The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Latest Edition. A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 10. köideDay Otis Kellogg, Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith Werner, 1902 |
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... actions . In these forms can be traced " survivals " from the most primitive times , which provide the science of compara tive law with valuable illustrations , which may explain the strange forms of legal procedure found in other early ...
... actions . In these forms can be traced " survivals " from the most primitive times , which provide the science of compara tive law with valuable illustrations , which may explain the strange forms of legal procedure found in other early ...
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... actions mentioned by Gaius with those used by other primitive societies will be found in Sir H. Maine's Early ... action . It stands in very deep water , and Mr Darwin thinks that it has never been nearer to the mainland than it ...
... actions mentioned by Gaius with those used by other primitive societies will be found in Sir H. Maine's Early ... action . It stands in very deep water , and Mr Darwin thinks that it has never been nearer to the mainland than it ...
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... action , which lost a gladiator for the little arena of Geneva and gained Albert Gallatin for the larger political field which the young and growing government of the United States afforded . He made silent preparations for his ...
... action , which lost a gladiator for the little arena of Geneva and gained Albert Gallatin for the larger political field which the young and growing government of the United States afforded . He made silent preparations for his ...
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... action of the earth can , how- ever , be counteracted , and the needle rendered more or less zstatic in one or other of two ways . One way is to fix on the same axis of suspension two parallel magnets , whose magnetic moments are as ...
... action of the earth can , how- ever , be counteracted , and the needle rendered more or less zstatic in one or other of two ways . One way is to fix on the same axis of suspension two parallel magnets , whose magnetic moments are as ...
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... action of currents induced in neighbouring metallic circuits , the viscosity of the suspension fibre , and so on . There is always more or less damping owing to the first two causes , and possibly the third ; but in many cases , where ...
... action of currents induced in neighbouring metallic circuits , the viscosity of the suspension fibre , and so on . There is always more or less damping owing to the first two causes , and possibly the third ; but in many cases , where ...
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