Taxes
Taxes. The General Objects, Character, And Principles Of Taxation And Of Different Classes Of Taxes, Are Treated Of Under The Head Of Tax, Taxaries. In This Place It Is Proposed To Give A Short Summary Of The Amount And Description Of Taxes Paid In Great Britain And Ireland, Whether Aaaeesed ...
Taylors Theorem
Taylor's Theorem. We Propose In This Part Of The Article To Give Some Results Of The Methods Of Algebraical Development Which Are Consequences Of The Celebrated Theorem, The History Of Which Is Given In The Article Taylor, Benoit, In Moe. Div. The Simplest Parts Of The Differential And Integral Calculus ...
Tea And The Tea
Tea And The Tea Trade. Though Now So Extensively Employed, The Introduction Of Tea Into Europe Is Of Comparatively Recent Origin. Macpherson, In His ' Ilistory Of European Commerce With India,' States That "tea (aah) Is Mentioned As The Usual Beverage Of The Chinese By Soliman, An Arabian Merchant, Who ...
Team
Team. Nothing Is Of Greater Importance In The Management Of A Farm Than The Cattle Which Perform The Necessary Work In Ploughing And Other Operations On The Soil, In Drawing Manure To The Land And Carrying The Produce To Market. It Is Evident That The Smaller The Expense Of The ...
Teazle
Teazle (h;pwa•ss Polls•wes) Is • Plant Which Grows Will In The Hedges, But An Improved Variety Is Carefully Cultivated Ise Those Districts Et England Where Cloth In Manufactured. It Is Used Far The Purpose Of Feeming A Species Of Bnish With Which The Finer Hairs Of The Woollen Fabric Are ...
Teivkesbuily
Teivkesbuily, Gloucesterahire, An Ancient Market-town, Muni Cipal And Parliamentary Borough, And The Seat Of A Poor-law Union, In The Parish And Hundred Of Tewkesbury, Is Situated On The Loft Bank Of The Upper Avon, Near Its Junction With The Severn, In 51' 59' N. Hit., 2` 10' W. Long., Distant ...
Telescope
Telescope (from The Greek Telheopoa, Tnafokoros," Far-seeing"), An Optical Instrument Consisting Of A Tube Which Contains A System Of Glass Lenses Having All Their Centres In One Common Axis, Or A Tube Containing A Metallic Speculum In Combination With Such Lenses : By Either Kind Of Instrument Distant Objects Are ...
Tellurous Acid
Tellurous Acid (te0,). It Has Been Already Mentioned That When Tellurium Is Heated In Contact With Air, It Burns, And A White Vapour Is Formed : This Is Oxide Of Tellurium, Or Tellurous Acid. It May Also Be Obtained By The Action Of Nitric Acid On The Metal ; By ...
Temeswar
Temeswar. The Southern Part Of The Country Formerly Called Hungary, From The Danube And The Save On The South To Near 46' N. Lat. On The North, From Transylvania On The East To The Danube On The West, Has Been Recently Formed Into A Crownland Of The Austrian Empire, Called ...
Tempera31ent And Tuning
Tempera31ent And Tuning. Temperament Is The Name Given To The Discussion Of The Subject Of Which Tuning Is The Appli Cation; And Tuning Is The Art Of Adjusting The Several Sounds Of A Musical Instrument So As To Make Its Scale Approach To Correctness ; Also That Of Putting Two ...
Temperament
Temperament (temperatnnstam,uptlent) Is A Vague And Unsatisfac Tory Tenn,but It Is One Which As .1fayoobserves (' Pathology Of The Human Blind') Has Been Long And Generally Adopted As A Convenient Generalisa Tion. The Word Means Literally A Tempering, Or 'mixing Together, And May Be Defined To Be A Peculiar State ...
Temple
Temple (the Latin " Templum") A Building Set Apart For Religious Uses. What Is Known Of The Columnar Architecture Of The Nations Of Antiquity Is Derived Chiefly From Their Temples. In The Temples Of The Egyptians, It May Be Said To Display Itself Exclusively, And Like Wise Much More' Extensively ...
Ten By
Ten By, Pembrokeshire, A Market-town And Parliamentary Borough, Is Situated In 51° 40' N. 1st. 4° 41' W. Long., Distant 10 Miles E. From Pembroke, And 244 Miles W. By N. From London. The Population Of The Borough, Which Is Contributory To Pembroke In Returning A Member To The Imperial ...
Tenacity
Tenacity (from The Latin Tenacitas," The Power Of Holding "), A Property Of Material Bodies By Which Their Parts Resist An Effort To Force Them Asunder. This Property Is The Result Of The Corpuscular Forces Acting Within The Insensible Spaces Supposed To Exist Between The Particles Of Bodies; It Is ...
