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The Nuttall Encyclopaedia Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the The Nuttall Encyclopaedia novel. A total of 464 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.by P. Austin Nuttall.PREFACE "The NUTTALL ENCYCLOPaeDIA&q
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.by P. Austin Nuttall.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 Encyclopaedi
- 64 BELLAY, JOACHIM DU, French poet; author of sonnets ent.i.tled "Regrets," full of vigour and poetry; wrote the "Antiquites de Rome"; was called the Apollo of the Pleiade, the best poet and the best prose-writer among them (1524-1560).BE
- 63 BELFAST (256), county town of Antrim, and largest and most flouris.h.i.+ng city in the N. of Ireland; stands on the Lagan, at the head of Belfast Lough, 100 m. N. of Dublin; is a bright and pleasant city, with some fine streets and handsome buildings, Pre
- 62 BEE, THE, a periodical started by Goldsmith, in which some of his best essays appeared, and his "Citizen of the World."BEECHER, HENRY WARD, a celebrated American preacher, born at Litchfield, Connecticut; pastor of a large Congregational church,
- 61 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, the hero and heroine of a famous fairy tale.Beauty falls in love with a being like a monster, who has, however, the heart of a man, and she marries him, upon which he is instantly transformed into a prince of handsome presence and n.
- 60 BEACHES, RAISED, elevated lands, formerly sea beaches, the result of upheaval, or left high by the recession of the sea, evidenced to be such by the sh.e.l.ls found in them and the nature of the debris.BEACHY HEAD, a chalk cliff in Suss.e.x, 575 ft. high,
- 59 BATTAS, a Malay race, native to Sumatra, now much reduced in numbers, and driven into the interior.BATTERSEA, a suburb of London, on the Surrey side of the Thames, opposite Chelsea, and connected with it by a bridge; with a park 185 acres in extent; of pl
- 58 Ba.s.sANO, DUC DE, an intriguing French diplomatist in the interest of Bonaparte, and his steadfast auxiliary to the last (1763-1839).Ba.s.sANO, JACOPO DA PONTE, an eminent Italian painter, chiefly of country scenes, though the "Nativity" at his
- 57 BARTOLOMME'O, FRA, a celebrated Florentine painter of sacred subjects, born at Florence; an adherent of Savonarola, friend of Raphael; "St. Mark" and "St. Sebastian" among his best productions (1469-1517).BARTOLOZ'ZI, FRANCES
- 56 BARReRE. See BAReRE.BARRETT, WILSON, English actor, born in Ess.e.x; made his _debut_ at Halifax; lessee of the Grand Theatre, Leeds, and of the Court and the Princess's Theatres, London; produced his Hamlet in 1884; _b_. 1846.BARRIE, JAMES MATTHEW,
- 55 BARMACIDE FEAST, an imaginary feast, so called from a story in the "Arabian Nights" of a hungry beggar invited by a Barmacide prince to a banquet, which proved a long succession of merely empty dishes, and which he enjoyed with such seeming gust
- 54 BARCELO'NA (280), the largest town in Spain next to Madrid, on the Mediterranean, and its chief port, with a naval a.r.s.enal, and its largest manufacturing town, called the "Spanish Manchester," the staple manufacture being cotton; is the
- 53 BANVILLE, THEODORE DE, a French poet, born at Moulins; well characterised as "_Roi des Rimes_," for with him form was everything, and the matter comparatively insignificant, though, there are touches here and there of both fine feeling and sharp
- 52 BANBURY, a market-town in Oxfords.h.i.+re, celebrated for its cross and its cakes.BANCA (80), an island in the Eastern Archipelago, belonging to the Dutch, with an unhealthy climate; rich in tin, worked by Chinese.BANCROFT, GEORGE, an American statesman,
- 51 BALKASH, LAKE, a lake in Siberia, 780 ft. above sea-level, the waters clear, but intensely salt, 150 m. long and 73 m. broad.BALKH, anciently called Bactria, a district of Afghan Turkestan lying between the Oxus and the Hindu-Kush, 250 m. long and 120 m.
