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Hayward of London's "Encyclopedia of Plants," and it was with the help of these two books that he made his first classification of the specimens which he had collected and carefully kept during the few preceding years. "It must be remembered," he says in "My Life," "that my ignorance of plants at this time was extreme.
Lawson was a perfect encyclopedia of abstruse learning; but now in this hour of our need, it turned out that he did not know any useful thing. "We consulted. He saw that the reputation of the University was in very real peril, and he walked the floor in anxiety, talking, and trying to think out some way to meet the difficulty.
"I seem to recollect her, since you mention it," he said indifferently, and then he added, "She spoke as if she might buy a copy of Jarby's Encyclopedia of Knowledge and Compendium of Literature, Science and Art when I saw her at that picnic. I guess I'll drop 'round and see if she's ready to buy. If she' goin' to be married she ought to have a copy."
He had been very diligent in looking up old records, and we must remember that, in nearly all his poems and novels, Scott was drawing upon a fund of legend, tradition, history, and poetry, which he had been gathering for forty years, and which his memory enabled him to produce at will with almost the accuracy of an encyclopedia.
Nathaniel Schmidt says, in an article in a standard encyclopedia: "The doctrine of the natural immortality of the human soul became so important a part of Christian thought that the resurrection naturally lost its vital significance, and it has practically held no place in the great systems of philosophy elaborated by the Christian thinkers of modern times."
I don't believe so many eggs is good for a man. It don't seem natural. That encyclopedia book don't say anywhere that eatin' too many eggs makes a man close fisted, does it?" Mrs. Smith said she could remember nothing to that effect in the book, and for a minute they walked in silence. Suddenly she looked up and spoke. "Miss Sally," she exclaimed, "I know what to do!
Was old Archbishop Haslam, the present man's last predecessor but four, drowned or not? BURGE-LUBIN. I don't know. Look him up in the Encyclopedia Britannica. BARNABAS. Yah! Was Archbishop Stickit, who wrote Stickit on the Psalms, drowned or not? BURGE-LUBIN. Yes, mercifully. He deserved it. BARNABAS. Was President Dickenson drowned? Was General Bullyboy drowned? BURGE-LUBIN. Who is denying it?
It was nearly all Encyclopedia, stretching away in a formidable array of volumes exactly alike, except for the tiny gold lettering across the center of the back. She lifted out one at random, the "L's," and it opened accommodatingly of its own accord, when its heaviness slid out of her grasp, to "Lepidoptera."
Frank actually did take the Encyclopedia, done up in the roll of shawls, and whenever the others wondered about anything tides, lighthouses, towns, or natural productions he brought forth one of the books and triumphantly read therefrom, to the great merriment, if not edification, of his party.
Edmund Burke In the "American Encyclopedia," a work I cheerfully recommend, will be found a statement to the effect that Edmund Burke was one of the fifteen children of his parents. Aside from the natural curiosity to know what became of the fourteen, the matter is of small moment, and that its truth or falsity should divide men is most absurd.
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