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Method, therefore, becomes natural to the mind which has been accustomed to contemplate not things only, or for their own sake alone, but likewise and chiefly the relations of things, either their relations to each other, or to the observer, or to the state and apprehension of the hearers. To
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in vol. 3), and interspersed with (210) chapters on history (to 1815), as the most philosophical, interesting and natural form (but modern lives were so many that the plan broke down, and a division of biography, to be in 2 vols., was announced but not published);
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The London Encyclopaedia: Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature, and Practical Mechanics, Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge. Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate
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It professed to give sciences and systematic arts entire and in their natural sequence. Coleridge's Introduction was a treatise on method, with fundamental approach to emphasize the relations of ideas:
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A re-issue in 38 vols. quarto, was announced in 1849. Of a second edition 42 vols. 8vo, 14,744 pages, belonging to divisions i. to iii., were published in 1849–1858.
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Later critics said of the actual plan that, being the proposal of Coleridge, it had at least enough of a poetical character to be eminently impractical (
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enumerate and analyze these relations, with the conditions under which alone they are discoverable, is to teach the science of method.
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III. History and biography, 5 vols., 4,458 pages, 7 maps, containing biography (135 essays) chronologically arranged (to
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which had appeared in 1817 in 20 volumes. Fenner, however, dropped the publication after five part-volumes.
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The plates were issued in three volumes. An index volume, 364 pages, contained about 9,000 articles.
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I. Pure Sciences, 2 vols., 1,813 pages, 16 plates, 28 treatises, includes grammar, law and theology;
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It is in four divisions, with only the last division being presented in an alphabetical structure:
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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II. Mixed and Applied Sciences, 6 vols., 5,391 pages, 437 plates, 42 treatises, including
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IV. Miscellaneous and lexicographical, 13 vols., 10,338 pages, 105 plates, including
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Initially the project was part of transitional arrangements in 1817 under which
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and descriptive natural history. An English lexicon, in parts, was supplied by
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was an encyclopedic work published in London, from 1817 to 1845, by
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Index

Encyclopedia Metropolitana


George Harvey
part publication
quarto
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John Mathew Gutch
Rest Fenner
Encyclopædia Britannica
William Howley
William Rowe Lyall
Edward Smedley
Hugh James Rose
London Encyclopædia
Thomas Tegg
Quarterly Review
Richard Whately
John Herschel
Peter Barlow
George Peacock
Augustus De Morgan
fine arts
useful arts
natural history
medical sciences
v.8
Thomas Aquinas
v.11
v.12

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