- 50 BA'LAAM, a Midianitish soothsayer; for the account of him see Num.xxii.-xxiv., and Carlyle's essay on the "Corn-Law Rhymes" for its application to modern State councillors of the same time-serving type, and their probable fate.BALACLA&
- 49 BAHREIN' ISLANDS (70), a group of islands in the Persian Gulf, under the protection of Britain, belonging to Muscat, the largest 27 m. long and 10 broad, cap. Manamah (20); long famous for their pearl-fisheries, the richest in the world.BAHR-EL-GHAZA
- 48 BACUP (23), a manufacturing town in Lancas.h.i.+re, about 20 m. NE. of Manchester.BADAJOZ' (28), capital of a Spanish province of the name, on the Guadiana, near the frontier of Portugal; a place of great strength; surrendered to Soult in 1811, and t
- 47 BAB-EL-MANDEB (i. e. the Gate of Tears), a strait between Asia and Africa forming the entrance to the Red Sea, so called from the strong currents which rush through it, and often cause wreckage to vessels attempting to pa.s.s it.BABER, the founder of the
- 46 AYACU'CHO, a thriving town in Peru, founded by Pizarro in 1539, where the Peruvians and Colombians achieved their independence of Spain in 1824, and ended the rule of Spain in the S. American continent.AYA'LA, PEDRO LOPEZ D', a Spanish sold
- 45 AUVERGNE', an ancient province of France, united to the crown under Louis XIII. in 1610, embracing the deps. of Puy-de-Dome, Cantal, and part of Haute-Loire, the highlands of which separate the basin of the Loire from that of the Garonne, and contain
- 44 AUREOLA, a wreath of light represented as encircling the brows of the saints and martyrs.AURILLAC (14), capital of the dep. of Cantal, on the Jourdanne, affluent of the Dordogne, built round the famous abbey of St. Geraud, now in ruins.AU'ROCHS, a Ge
- 43 AU'ERBACH, BERTHOLO, a German poet and novelist of Jewish birth, born in the Black Forest; his novels, which have been widely translated, are in the main of a somewhat philosophical bent, he having been early led to the study of Spinoza, and having b
- 42 AT'TICA, a country in ancient Greece, on the NE. of the Peloponnesus, within an area not larger than that of Lanarks.h.i.+re, which has nevertheless had a history of world-wide fame and importance.ATTICISM, a pure and refined style of expression in a
- 41 ATHEISM, MODERN, ascribed by Ruskin to "the unfortunate persistence of the clergy in teaching children what they cannot understand, and in employing young consecrate persons to a.s.sert in pulpits what they do not know."ATHELNEY, ISLE OF, an isl
- 40 AS'TEROIDS, or Planetoids, small planets in orbits between those of Mars and Jupiter, surmised in 1596, all discovered in the present century, the first on Jan. 1, 1801, and named Ceres; gradually found to number more than 200.AS'TI (33), an anc
- 39 ASPHALT, a mineral pitch of a black or brownish-black colour, consisting chiefly of carbon; also a limestone impregnated with bitumen, and more or less in every quarter of the globe.ASPHALTIC LAKE, the DEAD SEA (q. v.), so called from the asphalt on its s
- 38 AS'CAPART, a giant conquered by Bevis of Southampton, though so huge as to carry Bevis, his wife, and horse under his arm.ASCENSION, a bare volcanic island in the Atlantic, rising to nearly 3000 ft., belonging to Britain, 500 m. NW. of St. Helena, an
- 37 ARTEMI'SIA, queen of Halicarna.s.sus, joined Xerxes in his invasion of Greece, and fought with valour at Salamis, 440 B.C. A. II., also queen, raised a tomb over the grave of her husband Mausolus, regarded as one of the seven wonders of the world, 35
- 36 ARNIM, COUNT, amba.s.sador of Germany, first at Rome and then at Paris; accused in the latter capacity of purloining State doc.u.ments, and sentenced to imprisonment; died in exile at Nice (1824-1881).ARNIM, LUDWIG ACHIM VON, a German poet and novelist (1
- 35 ARKWRIGHT, SIR RICHARD, born at Preston, Lancas.h.i.+re; bred to the trade of a barber; took interest in the machinery of cotton-spinning; with the help of a clockmaker, invented the spinning frame; was mobbed for threatening thereby to shorten labour and
- 34 ARGYLL, a n.o.ble family or clan of the name of Campbell, the members of which have held successively the t.i.tle of Earl, Marquis, and Duke, their first patent of n.o.bility dating from 1445, and their earldom from 1453.ARGYLL, ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, 1ST MA
