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, Količina 6Werner Company, 1907 |
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Stran 14
... common pen- dulum arc ; thirdly , because there was always some friction or adhesion between the cheeks and the string ; and fourthly ( a reason which applies equally to all the isochronous contrivances since invented ) , because a common ...
... common pen- dulum arc ; thirdly , because there was always some friction or adhesion between the cheeks and the string ; and fourthly ( a reason which applies equally to all the isochronous contrivances since invented ) , because a common ...
Stran 19
... common turret - clock movement ) swinging to 2 ° , was only one- fifth of what had been required with the pin - wheel escapement ; and the scape - wheel which kept the 6cwt . pendulum of the Westminster clock going for half - a - year ...
... common turret - clock movement ) swinging to 2 ° , was only one- fifth of what had been required with the pin - wheel escapement ; and the scape - wheel which kept the 6cwt . pendulum of the Westminster clock going for half - a - year ...
Stran 21
... common use are the " four - legged " and the " double three - legged " escapements of Sir E. Beckett . They passed through various phases before settling into the present form , of which it is unnecessary to say more now than that the ...
... common use are the " four - legged " and the " double three - legged " escapements of Sir E. Beckett . They passed through various phases before settling into the present form , of which it is unnecessary to say more now than that the ...
Stran 22
... common to them both , and must not depend upon the three pins or they will shake loose . If the wheels are set with the teeth equidistant , their centre is evidently twice the length of the teeth below C , the theoretical centre of the ...
... common to them both , and must not depend upon the three pins or they will shake loose . If the wheels are set with the teeth equidistant , their centre is evidently twice the length of the teeth below C , the theoretical centre of the ...
Stran 24
... Common English House Clock . increases the cost without any advantage that we can see , we omit any further reference to it . On the left side of the frame we have placed a lever x , with the letters st below it , and si above . If it ...
... Common English House Clock . increases the cost without any advantage that we can see , we omit any further reference to it . On the left side of the frame we have placed a lever x , with the letters st below it , and si above . If it ...
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Stran 287 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part payment...
Stran 262 - Every person who, with a view to compel any other person to abstain from doing or to do any act which such other person has a legal right to do or abstain from doing, wrongfully and without legal authority, — 1. Uses violence to or intimidates such other person or his wife or children, or injures his property; or, 2.
Stran 262 - An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute between employers and workmen (or workmen and workmen) shall not be indictable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime.
Stran 124 - With many parts of this preface, in the sense attributed to them and which the words undoubtedly seem to authorize, I never concurred; but on the contrary objected to them as erroneous in principle and as contradictory (in appearance at least) both to other parts of the same preface and to the author's own practice in the greater number of the poems themselves.
Stran 150 - The lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they who seek the Lord, shall want no manner of thing that is good.
Stran 262 - ... knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the probable consequences of his so doing, either alone or in combination with others, will be to deprive the inhabitants of that city, borough, town, place, or part, wholly or to a great extent of their supply...
Stran 125 - COLERIDGE (Sara). Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children, with some Lessons in Latin, in Easy Rhyme. A New Edition.
Stran 125 - He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Stran 198 - Act, 1908; (c) Cancel any Shares which, at the date of the passing of the Resolution, have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any person...
Stran 208 - The law is this : — that each of our leading conceptions, — each branch of our knowledge, — passes successively through three different theoretical conditions : the Theological, or fictitious ; the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.