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kp-eb0710-059407-1689
GOBINGUNGE, a town of Bengal, in the district of Ghoraghaut, situated on the eastern bank of the Currattya river. It carries on a considerable trade in grain and cotton. Long. 89. 3. E. Lat. 25. 6. N.
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25 6' N 89 3' E
GOBINGUNGE
kp-eb0710-059408-1689
GOBLET, or Gobelet, a kind of drinking cup, or bowl, commonly of a round figure, and without either foot or handle. The word is French, gobelet, which Salmasius and others derive from the barbarous Latin cupa. Budaeus deduces it from the Greek xiΛ∏>λλos, a sort of cup.
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GOBLET
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GOCAUK, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapoor. It is a place of considerable extent and importance, situated on a hill, and watered and defended on the south side by the Gutpurba river, whilst on the other three sides it is surrounded by a brick wall and a wet ditch. Here is an extensive manufacture of cotto...
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16 20' N 75 6' E
GOCAUK
kp-eb0710-059410-1689
GOD, one of the many names of the Supreme Being God is also used in speaking of any false deity of th e heathens. The Greeks and Latins, it is observable, did not mean by the name of god, an all-perfect being, 0 f whose nature, eternity, infinity, omnipresence, and omnipotence, were essential attributes; amongst them, ...
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GOD
kp-eb0710-059501-1702
GODALMING, a market-town of the hundred of its own name, in the county of Surrey, on the great road to Portsmouth, thirty-four miles from London. It is very pleasantly situated in a valley, watered by the river Wye, which is navigable to the Thames, and by the latter to the metropolis, and consists of one principal str...
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GODALMING
kp-eb0710-059502-1702
GODAVERY, a large river of India, which has its rise in the Western Ghauts, seventy miles to the north-east of Bombay, and which, with a circuitous curve, flows nearly over the whole breadth of the peninsula in a southeast direction. After traversing the province of Aurungabad and the country of Tellingana from west to...
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GODAVERY
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GODDARD, Jonathan, an eminent physician and chemist, and one of the first promoters of the Royal Society, was born about the year 1617. He was elected a fellow of the College of Physicians in 1646, and appointed reader of the anatomical lecture in that college in 1647. As he took part against Charles I., accepted the w...
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GODDARD
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GODDESS, a heathen deity of the. female sex. It was the peculiar privilege of the goddesses to be represented naked on medals; for it was supposed that the imagination must be awed and restrained by the consideration of the divine character.
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GODDESS
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GODFATHERS and Godmothers, persons who, at the baptism of infants, answer for their future conduct, and solemnly promise that they will renounce the devil and all his works, and follow a life of piety and virtue; and by this means lay themselves under an indispensable obligation to instruct them, and watch over their c...
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GODFATHERS
kp-eb0710-059506-1702
GODFREY of Bouillon, prince of Lorraine, a celebrated crusader, and victorious commander. He was chosen general of the expedition which the Christians undertook for the recovery of the Holy Land, and sold his dukedom to prepare for the war. He took Jerusalem from the Turks in 1099; but his piety would not permit him to...
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GODFREY
kp-eb0710-059507-1702
GODMANCHESTER, a town of the county of Huntingdon, in the hundred of Toes)and, fifty-eight miles from London. It stands in a damp situation on the river Ouse, and is said to have been once a very large city. It is now only remarkable, as it has been for centuries, for the excellence of its soil and agriculture. In its ...
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GODMANCHESTER
kp-eb0710-059508-1702
GODSTONE, a town of the county of Surrey, in the hundred of Tandridge, twenty miles from London. It stands at the foot of the range of chalk hills, in a healthy soil and mild climate. The inhabitants, who are chiefly occupied in agriculture, amounted in 1801 to 1081, in 1811 to 1156, in 1821 to 1210, and in 1831 to 139...
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GODSTONE
kp-eb0710-059509-1702
GODWIN, Francis, son of Dr Godwin, bishop of Bath and Wells, was born at Havington, Northamptonshire, in 1561. After passing through the usual course of grammar-school instruction, he was sent to Christ Church College, Oxford, where he was elected a student in 1578, and took his degree of bachelor in 1580, and that of ...
