Most of these little letter groupings pop up in academia like prairie dogs across the plains, in journals, dissertations and encyclopedias (or "encyclopaedias" - more on that later). ❋ Unknown (2009)
German literature between 1640 and 1740 only indicates a knowledge on the part of German readers either of Dryden's criticisms or of the accounts of him printed in English encyclopaedias. ❋ Sidney Lee (1892)
Workers at one charity shop in Swansea, in south Wales, described how the most vulnerable shoppers were seeking out thick books such as encyclopaedias for a few pence because they were cheaper than coal. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I suggest putting a period after "encyclopaedias" and a capital "i" on "in", and putting the final period after "please" inside the parentheses, although if that makes it sound less funny I think you can leave it as it is. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Together we wrote more than 60 reference books and encyclopaedias, which have been published in more than 80 countries. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I worked on encyclopaedias, history books, game books and even a children's Bible. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The bookshelves held not only his old textbooks but also the newer paediatric encyclopaedias to which he had contributed articles on scarlatina — the subject of a postgraduate fellowship, as Klara had reminded him. ❋ Erika Dreifus (2010)
Perhaps they read the book at school, or saw the film with Gary Cooper; perhaps they just read the synopsis on Wikipedia, or in those encyclopaedias you had when you were a kid. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I doubt whether there exists a single great work of literature which we would not possess had the author been unable to obtain an exclusive copyright for it; it seems to me that the case for copyright must rest almost entirely on the circumstance that such exceedingly useful works as encyclopaedias, dictionaries, textbooks and other works of reference could not be produced if, once they existed, they could freely be reproduced. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Altogether more resonant was The Lost Chord, devised by Tim Hopkins, in which the audience was seated around a Victorian dining table while songs from the period? notably iconic pieces by Sullivan and Balfe? were sung, interspersed with readings from Bulwer-Lytton, Tennyson andvarious 19th-century encyclopaedias. ❋ Unknown (2010)
When I was a small boy all the encyclopaedias were full of amazing stuff like this. ❋ Unknown (2010)
(I you think that I'm over the top, just look at where targeted kids encyclopaedias on the web (kids net au )What chances have people have, when the individuals try to manipulate others who know no better.) ❋ Unknown (2010)
To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to utilize all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. ❋ Unknown (2010)
However, the energy that went into writing verse encyclopaedias seems to have been diverted into the production of what are often called 'encyclopaedic texts': works that contain passages of the kinds of material found in encyclopaedias but whose overall frame clearly belongs in another genre. ❋ Nicola Masciandaro (2009)
This talk reflects on this fall from the systematic character of verse encyclopaedias into the partiality of encyclopaedic verse, and includes discussion of works by Christine de Pizan, Froissart, and Chartier. ❋ Nicola Masciandaro (2009)
I would say learning to read from the printed labels on jam jars and discarded encyclopaedias was not uncommon. ❋ Unknown (2007)
