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... cause of science we owe the discove- ries in natural history made by Kalm , Os- beck , Hasselquist and Loefling . He was employed by the queen of Sweden to de- scribe her museum at Drottningholm , when he made a new scientific arrange ...
... cause of science we owe the discove- ries in natural history made by Kalm , Os- beck , Hasselquist and Loefling . He was employed by the queen of Sweden to de- scribe her museum at Drottningholm , when he made a new scientific arrange ...
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... cause . ( See his letters , in the Diplomatic Correspond- ence of the Revolution . ) At the adoption of the constitution of New York , he was appointed chancellor of that state , which office he held until he went , in 1801 , to France ...
... cause . ( See his letters , in the Diplomatic Correspond- ence of the Revolution . ) At the adoption of the constitution of New York , he was appointed chancellor of that state , which office he held until he went , in 1801 , to France ...
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... cause , during the war of inde- pendence . In the water , they are very rapid in their motions , and , when sud- denly alarmed , can spring to a great dis- tance . They attain their retreat in a rock with surprising dexterity , throwing ...
... cause , during the war of inde- pendence . In the water , they are very rapid in their motions , and , when sud- denly alarmed , can spring to a great dis- tance . They attain their retreat in a rock with surprising dexterity , throwing ...
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... causes them to adhere . In other respects their locomotion is effected like that of other walking animals . Birds perform ... cause the weight of the head , which is carried above water , is , in them , a smaller proportional part of the ...
... causes them to adhere . In other respects their locomotion is effected like that of other walking animals . Birds perform ... cause the weight of the head , which is carried above water , is , in them , a smaller proportional part of the ...
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... cause of some of those desolating pesti- lences which almost depopulate whole districts of country . When locusts thus make their appearance , they are said to have a leader , whose flight they observe , and to whose motions they pay a ...
... cause of some of those desolating pesti- lences which almost depopulate whole districts of country . When locusts thus make their appearance , they are said to have a leader , whose flight they observe , and to whose motions they pay a ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 368 - Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Página 333 - But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort ? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.
Página 487 - That whenever the United States shall be invaded, or be in imminent danger of invasion from any foreign nation or Indian tribe, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to call forth such number of the militia of the State, or States, most convenient to the place of danger, or scene of action, as he may judge necessary to repel such invasion, and to issue his orders for that purpose to such officer or officers of the militia as he shall think proper.
Página 240 - States authorizes the supreme court " to issue writs of mandamus, in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of the United States.
Página 309 - States, but shall so far consider himself as counsel for the prisoner, after the said prisoner shall have made his plea, as to object to any leading question to any of the witnesses, or any question to the prisoner, the answer to which might tend to criminate himself...
Página 370 - The change of motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
Página 427 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Página 75 - It is near six inches in length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, the former being about half an inch, and the latter two inches and a half.
Página 370 - To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.
Página 345 - Arnold, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of BA in 1846.