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GODWIN
kp-eb0710-059601-1715
GOELWARAH, a district of Hindustan, in the province of Gujrat, situated within the 2lst and 22d parallels of north latitude, and bounded on the east by the Gulf of Cambay. The greater part of this country, adjacent to the Gulf of Cambay, was ceded by the Mahratta chief the Guicowar, in 1805, in part payment of the subs...
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GOELWARAH
kp-eb0710-059602-1715
GOEST, a city of the Westphalian Prussian province, the capital of a circle of the same name. It is in a fertile district, is surrounded with walls, and contains 6745 inhabitants, who are employed in various kinds of manufactures, but mostly on a contracted scale. It was formerly one of the Hanse towns, and enjoyed the...
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51 54' 15" N 8 1' E
GOEST
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GOETHE, John Wolfgang von, a man of commanding influence in the literature of modern Germany throughout the latter half of his long life, and possessing two separate claims upon our notice; one in right of his own unquestionable talents; and another much stronger, though less direct, arising out of his position, and th...
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GOETHE
kp-eb0710-060301-1806
GOG and Magog, two names generally joined together in Scripture. Moses, however, speaks of Magog the son of Japhet, but says nothing of Gog. Gog was prince of Magog, according to Ezekiel, in whose writings Magog signifies the country or people, and Gog the king of that country. The generality of the ancients considered...
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GOG
kp-eb0710-060401-1819
GOGGRAH, a river of Hindustan, which forces its way through the great Himalaya chain, though its exact source has never been ascertained. It afterwards falls into the Sareyn at Swarojadwara, the united streams afterwards being named indifferently the Goggrah, Sarfew, or Deva river. This river flows through the district...
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GOGGRAH
kp-eb0710-060402-1819
GOGO, a sea-port of Hindustan, in the province of Gujrat,and district of Goelwarah, situated on the west side of the Gulf of Cambay. It is considered as a safe roadstead during the south-west monsoon, where ships may be supplied with stores and provisions, and repair any damage they may have sustained. The inhabitants,...
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GOGO
kp-eb0710-060403-1819
GOGUET, Antoine-Yves, a distinguished French writer, was born at Paris on the 18th January 1716. From his infancy he was connected by the ties of friendship with Alexander Conrad Fugère, the learned editor of the Journal des Savants; and there never perhaps existed between two friends such an entire conformity of taste...
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GOGUET
kp-eb0710-060404-1819
GOHUD, afortified town of Hindustan, in theprovince of Agra, and capital of an extensive district of the same name. The district is situated on the south side of the river Chumbul, and between the 26th and 27th degrees of north latitude. It is a mountainous territory, but is fertile in the valleys, and abounds with str...
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GOHUD
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GOLCONDA, a strong fortress of Hindustan, situated on a hill about six miles west-north-west from Hyderabad, strongly defended both by nature and art, but being situated on a rock, is excessively hot and unhealthy. The principal inhabitants and bankers of Hyderabad are permitted to reside in this fort, to which they re...
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GOLCONDA
kp-eb0710-060501-1832
GOLD, the most valuable of all the metals, is of a bright yellow colour when pure, but becomes more or less white in proportion as it is alloyed with other metals. It is the heaviest of all the metals, platina only excepted. Native gold is found in veins, but these are seldom or never very large. It is generally very ...
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GOLD
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GOLDAP, a circle in the Prussian government of Gumbinnen, extending over 260 square miles, and containing 23,370 inhabitants. The capital is a city of the same name, which stands at the issue of a river out of a lake. It contains two Lutheran churches, and 3120 inhabitants. Long. 22. 12. 25. E. Lat. 54. 17. 35. N.
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54 17' 35" N 22 12' 25" E
GOLDAP
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GOLDBERG, a circle of the Prussian government of Leignitz, in Silesia, extending over 220 square miles, and including two cities and eighty villages, with 38,900 inhabitants. The capital is a city of the same name, which stands on an elevation of 830 feet, at the foot of which is the river Katsbach. Near to it are mine...
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GOLDBERG
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GOLDEN, something which has a relation to gold, or consists of gold. Golden Calf was a figure of a calf, which the Israelites cast in gold, or some preparation of that metal, and set up in the wilderness to worship during Moses’ absence in the mount; and which that legislator at his return burned, ground to powder, an...
