Excerpt from Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia, Vol. 7 of 8 Ral'lidm Mod. Lat., named from Ral ltw, the ty ical genus. From t e Fr. Mile, rail. Sec rail]: a family of irds includin the rails and gallinules. The neck is moderately elongatei the head rather small; the bill more or less elongated, compressed, and With the culmen advancing to a greater or less extent upon the forehead and decurved to ward the apex; the nostrils are lateral, rather inferior, and in a membranous groove; the Wings moderate and rounded, rather short; the tail rather short, inclined upward, and rounded; the tarsi rather lens and slender, and in front covered with transverse scutcl in; the toes three in front, and well developed, the hinder comparatively short and rather elevated; the claws curved and sharp. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Johnson's Universal Cyclopædia, Vol. 7 of 8 Ralph, james: poet and pamphleteer; b. In Philadelphia, Pa., about 1698; became a schoolmaster in his native city, where he made some pretensions to literary ability; was an early friend of Benjamin Franklin, with whom he sailed for England 1724, abandoning his wife and child; published in 1728 a poem entitled Night, which was sufficiently bad to merit notice by Pope in the Dunciad; sought favor with the Whig politicians by writing pam blets and plays; was pa tronized by Frederick, Prince of ales, and received a pen sion on the accession of George III. D. At Chiswick, Jan. 24, 1762. Author of Zeama, a poem (1729) The Use and Abuse of Parliaments (2 vols, History of England (2 vols. Folio, 1744 and The Case of Authors by Pro fes sion or Trade Stated Revised by H. A. Beers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Johnson's Universal Cyclopædia, Vol. 3 of 8 The values of most of the signs used in the above Key are plainly shown by the examples given. But those of 6, II, ch, Ich, fl, and v, which have no equivalents in English, can not be suficiently indicated without a brief explanation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Johnson's New Universal Cyclopædia, Vol. 1: A Scientific and Popular Treasury of Useful Knowledge; Part I, A-Cavalier When a new book of general reference is presented for the first time to the public, it becomes its originators to state the reasons which have induced them to undertake the labor of its preparation, and to explain the principles which have guided them in the performance of their task. There are many encyclopaedias already in existence, from the merits of which the present Editors are by no means disposed to detract. They, like most men whose lives are given to study, have made much use of works of this description, and have learned by experience to appreciate their value. But the same experience has taught them that there are certain particulars in which all the works of this class with which they are acquainted are more or less unsatisfactory. In explanation of what is here meant, it must be premised that no cyclopaedia, however it may be named, can be, in the strictest sense, universal, and that therefore every such work must sometimes fail to respond to the demands of the inquirer. The misfortune is, that the particulars as to which these works are thus occasionally disappointing are too often precisely those on which information is most frequently needed in the ordinary affairs of life. In statistics, for example, they deal much in aggregates and little in details. In geography they are full upon countries, and provinces, and capitals, and populous cities; but whatever lies beyond this they leave to the gazetteers. And while, as to the men whose names have come down to us from other times, the information they furnish leaves little to desire, in regard to those who have made themselves conspicuous among the living gen cration, they are either silent, or their notices are imperfect and few. But, in the second place, the information which these works contain is often scattered through too large a space: facts of detail, of which the need is immediate and pressing, are So submerged beneath the multitude of words that the hurried inquirer finds his time and his patience alike too limited to permit him to study them out. The works of this class which have cost their editors the largest labor and their publishers the largest outlay - such, for instance, as the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana and the Encyclopaedia Britan nica - have, as a necessary consequence of their ambitious design, and in virtue of the very pains expended in carrying this faithfully out, sacrificed to a great degree their every day usefulness. For quiet perusal, with abundance of leisure, they are invaluable; but they are libraries rather than books of reference. They are in no proper sense dict-ion aries, but groups of systematic treatises loosely linked together; and though their general titles are arranged in alphabetic order, they can only be conveniently consulted for the purposes of occasional reference by the aid of an independent index. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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