单词 | cyclopaedia |
例句 | “Working too hard. You’d think he was writing a whole cyclopaedia instead of just one book.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z This notion of a representative victim is one that belonged to the whole ancient world, as can be seen by reference to any of the great cyclopaedias. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z Most of the questions were put by Trevannion, while the answers were given by the Mundurucú, whose memory, age, and experience made him a comprehensive cyclopaedia of alligator lore. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z The form “cyclopaedia” is not merely without any appearance of classical authority, but is etymologically less definite, complete and correct. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z It is vain to turn him over to the cyclopaedias, for there is not one whose information upon such statistics comes anywhere near up to date. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries The work of Celsus of the end of the first century B. C. is a Latin treatise, probably translated from Greek, and is the surviving medical volume of a complete cyclopaedia of knowledge. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield We have the best assortment of cyclopaedias in seven states, and the Public Library is only two blocks off. Second Book of Tales There was a shelf of theology and missionary records, doubtless collected when he was a minister; many shelves of medical books, and a small number of miscellaneous works, histories and cyclopaedias. Confessions of Boyhood For as Cyropaedia means “the instruction of Cyrus,” so cyclopaedia may mean “instruction of a circle.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Dictionaries, cyclopaedias, statistical annuals, and other books of reference will be needed in abundance. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries The sharp Bohemian, by playing at all trades, brushing against gentry of all sorts and scouring all neighborhoods, becomes at length a living cyclopaedia. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 So that man of learning, that marvellous prodigy, that walking cyclopaedia, Lord St. Eval, has absolutely deserted us, to bury himself in Italy or Switzerland. The Mother's Recompense, Volume 1 A Sequel to Home Influence When I have made a quotation I mean that that shall be the quotation, and I don't intend to be driven either to the original source or to cyclopaedias of literature for verification. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 7, 1919. Practically, none of the cyclopaedia previously accessible in our language has now much value. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 We may all agree in lamenting that there are so many houses—even some of considerable social pretension—where you will not find a good atlas, a good dictionary, or a good cyclopaedia of reference. Studies in Literature The famous tale herewith briefly summarized occurs in the Mahâbhârata, the great epic or mythological cyclopaedia of India, which embraces 220,000 metric lines, and antedates in the main the Christian era. Primitive Love and Love-Stories Or he would become a successful politician, which was easier than all, for nothing was needed in this career but strong lungs and a cyclopaedia. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 It is a question comprehensive of dollars and cents,—also of bones and sinews, of muscles, nerves, and brains, of headache, heartache, and the cyclopaedia of being, doing, and enduring. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 One of the chief duties of a cyclopaedia is to save trouble,—to put one on the high-road to knowledge, without unnecessary delay in finding the guide-boards. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 The former was a sort of cyclopaedia to him, which he supposed to contain an abstract of human knowledge, as indeed it does to a considerable extent. Walden They possess several valuable works on Chinese jurisprudence, on agriculture, economy, mechanics, trades, many cyclopaedias and compendia, and several dictionaries, composed with extraordinary skill and patience. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities These contributions western Europe was ready for; the larger scientific knowledge of the Saracens, their pharmacopoeias, dictionaries, cyclopaedias, histories, and biographies, it was not yet ready to receive. The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Cincinnati Time-Star:—"The book is at once a history, a cyclopaedia and a most entertaining volume." Spalding's Official Baseball Guide - 1913 Next to this very convenient subdivision of topics, the most striking merit of the new cyclopaedia is, perhaps, comprehensiveness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 Lady Burton does not even mention Rehatsek's name, and cyclopaedias are silent concerning him; yet he was one of the most remarkable men of his time, and henceforward Burton was in constant communication with him. The Life of Sir Richard Burton If I had a cyclopaedia here I could turn to that memorable case, and satisfy nearly anybody that the hunger for the sudden dollar is no more "American" than it is French. Essays on Paul Bourget An astonishing woman that; a cyclopaedia of the day's small talk. New Grub Street He had read vastly; his memory was a literary cyclopaedia. New Grub Street It contained neither historical, biographical, nor geographical articles, and was rather a collection of treatises on the principal arts and sciences than a cyclopaedia in the common acceptation of the term. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 |
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