Project Gutenberg 2012-03-13 Public domain in the USA. 608 Various Verschillende Various, Various Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" Volume 13, Slice 6 Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition Reading ease score: 56.5 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. Produced by Marius Masi, Don Kretz and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, 'Home, Daniel' to 'Hortensius, Quintus'" is a comprehensive reference work written in the early 20th century. This edition provides detailed articles on various subjects, including biographical entries on notable figures such as Daniel Home, a Scottish spiritualist, and John Home, a Scottish poet. It serves as an informative resource for readers interested in history, literature, and cultural figures, covering a wide scope of knowledge from arts and sciences to distinct geographic locations. The opening of this volume features entries that introduce the lives of significant historical figures and concepts. For instance, it discusses Daniel Home's involvement in spiritualism, his experiences in séances, and the controversies surrounding his practices, including a legal struggle regarding an inheritance claimed to be acquired through spiritual influence. The text also highlights John Home's accomplishments in the realm of drama and poetry, detailing his struggle to bring his works to the stage and his connections with literary contemporaries. Overall, the beginning of this encyclopedia slice offers insight into the lives and contributions of these individuals, setting the stage for more extensive explorations of various topics within the larger work. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Encyclopedias and dictionaries AE Text Browsing: Encyclopedias/Dictionaries/Reference 1222982 1222851 2025-02-16T04:09:34.946419 2023-09-17T06:58:52.922547 text/html text/html 1233332 2012-03-13T11:57:20 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 1649064 2012-03-13T11:59:08 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1783567 2025-02-16T04:09:55.932297 application/epub+zip 1805050 2025-02-16T04:09:41.122371 application/epub+zip 543035 2025-02-16T04:09:38.694342 application/epub+zip 2286055 2025-02-16T04:10:06.100237 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2224757 2025-02-16T04:09:53.859286 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 766608 2022-09-18T03:39:05.274982 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1110043 1109949 2025-02-16T04:09:32.526399 2023-09-17T06:58:50.527547 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 1109129 2012-03-13T11:57:18 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 434738 2012-03-13T11:59:06 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1109754 2012-03-13T11:58:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 434041 2012-03-13T11:59:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21002 2025-02-16T04:10:06.276243 application/rdf+xml 24885 2025-02-16T04:09:39.334349 image/jpeg 4540 2025-02-16T04:09:39.020355 image/jpeg 1740884 2025-02-16T04:09:35.171368 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog