The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature, Science, History, Geography, Commerce, Biography, Discovery and Invention, Band 3Werner Company, 1907 |
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... containing the collections of Aristotle and Theophrastus , were carried off by the cul- tivated Sulla . The loss of ... contains an edict of the Emperor Hadrian regulating the sale of oil and the duties payable upon it . It is easy to ...
... containing the collections of Aristotle and Theophrastus , were carried off by the cul- tivated Sulla . The loss of ... contains an edict of the Emperor Hadrian regulating the sale of oil and the duties payable upon it . It is easy to ...
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... contain 30 cubic inches of mercury ; and since one cubic inch of mercury contains 34267 grains , the weight of 30 cubic inches will be nearly 14-7304 tb avoirdupois . Thus the pressure of the atmosphere is generally , at least in these ...
... contain 30 cubic inches of mercury ; and since one cubic inch of mercury contains 34267 grains , the weight of 30 cubic inches will be nearly 14-7304 tb avoirdupois . Thus the pressure of the atmosphere is generally , at least in these ...
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... contain on an average about 50 of the more elementary atoms , we may assume that the smallest organized particle visible under the microscope contains about two million molecules of organic matter . At least half of every living ...
... contain on an average about 50 of the more elementary atoms , we may assume that the smallest organized particle visible under the microscope contains about two million molecules of organic matter . At least half of every living ...
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... contains millions of millions of molecules . The constancy and uniformity of the properties of the gaseous medium is the direct result of the incon- ceivable irregularity of the motion of agitation of its molecules . Any cause which ...
... contains millions of millions of molecules . The constancy and uniformity of the properties of the gaseous medium is the direct result of the incon- ceivable irregularity of the motion of agitation of its molecules . Any cause which ...
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... contains n lines of a certain degree of intensity , the probability that any one line of the spectrum of a gas will coincide with one of these n lines is - 1- ( 1 − 3 ) - 2 ( 1 - n- 1 1 2 Р + & c . ) , We have devoted more space to ...
... contains n lines of a certain degree of intensity , the probability that any one line of the spectrum of a gas will coincide with one of these n lines is - 1- ( 1 − 3 ) - 2 ( 1 - n- 1 1 2 Р + & c . ) , We have devoted more space to ...
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Seite 276 - ... any body politic or corporate whatsoever, erected or to be erected, or for any other persons whatsoever united or to be united in covenants or partnership, exceeding the number of six persons, in that part of Great Britain called England, to borrow, owe, or take up any sum or sums of money on their bills or notes payable at demand, or at any less time than six months from the borrowing thereof...
Seite 246 - C'est qu'on fut malheureux de ne pouvoir vous plaire. VADIUS Il faut qu'en écoutant j'aie eu l'esprit distrait, Ou bien que le lecteur m'ait gâté le sonnet. Mais laissons ce discours et voyons ma ballade. TRISSOTIN La ballade, à mon goût, est une chose fade. Ce n'en est plus la mode ; elle sent son vieux temps.
Seite 182 - I have been no avaricious oppressor of the people. I have been no haughty, or intolerable, or hateful man, in my conversation or carriage : I have inherited no hatred from my father, but am a good patriot born. Whence should this be ? For these are the things that use to raise dislikes abroad.
Seite 188 - But the induction which is to be available for the discovery and demonstration of sciences and arts must analyse nature by proper rejections and exclusions, and then, after a sufficient number of negatives, come to a conclusion on the affirmative instances...
Seite 78 - One man, when he has done a service to another, is ready to set it down to his account as a favor conferred. Another is not ready to do this, but still in his own mind he thinks of the man as his debtor, and he knows what he has done. A third in a manner does not even know what he has done, I but he is like a vine which has produced grapes, and ( seeks for nothing more after it has once produced its proper fruit.
Seite 182 - It resteth therefore that, without fig-leaves, I do ingenuously confess and acknowledge that having understood the particulars of the charge, not formally from the House but enough to inform my conscience and memory, I find matter sufficient and full both to move me to desert the defence and to move your Lordships to condemn and censure me.
Seite 56 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another is to me so great an absurdity...
Seite 45 - It cannot have escaped the attention of the reader, that this method of making the defendant answer upon oath to a criminal charge, is not agreeable to the genius of the common law in any other instance...
Seite 267 - Heads of Colleges only, and by no others, in the room adjoining to the PrintingHouse, between the hours of ten in the morning and two in the afternoon, to preach eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, the year following, at St. Mary's in Oxford, between the commencement of the last month in Lent Term, and the end of the third week in Act Term.
Seite 185 - It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.