Identifier: americanaunivers03newy (find matches)
Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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y great length, inwhich the poet, in strains that remind the readerof Thanatopsis, reviews the life of man as theridge of a wave ever hurrying on to oblivionthe forms that appear on its surface but for amoment, concluding, however, with the expres-sion of a confident hope in the future of man-kind, even though the present is most dark anddrear. At the time of his death he was engaged,in conjunction with Sydney Howard Gay, on apopular history of the United States, the firstvolume of which appeared in 1876. Bryaxis, Greek sculptor: flourished in the4th century B.C. He cast a statue in bronze ofSeleucus. king of Syria, and assisted in adorn-ing the mausoleum with bas-reliefs. He alsoexecuted five gigantic statues at Rhodes, a statueof Pasiphaa;. and other works. According toClemens Alexandrinus, two of his statues wereattributed by some to the celebrated Phidias. Bryce, George, Canadian clergyman andeducator: b. Mount Pleasant, Ontario. 22 April1844. He was graduated at the University of
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WILLIAM CULLEX BRYANT. BRYCE —BRZESC LITEWSKI Toronto in 1867, and was ordained to the Pres-byterian ministry in 1871. His great work wasthe foundation of Manitoba College and inassisting the foundation of Manitoba University.He has written: Manitoba, Its Infancy, Growth,and Present Condition* (1882); <A Short His-tory of the Canadian People* (1886) ; and Can-ada and the Northwest* (1887). Bryce, James, British historian and politi-cian: b. Belfast. 10 May 18,^8. His father, JamesBryce, LL.D., was a Scotchman, well known as adistinguished teacher and geologist, and a masterin the high school of Glasgow from 1846 to 1874.He received his early education at the highschool and University of Glasgow, and latterlyat Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduatedB.A. with a double first-class in 1862, being inthe same year elected a Fellow of Oriel Col-lege. In 1867 he became a barrister of LincolnsInn. From 1870 till his resignation in 1893, hewas regius professor of civil law at Oxford.

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