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 143
... weight as the half - peck , or corn gallon , when filled with wheat . And the expression , " It shall be of weights , as it is of measures , " - means , that there shall be the same proportion between the money weight and the merchant's ...
... weight as the half - peck , or corn gallon , when filled with wheat . And the expression , " It shall be of weights , as it is of measures , " - means , that there shall be the same proportion between the money weight and the merchant's ...
Page 145
... weight of wheat is to the weight of wine , their bulks being equal . The wine to which the statute of 1266 , and many subsequent Eng- lish statutes , exclusively refer , was the wine of Gascoign , a province at that time , and for a ...
... weight of wheat is to the weight of wine , their bulks being equal . The wine to which the statute of 1266 , and many subsequent Eng- lish statutes , exclusively refer , was the wine of Gascoign , a province at that time , and for a ...
Page 156
... weight of pure or distilled water contained in them , rather than by the number of cubical inches . That the standard gallon , from which all the other measures of capacity should be derived , should contain such a weight of pure water ...
... weight of pure or distilled water contained in them , rather than by the number of cubical inches . That the standard gallon , from which all the other measures of capacity should be derived , should contain such a weight of pure water ...
Contents
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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