The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, Volume 15H.G. Allen, 1888 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... direction within the limits of pressure commonly used . Again at a given temperature and a given pres- sure the friction first decreases very rapidly with increase of velocity , and then above a certain limit of velocity increases again ...
... direction within the limits of pressure commonly used . Again at a given temperature and a given pres- sure the friction first decreases very rapidly with increase of velocity , and then above a certain limit of velocity increases again ...
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... direction and carried the waters of the Reuss to the Lake of Zug . In point of fact the channel of the lake is bent abruptly westward round the promontory of Treib , and extends in the same direction nearly 10 miles , with the local ...
... direction and carried the waters of the Reuss to the Lake of Zug . In point of fact the channel of the lake is bent abruptly westward round the promontory of Treib , and extends in the same direction nearly 10 miles , with the local ...
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... direction to Monte Rosa , and in another to the cathedral of Milan . LUGANO , LAKE OF ( sometimes called Lago Ceresio by the Italians , from the Roman name Lacus Ceresius ) , situated partly in Lombardy and partly in the Swiss canton ...
... direction to Monte Rosa , and in another to the cathedral of Milan . LUGANO , LAKE OF ( sometimes called Lago Ceresio by the Italians , from the Roman name Lacus Ceresius ) , situated partly in Lombardy and partly in the Swiss canton ...
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... direction Lyons is extending every year . In the old districts there is no room for growth ; they are crowded with old buildings of eight or ten stories , or even more , and it has been the task of the last thirty years to open them up ...
... direction Lyons is extending every year . In the old districts there is no room for growth ; they are crowded with old buildings of eight or ten stories , or even more , and it has been the task of the last thirty years to open them up ...
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... direction views upon others , except in so far as he could do so by into the Bay of Bengal . In the upper parts of their course impartial arguments . In argument , he was not satisfied they drain rather than water the country through ...
... direction views upon others , except in so far as he could do so by into the Bay of Bengal . In the upper parts of their course impartial arguments . In argument , he was not satisfied they drain rather than water the country through ...
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Page 205 - the devil teacheth how to make pictures of wax or clay, that, by roasting thereof, the persons that they bear the name of may be continually melted, or dried away by continual sickness.
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Page 20 - Mexico, with six maps comprehending the Ohio, the Mississippi from the mouth of the Ohio to the Gulf of Mexico, the whole of West Florida, and part of East Florida.
Page 183 - ... in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the States, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights, .and liberties appertaining to them.
Page 127 - I have gone back to Greek literature with a passion quite astonishing to myself. I have never felt anything like it. I was enraptured with Italian during the six months which I gave up to it ; and I was little less pleased with Spanish. But when I went back to the Greek, I felt as if I had never known before what intellectual enjoyment was.
Page 296 - At the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 14th century, many academic societies were established in southern France and in Italy, mostly devoted to the cultivation of poetry.
Page 128 - I am more than half determined to abandon politics, and to give myself wholly to letters ; to undertake some great historical work which may be at once the business and the amusement of my life...
Page 128 - ... was one which had to be thought out as he went along, or brightening from the forehead downwards when a burst of humor was coming, his massive features and honest glance suited well with the manly sagacious sentiments which he set forth in his sonorous voice and in his racy and intelligible language. To get at his meaning people had never the need to think twice, and they certainly had seldom the time.
Page 324 - I was much struck with this, when in the island of Bali I saw Chinese traders who had adopted the costume of that country, and who could then hardly be distinguished from Malays ; and, on the other hand, I have seen natives of Java who, as far as physiognomy was concerned, would pass very well for Chinese.
Page 149 - Percussina, a hamlet of San Casciano, Machiavelli completed the Principe before the end of 1513. This famous book is an analysis of the methods whereby an ambitious man may rise to sovereign power. It appears to have grown out of another scarcely less celebrated work, upon which Machiavelli had been engaged before he took the Principe in hand, and which he did not finish until some time afterwards. This second treatise is the Discorsi sopra la prima deçà di Tito Livio.