Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the Best Authorities, and Systematically Arranged for Use in Home and School, Volum 6Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar D. Appleton, 1910 |
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Side 7
... taken during sleep . The clarifying effect of " sleeping over a complicated mental problem is well known , thoughts being found to be rearranged and coördinated when waking life is resumed . Yet there are many instances on record of ...
... taken during sleep . The clarifying effect of " sleeping over a complicated mental problem is well known , thoughts being found to be rearranged and coördinated when waking life is resumed . Yet there are many instances on record of ...
Side 11
... taken from the shoulder instead of firing from the chest , and the weight was reduced to 15 lb. The tripod had now been replaced by a forked rest which the soldier carried as a cane . At the battle of Pavia the Spanish had 2,000 ...
... taken from the shoulder instead of firing from the chest , and the weight was reduced to 15 lb. The tripod had now been replaced by a forked rest which the soldier carried as a cane . At the battle of Pavia the Spanish had 2,000 ...
Side 11
... taken prisoner , and sent as a. SMILES SMITH Smiles , Samuel , 1812-1904 ; English author ; b . Haddington , Scotland ; educated for the medical profession ; became editor and railroad official . Among his numerous works are " Self- Help ...
... taken prisoner , and sent as a. SMILES SMITH Smiles , Samuel , 1812-1904 ; English author ; b . Haddington , Scotland ; educated for the medical profession ; became editor and railroad official . Among his numerous works are " Self- Help ...
Side 11
... taken prisoner , and sent as a slave to Con- stantinople . He was sent to the sea of Azov , whence he escaped to a Russian garrison on the Don . Smith returned to England and joined the expedition of Newport to Virginia , setting sail ...
... taken prisoner , and sent as a slave to Con- stantinople . He was sent to the sea of Azov , whence he escaped to a Russian garrison on the Don . Smith returned to England and joined the expedition of Newport to Virginia , setting sail ...
Side 11
... this property of smokelessness is a de- sirable property , and one which has modified strategy and tactics , the most valuable prop- erty common to these powders is the high SMITH SMITH COLLEGE taken prisoner , and sent as a 13.
... this property of smokelessness is a de- sirable property , and one which has modified strategy and tactics , the most valuable prop- erty common to these powders is the high SMITH SMITH COLLEGE taken prisoner , and sent as a 13.
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Side 11 - I bequeath the whole of my property to the United States of America, \/ to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Side 130 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Side 208 - Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic omament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play; in the form of action, not of narrative; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions.
Side 9 - Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest in his own way, and to bring both his industry and .capital into competition with those of any other man or order of men.
Side 240 - An artificial machine or method for the impressing or transcribing of letters singly or progressively one after another, as in writing, whereby all writings whatsoever may be engrossed in paper or parchment so neat and exact as not to be distinguished from print...
Side 30 - The States severally have not retained their entire sovereignty. It has been shown that in becoming parts of a nation, not members of a league, they surrendered many of their essential parts of sovereignty.
Side 148 - Provided, That the Secretaries of State, of the Treasury, of War, of the Navy, and of the Interior, the Postmaster-General, and the Attorney-General, shall hold their offices respectively for and during the term of the President by whom they may have been appointed and for one month thereafter, subject to removal by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Side 130 - Every tax ought to be levied at the time or in the manner in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.
Side 30 - States, then, for all these important purposes were no longer sovereign. The allegiance of their citizens was transferred, in the first instance, to the Government of the United States; they became American citizens and owed obedience to the Constitution of the United States and to laws made in conformity with the powers it vested in ,Congress.
Side 264 - Among the maxims examined and confuted is one that was cherished by the mercantilist economic writers of the last half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth centuries: that people are the riches of a nation.