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A large unfurnished inn, with a court in the middle for the accommodation of caravans and other travellers at night in the East.
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A class of substances such as the sugars, starch, etc., consisting of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, the latter in the proportion in which they exist in water.
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(Lit. charcoal burners), a secret society that, in the beginning of the 19th century, originated in Italy and extended itself into France, numbering hundreds of thousands, included Lord Byron, Silvio Pellico, and Mazzini among them, the object of which was the overthrow of despotic governments; they were broken up by Austria, and absorbed by the Young Italy party.
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County town of Glamorganshire, S. Wales, on the river Taff, the sea outlet for the mineral wealth and products of the district, a town that has risen more rapidly than any other in the kingdom, having had at the beginning of the century only 2000 inhabitants; it has a university, a number of churches, few of them belonging to the Church of England, and has also three daily papers.
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A county in S. Wales, low-lying on the coast, level towards the coast, and mountainous in the interior, but with fertile valleys.
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General of the Dominicans, born in Gaeta; represented the Pope at the Diet of Augsburg, and tried in vain to persuade Luther to recant; wrote a Commentary on the Bible, and on the "Summa Theologiae" of Aquinas.
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Born at Bologna, legate of Pius VII. in France, concluded the "Concordat" of 1801 (1733-1810).
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These have been "arranged by the wisest men of all time, under four general heads," and are defined by Ruskin as "Prudence or Discretion (the spirit which discerns and adopts rightly), Justice (the spirit which rules and divides rightly), Fortitude (the spirit that persists and endures rightly), and Temperance (the spirit which stops and refuses rightly). These cardinal and sentinel virtues," he adds, "are not only the means of protecting and prolonging life itself, but are the chief guards or sources of the material means of life, and the governing powers and princes of economy."
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Florentine artists, brothers, of the 17th century; did their chief work in Spain.
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