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kp-eb0703-049002-1931 | ARISTOTLE.
The power of philosophy in fixing an impression of itself on the world, appears, when attentively viewed, no less than that evidenced in successful exertions of civil or military talents. But there is a striking difference in the comparative interest excited by the philosopher himself, and the distinguished... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-049401-1983 | ARISTOTLE’S PHILOSOPHY.
Account of the Writings of Aristotle, and reception of his Philosophy.
The preservation of the original writings of Aristotle is a curious fact in literary history. Whilst the philosopher distributed his other property to his surviving family, he left the more precious bequest of his writings ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-053101-2464 | ARISTOXENUS, one of the most ancient musical writers, was born at Tarentum, a city in Magna Graecia, now Calabria. He was the son of a musician, and it appears that he lived about the time of Alexander the Great and his successors. His Harmonics in three books, all that are come down to us, together with Ptolemy’s Harm... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-053201-2477 | ARITHMETIC
IS a science which explains the properties of numbers, and shows the method or art of computing by them.
I.—HISTORY OF ARITHMETIC.
The various attempts of men in every state of society at representing numbers all spring from the same feeling, so strongly implanted in their breasts, which unceasingly promp... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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IS | |
kp-eb0703-056701-2932 | ARIUS, a divine of the fourth century, the head and founder of the Arians, a sect which denied the eternal divinity and substantiality of the Word, was born in Libya. Eusebius, bishop of Nicoedia, a great favourite of Constantia, sister of the emperor Constantine, and wife of Licinius, became a zealous promoter of Aria... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-056702-2932 | ARK, Noah’s, a floating vessel built by Noah, for the preservation of his family, and the several species of animals, during the deluge. The ark has afforded several points of curious inquiry relating to its form, capacity, materials, &c. The wood of which it was built is called in the Hebrew gopher wood, and in the Se... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-056801-2945 | ARKLOW, a seaport town of Ireland, in the county of Wicklow, situated on the south side of the river Avoca or Ovoca, near the Irish Sea. The river is crossed by a bridge of 19 arches, and its harbour admits small vessels. It contains a charter-school for 50 girls; and there are barracks at its western extremity. It was... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-056802-2945 | ARKWRIGHT, Sir Richard, famous for his inventions in cotton spinning, was born at Preston in Lancashire, in 1732, of parents in humble circumstances. He was the youngest of thirteen children, received but a very indifferent education, and was bred to the trade of a barber. But the res angu,sta domi could not repress th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-057101-2984 | ARLES, an arrondissement in the department of the mouths of the Rhone, in France, extending over 883 square miles, or 585,120 acres. It is divided into eight cantons, and subdivided into 33 communes, which contain 70,641 inhabitants.
Arles, a city, the chief of the arrondissement of the same name, in France. It is sit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-057102-2984 | ARMADA, a Spanish term, signifying a fleet of men of war. The armada which attempted to invade England in the time of Queen Elizabeth is famous in history. Sec England. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-057103-2984 | ARMADILLO, in Zoology. See Mammalia Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-057104-2984 | ARMAGEDDON, a place spoken of in the Revelation (xvi. 16), which literally signifies the mountain of Maged-don or Megiddo, a city situated in the great plain at the foot of Mount Carmel, where King Josiah received his mortal wound in the battle against Necho, king of Egypt. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-057105-2984 | ARMAGH, an inland county in the province of Ulster, in Ireland, is bounded on the north by Lough Neagh, on the east by the county of Down, on the south-east by that of Louth, on the south-west by that of Monaghan, and on the west by the county of Tyrone. According to Ptolemy, it was inhabited by the Vinderii and Volunt... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-057401-3023 | ARMAMAXI, in Antiquity, a kind of Scythian chariots or carriages, composed of two wheels, variously adorned with crowns, shields, breastplates, and other spoils, carried in procession after the images of the gods and great men. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-057402-3023 | ARMATURA, in a general sense, is the same with what we otherwise call armour. It is more particularly used in the ancient military art to denote a kind of exercise performed with missile weapons, as darts, spears, arrows, and the like. In this sense armatura stands contradistinguished from palaria; the latter being the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-057403-3023 | ARMENIA, a country of Asia, anciently divided into Armenia Major and Minor. Armenia Major was bounded on the south by Mesopotamia, on the east by Media, on the north by Iberia and Albania, and on the west by the Euphrates. The most considerable cities were Artaxata, Tigranocerta, and Theodosiopolis. Armenia Minor was b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-057701-3062 | ARMENTIERES, a small handsome town in the department of the North, in France, containing 7600 inhabitants. It was taken by Louis XIV. in 1667, who dismantled it. The river Lys traverses the town, and forms a small harbour. Long. 3. 3. E. Lat. 50. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-057702-3062 | ARMIERS, a town in France, in the department of the North, seated on the river Sambre. Long. 3. 45. E. Lat. 50. 15. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-057703-3062 | ARMIGER, a title of dignity belonging to such gentlemen as bear arms; and these are either by courtesy, as sons of noblemen, eldest sons of knights, &c.; or by creation, such as the king’s servants, &c. See Esquire. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-057704-3062 | ARMILLARY, in a genera] sense, something consisting of rings or circles.
ARMiLLĀRY Sphere, an artificial sphere composed of a number of circles of the mundane sphere, put together in their natural order, to ease and assist the imagination in conceiving the constitution of the heavens and the motions of the celestial b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-057705-3062 | ARMILUSTRIUM, in Roman Antiquity, a feast held among the Romans, in which they sacrificed, armed, to the sound of trumpets. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-057706-3062 | ARMINIANS, a religious sect, which arose in Holland, by a separation from the Calvinists. They followed Arminius, who, thinking the doctrine of Calvin with regard to free-will, predestination, and grace, too severe, began, in the year 1591, to express his doubts concerning them; and upon further inquiry adopted sentime... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-057707-3062 | ARMINIUS, James, whose real name in Low Dutch was James Harmanni, a famous Protestant divine, was born at Oude water, in Holland, in 1560. He was ordained minister at Amsterdam on the 11th of August 1588, where he soon distinguished himself by his sermons, which were remarkable for their solidity and learning. Martin L... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-057708-3062 | ARMISTICE, in military affairs, a temporary truce or cessation of arms for a very short space of time. The word is Latin, αrmistitium, and compounded of arma, arms, and sto, to stand or stop. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-057709-3062 | ARMOISIN, a silk stuff, or kind of taffety, manufactured in the East Indies, at Lyons in France, and at Lucca in Italy. That of the Indies is slighter than those made in Europe. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-057710-3062 | ARMORIC, or Aremoric, something that belongs to the province of Bretagne or Britany, in France. The [7:3:578] name Armorica was anciently given to all the northern and western coast of Gaul, from the Pyrenees to the Rhine, under which name it was known even in Caesar’s time. The word is of Bas-Breton origin, and signif... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-057801-3075 | ARMORY, a storehouse of arms, or a place wherein military habiliments are kept, to be ready for use. There are armories in the Tower, and in all arsenals, citadels, castles, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-057802-3075 | ARMOUR, a defensive habit, wherewith to cover and secure the body from the attacks of an enemy. In ancient statutes this is frequently called harness. A complete armour anciently consisted of a casque or helm, a gorget, cuirass, gauntlets, tasses, brassets, cuishes, and covers for the legs, to which the spurs were fast... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-057803-3075 | ARMS, Arma, in a general sense, includes all kinds of weapons, whether for defence or offence. Arms of stone and of brass appear to have been, used before those of iron and steel. Josephus assures us that the patriarch Joseph first taught the use of iron arms in Egypt, arming the troops of Pharaoh with a casque and buc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-057804-3075 | ARMSTRONG, John, M.D. an eminent physician, poet, and miscellaneous writer, was born in Castletown parish, Roxburghshire, where his father and brother were ministers; completed his education in the university of Edinburgh, where he took his degree in physic, February 4, 1732, with much reputation; and published his the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-057805-3075 | ARMUYDEN, a seaport town of the United Provinces, in the island of Walcheren, formerly very flourishing, but now inconsiderable. Long. 3.40. Ľ. Lat. 51. 30. N.
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kp-eb0703-057901-3088 | ARMY.
