The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, Količina 6H.G. Allen, 1888 |
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... CLOCKS Sir EDMUND BECKETT , Bart . , Q.C. COAL H. BAUERMAN , F.G.S. , Royal School of Mines , London . COBDEN : HENRY RICHARD , M.P. COCHIN CHINA . C. MAUNOIR , Société de Géographie , Paris . COFFEE . JAMES PATON , Industrial Museum ...
... CLOCKS Sir EDMUND BECKETT , Bart . , Q.C. COAL H. BAUERMAN , F.G.S. , Royal School of Mines , London . COBDEN : HENRY RICHARD , M.P. COCHIN CHINA . C. MAUNOIR , Société de Géographie , Paris . COFFEE . JAMES PATON , Industrial Museum ...
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... CLOCKS THE origin of clock work is involved in great obscurity . | 1292 one is mentioned in Canterbury Cathedral as costing Notwithstanding the statements by many writers that £ 30 . And another at St Albans , by R. Wallingford the clocks ...
... CLOCKS THE origin of clock work is involved in great obscurity . | 1292 one is mentioned in Canterbury Cathedral as costing Notwithstanding the statements by many writers that £ 30 . And another at St Albans , by R. Wallingford the clocks ...
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... clock pendulums , 8 seconds if a = 2 ° and a = 3 ° . For many years it was thought of and it was done by making the suspension string or spring vibrate between cycloidal checks , as they were called . But it was in time discovered that ...
... clock pendulums , 8 seconds if a = 2 ° and a = 3 ° . For many years it was thought of and it was done by making the suspension string or spring vibrate between cycloidal checks , as they were called . But it was in time discovered that ...
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... clock train is required , as in the clocks for keeping an equatorial telescope directed to a star , by driving it the opposite way to the motion of the earth , to whose axis the axis on which the telescope turns is made parallel . Clocks ...
... clock train is required , as in the clocks for keeping an equatorial telescope directed to a star , by driving it the opposite way to the motion of the earth , to whose axis the axis on which the telescope turns is made parallel . Clocks ...
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... clocks , it was discovered that they contained within themselves a source of error independent of the action of the clock upon them , and that they lost time in the hot weather and gained in cold , in consequence of all the substances ...
... clocks , it was discovered that they contained within themselves a source of error independent of the action of the clock upon them , and that they lost time in the hot weather and gained in cold , in consequence of all the substances ...
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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.