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GOLDEN
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GOLDONI, Charles, the most celebrated comic writer of Italy in the eighteenth century, and in his own country styled the Italian Molière, was born at Venice in the year 1707, in which city his father acted in the capacity of [7:10:606]physician. His attachment to the drama became conspicuous even in childhood, and this...
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GOLDONI
kp-eb0710-060601-1845
GOLDSMITH, or, as some choose to express it, silversmith, an artist who makes vessels, utensils, and ornaments, in gold and silver. The goldsmith’s work is either performed in the mould, or beat out with the hammer or other instrument. All works which have raised figures are cast in a mould, and afterwards polished an...
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GOLDSMITH
kp-eb0710-060801-1871
GOLF, the name of a certain game amongst the Scotch, and said to be peculiar to their country. Amongst this people it has been very ancient; for there are statutes prohibiting it as early as the year 1457, lest it should interfere with the sport of archery. It is commonly played on rugged or broken ground, covered with...
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GOLF
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GOLIUS, James, a professor of Arabic and mathematics at Leyden, was descended from a considerable family of the same name, and born at the Hague in the year 1596. He was early sent to the university of Leyden, where he studied under Erpenius; and having made himself master of the learned languages, applied himself to t...
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GOLIUS
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GOLTZIUS, Henry, a celebrated engraver and painter, was born in 1558, at Mu)breck, in the duchy of Ju)iers. He was taught engraving by Theodore Cuerenhert, and succeeded well in the practice of the art, notwithstanding the disadvantage of a lame hand, which was occasioned by his falling into the fire whilst young. He w...
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GOLTZIUS
kp-eb0710-060902-1884
GOMBROON, a celebrated sea-port of Persia, in the province of Laristan, situated in a barren country on a bay of the Gulf of Ormus. This was at one time the first sea-port in the kingdom of Persia, being the port of Shiraz, and of all the southern provinces; and it was at that time strongly fortified. The houses were l...
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GOMBROON
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GOMERSALL, a township of Yorkshire, within the parish of Birstall, in the wapentake of Morley, in the west riding of Yorkshire. The woollen manufactory employs the greater part of the inhabitants, who in 1801 amounted to 4309, in 1811 to 5902, in 1821 to 5952, and in 1831 to 6189.
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GOMERSALL
kp-eb0710-060904-1884
GOMOR, a circle of the Hungarian province of the Hither Theiss, extending over 1596 square miles, and comprehending a city, twelve market-towns, and two hundred and sixty villages, with 164,000 inhabitants. It is the most mountainous portion of Hungary, and includes part of the Carpathian range. It contains many mines,...
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GOMOR
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GOMORRAH, one of the cities of the plain or of the vale of Siddim, in Judaea, destroyed together with Sodom by fire from heaven, on account of the wickedness of the inhabitants.
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GOMORRAH
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GONDAR, the capital of Abyssinia, situated, according to Mr Bruce’s observations, in latitude 12. 30. north, and longitude 57. 40. east from Greenwich. See Abyssinia.
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GONDAR
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GONDI. See Retz, Cardinal de.
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GONDI
kp-eb0710-060908-1884
GONDOLA, a flat boat, very long and narrow, and chiefly used at Venice for rowing on the canals. The word is Italian, gondola. Du Cange derives it from the modem Greek xoυ>riaας, a bark or little “hip ; but Lancelot deduces it from yoŵ, a term in Athenaeus for a sort of vase.
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GONDOLA
kp-eb0710-060909-1884
GONIEH, a fortified town on the coast of the Black Sea, on the south of the Phasis, and which, though properly forming part of Georgia, is almost entirely dependent on the Turkish government. It was formerly a considerable[7:10:610] place, but is now sunk into a miserable village. It is 80 miles east-north-east of Treb...
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GONIEH
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GONONG APEE, one of the smaller Banda Islands, at the north-east end of the harbour of Beema, in the island of Sumbawa, and forming the west side of the north entrance of Sapy Straits. It derives its name from a large volcano about 1500 feet in height, and which terminates in two high peaks, and constantly emits smoke ...
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GONONG APEE
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GONONG TELLOO, a town in the island of Celebes, situated on a river of the same name, two miles from the sea, on the north side of the great bay of Tominie or Gonong Telloo, which stretches inland nearly to the west side of Celebes. It was subject to the Dutch, who had a considerable fort on the river, with two small o...
