest times, and used, if not as an article of ordinary dress, at least in swathing the bodies of the dead. But it was not worn by the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-036201-6129 | LINGEN, a city of the province of Osnaburg, in the kingdom of Hanover, the capital of a bailiwick of the same name. It is situated on the river Ems, which is only navigable thereto for a few months in the year. It is surrounded with ditches, contains a Catholic, a Reformed, and a Lutheran church, 380 houses, and 1930 i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-036202-6129 | LINKOPING, a province in the south of Sweden, which extends in north latitude from 57.41. to 59. 1., and in east longitûde from 14. 26. to 17. 1., including 4510 square miles. It is a most picturesque country, covered with mountains, hills, lakes, rivers, and forests, but inhabited by only 165,000 inhabitants, in five ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-036203-6129 | LINLITHGOW, the capital of the county of that name, and once a place of some importance, is pleasantly situated on the bank of a fine lake, sixteen miles west from Edinburgh, and thirty-one east from Glasgow. It consists chiefly of a single street, running east and west along the south bank of the lake, containing many... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-036204-6129 | LINLITHGOWSHIRE, or West-Lothian, a county in Scotland, having the Frith of Forth on the north, Edinburghshire or Mid-Lothian on the east and south-east, Lanarkshire on the south-west, and Stirlingshire on the west, is situated between 55. 49. and 56. 1. north latitude, and 3. 18. and 3. 51. west longitude from Greenwi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-036401-6155 | LINNAEUS, or Linné, Sir Charles, a celebrated botanist and natural historian, was born on the 24th of May 1707, in a village called Roeshult, in Smaland, where his father, Nicholas Linné or Linnaeus, was then vicar, but afterwards preferred to the curacy of Stenbrohult. It is said, that on the farm where Linnaeus was b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-036801-6207 | LINOSA, an island in the Mediterranean Sea, belonging to the kingdom of Naples. It is about six miles in circumference, and entirely volcanic, with an extinct crater in [its eastern side, and three others, smaller, but distinctly marked, in other parts. It is uninhabited. Long. 12. 52. 9. E. Lat. 35. 51. 50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-036802-6207 | LINT. See Flax and Linen. Lint, in Surgery, is the scrapings of fine linen, used by surgeons in dressing wounds. It is made into various forms, which acquire different names according to the difference of the figures. Lint made up in an oval or orbicular form is called a pledgit ; if in a cylindrical form, or in the sh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-036803-6207 | LINTON, a market-town of Cambridgeshire, in the hundred of Chilford, forty-six miles from London, and ten from Cambridge. The ancient Roman road, the Ikeneld Street, runs to this town, and the river Granta flows at the end of it. The market day is Thursday. The population amounted in 1801 to 1157, in 1811 to 1373, in 1... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-036804-6207 | LINTSTOCK, in military affairs, a wooden staff about three feet long, having a sharp point in one end, and a sort of fork or crotch on the other; the latter serving to contain a lighted match, whilst by the former the lintstock is occasionally stuck in the ground, or in the deck of a ship during an engagement. It is fr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-036805-6207 | LINZ, a city of Austria, in the circle of Muhlviertel, and province of Upper Ens. It is the capital of the province and the circle, and stands on the right bank of the Danube. It is a well-built city, with three suburbs, a fine market-place, and a castle upon a hill which overlooks it. It contains three churches, three... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-036806-6207 | LINUS, in classical history, a native of Colchis, who was contemporary with Orpheus, and one of the most ancient poets and musicians of Greece. It is impossible, at this distance of time, to discover whether Linus was the disciple of Orpheus, or Orpheus of Linus. The majority, however, seem to decide this question in f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-036807-6207 | LIONCELLES, in Heraldry, a term used for, several lions borne in the same coat of arms. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-036808-6207 | LIOTARD, called the Turk, an eminent painter, was born at Geneva in 1702, and was intended by his father to be a merchant; but, by the persuasion of his friends, who observed the genius of the young man, he was permitted to give himself up to the art of painting. u He went to Paris in 1725, and in 1738 accompanied to R... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-036901-6220 | LIPARI, the collective name of a group of islands in the Mediterranean Sea, forming a part of the kingdom of Naples. They were known in the most remote ages as the Ephestiades, in the subsequent centuries as the Aeolian Islands, and latterly have commonly borne the name of the most considerable of their number. Accordi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-037001-6233 | LIPES, a province of Bolivia, or Upper Peru, in the department of Potosi, abouζsixty leagues long from northwest to south-east, and twenty in breadth. It was formerly a place of great wealth, possessing a considerable number of valuable mines; but many of them have been abandoned on account of the breaking in of water.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-037002-6233 | LIPEZK, a circle in the Russian province of Tambow, extending from north latitude 52. 6. to 52. 4., and from east longitude 39. 18. to 40. 32., and containing 1208 square miles. It consists of an extended plane, which includes some steppes, and is more abundant in corn than in wood. It is watered by the rivers Woronesh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 52 50' N 39 45' E | LIPEZK |
