A history of inventions and discoveries, tr. by W. Johnston. Vol. 1-3; 4, 2nd ed, المجلد 41817 |
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... England , in such quantity that it could be spread all over the old world . The carriage of merchandise was not then so easy . If all the cassiteron was procured from the north - west parts of Europe , it appears to me that it must have ...
... England , in such quantity that it could be spread all over the old world . The carriage of merchandise was not then so easy . If all the cassiteron was procured from the north - west parts of Europe , it appears to me that it must have ...
الصفحة 22
... England . In this case the Bedil of the Hebrews might be only stannum , and thus would be removed the wonder of Micha- * Lib . iii . p . 254 : De extremitatibus Europæ ad vesperam quod pro comperto referam , non habeo , neque enim ...
... England . In this case the Bedil of the Hebrews might be only stannum , and thus would be removed the wonder of Micha- * Lib . iii . p . 254 : De extremitatibus Europæ ad vesperam quod pro comperto referam , non habeo , neque enim ...
الصفحة 27
... England , at present , tin costs about five times as much as lead . At Hamburgh , in 1794 , a pound of English block tin cost eleven schillings and a half , and tin in bars thirteen schillings ; but a hundred pounds of English lead were ...
... England , at present , tin costs about five times as much as lead . At Hamburgh , in 1794 , a pound of English block tin cost eleven schillings and a half , and tin in bars thirteen schillings ; but a hundred pounds of English lead were ...
الصفحة 37
... England gave as a present a stagnarium or a stannaria , a tin mine or tin work , or , as others say , fodina stanni . In the fourteenth century there was in England , under Edward III , a stannaria curia ; and in the * Where the author ...
... England gave as a present a stagnarium or a stannaria , a tin mine or tin work , or , as others say , fodina stanni . In the fourteenth century there was in England , under Edward III , a stannaria curia ; and in the * Where the author ...
الصفحة 38
... England , as is gene- rally asserted , enjoyed an exclusive trade in this metal till the thirteenth century , when the tin mines were discovered and worked in Bohemia . But the exact time when this took place I am not able to determiné ...
... England , as is gene- rally asserted , enjoyed an exclusive trade in this metal till the thirteenth century , when the tin mines were discovered and worked in Bohemia . But the exact time when this took place I am not able to determiné ...
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الصفحة 393 - The reason of this their curiosity is, because the Italian cannot by any means indure to have his dish touched with fingers, seeing all men's fingers are not alike cleane.
الصفحة 393 - 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...
الصفحة 108 - French school of historical scholars, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century...
الصفحة 394 - 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.
الصفحة 300 - Priest, &c. ; with a Commentary, in which the antiquity of them is considered and defended by Jeremiah Milles, DD, Dean of Exeter.
الصفحة 394 - I myself thought good to imitate the Italian fashion by this forked cutting of meat, not only while I was in Italy, but also in Germany, and oftentimes in England since I came home...
الصفحة 298 - This information is confirmed by another account. It is related in Stow's Chronicle, that the earl of Pembroke was the first nobleman who wore worsted knit stockings. In the year 1564, William Rider, an apprentice of Master Thomas 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,...
الصفحة 142 - Heennen, that indigo should be entirely banished from the empire, and that an exclusive privilege should be granted to those who dyed with woad. This was followed by an imperial prohibition on the 21st of April 1654, in which every thing ordered in regard to the devil's dyes is repeated, with this addition, that great care should be taken to prevent the private introduction of indigo, by which the trade in woad was lessened, dyed articles injured, and money carried out of the country.
الصفحة 59 - Mox, ut est ingeniosa sollertia, non fuit contenta nitrum miscuisse, coeptus addi et magnes lapis, quoniam in se liquorem vitri quoque ut ferrum trahere creditur.
الصفحة 316 - In the year 1589 the ingenious William Lee, Master of Arts, of St. John's College, Cambridge, devised this profitable art for stockings (but being despised went to France) ; yet of iron to himself, but to us and others of gold, in memory of whom this is here painted.