“ATreatiseon the Police”). For de la Mare,policefirst meant government, whether the government of the whole state or a particular institution within the state (e.g., the military or the clergy). It also denoted the public order in a city. Finally, it designated in a more technical ...
This article is not atreatiseon the family laws of the world (which would require at least a volume) but a general survey of the common legal problems associated with the family. Family groups A family group has a certain internal structure as well as relationships between itself and third ...
LONGMORE, Sir Thomas (1816-95), Surgeon General, C.B., F.R.C.S.E., served in Crimea; Professor of Army Surgery, Netley (from 1863); Hon. Surgeon to Queen Victoria (from 1868); author of Treatise on Gunshot Wounds; Treatise on Ambulances; and Sanitary Condition of the British and ...
Information on Belgium’s constitution and administrative structure may be found in André Alen (ed.), Treatise on Belgian Constitutional Law (1992). The ideological conflict is well covered in Vernon Mallinson, Power & Politics in Belgian Education, 1815–1961 (1963). History Henri Pirenne, Histo...
Arches may rest on light supports, however, where they occur in a row, because the thrust of one arch counteracts the thrust of its neighbours, and the system will remain stable as long as the arches at either end of the row are buttressed by walls, piers, or earth. The size of ...
the restoration of themonarchy(1660), Locke was morecircumspectthan this. Nevertheless, a careful reading of the relevant passages of theSecond Treatiseshows that Locke remains true to his fundamental principle, that the only legitimate form of government is that based on the consent of the ...
Further, in the latter case, the reader wishing merely to learn the meaning of a technical term had to search through a long article before he could find the information he wanted. The “new plan” of the Encyclopædia Britannica consisted of including “treatises” on the arts (i.e.,...
(1907–15; abridged ed., The New Golden Bough, 1964), a famous and influential treatise on ancient religion that presents sacrifice as a means for rejuvenating a god; and Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss,“Essai sur la nature et la fonction du sacrifice,” L’Année sociologique (1899; Eng...
In 1841 Gauss published a now famous treatise on optics in which he demonstrated that, so far as paraxial rays are concerned, a lens of any degree of complexity can be replaced by two principal, or nodal, points and two focal points, the distances from the principal points to their respect...
BecauseLatinwas a much-usedlanguageof greatprestigewell into modern times, its monumental dictionaries were important and later influenced English lexicography. In the 1st centurybce,Marcus Terentius Varrowrote thetreatiseDe lingua Latina; theextantbooks of its section of etymology are valuable for thei...