The Quarterly Review, 36. köideWilliam Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1827 |
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Page 142
... gallon ought to contain 231 cubical inches , and no more ; that there was such a gallon , containing so many cubical inches , kept from time out of mind at Guildhall , as a standard of that measure ; that the wine gallon was less than ...
... gallon ought to contain 231 cubical inches , and no more ; that there was such a gallon , containing so many cubical inches , kept from time out of mind at Guildhall , as a standard of that measure ; that the wine gallon was less than ...
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... gallon ; and the cubic foot was supposed to contain exactly 1000 ounces avoirdupois of water . This is not now precisely the fact ; the weight of a cubic inch of dis- tilled water being 252.458 grains . The readiest way , therefore ...
... gallon ; and the cubic foot was supposed to contain exactly 1000 ounces avoirdupois of water . This is not now precisely the fact ; the weight of a cubic inch of dis- tilled water being 252.458 grains . The readiest way , therefore ...
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... Gallon Oldest Wine Gallon at Guildhall Exchequer Wine Gallon of 1707 A Standard Gallon of Henry VII . , and two of 1601 , said , by the Commissioners of Excise , in a memorial of 1688 , to contain An Exchequer Gallon , mentioned on a ...
... Gallon Oldest Wine Gallon at Guildhall Exchequer Wine Gallon of 1707 A Standard Gallon of Henry VII . , and two of 1601 , said , by the Commissioners of Excise , in a memorial of 1688 , to contain An Exchequer Gallon , mentioned on a ...
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Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone Founder of the United | 61 |
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