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Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks. It was founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books. The ...
A name employed to denote the union of the body of Christ with the bread of the Eucharist.
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A name formerly given to the Protestants of France, presumed to be a corruption of the German word eingenossen, i. e. sworn confederates, the history of whom and their struggles and persecutions fills a large chapter in the history of France, a cause which was espoused at the first by many of the nobles and the best families in the country, but all along in disfavour at Court.
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A name given among the Romans to an account or a map of the principal routes through the empire and the stations along them.
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A name given in Germany to the younger members of the aristocracy, or of the landed gentry, as representing a reactionary party in modern politics.
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A name given to certain classes of animalculae engendered in stagnant water infused with decaying organic matter.
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A name given to immediate knowledge, as distinct from mediate or inferential knowledge, and which is matter of consciousness or direct perception.
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A name given to sundry structures composed of winding passages so intricate as to render it difficult to find the way out, and sometimes in. Of these structures the most remarkable were those of Egypt and of Crete. The Egyptian to the E. of Lake Moeris, consisted of an endless number of dark chambers, connected by a maze of passages into which it was difficult to find entrance; and the Cretan, built by Daedalus, at the instance of Minos, to imprison the Minotaur, out of which one who entered could not find his way out again unless by means of a skein of thread. It was by means of this, provided him by Ariadne, Perseus found his way out after slaying the Minotaur.
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A name given to those who maintain the simple humanity of Christ to the denial of his divinity; also to those who view human nature as sufficient for itself apart from all supernatural guidance and aid.
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A name humorously given by Wendell Holmes to Boston, or rather the State House of the city.
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