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... pennyweights is mixed with a pound . Cowel thinks that the allay is added , to coun- tervail the charge of coining ... mass . 3. Allay being taken from bafer metals , commonly implies fomething worse than that with which it is mixed ...
... pennyweights is mixed with a pound . Cowel thinks that the allay is added , to coun- tervail the charge of coining ... mass . 3. Allay being taken from bafer metals , commonly implies fomething worse than that with which it is mixed ...
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... pounds , carries a ball 1 inch 1 8th dia - church , as the bafilick of St. Peter at Rome . meter , and 5 or 6 ounces weight . I BASE ( in Architecture ) the foot of a pillar which fupports it , or that part which is under the body , and ...
... pounds , carries a ball 1 inch 1 8th dia - church , as the bafilick of St. Peter at Rome . meter , and 5 or 6 ounces weight . I BASE ( in Architecture ) the foot of a pillar which fupports it , or that part which is under the body , and ...
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... pound weight , and requires a charge of twelve pounds and a half of powder . CULVER - TAILING ( with Shipwrights ) ... weight about 4000 pound , carries a ball four inches three quarters diame- ter , and fourteen pound weight , and ...
... pound weight , and requires a charge of twelve pounds and a half of powder . CULVER - TAILING ( with Shipwrights ) ... weight about 4000 pound , carries a ball four inches three quarters diame- ter , and fourteen pound weight , and ...
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... pound weight ; requires a charge of feventeen pound and half of powder , weighs 5600 pound ; is in length twelve feet ; the diameter at the bore fix inches and a half , and carries a ball 164 paces . DEMI - SANG ( Law term ) of the hal ...
... pound weight ; requires a charge of feventeen pound and half of powder , weighs 5600 pound ; is in length twelve feet ; the diameter at the bore fix inches and a half , and carries a ball 164 paces . DEMI - SANG ( Law term ) of the hal ...
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... weight or big- nefs . 3. Its hardness . The Great Mogul of India has a diamond that weighs 269 3-4ths carate , valued at 11 millions , 723 thoufand , 278 pounds , 14 fhillings and 9 pence . Facet DIAMOND , is one cut in faces both at ...
... weight or big- nefs . 3. Its hardness . The Great Mogul of India has a diamond that weighs 269 3-4ths carate , valued at 11 millions , 723 thoufand , 278 pounds , 14 fhillings and 9 pence . Facet DIAMOND , is one cut in faces both at ...
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Seite 7 - For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood : If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music...
Seite 7 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.
Seite 47 - What though no credit doubting wits may give ? The fair and innocent shall still believe. 40 Know then, unnumber'd spirits round thee fly, The light militia of the lower sky : These, though unseen, are ever on the wing, Hang o'er the box, and hover round the ring.
Seite 129 - Ethereal Powers And Spirits, both them who stood and them who faild; Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Not free, what proof could they have givn sincere Of true allegiance, constant Faith or Love, Where only what they needs must do, appeard, Not what they would?
Seite 7 - Of pendant trees, the monarch of the brook-, Behoves you then to ply your finest art. Long time he, following cautious, scans the fly; And oft attempts to seize it, but as oft The dimpled water speaks his jealous fear.
Seite 7 - tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd by hope men favour the deceit...
Seite 7 - Appear in writing or in judging ill ; But, of the two, lefs dang'rous is th' offence To tire our patience, than miflead our fenfe. Some few in that, but numbers err in this...
Seite 7 - And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again. And the angel of the Lord went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
Seite 7 - To a body, and went but by the body's leave, Twenty perchance, or thirty mile a day...
Seite 7 - Such was Roscommon, not more learn'd than good, With manners gen'rous as his noble blood ; To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known, And ev'ry author's merit but his own. Such late was...