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GONONG TELLOO
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GONIOMETRY, a method of measuring angles, so called by Μ. de Lagny, who published several papers on this method in the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences in the years 1724, 1725, 1729. Μ. de Lagny’s method of goniometry consists in measuring the angles with a pair of compasses, and that without any scale whatsoever, ex...
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GONIOMETRY
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GONORRHOEA, an efllux of matter from the urethra, most commonly owing to venereal infection.
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GONORRHOEA
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GOOCHNAUTH, a village of Hindustan, in the province of Gujrat and district of Werrear, situated on the south bank of the Bunass river about three miles southeast frotn Rahdunpoor. The neighbouring country is in a state of high cultivation, and most of the fields are enclosed. It belongs to a Mahommedan chief.
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GOOCHNAUTH
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GOOD, in general, whatever is apt to increase pleasure, to diminish pain; or, which amounts to the same thing, whatever is calculated to procure or preserve to us the possession of agreeable sensations, and remove those of an opposite nature. See Moral Philosophy. Good’s Island, an island on the north coast of New Holl...
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GOOD
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GOOD HOPE, Cape of, a district of country in the southern portion of Africa, in the possession of Great Britain. In the distribution of land and water, this cape occupies a conspicuous place on the map of the globe. It separates the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic, and divides the voyage to Hindustan into two nearly equ...
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16 S 174 50' E
GOOD HOPE
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GOODOUR, a town of Hindustan, in the Balaghaut ceded territory, ten miles west by south from the town of Carnaul. Long. 77. 51. E. Lat. 15. 46. N.
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15 46' N 77 51' E
GOODOUR
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GOOHAUT, a town in the Afghan territories, in the province of Cabul, twelve miles west of the Indus. Long. 76. 40. E. Lat. 32. 51. N.
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32 51' N 76 40' E
GOOHAUT
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GOOLE, a hamlet in the parish of Snaith and the wapentake of Osgoldeross, in the west riding of Yorkshire. As it stands on the river Ouse, which is navigable to that point, it has appeared advisable to establish a customhouse there, by which the trade of the whole surrounding country has been considerably facilitated a...
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GOOLE
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GOOLGUNGE, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Allahabad and district of Bundelcund, twenty-six miles south-south-east from Patna. It is situated in long. 85. 38. Ľ. and lat. 24. 26. N.
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GOOLGUNGE
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GOOLPUSSRA, a town or village in the Nepaul dominions. It stands on the skirts of the great forest; and although it is the thoroughfare for most of the merchandise which passes between Nepaul, Benares, Oude, and Patna, over the Cheesapany Mountains, it is but a mean village. The road thence to Becbiacori through the gr...
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27 1' N 85 10' E
GOOLPUSSRA
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GOOMSUR, a town of Hindustan, at the north-wesl extremity of the Northern Circars, forty-three miles northwest from Ganjam. The neighbouring country is covered with impervious forests of bamboo, on which the inhabitants were wont to rely for their defence, and did no) think it necessary to erect redoubts. The whole dis...
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19 53' N 84 55' E
GOOMSUR
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GOOMTY, a river of Hindustan, so named from its winding course, and which has its source in the mountains of Kemaon, whence it flows in a south-east direction through the province of Oude, and, after passing the cities of Lucknow, Sultanpore, and Joanpore, falls into the Ganges about fourteen miles below Benares. It is...
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GOOMTY
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GOONDIPOORAM, a town of Hindustan, in the Northern Circars, sorty-six miles north by west from Cicacole It is in long. 83. 51. E. and lat. 18. 59. N.
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18 59' N 83 51' E
GOONDIPOORAM
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GOONEE, a river of Hindustan, in the provinceor Sinde, which rises in the hills of Poollejar, and flowing [7:10:615]in a westerly direction, afterwards falls into the Indus, with which it forms a very large island called Majur. During the rainy season it is navigable for boats from Mandavie, a port of Cutch, to Hyderab...
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GOONEE
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GOORACKPOOR, a district of Hindustan, in the province of Oude, situated to the north of the Goggrah or Dewah river, and between the 26th and 28th degrees of north latitude. To the north it is separated by hills and forests from the Nepaulese territories, to the south it is bounded by the Dewah or Goggrah river, and on ...
