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kp-eb0719-059103-0603
RUTHERGLEN or by contraction Rugi.en, the head burgh of the nether ward of Lanarkshire, in Scotland, is situated about two miles south-east of Glasgow, and nine west of Hamilton. Few towns in Scotland can lay claim to greater antiquity than Rutherglen. It was erected into a royal burgh by King David I. about the year 1...
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RUTHERGLEN
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RUTHIN, a borough and market town of the county of Denbigh, within the parish of Ruabon. It was formerly surrounded with walls, which are dilapidated; but it now consists of only one long street. It ls governed by four aldermen and twelve councillors. There are markets, which are held on Mondays and Saturdays. The popu...
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RUTHIN
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RUTLAMGUR, a town of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, and province of Malwah, forty-seven miles north-north-west from Oojain. Long. 75. 26. E. Lat. 28. 46. N.
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28 46' N 75 26' E
RUTLAMGUR
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RUTLANDSHIRE, an English county, nearly in the centre of the kingdom, and the smallest of all the divisions so denominated. It is bounded by Lincolnshire on the east and north-east, by Leicestershire on the north-west and west, and by Northamptonshire on the south. Its length from north to south is sixteen, and its bre...
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RUTLANDSHIRE
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RUTNAGIRI, a town of Hindustan, in the territories of the Nagpoor Mahrattas, and province of Bejapoor, on the east coast of the Concan district. Long. 78. 3. E. Lat. 17.1. N.
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17 1' N 78 3' E
RUTNAGIRI
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RUTTUNPORE, a town of Hindustan, the capital of a small district of the same name, in the province of Gund-wana, and district of Choteesgur, of which it is the capital. It is only a straggling village of about a thousand huts, many of which are uninhabited. It is situated in a remarkably productive and fertile country ...
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22 16' N 82 35' E
RUTTUNPORE
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RUYSCH, Frederick, one of the most eminent anatomists of which Holland can boast, was born at the Hague in 1638. After making great progress at home, he repaired to Leyden, and there prosecuted the study of anatomy and botany. He next studied at Franeker, where he obtained the degree of doctor of physic, He then return...
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RUYSCH
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RUYSSELEDE, a town of Belgium, in the province of West Flanders and circle of Bruges. It contains 5400 inhabitants, who are employed in making linen and some woollen goods.
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RUYSSELEDE
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RUYTER, Michael Adrian, a distinguished naval officer, was born at Flushing, a town of Zealand, in the year 1607. He entered on a seafaring life when he was only eleven years old, and was first a cabin-boy. Whilst he advanced successively to the rank of mate, master, and captain, he acquitted himself with ability and h...
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RUYTER
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RYACOTTA, a town and celebrated fortress of the south of India, added to the Baramuhl district by the Marquis Cornwallis, in virtue of a treaty he concluded with Tip-poo. The fort is very strong by nature, and it has been further fortified by art, as this place is the chief key to Karna-ta. The air is so temperate here...
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12 33' N 78 1' E
RYACOTTA
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RYAGUDD, a town of Hindustan, possessed by independent zemindars, in the province of Orissa. It is sixty miles north-west from Cicacole. Long. 83. 27. E. Lat. 19. 1. N.
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19 1' N 83 27' E
RYAGUDD
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RYCHOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the nizam’s territories, and the province of Bejapoor. It is the capital of a district of the same name, and is 130 miles south-west from Hyderabad. It is an irregularly-built town, being an old fort with some new works. It is commanded by a hill, and by some rising grounds near it. Lon...
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15 59' N 77 17' E
RYCHOOR
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RYDE, a hamlet within the parish of Newchurch, in the Isle of Wight. It has become a place of some importance, from having of late years been the resort of numerous families for the purpose of sea-bathing. It is opposite to Portsmouth, and from its vicinity to Spithead has some trade in supplying fresh stock and vegeta...
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RYDE
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RYDROOG, a town and district of Hindustan, in the Balaghaut ceded territories. The town is 170 miles north by east from Seringapatam. Long. 77. 2. E. Lat. 14. 49. N. The district is situated principally between the 14th and 15th degrees of north latitude. The Hoggry is the chief river, and the principal towns are Rydro...
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14 49' N 77 2' E
RYDROOG
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RYE, a borough and seaport of the county of Sussex, in the hundred of Gostrow and rape of Hastings, 63 miles from London. It is a member of the Cinque Ports, but of a later date than the others. The harbour has been nearly choked up, partly by the recession of the sea, though it has been recently somewhat improved by a...
