The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge, Količina 10Encyclopedia Americana Corporation, 1918 |
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... ment were seldom otherwise than clumsily em- ployed . A word should be said about the strange condition in which most of the literary texts have come down to us . It is rarely that mon- umental inscriptions contain serious blunders of ...
... ment were seldom otherwise than clumsily em- ployed . A word should be said about the strange condition in which most of the literary texts have come down to us . It is rarely that mon- umental inscriptions contain serious blunders of ...
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... ) ( London 1904 ) . OLOGY . Religion.- No satisfactory treat- EGYPTIAN RELIGION AND SOCI- ment of ancient Egyptian religion has ap- peared , though the subject was one of the first to awaken interest in modern times . The names.
... ) ( London 1904 ) . OLOGY . Religion.- No satisfactory treat- EGYPTIAN RELIGION AND SOCI- ment of ancient Egyptian religion has ap- peared , though the subject was one of the first to awaken interest in modern times . The names.
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... ment of the extract of straw to make the clay stronger suggested to Edward G. Acheson ( q.v. ) , the discoverer of the process , the name " Egyptianized clay " because of the Biblical story of the use of straw in the making of bricks ...
... ment of the extract of straw to make the clay stronger suggested to Edward G. Acheson ( q.v. ) , the discoverer of the process , the name " Egyptianized clay " because of the Biblical story of the use of straw in the making of bricks ...
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... ment , which began in Great Britain about the same time as in America , had its inception in the desire to protect women and children from being overworked . Soon the labor unions rec- ognized that it was better to ask for shorter hours ...
... ment , which began in Great Britain about the same time as in America , had its inception in the desire to protect women and children from being overworked . Soon the labor unions rec- ognized that it was better to ask for shorter hours ...
Stran 32
... ment of a subject no matter what his rank and keep him in prison for any length of time that he wished . This process was accomplished under a sealed document issued by the king called a Lettre de Cachet . This mode of im- prisonment ...
... ment of a subject no matter what his rank and keep him in prison for any length of time that he wished . This process was accomplished under a sealed document issued by the king called a Lettre de Cachet . This mode of im- prisonment ...
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Stran 90 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Stran 90 - The electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for president and vice president, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as president, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as vice...
Stran 90 - And if the house of representatives shall not choose a president whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the vice president shall act as president, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the president.
Stran 270 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this...
Stran 217 - Tantalum Technetium Tellurium Terbium Thallium Thorium Thulium Tin Titanium Tungsten Uranium Vanadium Xenon Ytterbium...
Stran 168 - CGS units of capacity. Henry (the unit of inductance) — the inductance produced in a circuit when the current is changing at the rate of one ampere per second and is producing in the circuit a difference of pressure amounting to one volt. A henry is equal to 10
Stran 298 - What then are the situations, from the representation of which, though accurate, no poetical enjoyment can be derived ? They are those in which the suffering finds no vent in action ; in which a continuous state of mental distress is prolonged, unrelieved by incident, hope, or resistance ; in which there is everything to be endured, nothing to be done.
Stran 256 - Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?
Stran 74 - To the end the body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same.
Stran 176 - Lenz, in 1834, summed up the matter by saying that in all cases of electromagnetic induction the induced currents have such a direction that their reaction tends to stop the motion which produces them.