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26 45' N 83 22' E
GOORACKPOOR
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GOOSE. See Ornithology. Goose-Neck, in a ship, a piece of iron fixed on the one end of the tiller, to which the lanyard of the whip-staff or the wheel-rope comes, for steering the ship. Goose-Wing, in nautical language. When a ship sails before or with a quarter-wind on a fresh gale, to make the more way, a boom and s...
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GOOSE
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GOOTY, a hilly district of Hindustan, in the Balaghaut ceded territories, situated chiefly between the 15th and 16th degrees of north latitude. Gooty formed a district in the empire of Aurungzebe. Between the years 1776 and 1779 it was conquered by Hyder, and the rajah was carried off, and never more heard of. With the...
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15 9' N 77 35' E
GOOTY
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GOPPINGEN, a bailiwick of the kingdom of Wurtemberg, in the circle of the Black Forest. It extends over 114 square miles, comprehending one city, three market towns, and sixty-nine villages, occupied by 28,106 persons. It is mountainous and woody, with little corn land; but produces large quantities of flax, and breeds...
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GOPPINGEN
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GORAGAUT, a town and zemindary of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal, ninety miles north-east from Moorβhedabad. Long. 89. 10. Ľ. Lat. 25. 13. N.
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GORAGAUT
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GORAM Isle, a small island in the Eastern Seas> about twenty miles in circumference, and about one day’s sail east by north from Banda. It is inhabited by Mahommedans, and is said to contain twelve mosques. In 1774 the Dutch attacked it with an armed force of Buggesses, but they were repulsed by the inhabitants.
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GORAM
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GORCAH, or Ghoorcah, a district of Hindustan, in the province of Nepaul. It is situated between the 28th and 29th degrees of north latitude, and between the 84th and 85th degrees of east longitude. The country is mountainous and barren, and is intersected by a branch of the Kaly Gunduk river. The territory is principal...
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GORCAH
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GORCUM, a city of the province of Holland, in the Netherlands. It is situated on the right bank of the river Merwe, is strongly fortified, and contains 1390 houses, with 5169 inhabitants, who carry on extensive fisheries, and much trade in corn. Long. 4. 53. 10. E. Lat. 51. 49. 50. N. It is the capital of a circle of t...
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GORCUM
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GORDIAN Knot, in Antiquity, a knot made in the leathers or harness of the chariot of Gordius king of Phrygia, so very intricate that there was no finding where it began or ended. The inhabitants had a tradition, that the oracle had declared that he who untied this knot should be master of Asia. Alexander having underta...
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GORDIAN
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GORDIANUS, an illustrious Roman senator, who claimed his descent on the father’s side from the Gracchi, and on the mother’s from the Emperor Trajan. He seems to have been one of the richest senators of Rome, but his unambitious spirit, and his devotion to the study of literature, probably saved him from a violent death...
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GORDIANUS
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GORDON, Alexander, a distinguished draughtsman, scholar, and antiquary, who resided many years in Italy, and also travelled in France, Germany, and other countries. The date of his birth has not been ascertained. In 1736 he was appointed secretary to the society for encouraging learning; and the same year he succeeded ...
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GORDON
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GORE, in Heraldry, one of the abatements, which, according to Guillim, denotes a coward. It is a figure consisting of two arch lines, drawn one from the sinister chief and the other from the sinister base, and both meeting in an acute angle in the middle of the fess point. See Heraldry.
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GORE
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GORGE, in Architecture, the narrowest part of the Tuscan and Doric capitals, between the astragal, above the shaft of the pillar and the annulets. Gorge, in Fortification, the entrance into any piece of fortification, consisting of the distance or space between the extremities of the two faces; as between the faces of...
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GORGE
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GORGED, in Heraldry, the bearing of a crown, coronet, or the like, about the neck of a lion, a swan, or other animal; in which case it is said the lion or cygnet is gorged with a ducal or other coronet. Gorged is also used when the gorge or neck of a peacock, swan, or the like bird, is of a different colour or metal f...
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GORGED
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GORGET, a kind of breastplate, like a half-moon, with some device thereon.
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GORGET
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GORGONS, in Antiquity and Mythology. Authors are not agreed in the accounts which they give of the Gorgons. The poets represent them as three sisters, whose names were Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, the last of whom was mortal; and having been deflowered by Neptune, was killed by Perseus; but the two former were subject ...
