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kp-eb0719-067803-0734 | SCHANTARSKIJA, three islands off the eastern coast of Asiatic Russia, in the Sea of Okhotzk. Long. 138. to 139. E. Lat. 55. 15. to 55. 30. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067804-0734 | SCHAREDSJE, or Ζακα, an island in the Persian Gulf, near the coast of Arabia, about thirty miles in circumference. Long. 54. 15. E. Lat. 25. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 25 N 54 15' E | SCHAREDSJE |
kp-eb0719-067805-0734 | SCHASBURG, a city in the Austrian duchy of Sieven-burgen, the capital of a circle of its own name. It is situated on a hill near the river Kokel, consisting of two towns, one of which is surrounded with walls, and the other a kind of suburb. It contains four Lutheran churches, with a Catholic and a Greek one, 1230 hous... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 46 10' 9" N 23 43' E | SCHASBURG |
kp-eb0719-067806-0734 | SCHAUENBURG, a province of the principality of Hesse-Casel, in Germany, adjoining to Hanover, Lippe-Detmold, and Lippe-Schauenburg. It is 193 square miles in extent, a poor sandy district, except on such parts as are near the river Weser, which are of moderate fertility. It comprehends five towns and 130 villages and h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067807-0734 | SCHAZK, a city of Russia, the capital of a circle of the same name, within the province of Tambov. It is 737 miles from St Petersburg, on the river Schazk. It is old and ill built, and contains eight churches, only three of stone, 1011 houses, with 6800 inhabitants, chiefly making hempen goods, and cultivating that pla... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067808-0734 | SCHECHE SURE, or Surde, a small island in the Persian Gulf, with a village on the southern coast, where water and provisions may be obtained. Long. 54. 30. E. Lat. 26. 8. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067809-0734 | SCHEDUAN, an immense naked rock in the Red Sea, eight miles long and five broad, at nearly an equal distance from the coasts of Asia and Africa. Lat. 27. 35. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067810-0734 | SCHEDULE, a scroll of paper or parchment, annexed to a will, lease, or other deed, containing an inventory of goods, or some other matter omitted in the body of the deed. The word is a diminutive of the Latin scheda, or Greek σχεδη , a leaf or piece of paper. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067811-0734 | SCHEELE, Charles William, was born on the 19th of December 1742, at Stralsund, where his father had kept a shop. When he was very young, he received the usual instructions of a private school; and was afterwards advanced to an academy. At a very early age he showed a strong desire to follow the profession of an apothec... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068001-0736 | SCHEINER, Christopher, a German mathematician and astronomer, eminent for being the first who discovered spots on the sun, was born at Schwaben, in the territory of Middleheim, in 1575. He first discovered spots on the sun’s disk in 1611, and made observations on these phenomena at Rome, until at length reducing them t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068002-0736 | SCHELDT, a river which rises on the confines of Picardy, and runs north-east by Cambray, Valenciennes, Tournay, and Oudenarde, and receiving the Lis at Ghent, runs east by Dendermond, and then north to Antwerp. Below this city it divides into two branches, one called the Wester Scheldt, which separates Flanders from Ze... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068003-0736 | SCHELESTADT, an arrondissement of the department of the Lower Rhine, in France, extending over 257,945 acres, equal to 403 square miles. It is divided into eight cantons, and these into 114 communes, with a population, in 1836, of 134,887 persons. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on a canal connected ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 17' N 7 26' E | SCHELESTADT |
kp-eb0719-068004-0736 | SCHEME, a draught or representation of any geometrical or astronomical figure or problem, by lines sensible to the eye, or of the celestial bodies in their proper places for any moment. It is otherwise called a diagram. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068005-0736 | SCHEMNITZ, a city of the kingdom of Hungary, in the province of the Hither Danube, and the capital of a circle to which it gives the name. It stands on a lofty situation, 2170 feet above the level of the sea, in a district abounding in mines, and at the source of the river Schemnitz. It is wildly built, some of the str... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 47' 45" N 18 48' 45" E | SCHEMNITZ |
