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Book of knowledge   /bʊk əv nˈɑlədʒ/   Listen
Book of knowledge

noun
1.
An elementary encyclopedia dealing with general knowledge.






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"Book of knowledge" Quotes from Famous Books



... Peter Rabbit Got His White Patch. The Pilgrim Press for How the Flowers Came by Jay T. Stocking, appearing as Queeny Queen and The Flowers, in The City That Never Was Reached. The Giant's Plaything is used by special permission of the publishers of the Book of Knowledge. The selections by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Alice Brown are used by permission of and by special arrangement with the Houghton Mifflin Company. The Milton Bradley Company controls the copyrights of The Giant Energy and Fairy Skill, and The Birthday by ...
— Tell Me Another Story - The Book of Story Programs • Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

... Among which are, Book of Knowledge, Joe Miller's Jests, Jenny Twitchells' ditto, the Linnet, The Lark (being collections of best Songs), Robin Redbreast, Choice Spirits, Argalus & Parthenia, Valentine and Orson, Seven Wise Masters, Seven Wise Mistresses, Russell's ...
— Forgotten Books of the American Nursery - A History of the Development of the American Story-Book • Rosalie V. Halsey

... Arabian Book of Knowledge that "thoughts are Tartars, vagabonds; imprison all thou canst not slay," and have seen fit to follow this suggestion and the advice ...
— Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight • Mathew Joseph Holt

... can consist, excepting in brutal rest, when a man can barely earn a subsistence, I cannot imagine. The mind is necessarily imprisoned in its own little tenement; and, fully occupied by keeping it in repair, has not time to rove abroad for improvement. The book of knowledge is closely clasped, against those who must fulfil their daily task of severe manual labour or die; and curiosity, rarely excited by thought or information, seldom moves on the ...
— Posthumous Works - of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman • Mary Wollstonecraft



Words linked to "Book of knowledge" :   cyclopedia, cyclopaedia, encyclopedia, encyclopaedia



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