The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 149A. Constable, 1879 |
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... common saying was that the sovereign would quickly lose half its value ; that wages and prices would be doubled ; and capitalists would find their accumulated wealth steadily vanishing from year to year . Thus a monetary revolution was ...
... common saying was that the sovereign would quickly lose half its value ; that wages and prices would be doubled ; and capitalists would find their accumulated wealth steadily vanishing from year to year . Thus a monetary revolution was ...
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... common and accepted ex- planation of the cessation of the gold - mines of the ancient world , particularly those worked in Spain by the Romans , was that when the miners had exhausted and penetrated down through the auriferous detritus ...
... common and accepted ex- planation of the cessation of the gold - mines of the ancient world , particularly those worked in Spain by the Romans , was that when the miners had exhausted and penetrated down through the auriferous detritus ...
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... common source . They found that there was a point in the course of the streams beyond which little or no gold was found , but at which point a vast gravel - bed arose on either hand , richly charged with gold , extending for miles from ...
... common source . They found that there was a point in the course of the streams beyond which little or no gold was found , but at which point a vast gravel - bed arose on either hand , richly charged with gold , extending for miles from ...
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... common energy , and are transmutable into each other according to the exigency of the work that has to be done . The electrical agency is the form which is employed when distances of thousands of miles are concerned , or when a girdle ...
... common energy , and are transmutable into each other according to the exigency of the work that has to be done . The electrical agency is the form which is employed when distances of thousands of miles are concerned , or when a girdle ...
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... common termination of the double nerves within , whenever the current in the opposite direction has been caused . The reflected action thus produced is unmistakably an operation of life . But it is not an opera- tion of conscious life ...
... common termination of the double nerves within , whenever the current in the opposite direction has been caused . The reflected action thus produced is unmistakably an operation of life . But it is not an opera- tion of conscious life ...
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Página 157 - Italian Friar and second Machiavel, his Advice to the King ' of Spain for attaining the universal Monarchy of the World.
Página 530 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be ; and that which is done is that which shall be done : and there is no new thing under the sun.
Página 472 - I should like to have been able to see their faces, and to hear their observations to each other, at the time. This occurrence at home will, one would hope, teach the loyal a little caution in speaking of the means which Napoleon employs (or rather, which they say he employs) in order to get together and to discipline his conscripts.
Página 534 - Cox (GV)— RECOLLECTIONS OF OXFORD. By G. V. Cox, MA, New College, late Esquire Bedel and Coroner in the University of Oxford. Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo.
Página 190 - I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.
Página 1 - Mellon, in the report of the Secretary of the Treasury for the fiscal year ended June 30...
Página 460 - Tub,' which I carried about with me wherever I went ; and when I, at about twenty years old, lost it in a box that fell overboard in the Bay of Fundy, in North America, the loss gave me greater pain than I have ever felt at losing thousands of pounds.
Página 504 - Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
Página 474 - Cobbett was at the height of his political reputation ; but of politics we heard little, and should, I think, have heard nothing, but for an occasional red-hot patriot, who would introduce the subject, which our host would fain put aside, and got rid of as speedily as possible.
Página 106 - THE EXPEDITION FOR THE SURVEY OF THE RIVERS EUPHRATES and TIGRIS, carried on by order of the British Government, in the Years 1835, 1836, and 1837.