A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden., 1846 - 518 páginas |
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... caused the treasury accounts to be made out after the Italian method , by an experienced book - keeper , with the best success ; but how long this regulation continued I have not been able to learn . Stevin supposes , in this system ...
... caused the treasury accounts to be made out after the Italian method , by an experienced book - keeper , with the best success ; but how long this regulation continued I have not been able to learn . Stevin supposes , in this system ...
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... caused a law to be enacted that no silver bullion should be suffered to circulate in Peru ; but his greatest service was the discovery of the quicksilver mines . As he was one day exa- mining the red earth , which the Indians use for ...
... caused a law to be enacted that no silver bullion should be suffered to circulate in Peru ; but his greatest service was the discovery of the quicksilver mines . As he was one day exa- mining the red earth , which the Indians use for ...
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... caused them to be transcribed . In the year 1751 a new trans- lation came out at Paris , entitled Metallurgy , or the art of extracting and purifying metals , translated from the Spanish of Alphonso Barba , by M. Gosfort , with the most ...
... caused them to be transcribed . In the year 1751 a new trans- lation came out at Paris , entitled Metallurgy , or the art of extracting and purifying metals , translated from the Spanish of Alphonso Barba , by M. Gosfort , with the most ...
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... causes a greater reproduction . This has been sufficiently proved by the price of asparagus at Göttingen . As it was much sought after , and large prices paid for it , more of it was planted , and the price has fallen . In like manner ...
... causes a greater reproduction . This has been sufficiently proved by the price of asparagus at Göttingen . As it was much sought after , and large prices paid for it , more of it was planted , and the price has fallen . In like manner ...
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... caused such a secret poison to be administered by an eunuch to Drusus , who gradually declined afterwards , as by a consumptive disorder , and at length died . Agrippina , being desirous of getting rid of Claudius , but not daring to ...
... caused such a secret poison to be administered by an eunuch to Drusus , who gradually declined afterwards , as by a consumptive disorder , and at length died . Agrippina , being desirous of getting rid of Claudius , but not daring to ...
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Página 37 - From the evidence it would appear that the submergence took place at the end of the fourteenth or the beginning of the fifteenth century.
Página 446 - ... and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.
Página 468 - Plight (towards the end of the fifteenth or the beginning of the sixteenth century...
Página 490 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow and two sheep...
Página 2 - BOSWELL'S LIFE OF DR. JOHNSON ; BY THE RIGHT HON. JC CROKER. Incorporating his Tour to the Hebrides, and accompanied by the Commentaries of all preceding Editors : with numerous additional Notes and Illustrative Anecdotes ; to which are added. Two Supplementary Volumes of Anecdotes by HAWKINS, PIOZZI, MURPHY, TTKKS, RET^OLUS STEEVKNK, and others.
Página 446 - My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea : and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them : and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
Página 5 - It is, indeed, a lasting memorial of eminent literary exertion, devoted to a subject of great importance, and one dear, not only to every scholar, but to every reader of intelligence to whom the truth of history is an object of consideration.
Página 138 - About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt: and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.