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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... standards of length with some invariable natural standard . These gentlemen were decidedly of opinion , that the length of the pendulum was the best standard by which a measure to be kept as a standard of length could be defined by ...
... standards of length with some invariable natural standard . These gentlemen were decidedly of opinion , that the length of the pendulum was the best standard by which a measure to be kept as a standard of length could be defined by ...
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... standard for all purposes , the commissioners had not obtained suf- ficient grounds for a conclusive determination ; they , therefore , only suggest , that there would be a manifest advantage in the iden- tification of all measures of ...
... standard for all purposes , the commissioners had not obtained suf- ficient grounds for a conclusive determination ; they , therefore , only suggest , that there would be a manifest advantage in the iden- tification of all measures of ...
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... standard measure of capacity . That a quart be the fourth part , and a pint , one eighth part of such standard gallon . That two such gallons be a peck , eight such gallons a bushel , and eight such bushels a quarter of corn , or other ...
... standard measure of capacity . That a quart be the fourth part , and a pint , one eighth part of such standard gallon . That two such gallons be a peck , eight such gallons a bushel , and eight such bushels a quarter of corn , or other ...
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No LXXI | 1 |
The Poetical Works of John Milton with Notes of | 29 |
Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone Founder of the United | 61 |
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