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RYE
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RYEPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gundwana, and district of Choteesgur. This town, from its population and commerce, may be ranked amongst the first in the Choteesgur district. It contains 3000 huts, and has a stone fort on the north-east side of the town. It is sixty-nine miles from Ruttunpoor. Long. 82...
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21 17' N 82 26' E
RYEPOOR
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RYLST, a city of Russia, in the government of Kursk, and the capital of a circle of the same name. It is built at the junction of the river Ryla with the Gem, and contains four stone and fourteen wooden churches, 840 houses, with 6300 inhabitants, who have considerable trade. It is 847 miles from St Petersburg. Long. 3...
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51 35' N 35 3' E
RYLST
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RYMER, Thomas, the author of that well-known and important work the Fadera, was born in the north of England, and educated at the grammar-school of Northallerton. He was admitted a scholar at Cambridge, then became a member of Gray’s Inn, and at length was appointed historiographer to King William in place of Mr Shadwe...
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RYMER
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RYNABAD, a small village of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal, and district of Jessore. For a long time rumours were circulated that extensive ruins existed in the Sunderbunds, and particularly in the vicinity of Rynabad. But though repeated investigations have been made, none have been discovered.
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RYNABAD
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S or s, the eighteenth letter and fourteenth consonant of our alphabet. The sound of it is formed by driving the breath through a narrow passage between the palate and the tongue elevated near it, together with a motion of the lower jaw and teeth towards the upper, the lips being a little way open, with such a configur...
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S
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RYOTS, in the policy of Hindustan, the name by which the renters of land are distinguished. They hold their possessions by a lease, which may be considered as perpe-tual, and at a rate fixed by ancient surveys and valuations. This arrangement has been so long established, and accords so well with the ideas of the nativ...
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RYOTS
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SAADE, a town of the mountainous district of Yemen, in Arabia, and the most important in the district. It is the residence of an imam or chief, whose power is limited, and his territories small; and he is often so hard pressed by his highland neighbours that he finds it difficult to maintain his ground. He imposes a du...
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SAADE
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RYSWICK, a village of the province of Holland, in tile circle of the Hague, and near that city, which is pleasantly situated, and contains some good country-houses and pleasure-gardens, and 1820 inhabitants. Near to it is the palace of Niewmburg, where was signed the general treaty of peace in 1697, which bears this na...
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RYSWICK
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SAARBRUCK, a city of the Prussian government of Treves, the capital of a circle of the same name, and 215 square miles in extent. It stands on the river Saar, over which is a bridge connecting it with the large suburb of St John’s. It is old and strongly built, and the suburb contains 1070 houses, with 6740 inhabitant...
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SAARBRUCK
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RZESZOW, a city of the Austrian province of Gallicia, and the capital of a circle which extends over 1782 square miles. It comprehends four cities, thirteen market-towns, and three hundred and thirty-three villages, with 251,500 inhabitants. The city stands on the river Wisloch, and contains 388 houses, with 4850 inhab...
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RZESZOW
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SAAR-LOUIS, a city of the Prussian government of Treves, and the capital of a circle of the same name, of 189 square miles in extent. It is situated on the river Saar, and celebrated for the strength of its fortifications, which were constructed by Vauban, under Louis XIV. It is well and regularly built, and contains t...
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49 14' N 6 43' E
SAAR-LOUIS
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S or s, the eighteenth letter and fourteenth consonant of our alphabet. The sound of it is formed by driving the breath through a narrow passage between the palate and the tongue elevated near it, together with a motion of the lower jaw and teeth towards the upper, the lips being a little way open, with such a configur...
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S
kp-eb0719-059406-0648
SAADE, a town of the mountainous district of Yemen, in Arabia, and the most important in the district. It is the residence of an imam or chief, whose power is limited, and his territories small; and he is often so hard pressed by his highland neighbours that he finds it difficult to maintain his ground. He imposes a du...
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SAADE
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SAARBRUCK, a city of the Prussian government of Treves, the capital of a circle of the same name, and 215 square miles in extent. It stands on the river Saar, over which is a bridge connecting it with the large suburb of St John’s. It is old and strongly built, and the suburb contains 1070 houses, with 6740 inhabitants...
