The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 10. köideThomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith R.S. Peale, 1890 |
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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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 His life in Boston was unproductive and ...
... 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 His life in Boston was unproductive and ...
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... action of the earth can , how- ever , be counteracted , and the needle rendered more or less astatic 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 astatic 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 . always more or less damping owing to the first two causes , and possibly the third ; but in many cases , where it is de ...
... action of currents induced in neighbouring metallic circuits , the viscosity of the suspension fibre , and so on . always more or less damping owing to the first two causes , and possibly the third ; but in many cases , where it is de ...
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