Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, Svazek 25

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American Philosophical Society, 1888
 

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Strana 324 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Strana 158 - Monday's child is fair of face/ Tuesday's child is full of grace/ Wednesday's child is full of woe/ Thursday's child has far to go...
Strana 265 - Christian burial, the skeleton is found lying at full length, with the head to the west and the feet to the east, and one skeleton may be found below another.
Strana 166 - CUT your nails on Monday, cut them for news; Cut .them on Tuesday, a pair of new shoes; Cut them on Wednesday, cut them for health; Cut them on Thursday, cut them for wealth; Cut them on Friday, cut them for woe; Cut them on Saturday, a journey you'll go; Cut them on Sunday, you'll cut them for evil, For all the next week you'll be ruled by the devil.
Strana 60 - Pennsylvania, — a position he held until 1872, when the increased executive duties in connection with the Geological Survey of the Territories induced him to resign it.
Strana 61 - He easily and naturally affiliated with every kind of explorer, acting with such friendliness and manly justice toward those whom he employed as his coworkers that they pursued with hearty zeal the development of his plans. In dealing with the public men of the country he was so frank, forcible, and direct that it was impossible to suppress or resist him. He had the western people at...
Strana 156 - I am in the right : the best way to come to truth being to examine things as really they are, and not to conclude they are as we fancy of ourselves, or have been taught by others to imagine.
Strana 308 - THE American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge has the honor to announce that an award of the Henry M. Phillips Prize will be made during the year 1912 ; essays for the same to be in the possession of the Society before the first day of January, 1912. The subject upon which essays are to be furnished by competitors is : The Treaty-Making Power of the United States and the Methods of Its Enforcement as Affecting the Police Powers of the States.
Strana 296 - Nomenclature of Diseases be referred to a special committee of five members, to be appointed by the President, who shall examine it and report upon its final disposition at the present meeting of the Association. Resolved. That on the favorable report of such committee, it shall be referred back to the Committee on the Nomenclature of Diseases for the preparation of an index...

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