 Richmond, and you shall be told it is not a shilling, but nine pence. Bring it to Philadelphia, Baltimore, or the City of Washington, and you shall find it recognized for an eleven-penny bit ; and if you ask how that can be, you shall learn that, the...  School Science - Página 3781901Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | United States. Department of State, John Quincy Adams - 1821 - 276 páginas
...a dime or a mille, and the chances are four in five that he will not understand your question. But go to New York and offer in payment the Spanish coin,...of it is nearer to eleven than to any other number : and pursuing still further the arithmetic of popular denominations, you will find that half eleven... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1822 - 488 páginas
...shilling. Carry it to Boston or Richmond, and you shall be told it is not a shilling, but nine pence. Brine it to Philadelphia, Baltimore, or the City of Washington,...of it is nearer to eleven than to any other number : and pursuing still further the arithmetic of popular denominations, you will find that half eleven... | |
 | John Bowring - 1854 - 304 páginas
...ninepence. Bring it to Philadelphia, Baltimore, or the city of Washington, and you shall find it recognised for an eleven-penny bit ; and if you ask how that...of it is nearer to eleven than to any other number; and, pursuing still further the arithmetic of popular denominations, you will find that half eleven... | |
 | John Bowring - 1854 - 304 páginas
...ninepence. Bring it to Philadelphia, Baltimore, or the city of Washington, and you shall find it recognised for an eleven-penny bit; and if you ask how that can...dollar being of ninety pence, the eighth part of it is O OD O O iASS 1ipL<£ a 3 PH W 1 o 3 I o H I Q SB •95 O 00 PI o nearer to eleven than to any other... | |
 | Robert Slater - 1855 - 156 páginas
...Philadelphia, Baltimore, or the city of Washington, and you shall find it recognized for an elovenpenny-bit ; and if you ask how that can be, you shall learn that...dollar being of ninety pence, the eighth part of it nearer to eleven than to any other number, and pursuing still further the arithmetic of popular denominations,... | |
 | Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer - 1869 - 156 páginas
...Baltimore, or the city of Washington, and you shall find it recognized for an eleven penny bit, and ifyou ask how that can be, you shall learn that the dollar...pence, the eighth part of it is nearer to eleven than any other number; and pursuing still further the arithmetic of popular denominations, you will find... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1871 - 394 páginas
...a dime or a mille, and the chances are four in five that he will not understand your question. But go to New York and offer in payment the Spanish coin,...of it is nearer to eleven than to any other number: and pursuing still further the arithmetic of popular denominations, you will find that half eleven... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1871 - 386 páginas
...piece of eight, and the shop or market-man will take it for a shilling. Carry it to Boston or Eichmond, and you shall be told it is not a shilling, but nine...of it is nearer to eleven than to any other number: and pursuing still further the arithmetic of popular denominations, you will find that half eleven... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures - 1907 - 290 páginas
...Philadelphia, Baltimore, or the city of Washington and you shall find it recognized for an 11-penny bit ; and if you ask how that can be you shall learn that the dollar being of 90 pence, the eighth part of it is nearer to eleven than to any other number, etc. This was characterized... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1822 - 502 páginas
...Philadelphia, Baltimore, or the City of Washington, and you snail find it recognized for an eleven -penny bit ; and if you ask how that can be, you shall learn...that, the dollar being of ninety pence, the eighth p_art of it is nearer to eleven than to any other number: and pursuing still further the arithmetic... | |
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