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Britannica further remarks that as long as the military element remained bound up with French national life, Gros received from it a fresh and energetic inspiration which carried him to the very heart of the events which he depicted ; but as the army, and its general separated from the people, Gros, called on to illustrate episodes representative only of the fulfilment of personal ambition, ceased to find the nourishment necessary to his genius, and the defect of his artistic position became evident.
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To further their education, some people have devoted themselves to reading the entire Britannica, taking anywhere from three to 22 years to do so.
The 1926 Encyclopaedia Britannica, in addition to its article on the river Ruhr, has a further article on " RUHR, the name given to a district of Westphalia, Germany.
Following a response by the Reverend Charles Parkin he penned the sequel: Palaeographia Britannica or discourses on Antiquities in Britain no. II, or defense of Lady de Vere, Foundress of Roiston, against the Calumny of Mr. Parkin, rector of Oxburgh wherein his pretended answer is fully refuted: the former opinion further confirm'd and illustrated.
* The New Encyclopædia Britannica Vol 1 ( 15th edition ) page 82 for quoted resources and further research on this topic
The British Britannica described the French author's claim as " recklessly ( ascribing ) the invention " and further stated:
41, where it is called " a word very much in vogue with the people of taste and fashion ," and in Ferdinando Killigrew's The Universal Jester, subtitled " a choice collection of many conceits ... bon-mots and humbugs " from 1754 ; as mentioned in Encyclopædia Britannica from 1911, which further refers to the New English Dictionary.
Britannica and remarks
The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition remarks that " At the time it was framed the charter was considered extraordinarily liberal " and that " the government has always been largely non-sectarian in spirit.
The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica remarks that ' hood ' was a common dialectical form of ' wood '; and that the outlaw's name has been given as " Robin Wood ".
Britannica and long
It is expensive to produce a completely new edition of the Britannica, and its editors delay for as long as fiscally sensible ( usually about 25 years ).
The 1994 Britannica was faulted for publishing an inflammatory story about Charles Drew that had long been discredited.
The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica called the series of wars the Great Rebellion, while some historians, especially Marxists such as Christopher Hill ( 1912 – 2003 ), have long favoured the term English Revolution.
Young's new insights were prominent in the long article " Egypt " that he contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica in 1819.
In international relations the era was a long period of peace, known as the Pax Britannica, and economic, colonial, and industrial consolidation, temporarily disrupted by the Crimean War in 1854.
The Encyclopædia Britannica maintains that " The long reign of Elizabeth I, 1558-1603, was England's Golden Age ...' Merry England ,' in love with life, expressed itself in music and literature, in architecture, and in adventurous seafaring.
It may be mentioned in this connection that he was the author of the long and elaborate article, " Painting ," in the 7th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
He also completed a table of logarithmic sines and tangents for the hundredth part of every degree to fourteen decimal places, with a table of natural sines to fifteen places, and the tangents and secants for the same to ten places ; all of which were printed at Gouda in 1631 and published in 1633 under the title of Trigonometria Britannica ; this work was probably a successor to his 1617 Logarithmorum Chilias Prima (" The First Thousand Logarithms "), which gave a brief account of logarithms and a long table of the first 1000 integers calculated to the 14th decimal place.
In his eventual New Yorker article, Van Doren revealed he had actually been contemplating the Britannica job even at the height of his celebrity: taking a long walk with his father around the farmlands they both loved, the elder Van Doren mentioned to his son that Mortimer J. Adler, the philosopher and a member of Britannica's board of editors, had spoken of making Van Doren Britannica's editor-in-chief.
The 1797 Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica said that they were used only for " the making of snuff-boxes out of them "; however, there is a long tradition of using them as amulets for good luck, banishment of ill luck or to ease childbirth.
The long poem exhibits " mood-creating sounds, polyphonic rhythms, and harsh, slangy language " ( as the Encyclopædia Britannica termed it ).
Self-described in its preface as " a scholarly, systematic, continuously revised summary of the knowledge that is most significant to mankind ", it was long considered one of the three major contemporary English-language general encyclopedias, together with Encyclopedia Americana and Encyclopædia Britannica: the three were sometimes collectively called " the ABCs ".
The Encyclopædia Britannica states that " this dynasty, like the previous Slave dynasty, was of Turkic origin, though the Khiljī tribe had long been settled in what is now Afghanistan ..." " The sultans of the Slave Dynasty were Turkic Central Asians, but the members of the new dynasty, although they were also Turkic, had settled in Afghanistan and brought a new set of customs and culture to Delhi ".
Birds Britannica shows that this need not be seen as something artificial or contrived but as part of a long and ever-shifting relationship, an indicator of our own place in nature.
