 | Celtic literature - 1858 - 562 pages
...system of coins, weights, and measures politan appears to have no peculiarity of a merely provincial or entirely displaced the complex and cumbrous Roman...for a while successfully resisted by one of those statesmen 2 whose rank is usually supposed to supply all the by mo- qualities required for managing... | |
 | Dublin city, univ. coll - 1858 - 1070 pages
...German States (Zollvorein) for weights and measure* has in part adopted the French metrical system. entirely displaced the complex and cumbrous Roman...for a while successfully resisted by one of those statesmen* whose rank is usually supposed to supply all the by mo- qualities required for managing... | |
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French metrical system. entirely displaced the complex and cumbrous Roman numerical symbols among the northern nations. The Arabic numerals were unknown in Russia until the time of Peter the Great; they were employed in England about two centuries before,... 