These encyclopedias are pervaded by a tone of literary scholarship.
The branch of pagan Latin literature which throws most light on the character of Isidore’s Etymologies is the succession of encyclopedias which constituted so conspicuous a feature of literary history under the Empire.
As illustrating the character of the encyclopedias it is worth while to notice more fully the method by which they were produced.
In fact, the encyclopedias furnished to the church fathers secular knowledge in a particularly convenient and unobjectionable form.
Hence, the reader will find, in none of the great encyclopedias prepared under the supervision of scientific men, the slightest mention whatever of "Life" as a subject worthy of consideration at their hands.
This material is, moreover, kept up to date, something that is not so easy to accomplish with bound sets of encyclopedias or even with the telephone book.
He announced, "Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready-made with a mesh of associative trails running through them.
There is one of these encyclopedias which, because it was written in my favorite thirteenth century, I have read with some care.
No doubt the great encyclopedias of the time satisfied scholarly demands so well that men did not perceive the place that a bibliography of bibliographies might fill.
Kruenitz and Zedler, who wrote vastencyclopedias almost two centuries ago.
There is, for example, a very interesting chapter onencyclopedias (pp.
Even this task was useful, however, for their encyclopedias preserved much information which otherwise would have been lost.
Arab scholars compiled encyclopedias describing foreign countries and peoples, constructed celestial spheres, and measured closely the arc of the meridian in order to calculate the size of the earth.
He's like one of those awful encyclopedias that give you a sort of dull leaden feeling in your head directly you open them.
Encyclopedias and other reference works also present many strange words and difficult paragraphs that children cannot stop to examine with care.
His name was Fourreau, and one looks in vain for his name in the biographical dictionaries or encyclopedias of artists.
The musical encyclopedias will tell you that Signor Ghislanzoni is the author of the libretto, and that the khedive applied to Signor Verdi for an opera on an Egyptian subject.
Petty wanted trade encyclopedias prepared, and hoped for inventions in abundance.
You will find it set down in most of the encyclopedias that she was his cousin, but this seems to be because writers of encyclopedias are literalists, and lovers are poets.
Barring the set ofencyclopedias on metal plates, everything else could be replaced with sufficient labor.
In Van's set of encyclopediashe found a fairly large celestial map and thorough astronomic data.
None of the several encyclopediastreated them collectively under either Italy or Art.
The topic Grasses is manifestly unfit for children, since grasses are difficult to study, and the description of them in encyclopedias and botanies is too technical.
And in the process, and as its result, have come two rewards that no thumbing of dictionaries of biography, and manuals of mythology, and encyclopedias of illustrations, could ever give.
Now don't rake up from your encyclopedias the story of St. Christopher, beautiful as it is, and try to twist it into an illustration of the text.
Father Marshall, as he wiped his spectacles and bent, beaming, over the encyclopedias or rested his gray head back against the cushions!
The next morning was spent by Dorothy at the library searching through encyclopediasand making full notes.
A large part of the day was spent by Dorothy at the public library ransacking the encyclopedias searching for something about the Baptists.
Dorothy spoke up promptly: "I was reading in the library yesterday in some of the encyclopedias about baptism and I copied something about that very point you mentioned.
The topic Grasses is manifestly unfit for children, since grasses are difficult to study, and the description of them in encyclopedias and botanies is too technical.
None of the several encyclopedias treated them collectively under either Italy or Art.
In the upper grade rooms, and particularly in the high school, comes the use of the encyclopedias and reference books.
It's strange that the encyclopedias give so little information on the subject of the diving-rod.
Indeed, a set of encyclopedias of ancient vintage found lodgment along the baseboard on the floor.
They are using encyclopedias more wisely than they used to.
For progressive business men such works are vastly more important than encyclopedias, important as encyclopedias of all kinds are.
And when we talked about the real use of encyclopedias and bibliographies, how the encyclopedia simply gave you a certain amount of definite information and often led to more important things, they began using those bibliographies.
Teachers used to send scholars to encyclopediasfor everything.
Of this our modern encyclopedias are the best proof.
Encyclopedias are the growth of the last hundred years; not because those who were formerly students of higher learning have descended, but because those who were below encyclopaedias have ascended.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "encyclopedias" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
