Archives of Useful Knowledge, Volume 1

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David Hogan, 1811
 

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Page ii - An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and...
Page ii - IDE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " Inductive Grammar, designed for beginners. By an Instructer." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 379 - It is to be regretted that so little attention has been paid to the chemical nature of the nodules.
Page 413 - ... to be published in one or more newspapers, printed in the United States, for the space of four weeks.
Page 411 - He shall, furthermore, accompany the whole with a drawing, or drawings, and written references, where the nature of the case admits of drawings, or with specimens of ingredients, and of the composition of matter, sufficient in quantity for the purpose of experiment, where the invention or discovery is of a composition of matter...
Page 409 - State, when he presents his petition ; and' the money thus paid shall be in full for the sundry services to be performed in the office of the Secretary of State...
Page 375 - Mr. Bakewell had, certainly, the merit of destroying the absurd prejudice 'which formerly prevailed against breeding from animals between whom there was any degree of relationship. Had this opinion been universally acted upon, no one could have been said to be possessed of a particular breed, good or bad; for the produce of one year would have been dissimilar to that of another, and we should have availed ourselves but little of an animal of superior merit, that we might have had the good fortune...
Page 409 - States may be issued, granting unto your petitioner, his heirs, administrators, or assigns, the full and exclusive right of making, constructing, using, and vending to others to be used, his said improvement, [art, invention, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, &c.] agreeably to the acts of Congress in such case made and provided : your petitioner having paid thirty dollars into the treasury of the United States, and complied with the other provisions of the said acts.
Page 317 - The inflammation at the same time seizes on the membranes of the nostrils, and those lining the bones of the nose ; particularly the nasal portion of the ethmoid bone. These membranes are often inflamed to such a degree, as to occasion extravasation of blood, which I have observed coagulated on their surface. The breathing is short and quick, and the breath is often fetid. The teeth are covered with dark-looking mucus.
Page 337 - More than thirty years ago this subject presented itself to my mind, on seeing some water-shoots, which had been pitched and painted in the common way, taken down in a state of complete rottenness. I had read that charcoal, buried in the moist earth, had come down to us perfectly sound from the times of the Romans ; and that posts long withstood the same moisture, if the part intended to be put into the ground was charred all round to a certain depth. Impressed with these facts, I determined to try...

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