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GORGONS
kp-eb0710-061701-1988
GORLESTON, a village, or rather town, of the county of Suffolk, in the hundred of Mutsord and Lothingland, 123 miles from London. It may be viewed as a suburb to the town of Yarmouth in Norfolk, from which it is separated only by a bridge over the river Yare. The population amounted in 1801 to 1728, in 1811 to 1814, in...
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GORLESTON
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GORLAEUS, Abraham, an eminent antiquary, born at Antwerp, who gained a great reputation by collecting medals and other antique remains. He was chiefly fond of the rings and seals of the ancients, of which he published a prodigious number in 1601, under the title of Dactyliotheca ; sive Annulorum Sigillarium, quorum apu...
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GORLAEUS
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GORLITZ, a city of Prussian Silesia, the capital of a circle of the same name. It stands on the river Neisse, upon an elevated spot, and is a well-built town, with walls around it. It contains several public institutions for education and for benevolence, and eight churches, a public library, and cabinet of natural his...
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GORLITZ
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GORZ, a fortified city of the Austrian province of Trieste, on the river Isonzo, containing, besides a cathedral and four other churches, 707 houses, with 9050 inhabitants, who are engaged in silk manufactories, in making leather, and bleaching wax. Near to it is Monte Santo, celebrated for the goodness of its wine. Lo...
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45 57' N 13 23' E
GORZ
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GOSBERTON, a parish of the county of Lincoln, in the parts of Holland and hundred of Kirton, 102 miles from London and eight from Boston. It is in a rich agricultural district. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1139, in 1811 to 1301, in 1821 to 1618, and in 1831 to 1951.
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GOSBERTON
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GOSHEN, a canton of Egypt, which Joseph procured for his father and his brethren when they came to dwell in that country. It was the most fruitful part of the country; and its name seems to be derived from the Hebrew, Geshem, which signifies “rain because this province lying very near the Mediterranean, was exposed to ...
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GOSHEN
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GOSLAR, a city of the province of Hildesheim, in the kingdom of Hanover. It stands in the Hartz. Mountains, at the foot of the Rammelsberg, on the river Gosse. It is an ancient town, with narrow streets and large antiquely-fashioned houses. It contains four churches and two religious houses, and is the seat of some pro...
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GOSLAR
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GOSPEL, the history of the life, actions, death, resurrection, and ascension, and also of the doctrine, of Jesus Christ. The word is Saxon, and of the same import with the Latin term evangelium, which signifies glad tidings or good news. This history is contained in the writings of St Matthew, St Mark, St Luke, and St ...
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GOSPEL
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GOSPORT, a market-town of Hampshire, in the parish of Alverstoke, in the Portsdown division of the hundred of Christchurch, seventy-eight miles from London. It may be considered as one of the suburbs of Portsmouth, from which it is separated by the mouth of the harbours, over which boats of all descriptions are constan...
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GOSPORT
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GOSSAMER is the name of a fine filmy substance, like cobwebs, which is observed floating in the air, in clear days in autumn, and is more discernible in stubble-fields, and upon furze and other low bushes, than elsewhere.
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GOSSAMER
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GOTEBORG, or Gottenbvrg, a province in the southern part of Sweden. It is bounded on the north by Norway, on the east by Elfsborg, on the south by Halland, and on the west by the German Ocean. It extends over 1894 square miles, is divided into five bailiwicks, comprehends five cities or towns, and 2891 rural establishm...
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GOTEBORG
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GOTHA, a principality forming a part of the dominions of the grand duchy of Saxe Coburg Gotha, in Germany. It is an elevated district of the Thuringian Mountains, where, though the climate is cold, the soil is fertile. Some of the portions are separated from the main body, and from each other, by the intervening territ...
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GOTHA
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GOTHARD, one of the highest mountains of Switzerland, and from the top of which there is one of the finest prospects in the world. It is eight miles from Aldorf.
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GOTHARD
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GOTHEBORG, Gothenburg, or Gottenburg. See Goteborg and Gottenburg.
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GOTHEBORG
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GOTHIC, in general, whatever has any relation to the Goths. Thus we say, Gothic customs, Gothic architecture, &c. See Architecture.
