These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Procter, Procter, Proctor.
ADELAIDE ANNE, an English poet; daughter of Bryan W.; born in London, England, Oct. 30, 1825. She wrote "Legends and Lyr Lyrics" (1858), which went through nine editions in seven years; and a second series (1860), which had a like success. She died Feb. 3, 1864.
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BRYAN WALLER, R, pseudonym BARRY CORNWALL, an English et; born in London, Nov. 21, 1787. poet; Educated at Harrow, with Byron and Peel for schoolfellows, he studied law, and in 1815 began to contribute poetry to the "Literary Gazette." He published four volumes of poems, and produced a tragedy at Covent Garden. He was called to the bar in 1831. His works comprise "Dramatic Scenes" (1819), “A Sicilian Story" and "Marcian Colonna" (1820), "The Flood of Thessaly" (1823), and "English Songs" (1832), besides memoirs of Kean (1835), and Charles Lamb (1866). He died Oct. 5, 1874.
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Adelaide Anne (1825-1864), an English poet, daughter of Bryan Waller Procter. Her first verses were published in Household Words in 1853. They attracted the notice of Dickens, who gave the young author hearty encouragement. She produced many poems published under the title, Legends and Lyrics. Some of her songs have been set to music, The Lost Chord being the most famous among them. It is like telling one's beads, or reading a prayer-book, to turn over her pages--so beautiful, so pure and unselfish a spirit of faith, hope, and charity pervades and hallows them.--Stedman.
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REDFIELD, United States Senator and Cabinet officer; born in 1831, at Proctorsville, Vt., and graduated in the class of from Dartmouth College ege '51. He attained the rank of colonel by a four years' service in the Civil War. After the war he devoted himself to the practice of law, and to the development of his interests in the stone quarries of his State. In 1878 he was chosen governor of Vermont; in 1889 President Harrison appointed him Secretary of War, and he resigned this office to become United States Senator, a position which he held until his death in 1908.
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EDNA DEAN, an Amer ican poet; born in Henniker, N. H., Sept. 18, 1829. Her works are: "Poems" (1866); "A Russian Journey" (1872); "The Song of the Ancient People" (1892); "Mountain Maid and Other Poems of New Hampshire" (1900); etc.
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in English law, a person employed to manage another's cause in a court of civil or ecclesiastical law. He at common law. answers to an attorney In an English university, two officials chosen from among the Masters of Arts to enforce the statutes, and preserve good order and discipline. In an American university, an executive officer whose duty it is to preserve order and enforce the laws of the institution. Proctors of the clergy, in England, clergymen elected to represent cathedral or other collegiate churches, and also the common clergy of every diocese in convocation.
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RICHARD ANTHONY, an English astronomer, author of a large number of popular works, principally on astronomy; born in London, England, March 23, 1837. He was a graduate of St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1860. About 1885 he settled in St. Louis, and later moved to Florida. His principal popular books are the following: "Saturn and Its System," "Half-hours With the Telescope," "Half-hours With Stars," "Other Worlds Than Ours," "Light Science for Leisure Hours," "Elementary Astronomy," "Chance and Luck," "First Steps in Geometry," "Easy Lessons in Differential Calculus," and "Old and New Astronomy." He edited "Knowledge." He died in New York City, Sept. 12, 1888.
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A common name in some parts for the prickers on a loam-plate. See PRICKERS. Projectiles are such bodies as, being put in a violent motion by any great force, are then cast off or let go from the place where they received their quantity of motion; as a shell or shot from a gun. There are various descriptions of projectiles, spherical and elongated, some being solid, others hollow; also case-shot, etc. See SHOT; SHELL; ORDNANCE.
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Son of Abas and Ocalea, and twin- IOOO CLASSICAL CHARACTERS brother of Acrisius . In the dispute between the two brothers for the kingdom of Argos, Proetus was expelled, whereupon he fled to Iobates in Lycia, and married Antea or Stheneboea, the daughter of the latter. With the assistance of Iobates, Proetus returned to his native land, and Acrisius gave him a share of his kingdom, surrendering to him Tiryns , Midea, and the coast of Argolis.
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any advantage, benefit, or accession of good resulting from labor _r exertion; valuable results, useful consequence, benefit, gain; comprehending the acquisition of anything valuable or advantageous, corporeal, or intellectual, temporal or spiritual. Net profit, the difference in favor of the seller of any commodity between the price at which it is sold, and the original cost of production, after deduction of all charges.
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or PROGNATHOUS, in ethnology, a term applied to the skull of certain races of men in whom the jaw slants forward by reason of the oblique insertion of the teeth.
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the act of progressing, advancing, or moving forward; progress, advance. In In mathematics, mathe regular or proportional p advance al advance by increase or decrease of numbers. A series in which the terms increase or decrease according to a uniform law. There are two kinds of progressions, arithmetical and geometrical. In music, there are two kinds of progression, melodic and harmonic. The former is a succession of sounds forming a tune or melody, but the term is also applied to an imitative succession of melodic phrases, that is, to a melodic sequence. Harmonic progression is the movement of one chord to another, and is diatonic or chromatic. The term is also sometimes used as synonymous with sequence.
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a body projected or impelled forward by force, especially through the air. Thus, a stone discharged from a sling, an arrow from a bow, and a bullet from a rifle, are all projectiles, but the term is more particularly applied to bodies discharged from firearms.
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in pathology, a protrusion, as well as a falling down, of a part of some entrail, so as to be partly external, or uncovered, thus differing from procidence.
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