The Project Gutenberg EBook of Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by W Warde Fowler doc

... access to the sea by the river or by land, and an open way inland up the one great natural entrance from the sea into central Italy.[8] SOCIAL LIFE AT ROME IN THE AGE OF CICERO BY W. WARDE FOWLER, ... if it were cleft in twain by the Tiber, or in other words, the Tiber drains the greater part of central Italy, and carries the water down a we...

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... Museum, which was "illuminated from basement to attic." We sailed on the "George Law," arriving at Aspinwall, the eastern terminal of the Panama Railroad, in ten days. Crossing the ... be readily secured at the going wages of one dollar a day. My grandfather was the oldest of the brothers. When he married Betsy Buss his father set aside for him tw...

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... Both were good workers, and we anticipated having a rather fine time at the lake. In the woods on the west shore, nearly Other things, however, other duties and other work at the farm immediately occupied ... He said that we might take the new kit, and have all we could make. On that, we notified them all to come and begin drawing home their cakes the following Monday mornin...

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... camp. The singing for five or ten minutes, chanting the multiplication tables, the names of the states, the largest cities of the country, or even the Books of the Bible. At other times he would ... that was what old Joel was doing, for four or five weeks afterwards. He had Theodora and Catherine copy out page after page of it— as many as twenty pages. He wanted us e...

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... and of a definite course of things, which we term the course of Nature, has emerged. But, once originated, the conception of the constancy of the order of Nature has become the dominant idea of ... time, and in the present state of things, it by no means necessarily follows that we are justified in expanding this generalisation into the infinite past, and...

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... But Produced by David Widger LITERATURE AND LIFE The Project Gutenberg EBook of Literature and Life, by William Dean Howells This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost ... physician, known to a few people in a subordinate city. In view of this fact, so humiliating to an author in the presence of a nation of business men like...

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... grandee of Spain, I would be made a lady -in- waiting to the Queen instead of maid of honour; so I know what they're thinking of always. But while mother hopes you have given me up, and that I'm ... could I lose life itself. If she were the Princess who was to be Queen of Spain, I would follow her to Madrid, come what might, just for the joy of breathing the ai...

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... A man weighs 36 pounds more than his wife, and the sum of their weights is 317 pounds. What is the weight of each? 17. A watch and chain cost $350. What was the cost of each, if the chain cost 3 4 as ... that it will diminish that number by its value. It shows a relation rather than an operation. Negative numbers are the second of the two things referred to on page 7, t...

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... of considerable importance in the consideration of the problem of the cooling of the earth’s crust. In the problem of the permanent state of temperatures in a thin rectangular plate, the equation ... edges, which we shall call the base of the plate, is kept at the temperature unity, and that the temperatures of points in the plate decrease ind...

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... on a plate moving in declination at the same rate that an equatorial star moves in R. A. All trails will then have the same exposure. The rate of the clock which drives the plate in declination ... declination, since the line of zeros of the compass circle may not be in the same plane with the line of collimation (as, of course, it should be). The readi...

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