Winston's Cumulative Loose-leaf Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Work, Volumen1Thomas Edward Finegan John C. Winston Company, 1922 |
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Página 9 - Hindoos of every class, one subject of diversion is to send people on errands and expeditions that are to end in disappointment, and raise a laugh at the expense of the person sent.
Página 10 - From that time, like everything else which falls into the hands of the Mussulman, it has been going to ruin, and the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope gave the deathblow to its commercial greatness.
Página 16 - Anemometers. — Instruments for measuring either the force or the velocity of the wind are called anemometers. Its force is usually measured by Osier's anemometer, in which the pressure of the wind is received upon a square plate attached to one end of a spiral spring (with its axis horizontal), which yields more or less according to the force of the wind, and transmits its motion to a pencil which leaves a trace upon paper moved by clock-work. It seems that the force received by the plate is not...
Página 10 - Modern dwellinghouses have necessarily a style of their own, as far as stories and apartments, and windows and chimnies, can give them one. No more of the styles of former ages can be applied to them, than what may be called the unessential and decorative parts. In general, the Grecian style, from its right angles and straight entablatures, is more convenient and fits better with the distribution of our common edifices, than the pointed and irregular Gothic. The expense, also, is generally less,...
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Página 7 - BC, which became one of the first cities of ancient times. Thence he marched through the Libyan desert, in order to consult the oracle of Jupiter Ammon, whose priest saluted him as a son of Jove ; and at the return of spring went against Darius, who had assembled an army in Assyria. A battle ensued, in...