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Mackenzie, Kenneth R(obert) H(enderson)(1833-1886)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...He was author of the Royal Masonic Cyclopaedia (1877) and also planned a work called...1875 while preparing his Royal Masonic Cyclopaedia. In subsequent years, he seems to...Mackenzie, Kenneth. Royal Masonic Cyclopaedia. 1877. Reprint, New York: Sterling...
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Duyckinck, Evert Augustus
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...Melville, and were instrumental in the first publication of many writers. The brothers continued their collaboration in the Cyclopaedia of American Literature (1855, revised 1866), the most comprehensive scholarly work of its kind at that date. Although...
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Ripley, George
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...interest in reform, edited such works as A Handbook of Literature on the Fine Arts (1852) with Bayard Taylor and New American Cyclopaedia (16 vols., 1858–63) with C.A. Dana, and made trips to Europe (1866, 1869–70), where he...
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Mackintosh, Sir James
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...Progress of Ethical Philosophy (1830) and wrote the first three volumes of a History of England (1830–1) for Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia , as well as an unfinished History of the Revolution in England in 1688 (1834).
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George Ripley
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...influential arbiters of American taste. He helped found and edited Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1850) and the New American Cyclopaedia (1858-1863). His wife died in 1861, and 4 years later he married Louisa Schlossberger. Ripley died on July 4, 1880...
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Benjamin, Park
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...From 1872 to 1878, Benjamin was associate editor of the Scientific American and became editor-in-chief of Appleton's Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics in 1893. Benjamin wrote The United States Naval Academy (1900) and numerous essays and naval articles...
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John Lindley
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...professor of botany at the Univ. of London (later University College). Lindley wrote the botanical articles for the Penny Cyclopaedia and a major portion of those in Loudon's Encyclopaedia of Plants. He also wrote The Fossil Flora of Great Britain (with...
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Chambers, Ephraim
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Chambers, Ephraim (d. 1740), published his Cyclopaedia , the first true English encyclopaedia (which has no connection with the current Chambers's Encyclopaedia ) in 1728.
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Thirlwall, Connop
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...x2018;The Irony of Sophocles’. His main work was the History of Greece (1835–44, for Lardner's Cyclopaedia , rev. 1847–52). He supported the admission of Jews to Parliament, the disestablishment of the Irish Church...
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Watts-Dunton, (Walter) Theodore
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...Familiar Faces (1916), and an essay, ‘The Renascence of Wonder in English Poetry’ (in Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature , Vol. iii, 1901), in which he strongly defends the Romantic movement. He is probably best remembered...
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