Appleton's Popular Science Monthly, Հատոր 57D. Appleton and Company, 1900 |
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... evidence of such agreements ; therefore the city has been robbed with impunity . The methods of the Tweed ring have long been out of date in the city of New York , and fraud upon the public treasury has become a respectable calling . It ...
... evidence of such agreements ; therefore the city has been robbed with impunity . The methods of the Tweed ring have long been out of date in the city of New York , and fraud upon the public treasury has become a respectable calling . It ...
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... evidence that it does not emit air . It is interesting to observe that regarding this stage of Aphro- phora as an aquatic stage , since it lives immersed in fluid , we have the same behavior that we observe in the aquatic stages of ...
... evidence that it does not emit air . It is interesting to observe that regarding this stage of Aphro- phora as an aquatic stage , since it lives immersed in fluid , we have the same behavior that we observe in the aquatic stages of ...
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... In this indisposition to attain the advan- tages of mutual support we have another evidence of the primitive condition of the folk . Before endeavoring to go further with this account of the THE NEGRO SINCE THE CIVIL WAR . 31.
... In this indisposition to attain the advan- tages of mutual support we have another evidence of the primitive condition of the folk . Before endeavoring to go further with this account of the THE NEGRO SINCE THE CIVIL WAR . 31.
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... evidence of such a connection as the result of acci- dent . Also numerous instances of daylight species being swept into caves , but no instance of one establishing itself there . This view accounts also for the wide distribution of the ...
... evidence of such a connection as the result of acci- dent . Also numerous instances of daylight species being swept into caves , but no instance of one establishing itself there . This view accounts also for the wide distribution of the ...
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... Evidences are not wanting to show that the incredulity which preceded the convening of the Peace Conference , the skep- ticism which marked its first sessions , and a certain want of faith which has since been manifested in various ...
... Evidences are not wanting to show that the incredulity which preceded the convening of the Peace Conference , the skep- ticism which marked its first sessions , and a certain want of faith which has since been manifested in various ...
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Էջ 221 - The custody, maintenance, and development of the national standards of measurement, and the provision of means and methods for making measurements consistent with those standards, including the comparison of standards used in scientific investigations, engineering, manufacturing, commerce, and educational institutions with the standards adopted or recognized by the Government.
Էջ 587 - Tears and lamentations were seen almost in every house, especially in the first part of the visitation; for towards the latter end men's hearts were hardened, and death was so always before their eyes, that they did not so much concern themselves for the loss of their friends, expecting that themselves should be summoned the next hour.
Էջ 159 - Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportioned to its size, and all of them together forming a system of valleys, communicating with one another, and having such a nice adjustment of their declivities, that none of them join the principal valley, either on too high or too low a level...
Էջ 560 - The scientific results of the expedition were reported at a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society on November 6, 1919 with Sir JJ Thomson, President of the Royal Society, in the Chair.
Էջ 335 - Hall, the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R.
Էջ 468 - Our reason is quite satisfied, in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of every thousand of us, if it can find a few arguments that will do to recite in case our credulity is criticised by some one else. Our faith is faith in some one else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
Էջ 98 - Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncall'd for) but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear; And, because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
Էջ 531 - Lowe propounded the question: "What are the more important results which have followed from the publication of the 'Wealth of Nations' just one hundred years ago?" Some of the most enthusiastic admirers of Adam Smith were present, Mr. Gladstone and M. Leon Say among the number; and Mr.
Էջ 204 - When five and a half months old, he uttered an articulate sound 'da' but without any meaning attached to it. When a little over a year old, he used gestures to explain his wishes; to give a simple instance, he picked up a bit of paper and giving it to me pointed to the fire, as he had often seen and liked to see paper burnt. At exactly the age of a year, he made the great step of inventing a word for food, namely, mum, but what led him to it I did not discover. And now instead of beginning to cry...
Էջ 661 - red blood is a traditionary sign of courage" derives support from our English Pliny , Bartholomew Glantville, who says, after Isidorus, " Reed clothes ben layed upon deed men in remembrance of theyr hardynes and boldnes, whyle they were in theyr bloudde." On which his commentator Batman remarks : " It appereth in the time of the Saxons that the manner over their dead was a red cloath, as we now use black. The red of valiauncie, and that was over kings, lords, knights and valyaunt souldiours.