The Treasury of Knowledge and Library of Reference: A million of facts [The book of facts, by Samuel L. Knapp, William C. Redfield, and othersC.C. Childs, 1850 |
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... English a lb .; 112 lb. a cwt .; and 20 cwt . , pints . or 2240 lbs . , a ton . A Scotch pint is 105 cubick inches , and a wheat farlot 214 Scotch pints . The Scotch quart 206.8 . cubick inches . A tub of butter is 84 lbs . and a firkin ...
... English a lb .; 112 lb. a cwt .; and 20 cwt . , pints . or 2240 lbs . , a ton . A Scotch pint is 105 cubick inches , and a wheat farlot 214 Scotch pints . The Scotch quart 206.8 . cubick inches . A tub of butter is 84 lbs . and a firkin ...
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... English grains . The smaller French weights are in tenths , decreasing , as deci , centi , and milli grammes . The larger are deca , hecato , chilio , and mirio grammes , in tenths , in- creasing . 56 or 60 lbs . is a truss of hay , old ...
... English grains . The smaller French weights are in tenths , decreasing , as deci , centi , and milli grammes . The larger are deca , hecato , chilio , and mirio grammes , in tenths , in- creasing . 56 or 60 lbs . is a truss of hay , old ...
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... English mile contains 1200 , or 1760 yards , or 5280 feet . The Paris foot is nine lines shorter than the English foot , or 0.91 to 1 . The Roman foot was 0.915 . The Rhinland or Leyden foot is 0.86925 English A Scotch mile contains ...
... English mile contains 1200 , or 1760 yards , or 5280 feet . The Paris foot is nine lines shorter than the English foot , or 0.91 to 1 . The Roman foot was 0.915 . The Rhinland or Leyden foot is 0.86925 English A Scotch mile contains ...
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... English mile . The Roman braccio is 4 palms . The cauna 8 palms . The Russian werst is 3508 English feet , about ds of a mile . inches . The Scotch ell is 37 The Scotch mile 5952 feet . The Spanish league 4 miles Eng- lish . The Swedish ...
... English mile . The Roman braccio is 4 palms . The cauna 8 palms . The Russian werst is 3508 English feet , about ds of a mile . inches . The Scotch ell is 37 The Scotch mile 5952 feet . The Spanish league 4 miles Eng- lish . The Swedish ...
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... English House of Com- Massacre of the French in Sicily 1282 1283 Wales united to England The Jews banished from Eng- land Death of Cimabue , the reviver East - India Company establish- ed Union - of England. The Christian era first used ...
... English House of Com- Massacre of the French in Sicily 1282 1283 Wales united to England The Jews banished from Eng- land Death of Cimabue , the reviver East - India Company establish- ed Union - of England. The Christian era first used ...
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Page 97 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 162 - We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our whole lives. The treaty which we have just signed has not been obtained by art, or dictated by force ; equally advantageous to the two contracting parties, it will change vast solitudes into flourishing districts. From this day, the United States take their place among the powers of the first rank ; the English lose all exclusive influence in the affairs of America.
Page 257 - Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Page 282 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 97 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 30 - These are usually accounted six in number, viz. the Lever, the Wheel and Axle, the Pulley, the Inclined Plane, the Wedge, and the Screw.
Page 312 - The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
Page 282 - For he was wiser than all men: than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.
Page 284 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
Page 154 - ... the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.