Encyclopedias

Encyclopedias

Terms from various encyclopedias and reference books.

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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 sorrow leading up ...

Theocracy

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Government of a State professedly in the name and under the direction as well as the sanction of Heaven.

Jeremy Taylor

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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 Laud; was made ...

Vecellio Titian

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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 master of his art from ...

Benedict Spinoza

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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 the Talmud, but ...

Theocrates

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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 Sicily, in a thoroughly ...

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 the departments of ...