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SAARBRUCK
kp-eb0719-059408-0648
SAAR-LOUIS, a city of the Prussian government of Treves, and the capital of a circle of the same name, of 189 square miles in extent. It is situated on the river Saar, and celebrated for the strength of its fortifications, which were constructed by Vauban, under Louis XIV. It is well and regularly built, and contains t...
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49 14' N 6 43' E
SAAR-LOUIS
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SAASA, a village of Palestine, in the district which is said, on the authority of tradition, to have been the burial-place of Nimrod. It is forty miles north-west of Sarchad.
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SAASA
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SAATZ, a city of the Austrian kingdom of Bohemia, the capital of a circle of the same name, which extends over 921 square miles, and contains 126,500 inhabitants. The river Eger runs by the town. It has a collegiate church, a gymnasium, and 640 houses, with 4180 inhabitants. Long. 14.10. E. Lat. 50. 18. 35. N.
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50 18' 35" N 14 10' E
SAATZ
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SAAVEDRA, Michael de Cervantes, a celebrated Spanish writer, and the inimitable author of Don Quixote, was born at Madrid in the year 1541. From his infancy he was very fond of books; but he applied himself wholly to books of entertainment, such as novels and poetry of all kinds, especially Spanish and Italian authors....
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SAAVEDRA
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SABAGAN Islands, a group of small islands in the Red Sea. Long. 41. 54. E. Lat. 14. 55. N.
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14 55' N 41 54' E
SABAGAN
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SABAZIA, in Greek antiquity, were nocturnal mysteries in honour of Jupiter Sabazius. All the initiated had a golden serpent put in at their breasts, and taken out at the lower part of their garments, in memory of Jupiter’s ravishing Proserpina in the form of a serpent. There were also other feasts and sacrifices distin...
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SABAZIA
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SABBATARIANS, or Seventh-Day Baptists, a sect of Anabaptists, so called because they observed the Jewish or Saturday-Sabbath, from a persuasion that it was never abrogated in the New Testament by the institution of any other.
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SABBATARIANS
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SABBATH, in the Hebrew language, signifies rest. The seventh day was denominated the Sabbath, or dug of rest, because in it God rested from all his works which he had created. From that time the seventh day seems to have been set apart for religious services; and, in consequence of a particular injunction, it was after...
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SABBATH
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SABBEA, a town of Yemen, in Arabia, in the mountainous district of Khaulan, eight miles north-east of Abu Arish.
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SABBEA
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SABEIA, a small island in the Red Sea. Lat. 18. 22. N.
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SABEIA
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SABELLIANS, a sect of Christians of the third century’, that embraced the opinions of Sabellius, a philosopher of Egypt, who openly taught that there is but one person in the Godhead. The Sabellians maintained, that the Word and the Holy Spirit are only virtues, emanations, or functions of the Deity, and held, that he ...
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SABELLIANS
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SABIANS, an early sect of worshippers of the sun, moon, and stars. See Polytheism.
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SABIANS
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SABINUS, George, a celebrated Latin poet, born in the electorate of Brandenburg in 1508. His poem Res Geslee Caesarιιm Germanorum spread his reputation all over Ger[7:19:600] many, and procured him the patronage of all the princes who had any regard for polite literature. He was made professor of the belles lettres at ...
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SABINUS
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SABIONETTA, a city of the province of Mantua, in Austrian Lombardy, with a citadel, four churches, and 6320 inhabitants. Long. 10. 24. 45. E. Lat. 44. 59. 47. N.
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SABIONETTA
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SABLE, or Sable, Animal, in Zoology, a creature of the weasel-kind, called by authors mustela zihellina. See Mammalia. Sable, Cape, the most southerly province of Nova Scotia, in North America. Long. 65. 34. W. Lat. 43. 24. N. Sable, in Heraldry, signifies black, and is borrowed from the French, as are most terms in t...
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SABLE
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SABLES D’OLONNE, Les, an arrondissement of the department of Vendée, in France. It extends over seven hundred and thirty-two and a half square miles, and comprehends eleven cantons, divided into seventy-nine communes, with 98,508 inhabitants in 1836. The capital is the city of the same name, situated at the termination...
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SABLES D’OLONNE
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SABON, an island in the Eastern Seas, at the southern entrance of the Straits of Malacca, of a triangular form. It is separated from Sumatra by a navigable channel, the Straits of Sabon, and is twenty-four miles in circumference. Long. 103. 21. E. Lat. 0. 24. N.
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SABON
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SABOU, or Saivu, probably the same island as Savo, near Timor, to which the reader is referred.
