The New International Encyclopæeia, Volume 9Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby Dodd, Mead, 1909 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Page 111 - ... and it is further ordered, that where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the university...
Page 255 - I have loved justice and hated iniquity, therefore I die in exile.
Page 27 - American fishes. A popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America with especial reference to habits and methods of capture.
Page 11 - England about the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Page 237 - An Essay on the application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism...
Page 150 - that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distances from each other.
Page 312 - London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems; whence any mean production is called Grub-street" — , " lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
Page 166 - The first expressions of co-operation were found in the co-operative and communistic colonies which settled on the land in the latter part of the Eighteenth Century and the early part of the Nineteenth Century.
Page 183 - Cabinet includes the following ten members of the administration : the First Lord of the Treasury, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the five Secretaries of State.
Page 145 - For these discoveries he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society of London. His researches, made in 1898-1900, on the sporozoan malarial parasite of the mosquito (see SPOBOZOA) are of great scientific and practical value.