 | United States. Department of State, John Quincy Adams - 1821 - 276 Seiten
...common with the whole British nation : the natitfn with which, of all the nations of the earth, we have the most of that intercourse which requires the constant use of weights and measures. No change is believed possible, other than that of the whole system, the benefit of which would compensate... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1822 - 488 Seiten
...common with the whole British nation ; the nation with which, of all the nations of the earth.'we have the most of that intercourse which requires the constant use of weights and measures. No change is believed possible, other than that of the whole system, the benefit of which would compensate... | |
 | 1834 - 896 Seiten
...common with the whole British nation; the nation with which, of all the nations of the earth, we have the most of that intercourse which requires the constant use of weights and measures. No change is believed possible other than that of the whole system, the benefit of which would compensate... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1836 - 470 Seiten
...common with the whole British nation ; the nation, with which, of all the nations of the earth we have the most of that intercourse which requires the constant use of weights and measures."* Great Britain, therefore, and the United States may be considered as going together on this subject,... | |
 | 1840 - 726 Seiten
...common with the whole British nation ; the nation, with which, of all the nations of the earth, we have the most of that intercourse which requires the constant use of weights and measures."* Great Britain, therefore, and the United States may be considered as going together on this subject,... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1871 - 394 Seiten
...avoirdupois, and their pound troy, their cord of wood, and their ton of shipping, are the same. They are of the nations of the earth, the two, who have...which would not be adopted by the other, would destroy all this existing uniformity. Precious, indeed, must be that uniformity, the mere promise of which,... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1871 - 386 Seiten
...common with the whole British nation ; the nation with which, of all the nations of the earth, we have the most of that intercourse which requires the constant use of weights and measures. No change is believed possible, other than that of the whole system, the benefit of which would compensate... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures - 1926 - 374 Seiten
...same legal system of weights and measures. * * * They are of the nations of the earth the two that have with each other the most of that intercourse...which would not be adopted by the other would destroy all this existing uniformity. Precious, indeed, must be that uniformity the mere promise of which,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures - 1926 - 376 Seiten
...same legal system of weights and measures. * * * They are of the nations of the earth the two that have with each other the most of that intercourse...which would not be adopted by the other would destroy all this existing uniformity. Precious, indeed, must be that uniformity the mere promise of which,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on coinage, weights & measures - 1926 - 394 Seiten
...same legal system of weights and measures. * * * They are of the nations of the earth the two that have with each other the most of that intercourse...which would not be adopted by the other would destroy all this existing uniformity. Precious, indeed, must be that uniformity the mere promise of which,... | |
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... change whatever of the system could be adopted, without losing the greatest of all the elements of uniformity, that referring to the persons using the same system. This uniformity we now possess, in common with the whole British nation ; the nation... 
