Transactions, Volume 56

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Page viii - Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 783 - Property and law are born together, and die together. Before laws were made there was no property ; take away laws, and property ceases.
Page xvii - Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers...
Page 782 - From these passages it is evident; that the right of acquiring and possessing property and having it protected, is one of the natural inherent and (inalienable rights of man.
Page 780 - In the one, as the public are the owners, every one may be absolutely prevented from seeking to reduce to possession. No divesting of private property, under such a condition, can be conceived because the public are the owners, and the enacting by the State of a law as to the public ownership is but the discharge of the governmental trust resting in the State as to property of that character.
Page 97 - Levy' repeatedly obtained hematite from artificial magmas, and similar observations have been made by others. In ordinary furnace slags, however, according to J. II. L. Vogt, o hematite rarely if ever occurs. Ferric oxide can crystallize out as hematite only when ferrous compounds are either absent or present in quite subordinate amounts, for ferrous oxide unites with it to form magnetite. The...
Page 786 - The ascertainment of that value is not controlled by artificial rules. It is not a matter of formulas, but there must be a reasonable judgment having its basis in a proper consideration of all relevant facts.
Page 787 - The cost of reproduction method is of service in ascertaining the present value of the plant, when it is reasonably applied and when the cost of reproducing the property may be ascertained with a proper degree of certainty.
Page viii - Tis the middle watch of a summer's night,— The earth is dark, but the heavens are bright; Naught is seen in the vault on high But the moon, and the stars, and the cloudless sky, And the flood which rolls its milky hue, A river of light on the welkin blue. The moon looks down on old Cro'nest; She mellows the shades on his shaggy breast, And seems his huge gray form to throw In a silver cone on the wave below.
Page 755 - ... The gas will diffuse with the air or water vapor contained in the pores of the rock. Oil and gas entering a porous rock that is completely saturated with water will be forced up to the top of the porous stratum by the difference in the specific gravity of the hydrocarbons and the water. Here the oil and gas will remain if the porous stratum be perfectly level, but if it has a dip sufficient to overcome the friction the particles of oil and gas will gradually move up this slope, the gas with its...

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