As Robert Douglas-Fairhurst notes in the superb introduction to this volume of selections, "London Labour and the London Poor" was "originally advertised as a 'cyclopaedia' of street life, implying that the finished work would be a compendium of facts for dipping into rather than a book to be read from cover to cover, and it certainly lived up to its billing. From Wordnik.com. [Sociology most Dickensian] Reference
He had read vastly; his memory was a literary cyclopaedia. From Wordnik.com. [New Grub Street] Reference
Guy's pocket cyclopaedia: Or Miscellany of useful knowledge, from the best authorities: designed for senior scholars in schools, by Joseph Guy. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Cheney to FBI: No idea who leaked Plame's identity] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859] Reference
The sharp Bohemian, by playing at all trades, brushing against gentry of all sorts and scouring all neighborhoods, becomes at length a living cyclopaedia. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861] Reference
Sometimes, too, a public-spirited citizen, when advised of the lack of a good cyclopaedia, or of the latest extensive dictionary, or collective biography, in the library, will be happy to supply it, thereby winning the gratitude and good will of all who frequent the library. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
For the time being I lived in a world of facts and figures, breathing nothing but dates and exuding mathematical and other data at almost every pore; so that, by the end of the month I felt myself transformed into a sort of portable human cyclopaedia, containing a heterogeneous mass of information of all kinds, as superficial as it was varied. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
English reader is a few cyclopaedia and magazine articles. From Wordnik.com. [The Theology of Schleiermacher: A Condensed Presentation of His Chief Work, "The Christian Faith"] Reference
In the oldest existing cyclopaedia — the Natural History of. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion] Reference
Roderick E. McGrew, '' E.cyclopaedia of Medical Care '', p. 135. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
If any man wishes to be well informed, let him work on a cyclopaedia. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs] Reference
We have few books excepting Rees's cyclopaedia, and they are kept in a glazed case. From Wordnik.com. [More Pages from a Journal] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Walden] Reference
Day, the matchless orator, who never used a scrap of paper, not even to verify historical facts and dates; he, himself, being a veritable cyclopaedia of facts. From Wordnik.com. [Unwritten History] Reference
In the oldest existing cyclopaedia-the Natural History of Pliny-the list of dangers apprehended from menstruation is longer than any furnished by mere barbarians. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Paul Bourget] Reference
If the hive simply got together and buzzed, or even brought unrefined treacle from some cyclopaedia, let us say, of treacle, there would be no honey added to the general store. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
The heart of a Frenchman palpitates on finding tbeworksof Racine, of Montefquieu, and the En - cyclopaedia, where, one hundred and fifty years ago, arofe the fmoke of the favage calumet. From Wordnik.com. [Historical account of the most celebrated voyages, travels, and discoveries, from the time of ...] Reference
The moment they reached the castle, the laird went to his room -- to the closet where his few books lay, and got out a volume of an old cyclopaedia, where he read all he could find about gold. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock o' Glenwarlock] Reference
&c. shall be commented upon in that part of the cyclopaedia of arts and sciences, where the instrumental parts of the eloquence of the senate, the pulpit, and the bar, the coffee-house, the bed-chamber, and fire-side, fall under consideration. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference
Spectrum analysis detected the adulteration of valuable compounds; the photographer recorded the exact action of the trotting horse; the telephone might convey orders from one end of an estate to the other; and thus you might go through the whole alphabet, the whole cyclopaedia of science, and apply every single branch to agriculture. From Wordnik.com. [Hodge and His Masters] Reference
↑ Roderick E. McGrew, E.cyclopaedia of Medical Care, p. 135. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
An astonishing woman that; a cyclopaedia of the day’s small talk. From Wordnik.com. [New Grub Street] Reference
What d'you think I am -- a walking 'cyclopaedia? "broke in Bob indignantly. From Wordnik.com. [The Pirate Shark] Reference
In attempting such a task, it must be recognised that during the last three years the attention of so many minds has been devoted to problems of "reconstruction" after the War, so much has been written and said about them, so many suggestions made and schemes propounded, so many commissions of inquiry appointed and reports prepared, that an attempt at full treatment of the questions involved would require a cyclopaedia rather than a small volume. From Wordnik.com. [Rebuilding Britain A Survey Of Problems Of Reconstruction After The World War] Reference
He played well both at chess and backgammon; he was an extraordinary accountant; he had a variety of information upon all points that rendered him more convenient than any cyclopaedia in Sir Miles's library; and as he spoke both English and Italian with a correctness and fluency extremely rare in a Frenchman, he was of considerable service in teaching languages to, as well as directing the general literary education of, Sir Miles's favourite niece, whom we shall take an early opportunity to describe at length. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia — Complete] Reference
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