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kp-eb0719-018802-0198 | RESTAURATION, the act of re-establishing or setting a thing or person in its former state. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-018803-0198 | RESTITUTION, in a moral and legal sense, is restoring a person to his right, or returning something unjustly taken or detained from him.
RESTITUTION of Medals, or Restored Medals, is a term used by antiquaries for such medals as were struck by the emperors, to retrieve the memory of their predecessors. Hence, in sever... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-018804-0198 | RESTIVE, in the manège, a stubborn, unruly, ill-broken horse, that stops, or runs back, instead of advancing forward. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-018805-0198 | RESTORATION, a small island in the South Pacific Ocean, on the east coast of New Holland, discovered by Captain Bligh in 1789. Oysters are plentiful on the shore, and there is also abundance of water. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-018806-0198 | RESURRECTION, in Theology, is arising again from the state of the dead; in other words, is that event, the belief of which constitutes one of the principal articles in the Christian creed. See Theology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-018807-0198 | RESUSCITATION, the same with resurrection and revivification. The term resuscitation, however, is more particularly used by chemists for the reproducing a mixed body from its ashes; an art to which many have pretended, as to reproduce plants, &c. from their ashes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-018808-0198 | RETFORD, East, a market-town of the county of Nottingham, in the hundred of Bassetlaw, 145 miles from London. It is situated on the river Idle, which runs into the Trent, is well built, has a town-hall, and good market-place well attended every Saturday. It is a corporate town, governed by four aldermen and twelve coun... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-018809-0198 | RETHEL, an arrondissement of the department of the Ardennes, in France, extending over 472 square miles. It comprehends six cantons, composed of 108 communes, and contains 67,341 inhabitants. The capital is a city of the same name, situated on the right bank of the Aisne. In 1836 it contained 6771 inhabitants, chiefly ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 40 35' N 3 20' E | RETHEL |
kp-eb0719-018810-0198 | RETICULA or Reticule, in Astronomy, a contrivance for measuring very nicely the quantity of eclipses. This instrument, which was introduced by the Academy of Sciences at Paris, is a little frame composed of thirteen fine silken threads, parallel to and at equal distances from each other, placed in the focus of object-g... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-018811-0198 | RETICULATION,. Of all the devices which man has invented wherewithal to secure to himself the “dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle,” few can plead greater antiquity than reticulation; none has retained its place as an essential item in the catalogue of useful engines so p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019301-0203 | RETICULUM, is a Latin word, signifying a little net or casting net. It was applied by the Romans to a particular mode of constructing their buildings. In the city of Salino may still be seen remains of some walls, evidently of Roman origin, from the reticulum. This structure consists of small pieces of baked earth, cut... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019302-0203 | RETIRADE, in Fortification, a kind of retrenchment made in the body of a bastion or other work, which is to be disputed, inch by inch, after the defences are dismantled. It usually consists of two faces, which form a re-entering angle. When a breach is made in a bastion, the enemy may also make retirade or new fortific... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019303-0203 | RETIREMENT, means a private way of life, or a secret habitation. “Few,” says an elegant writer, “are able to bear solitude; and though retirement is the ostensible object of the greater part, yet, when they are enabled by success to retire, they feel themselves unhappy. Peculiar powers and elegance of mind are necessar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019304-0203 | RETORT, in Chemistry, an oblong or globular vessel of glass or pbrcelain, with its neck bent, proper for distillation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019305-0203 | RETPOORAH, a town of Hindustan, in the nizam’s territories, province of Berar. It is seventeen miles south-east from Ellichpoor. Long. 78. 21. E. Lat. 21. 19. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 21 19' N 78 21' E | RETPOORAH |
