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Página 62 - have taken place less than 20,000,000 years ago, or we should have more underground heat than we actually have, nor more than 400,000,000 years ago, or we should not have so much as the least observed underground increment of temperature. That is to say, I conclude that
Página 111 - all space with a new medium whenever any new phenomenon is to be explained; and since two branches of science had independently suggested a medium requiring the same properties to account for the same phenomena in each, the evidence for the existence of a single medium for both kinds of physical phenomena was thereby
Página 453 - IN 1793 the first Parliament of Upper Canada, in its second session, passed "An Act to prevent the further introduction of slaves and to limit the term of contracts for servitude within the province." The slaves for whose benefit this act was passed had been introduced under the authority of an act of the British Parliament, 30 George
Página 301 - animals of the chase. The southern Indians always threw a small piece of the fattest of the meat into the fire when eating or before they began to eat. They commonly pulled their newly-killed venison several times through the smoke of the fire, perhaps as a sacrifice and perhaps to consume
Página 111 - theory may be briefly enumerated:— 1. An electromagnetic wave or undulation is propagated through the ether with a velocity equal to the ratio of the electromagnetic to the electrostatic unit of quantity. If light is an electromagnetic phenomenon its velocity must also be equal to this same
Página 398 - help it—to come to us; and it seems beyond theory and more than a " glittering generality " to expect it soon for "No pent-up Utica contracts our powers, but the whole boundless Continent is (or will eventually be) ours.
Página 311 - festival. Compare Numbers xxxv, 12 : "And they shall be with you cities of refuge from the avenger, that the man-slayer die not until he stand before the congregation in judgment." The functions of the avenger of blood are only referred to in the Pentateuch, but were well known in ordinary cases. The law treats of the exceptional circumstances of an accidental homicide. There is a trace, in Deuteronomy
Página 323 - words of the sage who gave as the reason for his disbelief in ghosts that he had seen too many of them. " Now as to myself I have so described these matters as I have found them and read them, but if any one is
Página 62 - We must allow very wide limits in such an estimate as I have attempted to make; but I think we may with much probability say that the consolidation caunot have taken place less than
Página xxiv - purchasing, holding and conveying real and personal property, which it now is, or hereafter may be, possessed of, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to the restrictions, duties and liabilities set forth in the general laws which now or hereafter may be in force and applicable to such corporations. SECTION 2. Said corporation may have and hold by purchase, grant,

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