A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, 2. kötetH.G. Bohn, 1846 |
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5. oldal
... called perscribere and rescribere ; and an assignment or draft was called attributio . These argentarii , mensarii , nummularii , collybista and trapezita followed the same employment , there- fore , as our cashiers or bankers . The ...
... called perscribere and rescribere ; and an assignment or draft was called attributio . These argentarii , mensarii , nummularii , collybista and trapezita followed the same employment , there- fore , as our cashiers or bankers . The ...
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... called montes . In the first centuries of the Christian æra , free gifts were collected and preserved in churches by ecclesiastics , partly for the purpose of defraying the expense of divine service , and partly to re- lieve the poor ...
... called montes . In the first centuries of the Christian æra , free gifts were collected and preserved in churches by ecclesiastics , partly for the purpose of defraying the expense of divine service , and partly to re- lieve the poor ...
16. oldal
... called montes1 . In this sense the word is used by Italian historians of much later times ; and those are greatly mistaken , who , with Ascian and many others , consider all these montes as real lending - houses . These loan - banks or ...
... called montes1 . In this sense the word is used by Italian historians of much later times ; and those are greatly mistaken , who , with Ascian and many others , consider all these montes as real lending - houses . These loan - banks or ...
18. oldal
... called Swiss , and the Russians sometimes Moscovites . They were , how- ever , called frequently also Caorcini , Caturcini , Caursini , Cawarsini , Cawartini , Bardi , and Amanati ; names , which in all probability arose from some of ...
... called Swiss , and the Russians sometimes Moscovites . They were , how- ever , called frequently also Caorcini , Caturcini , Caursini , Cawarsini , Cawartini , Bardi , and Amanati ; names , which in all probability arose from some of ...
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... called æs , and it was not till a late period that mineralogists , in order to distinguish them , gave the name of cuprum to the former1 Pliny says that it was good when a large quantity of cadmia had been added to it , because it not ...
... called æs , and it was not till a late period that mineralogists , in order to distinguish them , gave the name of cuprum to the former1 Pliny says that it was good when a large quantity of cadmia had been added to it , because it not ...
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335. 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.
175. oldal - French school of historical scholars, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century...
334. oldal - I observed a custome in all those Italian cities and townes through the which I passed, that is not used in any other country that I saw in my travels ; neither do I think that any other nation of Christendome doth use it, but only Italy.
79. oldal - In the fourth century, when bishop Theophilus broke to pieces the statues at Alexandria, he found some which were hollow, and placed in such a manner against a wall that a priest could slip unperceived behind them, and speak to the ignorant populace through their mouths...
283. 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.
334. 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...
283. 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...
57. 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.