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SABOU
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SABRAO, an island in the Eastern Seas, separated from the island of Flores by the Straits of Flores. It is forty miles in length by eighteen in average breadth.
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SABRAO
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SABRE, a kind of sword or scimitar, with a very broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and a little falcated or crooked towards the point. It is the ordinary weapon worn by the Turks, who are very expert in the: use of it.
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SABRE
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SA BULAGH, a town and district of Persia, in Azerbijan, situated on the lake Urumea, thirty miles from Ma-raga.
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SA BULAGH
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SACAEA, a feast which the ancient Babylonians and other orientals held annually in honour of the deity Anaitis. The Sacaea were in the East what the Saturnalia were at Rome, namely, a feast for the slaves. One of the ceremonies was to choose a prisoner condemned to death, and to allow him all the pleasures and gratific...
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SACAEA
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SACCHARUM, Sugar, or the Sugar-cane. This plant is a native of Africa, the East Indies, and Brazil; whence it was introduced into our West India islands soon after they were settled. The sugar-cane is the glory and the pride of those islands. It amply rewards the industrious planter, enriches the British merchant, give...
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SACCHARUM
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SACCHAROMETER, an instrument for ascertaining the value of worts, and the strength of different kinds of malt liquor. The name signifies a measure of sweetness.
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SACCHAROMETER
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SACHEVEREL, Dr Henry, a famous Tory clergyman in the reign of Queen Anne, who distinguished himself by indecent and scurrilous sermons and writings against the dissenters and revolution principles. He owed his consequence, however, to being indiscreetly prosecuted by the House of Lords for his assize-sermon at Derby, a...
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SACHEVEREL
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SACK, a wine used by our ancestors, which some have taken to be Rhenish and some Canary wine. Venner, in his Via Recta ad Vitam Longam, printed in 1628, says that sack is “completely not in the third degree, and that some affect to drink sack with sugar and some without; and upon no other ground, as I think, but as it ...
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SACK
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SACKBUT, a musical instrument of the wind kind, being a sort of trumpet, though different from the common trumpet both in form and size. It is fit to play a bass, and is contrived to be drawn out or shortened, according to the tone required, whether grave or acute. The Italians call it trombone, and the Latins tuba duc...
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SACKBUT
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SACKVILLE, THOMAS, Lord Buckhurst and Earl of Dorset, a statesman and poet, the son of Richard Sackville of Buckhurst, in the parish of Withian, in Sussex, was born in the year 1536. He was sent to Hart Hall, in Oxford, in the latter end of the reign of Edward VI. whence he removed to Cambridge, where he took a degree ...
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SACKVILLE, THOMAS
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SACMARA, a considerable river of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Orenburg. It has its rise in the Ural Mountains, and, flowing southwards, falls into the river of the same name. Its banks are thinly inhabited, though they are rich in mines of copper.
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SACMARA
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SACRAMENT is derived from the Latin word sacramentum, which signifies an oath, particularly the oath taken by soldiers to be true to their country and their general. The words of this oath, according to Polybius, were, obtempera- VOL. XIX. turns sum et facturus quicquid mandabitur ab imperatoribus juxta vires. The wo...
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SACRAMENT
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SACRAMENTARIANS, a general name given to all 4 G[7:19:602] such as have published or held erroneous doctrines of the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. The term is chiefly applied among Roman Catholics, by way of reproach to the Lutherans, Calvinists, and other Protestants.
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SACRAMENTARIANS
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SACRAMENTARY, an ancient Catholic church-book, which contains all the prayers and ceremonies practised at the celebration of the sacraments. It was written by Pope Gelasius, and afterwards revised, corrected, and abridged, by St Gregory.
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SACRAMENTARY
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SACRED, something holy, or that is solemnly offered and consecrated to God, with benedictions, unctions, and the like. Kings, prelates, and priests, are reckoned sacred persons; abbots are only blessed. The deaconhood, sub-deaconhood, and priesthood, are all sacred orders, and are said to impress an indelible character...
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SACRED
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SACRIFICE, an offering made to God on an altar, by means of a regular minister, as an acknowledgment of his power, and a payment of homage. Sacrifices, though the term is sometimes used for all the offerings made to God, or in any way devoted to his service and honour, differ from mere oblations in this, that in a sacr...
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SACRIFICE
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SACRILEGE, Sacrulegium, the crime of profaning sa cred things, or things devoted to God; or of alienating to laymen, for common purposes, what was given to religious persons and pious uses.