An army, says Dr Johnson,^[1. Dictionary, voce Army. ] is “a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.” This definition, however, has little else than its brevity to recommend it. An army, it is true, is “a collection of armed men,” and such a collection” is generally “obliged to obey one man,” that is to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062301-3660 | ARNALL, William, a political writer, who was employed by Sir Robert Walpole to write the Free Briton in defence of his administration, for which, by the report of the secret committee, he is said to have received L.10,997. 6s. 8d. He died in 1741, at the age of 26. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062302-3660 | ARNAUD Belgard, a town of Turkey in Europe, in Albania. It is situated on the Chervesta, 40 miles N. E. of Vallona, in a fertile plain, covered with vines and olives. It is the seat of a Greek bishop, and contains 11,500 industrious inhabitants, who trade largely.
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kp-eb0703-062303-3660 | ARNAULD, Antony, a very celebrated doctor of the Sorbonne, was born in 1612. He published in 1643 A Treatise on Frequent Communion, which highly displeased the Jesuits; and the disputes upon grace, which broke out about this time in the university of Paris, and in which he took a zealous part with the Jansenists, helpe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062304-3660 | ARNAY-LE-DUC, a town of France, in the department of Cote d’Or, which carries on a pretty good trade. It is seated on the Auxois, in a valley near the river Aroux. Long. 4. 26. E. Lat. 47. 7. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062305-3660 | ARNDT, John, a famous Protestant divine of Germany, born at Ballenstadt, in the duchy of Anhalt, in the year 1555. He died in 1621. His Treatise on True Christianity has been translated into several languages. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062306-3660 | ARNE, Thomas Augustine, doctor of music, was born in King Street, Covent Garden, where his father was an upholsterer. He served three years with an attorney; but his strong propensity for music prevailed over the law, and he finally attached himself to the science, in which he soon became so eminent as to receive the d... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062307-3660 | ARNHEM, one of the circles into which the province of Guelderland in the Netherlands is divided. It comprehends 14 cantons, and contains 74,451 inhabitants.
Arnhem, the capital city of the province of Guelderland, in the circle of the same name, on the banks of the Rhine. It is well built, and its fortifications being... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062308-3660 | ARNISAEUS, Henningus, a philosopher and physician of great reputation about the beginning of the 17th century. He was born at Halberstadt in Germany, and was professor of physic in the university of Helmstadt. His political works are much esteemed. The most remarkable of them is his book De Authordate Principum in Popu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062401-3673 | ARNOBIUS, professor of rhetoric at Sicca, in Numidia, towards the end of the third century. Owing to certain dreams which he had, he became desirous of embracing Christianity, and for this purpose applied to the bishops for admission into the church; but his former violent hostility to the faith led them to distrust hi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062402-3673 | ARNOLD, of Brescia, in Italy, distinguished himself, in the 12th century, by being the founder of a sect which opposed the wealth and power of the Roman clergy. He went into France, where he studied under the celebrated Peter Abelard. Upon his return to Italy he put on the habit of a monk, and opened his invectives in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062403-3673 | ARNOLDISTS, in Ecclesiastical History, a sect so called from their leader Arnold of Brescia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062404-3673 | ARNOLDUS, Gothofredus, pastor and inspector of the churches of Perleberg, and historiographer to the king of Prussia, was born at Annaburg, in the mountains of Misnia, in 1666. He was a zealous defender of the Pietists, a sect among the German Protestants, and composed a great number of religious works, particularly an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062405-3673 | ARNSTADT, a bailiwick in the principality of Schwaz-burg-Sanderhausen, in Germany. It contains 2 cities, 26 villages, and 5 hamlets, with 9700 inhabitants. The capital of the bailiwick is of the same name. It is divided by the river Werra into two portions, has walls, and a castle, in which a gallery of pictures is pre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062406-3673 | ARNSTEIN, a bailiwick in the circle of Lower Maine, in Bavaria, 66 square miles, or 42,200 acres, in extent. It is watered by the river Wehre, and, with the exception of 7000 acres in the southern part, which is woodland, is fruitful in corn, flax, and wine. It contains 1 city, 2 market-towns, and 37 villages, with 11,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062407-3673 | ARNULPH, or Ernulph, bishop of Rochester in the reign of Henry I. He was born in France, where he lived some time a monk of St Lucien de Beauvais. The monks led most irregular lives in this monastery, for which reason he resolved to quit it, but first took the advice of Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury, under whom he... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062408-3673 | ARNWAY, John, a clergyman distinguished by his benevolence and loyalty to King Charles I., was descended from a very good family in the county of Salop, from which he inherited a considerable estate. He was educated at Oxford; and, having received holy orders, obtained the rectories of Hodnet and Ightfield, where he di... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062409-3673 | AROMA Philosophorum denotes either saffron or the aroph of Paracelsus; as aτοmα Germanicum denotes elecampane. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062411-3673 | ARONA, a town of Italy, in the duchy of Milan, with a strong castle. It stands on the lake Maggiore. Long. 8. 2L Ε. Lat. 45. 41. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062501-3686 | ARONCHES, a town of Portugal, in Alentejò, on the confines of Spain, seated on the river Caro. It is well fortified, and contains about 500 inhabitants. Long. 5. 16. W. Lat. 14. 39. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062502-3686 | AROO, an island in the Eastern Seas, 140 miles in length by about 40 in breadth, lying to the south of Papua. The Chinese merchants settled at Banda carry on a traffic with this island, from which they procure pearls, edible bird-nests, esteemed so great a delicacy by the Chinese epicures, tortoise shell, and stones. A... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062503-3686 | AROOL, a town of the empire of Russia, in the Ukraine, seated on the river Occa. Long. 38. 15. E. Lat. 51. 48. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062504-3686 | AROPH, a contraction of aroma philosophorum, a name given to saffron.
