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THAYER, ABBOTT HANDERSON (1849- ), American artist, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, on the i2th of August 1849. He was a pupil of J. L. Ger&me at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, and became a member of the Society of American Artists (1879), of the National ...

THAXTER, CELIA (1836-1894), American poet, was born at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on the agth of June 1836. Her father, Thomas B. Laighton, became offended with some of his associates in state politics, and retired about 1841 to the barren and isolated Isles o

ETHER, (CjHs^O, the Aether of pharmacy, a colourless, volatile, highly inflammable liquid, of specific gravity o- 736 at o°, boiling-point 35° C., and freezing-point n7°'4 C. (K. Olszewski). It has a strong and characteristic odour, and a hot sweetish taste, i

THYME. The genus Thymus (nat. ord. Labiatae) comprises a number of fragrant aromatic undershrubs, with very small leaves and whorls of small purple honey-bearing flowers in the axils of the leaves or at the ends of the branches. The common garden thyme, a nati

... inherent attribute of the power. An intermediate view is advocated by Professor Thayer (Cases on Const 'it 'ulional Law, vol. i, 953), according to which eminent domain springs from the necessities of government, while the obligation to reimburse rests upon th ...

... orts after 1874. The best collection of Cases on Constitutional Law is by J. B. Thayer (2 vols., Cambridge, 1894-1895). 1 he United States Statutes at Large are published in 35 vols. (Boston and Washington, 1845-1909), and there is an annotated edition of the ...

... , The Venetian Republic (London, 1900); C. Yriarte, Venise (Paris, 1875); W. R. Thayer, A Short History of Venice (New York, 1905) ; H. F. Brown, Venice, an Historical Sketch of the Republic (London, 1895); H. Kretschmer, Geschichte von Venedig, Band I. (Gotha ...