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St. Susan

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The patron saint and guardian of innocence and saviour from infamy and reproach. See Susanna.

Liberia

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A negro republic on the Grain Coast of Africa, founded in 1822 by American philanthropists as a settlement for freedmen, with a constitution after the model of the United States.

Stonehenge

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The greatest and best preserved of the stone circles of Britain, situated in Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, 7 m. N. of Salisbury; "consists of two concentric circles, enclosing two ellipses"; the ...

The fear of that which is not God, as if it were God, or the fear of that which is not the devil, as if it were the devil; or, as it has in more detail been defined by Ruskin, "the fear of a spirit ...

James Stephen

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Slavery abolitionist, born in Dorsetshire; held a post in the West Indies; wrote "Slavery in the British West Indies," an able book; had sons more or less distinguished in law and law practice ...

Steppes

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The name given to wide, treeless plains, barren except in spring, of the SE. of Russia and SW. of Siberia.

Lewis Theobald

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Shakespearian critic, born at Sittingbourne, Kent; bred to the law by his father, an attorney, but took to literature; wrote a tragedy; contributed to Mist's Journal, and in 1716 began his tri-weekly ...