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trans-continental routes and traffic. For example the article EUROPE has
a table in which the 19 chief avenues of trade are analyzed, showing the
direct distance, the distance by sea and the distance by rail from point
to point; another table comparing railroad developments in the various
parts of Europe, and also an account of the contour of Europe from the
railroad man’s point of view, discussing the mountain ranges pierced by
tunnels and the passes over which lines have been carried wholly or
largely in the open.
[Sidenote: Six Classes of Articles]
Chapters
1. Chapter 1
2. INTRODUCTION
3. Part 1 contains 30 chapters, each designed for readers engaged in, or
4. Part 2 contains 30 chapters, each devoted to a course of systematic
5. Part 3 is devoted to the interests of children. The first of its
6. Part 4 suggests readings on questions of the day which relate to
7. Part 5, especially for women, deals with their legal and political
8. Part 6 is an analysis of the many departments of the Britannica which
9. PART I
10. Chapter 1. For Farmers 3
11. PART II
12. Chapter 31. Music 175
13. PART III
14. Chapter 61. Readings for Parents 371
15. PART IV
16. Chapter 64. 393
17. PART V
18. Chapter 65. 411
19. PART VI
20. Chapter 66. 425
21. PART I
22. CHAPTER I
23. CHAPTER II
24. CHAPTER III
25. CHAPTER IV
26. CHAPTER V
27. CHAPTER VI
28. CHAPTER VII
29. CHAPTER VIII
30. CHAPTER IX
31. CHAPTER X
32. CHAPTER XI
33. CHAPTER XII
34. CHAPTER XIII
35. introduction, from which we learn that the first legal statute in which
36. CHAPTER XIV
37. introduction of postal savings-banks and the adoption of the
38. CHAPTER XV
39. CHAPTER XVI
40. CHAPTER XVII
41. CHAPTER XVIII
42. 1. Articles on continents contain authoritative and original accounts of
43. 2. The articles on separate countries, on the individual states of the
44. 3. The articles on cities show the relation of each centre to the
45. 4. The maps as well as the many plans of cities, all of which were
46. 5. The articles on various branches of engineering and mechanics,
47. 6. The articles devoted exclusively to the subject, of which a brief
48. CHAPTER XIX
49. introduction of steam.
50. CHAPTER XX
51. CHAPTER XXI
52. CHAPTER XXII
53. CHAPTER XXIII
54. CHAPTER XXIV
55. CHAPTER XXV
56. introduction is furnished by VETERINARY SCIENCE (Vol. 28, p. 2), by Drs.
57. CHAPTER XXVI
58. CHAPTER XXVII
59. CHAPTER XXVIII
60. Part 4 of the Guide, with its special references to the subjects to
61. CHAPTER XXIX
62. CHAPTER XXX
63. PART II
64. CHAPTER XXXI
65. CHAPTER XXXII
66. CHAPTER XXXIII
67. CHAPTER XXXIV
68. CHAPTER XXXV
69. CHAPTER XXXVI
70. CHAPTER XXXVII
71. CHAPTER XXXVIII
72. CHAPTER XXXIX
73. CHAPTER XL
74. CHAPTER XLI
75. prologue (see the article LOGOS, by the late Rev. Dr. Stewart Dingwall
76. introduction, in which Paul’s attitude toward Jewish legalism is made an
77. chapter 3; MATTHEW, for a similar view of the gospel and the Church; and
78. CHAPTER XLII
79. CHAPTER XLIII
80. 1846. F. W. Taussig, Harvard
81. CHAPTER XLIV
82. CHAPTER XLV
83. CHAPTER XLVI
84. CHAPTER XLVII
85. CHAPTER XLVIII
86. Introduction: “Charity,” as used in New Testament, means love and
87. Part I.—Primitive Charity—highly developed idea of duty to guest or
88. Part II.—Charity among the Greeks. “In Crete and Sparta the citizens
89. Part III.—Charity in Roman Times. “The system obliged the hard-working
90. Part IV.—Jewish and Christian Charity. In Christianity a fusion of
91. Part V.—Medieval Charity and its Development. St. Francis and his
92. Part VI.—After the Reformation. “The religious life was to be
93. CHAPTER XLIX
94. CHAPTER L
95. CHAPTER LI
96. CHAPTER LII
97. CHAPTER LIII
98. CHAPTER LIV
99. CHAPTER LV
100. CHAPTER LVI
101. CHAPTER LVII
102. CHAPTER LVIII
103. CHAPTER LIX
104. CHAPTER LX
105. PART III
106. CHAPTER LXI
107. CHAPTER LXII
108. CHAPTER LXIII
109. PART IV
110. CHAPTER LXIV
111. introduction of Flemish weavers to England and the forced migration of
112. PART V
113. CHAPTER LXV
114. PART VI
115. CHAPTER LXVI
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