 | 1904 - 698 pages
...derived, to defray the cost of a specific improvement to property undertaken in the public interest. It may be as well to say at the outset that the use of special assessments is much more general in the United States of America than elsewhere, due partly... | |
 | Cambridge Philosophical Society - 1910 - 682 pages
...maintained that the canal-ra ys are straight, the curvature of the boundaries of the beam beingexplained by supposing that they are merely the envelopes of...obstacle to the discharge in general, its introduction J V Fig. 2. Fig. 3. Fig. 4Fig. 5. Fig. 6. Fig. 7. may produce great changes in the electrostatic field,... | |
 | George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1926 - 768 pages
...I hope, in this First Book, to indicate a little how, when and why this mingling of races occurred. It may be as well to say, at the outset, that the entrance into our island of the races who people it to-day was completed in main outline at the time... | |
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... to her story. HISTORY OF ENGLAND BOOK I THE MINGLING OF THE RACES. FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE NORMAN CONQUEST INTRODUCTION IT is a commonplace to say that the British are a people of mixed blood. I hope, in this First Book, to indicate a little... 