The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge, Volume 23Encyclopedia Americana Corporation, 1919 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Page 31 - The Arte of English Poesie. Contriued into three Bookes : The first of POETS and POESIE, the second of PROPORTION, the third of ORNAMENT.
Page 281 - I am not worth purchasing; but such as I am, the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it.
Page 380 - We denounce Republican protection as a fraud ; a robbery of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few. We declare it to be a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that the Federal Government has no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties, except for the purpose of revenue only, and we demand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of the Government when honestly and economically administered.
Page 378 - Government by duties upon imports, sound policy requires such an adjustment of these imposts as to encourage the development of the industrial interests of the whole country; and we commend that policy of National exchanges which secures to the workingmen liberal wages, to agriculture remunerative prices, to mechanics and manufacturers an adequate reward for their skill, labor, and enterprise, and to the nation commercial prosperity and independence.
Page 378 - That, while providing revenue for the support of the general government by duties upon imports, sound policy requires such an adjustment of these imports as to encourage the development of the industrial interests of the whole country...
Page 113 - Stefan-Boltzmann law states that the total energy of a black body is proportional to the fourth power of its absolute temperature.
Page 329 - He that believeth and is baptised^ shall be saved. He that believeth not, shall be damned
Page 23 - If it consists in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed or putrid animal or vegetable substance, or any portion of an animal unfit for food whether manufactured or not, or if it is the product of a diseased animal, or one that has died otherwise than by slaughter. SEC. 8. That the term "misbranded...
Page 335 - Durkheim defines a religion as "a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say. things set apart and forbidden — beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them.
Page 24 - Son was this day presented in the temple in substance of our flesh, so we may be presented unto thee with pure and clean hearts, by the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.