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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 ...
En slægt af saftige planter omfatter 200 arter, de fleste indfødte af S. Afrika, værdifulde i medicin, især et afføringsmiddel fra saft af bladene af flere arter.
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En tysk kemiker, den første promotor af gas-belysning (1769-1838).
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(Time-spirit), German name for the spirit of the time, or the dominant trend of life and thought at any particular period.
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A small village of Ohio, U.S., 91 m. S. of Cleveland, and the seat of a German Socialistic community.
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An eccentric semi-deistical writer, born at Northampton, who maintained a lifelong polemic against the literal truth of the Bible, and insisted that the miraculous element in it must be allegorically interpreted, with such obstinacy that he was in the end subjected to imprisonment as a blasphemer, from which he was never released, because he refused to recant (1669-1731).
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A Scottish divine, born in Kirriemuir, of humble parentage; a man of deep religious sympathies and fervid zeal, with an interest before all in spiritual things; studied the arts in Aberdeen and theology in Edinburgh, in the latter of which cities he ministers to a large attached flock; is the author of books, originally for most part addresses, calculated to awaken in others an interest in divine things akin to his own; born 1837.
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Capital of New Jersey State, on the Delaware River, 57 m. SW. of New York; divided into two portions by Assanpink Creek, and handsomely laid out in broad, regular streets; public buildings include a state-house, federal buildings, etc.; is the great emporium in the United States of crockery and pottery manufactures.
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An island alleged by tradition to have existed in the ocean W. of the Pillars of Hercules; Plato has given a beautiful picture of this island, and an account of its fabulous history. The New, a Utopia figured as existing somewhere in the Atlantic, which Lord Bacon began to outline but never finished.
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Een eiland beweerd door traditie te hebben bestaan in de oceaan W. van de pilaren van Hercules; Plato heeft gegeven een mooie foto van dit eiland, en een account voor zijn fantastische geschiedenis. The New, een utopie dacht als bestaande ergens in de Atlantische Oceaan, die Lord Bacon begon te schetsen maar nooit voltooid.
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Uma ilha que tradições alegam ter existido no oceano W do Pilares de Hércules; Platô deu uma bela vista da ilha, e uma descrição da sua fabulosa história. A Nova, a Utopia figura existindo em algum lugar no Atlantico, a qual Lord Bacon começou a demarcar, mas nunca terminou.
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