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kp-eb0721-017907-0197 | TENIERS, David, the elder, a Flemish painter, born at Antwerp in 15S2, received the first rudiments of his art from the famous Rubens, who highly esteemed him for his promising genius, and with great satisfaction examined and commended his designs. From the school of that celebrated painter Teniers went to finish his s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-017908-0197 | Teniers, David, the younger, also an admirable painter, was the son of the former, and was born at Antwerp in 1610. He obtained the name of Ape of Painting, from his imitating the manner of different painters with such exactness as to deceive even the nicest judges. He greatly improved under his father, and obtained su... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-017909-0197 | TENISON, Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury, was born at Cottenham, in Cambridgeshire, on the 29th of September 1636; and studied at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge. In his youth he applied himself to physic; but afterward went into orders, and was some time minister of St Andrew’s church, Cambridge; where he attende... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-017910-0197 | TENNANT, Smithson, a distinguished chemist, born at Selby in Yorkshire, 30th November 1761, was the only child of the Rev. Calvert Tennant, younger son of a respectable family in Wensley Dale, near Richmond, and vicar of Selby. His mother was Mary Daunt, daughter of a surgeon of that town. His father had been a fellow ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018201-0200 | TENNESSEE, one of the principal states in the North American union, extends from 81° 40' to 90° 15' west longitude, and from 35° to 36° 40' north latitude, being about 110 miles in width, and about 400 miles in length in the northern part, and 300 in the southern, and includes an area of 45,000 square miles. It has Vir... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018401-0202 | TENNIS, a play at. which a ball is driven by a racket. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018402-0202 | TENSE, in Grammar, an inflection of verbs, by which they are made to signify or distinguish the circumstance of time in what they affirm. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018403-0202 | TENT, in War, a pavilion or portable house. Tents are made of canvass, for officers and soldiers to lie under when in the field. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018404-0202 | TENTERDEN, a town in the hundred of the same name, and the lathe of Scray, in the county of Kent, thirty-seven miles from London. It stands on a hill, and the lofty steeple of its church is distinguished from every part of the extensive district by which it is surrounded, and was formerly used as a beacon. At the first... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018405-0202 | TENURE, in Law, signifies the manner in which lands or tenements are held, or the service which the tenant owes to his lord. Of this kingdom almost all the real property is by the policy of our laws supposed to be granted by, dependent upon, and held of, some superior lord, by and in consideration of certain services t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018406-0202 | TEOS, one of the twelve Ionian cities, was situated on the south side of the Ionian peninsula, and distinguished by being the place where the poet Anacreon and the historian Hecatams were born. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018407-0202 | TERAMO, a city of Italy, the capital of the Neapolitan province Abruzzo Ulteriore I. It stands on the river Tordino, and is fortified. It is the seat of a bishop, and, besides the cathedral, has nine churches, with 9250 inhabitants, who have considerable trade in corn and in wine, and other products of the soil. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018408-0202 | TERCERA, one of the largest of the Azores, or Western Islands, lying in the Atlantic Ocean. It is about forty miles in circumference, and is surrounded with craggy rocks, which render it almost inaccessible. The soil is fertile, abounding in corn, wine, and fruits; and the inhabitants have plenty of cattle to supply th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 28 45' N 27 1' W | TERCERA |
kp-eb0721-018409-0202 | TEREK, a considerable river of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Caucasus, which has its rise in the deep recesses of the snow-covered mountains in the loftiest part of the Caucasian chain, on the frontier of Circassia and Georgia. It flows with a rapid course northward towards the plains, whence it turns eastward, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018410-0202 | TERENCE, or Publius Terentius, acomic poet of great celebrity, was born at Carthage in the year 192 before the commencement of the Christian era. At an early age he became a captive, and was sold as a slave to Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, to whom he appears to have been indebted for a learned education. His mann... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018501-0203 | TERGOVISTA, a town of European Turkey, in Walachia, in the district of Zara de Suss, on the river Jalomiza. It is situated in a pleasant and fruitful district, and was once the residence of the waiwodes of Walachia, and still continues the seat of government of the district. It contains several churches, two convents, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 3' N 25 29' E | TERGOVISTA |
