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Pantologia. A new cyclopaedia comprehending a complete series of essays, treatises, and systems, alphabetically arranged; with a general dictionary of arts, sciences and words ... illustrated with engravings, those on history being from original drawings by Edwards and others ... / by John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, Newton Bosworth.

Date:
1813
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Credit: Pantologia. A new cyclopaedia comprehending a complete series of essays, treatises, and systems, alphabetically arranged; with a general dictionary of arts, sciences and words ... illustrated with engravings, those on history being from original drawings by Edwards and others ... / by John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, Newton Bosworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PANTO CEC (CEANIDES, or GRAN RIDER.) Sees EN CHYMONITES. f CEANOTHUS. New Jersey tea. In botany, gynia. Petals'five, saccular, vaulted ; berry dry, three-celled, three-seeded. Five species, scatter- ed over Asia, Afriea, and America. c. Americanus is chiefly propagated in our own gardens. The stem, which is of a pale brown - colour, seldom rises more than three or four feet high, and sends forth branches from the bottom. The flowers are white and terminal, and grow in clusters, giving the shrub a beauti- ful appearance in their season. To CEASE. v. n.. (cesser, Fr. cesso,. Lat.) 1. To leave off; to stop; to give over (Dryden), 2. To fail; to be extinct (Hale). 3. To be at an end (Dryden). ©4. Torest (Sprat). . To CEASE. v. a. To put a stop to; to put an end to (Milton). . air, the strains of which were alternately in the grave and acute series of notes in the scale. -CEBES, of Thebes, a Socratic philosopher, author of the admired Table of Cebes, or Dia- logues on the Birth, Life, and. Death of Man- kind, He flourished about 405. years before Christ. : | CEBRIO. In the Fabrician system of en- tomology, a tribe of the order coleoptera, and LUS. ’- CECIL (William), lord Burleigh, a celebrat- ed English statesman, was born ofa good family, - at Bourn, in Lincolnshire, in 1521, and edu- cated at St. John’s college, Cambridge, where he married a sister of sir John Cheke.. From the law with so much application, as to become eminent in that profession. He was appointed VOL, Ill. Cone and soon after custus brevium of the court of Common Pleas; and at length secretary of state. He also received the honour of knights hood, and had a seat in the privy-council. When Mary came to the thrane, he was dis- missed from his employments ; he was still respected, and often consulted hy she qieen and her ministers, At the accession of Lizabeth, he was appointed oneof her counsellors, secretary of state, and master of the. court of wards. Soon afterwards he was chosen chan- cellor of Cambridge; and in.1571 he was ad- vanced to ‘the peerage, with the titleof baron of Burleigh. e died in’ 1598, leaving one son by his first, and one by his second wife; which last lady was the daughter of sir Anthony Cook, aud a very learned: woman. Lord Burleigh was perhaps one of the keenest, most active, and yet disinterested ministers that ever lived. He wrote some tracts in answer to libels on the queen and, government ;: and his state papers were published by Haynes in:1740; and a eon- tinuation by Murdin in 1760. . . CECILIA (Saint), the titular saint and protectress of music. Her history is involved in great obscurity ; but she is supposed, to have been born in the reign of the emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, and to have suffered mar- tyrdom in that of Septimius Severus, in the beginning of the onan gel ‘There is a tradition of St. Cecilia, that she excelled in music; and that the angel who was enamour- ed of her, was drawn from the celestial regions by the charms of her melody: this has been deemed authority sufficient for making her the patroness of music and musicians: ‘The legend of St. Cecilia has given frequent. occasion to painters'and sculptors to exercise their genius in representations of her, playing on the organ, and sometimes on the harp. Raphael has painted her singing with a rega] ae hands; | /
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