Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, Том 12

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Neill & Company, 1891
Vol. 1- includes the proceedings of the society.
 

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Сторінка 140 - ... into three parts ; the rent of land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock ; and constitutes a revenue to three different orders of people ; to those who live by rent, to those who live by wages, and to those who live by profit.
Сторінка 60 - Her Majesty's Government certainly cannot undertake to use their influence with the Sultan to induce him to give permission for the construction of this canal, because for the last fifteen years Her Majesty's Government have used all the influence they possess at Constantinople and in Egypt to prevent that scheme from being carried into execution.
Сторінка 6 - SIR, I have had the honour to lay before the Queen the loyal and dutiful Address of the...
Сторінка 385 - ... will by this means acquire a superiority, which will almost equal anything that has been done at any time by the particular excellence of any one kind of arms; and will perhaps fall but little short of the wonderful effects, which histories relate to have been formerly produced by the first inventors of fire-arms.
Сторінка 6 - I have had the honour to lay before The Queen the loyal and dutiful Address of the President...
Сторінка 140 - These are the three great, original, and constituent orders of every civilised society, from whose revenue that of every other order is ultimately derived.
Сторінка 100 - At first there came over only phlegm, afterwards a black oil, and then, likewise, a spirit arose which I could no ways condense ; but it forced my lute and broke my glasses. Once when it had forced my lute, coming close thereto, in order to try to repair it, I observed that the spirit which issued out caught fire at the flame of the candle, and continued burning with violence as it issued out in a stream, which I blew out, and lighted again alternately several times.
Сторінка 148 - ... college where the leading objects shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the...
Сторінка 154 - The principles influencing the supply of plant food in the soil, the necessity for cultivation, and the circumstances making tillage more or less effective.
Сторінка 102 - The single invention of artificial light has extended the available term of his life by giving the night to his use ; it has, by the social intercourse it encourages, polished his manners and refined his taste, — perhaps, as much as anything else, has aided in his intellectual progress.

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