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SACRILEGE
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SACRISTAN, a church-officer, otherwise called sexton.
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SACRISTAN
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SACRISTY, in Ecclesiastical History, an apartment in a church where the sacred utensils were kept.
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SACRISTY
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SADDUCEES were a famous sect among the ancient Jews, and consisted of persons of great quality and opulence. Respecting their origin there are various accounts and various opinions. Epiphanius, and after him many other writers, contend that they took their rise from Dositheus, a sectary of Samaria, and derived their na...
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SADDUCEES
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SADLER, John, descended from an ancient family in Shropshire, was born in 1615, and educated at Cambridge, where he became eminent for his great knowledge in the oriental languages. He removed to Lincoln’s Inn, where he made great progress in the study of the law; and in 1644 he was admitted one of the masters in chanc...
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SADLER
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SADO, an island of Japan, about ninety miles in circumference, on the northern coast of the island of Niphon, in a large bay. Long. 138. 54. E. Lat. 37. 40. N.
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37 40' N 138 54' E
SADO
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SADOC, a famous Jewish rabbi, and founder of the sect of the Sadducees.
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SADOC
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SADOLET, James, a learned cardinal, was born at Modena in 1477. Leo X. made him and Peter Bembo his secretaries, an office for which they were both well qualified; and Sadolet was soon afterwards made bishop of Carpentras, near Avignon. He was made a cardinal in 1536 by Paul III.; employed in several negotiations and e...
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SADOLET
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SADRAS, a town of Southern India, in the Carnatic, on the sea-coast. It was formerly a small village, which was purchased by the Dutch about the middle of the seventeenth century; and under their protection it grew up into a populous place, the seat of a flourishing manufacture of ginghams of a superior quality. It was...
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SADRAS
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SAFAD, or Saphet, a village of Palestine, in an elevated situation, which overlooks the western coast of the Lake of Tiberias, and was of some consideration in the time of the crusades; but in 1759, being destroyed by an earthquake, and since regarded with an evil eye by the Turks, it has now dwindled into a poor villa...
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SAFAD
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SAFFRON is formed of the stigmata of the crocus officinalis, dried upon a kiln, and pressed together into cake;. There are two kinds of saffron, the English and Spanish; but the latter is by far the most esteemed. Saffron is principally cultivated in Cambridgeshire. This drug has been reckoned a very elegant and useful...
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SAFFRON
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SAFFRON-WALDEN, a town in the hundred of Ut-tlesford, in the county of Essex, forty-two miles from London. It has a good market for corn, which is held on Saturday. It is a borough, whose charter was granted by Edward VI., and is governed by a mayor and aldermen; but it does not return a member to the House of Commons....
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SAFFRON-WALDEN
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SAFFY, Saffee, Safi Azafi, or Asfee, is a seaport town of Morocco, capital of the province of Ahda. It is situated between two hills, and at the foot of a steep and high mountain, a part of Atlas. Its position renders it extremely hot, and in winter very disagreeable, as the waters from the neighbouring mountains, occa...
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SAFFY
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SAFIA, a small river of Arabia, which falls into the Red Sea two miles north of Tor.
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SAFIA
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SAFRA, a town of Hedjaz, in Arabia, forty miles southsouth-west of Medina.
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SAFRA
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SAGAING, a town in the Burmese dominions, situated on the Irrawaddy, opposite to Ava, the capital. It is a large, straggling place, where the houses are of a mean description, and thinly scattered among groves of fruit-trees, with temples and monasteries innumerable. A considerable portion of the inhabitants are Cassay...
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SAGAING
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SAGAN, in scripture history, the suffragan or deputy of the Jewish high priest. According to some writers, he was only employed to officiate for him when he was rendered incapable of attending the service through sickness or legal uncleanness on the day of expiation; or, according to others, he was destined to assist t...
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SAGAN
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SAGANAK, a town of Independent Tartary, situated on the Sihon or Jaxartes. It was taken by Ghengis Khan, and the greater part of the inhabitants put to death.
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SAGANAK
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SAGANEER, a Rajpoot town of Hindustan, in the province of Ajmeer, and district of Jyenagur, eight miles southeast from the city of Jyenagur. Long. 75. 50. E. Lat. 26. 49. N. This is also the name of a town of the province of Gundwana, belonging to the rajah of Nagpoor. Long. 79. 18. E. Lat. 21. 34. N.
