Journal of the Society of Arts, Volume 53Society of Arts, 1905 |
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... increase of students in evening classes in years when trade is bad has always been considerably larger then when trade is good , and it may be that in the coming year when trade is not in a flourishing condition , the increase may even ...
... increase of students in evening classes in years when trade is bad has always been considerably larger then when trade is good , and it may be that in the coming year when trade is not in a flourishing condition , the increase may even ...
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... increase in the production of cotton in the United States during the last 30 years . In 1875 the total American production was 4,632,313 bales , it now exceeds eleven million bales , but the exports have not , proportionately , increased ...
... increase in the production of cotton in the United States during the last 30 years . In 1875 the total American production was 4,632,313 bales , it now exceeds eleven million bales , but the exports have not , proportionately , increased ...
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... increase of tonnage was not carried out at the expense of the competing railways , as on the contrary , the quantities of goods reaching and leaving Antwerp by railway show also a marked increase . The net result of a careful study of ...
... increase of tonnage was not carried out at the expense of the competing railways , as on the contrary , the quantities of goods reaching and leaving Antwerp by railway show also a marked increase . The net result of a careful study of ...
Página 53
... increase in population , and a greater individual rate of consumption conse- quent upon increased wealth and altered habits , would keep prices at a profitable level , and foster the growth of wheat . Up to 1874-5 this is pretty much ...
... increase in population , and a greater individual rate of consumption conse- quent upon increased wealth and altered habits , would keep prices at a profitable level , and foster the growth of wheat . Up to 1874-5 this is pretty much ...
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... increase of debts without considering any increase in the value of assets is not reasonable . It may , for example , be contended that the railway companies increased their burden of debt from £ 560,000,000 in 1872 to £ 1,217,000,000 in ...
... increase of debts without considering any increase in the value of assets is not reasonable . It may , for example , be contended that the railway companies increased their burden of debt from £ 560,000,000 in 1872 to £ 1,217,000,000 in ...
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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.