kp-eb0719-068006-0736 | SCHERZO, a short musical composition, generally intime, of a light and playful style. In more modem symphonies, quartets, trios, sonatas, &c. the scherzo takes the place of the older minuet, but is of a much more rapid movement. Some excellent examples of the scherzo are to be found in Beethoven’s works; among others, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068007-0736 | SCHIECHS, or Scheichs, is a name which is applied by the Arabs to their nobles. “Among the Bedouins,” says Niebuhr, “it belongs to every noble, whether of the highest or the lowest order. Their nobles are very numerous, and compose in a manner the whole nation; the plebeians are invariably actuated and guided by the sc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068008-0736 | SCHIEDAM, a city of the Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. It stands on the river Schie, near to its junction with the Maas; is well built, and contains five churches, a good exchange and town-house, and 1520 dwellings, with (in 1832) 11,588 inhabitants. The chief trade is distillation. It has 200 distiller... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 51 55' N 4 18' E | SCHIEDAM |
kp-eb0719-068009-0736 | SCHILLER, John Christopher Frederick von, was born at Marbach, a small town in the duchy of Wurtemberg, on the 10th day of November 1759. It will aid the reader in synchronizing the periods of this great man’s life with the corresponding events throughout Christendom, if we direct his attention to the fact, that Schill... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068501-0741 | SCH1O, a city of the delegation of Verona, in Austrian Lombardy. It stands on the river Timanchio, and carries on some large cloth manufactories, which produce excellent goods of various kinds. It contains 6950 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068502-0741 | SCHIRAS, or Schirauz. See Shiraz. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068503-0741 | SCHISM (from the Greek σχισμα, a rent or fissure), in its general acceptation signifies division or separation; but it is chiefly used in speaking of separations happening from diversity of opinions among people of the same religion and faith. Thus we say the schism of the ten tribes of Judah and Benjamin, the schism o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068504-0741 | SCHISMA (σχισμα ), a small theoretical interval in music, arising from the division of the monochord. Two σχισματα make up a δεισις, or a λειμμα . | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068505-0741 | SCHISTUS, a name given to several kinds of stones. See Mineralogy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068506-0741 | SCHITTUAR, or Shitwar, a small island in the Persian Gulf. Long. 53. 24. E. Lat. 26. 59. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 26 59' N 53 24' E | SCHITTUAR |
kp-eb0719-068507-0741 | SCHLEGEL, Frederick, an eminent German critic and philosophical writer, was born at Hanover in 1772, of a family which had already produced more than one writer of ability. He was the third son of the family, being three years younger than his distinguished brother, who is still alive, Augustus William. In his earlier ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068801-0744 | SCHMALKALDEN, one of the provinces into which the principality of Hesse Casel, in Germany, is divided. It extends over 116 square miles. It is a hilly district, including part of the Thuringian Forest, some of the points of which reach the height of 3100 feet. It is watered by several small streams, all of which lose t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068802-0744 | SCHMIEDENBERG, a city of Prussian Silesia, in the government of Reichenbach and circle of Hirschberg. It stands on the river Yssel, at the foot of the Kahlenberg Mountains, but is 1400 feet above the level of the sea. It is an open place, of only two streets, more than two miles in length, and contains 550 houses, with... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068803-0744 | SCIIOENOBATES (from the Greek, σχοιvος, a rope, and βαιvω, I walk), a name which the Greeks gave to their rope-dancers. By the Romans they were called funambuli. The schoenobates were slaves whose masters made money of them, by entertaining the people with their feats of activity. Mercurialis (De Arte Gymnastica, lib. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068804-0744 | SCHOLASTIC, something belonging to the school.