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GOTHIC
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GOTHOFRED, or Godefroy, Denis or Dionysius, a celebrated jurisconsult, born at Paris in 1549, was allied by birth to the highest families connected with the profession of law, and himself one of its most distinguished ornaments. After having completed his classical studies, he applied himself to that of law, and receiv...
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GOTHOFRED
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GOTHS (in Latin Gothi, Goti, and Gothones), a secondary denomination of that great, powerful, and victorious race which, after a protracted struggle, at length overturned the Roman empire, and diffused itself throughout the whole of Europe, excepting Russia, Poland, and Hungary. The Scythians or Goths were distinguishe...
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GOTHS
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GOTTENBURG, a city, the capital of the province of that name, in Sweden. It is built on the south side of the Goetaelf, about two miles from its mouth. The harbour is good, and capable of admitting ships of war. It contains 1500 houses, and 21,540 inhabitants. The trade is very considerable, as well for the export of n...
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GOTTENBURG
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GOTTINGEN, one of the provinces, called a principality, into which the kingdom of Hanover is divided. It was formerly a part of the duchy of Brunswick, but was afterwards united with Calenburg. Of late some parts of Hesse, and the bailiwick of Hunnersruck in Hildesheim, have been united with it, and the whole extends o...
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GOTTINGEN
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GOTTLAND, a province in the south of Sweden, including the island of that name, with the others near it on the Baltic Sea, about forty-five mites from the east of Sweden. The province has a surface of 528 square miles, comprehends one city, with 1088 insulated settlements, and contains 32,988 inhabitants. The chief occ...
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GOTTLAND
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GOUDA, a city of the Netherlands, in the province of Holland and circle of Rotterdam. It is situated on the river Gauwe, which flows out of the Yssel. It is well built, and has a considerable trade in making serges and baize; but the chief manufacture is that of pottery ware, and especially of tobacco pipes, which affo...
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GOUDA
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GOUDHURST, a town of the county of Kent, in the hundred of Marden, within the lathe of Scray, forty-four miles from London. It was once a place of some consequence in the woollen manufacture, but that has decayed. The church is a spacious, handsome building. The inhabitants amounted in 1821 to 2579. and in 1831 tn 2758...
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GOUDHURST
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GOULART, Simon, a minister of Geneva, was born at Senlis in 1543, and was one of the most indefatigable writers of his time. He made considerable additions to the Catalogue of Witnesses of the Truth, composed by Illyricus; and acquired a great reputation by his works, the principal of which are, 1. A translation of Sen...
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GOULART
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GOVERNMENT. I.— 77∕β End of Government, viz. the Good or Benefit for the sake of which it exists. The question with respect to Government is a question about the adaptation of means to an end. Notwithstanding the portion of discourse which has been bestowed upon this subject, it is surprising to find, on a close inspe...
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GOVERNMENT
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GOWER, John, one of the most ancient of the English poets, was contemporary with Chaucer, the father of English poetry, and his intimate friend. Of what family, or in what part of the kingdom, he was born, is uncertain. He studied the law, and was some time a member of the society of Lincoln’s Inn, where his acquaintan...
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GOWER
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GOWN, Robe, a long upper garment worn by lawyers, divines, and other graduates, who are hence called men of the gown, or goummen. At Rome they gave the name “virile gown,” toga virilis, to a plain kind of gown which their youth assumed on arriving at puberty. This they particularly denominated proetexta.
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GOWN
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GRABE, John Ernest, a learned theologian, was born at Königsberg in the year 1666. The perusal of the works of the fathers having inspired him with doubts as to some points of his creed, he explained them in a memoir addressed to the consistory of Sambia, and departed with the resolution of repairing to a city where he...
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GRABE
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GRACCHUS, Tiberius Sempronius, the son of Tiberius. Gracchus, who had been censor, twice consul, and had triumphed twice. His mother was the celebrated Cornelia, daughter of Scipio Africanus the Elder, and she was left by the death of her husband with the charge of no fewer than twelve children. She lost all except thr...
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GRACCHUS
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GRACE, amongst divines, is used, first, to denote the free love and favour of God, which is the spring and [7:10:636]source of all the benefits we receive from him; and, secondly, to signify the work of the Spirit in renewing the soul after the image of God, and continually guiding and strengthening the believer to obe...
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GRACE