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  • Speaking of food, I had a great workout with Ency, my mother-in-love, yesterday morning at the local gym, located conveniently by the itty-bitty airport that only takes small planes belonging to the Kennedy or Forbes families.

    Island Update barbylon 2006

  • Speaking of food, I had a great workout with Ency, my mother-in-love, yesterday morning at the local gym, located conveniently by the itty-bitty airport that only takes small planes belonging to the Kennedy or Forbes families.

    Island Update barbylon 2006

  • The great Ency - clopédie (1751-72) of d'Alembert and Diderot had pioneered the project of a coordination of all knowl - edge free from theological presuppositions and rein - forced the notion of the unity of the natural and social sciences.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas WALTER SIMON 1968

  • Condorcet, though he was more aware than the Ency - clopedists of the need of accounting for the persistence of prejudices and bad institutions.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas MORRIS GINSBERG 1968

  • Voltaire's follower, Jean-François Marmon - tel, who wrote the literary articles for the great Ency - clopédie, which were collected as Eléments de littéra - ture (1787), defines “littérature” as a “knowledge of belles letters” in contrast with erudition.

    LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES REN 1968

  • Though its influ - ence on the West is uncertain, the tenth-century Ency - clopedia of the Arabic Brotherhood of Sincerity uses organic analogies at great length: the human body is compared to a city and a kingdom; the senses are to the soul as counsellors to a king, and so on.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas DAVID G. HALE 1968

  • [451] See further the same author's article "Embryology" in the _Ency.

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

  • _Vertebrate Embryology_, Oxford, 1913; A. Sedgwick, article "Embryology" in _Ency.

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

  • [61] _Ency. of History of St. Louis_, Vol. IV, p. 2076.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 Various

  • (Am. and Eng.Ency. of Law, XXIV, 330), that the terms "church" and

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

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