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... marked in figures denominating their weight , and to be kept by the public treasurer : and by these weights and measures , declared to be the standards , all others in the province were to be regulated . By another act , of 17th March ...
... marked in figures denominating their weight , and to be kept by the public treasurer : and by these weights and measures , declared to be the standards , all others in the province were to be regulated . By another act , of 17th March ...
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... marked by the sealer of weights and measures , and the stricken measure of which is considered as two bushels . As preliminary remarks , in reference to that part of the resolutions of both Houses , which requires the opinion of the ...
... marked by the sealer of weights and measures , and the stricken measure of which is considered as two bushels . As preliminary remarks , in reference to that part of the resolutions of both Houses , which requires the opinion of the ...
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... marked 36.015 inches , Bird's parliamentary standard of 1758 , 36.00023 , and general Roy's scale 36.00036 , on the scale of Troughton . In the year 1818 , captain Henry Kater , one of the commissioners of the prince regent , with the ...
... marked 36.015 inches , Bird's parliamentary standard of 1758 , 36.00023 , and general Roy's scale 36.00036 , on the scale of Troughton . In the year 1818 , captain Henry Kater , one of the commissioners of the prince regent , with the ...
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... marked with philosophical precision , or very minute accuracy . But it is evident they were generally made with great care , and , in several instances , repeated with various kinds of water . From the experiments of sir George ...
... marked with philosophical precision , or very minute accuracy . But it is evident they were generally made with great care , and , in several instances , repeated with various kinds of water . From the experiments of sir George ...
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... marked on this toise , probably to this very purpose , in which Mr. Dionis du Séjour must , by his situation at the ... marked A and B , but only on the woods in which they are framed , and from which they can easily be changed : our's ...
... marked on this toise , probably to this very purpose , in which Mr. Dionis du Séjour must , by his situation at the ... marked A and B , but only on the woods in which they are framed , and from which they can easily be changed : our's ...
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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.