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Page 174
... weight 120 times as great , which would be quite out of proportion to a man's capacity for lifting . So the drachm which was in weight the hundredth of a mina , and the obol which was in weight the sixth of a drachm only came into ...
... weight 120 times as great , which would be quite out of proportion to a man's capacity for lifting . So the drachm which was in weight the hundredth of a mina , and the obol which was in weight the sixth of a drachm only came into ...
Page 195
... weights of Pheidon being in use at Athens at the time , it would seem that Solon somewhat augmented them at the same time that he lowered the weight of the coins . That Pheidonian weights for goods were in use in later times we already ...
... weights of Pheidon being in use at Athens at the time , it would seem that Solon somewhat augmented them at the same time that he lowered the weight of the coins . That Pheidonian weights for goods were in use in later times we already ...
Page 196
... weight and quality , unless when some fully organized State with a commercial instinct makes it a part of its policy to keep up the standard , and in so doing perhaps to keep up the standard of its neighbours . But the tendency in weights ...
... weight and quality , unless when some fully organized State with a commercial instinct makes it a part of its policy to keep up the standard , and in so doing perhaps to keep up the standard of its neighbours . But the tendency in weights ...
Contents
NINTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING JULY 5 1911 ADDRESS BY | 3 |
SOME CARDINAL POINTS IN KNOWLEDGE | 28 |
SOME PALESTINIAN CULTS IN THE GRAECOROMAN AGE By G | 55 |
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