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  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    from Plato; yet clearly agrees with him in making Poetry a Species of it. Nay, the most reserved of all the ancient Critics, Longinus, declares, that "the Poet is possessed with a kind of Enthusiasm; that he believes he really sees what he speaks; and...

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    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction

  • CRITICISMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/CRITICISM

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • CRITICAL Dayshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/CRITICAL-Days

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ARISTARCHUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARISTARCHUS

    its original Greek, signifies, good Prince; but in its ordinary Use among the Learned, is understood of a very severe Critic; there having been a Grammarian of that Name, who criticized on the Verses of the very best Poets. See CRITIC and CRITICISM....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ARKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ARK

    several Species of Animals, from the Deluge. See DELUGE. The Ark has afforded several Points of curious Enquiry among the Critics and Naturalists, relating to its Form, Capacity, Materials, Time of Building, etc. Noah is computed to have been an hundred...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Geometry

  • AFFIRMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFIRMATION

    or love. In the primitive days, they were held without scandal, or offence; but in later times, the heathens began to criticize them for impurity. This led to a reformation of these Agapes. The Kiss of Charity, with which the ceremony had ended, was no...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ATAXYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATAXY

    Ataxia, a want of order or regularity—The term is chiefly used in medicine, where the order of the critical days, or other phenomena of a disease, is inverted. See CRITICAL. The physicians have frequent recourse to an Ataxy or irregularity of the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION

    chapters, Of Real Action, the recitals whereof are fables: and of Feigned Action, the recitals whereof are historical. The critics lay down four qualifications as necessary to the epic and the tragic action: The first, Unity; the second, Integrity; the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Physics

  • ARThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ART

    as Agriculture, Chemistry, Anatomy, etc. Metaphysical, as Logics, pure Mathematics, etc. Philological, as Grammar, Criticism, etc. Mercantile, to which belong the Mechanical Arts and Manufactures. See each in its Place. Arts are more popularly divided...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANIMADVERSIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMADVERSION

    or Observations made on a Book, etc.,and sometimes, a serious Consideration and Reflection on any Subject, by way of Criticism. The Word is formed of the Latin animadvertere, to animadvert: of animus, the Mind; and adverto, I turn to, or toward....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ACCENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCENT

    is erroneous;there having been a Hebrew Grammar composed by R. Saadias Gaon, many Years before R. Judah. In M. Simon's Critical History of the Old Testament, we have a Catalogue of Hebrew Grammars; at the Head of which is this of R. Saadias: M. Simon,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AQUAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/hydrology/AQUA

    and GEM. It is found along the Sea-Coasts; and is said to vie with the Amethyst in hardness. See AMETHYST. Some of the Critics contend for its being the sixth Stone in the Rationale of the Jewish High Priest; called, in the Hebrew, Tarshish; and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Hydrology

  • ANATHEMAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANATHEMA

    is confirmed by Hesychius, who explains Anathema by Ornaments; these Gifts being hung up as Ornaments in the Temples. The Critics and Commentators are divided about the manner wherein St. Paul wishes to be Anathema for his Brethren, Romans, Cap. IX. 3....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALABASTERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ALABASTER

    it. The Alabaster Box of precious Ointment, mentioned in St. Matthew XXVI. 7, Mark XIV. 3, and Luke VII. 37, has given the Critics and Interpreters some Pain.—To suppose it a Vase of Alabaster, does not seem consistent with its breaking so easily, as is...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • ADAMITEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADAMITES

    former only took off their clothes in their assemblies. There are mentions of Adamites in England. See PRE-ADAMITES. The critics explain the name Adam, אדם from whence these terms arise, variously; some by Earth. Some of the Greek interpreters explain...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ACHILLEIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACHILLEIS

    of the Heroic or Epic Kind; but extremely faulty in the Plan, or Fable. See FABLE, &c. 'Tis a Point controverted among the Critics, whether the whole Life of a Hero, e.g. of Achilles, be a proper subject Matter of an Epic Poem. See EPIC, and HEROIC....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANNOTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNOTATION

    or Writing; in order to clear up some Passage, or to draw some Induction or Consequence from it. See COMMENTARY, etc. The Critics of the last Age have made learned Annotations on the Scriptures; the Classics, etc. The Word is formed of the Latin...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ASIDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASIDE

    which otherwise did not appear, and which is to be concealed from the rest of the Actors then present. The severer Critics condemn all Asides; and with some Reason; as they are a manifest Breach of Probability.—Accordingly, they are never to be used but...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANTIPODEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTIPODES

    theirs) is to contradict Scripture, which teaches that the whole Race descended from one Man—Such is the Sentiment of that Critic. It may be added, that the Christian Fathers were not the only Persons who disputed the Truth of Antipodes. Lucretius had...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Geography
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