Word: domains
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...German laboratories during the last two years with a view to illustrating a great electrical principle. The two great generalizations of the last two hundred years, the laws of gravitation and of the conservation of energy, have both originated in England. In fact all great advances in the domain of Physics have been made by Anglo-Saxons. The German experiments of the last two years only serve to illustrate the great principle enunciated ten years ago by Clerk Maxwell, namely, that heat, light, and electricity are all one and the same thing, and that we receive them all by electro...
...present navy is utterly inadequate. (a) to guard the coast; (b) to protect commerce; (c) to police the seas; (d) to uphold our dignity abroad:- Donaldson's Public Domain, p. 464, Congressional Record, vol. XV., pp. 1089-94; Nation, vol. XXXI...
...designed to secure the safety of the servant. (2) The extent to which in the United States private rights of property may be effected without compensation by the exercise of the police power. (3) The obligation of railroad companies impliedly assumed by the exercise of the power of eminent domain or the acceptance of state...
There is one circumstance which invests the present discovery with peculiar value and intere St. The document containing the signature has not passed into the domain of antiquarian curiosity; it has not been picked up for an old song, to be resold for a large sum at a literary auction; nor have we to trace its history from one person to another, as best we can, during a period of two centuries and a half, because it is to day in the same custody to which it was committed the moment the ink was dry from the pens...
...restricted that good lands could not be found in one block. Again Congress came to the aid of the educational cause, and in 1826 granted two townships instead of one, with the privilege of selecting the entire amount of land in detached portions from any part of the public domain not previously granted. Upon this wise and generous provision, and upon the good choice made of land rests the national endowment of the University of Michigan. The institution of a department of history and English literature, in 1855, at the University of Michigan was one of the first academic recognition...