Arithmetical Questions on a New Plan: Intended to Answer the Double Purpose of Arithmetical Instruction and Miscellaneous Information ...author and proprietors, 1811 - 494 Seiten |
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... noted for breach of faith . Be this etymology , however , well or ill founded , Punica fides , or Cartha- ginian integrity , became , after the middle age of the Roman fate , a proverbial irony to denote fraud and per- fidy . Thou art ...
... noted for breach of faith . Be this etymology , however , well or ill founded , Punica fides , or Cartha- ginian integrity , became , after the middle age of the Roman fate , a proverbial irony to denote fraud and per- fidy . Thou art ...
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... noted for an engagement between the deluded adherents of the houses of York and Lancafter . This famous battle is generally fuppofed to have been one of the moft fierce and bloody that ever happened in any domeftic war . Both armies ...
... noted for an engagement between the deluded adherents of the houses of York and Lancafter . This famous battle is generally fuppofed to have been one of the moft fierce and bloody that ever happened in any domeftic war . Both armies ...
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... noted for the fuperior quality of their brawn ; and of late brawn has been made at Oxford . See Bourn's Gaz . art . Calais . What are 7 collars of brawn worth at 195. 11d . 4 . per collar ? Anf . £ 6 19s . 10d . 4 . us . No. 150. COTTON ...
... noted for the fuperior quality of their brawn ; and of late brawn has been made at Oxford . See Bourn's Gaz . art . Calais . What are 7 collars of brawn worth at 195. 11d . 4 . per collar ? Anf . £ 6 19s . 10d . 4 . us . No. 150. COTTON ...
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... noted for the making of steel watch - chains and wash - leather gloves ; what are three of the former worth at a guinea and a half each , and a dozen pairs of the latter at 4s . 6d . See Exer . on the Globes , 4th . edit . art . Apelles ...
... noted for the making of steel watch - chains and wash - leather gloves ; what are three of the former worth at a guinea and a half each , and a dozen pairs of the latter at 4s . 6d . See Exer . on the Globes , 4th . edit . art . Apelles ...
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... noted for wax candles . Pay for three dozen at 35. 6d . a pound , and find the change out of fix guineas . No. 190 . Lampreys , a kind of eel , are caught in the Severn , near Gloucefter . Henry I. died in confe- quence of eating too ...
... noted for wax candles . Pay for three dozen at 35. 6d . a pound , and find the change out of fix guineas . No. 190 . Lampreys , a kind of eel , are caught in the Severn , near Gloucefter . Henry I. died in confe- quence of eating too ...
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Seite 66 - For these reasons, there are not more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants ; they knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of nature, find work for the poor, add wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.
Seite 130 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Seite 31 - This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Seite 9 - Meantime, refracted from yon eastern cloud, Bestriding earth, the grand ethereal bow Shoots up immense; and every hue unfolds, In fair proportion, running from the red To where the violet fades into the sky.
Seite 350 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Seite 185 - He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.