Cyclopædia
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ARMShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMS
to distinguish them in armies, and to serve as ornaments of shields and ensigns; but these marks were used arbitrarily as devices, emblems, hieroglyphics, etc., and were not regular armories, like ours, which are hereditary marks of the nobility of a...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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Heraldryhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry
Metals, Points, &c. Bore on Escutcheon, Shield, &c. Accompanied with Supporters, Helmet, Cresl, Mantling, Motto, &c. Device, Emblem, Rebus, Enigma, &c. And described by Blazon.
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THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface
there stood before them; with the awful Rites of Invocation; accompanied with furious Gesticulations, Dancings, and all the Devices that could be thought of, to unhinge the natural Sense, and Reason, which we find is but frail and precarious at best,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
Metals, Points, &c. Bore on Escutcheon, Shield, &c. Accompanied with Supporters, Helmet, Cresl, Mantling, Motto, &c. Device, Emblem, Rebus, Enigma, &c. And described by Blazon. 47 POETRY, including the Consideration of VERSE ; its Measure, Feet,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ARGONAUTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ARGONAUTS
Century. See ORDER and KNIGHT. They wore a Collar of Shells, enclosed in a Silver Crescent, whence hung a Ship with this Device, Nox credo Tempori, I don't trust Time. Hence these Argonaut-Knights came to be called Knights of the Shell. They received...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology