These 9 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Elginshire, Elias, Elijah.
MORAYSHIRE, or MURRAYSHIRE, a county of Scotland, in the N. E. part, with an area of 475.75 square miles. In the S. are high mountains. The soil is fertile in the N. part, and agriculture is an important industry. There are also salmon and salt-water fisheries. The chief industry of the county is the distilling of whiskey. Pop., about 45,000. The principal town is Elgin.
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SAINT, a lofty mountain on the N. W. coast of America. It rises about 18,000 feet above the sea, being visible to mariners at a distance of 50 leagues. Physically, it marks pretty nearly the point where the shore, after trending in a N. W. drection, turns due W.; politically it divides itself between the Territory of Alaska and the Dominion of Canada.
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the most distinguished of the prophets of Israel, flourished in the 9th century B. c., during the reigns of Ahab and Ahaziah, and until the beginning of the reign of Jehoram, his special function being to denounce vengeance on the kings of Israel for their apostasy. He incurred the anger of Jezebel, wife of Ahab, for slaying the prophets of Baal, but escaped to Horeb, afterward returning to Samaria to denounce Ahab for the murder of Naboth. Elijah at length ascended to heaven in a chariot of fire, Elisha his successor, being witness. See I Kings xvii. to xxi. and II Kings i. and ii.
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George. See Cross ; Mrs. Mary Ann Evans
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CHARLES ican educator and author; born in Boston, WILLIAM, Amer- Mass., March 20, 1834; president of Harvard University (1869-1909). President DR. CHARLES W. ELIOT Emeritus since 1909. He is the author of "Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis"; "Manual of Inorganic Chemistry"; "John Gilley" (1904); "The Happy Life" (1905); "The Road Towards Peace." He edited "The Harvard Classics," better known as the "Five- Foot-Shelf Library." (Collier, New York, 1910).
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GEORGE, the pen name of MARY ANN or MARIAN EVANS, an English novelist; born near Nuneaton, Nov. 22, 1820. She received at Coventry an excellent education, and shortly after her 21st year became a convert to Rationalism. Her first literary undertaking was the completion of Mrs. Hennell's translation of Strauss' "Life of Jesus" (1846). After spending two years abroad she became subeditor of the In January, "Westminster Review." 1857, she came prominently into public notice with a series of tales entitled "Scenes from Clerical Life." In the following year the publication of "Adam Bede" placed her in the first rank of writers of fiction. It was succeeded by the "Mill on the Floss" (1860); "Silas Marner" (1861); "Romola" hola" (1863); "Felix Holt" (1866); "Middlemarch" (1872), and "Daniel Deronda" (1876). She published also three volumes of verse, "The Spanish Gypsy" (1868); "Agatha" (1869), and the "Legend of Jubal" (1874). Her last work published during GEORGE ELIOT her life was "The Impressions of Theophrastus Such" (1879), but a volume of mixed essays was issued posthumously. For many years she was happily associated in life and work with George Henry Lewes, though a legal union was impossible during the lifetime of Mrs. Lewes. In May, 1880, after Mr. Lewes' death, she married Mr. John Cross, but did not survive the marriage many months, dying rather suddenly at Chelsea on Dec. 22 of that year.
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JOHN, "the Indian Apostle"; born probably at Widford in Hertfordshire, in 1604. He graduated at Cambridge in 1622, and, after taking orders in the Church of England, emigrated to Boston, Mass., in 1631. In 1646, after two years' study of the language, he delivered a long sermon in the native dialect at Nonantum; other meetings soon followed. He shortly after began to establish his converts in regular settlements, his work meeting with approval both in the colony and at home; in England a corporation was founded in 1649 "for the promoting and propagating the Gospel among the Indians of New England." In 1674 the number of "praying Indians" was estimated at 3,600; but the decay of the "praying towns" was rapid after the war with a native king, Philip (1675), in which the converts suffered equal cruelties at the hands of their countrymen and of the English. With Thomas Weld and Richard Mather, Eliot prepared the "Bay Psalm-book" (1640), the first book printed in New England. His great work was the translation of the Bible into the tongue of the Indians of Massachusetts (Algon (Algonquin) (1661- 1663). He died in Roxbury, Mass., May 21, 1690. There are monuments to his memory in the Indian burying ground at South Natick and at Newton.
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SAMUEL, an American educator and historian; born in Boston, Mass., Dec. 22, 1821. He filled the chair of history and political science in Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. (1856-1864); was president of Trinity College (1860- 1864); and overseer of Harvard (1866- 1872). Among his publications are: "The History of Liberty" (1853); "The Liberty of Rome" (1849); "Life and Times of Savonarola" (1856); "Manual of United States History Between the Years 1492 and 1850" (revised ed., 1873); and "Stories from the Arabian Nights" (1879). He died in Beverly, Mass., Sept. 14, 1898.
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John (1604-1690), the apostle of the Indians of North America . He was educated at the University of Cambridge, England. He emigrated to Massachusetts Bay with the family of Rev. Thomas Hooker. He became interested in the Massachusetts Indians and set himself at work to learn their language, residing, for the purpose, among them. He wrote a catechism for their use, the first book ever published in an Indian language. No copy of it exists. He translated the Bible into the Indian language. It was printed at Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was the first Bible printed in America. Eliot's Bible, as it is now called, is a rare book and fetches almost any price. Writer and readers have passed away. It is said that no one now living can read more than the title page. Eliot was a man of simple habits and unassuming manners. He lived to the age of eighty-six. John Eliot, a grandson of the former, was the pastor of Killingworth, Connecticut. He wrote a collection of essays upon Field Industry, the first volume of agricultural writing published in America. See Puritans
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