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共 83 题- THE NUTTALL ENCYCLOPÆDIA
- BEING
- A CONCISE AND COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARY
- OF GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
- CONSISTING OF
- WITH SUCH AS COME UNDER THE CATEGORIES
- OF
- EDITED BY THE
- REV. JAMES WOOD
- PREFACE
- 5. Races and tribes of mankind, with features that characterise them.
- 12. Characters in fiction and fable, both mediæval and modern.
- 14. Families of note, especially such as have developed into dynasties.
- NOTES.
- THE NUTTALL ENCYCLOPÆDIA
- AGUE-CHEEK, SIR ANDREW, a silly squire i
- ANDALUSIA (3,370), a region in the S. of
- ASHBURTON, ALEXANDER BARING, LORD, secon
- BALMAWHAPPLE, a prejudiced Scotch clergyman in "Waverley."
- BAR`NARDINE, a reckless character in "Measure for Measure."
- BASSANIO, the lover of Portia in the "Merchant of Venice."
- BELINDA, ARABELLA FERMOR, the heroine in Pope's "Rape of the Lock."
- BIRON, a madcap lord in "Love's Labour's Lost."
- BLIMBER, MRS. CORNELIA, a prim school-matron in "Dombey & Son."
- BOEUF, FRONT DE, a character in "Ivanhoe."
- BOWLING, TOM, a typical British sailor in "Roderick Random."
- BRICK, JEFFERSON, an American politician in "Martin Chuzzlewit."
- BRIDGENORTH, MAJOR RALPH, a Roundhead in "Peveril of the Peak."
- BRIDGET, MRS., a character in "Tristram Shandy."
- BRUIN, the bear personified in the German epic of "Reynard the Fox."
- BUMBLE, MR., a beadle in "Oliver Twist."
- CANDOUR, MRS., a slanderess in Sheridan's "Rivals."
- CASTLEWOOD, the heroine in Thackeray's "Esmond."
- CHADBAND, REV. MR., a character in "Bleak House."
- CLÄRCHEN, a female character in Goethe's "Egmont."
- COLIN CLOUT, the name Spenser assumes in the "Shepherd's Calendar."
- CREAKLE, MR., a bullying schoolmaster in "David Copperfield."
- DALGARNO, LORD, a heartless profligate in the "Fortunes of Nigel."
- DANDIE DINMONT, a humorous, jovial store
- DES MOINES (62), the largest city in Iow
- DORINE, a petulant domestic in Molière's "Tartuffe."
- DOUSTER-SWIVEL, a German swindling schemer in the "Antiquary."
- EDIE OCHILTREE, a character in Scott's "
- EPICUREANS, a sect of philosophers who d
- FAINEANT, LE NOIR, Richard Coeur-de-Lion in "Ivanhoe."
- FAIRSERVICE, ANDREW, a shrewd gardener in "Rob Roy."
- FLEURANT, MONSIEUR, a character in Moliè
- GALWAY (215), a maritime county in the W
- GODWIN, WILLIAM, a political writer and
- GULF STREAM, the most important of the g
- HEADRIGG, CUDDIE (i. e. Cuthbert), a ploughman in "Old Mortality."
- HONEYCOMB, WILL, a jaunty member of the "Spectator Club."
- HORATII. See CURIATII
- HROLF, ROLLO, DUKE OF NORMANDY (q. v.)
- ISAC OF YORK, the father of Rebecca in "
- JOSS, a Chinese god or his idol.
- KUEN-LUN, N. of Thibet, a great snow-cla
- LEYDEN, JOHN OF, leader of the Anabaptis
- M'IVOR, FLORA, the heroine in Scott's "Waverley."
- MACTURK, CAPTAIN HECTOR, "the man of peace" in "St. Ronan's Well."
- MASTER HUMPHREY, a character in Dickens'
- MILL, JAMES, economist, born in Logie Pe
- MUCKLEBACKIT, SAUNDERS, an old fisherman in Scott's "Antiquary."
- MUCKLEWRATH, a fanatic preacher in Scott
- NEWTON, THOMAS, English divine; edited M
- OLIFAUNT, NIGEL, the hero in Scott's "Fo
- PALINGENESIA, name equivalent to "new bi
- PEEBLES, PETER, a character in Scott's "
- PHARISEES (i. e. Separatists), a sect of
- PLEYDELL, MR. PAULUS, a shrewd lawyer in Scott's "Guy Mannering."
- PRIMROSE, the name of a family in Goldsm
- REASON, in German _Vernunft_, defined by
- RONSARD, PIERRE, celebrated French poet,
- SAMPSON, DOMINIE, a character in Scott's
- SCUDÉRY, MADELEINE DE, French novelist,
- SHYLOCK, the Jew in Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice."
- SLOP, DOCTOR, a choleric physician in "T
- STEUBEN, BARON VON, general in the Ameri
- TAIT, ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, archbishop of
- TIBERT, SIR, the cat in "Reynard the Fox."
- TRIM, CORPORAL, Uncle Toby's attendant i
- VICENZA (27), a town in the NE. of Italy
- WIFE OF BATH, one of the pilgrims in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales."