The Quarterly Review, Volume 36William 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 - English literature |
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Page 142
... contain 126 gallons , and these butts contained more by the gauge , as they said , than that number of gallons , the information was brought to recover the duty for that supposed overplus . The evidence on the part of the king , after ...
... contain 126 gallons , and these butts contained more by the gauge , as they said , than that number of gallons , the information was brought to recover the duty for that supposed overplus . The evidence on the part of the king , after ...
Page 147
... contain eight gallons of wheat ; that every gallon contain eight pounds of wheat , troy weight ; and every pound contain twelve ounces of troy weight , and every ounce contain twenty sterlings , and every sterling be of the weight of ...
... contain eight gallons of wheat ; that every gallon contain eight pounds of wheat , troy weight ; and every pound contain twelve ounces of troy weight , and every ounce contain twenty sterlings , and every sterling be of the weight of ...
Page 148
... contain the weight of 125 avoirdupois ounces of water . * But the capacity of this vessel would really be 216.63 , and not 216 cubic inches . As the new wine gallon was to contain eight troy pounds of wheat , instead of eight Tower ...
... contain the weight of 125 avoirdupois ounces of water . * But the capacity of this vessel would really be 216.63 , and not 216 cubic inches . As the new wine gallon was to contain eight troy pounds of wheat , instead of eight Tower ...
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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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