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Page 223 - H. Harrison . John Tyler . James K. Polk Zachary Taylor . Millard Fillmore . Franklin Pierce . James Buchanan . Abraham Lincoln. Andrew Johnson . Ulysses S. Grant . Rutherford B. Hayes . James A. Garfield Chester A.
Page 276 - A patent may be obtained by any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter...
Page 275 - Columbia, a printed copy of the title of the book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition, engraving, cut, print, photograph, or chromo, or a description of the painting, drawing, statue, statuary, or a model or design, for a work of the fine arts...
Page 276 - ... if a map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, engraving, photograph, painting, drawing, chromo, statue, statuary, or model or design intended to be perfected...
Page 275 - ... on the title-page, or the page immediately following, if it be a book, or, if a map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, or engraving, by causing to be impressed on the face thereof, or if a volume of maps, charts, music, or engravings, upon the title or frontispiece thereof, the following words...
Page 58 - I'd have you remember that when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.
Page 150 - Summer, though they affect Spring and Autumn nearly in the same ratio. 5. The Moon's Change, First Quarter, Full, and...
Page 55 - A MAN of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds...
Page 266 - Rotunda is 95 feet 6 inches in diameter, and its height from the floor to the top of the canopy is 180 feet 3 inches.
Page 150 - The nearer the time of the moon's change, first quarter, full, and last quarter, is to midnight, the fairer will the weather be during the seven days following. 2. The space for this calculation occupies from ten at night till two next morning. 3. The nearer to mid-day or noon...