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SAGANEER
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SAGARA Nacken Bay, a bay on the east coast of the island of Java. Long. 109. 21. E. Lat. 8. 15. S.
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8 15' S 109 21' E
SAGARA
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SAGARAWIDA Bay, on the south coast of the island of Java. Long. 113. E. Lat. 8. 15. S.
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8 15' S 113 E
SAGARAWIDA
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SAGE, Alain Rene, an ingenious French romance-writer, was born at Ruys, in Bretagne, in the year 1667. He had a fine flow of imagination, was a complete master of the French and Spanish languages, and wrote several admired romances in imitation of the Spanish authors. These were, 1. The Bachelor of Salamanca, two vols....
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SAGE
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SAGHALIEN, a large island or peninsula, situated at the eastern extremity of Asia, immediately to the north of the large island of Jesso or Matsmai. It is called also Oku Jesso, or Upper Jesso, and by the natives Tchoka. It is separated from the continent by a narrow channel called the channel of Tartary; and it is not...
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SAGHALIEN
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SAGITTA, in Astronomy, the Arrow, a constellation of the northern hemisphere, near the Eagle, and one of the forty-eight old asterisms. According to the fabulous ideas of the Greeks, this constellation owes its origin to one of the arrows of Hercules, with which he killed the eagle or vulture that gnawed the liver of P...
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SAGITTA
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SAGITTARIA, an island in the Southern Pacific Ocean, discovered by Quiros in 1606, and supposed to be the same as Otaheite.
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SAGITTARIA
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SAGITTARIUS, in Astronomy, the name of one of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
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SAGITTARIUS
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SAGO, a nutritive substance brought from the East Indies, and of considcrable use in diet as a restorative. It is produced from a species of palm-tree (Cycas Circinalis, Linn.), growing spontaneously in the East Indies without any culture.
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SAGO
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SAGOR, or Ganga Sagor, an island belonging to the province of Bengal, situated at the entrance and eastern side of the Hooghly, or Bhagurutty river, which here separates it from another island formed by the numerous outlets of the Ganges. It is eight miles in length by lour[7:19:612] in breadth, and is detached from th...
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21 34' N 88 20' E
SAGOR
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SAGRES, a town of Portugal, in the province of Algarve, and in the corregimiento of Lagos, It is situated on a steep and rocky tongue of land which projects into a deep bay near to Cape St Vincent. It has a good roadstead, with a safe anchorage, and it is defended by a fort, but is chiefly inhabited by fishermen. It is...
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SAGRES
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SAGUM, in Roman antiquity, a military habit, open from top to bottom, and usually fastened on the right shoulder with a buckle or clasp. It was not different in shape from the chlamys of the Greeks, and the paludamentum of the generals. The only difference between them was, that the paludamentum was made of a richer st...
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SAGUM
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SAGUNTUM. See Murvιedro.
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SAGUNTUM
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SAHABAD, a Rajpoot town of Hindustan, in the province of Ajmeer, tributary to the Mahrattas. It is eighty-five miles east by north from Kotah. Long. 77. 10. E. Lat. 25. 26. N.
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SAHABAD
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SAHARA, or the Great Desert, an immense tract of territory in Northern and Central Africa, the most desolate and terrible on the face of the globe. It is bounded on the north by the Barbary States; on the south by Soudan, or the countries watered by the upper course of the Niger, and by the Lower Senegal; and on the ea...
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SAHARA
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SAHARUNPORE, an extensive and valuable district of Hindustan, in the province of Delhi, situated principally between the rivers Jumna and Ganges, and about the thirty-first degree of northern latitude. It is bounded on the north by the Sewalic Mountains, and the province of Serinagur. The soil is fertile, and being wel...
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SAHARUNPORE
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SAHLAYDUN, a town of the Birman empire, in the province of Pegu, and situated on the Irrawaddy river. It carries on a considerable trade in teak-timber with Rangoon, and has also a land-communication with the seacoast of Arracan. Long. 94. 40. E. Lat. 18. 35. N.
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18 35' N 94 40' E
SAHLAYDUN
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SAHWOTTY, a town of the Birman empire, situated on the western bank of the Irrawaddy. Long. 94. 50. E. Lat. 19. 41. N.
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SAHWOTTY
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SAIBGUNGE, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal and district of Rungpore. Long. 88. 48. E. Lat. 26. 15. N.
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SAIBGUNGE