Tenaille
Tenaille, In Fortification, Is A Rampart Raised In The Main Ditch, Immediately In Front Of The Curtain Between Two Bastions; And In Its Most Simple Form, It Consists Of Two Faces Coinciding In Direction With The Faces Of The Bastions, And, Consequently, Forming With Each Other A Re-entering Angle. Generally, ...
Tenant In Tail
Tenant-in-tail. The Origin And General Nature Of Estates Tail Have Been Already Described. [estate; Remainder; Settle.men't.] The Estate Of The Tenant-in-tail Has Some Essential Characteristics. Ho Has A Right To Commit Waste Of All Kinds By Felling Timber, Pulling Down Houses, Opening Mines, And Doing Other Like Acts; And This ...
Tenant Right
Tenant Right. It Is Good Policy In The Owners Of Land To Give Liberal Acknowledgement Of The Tenant's Right To The Unexhsusted Im Provements Of The Land Which He Has Held, If Ho Should Be Forced To Leave It ; Because This Will Induto Him To Cultivate It With Energy ...
Tenant And Landlord
Tenant And Landlord. The Word Tenant, In The More Limited Legal Sense, Which Is Also The Popular Sense, Is One Who Holds Land Under Another, To Whom He Is Bound To Pay Rent, And Who Is Called His Landlord. The Word Land Means Not Only Land Itself, But Also All ...
Tenant In Fee Simple
Tenant In Fee-simple. A Tenancy In Fee-simple Is The Greatest Estate Which A Subject Can Have In Land. [tasuns.] The Possession Of An Estate In Fee-simple Involves A Complete Power Of Dis Position Over The Land; And After A Grant Made In Feo-simple The Grantor Has Parted With His Whole ...
Tender
Tender. A Tender Is The Offer To Perform Some Act. In Practice It Generally Consists In An Offer To Pay Money On Behalf Of A Party Indebted, Or Who Has Done Some Injury, To The Creditor, Or To The Party Injured. A Tender To The Amount Of 40s. May Be ...
Teniplemore
Teniplemore. [tirrenetee.) Tenasserili Is A Long Slip Of Country Lying Along The Upper Part Of The West Coast Of The Malay Peuinsula, Acquired From The Binnau Empire By The Peace Of Yaudobo, Iu 1826, And Forms Now A Province Of The Government Of I'enaug, In The Presidency Of Bengal. A ...
Tennessee
Tennessee, One Of The United States Of North America, Extends Between 33' And 36' 35' N. 81' 37' And 90' 23' 5y. Long. It, Is Bounded E. By North Carolina ; N.e. By Virginia; N. By Kentucky ; W. By Arkansas; And S. By Mississippi, Alabama, And Georgia. Its Form ...
Tenths
Tenths Are The Tenth Part Of The Yearly Value Of All Ecclesiastical Livings. They Were Formerly Claimed By The Pope; And His Claim Was Sanctioned, In This Country, By An Ordinance In The 20th Year Of Edward I., When A Valuation Of All Livings Was Made, In Order That The ...
Tenure
Tenure. The General Nature Of Tenure And Its Origin And History In England Are Explained In The Article Feudal Law. All Land Was And Is Held Of The Crown Either Mediately Or Imme Diately, The Tenure Being Either Free Or Base ; Frank-tenement Or Free Holding, And Villeinage. The Act ...
Tenure By Knights Service
Knight's Service, Tenure By, Otherwise Called Tenure In Chivalry, Or Per Service De Chivaler, Per Servitinin Iiulitare, Was, From The Times Immediately Succeeding The Norman Conquest In The 1 1 Th Century To The Period Of The Civil War In The 17th, Considered The First And The Most Important, As ...
Teos
Teos, Now Called Iltidrem, A Town Of Ionia, Situated On The South Side Of A Peuinsula Between The Gulf Of Smyrna And The Gulf Of Clazonieux, Very Near Cape Coerce, In 38' 15' N. Lat., 26' 30' E. Long. It Was Originally Colonised By 3linyte From Orchomenus, And Afterwards Strengthened ...
Terentian Metres
Terentian Metres. Few Subjects Connected With Latin Literature Have Been Treated With Lees Success Than The Principles And Laws Which Govern The Metres Of Latin Comedy. The Majority Of Readers Seem To Look Upon The Writings Of Plautus And Terence As Mere Bumble Prose Arbitrarily Distributed So As To Present ...
Teretinic Acid
Teretinic Acid. [tunes:m:1r.] Term (algebra). A Simple Term In An Algebraical Expression Means All That Involves Multiplication, Division,and Extraction Of Roots Without Addition Or Subtraction. Thus In The Expression Slab . The Terms Are A'b'x', And Vab X'. But Compound Quantities Are Also Called Terms When They Are Put In ...
