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may have contributed to his failure to secure the ministry of a congregation. Instead, he earned a living as a writer and editor and spent most of his life in Edinburgh.
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Cover and title page of the Nuttall Encyclopædia, ed. by Wood (Frederick Warne and Co., 1901)
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The Nuttall Encyclopaedia: Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge
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The Strait Gate and Other Discourses, with a Lecture on Thomas Carlyle, by a Scotch Preacher
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Wood is described by P. J. E. Wilson as " that most conscientious of pedants".
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The Religions of India. Authorised Translation by Rev. J. Wood
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The Quote Sleuth: A Manual for the Tracer of Lost Quotations
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The Preacher's Monthly: a Storehouse of Homiletic Help
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19th-century ministers of the Free Church of Scotland
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This biographical article about a print editor is a
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British Medical Journal (Clinical Research Edition)
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James Wood (encyclopedist)

Free Church
Leith
University of Edinburgh
Free Church of Scotland
Disruption of 1843
Thomas Carlyle
John Ruskin
High churchmen
Evangelicals
Broad churchmen
Nuttall
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
Auguste Barth
Dictionary of Quotations
Bagster & Sons
"Prefatory Note"
ISBN
978-1-901843-22-4







"Points: Definition of scurvy"
doi
10.1136/bmj.288.6411.152-g

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