Arithmetical Questions on a New Plan: Intended to Answer the Double Purpose of Arithmetical Instruction and Miscellaneous Information ...author and proprietors, 1811 - 494 էջ |
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... gold and filver at Argos , in Greece , 89 B. C. The first coining of filver took place at Rome 269 , and of gold co6 years B. C. Many filver coins of the ancient Anglo - Saxon kings have been found in England ; and regular feries of Eng ...
... gold and filver at Argos , in Greece , 89 B. C. The first coining of filver took place at Rome 269 , and of gold co6 years B. C. Many filver coins of the ancient Anglo - Saxon kings have been found in England ; and regular feries of Eng ...
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... gold . Some pieces of gold were coined by Henry III . about the year 1257 ; but it is from the reign of Edward III . that the regular feries of gold coinage commences . In 1344 , that prince first struck flo- rens , fuppofed to be fo ...
... gold . Some pieces of gold were coined by Henry III . about the year 1257 ; but it is from the reign of Edward III . that the regular feries of gold coinage commences . In 1344 , that prince first struck flo- rens , fuppofed to be fo ...
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... gold coins now . ( 1810 ) current , what would be the weekly amount , including Sunday ? No. 73. Find the monthly amount of the preceding fum . No. 74. Find the yearly amount of the last fum , reckoned by calendar months . * A fmall ...
... gold coins now . ( 1810 ) current , what would be the weekly amount , including Sunday ? No. 73. Find the monthly amount of the preceding fum . No. 74. Find the yearly amount of the last fum , reckoned by calendar months . * A fmall ...
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... gold , and exchanges his wool for rubies . The Mahometans are clothed in our British manufacture , and the inhabitants of the frozen zone warmed with the fleeces of our sheep . " How fuperior , " fays an ingenious writer , is fuch a man ...
... gold , and exchanges his wool for rubies . The Mahometans are clothed in our British manufacture , and the inhabitants of the frozen zone warmed with the fleeces of our sheep . " How fuperior , " fays an ingenious writer , is fuch a man ...
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... gold , and was the most valuable present given by the king of Siam , in 1686 , to the king of France . The best of this kind grows in the islands of Ceylon † , and Sumatra in Afia , and near Cape Comorin in Hindoftan . The alces of ...
... gold , and was the most valuable present given by the king of Siam , in 1686 , to the king of France . The best of this kind grows in the islands of Ceylon † , and Sumatra in Afia , and near Cape Comorin in Hindoftan . The alces of ...
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Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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!
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.