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THE NUTTALL ENCYCLOPAEDIA
BEING
A CONCISE AND COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARY
OF GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
CONSISTING OF
OVER 16,000 TERSE AND ORIGINAL ARTICLES ON NEARLY ALL SUBJECTS DISCUSSED IN LARGER ENCYCLOPAEDIAS, AND SPECIALLY DEALING
WITH SUCH AS COME UNDER THE CATEGORIES
HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, GEOGRAPHY, LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, SCIENCE, AND ART
EDITED BY THE
EDITOR OF "NUTTALL'S STANDARD DICTIONARY" AND COMPILER OF THE "DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS"
PREFACE "The NUTTALL ENCYCLOPAEDIA" is the fruit of a project to provide, in a concise and condensed form, and at a cheap rate, an epitome of the kind of information given in the larger Encyclopaedias, such as may prove sufficient for the ordinary requirements, in that particular, of the generality of people, and especially of such as have not the means for purchasing or the leisure for studying the larger.
Within the necessary limits of a single volume the Editor persuades himself he has succeeded in including a wide range of subjects, and he trusts that the information he has given on these will meet in some measure at least the wants of those for whom the book has been compiled. To the careful Newspaper Reader; to Heads of Families, with children at school, whose persistent questions have often to go without an answer; to the Schoolmaster and Tutor; to the student with a shallow purse; to the Busy Man and Man of Business, it is believed that this volume will prove a solid help.
The subjects, as hinted, are various, and these the Editor may be permitted to classify in a general way under something like the following rubrics:--
Such, in a general way, are some of the subjects contained in the book, while there is a number of others not reducible to the classification given, and among these the Editor has included certain subjects of which he was able to give only a brief definition, just as there are doubtless others which in so wide an area of research have escaped observation and are not included in the list. In the selection of subjects the Editor experienced not a little embarrassment, and he was not unfrequently at a loss to summarise particulars under several of the heads. Such as it is, the Editor offers the book to the public, and he hopes that with all its shortcomings it will not be unfavourably received.
NOTES.
THE NUTTALL ENCYCLOPAEDIA
A'ALI PASHA, an eminent reforming Turkish statesman .
AALBORG , a trading town on the Liimfiord, in the N. of Jutland.
AAR, a large Swiss river about 200 m. long, which falls into the Rhine as it leaves Switzerland.
AARGAU, a fertile Swiss canton bordering on the Rhine.
AARHUUS , a port on the E. of Jutland, with a considerable export and import trade, and a fine old Gothic cathedral.
AARON, the elder brother of Moses, and the first high-priest of the Jews, an office he held for forty years.
ABACA, Manila hemp, or the plant, native to the Philippines, which yield it in quantities.
ABACUS, a tablet crowning a column and its capital.
ABADDON, the bottomless pit, or the angel thereof.
ABARIM, a mountain chain in Palestine, NE. of the Dead Sea, the highest point being Mount Nebo.
ABATEMENT, a mark of disgrace in a coat of arms.
ABAUZIT, FIRMIN, a French Protestant theologian and a mathematician, a friend of Newton, and much esteemed for his learning by Rousseau and Voltaire .
ABBADIE, two brothers of French descent, Abyssinian travellers in the years 1837-1848; also a French Protestant divine .
ABBAS, uncle of Mahomet, founder of the dynasty of the Abbasides .
ABBAS THE GREAT, shah of Persia, of the dynasty of the Sophis, great alike in conquest and administration .
ABBAS-MIRZA, a Persian prince, a reformer of the Persian army, and a leader of it, unsuccessfully, however, against Russia .
ABBASIDES, a dynasty of 37 caliphs who ruled as such at Bagdad from 750 to 1258.
AB`BATI, NICCOLO DELL', an Italian fresco-painter .
ABB?, name of a class of men who in France prior to the Revolution prepared themselves by study of theology for preferment in the Church, and who, failing, gave themselves up to letters or science.
ABBEVILLE , a thriving old town on the Somme, 12 m. up, with an interesting house architecture, and a cathedral, unfinished, in the Flamboyant style.
ABBOT, head of an abbey. There were two classes of abbots: Abbots Regular, as being such in fact, and Abbots Commendatory, as guardians and drawing the revenues.
ABBOT OF MISRULE, a person elected to superintend the Christmas revelries.
ABBOTSFORD, the residence of Sir Walter Scott, on the Tweed, near Melrose, built by him on the site of a farm called Clarty Hole.
ABDAL`LAH, the father of Mahomet, famed for his beauty ; also a caliph of Mecca .
ABDALRAH`MAN, the Moorish governor of Spain, defeated by Charles Martel at Tours in 732.
ABDALS , a set of Moslem fanatics in Persia.
ABD-EL-KA`DIR, an Arab emir, who for fifteen years waged war against the French in N. Africa, but at length surrendered prisoner to them in 1847. On his release in 1852 he became a faithful friend of France .
ABDE`RA, a town in ancient Thrace, proverbial for the stupidity of its inhabitants.
ABDIEL, one of the seraphim, who withstood Satan in his revolt against the Most High.
ABDUL-AZIZ, sultan of Turkey from 1861, in succession to Abdul-Medjid .
ABD-UL-MED`JID, sultan, father of the two preceding, in whose defence against Russia England and France undertook the Crimean war .
ABEL, the second son of Adam and Eve; slain by his brother. The death of Abel is the subject of a poem by Gessner and a tragedy by Legouv?.
ABEL, HENRY, an able Norwegian mathematician, who died young .
AB`ELARD, PETER, a theologian and scholastic philosopher of French birth, renowned for his dialectic ability, his learning, his passion for H?lo?se, and his misfortunes; made conceivability the test of credibility, and was a great teacher in his day .
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