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IRVINGTON

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 858 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IRVINGTON , a See also:

town of See also:Essex See also:county, New See also:Jersey, U.S.A., bordering on the S.W. See also:side of See also:Newark. Pop. (10oo) 5255, of whom 993 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (too;) 7180; (1010) 11,877. Irvington is served by the Lehigh Valley railroad and by electric railway to Newark. It is principally a residential suburb of Newark, but it has a small smelter (for See also:gold and See also:silver), and various manufactures, including textile working machinery, See also:sees") which is analogous to Fl roi " (" a See also:God of Seeing ") in ' The stories, including the delightful See also:history of the courting of Rebekah by See also:proxy, are See also:clue to the See also:oldest narrators. See also:Tin jarring See also:chronological notices belong to the See also:post-exilic framework of the See also:book (see See also:GENESIS). 2 The name is hopelessly obscure, and the See also:identification with the See also:mountain of the See also:temple in See also:Jerusalem rests upon a See also:late view (2 Chron. iii. i). It is otherwise called " Yahweh-yir'eh " (" Y. measuring rules and artisans' tools. There are large See also:strawberry xvi. 13. See further the commentaries.

the Iliad and other See also:

works on the Homeric poems are still distinguished from See also:Isaac of See also:Nineveh, a Nestorian writer on the extant in MS. He died in the See also:year 1o61. Isaac's See also:great aim was ascetic See also:life who belongs to the second See also:half of the 7th See also:century.' to restore the former strict organization of the See also:government, and his reforms, though unpopular with the See also:aristocracy and the See also:clergy, and not understood by the See also:people, certainly contributed to stave off for a while the final ruin of the See also:Byzantine See also:empire. See E. See also:Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the See also:Roman Empire (ed. J. See also:Bury, See also:London, 1896, vol. v.); G. See also:Finlay, History of See also:Greece (ed. 1877, See also:Oxford, vols. ii. and iii.).

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