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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Endor

Britannica 11th

ENDOR, an ancient town of Palestine, chiefly memorable as the abode of the sorceress whom Saul consulted on the eve of the battle of Gilboa, in which he perished (i Sam. xxviii. 5-25). According to a psalmist (Ps. Ixxxiii. 9) it was the scene of the rout of Ja ...

Vol. 9, pp. 383-383 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0

Anti-Semitism

Britannica 11th

... d, his ministers, ardent Slavophils, thought they recognized in the outbreak an endorsement of the nationalist teaching of which they were the apostles, and, while reprobating the acts of violence, came to the conclusion that the most reasonable solution was t ...

Vol. 2, pp. 134-146 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Arsenic

Britannica 11th

... ed. These two latter forms possess a specific gravity of 4-710 (14° C.) [A. Bettendorff, Annalen, 1867, 144, p. no], and by heating at about 358°-36o°C. pass over into the crystalline variety. Arsenic burns on heating in a current of oxygen, with a pale lavend ...

Vol. 2, pp. 651-654 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Aspirotrichaceae

Britannica 11th

... nearly uniform cilia, without any distinct adoral wreath, and one or two adoral endoral undulating membranes. With the Gymnostomaceae it formed the Holotricha of Stein.

Vol. 2, pp. 769-769 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Auction Pitch

Britannica 11th

... fing is unlawful. Unless a right to bid is expressly reserved on behalf of the vendor, he must neither bid himself nor employ any one el»c to bid. When • right to bid ha* been etpressly mcrvcd, the seller or any one penon (but no more) on hi* behalf may bid at ...

Vol. 2, pp. 894-894 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Ejectment

Britannica 11th

... not only to the tenant but to persons claiming under him. The writ is specially endorsed with the plaintiff's claim to recover the land with or without rent or mesne profits, and summary judgment obtained if no substantial defence is disclosed. Where an action ...

Vol. 9, pp. 137-138 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Eminent Domain

Britannica 11th

... i, bk. iii. c. 20, ». 7), Bynkershock (Quaest. jur. pub. bk. 2, c. 15), and Puffendorf (De jure naturae el gentium, bk. i. c. I, s. 19), — the two latter, however, preferring the word imperium to dominium; and by other Dutch jurists. But in modern times it is ...

Vol. 9, pp. 339-339 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Erbium

Britannica 11th

... 40, p. 502); Lecoq de Boisbaudran (Comptes rendus, 1886, 102, p. 1005) ; A. Bettendorf (Ann., 1892, 270, p. 376) ; M. Muthmann (Ber., 1898, 31, p. 1718; 1900, 33, p. 42); G. Kriiss (Zeit. f. anorg. Ghent., 1893, 3, p. 108).

Vol. 9, pp. 733-734 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Europe

Britannica 11th

... on, vol. ii. pp. 24-25. 4 Pt. i. pp. 11-12. ' Griesbach, on the strength of Middendorff s observations, remarks that, in addition to European fruit trees, oak, maples, elms, ashes and the black alder do not cross the Urals, while the lime tree is reduced to th ...

Vol. 9, pp. 907-952 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Telephone

Britannica 11th

... Phil. Mag., 3rd ser., vol. xxv. pp. 76, 225; Laborde, Comp. Rend., 1. 692; Poggendorff, Pogg. Ann., Ixxxvii. 139, xcviii. 198; Du Moncel, Exp. de I'Elect., ii. 125, iii. 83; and Delesenne, Bibl. Univ. (1841), xvi. 406. 6 See also Didaskalia: Blatter fiir Geis ...

Vol. 26, pp. 547-556 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Thomasius

Britannica 11th

... e under the influence of the political philosophy of Hugo Grotius and Samuel Pufendorf, and continued the study of law at Frankfort-on-Oder. In 1684 he commenced the career of professor of natural law at Leipzig, and soon attracted attention by his abilities, ...

Vol. 26, pp. 868-868 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

United States

Britannica 11th

... ich met in Philadelphia in midsummer in an effort to abate sectionalism, and to endorse the president's policy, included a large number of War Democrats who had joined the Union party after the secession of the South, many moderate Southerners, a fragment of t ...

Vol. 27, pp. 612-735 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0