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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... courses across country . Its home is to be found at Rugby School , and amongst members of hare - and - hounds ' clubs ... course and events of their lives . It is in this capacity that Athor is connected with Ptah , or the Egyptian He ...
... courses across country . Its home is to be found at Rugby School , and amongst members of hare - and - hounds ' clubs ... course and events of their lives . It is in this capacity that Athor is connected with Ptah , or the Egyptian He ...
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... course as the Cape St. Roque Current , and afterwards as the Guiana Current ) acquires a greatly augmented rate , running ordinarily at the rate of from 30 to 50 miles , and occasionally at a rate of 80 miles , in the 24 hours ...
... course as the Cape St. Roque Current , and afterwards as the Guiana Current ) acquires a greatly augmented rate , running ordinarily at the rate of from 30 to 50 miles , and occasionally at a rate of 80 miles , in the 24 hours ...
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... course at about 100 fathoms , and its rate of flow in the line of most rapid movement at 3 miles per hour . The outermost band , on the other hand , graduates insensibly , both as to temperature and rate of movement , into the general ...
... course at about 100 fathoms , and its rate of flow in the line of most rapid movement at 3 miles per hour . The outermost band , on the other hand , graduates insensibly , both as to temperature and rate of movement , into the general ...
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... course of the Gulf Stream ; but as its excess of temperature above that of the Atlantic generally diminishes as we trace it towards the nks of Newfoundland , this northward deflection progres- vely becomes less . The marked contrast in ...
... course of the Gulf Stream ; but as its excess of temperature above that of the Atlantic generally diminishes as we trace it towards the nks of Newfoundland , this northward deflection progres- vely becomes less . The marked contrast in ...
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... course lying to northwards of Great Britain , is the characteristic of an open winter in Great Britain ; on the other hand , if the cyclones follow a course lying to the southward , the win- ters are severe . This is a chief point of ...
... course lying to northwards of Great Britain , is the characteristic of an open winter in Great Britain ; on the other hand , if the cyclones follow a course lying to the southward , the win- ters are severe . This is a chief point of ...
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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.