Collier's New Encyclopedia

A complete general encyclopedia of 1921 — the world as it was understood just after the Great War, from Aachen to Zwingli, across twelve volumes and six thousand pages.

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RICHARD, an English poet; born in London in 1613. A convert to Catholicism, he wrote "Steps to the Temple" and "Sacred Poems," produc- CRATÆGUS "Lympha pudica Deum vidit et erubuit" (The modest water saw its God and blushed.) He died in Rome or Loreto, May or June, 1649. an CRASSULACEÆ, house-leeks; order of hypogynous exogens, alliance violales. It consists of succulent herbs or shrubs with entire or pinnatifid leaves often unilateral cymes. and no stipules, flowers usually in sessile, a

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