kp-eb0721-018502-0203 | TERKI, a fortress built by Russia at the mouth of the Tumenka, one of the branches of the Terek. The place was once of great importance, but was afterwards razed to the ground. The present fort contains only a small garrison, and a few inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018503-0203 | TERM, in Grammar, denotes some word or expression in a language. The word term, terminus, is borrowed metaphorically, by the grammarians and philosophers, from the measurers or surveyors of lands: as a field is defined and distinguished by its termini, or limits, so is a thing or matter by the word or term by which it ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018504-0203 | TERMINATION Island, in the South Pacific Ocean, so named by Captain Vancouver, as being the termination of his researches on the south-west coast of New Holland, near which it lies. Long. 122. 8. E. Lat. 34. 32. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 34 32' S 122 8' E | TERMINATION |
kp-eb0721-018505-0203 | TERMINI, a city of the island of Sicily. It stands on the northern shore of the island, near the mouth of the river Leonardo. Its appearance from the sea is very respectable. It is surrounded with walls rapidly tending to decay, but is protected by a castle on a high rock, which commands the town and coast. The streets... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018506-0203 | Termini, in Architecture, denote a kind of statues or columns, adorned on the top with the figure of a man’s, woman's, or satyr’s head, as a capital; and the lower part ending in a kind of sheath or scabbard. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018507-0203 | TERMINUS, in Pagan worship, an ancient deity among the Romans, who presided over the stones or land-marks, called termini, which were held so sacred that it was accounted sacrilege to move them; and as the criminal became devoted to the gods, it was lawful for any man to kill him. The worship of this deity was institut... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018508-0203 | TERNATE, one of the smaller Molucca Isles, on the west coast of Gilolo, about twenty-five miles in circumference, and formerly the seat of sovereignty over all the adjacent Molucca islands, Tidore, Bachian, Motir, and Ma-chian, which are properly the Moluccas, being the islands which originally produced the finer spice... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018509-0203 | TERNI, a town of Italy, in the papal delegation of Spoleto. It stands between two branches of the river Nera, in a delightful valley surrounded with olive, pomegranate, and mulberry trees. It is the seat of a bishop, has a cathedral, several parish churches, and five monasteries, with 5100 inhabitants. In the episcopal... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 42 34' N 12 34' E | TERNI |
kp-eb0721-018510-0203 | TERPANDER, a celebrated Greek poet and musician. The Oxford marbles record that he was the son of Derde-neus of Lesbos, and that he flourished in the 381st year of these records; which nearly answers to the 27th Olympiad, and 671st year before Christ. The marbles likewise inform us that he taught the nomes, or airs, of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018601-0204 | TERRA Australis Incognita, a name for a supposed unknown continent lying towards the south pole. It was an object of search to several navigators, among others to Captain Cook, who made the circuit of the Southern Ocean in a high latitude, and came to the conclusion that there could be no continent in that quarter, unl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018602-0204 | TERRACINA, a city of Italy, in the papal delegation of Frosinone. It stands on the sea-shore, at the foot of a hill, where the Pontine marshes terminate. It is the seat of a bishop, has a cathedral, and is surrounded with walls; and being a frontier place, is furnished with a garrison. It is deemed unhealthy, but conta... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 41 18' 14" N 13 13' 2" E | TERRACINA |
kp-eb0721-018603-0204 | TERRA-NOVA, a city of the island of Sicily, in the province of Noto, on a hill in a healthy situation, on the sea-shore, near the mouth of the river Graccio. It is well built, and contains 8290 inhabitants, who cultivate cotton, and collect much silk, and trade extensively in wheat, barley, soda, sulphur, and pulse of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018604-0204 | TERRASSON, John, born at Lyon in 1669, distinguished himself in the dispute concerning Homer, between La Motte and Madame Dacier, by writing a “Dissertation Critique sur l’Iliade d’Homère.” Paris, 1715, 2 tom. 12mo. Among other works, he likewise wrote a political and moral romance called Sethos. It is a publication of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018605-0204 | TERRE Napoleon, a tract of coast on the south shore of New Holland, first explored by the French navigator Captain Baudin in Le Géographe. According to Captain Flinders, it is comprised between Lat. 37.36. and 35.40. S. and between Long. 140. 10. and 138. 58. E. making about fifty leagues of coast, in which, Captain Ba... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018606-0204 | Terre Verte, in the colour-trade, the name of a green earth much used by painters, both singly for a good standing green, and in mixture with other colours. The name is French, and signifies green earth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018607-0204 | TERRIANI or Terrai, a district in Northern Hindustan, situated about the twenty-seventh degree of north latitude, partly comprehended in the British dominions, and partly in those of Nepaul. The word properly signifies marshy land, and is sometimes applied to the flats lying below the hills in the interior of Nepaul, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018608-0204 | TERROWEH, a town and fortress of Hindustan, in the [7:21:187]province of Allahabad, district of Bundelcund. Latitude not ascertained. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018701-0205 | TERTULLIAN, or Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, one of the Latin fathers, was born at Carthage about the middle of the second century. Dr Allix, in his “Dissertatio de Tertulliani Vita et Scriptis,” has remarked that those who suppose him to have flourished about the year 160, have referred his birth to too earl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018702-0205 | TERUEL, a department of the southern division of the province of Aragon, in Spain, a rich district, watered by the streams of the rivers Guadalaviar and Alhambra. The borders of the department are mountainous and sterile, but the valleys are very productive. The capital is a city of the same name, upon the river Turia,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018703-0205 | TERUNCIUS, a very small brass coin, in use among the Romans. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018704-0205 | TERVENGARY, a small Mahommedan town of Hindustan, in the province of Malabar, situated on the banks of a river which is navigable in the rainy season thirty-two miles for canoes. Near this town Tippoo’s forces were decisively defeated by Colonel Hartley’s army. It is twenty-three miles south by east from Calicut. Long.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 11 2' N 76 E | TERVENGARY |
kp-eb0721-018705-0205 | TERZETTO (Ital. ), a musical composition for three obbligati parts, vocal or instrumental. An instrumental terzetto is also called a trio. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018706-0205 | TESCHEN, a circle of the Austrian principality of Moravia, usually called a duchy. It is bounded on the north by Prussian Silesia, on the east by Gallicia, on the south by Hungary, and on the west by Perau. It extends over 756 square miles, and contains nine cities or towns, 279 villages, and 161,500 inhabitants. The c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018707-0205 | TESHOO Loomboo is, properly speaking, a large monastery, consisting of three or four hundred houses, the habitations of the gylongs or priests, besides temples, mausoleums, and the palace of the lama or sovereign pontiff of this idolatrous religion of the east This is the seat of his authority, and the capital of all t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018708-0205 | TESSELATED Pavements, those of rich mosaic work, made of curious square marbles, bricks, or tiles, called tesselae from their resembling dice. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018709-0205 | TESSERA, in Roman antiquity, denoted in its primary sense a cube or die; so called from the Greek word τέσσαgα, or τέσσεgα , four; respect being had to its number of sides, distinct from the two horizontal planes above and below. And it was thus distinguished from the talus, which being round at each end, contained onl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018801-0206 | TESSIN or Τιcινο, a canton of Switzerland, in the most southern part of the confederation, extending in longitude from 8° 5' to 8° 58' east, and in latitude from 45° 46' to 46° 33' north. It is bounded on the north by Uri, on the north-east by the Greybunden, on the south-east and south by Venetian Lombardy, and on the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018802-0206 | TESSOUWA, a considerable town in Africa, situated east of Mourzouk, the capital of the kingdom of Fezzan. Near this town a deep and rapid stream is said to have existed, but was overwhelmed by the moving sands so frequent in Africa. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018803-0206 | TEST Act is the statute 25 Car. II. cap. 2, which directs all officers, civil and military, to take the oaths, and make the declaration against transubstantiation, in the court of King’s Bench, or Chancery, the next term, or at the next quarter-sessions, or (by subsequent statutes) within six months after their admissi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018804-0206 | TESTAMENT, or Last Will. Testaments, both Justinian and Coke agree, are so called, because they are testatio mentis; an etymon which seems to savour too much of conceit, it being plainly a substantive derived from the verb testari, in like manner as juramentum, incrementum, and others, from other verbs. The definition ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018805-0206 | TESTUDO, in the military art of the ancients, was a kind of cover or screen which the soldiers formed with their bucklers, by holding them up over their heads, and standing close to each other. This expedient served to shelter them from darts and other missiles, especially those thrown from above, when they went to the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018806-0206 | TETBURY, a town of the hundred of Longtrees and county of Gloucester, ninety-nine miles from London. It is on an elevated spot on the borders of Wiltshire. There arc manufactures of woollen cloths. It is moderately well built, and has a good market-house well attended. The inhabitants amounted in 1821 to 2734, and in 1... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018807-0206 | TETHUROA, a small island in the South Pacific Ocean, subject to Otaheite, twenty-four miles north-west of Point Venus. Long. 149. 30. W. Lat. 17. 4. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018808-0206 | TETRACHORD (τετgάχοgδον ), a group of four sounds in melodic succession, and belonging to the ancient Greek system of music. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018809-0206 | TETRARCH, a prince who holds and governs a fourth part of a kingdom. Such originally was the import of the title tetrarch; but it was afterwards applied to any petty king or sovereign, and became synonymous with ethnarch, as appears from the following considerations. Pliny makes mention of six tetrarchies within the ci... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018901-0207 | TETRASTYLE, in ancient architecture, a building, and particularly a temple, with four columns in its front. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018902-0207 | TETTUA Moru, a cape on the east coast of New . Zealand, on the north-east point of Poverty Bay. Long. 181. 30. W. Lat. 38. 36. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018903-0207 | TEUTONES, or Teutoni, a people always by historians joined with the Cimbri; both seated, according to Mela, beyond the Elbe, on the Sinus Codanus, or Baltic; and there, it is supposed, lay the country of the Teutones, now Ditmarsh; diversity of dialects producing the different terms Teu, Tut, Bit, Tid, and Thod, which ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018904-0207 | TEUTONIC, something belonging to the Teutones. The Teutonic language is supposed to have been the language of the ancient Germans, and hence is reckoned among the mother-tongues. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018905-0207 | Teutonic Order, an order of military knights, established towards the close of the twelfth century, on the following occasion. When the emperor Barbarossa engaged in a crusade for the recovery of the Holy Land out of the bonds of Saladin, he was followed by great numbers of German volunteers, who from various motives e... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018906-0207 | TEWKESBURY, a town of the hundred of the same name, in the county of Gloucester, 104 miles from London, It stands on the banks of the river Severn, near to the junction of the Avon with that stream. It is finely situated on a rising ground, and for the most part is well built. The church is a Gothic structure, one of t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018907-0207 | TEXEL, an island on the northern shore of the province of North Holland, separated from the mainland by the channel of Marsdiep, which is an entrance to the Zuyder Sea. It is about twelve miles long and three broad, and contains six villages, with 4950 inhabitants, who have flocks of 30,000 sheep yielding the finest wo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018908-0207 | TEXT, a relative term, contradistinguished from gloss or commentary, and signifying an original discourse exclusive of any note or interpretation. This word is particularly used for a certain passage of Scripture, chosen by a preacher as the subject of his sermon. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018909-0207 | TEXTURE properly denotes the arrangement and cohesion of several slender bodies or threads interwoven or entangled among each other, as in the webs of spiders, or in cloths. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-018910-0207 | THALES, a celebrated Greek philosopher, and the first of the seven wise men of Greece, was born at Miletus about 640 B. c. In order to improve himself in the knowledge of the sciences, he travelled into Egypt, where he discoursed with the priests and other learned men. Some say that he married; but others observe that ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-019001-0208 | THALIA, in Pagan mythology, one of the nine Muses. She presided over comedy; and is represented crowned with a garland of ivy, holding a mask in her hand, and wearing buskins on her feet. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-019002-0208 | THAME, a town of the hundred of the same name, in the county of Oxford, forty-six miles from London. It stands on a rising ground on the banks of the Thames, consists of one long street, and has a fine Gothic church, a free school, and alms-houses. The river is navigable to the town. There is a market on Tuesday. The i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-019003-0208 | THAMES, a river of England. As this river passes through the metropolis, the reader will find, under the article London , a description of the most important circumstances relating to it in that part of its progress which is under the superintendence of the magistracy of London. Without entering into the disputes as to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-019004-0208 | THANASIR, or Tannesar, a town of Hindustan, province of Delhi, which formerly contained the celebrated temple of Jug Soom, which was held in the highest estimation by the Hindus, and innumerable pilgrims flocked to it from all parts of India. It now belongs to the Sikhs, and is principally inhabited by that race and by... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-019005-0208 | THANE, or Thanus, a name given to the nobility in Britain before the time of William the Conqueror. It signifies a minister or honourable retainer, from the verb thenian, to minister. There were several degrees of nobility among the Anglo-Saxons; but those most commonly mentioned are the king’s thanes and the alderman’... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-019006-0208 | THANET, or Isle of Τηανετ, a part of the county of Kent, in the north corner of it, surrounded by the sea, except at one part, where the river Stour, which was once a large estuary, divides it from the rest of the county. It extends nine miles from east to west, and eight miles from north to south, and contains 24,880 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-019101-0209 | THANN, a city of France, in the department of the Upper Rhine, and the arrondissement of Befort. It is situated at the foot of a mountain, upon which the castle of Engel-burg stands, on the river Thuron, and at the entrance of the valley of St Martin. The church of St Theobald is a curious object, on the model of the c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-019102-0209 | THASO, or Tasso, an island on the northern coast of Greece, the Thasos of antiquity. It stands in the Gulf of Contessa, about four miles from the mainland, and seven leagues to the eastward of Cape Karca or Kofani. It is thirteen miles long from north to south, and eleven broad from east to west. It is mountainous, par... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-019103-0209 | THATCHAM, a town of England, in the hundred of Reading and county of Berks. It stands on the great road from London to Bath and Bristol, being fifty-three miles from the former city. It is well built, and was formerly a place of some consequence. It has a parish church and an endowed school. The parish is very extensiv... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-019104-0209 | THAXTED, a town of the hundred of Dunmow, in the county of Essex, forty-seven miles from London. It is a place of little trade, though formerly much cutlery was made there. It has a spacious church, built by John duke of Lancaster, and several chapels for dissenters. It was formerly a borough, and more considerable tha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-019105-0209 | THEATINES, a religious order in the Romish church, so called from their principal founder John Peter Caraffa, then bishop of Theate, or Chicti, in the kingdom of Naples, and afterwards pope, under the name of Paul IV. The names of the other founders were Gaetan, Boniface, and Consiglieri. These four individuals, desiri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-019106-0209 | THEATRE, a place in which dramatic pieces are exhibited. The article Drama, besides relating the literary history of the stage, has furnished as minute an account of the plan and arrangements of the ancient theatres as the purposes of this work allow. Similar details as to the modern theatres of the Continent, would le... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-019401-0212 | THEBES, the name of a celebrated city of ancient Greece. It is supposed to have been built by Cadmus, about the year of the world 2355. This Cadmus, according to the Greeks, was the son of Agenor king of Sidon or of Tyre; but the Sidonians allow him to have been of no higher quality than his cook, and tell us that his ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-019901-0217 | THEMISTIUS, a Greek orator and philosopher, was a native of Paphlagonia, and flourished during the latter half of the fourth century. He became very eminent as a public teacher of philosophy, and distinguished himself by commentaries on some of the works of Aristotle. His eloquence procured him the appellation of E ὐφg... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-020001-0218 | THEMISTOCLES, the renowned Athenian admiral, general, and patriot, who gained the battle of Salamis against the Persians. Being banished his country by his ungrateful fellow-citizens, he fled to Artaxerxes king of Persia; but, in order to avoid taking up arms against his country, he slew himself, 464 b. c. See Athens . | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-020002-0218 | THEOBALD, Lewis, best known as an editor of Shakspeare, was the son of an attorney practising at Sittingbourne in Kent. His grammatical learning he received at Isleworth in Middlesex, and was originally destined for his father’s profession; but this he speedily abandoned for the profession of an author, and having fixe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-020003-0218 | THEOCRACY, in matters of government, a state governed by the immediate direction of God alone. Such was the ancient government of the Jews before the time of Saul. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-020004-0218 | THEOCRITUS, the most famous of all the pastoral poets, was the son of Praxagoras and Philine. He was a native of Syracuse, and flourished about 272 years before the Christian era.^[1. Clinton’s Fasti Hellenici, vol. iii. p. 7. ] The younger Hiero, king of Syracuse, is celebrated in his verses; but he appears to have fo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-020005-0218 | THEODOLITE, a mathematical instrument for measuringheights and distances. See Mensuration and Surverying . | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-020006-0218 | THEODORE, Baron Nieuhof, in the county of La Marc in Westphalia, an adventurer who obtained considerable notoriety under the title of King of Corsica. He had his education in the French service, and afterwards went to Spain, where he received some marks of regard from the duke of Riperda and Cardinal Alberoni; but bein... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-020101-0219 | THEODORETUS, or, as he is frequently called, Τneodoritus , was born at Antioch towards the close of the fourth century. According to his own account, his birth was preceded by divers miracles. He received his education in the neighbouring monastery of Euprepius, where he had Chrysostom for one of his instructors. About... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-020102-0219 | THEOGONY, from Θ εὸς , God, and γονη , seed, offspring, that branch of the heathen theology which taught the genealogy of their gods. Hesiod gives us the ancient theogony in a poem under that title. Among the most ancient writers, Dr Burnet observes that theogony and cosmogony signified the same thing. In effect, the g... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-020103-0219 | THEOGNIS, a Greek poet of a singular character, flourished in the 59th Olympiad, or about 544 years before the Christian era. According to Plato, who is followed by Suidas, he was a native of Megara in Sicily, but Harpocratio contends for Megara in Greece; and Corsini has satisfactorily shewn that the latter statement ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-020201-0220 | THEOLOGY.
