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Of of pertaining to any method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way, whether united in a system specific to a country or region.
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Sanctuary of Sorrow
Language; Encyclopedias
Goethe's name for the fold of Christ, wherein, according to His promise (Matt. v. 4) the "mourners" who might gather together there would find relief and be comforted, the path of ...
Theocracy
Language; Encyclopedias
Government of a State professedly in the name and under the direction as well as the sanction of Heaven.
Jeremy Taylor
Language; Encyclopedias
Great English divine and preacher, born at Cambridge, son of a barber; educated at Caius College; became a Fellow of All Souls', Oxford; took orders; attracted the attention of ...
Vecellio Titian
Language; Encyclopedias
Great Italian painter, born at Capo del Cadore, the prince of colorists and head of the Venetian school; studied at Venice, and came under the influence of Giorgione; he was a ...
Benedict Spinoza
Language; Encyclopedias
Great modern philosopher, born in Amsterdam, of Jews of Portuguese extraction in well-to-do circumstances, and had been trained as a scholar; began with the study of the Bible and ...
Theocrates
Language; Encyclopedias
Great pastoral poet of Greece, born at Syracuse; was the creator of bucolic poetry; wrote "Idyls," as they were called, descriptive of the common life of the common people of ...
Lord Kelvin Thomson Sir William
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Great physicist, born at Belfast; studied at St. Peter's College, Cambridge; was senior wrangler in 1845, and elected professor of Natural Philosophy in Glasgow in 1846; it is in ...
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