Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge: Second SupplementKnight & Company, 1858 - 286 oldal |
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... less than 1s .; and therefore if quality were good , the economy in quantity would be unquestionable . By the year 1855 the improve- ment in the machines was most decided . There were several exhibited in that year at Carlisle , of ...
... less than 1s .; and therefore if quality were good , the economy in quantity would be unquestionable . By the year 1855 the improve- ment in the machines was most decided . There were several exhibited in that year at Carlisle , of ...
19. oldal
... less objectionable machinery was employed , statistical returns were much more easily obtained . Tenants there had indeed been long accustomed to the term , which some have asserted had no little influence in affrighting the farmers of ...
... less objectionable machinery was employed , statistical returns were much more easily obtained . Tenants there had indeed been long accustomed to the term , which some have asserted had no little influence in affrighting the farmers of ...
32. oldal
... less and less in proportion to the depth , he above - named two rivers meet and form the Euphrates , are has here the means of examining each animal in its turn , the lead and copper - mines of Kaben - Maden . ( Royal Geo- under an ...
... less and less in proportion to the depth , he above - named two rivers meet and form the Euphrates , are has here the means of examining each animal in its turn , the lead and copper - mines of Kaben - Maden . ( Royal Geo- under an ...
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... less inter- esting than that to which reference has been made above , for publication when the fitting time shall arrive . National vanity and an impassioned nature at times involved Arago in bitter controversies with other savants , in ...
... less inter- esting than that to which reference has been made above , for publication when the fitting time shall arrive . National vanity and an impassioned nature at times involved Arago in bitter controversies with other savants , in ...
72. oldal
... less distinct . Anonacea . 2. Carpels united Placentas spread about Placentas on sides Petals definite , distinct · Loasacea . Petals indefinite , confused Cactaceae . 2. Carpels united ; placentas more than 1 Placentas parietal , in ...
... less distinct . Anonacea . 2. Carpels united Placentas spread about Placentas on sides Petals definite , distinct · Loasacea . Petals indefinite , confused Cactaceae . 2. Carpels united ; placentas more than 1 Placentas parietal , in ...
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222. oldal - ... offence punishable on summary conviction competent or compellable to give evidence for or against himself or herself, or shall render any person compellable to answer any question tending to criminate himself or herself, or shall in any criminal proceeding render any husband competent or compellable to give evidence for or against his wife, or any wife competent or compellable to give evidence for or against her husband.
140. oldal - Fasti Romani. The Civil and Literary Chronology of Rome and Constantinople, from the Death of Augustus to the Death of Heraclius.
218. oldal - ... and when completed shall be read over to the witness and signed by him in the presence of the parties, or such of them as may think fit to attend.
146. oldal - An Account of the Abipones, an Equestrian People of Paraguay From the Latin of Martin Dobrizhoffer, eighteen years a Missionary in that country.
92. oldal - Account of an assemblage of -Fossil Teeth and Bones of Elephant, Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, Bear, Tiger, and Hyaena, and sixteen other animals; discovered in a cave at Kirkdale, Yorkshire...
153. oldal - Circars medicinally, but when ripe are eaten by the natives, and also most greedily by several sorts of birds, being of a sweetish taste. The wood is soft, and of little use except for fuel. It is reckoned one of the best kinds for kindling fire by friction, and is thought to have furnished the wood from which the Egyptians constructed their mummy cases.
261. oldal - They are collected in the hottest months, and hung up by a string in the air to dry ; some dry of themselves on the ground, and are said to be far more narcotic than those artificially preserved. Small deep-coloured specimens, thickly covered with warts, are also said to be more powerful than those of a larger size and paler colour.
221. oldal - ... their possession or power relating to the matters in dispute, or what he knows as to the custody they or any of them are in, and whether he or they objects or object (and if so, on what grounds,) to the production of such as are in his or their possession or power ; and upon such affidavit being made the Court or Judge may make such further order thereon as shall be just.
137. oldal - Some experiments performed with a view to ascertain the most advantageous method of constructing a voltaic apparatus, for the purposes of chemical research,' in which he determined the effect of unusually large battery plates.
291. oldal - ... commences its summer sports. They associate in small parties of ten or a dozen, near the bank, where some little projection forms a bay, or renders the water particularly tranquil ; and here they will circle round each other without contention, each in his sphere, and with no apparent object, from morning until night, with great sprightliness and animation ; and so lightly do they move on the fluid, as to form only some faint and transient circles on its surface. Very fond of society, we seldom...