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... statute book only with the impotence of authority , and the uniformity of confusion . This inquiry into the theory of weights and measures , as resulting from the natural history of man , was deemed necessary as prelimina- ry to that ...
... statute book only with the impotence of authority , and the uniformity of confusion . This inquiry into the theory of weights and measures , as resulting from the natural history of man , was deemed necessary as prelimina- ry to that ...
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... statute books are filled with ineffectual attempts of the legislature to establish uniformity . Of the origin of their weights and measures , the historical traces are faint and indistinct : but they have had , from time immemorial ...
... statute books are filled with ineffectual attempts of the legislature to establish uniformity . Of the origin of their weights and measures , the historical traces are faint and indistinct : but they have had , from time immemorial ...
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... statutes , which for centuries after the conquest were enacted in the degenerate Latin of the age , the term ulna , or ell , is always used to designate the yard . Historical traditions allege that , a full century before the Conquest ...
... statutes , which for centuries after the conquest were enacted in the degenerate Latin of the age , the term ulna , or ell , is always used to designate the yard . Historical traditions allege that , a full century before the Conquest ...
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... statute . Had it been the intention of the legislator , he would have said , there shall be one and the same measure for wine , corn , and ale ; and the reference to the London quarter could not have been made , for nei- ther wine nor ...
... statute . Had it been the intention of the legislator , he would have said , there shall be one and the same measure for wine , corn , and ale ; and the reference to the London quarter could not have been made , for nei- ther wine nor ...
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... statute was passed exactly two hundred years after the Conquest . It is merely an exemplification , word for word , embracing several or- dinances of his progenitors , kings of England ; and it unfolds a sys- tem of uniformity for ...
... statute was passed exactly two hundred years after the Conquest . It is merely an exemplification , word for word , embracing several or- dinances of his progenitors , kings of England ; and it unfolds a sys- tem of uniformity for ...
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Страница 19 - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Страница 17 - But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have : that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Страница 26 - ... an English penny, called a sterling round, and without any clipping, shall weigh thirty-two wheat corns in the midst of the ear, and...
Страница 24 - There shall be one measure of wine and one of ale, through our whole realm ; and one measure of corn, that is to say, the London quarter ; and one breadth of dyed cloth, and russets, and haberjeets, that is to say, two ells within the lists ; and it shall be of weights, as it is of measures.
Страница 122 - ... economical arrangements and daily concerns of every family. They are necessary to every occupation of human industry; to the distribution and security of every species of property; to every transaction of trade and commerce; to the labors of the husbandman; to the ingenuity of the artificer; to the studies of the philosopher; to the researches of the antiquarian, to the navigation of the mariner, and the marches of the soldier; to all the exchanges of peace, and all the operations of war.
Страница 121 - Weights and measures may be ranked among the necessaries of life, to every individual of human society. They enter into the economical arrangements and daily concerns of every family. They are necessary to every occupation of human industry...
Страница 210 - King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That if any Person or Persons shall...
Страница 134 - It is determined, we find, as a certain fraction of the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London.
Страница 50 - If man upon earth be an improvable being; if that universal peace which was the object of a Saviour's mission, which is the desire of the philosopher, the longing of the philanthropist, the trembling hope of the Christian, is a blessing to which .the futurity of mortal man has a claim of more than mortal promise ; if the spirit of evil...
Страница 19 - Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD, Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.