kp-eb0713-037003-6233 | LIPPA, a fortified town of the circle of Arad, in the province of Farther Theiss, in Hungary. It stands on the river Maros, has a Catholic and a Greek church, and is the seat of a protopope. It contains 390 houses, and 2530 inhabitants, who make much culinary salt, and grow good corn and wine. Long. 21. 35. 7. E. Lat. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 46 5' 9" N 21 35' 7" E | LIPPA |
kp-eb0713-037004-6233 | LIPPE, the capital of a county of the same name in the [7:13:371]circle of Westphalia, in Germany. It is situated on a river of the same name, and was formerly the residence of the principal branch of the house of Lippe. It is now in the possession of the king of Prussia, and carries on a good trade in preparing timber... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-037101-6246 | LIPPE-DETMOLD, a principality in the north-west of Germany. It is bounded on the north by the Prussian Westphalian province, on the north-east by Schauenburg, on the east by Hanover and Waldeck, and on the southeast, south, and west by the Prussian provinces. It is 453 square miles in extent, and comprehends six walled... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-037102-6246 | LIPPI, Lorenzo, an historical and portrait painter, was born in 1606, and learned the principles of painting from Matteo Roselli. He had a fine genius for music and poetry, as well as for painting; and in the latter his proficiency was so great, that some of his compositions in the historical style were taken for those... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-037103-6246 | LIPPSTADT, a city, the capital of a circle of the same name in the Westphalian Prussian government of Arensburg. It stands on the river Lippe, and contains 575 houses and 3290 inhabitants. There are in it one Catholic, one Calvinist, and four Lutheran churches. One half of the city belongs to the prince of Lippe-Detmol... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 51 38' 59" N 7 45' 55" E | LIPPSTADT |
kp-eb0713-037104-6246 | LIPSIUS, Justus, a critic and antiquary of high reputation, was born on the 18th of October 1547, at the village of Isque, situate at an equal distance from Brussels and Louvain. His father, Gilles Lipse, a native of Brussels, belonged to one of the best families of that city, and inherited considerable property, which... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-037501-6298 | LIQUEFACTION, an operation by which a solid body is reduced into a liquid by the action of heat. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-037502-6298 | LIQUID, a body which has the property of fluidity, as water, mercury.
Liquid, amongst grammarians, is a name applied to certain consonants which are opposed to mutes. Thus I, m, n, and r, are liquids. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-037503-6298 | LIQUOR, a name for any fluid substance of the aqueous or spirituous kind. The principal beverage amongst the Jews, as well as the Greeks and Romans, washwater, milk, and the juices of various plants infused therein. For along time,’ under the commonwealth of Rome, wine was so scarce, that in their sacrifices to the god... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-037504-6298 | LIS, or Lys, John Vander, painter of history, landscapes, and conversations, was born at Oldenburg in 1570, but went to Haerlem to place himself as a disciple under Henry Goltzius; and as he was endowed with great natural talents, he soon distinguished himself in that school, and imitated the manner of his master with ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-037505-6298 | LISBON, a city of Portugal, the metropolis of that kingdom, as well as of the province of Estremadura, in which it is situated. It is built on the banks of the river Tagus, which is a most secure and capacious harbour, well defended, and capable, of admitting 10,000 sail of vessels, without danger to them. The only dif... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-037701-6324 | LISBURN, a town of Ireland, in the county of Antrim, situated on the western bank of the river Lagan, about seven miles south-south-west of Belfast. It is a large and busy town, being the second in commercial importance in the county. The manufacture of linen, muslin, and cambric, is carried on to a considerable extent... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-037702-6324 | LISIEUX, an arrondissement of the department of Calvados, in France, extending over 339 square miles, and inhabited by 69,500 persons. It is divided into five cantons, and these into 142 communes. The capital is the city of that name situated at the junction of the two rivers Toques and Orbec. It was formerly fortified... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 49 11' N 0 10' E | LISIEUX |
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