for each load of firewood and bumed the master and his consort. In the past, the smoke had ceased after seven days of burning, but now even after twenty-one days, the smoke did not stop. The king told his ministers to go and investigate. No one had the courage to go and look. The king, [...]
role of hypotheses, especially of the atomistic one; he also did interesting research on the methodological status of statistical laws, considering chance, which forms the basis of these laws (so-called ‘calculable chance’) to be a special kind of causal relation. The biologists, Benedykt Dybowski (1833-1930) and J6zef Nussbaum-Hilarowicz (1859-1917), engaged in polemics with Catholic philosophers [...]
With the exception of the 1805-1818 period, observations were recorded for all years, although a few involved very restricted areas (e.g., the environs surrounding a fur-trading post). The other geographic limitation was that there were considerably more observations in the ccntral plains than in the northern and southern regions simply because the Platte, Arkansas, and [...]
The purpose of this book is to show how this area, with its three dominant characteristics, affected the various peoples, nations as well as individuals, who came to take and occupy it, and was affected by them; for this land, with the unity given it by its three dominant characteristics, has from the beginning worked [...]
This leaves on the bystanders the impression – since wc cannot reasonably deny the existence of the object – that our account of truth breaks down, and that our critics have driven us from the field. Altho in various places in this volume I try to refute the slanderous chargc that wc denv real existence, [...]
The juice of acid fruits has been preserved in different ways; but ail are too expensive for general use, and the more practicable methods rarely preserve the juices unchanged. Lemon juice, boiled down to the consistence of a rob, is changed in its quality: the mucilage is burnt, and the acid partly decomposed. Some decomposition [...]
I wish they could as easily assist my gratitude, as tbey convince me of the great and growing engagements it has to your lordship. This I am sure, I should write of the understanding without having any, if I were not extremely sensible of them, and did. not lay hold on this op* portunity to [...]
Modern practice employs few remedies. Yet, as we have more than once shown, simplicity of prescription is the delusive meteor that has sometimes led us astray. (See Combination of medicines.) In general, however, we agree with an author, whose name has escaped us, that long formulae are proofs of either ignorance or deceit.
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rst divide all its adhesions internally with a scalpel, and with a straight pair of scissars, or rather with a sharp scalpel, as the scissars bruise the parts, cut off the callous edges, so as to make an angle at its upper part. The operator must then pierce the upj»2r end of the divided part [...]
As regards the agreeable everyone acknowledges that his judgment, which he bases on a private feeling and by which he says that he likes some object, is by the same token confined to his own person. Hence, if he says that canary wine is agreeable he is quite content if someone else corrects his terms [...]
