XX Century Cyclopaedia and Atlas: Biography, History, Art, Science and Gazeteer of the World, Том 4

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Gebbie & Company, 1901

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Стр. 377 - That the quantity of heat produced by the friction of bodies, whether solid or liquid, is always proportional to the quantity of force expended.
Стр. 415 - A rdla cinerXa ) is about 3 feet in length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, builds its nest in high trees, many being sometimes on one tree.
Стр. 234 - Partnership (section 99), says that "good will may be properly enough described to be the advantage or benefit which is acquired by an establishment beyond the mere value of the capital stock, funds, or property employed therein, in consequence of the general public patronage and encouragement which it receives from constant or habitual customers, on account of its local position, or common celebrity, or reputation for skill or affluence, or punctuality, or from other accidental circumstances or...
Стр. 443 - The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," " The Professor at the Breakfast Table...
Стр. 107 - The results are found in two important works on the laws of motion, the foundation of the present system of physics and astronomy. At the same time he tried to make use of Jupiter's satellites for the calculation of longitudes ; and though he brought nothing to perfection in this branch, he w^as the first who reflected systematically on such a method of fixing geographical longitudes. He was at this time afflicted with a disease in his eyes, one of which was wholly blind, and the other almost useless,...
Стр. 107 - ... to each of the other planets, according to its distance from the sun, and the inclination of its axis to the plane of its annual revolution ; and out of some such slender materials, he may work up an amusing philosophical romance, full of ingenuity, and having, withal, the colour of truth and of consistency spread over it.
Стр. 484 - Act, shall have in her own name against all persons whomsoever, including her husband, the same civil remedies, and also (subject, as regards her husband, to the proviso hereinafter contained) the same remedies and redress by way of criminal proceedings, for the protection and security of her own separate property, as if such property belonged to her as a feme sole, but, except as aforesaid, no husband or wife shall be entitled to sue the other for a tort.
Стр. 28 - Temple ; but, after a course of dissipation, to which his small fortune fell a sacrifice, he turned his attention to the stage. He appeared first in Othello, but had little success as a tragedian, and soon struck out an untrodden path for himself in his double character of author and performer. In 1747, he opened the little theatre in Haymarket, with a dramatic piece, which he entitled the Diversions of the Morning.
Стр. 272 - ... terminations and expressions, and that not merely to characterize more particularly an individual represented as speaking, but even when they speak in their own person. It is customary to distinguish three leading dialects, according to the three leading branches of the Greeks, the...
Стр. 477 - In 1 804 they arrived at Bordeaux, bringing with them an immense mass of fresh knowledge in geography, geology, climatology, meteorology, botany, zoology, and every branch of natural science, as well as in ethnology and political statistics. Humboldt selected...

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