Aroph Paracelsi, a name given to a kind of chemical flowers, probably of the same nature with the Ens Veneris, elegantly prepared by sublimation from equal quantities of lapis haematites and sal ammoniac. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062505-3686 | AROSBAY, a town of the East Indies, on the coast of the island of Madura, near Java. Long. 14. 30. E. Lat. 9.30. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062506-3686 | AROURA, a Grecian measure of 50 feet. It was more frequently used for a square measure of half the plethron. The Egyptian aroura was the square of 100 feet. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062507-3686 | ARPAGIUS, or Harpagius, among the ancients, a person who died in the cradle, or at least in early youth. The word is formed from the Greek I snatch. The Romans made no funerals for their arpagii. They neither burnt their bodies, nor made tombs, monuments, or epitaphs for them; which occasioned Juvenal to say,
Terra cl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062508-3686 | ARPHAXAD, the son of Shem and father of Salah. Arphaxad was born in the year of the world 1658, a year after the deluge, and died in the year of the world 2096, at the age of 438. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062509-3686 | ARPINAS, or Arpino, Joseph Caesar, a famous painter, born in the year 1560, at the castle of Arpinas, in the kingdom of Naples. He lived in great intimacy with Pope Clement VIII. who conferred upon him the honour of knighthood, and bestowed many other marks of his friendship. In the year 1600 he went to Paris with Card... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062510-3686 | ARPINO, a city in the kingdom of Naples and province of Terra di Lavoro. It stands on a hill washed by the Fibreno, is tolerably well built, possesses a good marketplace and 40 churches, with 9457 inhabitants, who carry on some considerable cloth manufactories. It is celebrated as the birthplace of Marius and of Cicero... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062511-3686 | ARQUA, a town of Italy, in the Paduan, and territory of Venice, remarkable for the tomb of Petrarch. Long. 11. 43. E. Lat. 45.43. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062512-3686 | ARQUES, a town of Normandy, now in the department of the Lower Seine, in France, seated on a small river of the same name. Long. 1. 30. E. Lat. 49. 54. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062513-3686 | ARRACAN. This was formerly an independent kingdom; in 1783 it became a maritime province of the Burman empire, and was added to the British possessions in that quarter by the treaty of 1826, dictated by a British army at the gates of the Burmese capital. It is bounded by the Chittagong district on the north, from which... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062701-3712 | ARRACK, a spirituous liquor manufactured at several places in the East Indies, namely, Goa, Columbo, and Batavia. In India every kind of spirituous liquor is known under the general appellation of arrack; and hence the various accounts given of the mode of making it, and the materials used. English gin is called by the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062702-3712 | ARRAGON. See Aragon. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062703-3712 | ARRAIGNMENT, in Law, the arraigning or setting a thing in order, as a person is said to arraign a writ of novel disseisin, who prepares and fits it for trial; but this term more properly denotes the calling of a person to answer in form of law upon an indictment, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062704-3712 | ARRAN, an island on the west coast of Scotland, near the mouth of the river Clyde, which forms part of the county of Bute. It is about 20 miles in length by from 8 to 11 in breadth, and contains a superficial area of 165 square miles, or 105,814 acres, of which about 14,431 are cultivated. This island is of an extremel... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062705-3712 | ARRAS, an arrondissement in the Pas de Calais, in France, extending over 552 square miles, or 353,280 acres. It is divided into nine cantons, and these into 218 communes, containing 143,615 inhabitants. The chief city of the arrondissement has the same name. It is situated at the influx of the Erinchon into the navigab... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062801-3725 | ARRAY, in Law, the ranking or setting forth of a jury, or inquest of men impannelled on a cause. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062802-3725 | ARRAYERS, Arragers, or Arraitores, is used in some ancient statutes for such officers as had care of the soldiers' armour, and saw them duly accoutred in their kinds. In some reigns commissioners were appointed for this purpose. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-062803-3725 | ARRENTATION, in the forest laws, implies the licensing the owner of lands in a forest to inclose them with a low hedge and a small ditch, in consideration of a yearly rent.