Scholastic Divinity is that part or species of divinity which clears and discusses questions by reason and arguments; in which sense it stands in some measure opposed to positive divinity, which is founded on the authority of fathers, councils, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068805-0744 | SCHOLIAST, or Commentator, a grammarian who writes scholia, that is, notes and glosses, upon ancient authors who have written in the learned languages. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068806-0744 | SCHOLIUM, a note, annotation, or remark, occasionally made on some passage, proposition, or the like. This term is much used in geometry and other parts of mathematics, where, after demonstrating a proposition, it is customary to point out how it might be done some other way, or to give some advice or precaution in ord... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068807-0744 | SCHOMBERG, Frederick-Armand, Duke of, a distinguished officer, sprung from an illustrious family in Germany, and the son of Count Schomberg by an English lady, daughter of Lord Dudley, was born in 1608. He was initiated into the military life under Frederick-Henry prince of Orange, and afterwards served under his son W... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068901-0745 | SCHOOL, a public place, in which the languages, the arts, or sciences, are taught. Thus we say, a grammar school, a writing school, and a school of natural philosophy. The word is formed from the Latin schola, which, according to Du Cange, signifies discipline and correction. He adds, that it was anciently used for all... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068902-0745 | SCHOONER, in nautical language, a small vessel with two masts, whose main-sail and fore-sail are suspended from gaffs, reaching from the mast towards the stern, and stretched out below by booms, and whose foremost ends are hooked to an iron, which clasps the mast so as to turn therein as upon an axis, when the after-en... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068903-0745 | SCHOUTEN’S Island, on the eastern coast of Van Diemen’s Land, consists of lofty mountains separated by deep valleys. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068904-0745 | SCHREVELIUS, Cornelius, a laborious Dutch critic and writer, who has published some editions of the ancient classics, more distinguished for their elegance than accuracy. His Greek Lexico is esteemed the best of all his works. He died in 1667. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068905-0745 | SCHRYARI, an ancient wind-instrument of the bagpipe kind, long disused. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068906-0745 | SCHULTENS, Albert, professor of Hebrew and of the oriental languages at Leyden, and one of the most learned men of the eighteenth century, was born at Groningen, where he studied till the year 1706, and thence continued his studies at Leyden and Utrecht. Schultens at length applied himself to the study of Arabic, both ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-068907-0745 | SCHURMAN, Αnna Maria, a most extraordinary German lady, was born at Cologne in 1607. Her natural genius discovered itself at six years of age, when she cut all sorts of figures in paper with her scissars without a pattern. At eight she learned in a few days to draw flowers in a very agreeable manner. At ten, she took o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069001-0746 | SCHWABACH, a city of the kingdom of Bavaria, in the circle of the Rezat, situated on a river of the same name. It is the seat of the provincial courts of law, and of the boards of administration. It contains one reformed and two Lutheran churches, two Catholic chapels, and a Jews’ synagogue, with 650 houses, and 6960 i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069002-0746 | SCHWARTSBURG-SONDERHAUSEN, a small sovereign principality in Germany, taking its first name from an ancient castle, and the second from its capital. It is 263 geographical square miles in extent, is divided into seven bailiwicks, which comprise twelve cities and towns, and 83 villages, with, in 1838, 54,080 inhabitants... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069003-0746 | SCHWARZBURG-RUDOLSTADT, asovereign principality in Germany. It is 305 geographical square miles in extent, and is divided into eleven bailiwicks, which comprise eight cities and towns, and 155 villages, with, in 1838, 65,694 inhabitants, all Lutherans, except ,150 Catholics and about the same number of Jews. The income... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069004-0746 | SCHWATZ, a town of the Austrian province of Tyrol, in the circle of Innspruck. It stands on the river Inn, and having been destroyed in the course of hostilities during the year 1809, has been since rebuilt. It has again become a seat of the cotton manufacture, and of the fabrication of iron and cutlery goods and coppe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069005-0746 | SCHWEIDNITZ, a city of Prussian Silesia, in the government of Reichenbach, the capital of a circle of the same name, which extends over 203 square miles, and contains three other towns and seventy-one villages, with 41,300 inhabitants. It stands on the river Weistrig, at the foot of a lofty hill. It was the strongest f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069006-0746 | SCHWEINFURT, a city of the kingdom of Bavaria, in the circle of the Upper Maine, the capital of an extensive bailiwick of the same name. It stands on the river Maine, which protects it on one side, and is defended by fortifications on the other parts. It is not well built, the streets being narrow and crooked. It conta... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069007-0746 | SCHWERIN, a city, the capital of the grand duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, in Germany. It is finely situated, part being on the side of the lake of Schwerin, and part on an island on that lake, the two parts being connected by bridges. It contains the palace of the grand duke, with gardens, which exhibit more taste than... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069008-0746 | SCHWETZ, a town of West Prussia, in the government of Marienwerder, the capital of the circle of the same name, which extends over 537 square miles. It stands on the Vistula, at the spot where the Schwartzwasser falls into that stream, and contains an old castle, and 260 houses, with 2260 inhabitants. Long. 18. 22. 15.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069009-0746 | SCHWYZ, a canton of Switzerland, which gives its name to the whole confederation. It is bounded on the north by Zurich, on the north-east by St Gall, on the east by Gla-rus, on the south by Uri, and on the west by Lucerne and Zug. It extends over 344 square miles, and comprises six towns, twenty-seven communes, and 36,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069101-0747 | SCIAGRAPHY, or Sciography, the profile or vertical section of a building, used for showing the inside of it.
