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Language

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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James Syme

Language; Encyclopedias

A great surgeon, born in Edinburgh; was demonstrator under Liston; was elected to the chair of Clinical Surgery in 1833; gave up the chair to succeed Liston in London in 1848, but ...

Tale of a Tub

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A great work of Swift's, characterised by Professor Saintsbury as "one of the very greatest books of the world, in which a great drift of universal thought receives consummate ...

Stentor

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A Grecian herald who accompanied the Greeks in the Trojan War, and whom Homer describes as "the great-hearted, brazen-voiced Stentor, whose shout was as loud as that of fifty ...

Syrianus

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A Greek Neoplatonic philosopher of the 5th century; had Proclus for a disciple; left a valuable commentary on the metaphysics of Aristotle.

Timon of Phlius

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A Greek philosopher, a disciple of Pyrrho, flourished 280 B.C.; wrote a satirical poem on the whole Greek philosophy up to date, which is the source of our knowledge of his ...