Report Upon Weights and Measures, Издања 1-7Gales & Seaton, 1821 - 245 страница |
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... common place of abode , and leads to the construction of edifices where the associated parties , and their progeny , may abide . To the con- struction of a dwelling place , superficial measure becomes essential , and the dimensions of ...
... common place of abode , and leads to the construction of edifices where the associated parties , and their progeny , may abide . To the con- struction of a dwelling place , superficial measure becomes essential , and the dimensions of ...
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... common standard of measures , and mensuration by weight , or apparent specific gra- vity , all arise from the multiplying relations between man and man , now superadded to those between man and things . The difference between the ...
... common standard of measures , and mensuration by weight , or apparent specific gra- vity , all arise from the multiplying relations between man and man , now superadded to those between man and things . The difference between the ...
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... common standard . Diversity is the law of their nature , and the only uniformity which human ingenuity can es- tablish between them is , an uniformity of proportion , and not an uni- formity of identity . The necessity for the use of ...
... common standard . Diversity is the law of their nature , and the only uniformity which human ingenuity can es- tablish between them is , an uniformity of proportion , and not an uni- formity of identity . The necessity for the use of ...
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... common standard press itself upon their wants , until the multiplication of families gives rise to the intercourse , exchanges , and government , of civil society . Common standards will then be assumed from the person of some ...
... common standard press itself upon their wants , until the multiplication of families gives rise to the intercourse , exchanges , and government , of civil society . Common standards will then be assumed from the person of some ...
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... common measure . He cannot divide or multiply the parts of the surface , the cube , or the sphere , by the uniform and ex- clusive number ten . The power of the legislator is limited over the will and actions of his subjects . His ...
... common measure . He cannot divide or multiply the parts of the surface , the cube , or the sphere , by the uniform and ex- clusive number ten . The power of the legislator is limited over the will and actions of his subjects . His ...
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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.