Sciagraphy , in Astronomy, is a term made use of by some authors to signify the art of finding the hour of the day or night by the shadow of the sun, moon, or stars. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069102-0747 | SCICLI, a city of the island of Sicily, in the province of Noto. It stands on a river of the same name, in a hollow way between two lofty rocks which terminate in the sea near the small harbour of Petershaven. It is in a humid atmosphere, but contains 10,500 inhabitants, who are industriously employed in various manufa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069103-0747 | SCIENCE, in Philosophy, denotes any body of doctrines deduced from self-evident principles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069104-0747 | SCIGLIANO, a city of Italy, in the Neapolitan province of Calabria Citeriore. It is situated in a valley on the great road, is defended by a castle, and contains 5620 inhabitants, who are employed in making mattresses and blankets. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069105-0747 | SC ILLY, a group of islands off the coast of Cornwall, from which they are distant about thirty miles. These islands are supposed by some to have been the Cassiterides or Ten Islands with which the Phoenicians traded; but that is a disputable point. There are six islands of this group that are inhabited, but they are a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069106-0747 | SCINDAPSOS, σχιvδαψος , a four-stringed musical instrument, according to Athenaeus (lib. iv. c. 25). | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069107-0747 | SCIO, an island of the Mediterranean, not far from the coast of Smyrna, and one of those classed as the Sporades. It was known to the ancients by the name of Chios, and by the Turks is now called Sakez-Adassi. It is situated between the parallels of 38° 8' and 38° 30', and between the meridians 25° 50' and 26° 11', thu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069201-0748 | SCIOPPIUS, Gaspar, a learned German writer of the seventeenth century, was born at Neumark, in the Upper Palatinate, on the 27th of May 1576. He studied at the university with so much success, that at the age of sixteen he became an author, and published books, says Ferrari, which deserve to be admired by old men. But ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069301-0749 | SCIOPTIC, or Scioptric Ball, a sphere or globe of wood, with a circular perforation, where a lens is placed. It is so fitted that, like the eye of an animal, it may be turned round every way, and is used in making experiments in a darkened room. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069302-0749 | SCIPIO, Publius Cornelius, a renowned Roman general, surnamed Africanus for his conquests in that country. His other signal military exploits were, his taking the city of New Carthage in a single day; his complete victory over Hannibal, the Carthaginian general; and the defeat of Syphax king of Numidia, and of Antiochu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069303-0749 | SCIRO, an island of the Archipelago, to the west of Mytilene, to the north-east of Negropont, and to the southeast of Sciati. It is fifteen miles in length and eight in breadth. The vines form the beauty of the island, and the wine is excellent; nor do the natives want wood. There is but one village, and that is built ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069304-0749 | SCIROCHO, or Sirocco, a name generally given in Italy to every unfavourable wind. In the south-west it is applied to the hot suffocating blasts from Africa; and in the north-east it means the cold bleak winds from the Alps. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069305-0749 | SCLAVONIA, a province of the Austrian empire, still occasionally dignified with the name of kingdom. It is bounded on the west by Croatia, on the north and east by Hungary, from which it is separated by the river Drave, and partly by the Danube, and on the south by Turkey, the river Save separating it from the territor... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069306-0749 | SCONE, a village of Scotland, now chiefly remarkable for being the place where the kings were anciently crowned. Kenneth II. upon his conquest of the Picts in the ninth century, having made Scone his principal residence, delivered his laws, called the Macalpine laws, from a tumulus, named the Mote Hill of Scone. The ol... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069401-0750 | SCORE, or Partition, in Music. Either of these terms means that written or printed arrangement of different parts for voices or instruments, or for both, by which the structure of any piece of music, consisting of a number of such parts, is brought successively under the eye, measure after measure, so as to enable the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069402-0750 | SCORIA, or Dross, amongst metallurgists, is the recrement of metals in fusion, or, more determinately speaking, is that mass which is produced by melting metals and ores. When cold, it is brittle, and not dissoluble in water, being properly a kind of glass. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069403-0750 | SCORIFICATION, in Metallurgy, is the art of reducing a body, either entirely or in part, into scoria. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069404-0750 | SCOT, Michael, of Balwirie, a renowned Scottish worthy of the thirteenth century. This singular man made the tour of France and Germany, and was received with some distinction at the court of the Emperor Frederic II. Having travelled enough to gratify his curiosity or his vanity, he returned to Scotland, and gave himse... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069405-0750 | SCOTAL, or Scotale, is where any officer of a forest keeps an ale-house within the forest, under colour of his office, making people come to his house, and there spend their money for fear of his displeasure. We find it mentioned in the charter of the forest, “Nullus forestarius faciat Scotallas, vel garbas colligat, v... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069406-0750 | SCOTALES were meetings formerly held in England for the purpose of drinking ale, of which the expense was paid by joint contribution. Thus the tenants of South Malling, in Sussex, which belonged to the Archbishop of Canterbury, were, at the keeping of a court, to entertain the lord or his bailiff' with a drinking, or a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069407-0750 | SCOTISTS, a sect of school divines and philosophers, so called from their founder Joannes Duns Scotus, a Scottish cordelier, who maintained the immaculate conception of the Virgin, or that she was born without original sin, in opposition to Thomas Aquinas and the Thomists. As to philosophy, the Scotists were, like the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-069501-0759 | HISTORY OF SCOTLANDSCOTLAND, HISTORY OF.
Sect. I.— Roman Period. It will not be expected that in such a sketch of the history of Scotland as is alone suited to this work, we should enter into the great controversy concerning the origin of the Scottish people, a subject upon which much needless acrimony, and many unpro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-077101-0835 | SCOTT, John, an eminent English divine, was born in 1638, and became minister of St Thomas’s in Southwark. In the year 1684 he was collated to a prebend in the cathedral of St Paul’s. Dr Hickes tells us, that, after the revolution, “he first refused the bishopric of Chester, because he would not take the oath of homage... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-077801-0842 | SCOUGAL, Henry, the second son of Patrick Scougal, bishop of Aberdeen, was born in June 1650, at Salton, in East Lothian, where his father, the immediate predecessor of Bishop Burnet, was rector. At the age of fifteen he entered the university, where he behaved with great modesty, sobriety, and diligence. No sooner had... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-077802-0842 | SCOUTS, in a military sense, are generally horsemen sent out before, on the wings of an army, at the distance of a mile or two, to discover the enemy, and to give the general an account of what they see. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-077803-0842 | SCREW, one of the six mechanical powers, is a cylinder cut into several concave surfaces, or rather a channel or groove made in a cylinder, by carrying on two spiral plains the whole length of the screw, in such a manner that they may be always equally inclined to the axis of the cylinder in their whole progress, and a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-077804-0842 | SCRIBE, in Hebrew ספר , sepher, is very common in Scripture, and has several significations.
It signifies, first, a clerk, writer, or secretary. This was a very considerable employment in the court of the kings of Judah, in which the Scripture often mentions the secretaries as the first officers of the crown. Seraiah ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-077805-0842 | SCRIMZEOR, or Scrimgeour, Henry, an eminent restorer of learning, was born at Dundee in the year 1506. He traced his descent from the ancient family of the Scrim-zeours of Dudhope, who obtained the office of hereditary standard-bearers to the kings of Scotland in 1057.
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kp-eb0719-078001-0844 | SCRIPTURE, HOLY.
Under this title are commonly designated the sacred books of the Jews and the Christians, in which are contained the revelation of God’s will to mankind, and the principles of that religion which he has inculcated upon us. In other parts of this work the reader will find articles elucidatory of the cl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-079101-0855 | SCRIVENER, one who draws contracts, or whose business it is to place money at interest. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-079102-0855 | SCROLL, in Heraldry. See that article. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-079103-0855 | SCRUPLE, Scrupulus, or Scrupulum, the least of the weights used by the ancients, which amongst the Romans was the twenty-fourth part of an ounce, or the third part of a dram. The scruple is still among us a weight, containing the third part of a dram, or twenty grains. Among goldsmiths it is twenty-four grains.
