Each of these 9 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
the Scotch reformers. The whole body was called the Congregation; but from 1638, when they bound themselves by oath to adhere to the Solemn League and Covenant, the reformers were called Covenanters. Not unfrequently the Congregationists are called Covenanters.
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WILLIAM, an English dramatist; born near Leeds in 1670. He entered himself as a student at the Middle Temple, but abandoned the law for literature. His first piece, written at the age of 17, was a romance, entitled, "Incognito, or Love and Duty Reconciled." In 1693, being then only 23 years old, he wrote his first comedy, "The Old Bachelor." This produced him not only great reputation, but a commissionership CONIFERÆ in the hackney-coach office, from the Earl of Halifax, who afterward still further patronized and favored him. He wrote also "Love for Love," "The Double Dealer," "The Mourning Bride," "The of Way the World," an opera, and some poems. He died in London, Jan. 19, 1729.
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A pendulum which in its swing describes the figure of a cone in the air. A pendulum whose lower extremity describes a circle as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 248. By comparison it will be found that a conical pendulum completes its circular travel in the same time that an oscillating pendulum requires to make a complete swing, back and forth.
A pendulum whose bob moves in a circle. See Pendulum.
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A pivot whose shoulders are of conical form used only in pivots having end stones. See Balance Staff.
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an order of plants, one of those recognized in 1751, in the infancy of botany, by Linnæus. They belong to the class or sub-class of Gymnosperms. They are fine trees or shrubs abounding in resin. Lindley divides it into two sub-orders, (1) Abieteæ, with the ovules inverted and the pollen oval, ovules erect and the pollen spheroidal. Sometimes the Taxineæ (Yews) figure as a third, but Lindley makes them a distinct order, and calls them Taxaceæ (Taxads). Nearly 200 species are known. They are most useful to man, supplying timber, with oil, resin, and turpentine. They are diffused over the world. The wood of the coniferæ may be distinguished from those of ordinary dicotyledons by the absence of proper ducts in the woody layers, and by the presence of large areolar disks on the walls of the wood cells. The wood of the Yew (Taxus baccata), and the Douglas Fir (Abies Douglasii), are exceptions to this rule. On the other hand, the Wintereæ, which are not coniferous, but belong to the Magnoliads, have similar circular disks. The coniferæ commence at least as early as the Devonian. They the Carboniferare well represented in ous rocks, being associated there with the higher Acrogens. They flourished through the Secondary period, and on to times. The Carboniferous Conipresent fers may have been taxoid (Yew-like), though the genus Pinites also occurs. The species in the Secondary rocks were more akin to the Araucaria of our gardens than to ordinary pines.
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JOHN, an English classical scholar; born in Boston, Aug. 10, 1825. He was educated at Beverley and at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1854 he was appointed to the newly founded chair of Latin Language and Literature at Oxford, which he filled until his death, Oct. 23, 1869. His greatest work is his edition of "Vergil" (3 vols., 1861-1868). His edition of the "Aga- (1848), and "C "Choephori" memnon" (1857), of Æschylus are of less moment. In his last years he gave himself much to translation; a metrical version of the "Odes" of Horace (1863), the "Eneid" (1866), in Scott's ballad-meter; the "Iliad" (1868), and the "Satires and Epistles" of Horace (1869).
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in the English Lake district, in N. Lancashire; at the E. foot of the Coniston Fells, 9 miles W. of Bowness on Windermere. It is 5 miles long, ½ mile broad, 147 feet above the sea, and its greatest depth is 260 feet. Its waters abound with trout and perch. On the E. shore stand Ruskin's home, Brantwood, and Tent House, once Tennyson's residence. The Old Man of Coniston, to the N. W., is 2,633 feet high.
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in grammar, a connective indeclinable particle serving to unite words, sentences, or clauses of a sentence, and indicating their relation to one another. They are classifiable into 8-Vol. III-Cyc two main groups: Coördinating conjunctions, joining independent propositions, and subdivisible into copulative disjunctive, adversative, and illative conjunctions; subordinating conjunctions, linking a dependent or modifying clause The only to the principal sentence. active influence which the conjunction can be said to exercise grammatically in a sentence is in respect of the mood of the verb following it in dependent sentences, the rule being to employ the subjunctive where futurity and contingency are implied, the indicative where they are not; as "I will do it though he be there" (which he may or may not be); or "I will do it, though he is there" (which he is).
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the production of effects apparently miraculous by natural means. The earlier professors of the art claimed bonâ fide supernatural powers; and in ages when the most elementary principles of physical science were unknown beyond a very limited circle, it was not difficult to gain credence for such a pretension. The modern conjurer makes no such claim, but tells the public frankly that his marvels are illusory, and rest either on personal dexterity or on some ingenious application of natural principles. Of the conjurers of remote antiquity we have few reliable records; though it is a tolerably safe conjecture that the prestige of the ancient mysteries rested in no small degree upon effects of natural magic. The founder of the modschool of conjuring was Robert Houdin (1805-1871), with whom a new era began in 1841. He was followed by Frikell, Hartz, Herrmann, Buatier de Kolta, Verbeck, Lynn, Bertram, etc., protheir ducing magical results with the minimum of visible apparatus. There are, however, signs of a reaction in favor of more spectacular illusions in which the resources of optical and acoustic, as well as mechanical science, are laid under contribution in aid of conjuring proper.
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