- 33 ARCTU'RUS, star of the first magnitude and the chief in the N.constellation Bootes.ARDeCHE, an affluent of the Rhone, source in the Cevennes; gives name to a department traversed by the Cevennes Mountains.ARDEN, a large forest at one time in England,
- 32 ARANDA, COUNT OF, an eminent Spanish statesman, banished the Jesuits, suppressed brigandage, and curtailed the power of the Inquisition, was Prime Minister of Charles IV., and was succeeded by G.o.doy (1719-1798).ARANJU'EZ (8), a town 28 m. SE. of Ma
- 31 AQUA'RIUS, the Water-bearer, 11th sign of the Zodiac, which the sun enters Jan. 21.AQUAVIVA, a general of the Jesuits of high authority (1543-1615).A'QUILA (20), capital of the province of Abruzzo Ulteriora, on the Alterno, founded by Barbarossa
- 30 APOCRYPHA, THE, a literature of sixteen books composed by Jews, after the close of the Hebrew canon, which though without the unction of the prophetic books of the canon, are instinct, for most part, with the wisdom which rests on the fear of G.o.d and lo
- 29 ANTIS'THENES, a Greek philosopher, a disciple of Socrates, the master of Diogenes, and founder of the Cynic school; affected to disdain the pride and pomp of the world, and was the first to carry staff and wallet as the badge of philosophy, but so os
- 28 ANTHE'MIUS, the architect of the church of St. Sophia in Constantinople; _d_. 534.ANTHON, CHARLES, a well-known American cla.s.sical scholar and editor of the Cla.s.sics (1797-1867).ANTHRAX, a disease, especially in cattle, due to the invasion of a l
- 27 ANKARSTRoM, the a.s.sa.s.sin of Gustavus III. of Sweden, at a masked ball, March 15, 1792, for which he was executed after being publicly flogged on three successive days.ANKLAM (12), an old Hanse town in Pomerania, connected by railway with Stettin.ANKOB
- 26 ANGERS' (77), on the Maine, the ancient capital of Anjou, 160 m. SW.of Paris, with a fine cathedral, a theological seminary, and a medical school; birthplace of David the sculptor.ANGERSTEIN, JOHN, born in St. Petersburg, a distinguished patron of th
- 25 ANDRE, JOHN, a brave British officer, tried and hanged as a spy in the American war in 1780; a monument is erected to him in Westminster Abbey.ANDRe II., king of Hungary from 1205 to 1235, took part in the fifth crusade.ANDREA DEL SARTO. See SARTO.ANDREA
- 24 ANAXIMANDER, a Greek philosopher of Miletus, derived the universe from a material basis, indeterminate and eternal (611-547 B.C.).ANAXIM'ENES, also of Miletus, made air the first principle of things; _d_. 500 B.C.; A., of Lampsacus, preceptor and bio
- 23 AM'PHITRITE, a daughter of Ocea.n.u.s or Nereus, the wife of Neptune, mother of Triton, and G.o.ddess of the sea.AMPHIT'RYON, the king of Tiryns, and husband of Alcmene, who became by him the mother of Iphicles, and by Zeus the mother of Hercule
- 22 AMERICA, SOUTH, lies in great part within the Tropics, and consists of a high mountain range on the west, and a long plain with minor ranges extending therefrom eastward; the coast is but little indented, but the Amazon and the Plate Rivers make up for th
- 21 AMALRIC, one of the leaders in the crusade against the Albigenses, who, when his followers asked him how they were to distinguish heretics from Catholics, answered, "Kill them all; G.o.d will know His own;" _d_.1225.AMALTHE'A, the goat that
- 20 ALSA'TIA, Whitefriars, London, which at one time enjoyed the privilege of a debtors' sanctuary, and had, till abolished in 1697, become a haunt of all kinds of nefarious characters.ALSEN (25), a Danish island adjacent to Sleswig, one of the fine
- 19 ALMA, a river in the Crimea, half-way between Eupatoria and Sebastopol, where the allied English, French, and Turkish armies defeated the Russians under Prince Menschikoff, Sept. 20, 1854.ALMACK'S, a suite of a.s.sembly rooms, afterwards known as Wil
- 18 ALLARD', a French general, entered the service of Runjeet Singh at Lah.o.r.e, trained his troops in European war tactics, and served him against the Afghans; died at Peshawar (1785-1839).ALLEGHA'NY (105), a manufacturing city in Pennsylvania, on