Terminal
Terminal. 1ve Cannot Say That This Term Is Used In Mathematics To The Extent To Which We Shall Carry It ; But The Very Great Conveni Ence Which Would Arise From An Extension Of Its Use Is Sufficient Justi Fication For Coining A Few New Meanings. Term Is A Word ...
Terra Di Otiianto
O'tiianto, Terra Di, A Province Of The Kingdom Of The Two Sicilies, Occupies The Whole Lapygian, Or Messapian Peninsula, Which Forms The South-eastern Projection, Or Heel, Of Italy. It Is Bounded N.w. By The Provinces Of Bari And Basilicata, And By The Sea On Every Other Aide. Its Greatest Length ...
Terracina
Terraci'na, A Town In The States Of The Church, Near The Neapolitan Frontier, About 56 Miles S.e. From Rome, Has About 4000 Inhabitants. The Old Town, Which Is Built On The Site Of The Ancient Anxur, Rises In The Form Of An Amphitheatre On The Slope Of A Calca Reous ...
Terrestrial Light
Terrestrial Light. Aurora Borealis, Or Northern Lights, As They Have Hitherto Been Called, Is Now Generally Admitted To Be A Magnetic Phenomenon. [terrestrial Magnetism.] As Lightning Shows A Restoration To Equilibrium From A Disturbance In The Electrical Condition Of The Atmosphere, So These Northern And Southern Lights Denote The Conclusion ...
Terrestrial Magnetism
Terrestrial Magnetism. If A Magnetised Bar Of Steel Be Suspended By A- Fine Thread Attached To Its Middle Point, One Extremity Always Points Nearly To The North, The Other End Towards The South. Again, If A Bar Having A Fine Axle Through Its Centre Of Gravity, And Perpendicular To The ...
Tessera
Tessera, A Email Cube Or Square Resembling Our Dice, Which Was Used By Tho Ancients For Various Purposes, And Accordingly It Consisted Of Different Materials, As Marble, Precious Stones, Ivory, Glass, Wood, Or Mother-of-pearl. Such Small Tesserm Of Different Colours Were Used To Form The Mosaic Floors, Or Pavements In ...
Tetanus
Tetanus (titavos, Derived From Vcivco, To Stretch) Is Both A Generic And A Specific Term : Generically, It May Be Defined To Be A More Or Less Violent And Rigid Tam Of Many Or All Of The Muscles Of Voluntary Motion ; The Name Is Also Particularly Applied (as Will ...
Tetraciiord
Tetraciiord, The Greek Name For Any Part Of The Scale Con Sisting Of Four Notes, The Highest Of Which Is A Perfect Fourth To The Lowest. Thus In The Common Diatonic Scale (we Aseunio A Knowledge Of This Article Throughout) We Have The Following Tetrachonls We Despair Of Giving Anything ...
Teutonic Nations
Teutonic Nations Is The General Name Under Which Are Com Prised The Different Nations Of The Teutonic Race. These Are Divided Into Three Branches. The First Branch Contains The High Germans, To Whom Belong The Teutonic Inhabitants Of Upper And Middle Germany, Those Of Switzerland, And The Greater Part Of ...
Texas
Texas. One Of The United States Of North America, Lies Between 26' And 30' 30' N. 1st., 93' 30' And 106' W. Long. It Is Bounded K By State Of Louisiana; N.e. By That Of Arkansas ; N. By The Indian Territory; W. By The Territory Of New Mexico; S.w. ...
Tfleorapii
Tf:leorapii (from "distant," And Stpdow, " Write "), A Machine Or Process For Communicating Intelligence To A Distance, Usually By Means Of Preconcerted Signals, To Which Some Conventional Moaning Is Attached. The Name Semaphore (from " A Sign," And Fpipte, " Bear"), Was Also Applied To Some Of The Machines ...
Thaddeus Kosciusko
Kosciusko, Thaddeus, Was Born In 1756, Of A Noble But Not Wealthy Family Of Lithuania. After Studying First At Warsaw, And Afterwards At Paris, For The Military Profession, He Was Made A Captain Iu The Polish Army. He Afterwards Returned To Paris, And Volunteered To Accompany La Fayette Aud Others, ...
Thames
Thames, A Certain Jurisdiction, Though Not Undisputedly Exclusive, Appears To Have Been Immemorially Exercised Over Both The Fisheries And Navigation Of A Largo Portion Of The Thames By The Mayor And Corporation Of London. In Early Times, When Fisheries Were Probably Of Much Greater Importance Than They Are At Present, ...
Thames
Thames, The Most Important River In Great Britain, Rises In The Central Part Of England, And Flows Eastward Into The Germau Ocean. Our Description Will Comprehend A Notice Of Its Basin, Course, And Effluents, And Its Commercial Importance. Basin.—tho Limits Assignable To The Basin Of The Thames Will Depend On ...