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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Arnold

Britannica 11th

ARNOLD, known as " ARNOLD OF BRESCIA " (d. 1155), one of the most ardent adversaries of the temporal power of the popes. He belonged to a family of importance, if not noble, and was born probably at Brescia, in Italy, towards the end of the nth century. He dis ...

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ESCHER VON DER LINTH. ARNOLD (1807-1872), Swiss geologist, the son of Hans Conrad Escher (1767-1823), was born at Zurich on the 8th of June 1807. In 1856 he became professor of geology at the Ecole Polytechnique at Zurich. His researches led him to be regarded ...

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Arno

Britannica 11th

... deer, elephant, rhinoceros, mastodon, hippopotamus, bear, tiger, &c. ARNOBIUS— ARNOLD

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Arnauld

Britannica 11th

ARNAULD, the surname of a family of prominent French lawyers, chiefly remembered in connexion with the Jansenist troubles of the i7th century. At their head was ANTOINE ARNAULD (1560-1619), a leader of the Paris bar; in this capacity he delivered a famous phil

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Argol

Britannica 11th

ARGOL, the commercial name of crude tartar (q.t.). It is a semi-crystalline deposit which forms on wine vats, and is generally grey or red in colour.

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Arnal

Britannica 11th

ARNAL, &TIENNB (1794-1872), French actor, was born at Meulan, Seine-et-Oise, on the ist of February 1704. After serving in the army, and working in a button factory, he took to the stage. His first appearance (1815) was in tragedy, and for some time he was uns

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Arndt

Britannica 11th

ARNDT, ERNST MORITZ (1769-1860), German poet and patriot, was born on the 26th of December 1769 at Schoritz in the island of RUgen, which at that time belonged to Sweden. He was the son of a prosperous farmer, and emancipated serf of the lord of the district,

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Anthem

Britannica 11th

... the I7th, and Croft, Boyce, James Kent, James Nares. Benjamin Cooke, and Samuel Arnold in the iSth were famous composers of anthems, and in more recent times the names are too numerous to mention.

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Apologetics

Britannica 11th

... ristianity which seeks to extricate the " spiritual " from the" supernatural " (Arnold Toynbee, characterizing T.H. Green). It would only lead to confusion, however, if we called this method " apologetic." Any single effort in apologetics may be termed " an ap ...

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Arboretum

Britannica 11th

... OS garden in Great Britain, which was founded in 1632. In the United States the Arnold Arboretum at Boston ranks with Kew for size and completeness. It takes its name from its donor, the friend of Emerson. It was originally a well-timbered park, which, by late ...

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Arnhem

Britannica 11th

... je-au's Oord, which was bought by the crown in 1881. History. — 'Arnhem, called Arnoldi Villa in the middle ages, is, according to some, the Arenacum of the Romans, and is first mentioned in a document in 893. In 1233 Otto II., count of Gelderland, chose this ...

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Austin, Alfred

Britannica 11th

... ed in a spirit of satirical invective, and attacked Tennyson, Browning, Matthew Arnold and Swinburne in no half-hearted fashion. The book aroused some discussion at the time, but its judgments were extremely uncritical. In 1881 Mr Austin returned to verse with ...

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Britannica 11th

... Ralph Waldo Emerson (1907). Critical estimates are also to be found in Matthew Arnold's Discourses in America, John Morley's Critical Miscellanies, Henry James's Partial Portraits, Lowell's My Study Windows, Birrcil's Obiter Dicta (2nd scries), Stedman's Poet ...

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Eugenius

Britannica 11th

... prefect for the " patrician " and returned to Rome. The celebrated schismatic, Arnold of Brescia, however, put himself again at the head of the party opposed to the temporal power of the papacy, re-established the patricianate, and forced the pope to leave Ro ...

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Evangelical Alliance

Britannica 11th

... elligencer, The Evangelical Alliance Quarterly, both published in London; A. J. Arnold, History of the Evangelical Alliance (London, 1897); and the reports of the proceedings of the different conferences.

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Ix. 21

Britannica 11th

... ose loss he lamented in one of the finest pastoral elegies of all ages, Matthew Arnold takes xrao/rf rank with Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne alone among the Dii Majores of Victorian poetry. He is perhaps a disciple of Wordsworth even more than of Goethe, an ...

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Sumptuary Laws

Britannica 11th

... eat Britain see Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum (" Rolls Series," ed. T. Arnold, 1879); W. Cunningham, Growth of English Industry and 1 See Captain F. Brinkley's Japan, its History, Arts and Literature (1904), i. 138, 205, 140-144, ii. 98, 99, iv. 157-1 ...

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Telephone

Britannica 11th

... ay wires underground. 1895. A select committee of the House of Commons (with Mr Arnold Morley, Postmaster-General, as chairman) was appointed " to consider and report whether the provision now made for the telephone service in local areas is adequate, and whet ...

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Theology

Britannica 11th

... nce — Luther, Melanchthon and 1 " Mystical Theology " is described in Addis and Arnold's Catholic Dictionary as a " branch " of Moral Theology. THEON— THEOPHANES Calvin, then Zwingli, then John Knox and others. The reply to Protestantism is represented by Card ...

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United States

Britannica 11th

... x. Meantime the 2,"""%?," i . . • * « 4 !•»«• . Expeditions bold expeditions of Arnold and Montgomery against against Canada — suggesting the joint efforts of the French Canada. wars— had met with only a partial success. Montreal had been occupied, but the ass ...

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