The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, Količina 6H.G. Allen, 1888 |
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... London . COBDEN : HENRY RICHARD , M.P. COCHIN CHINA . C. MAUNOIR , Société de Géographie , Paris . COFFEE . JAMES PATON , Industrial Museum , Glasgow . COFFER - DAMS . DAVID STEVENSON , C. E. COLEOPTERA . JOHN GIBSON , Industrial Museum ...
... London . COBDEN : HENRY RICHARD , M.P. COCHIN CHINA . C. MAUNOIR , Société de Géographie , Paris . COFFEE . JAMES PATON , Industrial Museum , Glasgow . COFFER - DAMS . DAVID STEVENSON , C. E. COLEOPTERA . JOHN GIBSON , Industrial Museum ...
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... London 17 ° , but owing to the heat conveyed from the warm waters of the Atlantic across these islands by the winds , the temperature of Shetland is 39 ° and of London 38 ° . In Iceland and Norway the abnormal increase of temperature in ...
... London 17 ° , but owing to the heat conveyed from the warm waters of the Atlantic across these islands by the winds , the temperature of Shetland is 39 ° and of London 38 ° . In Iceland and Norway the abnormal increase of temperature in ...
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... London clockmaker named Harris , for the honour of having first applied the pendulum to regulate the motion of a clock train , all in the early art of the 17th century . Be this as it may , there seems little doubt that Huyghens was the ...
... London clockmaker named Harris , for the honour of having first applied the pendulum to regulate the motion of a clock train , all in the early art of the 17th century . Be this as it may , there seems little doubt that Huyghens was the ...
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... London clubs which sprang into existence in the last and previous century had their place and origin almost entirely in the coffee - houses and taverns then so much in vogue . Of these the earliest known was the Bread Street or Friday ...
... London clubs which sprang into existence in the last and previous century had their place and origin almost entirely in the coffee - houses and taverns then so much in vogue . Of these the earliest known was the Bread Street or Friday ...
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... London club varies from 2200 in the Army and Navy to 475 in the St James's club . Numerous provincial clubs are established throughout the country . In both Edinburgh and Dublin are clubs fully coming up to the metropolitan societies ...
... London club varies from 2200 in the Army and Navy to 475 in the St James's club . Numerous provincial clubs are established throughout the country . In both Edinburgh and Dublin are clubs fully coming up to the metropolitan societies ...
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Stran 292 - ... 4. Watches or besets the house or other place where such other person resides, or works, or carries on business, or happens to be, or the approach to such house or place ; («) or 5.
Stran 292 - 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 shall not be indictable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime.
Stran 262 - When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like, when done to yourself, do not do to others.
Stran 220 - ... not specifying the same shall be deemed fraudulent on the part of the promoters, directors, and officers of the company knowingly issuing the same, as regards any person taking shares in the company on the faith of such prospectus, unless he shall have had notice of such contract.
Stran 165 - The lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they who seek the Lord, shall want no manner of thing that is good.
Stran 135 - 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 321 - 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 136 - 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 292 - Where any person wilfully and maliciously breaks a contract of service or of hiring, 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 endanger human life, or cause serious bodily injury, or to expose valuable property whether real or personal to destruction or serious injury...
Stran 209 - What is a Communist ? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his penny and pocket your shilling.