Britannica and military
To quote the biographic entry in the 1888 Encyclopædia Britannica, " There he laboured to maintain the discipline of the army, to suppress the rising rebellion, and to protect the people from military oppression, with the care worthy of a great general and an enlightened and beneficent statesman.
In 286 AD, Carausius, a Roman military commander of Gaulish origins, was appointed to command the Classis Britannica, and given the responsibility of eliminating Frankish and Saxon pirates who had been raiding the coasts of Armorica and Belgic Gaul.
The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica described them as " at once a valuable asset to the armed strength of France and a possible menace to internal order under military discipline.
The University of Chicago's Encyclopedia Britannica, more conservatively, puts the number detained by the law at " more than 200, 000 ," noting that most never stood trial although they languished in disease infested prisons where 10, 000 perished, and military commissions and revolutionary tribunals gave death sentences to 17, 000 others.
Others allege that as Lord chancellor, he had no say in military affairs and the Encyclopædia Britannica states that he was " neither cruel nor immoderate and was inclined to mercy when dealing with individuals ", however the same source also states that "( Fitzgibbon ).. was a powerful supporter of a repressive policy toward Irish Catholics ".
Britannica and remained
The size of the Britannica has remained roughly constant over 70 years, with about 40 million words on half a million topics.
In 1997, Don Yannias, a long-time associate and investment advisor of Safra, became CEO of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. A new company, Britannica. com Inc. was spun off in 1999 to develop the digital versions of the Britannica ; Yannias assumed the role of CEO in the new company, while that of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. remained vacant for two years.
The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica related curious stories of him, that by way of self-mortification he lay every night for twenty years on the bare ground with only a bear's skin for a covering — yet it is known that he remained a layman, was married and had children — that in an audience he had with
* Relationship between Jainism and Hinduism – According to the Encyclopedia Britannica Article on Hinduism ,"... With Jainism, which always remained an independent Indian religion.
According to Encyclopædia Britannica: " At the end of the Viking Age 1050, Sweden remained a loose federation of provinces.
DeQuille remained a prolific writer, however, providing articles for publication on both coasts, contributing a portion to Myron Angel's History of Nevada ( Thompson & West, 1881 ), and writing the article on Nevada for the 10th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica in 1884.
Britannica and up
According to the author of his biography in the Eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica: " Ambrose is interesting as typical of the new humanism which was growing up within the church.
Benton set up the Benton Foundation, which managed the Britannica until 1996.
These changes have had negative impacts, as freelance contributors have waited up to six months for checks and the Britannica staff have gone years without pay rises.
The United States had been criticized for not taking up the hegemonic mantle following the disintegration of Pax Britannica before the First World War and during the interwar period due to the absence of established political structures, such as the World Bank or United Nations which would be created after World War II, and various internal policies, such as protectionism.
This assembly resembled the mir, but had wider attributes: it assessed the taxes, divided the land, took measures for the opening and support of schools, village grain-stores, communal cultivation, and so on, and elected its ataman ( leader ) and its judges, who settled all disputes up to an amount that the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica gives as "£ 10 " ( or above that sum with the consent of both sides ).
According to the Encyclopædia Britannica 2002: " Ferdinand Magellan took up the quest for Spain in 1519.
According to Encyclopædia Britannica, the club is often credited with inventing the " Boston Game ", which both allowed players to kick a round ball along the ground, and to pick it up and run with it.
" When I saw that item, I said to my wife, ' I don't think spaghetti grows on trees ', so we'd looked it up in Encyclopædia Britannica.
In the etymology provided by the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, jennet is derived from the French genet, from Spanish jinete, a light horseman who rides à la jineta, explained as " with his legs tucked up.
While in law school, he made as much as $ 25, 000 a year selling Encyclopædia Britannica sets, and employed a sales crew made up of classmates to increase his profits.
The 1897 and 1911 editions of Encyclopædia Britannica speculated that the Akatziroi were in fact a component in the early make up of the Khazars, hypothesizing that their name derives from the Turkic " Ak-Khazar ", or " White Khazar ", the name of the group of tribes composing the warrior aristocracy of the Khazar nation.
Nevertheless, the first edition of the Britannica contained gross inaccuracies and fanciful speculations ; for example, it states that excess use of tobacco could cause neurodegeneration, " drying up the brain to a little black lump consisting of mere membranes ".
From a copy of this life, interleaved with manuscript additions from the author's rough draft by the editor ( Le Neve ), and some notes by White Kennett, Richard Gough drew up the ' Life of Field ,' which was printed in an edition of the Biographia Britannica.
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