Journal of the Society of Arts, Volume 53Society of Arts, 1905 |
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Página 43
... districts which seemed doomed to decay . The State railways were constructed at the cost of the nation , and after considerable discussion as to the means of working them to the best advantage they were handed over to a private company ...
... districts which seemed doomed to decay . The State railways were constructed at the cost of the nation , and after considerable discussion as to the means of working them to the best advantage they were handed over to a private company ...
Página 46
... districts where there is a considerable mineral traffic , or between the ports and the great centres of industry in the Midlands , canal traffic may be developed to economic advantage , but a sparsely populated district , or one along ...
... districts where there is a considerable mineral traffic , or between the ports and the great centres of industry in the Midlands , canal traffic may be developed to economic advantage , but a sparsely populated district , or one along ...
Página 47
... district imports something like 1,700,000 tons a year of copper , tin , lead , iron ore , and zinc . Roughly speaking , in food and raw materials , the district imports about 3,000,000 tons annually . Every shilling a ton saved means ...
... district imports something like 1,700,000 tons a year of copper , tin , lead , iron ore , and zinc . Roughly speaking , in food and raw materials , the district imports about 3,000,000 tons annually . Every shilling a ton saved means ...
Página 49
... districts very greatly indeed by some expenditure of the kind . The author had referred to the great producing district of the Midlands of which Birming- ham was the centre , and which naturally desired means of communication with the ...
... districts very greatly indeed by some expenditure of the kind . The author had referred to the great producing district of the Midlands of which Birming- ham was the centre , and which naturally desired means of communication with the ...
Página 55
... districts . A few , e.g. , the cypress pines of the western districts , and the ironbarks of Dubbo ( and thence to the north - east ) are found in the drier parts of the State . The commercial timbers of this State are now being ...
... districts . A few , e.g. , the cypress pines of the western districts , and the ironbarks of Dubbo ( and thence to the north - east ) are found in the drier parts of the State . The commercial timbers of this State are now being ...
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Página 60 - Nobody, however, who has paid any attention to the peculiar features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end to which, indeed, all history points, the realization of the Unity of Mankind!
Página 113 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Página 275 - The East bow'd low before the blast In patient, deep disdain; She let the legions thunder past, And 'plunged in thought again.
Página 504 - First, I desire such an alteration of our fiscal system as will give us a freedom of action impossible while we hold ourselves bound by the maxim that no taxation should be imposed except for revenue. I desire this freedom in the main for three reasons. It will strengthen our hands in any negotiations by which we may hope to lower foreign hostile tariffs. It may enable us to protect the fiscal independence of those Colonies which desire to give us preferential treatment. It may be useful where we...
Página 153 - The story of this piece is taken from a pamphlet entitled " News " from Perin in Cornwall, of a ' most bloody and unexampled ' Murther, very lately committed ' by a Father on his owne Sonne ' (who was lately returned from ' the Indyes), at the Instigation ' of a merciless Stepmother. To' gether with their several most ' wretched Endes ; being all per' formed in the Month of Sep
Página 98 - Two or more independent inventions can not be claimed in one application; but where several distinct inventions are dependent upon each other and mutually contribute to produce a single result...
Página 437 - ... there were many families of old bushi, or families which were quite equal in their standing to the bushi class. Moreover, the spirit of Bushido has also been making its influence felt by other people. Thus we can see that the nation has been preparing itself for centuries for the promotion of moral ideas of the same kind as those of Bushido. The cardinal points of oriental ethics, as may be expected, are loyalty and filial piety. In China filial piety takes precedence, but in Japan loyalty stands...
Página 3 - The Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce of the Country, by bestowing rewards for such productions, inventions, or improvement:: as tend to the employment of the poor, to the increase of trade, and to the riches and honour of the kingdom...
Página 442 - for having established, after most laborious research, the true relation between heat, electricity, and mechanical work, thus affording to the engineer a sure guide in the application of science to industrial pursuits.
Página 443 - for the services he has rendered to the United Kingdom by affording to engineers engaged in the water supply and the sewage of towns a trustworthy basis for their work, by establishing and carrying on during nearly forty years systematic observations (now at over 3,000 stations) of the rainfall of the British Isles, and by recording, tabulating, and graphically indicating the results of these observations in the annual volumes published by himself.