A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, 2. kötetH.G. Bohn, 1846 |
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... manner also they lent from their capital on interest , and gave interest themselves , in order that they might receive a greater . Those who among the ancients were enemies to the lending of money on interest brought these people into ...
... manner also they lent from their capital on interest , and gave interest themselves , in order that they might receive a greater . Those who among the ancients were enemies to the lending of money on interest brought these people into ...
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... manner . The particular year when this establishment began to be formed I have nowhere found marked ; but as it was in the time of Pius II . , it must have been in 1464 , or before that period ' . It is very remarkable that this pontiff ...
... manner . The particular year when this establishment began to be formed I have nowhere found marked ; but as it was in the time of Pius II . , it must have been in 1464 , or before that period ' . It is very remarkable that this pontiff ...
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... manner did Edward III . king of England , when travelling through France in the year 1329 , receive 5000 marks from the bank of the Bardi , and give then in return , by way of acknowledgement , a bond for 70001 . When complaints against ...
... manner did Edward III . king of England , when travelling through France in the year 1329 , receive 5000 marks from the bank of the Bardi , and give then in return , by way of acknowledgement , a bond for 70001 . When complaints against ...
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... manner as that in which we now use them 2 . 1 1 Origenes Contra Celsum , lib . vi . 22. I expected to have received some explanation of this passage from the editors of Origen , and in those authors who have treated expressly on the ...
... manner as that in which we now use them 2 . 1 1 Origenes Contra Celsum , lib . vi . 22. I expected to have received some explanation of this passage from the editors of Origen , and in those authors who have treated expressly on the ...
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... manner the image of the moon , the only one of the heavenly bodies that appears under that form to the naked eye . The character is supposed to represent the sythe of Saturn ; 2 the thunderbolts of Ju- piter ; the lance of Mars ...
... manner the image of the moon , the only one of the heavenly bodies that appears under that form to the naked eye . The character is supposed to represent the sythe of Saturn ; 2 the thunderbolts of Ju- piter ; the lance of Mars ...
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vi. 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.
261. oldal - French school of historical scholars, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century...
501. oldal - For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.
vi. 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...
413. 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.
93. 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.
361. 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.
361. 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.
448. oldal - ... also that the reception of the child will in all probability be the means of replacing the mother in the course of virtue and the way of an honest livelihood.
413. oldal - I myself thought good to imitate the 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...