Encyclopaedia Britannica

A pensée according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica is a thought expressed in literary form.

Archive 2009-02-01 David Hadley 2009

A pensée according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica is a thought expressed in literary form.

Pensée: Introduction David Hadley 2009

"Encyclopaedia Britannica" was presented to Robert Moffat, and at

Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman David J. Deane

Besides that valuable work known among mortals as the "Encyclopaedia Britannica," but usually cited by Mr. Wilson, in an off-hand and familiar way, as

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Various

The club, when fresh from the "Encyclopaedia Britannica," the "Reader's Handbook" or Smith's "Classical Dictionary," could deal confidently with any subject; but when taken unawares it had been known to define agnosticism as a heresy of the Early Church and Professor Froude as a distinguished histologist; and such minor members as Mrs. Leveret still secretly regarded ethics as something vaguely pagan.

Xingu 1911

Smith's Biblical articles in the "Encyclopaedia Britannica," he said to himself that they were of a piece with the rest, and that such things were to be expected in those modern days, and that matters must have come to a pretty pass when even the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" was infected.

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

The club, when fresh from the "Encyclopaedia Britannica," the "Reader's Handbook" or Smith's

Xingu 1916 Edith Wharton 1899

The club, when fresh from the "Encyclopaedia Britannica," the "Reader's Handbook" or Smith's

The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 2 Edith Wharton 1899

This senseless hero-worship, which reached idolatry in the superlatives of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" and elsewhere in England, was certain to provoke reaction, and the reaction has come to vigorous expression in Tolstoi, who finds nothing to praise in any of

The Man Shakespeare Frank Harris 1893

Theodore Watts ( "Encyclopaedia Britannica," article "Rossetti") says that "the purely romantic temper was with Rossetti a more permanent and even a more natural temper than with any other nineteenth-century poet, even including the author of 'Christabel' himself."

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886