These 9 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Clarksburg, Clarksville, Claudia Gens.
MARY COWDEN, an English story-writer, essayist, and Shakes-no pearean scholar; born in London, June Clarke, with whom she wrote the "Shakespeare Key" and compiled an edition of Shakespeare's plays. Her own "Complete Concordance" is universally known. Among her novels are: "A Rambling Story" and "The Iron Cousin." "World- Noted Women" contains biographical studies. She died in Italy, Jan. 12, 1898.
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JAMES P., an American lawyer and public official; born in Yazoo City, Miss., Aug. 18, 1854. He was graduated in the law department of the University of Virginia in 1878, and shortly after entered politics. He elected to the State Legislature in 1886 and 1887, and to the State Senate in 1888, of which body he was President in 1891. In 1893-1894 he was Attorney-General of the State, and in January, 1895, was inaugurated Governor after a spirited triangular contest. In 1903-1909 he was United States Senator, and was re-elected in 1908 and 1914. For several years he was Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, and the ranking Democratic member of the Foreign Relations and Military Affairs Committees. He died in 1916.
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JOHN HESSIN, an American jurist, born at Lisbon, O., in 1857. He graduated from the Western Reserve University in 1877, and was admitted to the bar in the following year. After some general practice, he was employed as general counsel of several railroads. He was appointed United States district judge for the Northern District of Ohio, from 1914 to 1916, when he became associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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SAMUEL, an English theological and philosophical writer; born in Norwich, in 1675; educated at Caius College, Cambridge. He became chaplain to Dr. More, bishop of Norwich, and between 1699 and 1701 publishe published "Essays on Baptism, Confirmation, and Repentance," replied to Toland's "Amyntor," and issued a paraphrase of the Gospels. He was then presented with two livings, and in 1704 and 1705 twice delivered the Boyle lectures at Oxford. In 1706 he published "Immortality of the Soul," and a Latin version of Newton's "Optics." He was appointed rector of St. James's, London, and chaplain to Queen Anne. In 1712 he edited Cæsar's "Commentaries," and published his "Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity." His chief subsewith Leibnitz and Collins on the "Freedom of the Will," his Latin version of part of the "Iliad," and a considerable number of sermons. His philosophic fame rests on his a priori argument for the existence of God, his theory of the nature and obligation of virtue as conformity to certain relations involved in the eternal fitness of things, and his opposition to Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibnitz, and others. He died in 1729.
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James Freeman (1810-1888), an American Unitarian clergyman and miscellaneous author. He was born at Hanover, New Hampshire . He was educated at Harvard University , and his first pastorate was at Louisville, Kentucky. In 1841 he removed to Boston and founded the Church of the Disciples of which he was pastor until his death. Mr. Clarke was a friend of Channing, Holmes, and Emerson, and sympathised with the views of the Transcendentalists. He was a clear thinker--a leader in literary and educational movements. His best known writings are Ten Great Religions, Every-Day Religion, Orthodoxy, Its Truths and Errors, Christian Doctrine of Forgiveness, Essentials and Non-Essentials in Religion. Let us thank God for books. When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing; how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life to those whose homes are hard and cold, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truths from heaven,--I give eternal blessings for the gift, and pray that we may use it aright, and abuse it not.--J. Freeman Clarke.
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a city of West Virginia, the county-seat of Harrison co. It is on the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Monongahela Traction Co. railroads, and on the Monongahela river. The city has important manufacturing industries, including the manufacture of chemicals, fire brick, bottles, tableware, iron and tin plate, etc. It has an Elks' Home, and three hospitals, and is the center of an important coal, oil, and natural gas region. Pop. (1910) 9,201; (1920) 27,869.
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a city and countyseat of Montgomery co., Tenn., on the Cumberland and Red rivers, and the Louisville and Nashville and the Tennessee Central railroads, 50 miles N. W. of Nashville. It is the center of the great "dark tobacco belt," and has many tobacco factories. It is the seat of the Southwestern Presbyterian University (1874), and the State Odd Fellows' Home; has several manufactories, daily and weekly newspapers, a female acad- 22, 1809. She married Charles Cowden emy, high and graded public schools, 2 National banks, etc. Pop. (1910) 8,548; (1920) 8,110.
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Patrician and plebeian. The patrician Claudii were of Sabine origin, and came to Rome in B. C. 504, when they were received among the patricians. They were noted for their pride and haughtiness, their disdain for the laws, and their hatred of the plebeians. They bore various surnames. The plebeian Claudii were divided into several families, of which the most celebrated was that of Marcellus . 2026 Editor's Note: The patrician Claudia gens was one of ancient Rome's most prominent houses, holding twenty-eight consulships, five dictatorships, and seven censorships. A cadet branch of the family, the Julio-Claudian dynasty, produced the emperors Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero. Suetonius recorded both their distinguished service and notorious pride, which Niebuhr later described as 'disdain for the laws, and iron hardness of heart.' (Ed: BR 2026-07-12)
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A celebrated poet, in the age of Honorius , who is considered by some writers to equal Vergil in the majestic character of his style. Claudius, T. Drusus Nero. Son of Drusus, became emperor of Rome after the death of Caligula . He went to Britain, and obtained a triumph for victories achieved by his generals. He suffered himself to be governed by favorites whose avarice plundered the state and distracted the provinces. He was poisoned by Agrippina , who wished to raise her son Nero to the throne.
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