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Of Slits Or Action
Of Slits Or Action& 1. Wrongs Or Injuries, Which Are An Infringement Of The Civil Rights Of Individuals, Are Remedied, Either, I. By The Acts Of The Parties. Or, 2. By The Operation Of Law. Redress By The Latter Of These Modes, (of Which Only I We Arc Here To ...

Of Spandrels And Wing
Of Spandrels And Wing Walls. When The Arches Have Been Completed, And The Cen Tres Removed, The Points Of The Piers Are Brought Up, And Are Either Finished At Some Distance Above High Wa Ter Mark, By Sloping Them Back To The Face Of The Span Drel, In Either A ...

Of Taxation The
Of Taxation. The Primary Object Of Political Economy Is The Develop Ment Of National Wealth ; But The Object Of All Governments, Since They Began To Bestow Any Attention On This Subject, Has Been To Participate In This Wealth, And To Acquire The Disposal Of A Greater Share Of The ...

Of Tdb Materials Of
Of Tdb :materials Of Gardening. Style Of Gardening We Adopt, The Materials With Which We Work, In Order To Obtain The Desired Effect, Are The Same. Those Of Nature Arc, Ground, Wood, Water, And Rocks ; To These, Art Has Added Buildings ; Roads, Walks, Fences, And Animated Or Moving ...

Of Temperaments And Varieties
Of Temperaments And Varieties Liesines These Differences In The Form And Structure Of The Brain And The Contiguous Parts, There Are Other Origi Nal Differences, Of A More Decided And Less Equivocal Na Ture, In The General Organization Of The Body. When These Belong To A Certain Number Of Individuals ...

Of Tiie Circulation Of
Of Tiie Circulation Of The Blood. After These Remarks Upon The Nature Of Contractility After These Remarks Upon The Nature Of Contractility And Sensibility, We Must Proceed To The Consideration Of The Different Functions Which Depend Upon The Action Of These Powers ; And, According To The Plan Which Has ...

Of The Arches
Of The Arches. The Centres Being Placed, And Properly Secured, The Setting The Archstones Is Proceeded With. The Masonry Of The Piers And Abutments, Near To The Springing, Is Carefully Adjusted ; And It Is Usual, Immediately Under The Commencement Of The Curvature, To Lay A Capping, String, Or Cordon ...

Of The Blood
Of The Blood. Having Described The Course Which The Blood Pursues Along The Different Parts Of The Sanguiferous System, We Must Now Proceed To Consider The Nature Of This Fluid. Blood May Be Regarded Both In A Chemical And A Physio Logical Point Of View ; Either As It Is ...

Of The Decay Of
Of The Decay Of Tile System. Although We Have Found It Difficult To Ascertain The Although We Have Found It Difficult To Ascertain The Efficient Cause Of Sleep, Its Final Cause Is Obviously To Af Ford Rest To The Nervous System, By Which It May Repair The Waste That Necessarily ...

Of The Earth
Of The Earth. It Does Not Appear, On Reflection, That Any Other Proba Ble Cause Can Be Assigned For A Total Destruction Of Marine Animals; As We Have No Reason Whatever To Suppose A Change In The Chemical Constitution Of The Ocean; And As, Whatever Changes The General Surface May ...

Of The Fall Under
Of The Fall Under Bridges. The Piers Of A Bridge Form An Obstacle In The Way Of The Waters, And Will Cause Them To Rise Above The General Level. The Same Body Of Water Which Flows In The Open Channel Must Be Conveyed Through The Openings Of The Bridge. The ...

Of The Law Of
Of The Law Of Nations. I, Eac N Nation Being Considered As A Moral Being Liv Ing In A State Of Nature, The Obligations Of One Nation To Wards Another Are No More Than Those Of Individuals Modi Fied And Applied To Nations ; And This Is What Is Called ...

Of The Law Of
Of The Law Of England. Following The Method Of Justinian's Body Of The Rofollowing The Method Of Justinian's Body Of The Ro- Man Law, Modern Writers Of Digests Or Institutes Of The Codes Of Their Respective Countries Have Commonly Arranged Their Subject Tinder The Three );;eat Titles Of Rights Of ...

Of The Nervous System
Of The Nervous System. After Having Described In The Last Chapter One Of The After Having Described In The Last Chapter One Of The Appropriate Powers Of The Animal System, Contractility, And The Organ By Which It Is Exercised, We Must Proceed To The Other Exclusive Property Of Animal Life, ...

Of The Practice Of
Of The Practice Of The Art Of Laying Out Grounds. The Question Has Been Agitated By Some Respectable Authorities, Whether Every Proprietor Ought Not To Become His Own Landscape Gardener ; To Whit H Mr. Repton Replies, "that Had The Art Still Continued Under The Direction Of Working-gardeners, Or Nursery-men, ...

Of The Reproductive Organs
Of The Reproductive Organs Of Foliose Iviusti. The Flowers Of Mosses Are In Most Instances Moncc Cious ; In A Considerable Number Are They Dicecious ; Very Rarely Are They Polygamous (bryum Palustre); And Equally Rarely Are They Bisexual Or United (bartramia Porniformis, Bryum Trichodcs.) Mosses In General Are Fond ...

Of The Rights Of
Of The Rights Of Persons. I. The Most Universal Public Relation By Which Men Are Connected Together Is That Of Government ; Namely, As Go• Venurs And Governed ; Or, In Other Words, As Magistrates And People. 2. Parliament Is The Legislative Branch Of The Supreme Power Of Great Britain ...

Of The Roadway
Of The Roadway. In Places Of Great Thoroughfare, There Arc Usually Foot Paths : Indeed, For The Protection And Comfort Of Foot Pas Sengers, Who Form The Greatest Proportion Of Mankind, Footpaths Ought To He Made Along Every Bridge, And Also Every Road. Nothing Can Be More Degrading And Unfair, ...

Of The Scale Of
Of The Scale Of Solidity. By A Scale Of Solidity, We Are To Understand A Method Employed By Naval- Architects, For Ascertaining The Displacement Of A Ship, At Different Depths Below The Load Water Line, By Means Of A Curve, Whose Abscissae D To The Respective Draughts Of Water, And ...

Of The Union Of
Of The Union Of The Constitven Scenes In Ing Residences Of Particular Characters. In The Preceding Chapter We Have Given A General Idea Of The Parts Or Scenes, And Their Connection, Which Enter Into A Palace Or A Complete Residence Of The First Order. We Have Now To Notice Their ...