Encyclopedias

Encyclopedias

Terms from various encyclopedias and reference books.

Contributors in Encyclopedias

Encyclopedias

Twelfth President of the United States, born in Orange County, Virginia; obtained a lieutenancy in the navy in 1808; first saw service in Indian wars on the north-west frontier; in 1836 cleared the ...

taoism

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The religious system of Laotze.

Teutons

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The most energetic and progressive section of the Aryan group of nations, embracing the following races speaking languages traceable to a common stock: Germanic, including Germans, Dutch, Flemings, ...

The Spiritual

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The fruit of the quickening and abiding action of a higher principle at the centre of the being, operating so as to suffuse the whole of it, pervade the whole of it, to its utmost limits, which, ...

The Great Theodosius I.

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Roman emperor; was the son of Theodosius the Elder, a noted general, whose campaigns in Britain and elsewhere he participated in; marked out for distinction by his military prowess he, in 379, was ...

Swan of Avon

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Sweet name given by Ben Jonson to Shakespeare.

Texas

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The largest of the United States of America, in the extreme SW., fronts the Gulf of Mexico for 400 m. between Mexico (W.) and Louisiana (E.); has an area more than twice that of the British Isles, ...