A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, 2. kötetH.G. Bohn, 1846 |
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3. oldal
... method to be pursued was to pre- vent their increase , by encouraging trade , and by supplying those with money who wanted only a little to enable them to gain more , and who were in a condition and willing to pay a mode- rate interest ...
... method to be pursued was to pre- vent their increase , by encouraging trade , and by supplying those with money who wanted only a little to enable them to gain more , and who were in a condition and willing to pay a mode- rate interest ...
8. oldal
... method first pursued at Perugia ; but in other places the annual overplus was employed in a differ- ent manner . The particular year when this establishment began to be formed I have nowhere found marked ; but as it was in the time of ...
... method first pursued at Perugia ; but in other places the annual overplus was employed in a differ- ent manner . The particular year when this establishment began to be formed I have nowhere found marked ; but as it was in the time of ...
11. oldal
... method to be abolished . He established a lending- house also the same year in the small town of Campo S. Pie- 1 Wadding , xiv . p . 446 . 2 D. Manni circa i Sigilli Antichi , tom . xxvii . p . 92 , where much information respecting ...
... method to be abolished . He established a lending- house also the same year in the small town of Campo S. Pie- 1 Wadding , xiv . p . 446 . 2 D. Manni circa i Sigilli Antichi , tom . xxvii . p . 92 , where much information respecting ...
14. oldal
... method possible . This lending - house , which has indeed un- dergone many variations , is the largest in Europe ; and it contains such an immense number of different articles , many of them exceedingly valuable , that it may be ...
... method possible . This lending - house , which has indeed un- dergone many variations , is the largest in Europe ; and it contains such an immense number of different articles , many of them exceedingly valuable , that it may be ...
33. oldal
... method of procuring brass from copper - ore that con- tained zinc was abandoned ; and it was found more conve- nient first to extract from it pure copper , and then to convert it into brass by the addition of calamine . Those desirous ...
... method of procuring brass from copper - ore that con- tained zinc was abandoned ; and it was found more conve- nient first to extract from it pure copper , and then to convert it into brass by the addition of calamine . Those desirous ...
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259. oldal - French school of historical scholars, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century...
iv. oldal - An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels be strong enough ; for I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it...
411. oldal - Italian fashion by this forked cutting of meate, not only while I was in Italy, but also in Germany, and oftentimes in England since I came home; being once quipped for that frequent using of my forke by a certain learned gentleman, a familiar friend of mine, one Mr.
91. oldal - Tarn leve nee bombyx pendulus urget opus. Crassior in facie vetulae stat creta Fabullae: Crassior offensae bulla tumescit aquae. Fortior et tortos servat vesica capillos, Et mutat Latias spuma Batava comas.
iv. oldal - I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty feet high. One vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water ; and a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that, one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim, between the necessity of turning the said cocks.
351. oldal - The little of these vegetables that was used, was formerly imported from Holland and Flanders. Queen Catherine, when she wanted a salad, was obliged to despatch a messenger thither on purpose.
526. oldal - Germany, either about the end of the sixteenth or beginning of the seventeenth century. The oldest account with which I am acquainted seems to be in favour of Germany and the sixteenth century.
359. oldal - Henry VIII. wore ordinarily cloth hose, except there came from Spain, by great chance, a pair of silk stockings. King Edward, his son, was presented with a pair of long Spanish silk stockings by Sir Thomas Gresham, his merchant, and the present was taken much notice of.
410. oldal - For while with their knife, which they hold in one hand, they cut the meate out of the dish, they fasten their forke, which they hold in their other hand, upon the same dish, so that whatsoever he be that, sitting in the company of any others at...
359. oldal - Burdet, having accidentally seen in the shop of an Italian merchant a pair of knit worsted stockings, procured from Mantua, and having borrowed them, made a pair exactly like them, and these were the first stockings knit in England of woollen yarn. From this testimony, it has been hitherto believed in England that knit stockings were first made known there under Henry VIII.