Carey
HENRY CHARLES, an American economist, born in Philadelphia, Dec. 15, 1793; trained in his 179 father's publishing house, he accumuence from the business lated a competence and retired to devote himself to study. The "Essay on the Rate of Wages" (1836) and "The Principles of Political Economy' my" (1837-1840) won him an authoritative international position, in spite of what was then an extravagantly unorthodox opposition to Adam Smith and his followers. He next produced: "The Credit System in France, Great Britain, and the United States" (1838); "The Past, The Present, and The Future" (1848); and "The Principles of Social Science" (1858-1859). He died in Philadelphia, Oct. 13, 1879.
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Carey (II)
ROSA NOUCHETTE, an English novelist; born at London in 1840. She began her literary career in 1868 and speedily gained a large audience, especially among young girls. She wrote nearly 40 works of which some of the best known are "Wee Wifie" (1869); "Wooed and Married" (1875); "Uncle Max" (1887); and "The Sunny Side of the Hill" (1908). She died in 1909. alwa an English
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Carey (MATHEW an American publisher)
MATHEW, an American publisher and prose writer, born in Ireland, Jan. 28, 1760. The best known of his political writings was his "Olive Branch" (1814). It was an effort to promote harmony among political parpro ties during the War of 1812. It passed ties through ten editions. In 1819 he published his "Irish Vindications," and in 1822, "Essays on Political Economy." He died Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 1839.
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Carey (WILLIAM Oriental scholar)
WILLIAM, Oriental scholar and missionary, born in Northamptonshire, Aug. 17, 1761. He was early apprenticed to a shoemaker, but his natural turn for languages, and his zeal for the spread of the Gospel, were too strong to be overcome. With the little assistance he could procure he acquired Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and likewise studied theology. In 1786 he became pastor of a Baptist congregation at Moulton, and in 1787 was appointed to a similar situation in Leicester. In 1793 he sailed for the East Indies as a Baptist missionary, and in 1800, in conjunction with Marshman, Ward, and others, he founded the missionary college at Serampore. Here he had a printing press, and issued various translations of the Scriptures. His first work was a "Bengali Grammar." It was followed by the "Hitopadesha," in the Mahratta tongue, a "Grammar of the Telinga and Carnatic ," and a "Bengali Lexicon." Under his direction the whole Bible was translated into 6, and the New Testament into 21 Hindustani dialects. He was long professor of Sanskrit, Mahratta, and Bengali, in Calcutta. He died in Serampore, India, June 9, 1834.
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Cargo
the general term used to designate all merchandise carried on a trading ship.
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Caria
a country of Asia Minor, whose boundaries have been dissimilar in different ages. Generally speaking, it was at the S. of Ionia, at the E. and N. of the Icarian Sea, and at the W. of Phrygia Major and Lycia. It has been called Phoenicia, because a Phœnician colony first settled there. It afterward received the name of Caria, from Car, one of its kings, who first invented the auguries of birds. Its chief town was Halicarnassus.
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Carib
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about other peoples, religions, or nationalities that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) the name given by the early European navigators to the inhabitants or aborigines found on the smaller of the West India Islands, and also inhabiting some part of the adjacent American continent. The natives of the larger and more northern islands entertained a great dread of this race of Carib from their more war-like and savage nature; and the Spaniards, finding them always a bold and determined enemy, did their utmost to exterminate the whole race, and finally expelled all but a mere remnant from their native possessions. Those who escaped the Spanish sword sought refuge in that part of southern America near the mouth of the Orinoco, except a few whom the English removed and landed on the island of Ruatan, in the Bay of Honduras. The Carib have always been distinguished from the rest of the American peoples by their athletic stature, firmness, courage, and resolution. They treat all other aborigines with contempt, and consider themselves superior to every other race. They were formerly accused of cannibalism, and. there is much reason to suspect, with justice.
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Caribbee Bark
the bark of the Exostemma caribæum, a tree growing in the West Indies, closely allied to Cinchona, and occasionally substituted for the true species of the latter. It is called also St. Lucia Bark.
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Caribbees
or LESSER ANTILLES, usually divided into the Windward and Leeward Islands, a section of the West India Islands.
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Cariboo
or CARIBOU, an animal, the Cervus silvestris, or American Woodland Reindeer, the Attehk of the Cree, and Tantseeah of the Copper Indians. It is employed by the Laplanders to draw their sledges.
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Caribou
kar'i-boo, an American reindeer ranging from Maine to Lake Superior and northward. With the exception of the musk-ox, it ranges farther north than any other hoofed animal. There are two groups or species, the woodland and the barren ground caribou. The latter ranges further to the north, beyond the limit of timber, but retires southward in herds of thousands in the winter time. The woodland caribou is of a dun gray color and is about three and one-half feet high at the shoulder. Its fleetness reminds one of the antelope. It lives mainly on lichens. The antlers are flattened somewhat like those of a moose. Its numbers have been greatly diminished by persistent and merciless hunting. An interesting account of a caribou school, as well as other sketches of caribou life, are given by William J. Long in his Wilderness Ways. See Reindeer
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Caries
a disease of bone analogous to ulceration in soft tissues. The bone breaks down, or may be said to melt down into unhealthy matter, which works its way to the surface and bursts. Excision of the carious portion of the bone is often effected with good results, but the disease often results in death. Caries of the teeth is decay of the dentine or body of the tooth.
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