kp-eb0719-019306-0203 | RETRACTS, amongst horsemen, pricks in a horse’s feet, arising from the fault of the farrier in driving nails that are weak, or in driving them ill pointed or otherwise amiss. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019307-0203 | RETROMINGENTS, in Natural History, a class or division of animals, whose characteristic is, that they stale or make water backwards, both male and female. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019308-0203 | RETZ, Cardinal de. See Gondi. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019309-0203 | REUS-PLAUEN, two sovereign principalities in Germany, one belonging to the elder and one to the younger branch of that family. The dominions of the elder branch are divided into two portions, of which the northernmost, called the Lordship of Gera, is surrounded by the Prussian province of Saxony, by the duchies of Saxe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019401-0204 | REUTLINGEN, a city of the kingdom of Wirtemberg, in the province of the Black Forest, the capital of the bailiwick of the same name. It is situated on the river Echaz, and is surrounded with walls and ditches. It contains four Lutheran churches, one of which, that of Maria, is remarkable for its tower, 340 feet in heig... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 29' 15" N 9 3' 15" E | REUTLINGEN |
kp-eb0719-019402-0204 | REVE, Reeve, or Grève, the bailiff of a franchise or manor, and so called, especially in the west of England. Hence shire-reeve, sheriff, port-greve, and the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019403-0204 | REVEILLE, a beat of drum about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and that the sentries are to forbear challenging. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019404-0204 | REVELATION, the act of revealing, or making a thing public that was before unknown; it is also used to signify the discoveries made by God to his prophets, and by them to the world; and more particularly includes the books of the Old and New Testament. See Theology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019405-0204 | REVELS, entertainments of dancing, masking, acting comedies, farces, and the like, anciently very frequent in the inns of court and in noblemen’s houses, but now much disused. The officer who had the direction of the revels at court was called the Master of the Revels, | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019406-0204 | REVENGE, means the return of injury for injury, and differs materially from that sudden resentment which rises in the mind immediately on being injured; which, so far from being culpable when restrained within due bounds, is absolutely necessary for self-preservation. Revenge, on the contrary, is a cool and deliberate ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019407-0204 | REVENUE,. See the articles England, Funding System, Political Economy, and Taxation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019408-0204 | REVERBERATION, in Physics, the act of a body repelling or reflecting another after its impinging thereon.
Reverberation, in Chemistry, denotes a kind of circulation of the flame by means of a reverberatory furnace. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019409-0204 | REVEREND, a title of respect given to ecclesiastics. The religious abroad are called reverend fathers, and abbesses, prioresses, and others reverend mothers. In England, bishops are right reverend, and archbishops most reverend. In France, before the Revolution, the bishops, archbishops, and abbots, were all alike most... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019410-0204 | REVERIE, the same with delirium, raving, or distraction. It is used also for any ridiculous, extravagant imagination, action, or proposition; a chimera, or vision. But the most ordinary use of the word amongst English writers is for a deep disorderly musing or meditation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019411-0204 | REVERSION, in the law of England, has two significations; the one of which is, an estate left, which continues during a particular state in being; and the other is the returning of the land, after the particular estate is ended; and it is further said to be an interest in lands, when the possession of it fails, or wher... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019412-0204 | REVIVIFICATION, in Chemistry, a term generally applied to the distillation of quicksilver from cinnabar.
Revivification, in Physiology, the recalling to life of animals apparently dead. There are many kinds of insects which may be revivified, after all the powers of animation have been suspended for a considerable tim... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019413-0204 | REVIEW, a term applied to literary journals, which give a periodical view of the state of literature. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019414-0204 | REVOLUTION, in politics, signifies a change in the constitution of a state, and is a word of different import from revolt, with which it is sometimes confounded. When a people withdraw their obedience from their governors for any particular reason, without overturning the government, or waging an offensive war against ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019501-0205 | REWAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gundwana, district of Boghela. The suburbs are large. Under the fort runs the Bichanaddy, which has its source twenty miles to the east. It contains a good citadel, built of stone, and the country in the vicinity is well cultivated. Long. 81. 25. E. Lat 24. 27. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 24 27' N 81 25' E | REWAH |
kp-eb0719-019502-0205 | REWARY, a town of Hindustan, province of Delhi, forty miles south-west from the city of Delhi. It is possessed by a native chief, one of the numerous British tributaries. Long. 76. 42. E. Lat. 28. 13. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 28 13' N 76 42' E | REWARY |
kp-eb0719-019503-0205 | REYNEAU, Charles Rene, commonly known by the name of Father Reyneau, a celebrated mathematician of France, was born in the year 1656, at Brissac, in the province of Anjou. When twenty years of age, he connected himself with the Oratorians, a sort of religious order, the members of which lived in community without bindi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019504-0205 | REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua, the celebrated painter, was born at Plympton, a small town in Devonshire, on the 16th July 1723. His father was minister of the parish, and also master of the grammar school; and being a man of learning and philanthropy, he was beloved and respected by all to whom he was known. Such a man, it will... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019701-0207 | REZAT, a circle of the kingdom of Bavaria, formed out of the ancient Southern Franconia, in the principality of Ans-pach, out of Bavarian Unterland, and the territories of the former free states of Nuremberg, Rottenburg, Windsheim, and Weissenbourg. It extends over 3052 square miles, and is bounded on the north-west by... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019702-0207 | RHABDOLOGY or Rabdology, in arithmetic, a name given by Napier of Merchiston, the inventor of logarithms, to a method of performing some of the more difficult operations of numbers by means of square little rods. Upon these are inscribed the simple numbers; then, by shifting them according to certain rules, those opera... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019703-0207 | RHADAMANTHUS, a severe judge, and king of Lydia. The poets make him one of the three judges of hell. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019704-0207 | RHADEN, a town of the Prussian province of Westphalia, in the government of Minden, and the capital of the circle of the same name, which extends over 180 square miles, inhabited by 30,000 persons. The town is on the new canal, and contains 390 houses, with 2680 inhabitants, who make large quantities of linen and of wo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019705-0207 | RHAMA or Rama, an incarnate deity of the first rank, in Indian mythology. Sir William Jones believes he was the Dionysos of the Greeks, whom they named Bromius, without knowing why; and Bugenes when they represented him honied, as well as Lyaois and Eleutherios the deliverer, and Tryarnbos or Dithyrambos the triumphant... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019801-0208 | RHAPSODI, Rhapsodists, in Antiquity, persons who made a business of singing pieces of Homer’s poems. It has been said that the rhapsodi were clothed in red when they sung the Iliad, and in blue when they sung the Odyssey. They performed on the theatres, and sometimes strove for prizes in contests of poetry and singing.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019802-0208 | RHAPSODOMANCY, an ancient kind of divination performed by pitching on a passage of a poet at hazard, and reckoning on it as a prediction of what was to come to pass. There were various ways of practising this rhapsodomancy. Sometimes they wrote several papers or sentences of a poet on so many pieces of wood, paper, or ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019803-0208 | RHAPSODY, in Antiquity, a discourse in verse, sung or rehearsed by a rhapsodist. Others conceive rhapsody to signify a collection of verses, especially those of Homer, which having been a long time dispersed in pieces and fragments, were at length by Pisistratus’s order digested into books called rhapsodies, from gατrω... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019804-0208 | RHEIMS, an arrondissement of the department of the Marne, in France, 692 square miles in extent. It comprehends ten cantons, divided into 181 communes, and in 1836 contained 123,919 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name. It stands in a pleasing district on the river Bisle. It is surrounded with walls, n... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 49 15' 16" N 3 56' 3" E | RHEIMS |
kp-eb0719-019805-0208 | RHEINBACH, a town of the Prussian government of Cologne, the capital of a circle of the same name, which extends over seventy square miles, and contains 23,500 inhabitants. The town is situated on the river Erft, is ill built, with 250 houses, and 1500 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019806-0208 | RHEINBERG, a town of the Prussian government of Cleves, the capital of a circle of the same name, which extends over 210 square miles, comprehending nine cities and towns, and thirty-six villages, with 38,200 inhabitants. The town is situated on a brook about one mile from the Rhine, was once fortified, but its defence... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 51 33' 17" N 6 29' 26" E | RHEINBERG |
kp-eb0719-019807-0208 | RHETORES, amongst the Athenians, were ten in number, elected by lot to plead public causes in the senate-house or assembly. For every cause in which they were retained they received a drachm out of the public money. They were sometimes called Suwjyofw, and their fee to 2uwixojlxev. No man was admitted to this office un... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019808-0208 | RHETORIANS, a sect of heretics in Egypt, so denominated from Rhetorius, their leader. The distinguishing tenet of this heresiarch, as represented by Philastrius, was, that he approved of all the heresies before him, and taught that they were all in the right. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-019901-0209 | RHETORIC,.
The founder of modern philosophy describes the subject of our present inquiry as being “that science which we call Rhetoric or Art of Eloquence; a science excellent, and excellently well laboured.” But Bacon’s praise of the science itself, and of its ancient cultivators, has been fair from commanding univer... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-022101-0231 | RHINE, one of the circles of which the present kingdom of Bavaria is composed, and what till the treaty of Vienna in 1815 formed the French department of Mont Tonnere, and parts of the departments of the Lower Rhine and the Saar. It is situated on the left bank of the river from which it takes the name, and is bounded ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-022201-0232 | RHINOCEROS, a genus of quadrupeds belonging to the order of belluae. See MAMMALtA. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-022202-0232 | RHODE, Island, one of the United States of North America, is bounded on the north and east by Massachusetts, on the south by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the west by Connecticut. It is forty-nine miles in length by twenty-nine in breadth, and contains an area of one thousand three hundred and fifty square miles, which li... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-022301-0233 | RHODES, an island celebrated from the remotest antiquity as the seat of commerce and of naval power, as well as of literature and the arts; but now reduced from its ancient splendour to a state of extreme depression and poverty, by the devastations of war and the tyranny of its Turkish rulers. It is situated in the Med... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 36 26' N 28 12' 15" E | RHODES |
kp-eb0719-022501-0235 | RHOMBOIDES, in Geometry, a quadrilateral figure whose opposite sides and angles are equal, but which is neither equilateral nor equiangular. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-022502-0235 | RHOMBUS, in Geometry, an oblique-angled parallelogram, or quadrilateral figure, whose sides are equal and parallel, but the angles unequal, two of the opposite ones being obtuse and two acute. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-022503-0235 | RHOMB, Solid consists of two equal and right cones joined together at their bases. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-022504-0235 | RHONE, a department of France, formed out of the ancient districts of the Lyonnois and the Beaujolais. It is situated between 45. 26. and 46. 25. of north latitude, and between 4. 12. and 4. 37. of east longitude. It extends over 1090 square miles, and is divided into two arrondissements, which in the year 1836 contain... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-022601-0236 | RHUBARB,. The drug well known by this name is the root of some species of Rheum, an important genus of the natural order Polygonacece, Juss., and referred to Enneandria Trigynia in the Linnsean classification. The roots of all the species are thick and fleshy, generally a good! deal branched, and striking deep into the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-022901-0239 | RHUMB, in Navigation, a vertical circle of any given place, or intersection of such a circle with the horizon; in which last sense it is the same with a point of the compass.
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kp-eb0719-022902-0239 | RHYME, Rhimk, Ryrne, or Rime, in Poetry, the similar sound or cadence and termination of two words which end two verses, &c. Or rhyme is a similitude of sound between the last syllable or syllables of a verse, succeeding either immediately or at a distance of two or three lines. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-022903-0239 | RHYMER, Thomas the. See Thomas of Ekceldoun. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-022904-0239 | RHYTHM, Musical. See Music. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-022905-0239 | RHYTHMOMETER, from ρuHμλς, and /A<rpov, an instrument contrived to measure equal portions of sounds in musical performance, and to mark the time, at longer or shorter intervals, according to adjustment of the mechanism. Mael-zel’s metronome is the instrument of this kind most generally in use, although one more simple ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-022906-0239 | RIAO, an island in the Eastern Seas, about twenty-five miles in circumference, near the west coast of Morty. Long. 128. 2. E. Lat. 2. 25. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 2 25' N 128 2' E | RIAO |
kp-eb0719-022907-0239 | RIASAN, a government of Russia, so called from the ancient city of that name. It extends in north latitude from 53. 1. to 55. 4L, and in east longitude from 38. 10. to 4L 14., and is 13,486 square miles. It contains twelve cities or towns, and 833 parishes or communes, with 1,250,000 inhabitants, a very great proportio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 54 58' 6" N 39 4' 58" E | RIASAN |
kp-eb0719-022908-0239 | RIBAUVILLER, a city of the department of the Upper Rhine, and arrondissement of Colmar, in France. It is situated at the foot of the Vosges Mountains, on the river Stambach. In 1836, it contained 6558 inhabitants, who were employed in cultivating the vine, and in carrying on extensive cotton manufactures. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-022909-0239 | RIBERA, a town of the intendency of Girgenti, and the district of Mazzara, in the island of Sicily. It stands on an unhealthy plain on the sea-shore, near the river Ca-latabellota, sixty miles from Palermo, and contains 4800 industrious inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-022910-0239 | RIBERAC, an arrondissement of the department of the Dordogne, in France, 557 square miles in extent. It comprises seven cantons, and eighty-three communes, and in 1836 contained 71,457 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, in a fertile vale on the left bank of the river Dronne. It is ill built, and in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-022911-0239 | RICARDO, David, the most distinguished political economist since Dr Smith, was the third of a numerous family, and was born in the city of London on the 19th of April 1772. His father, a native of Holland, and of the Jewish persuasion, settled in this country early in life. He is said to have been a man of good talents... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-023401-0244 | RICAUT or Rycaut, Sir Paul, an eminent English traveller, of the time of whose birth we find no account; but in 1661 he was appointed secretary to the Earl of Win-chelsea, who was sent ambassador extraordinary to Turkey. During his continuance in that station he wrote “The Present State of the Ottoman Empire, in three ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-023402-0244 | RICE,. “Rice bras," says Mr Marsden, “whilst in the husk, is in Indian called paddee, and assumes a different name in each of its other various states. We observe no distinction of this kind in Europe, where our grain retains through all its stages, till it becomes flour, its original name of barley, wheat, or oats. Th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-023501-0245 | RICHARDSON Samuel, a novelist of great celebrity, was born in the year 1689, in Derbyshire, but in what particular place has not been ascertained. His father, the descendant of a reputable family in the county of Surrey, followed the occupation of a joiner. The son was at first intended for the church; but after his fa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-023701-0247 | RICHELET, Caesar Peter, a French writer, born in 1631, at Chemin in Champagne, was the friend of Patru and Albancourt; and like them applied himself to the study of the French language with success. He compiled a dictionary of that language, full of new and useful remarks; but exceptionable, as containing many satirica... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-023702-0247 | RICHELIEU, John Armand du Plessis de, cardinal of Richelieu and Fronsac, bishop of Lucon, &c. was born at Paris in 1585. He was possessed of excellent parts; and at the age of twenty-two he had the address to obtain a dispensation to enjoy the bishopric of Lucon. He applied himself in a particular manner to the functio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-023801-0248 | RICHES, a word used always in the plural number, means wealth, money, possession, or a splendid sumptuous appearance. When used to express the fortune of private persons, whether patrimonial or acquired, it signifies opulence; a term which expresses not the enjoyment, but the possession, of numerous superfluities. By t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-023802-0248 | RICHMOND, a city, port of entry, and the metropolis of Virginia, one of the United States of North America.
It is situated on the north bank of James River, just below the falls, one hundred and fifty miles from the mouth of the river, and one hundred and twenty-three south-west from Washington. The situation of this ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 37 32' N 77 21' W | RICHMOND |
kp-eb0719-023803-0248 | RICKMANSWORTH, a market-town of the county of Hertford. It is in the hundred of Cashio, seventeen miles from London, and stands at the spot where the river Gade falls into the Colne, which latter forms a part of the Grand Junction Canal. It is also near the course of the railway by which London is connected with Birmin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-023901-0249 | RIDEAU, in Fortification, a small elevation of earth, extending itself lengthwise on a plain, serving to cover a camp or give an advantage in a post.
Rideau is sometimes also used for a trench, the earth of which is thrown up on its side, to serve as a parapet for covering the men. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-023902-0249 | RIDICULE, in matters of literature, is that species of writing which excites contempt with laughter.
The ridiculous, says Lord Kames, differs from the risible. A risible object produces an emotion of laughter merely; a ridiculous object is improper as well as risible, and produces a mixed emotion, which is vented by a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-023903-0249 | RIDING,. See Horsemanship.
Riding, in naval affairs, is the state of a ship’s being retained in a particular station, by means of one or more cables with their anchors, which are for this purpose sunk into the bottom of the sea, &c. in order to prevent the vessel from being driven at the mercy of the wind or current. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-023904-0249 | RIDLEY, Nicholas, bishop of London, and a martyr to the Reformation, was descended of an ancient family, and born in the beginning of the sixteenth century, at Wil[7:19:240]montswick in Northumberland. From the grammar-school of Newcastle-upon-Tyne he was sent to Pembroke Hall in Cambridge, in the year 1518, and was th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-024001-0250 | RIENZI, Nicholas Gabrini de, one of the most singular characters of the fourteenth century, was born at Rome, but it is not certainly known in what year. His father, as some affirm, was a vintner, but, according to others, a miller, and his mother was a laundress, yet they found means to give their son a liberal educat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-024101-0251 | RIESENGEBIRGE, a range of mountains in the dominions of Prussia, and in part of Austria, which commences on the northward on the borders of Lusatia, and separates Bohemia from Silesia and Moravia, till it terminates by forming a junction with the Carpathian range to the southward. The loftiest part of the range is that... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-024102-0251 | RIETI, one of the delegations or provinces into which the papal dominions are divided. It is a wild and moun[7:19:242]tainous district, containing two cities, sixteen market-towns, with many villages and hamlets, and 65,750 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name situated on the river Belino, near its jun... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 42 24' 25" N 12 46' 50" E | RIETI |
kp-eb0719-024201-0252 | RIGA, a city of the province of Livonia, a part of the Russian empire in Europe. It is the capital of a circle of the same name as well as of the province. The circle extends over 4180 square miles, and contains, in two cities, one market-town, and thirty-nine parishes, about 150,000 inhabitants. The city of Riga, call... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 56 56' 32" N 23 57' 10" E | RIGA |
kp-eb0719-024202-0252 | RIGADOON, a gay and brisk dance, borrowed originally from Provence in France, and performed in figure by a man and a woman. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-024203-0252 | RIGGING, of a Ship, a general name given to all the ropes employed to support the masts, and to extend or reduce the sails, or arrange them to the disposition of the wind. The former, which are used to sustain the masts, remain usually in a fixed position, and are called standing rigging; such are the shrouds, stays, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-024204-0252 | RIGHT, in Geometry, signifies the same with straight; thus, a straight line is called a right one.
