Great Books of the Western World, Band 39Robert Maynard Hutchins Encyclopædia Britannica, 1952 |
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... seems not to have been estimated lower than four ounces of silver , Tower weight , equal to about twenty shillings of our present money . From this price it seems to have fallen grad- ually to two ounces of silver , equal to about ten ...
... seems not to have been estimated lower than four ounces of silver , Tower weight , equal to about twenty shillings of our present money . From this price it seems to have fallen grad- ually to two ounces of silver , equal to about ten ...
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... seems to have entertained a notion of the same kind concerning the political body , and to have imagined that it would thrive and prosper only under a certain precise regi- men , the exact regimen of perfect liberty and perfect justice ...
... seems to have entertained a notion of the same kind concerning the political body , and to have imagined that it would thrive and prosper only under a certain precise regi- men , the exact regimen of perfect liberty and perfect justice ...
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... seems to have been equally extravagant ; and as linen was always either a European , or at farthest , an Egyptian manufacture , this high price can be accounted for only by the great expense of the labour which must have been employed ...
... seems to have been equally extravagant ; and as linen was always either a European , or at farthest , an Egyptian manufacture , this high price can be accounted for only by the great expense of the labour which must have been employed ...
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Introduction and Plan of the Work | 1 |
Of Treaties of Commerce 233 Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Common | 6 |
That the Division of Labour is limited | 8 |
Urheberrecht | |
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