... constant, and the radius ofthe earth being fifteen hundredleagues, there must be a temperature of 360 ,0 32 degrees at the centreof the earth Therefore, all the substances that compose the body ofthis ... "All the theories of science demonstrate such a feat to beimpracticable." "The theories say that, they?" replied the Professor in the toneof a meek disciple "Oh! unpleasant theories! How the theories ... penetrated into the fissuresof the crust ofthe earth, they broke out into fresh combustion withexplosions and eruptions Such was the cause ofthe numerousvolcanoes at the origin ofthe earth." "Upon...
... would lie farther away, to the side or rear, watching the outlines ofthe man and the occasional movements of his body And often, such was the communion in which they lived, the strength of Buck's ... his life, which was something; but, further, he was the ideal master Other men saw to the welfare of their dogs from a sense of duty and business expediency; he saw to the welfare of his as if they ... was a thing ofthe wild, come in from the wild to sit by John Thornton's fire, rather than a dog ofthe soft Southland stamped with the marks of generations of civilization Because of his very...
... that the beast can the trick." The Eldorado emptied its occupants into the street to see the test The tables were deserted, and the dealers and gamekeepers came forth to see the outcome ofthe ... knock the runners loose, leaving Buck to "break it out" from a dead standstill Matthewson insisted that the phrase included breaking the runners from the frozen grip ofthe snow A majority ofthe ... in the Eldorado Saloon, in which men waxed boastful of their favorite dogs Buck, because of his record, was the target for these men, and Thornton was driven stoutly to defend him At the end of...
... "hand-offs" from the outpatient to the inpatient environment, from the critical care unit to a general medicine floor, and from the hospital to the outpatient environment Clearly, one ofthe important ... tolerable Trends in the Delivery of Health Care: A Challenge to the Humane Physician Many trends in the delivery of health care tend to make medical care impersonal These trends, some of which have ... because of medical errors, but others of which reflect an unrealistic expectation on the part of many patients that their disease will be cured or that complications will not occur during the course...
... formal and the informal, the regular and the offbeat, the general and the special, the orthodox and the heretical, the beginner err on the side of conservatism, on the side of established usage No ... sparing use of 20 care less, misuse of 42 case of pronouns 11-13 case (noun), misuse of 42 certainly 42 character, misuse of 42 claim (verb) 42- 43 clarity in writing 79 clause(s) punctuation of 3-7 ... segments of their society, each speaking a language of its own All of us come under the spell of these unsettling drums; the problem for beginners is to listen to them, learn the words, feel the vibrations,...
... button to a window, the height ofthe button may automatically be adjusted to accommodate the height ofthe text ofthe button’s label and the border ofthe button If the values ofthe frame rectangle ... know the basics of working with the BPictureButton class, the details of enhancing your picture buttons will be a quick read in the BPictureButton sectionofthe Interface Kit chapterofthe Be ... Again"); The labels of other types of controls are changed in the same manner The last example project in this chapter, the TextField project, sets the label of a button to a string entered by the...
... coincidence, the card ofthe author ofthe manuscript was brought to the "reader." The men were close friends Hastily gathering up the manuscript, the critic shoved the work into a drawer of his desk, ... came in the shape of what they had earned There were exceptions here and there, as there are to every rule; but the majority of these, he soon found, were more in the seeming than in the reality ... himself, the rule of Edward Bok's life XII Baptism Under Fire The personnel ofthe Scribner house was very youthful from the members ofthe firm clear down the line It was veritably a house of young...
... Atmospheric pressure held them together In 164 8, Blaise Pascal showed that the weight of a column of air was less at the top of a 4000-foot ( 122 0m) mountain than at the bottom In 166 0, the Hon Robert Boyle ... to 26 5 ,1 82 in 1914 and to 65 0,148 by 1 920 In 1938, 444,877 vehicles were produced in Britain and 2, 489,085 in the United States There are some 22 million cars in Britain today The rest ofthe ... formulated the Gas Laws and demonstrated the maximum height that water could be drawn by a suction pump Others took up the theme of producing a vacuum by the condensation of steam In 165 9 the Marquis of...
... the identity ofthe first patient cannot hinge on the fate ofthe other Suppose both operations succeed; then one could say to either ofthe resulting persons: ‘Count yourself lucky: if the other ... to depend upon the identity of physical things I have earlier in this chapter suggested that it is a matter ofthe identity ofthe whole body rather than ofthe identity of parts of it, such as ... on the contrary, one the animal—thinks and has experiences in virtue ofthe fact that the other the minimal owner—does so These are not independent owners of mental states because one of them—the...
... doctrine ofthe separation of powers Since the legislature has a monopoly on making law, the only 27 Roncarelli, at 166 –7 28 [1934] OR 421 at 428 (CA), cited at 167 of Roncarelli 134 taking the administrative ... accordance with the boundaries imposed in the statute, the principles ofthe rule of law, the principles of administrative law, the fundamental values of Canadian society, and the principles ofthe Charter’.38 ... discussion which reveals Rand J’s understanding ofthe substantive content ofthe rule of law and thus of what one might call the constitution of legality 22 24 23 In Roncarelli, Taschereau, Cartwright,...
... standards to 21 22 23 24 25 See Frederick Schauer, Playing by the Rules (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), 1 96 Id., 20 3 115 N.Y 5 06, 22 N.E 188 (1889) 32 N.J 358, 161 A.2d 69 (1 960 ) Schauer offers a ... Practical Difference Thesis) Most ofthe articles in Legal Theory volume 6, no (20 00) also discuss Shapiro’s thesis The Nature of Law 93 the uncertainty of such standards, but on the fact that such ... explanations for the force of promise capture convincingly the dimensions ofthe practice Consequentialist accounts focus on the harms caused by the breach of a promise – primarily the impact ofthe breach...