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kp-eb0703-062901-3738 | ARREST, in English Law (from the French word arrester, to stop or stay), is. the restraint of a man’s person, obliging him to be obedient to the law, and is defined to be the execution of the command of some court of record or office of justice. Arrests are either in civil or criminal cases. Hr, An arrest in a civil ca... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063001-3751 | ARRESTMENT, in Scots Law, denotes that diligence by which a creditor detains the goods or effects of his debtor in the hands of third parties till the debt due to him shall be paid. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063002-3751 | ARRHABONARH, a sect of Christians, who held that the eucharist is neither the real flesh nor blood of Christ, nor yet the sign of them; but only the pledge or earnest thereof. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063003-3751 | ARRHEPHORIA, a feast among the Athenians, instituted in honour of Minerva, and of Herse, daughter of Cecróps. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063004-3751 | ARRIAN, a philosopher and historian, who flourished in the time of the emperor Adrian and the two Antonines, was born at Nicoedia in Bithynia. His learning and eloquence procured him the title of The Second Xenophon, and raised him to the most considerable dignities at Rome, even the consulship itself. Many of his piec... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063005-3751 | ARRIEGO, a department of France, bounded on the east by Aude, on the south-east by the Eastern Pyrenees, on the south by the mountains, and on the west and north by the department of the Upper Garonne. Its extent is 244 square miles, or 143,360 acres. It sends two deputies to the Chamber, is in the diocese of Pamiers, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063006-3751 | ARROE, a small but very fruitful island in the Baltic, to the south-west of Funen. Its greatest length is three Swedish miles, but its breadth is not more than half a mile. It belongs to the duchy of Sleswick, and came definitively to the crown of Denmark in the year 1749. Firewood is scarce, as every spot of ground is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063007-3751 | ARROYO del Puerto, a town of Spain, on the Ayuda, in the province of Estremadura, containing 5000 inhabitants. There is a pottery here, which employs 52 workmen, and furnishes 208,000 pieces of ware annually. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063008-3751 | ARROW, a missile weapon of offence, slender pointed and barbed, to be cast or shot with a bow. See Archery. ARRow-Mahers are called fletclιers, and were formerly, as well as bowyers, persons of great consequence in the commonwealth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063009-3751 | ARSACES, otherwise Mithridates, a king of the Parthians, spoken of in the first book of Maccabees. He considerably enlarged the kingdom of Parthia by his good conduct and valour. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063010-3751 | ARSAMAS, a circle of the Russian government of Nishegorod, between long. 43. 21. and 44. 10. E. and lat. 54. 37. and 55. 28. N. It is watered by the rivers Tescha and Scholka, which flow to the Volga. It is an undulat ing country; much of it is covered with wood, and some part of it with swamps; but it produces flax in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063011-3751 | ARSENAL, a royal of public magazine, or place appointed for the making and keeping of arms necessary either for defence or assault. Some derive this word from arx, a fortress; others from ars, denoting a machins; others again from arx and senatus, because this was the defence of the senate; but the more probable opinio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063012-3751 | AR SENIUS, a deacon of the Roman church, of great learning and piety. He was appointed by the pope to go to the emperor Theodosius, as tutor to his son Arcadius. Arsenius arrived at Constantinople in the year 383. The emperor happening one day to go into the room where he was instructing Arcadius, his son was seated an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063013-3751 | ARSHOT, a town of the Austrian Netherlands, situated about 14 miles east of the city of Mechlin, in long. 4. 45. E. lat. 51. 5. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063014-3751 | ARSON, in English Law, is the malicious and wilful burning of the house or cuthouse of another man; which is felony at common law. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063015-3751 | ARSURA, in ancient customs, a term used for the melting of gold or silver, either to refine them or to examine their value. The method of doing this is explained at large in the Black Book of the Exchequer, ascribed to Gervaise, in the chapter De Officio Militis Argentarii, being in those days of great use, on account ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063016-3751 | ARTA, or Larta, a town of Lower Albania, in European Turkey, containing about 6000 inhabitants, Turks and Christians, who carry on a trade in cattle, wine, tobacco, cotton, flax, pulse, fur, leather, wheat, &c. They also manufacture cotton and woollen stuffs. Arta is situated about 9 miles from the gulf to which it giv... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 39 30' N 21 8' E | ARTA |
