So comprehensive a notion of zoology displays a mind accustomed to encyclopedic systems, and loving the labours of learning for their own sake.
Misunderstood popular knowledge, confounding cosmography with a mere encyclopedic enumeration of natural sciences.
This science of the Cosmos is not, however, to be regarded as a mere encyclopedic aggregation of the most important and general results that have been collected together from special branches of knowledge.
In Stanford's "Compendium" the purpose is to treat man and nature in their relation to one another, but the relationships are not clearly brought out, and there is too much emphasis on purely descriptive and encyclopedic matter.
Its two large volumes are arranged in encyclopedic form.
But their broad humanist scope, their encyclopedic outlook, makes his lectures on The Beginnings of Opera frescoes of whilom civilizations.
The encyclopedic picture of the world, the deliberate comprehensiveness of the design, necessitated the forcible introduction of many elements which transcended the powers of harmonious composition.
In the present state of things, with the exigencies of the reign, and even in the interests of the young themselves, it is essential that superior instruction should be neither encyclopedic nor very profound.
Should they, for instance, model themselves on the broad shrewdness and alluring scholarly mellowness of James Russell Lowell or on the untiring encyclopedic exactitude and minuteness of Von Helmholz?
Dexter's encyclopedic book on History of Education in the United States, may profitably serve as texts.
The Ethnologue: Languages of the World", anencyclopedic reference work freely available on the web since 1996, with a print book for sale.
Other ancient encyclopedic works were those of Stobaeus and Suidas, and especially of Marcianus Capella.
Varro and Pliny the elder, among the Romans, attempted works of an encyclopedic nature, the latter in his well-known Historia Naturalis, or Natural History.
In the seventeenth century various encyclopedic works were compiled, such as the Latin one of Johann Heinrich Alsted (in 7 vols.
I was interested in leprosy, and upon that, as upon every other island subject, Kersdale had encyclopedic knowledge.
Also, he gave business advice to his sons-in-law, preached the virtues of temperate living and safe investments, and gave them the benefit of his encyclopedic knowledge of industrial and business conditions in Hawaii.
He cites the encyclopedic Georgi and such standard catalogues of rare books as Clement and Freytag, although he does not know the last and largest edition of Johannes Vogt, Catalogus librorum rariorum.
For example, the Spaniard Pedro de Alva y Astorga, the author of several very rare encyclopedic works, which were published at Madrid and Louvain, drew upon it, and the Italian Antonio Possevino quoted it in his Apparatus sacer.
Besides Hartlib's preface it contained a treatise by the great educator on a Seminary of Christian Pansophy, a method of imparting an encyclopedic knowledge of the sciences and arts.
The encyclopedic character of the Etymologies may best be realized by a general view of its contents.
We have striven earnestly to make these encyclopedic articles historically correct, and to this end have carefully compared them with the most eminent authorities.
The encyclopedic summaries, in which the science of the Middle Ages and the Reformation period took form, furnish abundant proofs of this.
As to encyclopedic summaries, see Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum Naturale, and the various editions of Reisch's Margarita Philosophica.
They were encyclopedic in intellect and gathered all kinds of information without discrimination, is a very common criticism of medieval writers.
Besides these, in the ninth century Monte Cassino comes into prominence as an institution where much was done of what we would now callencyclopedic work.
The three distinguished and devoted scholars did much to save Greek culture at a time when its extinction was threatened, and Boëthius particularly left a series of writings that are truly encyclopedic in character.
These manifold tendencies were united in the literary activity of Manasseh ben Israel, a scholar of extensive, though not intensive, encyclopedic attainments.
He was an encyclopedic thinker, a representative of the highest Jewish culture and of Arabic culture as well--he wrote his works in Arabic by preference.
It would have been completed at this time but for the fact that in addition to making the Index simply an index to the various messages and other papers I have added to it the encyclopedic feature.
There will therefore be found in the Index, in alphabetical order, a large number of encyclopedic definitions of words and phrases used by the Chief Executives, and of other politico-historical subjects.
Vincent of Beauvais was not the only one to occupy himself with work of an encyclopedic character during the thirteenth century.
Here too the decisive fact was this, that antiquarian matter of every kind had meantime begun to be deposited in encyclopedic works (now printed), and no longer stood in the way of the essayist.