The word theology, in its most restricted sense, signifies a discourse concerning God, (λoγoς περι τov θεoυ) ; but it is commonly employed to designate that science which treats not only of the divine existence and attributes, but also of the relations which subsist between God and his intelligent creatures,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-023501-0253 | THEOPHRASTUS, a celebrated philosopher, was a native of Eresium, a maritime town in the island of Lesbos, and is supposed to have been born about the year 392 before the Christian era. His father was by trade a fuller. The original name of the son, we are informed, was Tyrtamus; but on account of his conspicuous eloque... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-023601-0254 | THEOPOMPUS, a celebrated Greek orator and historian, was born in the island Chios, and flourished in the reign of Alexander the Great. He was one of the most famous of all the disciples of Isocrates, and won the prize from all the panegyrists whom Artemisia invited to praise Mausolus. He wrote several works, which are ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-023602-0254 | THEORBO (Ital. Tiorho), a large kind of lute, long disused. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-023603-0254 | THEOREM, a proposition which terminates in theory, and which considers the properties of things already made or done; or it is a speculative proposition deduced from comparing together several definitions. A theorem is something to be proved, and a problem something to be done. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-023604-0254 | THEORY, in general, denotes any doctrine which terminates in speculation, without considering the practical uses or application thereof. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-023605-0254 | THEOSOPHISTS, a sect of men who pretend to derive all their knowledge from divine illumination. They boast that, by means of this celestial light, they are not only admitted to the intimate knowledge of God, and of all divine truth, but have access to the most sublime secrets of nature. They ascribe it to the singular ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-023606-0254 | THERAPEUTAE, a term applied to those that are wholly in the service of religion. This general term has been applied to particular sects of men, concerning whom there have been great disputes among the learned. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-023607-0254 | THERAPEUTICS, that part of medicine which acquaints us with the rules that are to be observed, and the medicines to be employed, in the cure of diseases. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-023608-0254 | THERMAE, hot baths or bagnios. Luxury and extravagance were in nothing carried to such heights as in the thermae of the Roman emperors. Ammianus Marcellinus complains that they were built to such an extent as to equal whole provinces; from which description Valesius would make an abatement, by reading piscina instead o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-023609-0254 | THERMIA, an island of Greece, in the southern part of the Archipelago. It is about fifty-five square miles in extent, is flat on the coast, but increases in height towards the centre. The soil is generally fertile, and produces good wheat, wine, figs, and cotton wool The raising of silk is an important object of pursui... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-023610-0254 | THERMOMETER, from θεgμὸς , warm, and μετgέω, I measure; an instrument for indicating the temperature of bodies, or the intensity of their heat or cold, in terms of the expansion of one or more of them. But such an instrument is seldom adapted to afford any direct measure of absolute heat; for the expansion of every sub... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-024201-0262 | THERMOPYLAE, a narrow pass or defile, between the [7:21:243] Sinus Maliacus on the east, and a steep branch of Mount Oeta, covered with unpassable woods, on the west; leading from Thessaly to Locris and Boeotia. These mountains divide Greece in the middle, in the same manner as the Apennine does Italy; forming one cont... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-024301-0263 | THERWARA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, thirty miles north-west from Rahdunpoor. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-024302-0263 | THESEA, feasts celebrated by the Athenians in honour of Theseus, consisting of sports and games, with mirth and banquets. Such as were poor and unable to contribute to them were entertained at the public expense. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-024303-0263 | THESEUS, a famous hero of antiquity, ranked among the demigods, whose history is fabulous. He was the reputed son of Aegeus king of Athens. He threw Sciron, a cruel robber, down a precipice; fastened Procrustes, tyrant of Attica, to a bending pine, which being let loose, tore him asunder; killed the Minotaur kept in th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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