kp-eb0703-063017-3751 | ARTABA, an ancient measure of capacity used by the [7:3:631] Persians, Medes, and Egyptians. The Persian artaba is represented by Herodotus as larger than the Attic medimnus by three Attic choenixes: from which it appears that it was equal to 6∣ Roman modii; consequently it contained 166^ pounds of wine or water, or 12... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063101-3764 | ARTABAZUS, the son of Pharnaces, commander of the Parthians and Chorasmians in the famous expedition of Xerxes. After the battle of Salamis he escorted his sovereign to the Hellespont with 60,000 chosen men; and after the battle of Plataea, in which Mardonius engaged in opposition to his wishes and advice, he made a no... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063102-3764 | ARTAXERXES, the name of several kings of Persia. See Persia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063103-3764 | ARTEDI, Peter, an eminent naturalist, was born in Sweden in the year 1705, in the province of Angermania. Although his parents were poor, yet it appears they found means to give him a liberal education, and with this view sent him to the college of FI urnesand. Intending to embrace the ecclesiastical profession, he wen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063104-3764 | ARTEMIDORUS, famous for his Treatise on Dreams, was born at Ephesus, and lived under the emperor Antoninus Pius. He styled himself the Ephesian in all his performances but that on Dreams, where he took the cognomen of Daldianus, in compliment to his mother country Daltis. On this work he expended vast labour, not only ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063105-3764 | ARTEMISIA, wife of Mausolus, king of Caria, has immortalized herselfby the honours which she paid to the memory of her husband. She built for him, in Halicarnassus, a very magnificent tomb, called the Mausoleum, which was one of the seven wonders of the world, and from which the title of Mausoleum was afterwards given ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063106-3764 | ARTEMISIUM, in Ancient Geography, a promontory on the north-east of Euboea (called Leon and Calx Acte by Ptolemy), memorable for the first sea engagements between the Greeks and Xerxes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063107-3764 | ARTHUR, the celebrated hero of the Britons, is said to have been the son of Uthor Pendragon, king of Britain, and to have been born in 501. His life is a continued series of wonders. It is said that he killed 470 Saxons with his own hand in one day; and, after having subdued many mighty nations, and instituted the orde... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063201-3777 | ARTICLE, in Grammar, denotes a particle used in most languages for the declining of nouns, and denoting the several cases and genders thereof. The use of articles arises chiefly from this, that in languages which have no different terminations to express the different states and circumstances of nouns, there is somethi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063202-3777 | ARTIFICER, a person who works in iron, brass, wood, &c. such as smiths, brasiers, carpenters, &ć. The Roman artificers had their peculiar temples, where they assembled and chose their own patron to defend their causes; and they were exempted from all personal services. Tarun-tenus Paternus reckons 32 species of artific... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063203-3777 | ARTIFICIAL, in a general sense, denotes something made, fashioned, or produced by art, in contradistinction from the production of nature.
Artificial Fire-works. See Pyrotechny. Artificial Magnets. See Magnets. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-063204-3777 | ARTILLERY.
The discovery of gunpowder by Roger Bacon in the thirteenth century, and of its application to military purposes by Schwartz in the fourteenth, caused a complete revolution in this branch of the art of war. The term artillery, previous to this discovery, denoted, in a general sense, all kinds of missiles, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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