Right is a title conferred, 1. together with Reverend, upon all bishops; 2. together with Honourable, upon earls, viscounts, and barons; 3. by courtesy, together with Honourable, upon the sons of dukes, marquises, and th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-024205-0252 | RIGHTS, in the common acceptation of the word, are of various kinds; they are natural or adventitious, alienable or unalienable, perfect or imperfect, particular or general. Natural rights are those which a man has to his life, limbs, and liberty; to the produce of his personal labour; to the use, in common with others... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-024301-0253 | RIGOLL or Regals, a kind of musical instrument, consisting of several sticks bound together, only separated by beads. It is tolerably harmonious, being well struck with a ball at the end of a stick. Such is the account which Grassineau gives of this instrument. Skinner, upon the authority of an old English dictionary, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-024401-0254 | RIGOR, in Medicine, a convulsive shuddering from severe cold, an ague fit, or other disorder. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-024402-0254 | RIMA-SZOMBACH, a large market-town in the circle of Houth, and province of the Hither Theiss, in Hungary. It is situated on the river Rima, over which is a fine bridge. It is a well-built place, having a Catholic, a Lutheran, and a Calvinistic church, and a house of assembly for the meeting of the provincial states. It... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-024403-0254 | RIMINI, a city in the papal dominions, in the delegation of Forli. It is situated at the mouth of the river Marechia, over which is a bridge said to have been built by Augustus. The city was once on the sea-shore, but the water having receded, the canal to the ancient harbour is now a part of a garden. It is surrounded... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 44 3' 43" N 12 27' 31" E | RIMINI |
kp-eb0719-024404-0254 | RING, an ornament of gold and silver, of a circular figure, and usually worn on the finger. The antiquity of rings is known from Scripture and profane authors. Judah left his ring or signet with Tamar. When Pharaoh committed the government of all Egypt to Joseph, he took his ring from his finger, and gave it to Joseph.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-024405-0254 | RINGWOOD, a market-town of Hampshire, in the division of the New Forest, ninety miles from London. It is situated on the river Avon, is well built, has a handsome church, and a good market on Wednesday. It has been long celebrated for the excellence of the strong beer which is brewed there. The population amounted in 1... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-024406-0254 | RIO GRANDE, a large river of Western Africa, which falls into the Atlantic a considerable distance to the south of the Gambia. It appears to be now ascertained, that the three great rivers of the western coast, the Senegal, the Gambia, and the Rio Grande, have all their sources very close to each other, in a range of m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-024601-0256 | RIO DE JANEIRO, an important province of Brazil, is bounded on the north by Espiritu Santo, from which it is separated by the river Capabuan, and by Minas Geraes, from which it is divided by the rivers Preto and Paraiba, and in part by the Serra da Manliqueira; on the west it borders on San Paulo; and the Atlantic Ocea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 22 53' S 43 12' W | RIO DE JANEIRO |
kp-eb0719-024801-0258 | RIOM, an arrondissement of the department of Puy de Dome, in France, extending over 893 square miles. It comprehends thirteen cantons, divided into 130 communes, and in 1336 contained 151,456 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on the river Limagne. It is well buih, with broad streets, and i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 54' 30" N 3 1' 45" E | RIOM |
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