- 17 ALGEBRA, a universal arithmetic of Arabian origin or Arabian transmission, in which symbols are employed to denote operations, and letters to represent number and quant.i.ty.ALGE'RIA, in the N. of Africa, belongs to France, stretches between Morocco
- 16 ALEXANDER NEVSKY, grand-duke of Russia, conquered the Swedes, the Danes, and the Teutonic Knights on the banks of the Neva, freed Russia from tribute to the Mongols, is one of the saints of the Russian Church.ALEXANDER OF HALES, the _Doctor irrefragabilis
- 15 AL'DERSHOT, a permanent camp, established in 1855, for instruction in military manoeuvres, on a moorland 35 m. SW. of London.ALDINE EDITIONS, editions, chiefly of the cla.s.sics, issued from the press of Aldus Manutius in Venice in the 16th century,
- 14 ALBRECHT. See ALBERT.ALBRIZZI, a powerful Florentine family, rivals of the Medicis and the Alberti.ALBUE'RA, a Spanish village 12 m. SE. of Badajoz, scene of a victory (May 16, 1811) of General Beresford over Marshal Soult.ALBUFE'RA, a lake on t
- 13 ALBA'NIA, a region in Balkan peninsula, on the Adriatic, extending from Servia to Greece.ALBANO, LAKE OF, a small crater-like lake 15 m. SE. of Rome, near which rises the Castel Gandolfo, where the Pope has a villa.ALBANY, the old Celtic name for the
- 12 AK'YAB (37), the capital of Aracan, in British Burmah, 90 m. SE. of Calcutta.AL RAKIM, the dog that guarded the SEVEN SLEEPERS (q. v.), and that stood by them all through their long sleep.ALABA'MA (1,513), one of the United States of N. America,
- 11 AINSWORTH, R., an English Latin lexicographer (1660-1743).AINSWORTH, W. H., a popular English novelist, the author of "Rookwood" and "Jack Sheppard," as well as novels of an antiquarian and historical character (1805-1882).AIN-TAB (20)
- 10 AGRIP'PA, M. VIPSANIUS, a Roman general, the son-in-law and favourite of Augustus, who distinguished himself at the battle of Actium, and built the Pantheon of Rome (63-12 B.C.).AGRIPPI'NA, the daughter of Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia, and thus t
- 9 AGESILA'US, a Spartan king, victorious over the Persians in Asia and over the allied Thebans and Athenians at Coronea, but defeated by Epaminondas at Mantinea after a campaign in Egypt; _d_. 360 B.C., aged 84.AGGAS, RALPH, a surveyor and engraver of
- 8 AESON, the father of Jason, was restored to youth by Medea.ae'SOP, a celebrated Greek fabulist of the 6th century B.C., of whose history little is known except that he was originally a slave, manumitted by Iadmon of Samos, and put to death by the Del
- 7 ADVOCATE, LORD, chief counsel for the Crown in Scotland, public prosecutor of crimes, and a member of the administration in power.ADVOCATES, FACULTY OF, body of lawyers qualified to plead at the Scottish bar.ADVOCATES' LIBRARY, a library belonging to
- 6 ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS, a high-lying, picturesque, granite range in the State of New York; source of the Hudson.ADJUTANT, a gigantic Indian stork with an enormous beak, about 5 ft.in height, which feeds on carrion and offal, and is useful in this way, as st
- 5 ADAMAS'TOR, the giant spirit of storms, which Camoens, in his "Luciad," represents as rising up before Vasco de Gama to warn him off from the Cape of Storms, henceforth called, in consequence of the resultant success in despite thereof, the
- 4 ACHaeAN LEAGUE, a confederation of 12 towns in the Peloponnesus, formed especially against the influence of the Macedonians.ACHae'ANS, the common name of the Greeks in the heroic or Homeric period.ACHAI'A, the N. district of the Peloponnesus, ev
- 3 ABSALOM, a son of David, who rebelled against his father, and at whose death David gave vent to a bitter wail of grief. A name given by Dryden to the Duke of Monmouth, son of Charles II.ABSOLUTE, THE, the philosophical name for the uncreated Creator, or c
- 2 ABEL, SIR F. A., a chemist who has made a special study of explosives; _b_. 1827.ABEL, HENRY, an able Norwegian mathematician, who died young (1802-1828).AB'ELARD, PETER, a theologian and scholastic philosopher of French birth, renowned for his diale
- 1 The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.by P. Austin Nuttall.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 Encyclopaedi