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advancing transverse section of an aeroplane. Aeroplane.–A flying machine of the glider pattern, used in contradistinction to a dirigible balloon. Aeronaut.–A person who travels in the air. Aerostat.–A machine sustaining weight in the air. A balloon is an aerostat. Aerostatic.–Pertaining to suspension in the air; the art of aerial navigation. Ailerons.–Small stabilizing planes attached to …
to all confidence, all forethought; no one would be safe in making the most simple social arrangements; in a word, civilization might relapse into barbarism. Am I going too fast to carry my Readers with me to these obvious conclusions? Surely a moment’s reflection, and a single instance from common life, must convince every one …
than the tenth part of an inch; and in a Polygon of six or seven hundred sides the sides are little larger than the diameter of a Spaceland pin-head. It is always assumed, by courtesy, that the Chief Circle for the time being has ten thousand sides. The ascent of the posterity of the Circles …
Circular beauty. What seemed the centre of the Stranger’s form lay open to my view: yet I could see no heart, lungs, nor arteries, only a beautiful mbt shoes clearance sale harmonious Something– for which I had no words; but you, my Readers in Spaceland, would call it the surface of the Sphere. Prostrating myself …
sixteen terminal Extra-solid angles, and Eight solid Cubes for his Perimeter. And once there, shall we stay our upward course? In that blessed region of Four Dimensions, shall we linger at the threshold of the Fifth, and not enter therein? Ah, no! Let us rather resolve that our ambition shall soar with our corporal ascent. …
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injunction is to detach the scalps of all persons massacred and deposit them with a local officer designated to receive and preserve them and sworn to keep and render a true account thereof. At the conclusion of each massacre in either country, or as soon thereafter as practicable, or at stated regular periods, as may …
against the Chief of the Weather Bureau for the cost of the umbrellas. “Your Honour,” said the defendant’s attorney, when the case was called, “I move that this astonishing action be dismissed. Not only is my client in no way responsible for the loss, but he distinctly foreshadowed the very thing that caused it.” “That …
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