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kp-eb0719-079201-0856 | SCRUTINY (Scrutinium), in the primitive church, was an examination or probation practised in the last week of Lent, upon the catechumens, who were to receive baptism on Easter-day. The scrutiny was performed with a great many ceremonies. Exorcisms and prayers were made over the heads of the catechumens; and upon Palm S... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-079202-0856 | SCRUTORE, or Scrutoir (from the French escritoire), a kind of cabinet, with a door or lid opening downwards. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-079203-0856 | SCRY, in falconry, denotes a large flock of fowl. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-079204-0856 | SCUDDING, the movement by which a ship is carried precipitately before a tempest. As a ship flies with amazing rapidity through the water whenever this expedient is put in practice, it is never attempted in a contrary wind, unless when her condition renders her incapable of sustaining the mutual effort of the wind and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-079205-0856 | SCULPONEAE, among the Romans, a kind of shoes worn by slaves of both sexes. These shoes consisted only of blocks of wood made hollow, like the French sabots. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-000101-0011 | SCULPTURE is the art of imitating visible form by means of solid substances, such as marble, wood, or metals. The art is one of very great antiquity, and is generally thought to have originated from idolatry, as it was found necessary to place before the people the images of their gods, to enliven the fervour of their ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-001301-0023 | SCUPPERS are pipes of lead inserted in openings bored from the deck through the sides of a ship, to carry the water off from the deck to the sea. To avoid the inconvenience of having the scuppers broken by the working of the ship, each is formed of two pipes, one of which is passed upwards to the deck through the openi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-001302-0023 | SCURVY, a dreadful disease, in the prevention and cure of which, Dr Beddoes thinks, the mineral acids, especially the nitric and vitriolic, may be employed with as much success as the vegetable acids. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-001303-0023 | SCUTAGE (scutagium; Saxon, scildpening) was a tax or contribution raised by those that held lands by knights’ service, towards furnishing the king’s army, at one, two, or three merks for every knight’s fee. Henry III., for his voyage to the Holy Land, had a tenth granted by the clergy, and scutage, three merks of every... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-001304-0023 | SCUTARI, a city of the western part of Turkey, the capital of the province of the same name, sometimes also called by the Turks Iskandria. It is situated on the river Drenas, at its efflux from the Lake Bojana. It is the seat of a Greek bishop. It contains Greek and Catholic churches, several mosques, and about 4000 ho... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-001305-0023 | SCUTE (scutum), a French gold coin of three shillings and fourpence in the reign of Henry V. Catharine queen of England had an assurance made her of sundry castles, manors, lands, &c. valued at the sum of forty thousand scutes, two of which were worth a noble. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-001306-0023 | SCUTTLES, in a ship, holes in the decks of a ship, either for air, or as passages to the store-rooms; also openings in a ship’s side for the admission of air. If, in order to sink a ship, a hole be cut in her bottom, she is said, in nautical language, to be scuttled. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-001307-0023 | SCYLAX, a celebrated mathematician and geographer of Caria, flourished under the reign of Darius Hystaspes, about 558 before Christ. Some have attributed to him the invention of geographical tables. We have under his name a geographical work published by Hoeschelius; but it is written by a much later author, and is per... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-001308-0023 | SCYLLA, in Ancient Geography, a rock in the Fretum Siculum, near the coast of Italy, dangerous to shipping, opposite to Charybdis, a whirlpool on the coast of Sicily, and both of them famous in mythology. Scylla and Charybdis have been almost subdued by the repeated convulsions of this part of the earth, and by the vio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-001401-0024 | SCYROS, an island in the Aegean Sea, at the distance of about twenty-eight miles north-east from Euboea. It is sixty miles in circumference. It was originally in the possession of the Pelasgians and Carians. Achilles retired there to avoid going to the Trojan war, and became father of Neoptolemus, by Deidamia, the daug... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-001402-0024 | SCYTALA Laconica, in Antiquity, a stratagem or device of the Lacedaemonians, for the secret writing of letters to their correspondents, so that if they should chance to be intercepted, nobody might be able to read them.
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kp-eb0720-001403-0024 | SCYTHE, a well-known instrument, which has been long employed in cutting grass. See Agriculture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-001404-0024 | SCYTHIA, an ancient name for the northern parts of Asia, now known by the name of Tartary; and also for some of the north-eastern parts of Europe.
This vast territory, which extends itself from the Ister or Danube, the boundary of the Celts, that is, from about the 25th to almost the 110th degree of east longitude, wa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-001405-0024 | SEA, in a strict sense, signifies a large portion of water almost surrounded by land, as the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas; but it is frequently used for that vast body of water which encompasses the whole earth. See the articles Geology and Physical Geography. Sea -Air is that part of the atmosphere which is above the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-001501-0029 | SEA-LIGHTS.
Sea-Light, and Lighthouse, are terms which, although not strictly synonymous, are indifferently employed to denote the same thing. A Sea-light may be defined as a light so modified and directed as to present to the mariner an appearance which shall at once enable him to judge of his position during the nig... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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