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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" Volume 12, Slice 2

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GLOSS, GLOSSARY GOLDBEATING GLOSSOP GOLDBERG GLOUCESTER, EARLS AND DUKES OF GOLD COAST GLOUCESTER, GILBERT DE CLARE GOLDEN GLOUCESTER, HUMPHREY GOLDEN BULL GLOUCESTER, RICHARD DE CLARE GOLDEN-EYE GLOUCESTER, ROBERT GOLDEN FLEECE GLOUCESTER, THOMAS OF WOODSTOCK GOLDEN HORDE GLO...

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3. iv. Ezra), whence this figure passes into the Gospels; and again, that

the dogma of Christ's descent into hell is directly connected with this myth. But these parallels do not carry us much further. Even the Persian myth is entirely obscure, and ha...

2. vii. 10, "tesca, aiunt sancta esse qui glossas scripserunt") and

Verrius-Festus (166^b .6, "naucum ... glossematorum ... scriptures fabae grani quod haereat in fabulo"), but it is not known to what extent Varro, for instance, used them, or re...

6. xxix. 5) is evidence of the relatively late origin of a tradition which

See DAVID; SAMUEL (BOOKS) and especially Cheyne, _Aids and Devout Study of Criticism_, pp. 80 sqq., 125 sqq. In the old Egyptian romance of _Sinuhit_ (ascribed to about 2000 B.C...

4. xvii. 85), but it should be observed that in this form it implies merely

GOLDFIELD, a town and the county-seat of Esmeralda county, Nevada, U.S.A., about 170 m. S.E. of Carson City. Pop. (1910, U.S. census) 4838. It is served by the Tonopah & Groldfi...

5. m. For the various strokes required to achieve the hitting of the ball

over the great hills, and finally putting it into the small hole, a number of different "clubs" has been devised to suit the different positions in which the ball may be found a...

1. VOLUME XII, SLICE II

GLOSS, GLOSSARY GOLDBEATING GLOSSOP GOLDBERG GLOUCESTER, EARLS AND DUKES OF GOLD COAST GLOUCESTER, GILBERT DE CLARE GOLDEN GLOUCESTER, HUMPHREY GOLDEN BULL GLOUCESTER, RICHARD D...