The New International Encyclopædia, Volume 4Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby Dodd, Mead, 1902 |
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Page 321 - Lavoisier, for using ether in refrigerating machines; but little or nothing came of either of these men's efforts, and it was not until the early part of the nineteenth century that refrigeration by mechanical means began to assume a practical form.
Page 242 - A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it, that the idea of the one determines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other.
Page 108 - truth clad in hell-fire." During the same year he delivered in London a series of lectures on German literature; in 1838 another series on The History of Literature, or the Successive Periods of European Culture...
Page 242 - We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have been always conjoin'd together, and which in all past instances have been found inseparable. We cannot penetrate into the reason of the conjunction.
Page 281 - But it was not until the early part of the Nineteenth Century that the general notion that the whole body of the higher organisms was composed of a mass of cells was gained.
Page 114 - It is proposed to found in the city of Washington, an institution which with the co-operation of institutions now or hereafter established, there or elsewhere, shall in the broadest and most liberal manner encourage investigation, research, and discovery — show the application of knowledge to the improvement of mankind, provide such buildings, laboratories, books, and apparatus, as may be needed ; and afford instruction of an advanced character to students properly qualified to profit thereby.
Page 260 - Sale, 94); but the result of the older authorities is, that there is by the law of England no warranty of title in the actual contract of sale, any more than there is of quality. The rule of caveat emptor applies to both; but if the vendor knew that he had no title, and concealed that fact, he was always held responsible to the purchaser as for a fraud, in the same way that he is if he knew of the defective quality.
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