The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, Volumen8Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith R.S. Peale, 1890 |
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... foreign , but even of British mathematicians ; and it is a singular fact in the history of science that all his general theorems were re- discovered by Sir William Thomson , Chasles and Sturm , and Gauss ( see Reprint of Thomson's ...
... foreign , but even of British mathematicians ; and it is a singular fact in the history of science that all his general theorems were re- discovered by Sir William Thomson , Chasles and Sturm , and Gauss ( see Reprint of Thomson's ...
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... foreign metal iowers the con- ductivity . ( 2. ) The formula for the temperature variation for alloys of the metals a among themselves agree very closely with the mean for- mula calculated from the volume percentages . If P denotes the ...
... foreign metal iowers the con- ductivity . ( 2. ) The formula for the temperature variation for alloys of the metals a among themselves agree very closely with the mean for- mula calculated from the volume percentages . If P denotes the ...
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... foreign ambassadors in Peking - long secured by the Russians , guarantees pro- tection to Christians , opens the country to travellers with passports , and the Yang - tzse and five additional ports to trade , under a revised tariff ...
... foreign ambassadors in Peking - long secured by the Russians , guarantees pro- tection to Christians , opens the country to travellers with passports , and the Yang - tzse and five additional ports to trade , under a revised tariff ...
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... foreign policy directed by the mere spleen of the favourite , and by the gross mismanagement of every campaign that had been undertaken . He dared to advise parliament to demand an account of the expenditure of the supplies which it had ...
... foreign policy directed by the mere spleen of the favourite , and by the gross mismanagement of every campaign that had been undertaken . He dared to advise parliament to demand an account of the expenditure of the supplies which it had ...
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... foreign vessels , except those of Sweden , going to or from the Baltic . Its harbour is small , but the roadstead affords excellent anchorage , which is largely taken advantage of by shipmasters detained by adverse winds . Its import ...
... foreign vessels , except those of Sweden , going to or from the Baltic . Its harbour is small , but the roadstead affords excellent anchorage , which is largely taken advantage of by shipmasters detained by adverse winds . Its import ...
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Página 135 - Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Página 144 - ... midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust. I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman...
Página 143 - And in the end, this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.
Página 144 - I, that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph, sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes playing like Orpheus ; behold the sorrow of this world ! once amiss hath bereaved me of all.
Página 208 - It is hardly necessary to add that anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the Heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION.
Página 144 - ... next came the Queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic; her face oblong, fair but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant, her nose a little hooked; her lips narrow, and her teeth black...
Página 212 - To each one according to his capacity, to each capacity according to its works.
Página 160 - Employer, or any part thereof, shall be deemed to have feloniously stolen the same from his Master or Employer, although such chattel, money, or security, was not received into the possession of such Master or Employer, otherwise than by the actual possession of his Clerk, Servant, or other person so employed...
Página 208 - From hence it is evident that the Heat produced could not possibly have been furnished at the expense of the latent Heat of the metallic chips.
Página 136 - And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.