 | United States. Department of State, John Quincy Adams - Weights and measures - 1821 - 276 pages
...together, are the only ingredients of practical uniformity for a system of weights and measures. It has proved, that gravity and extension will not walk together...to every transaction of trade and commerce : to the labors of the husbandman ; to the ingenuity of the artificer; t<ยป the studies of the philosopher;... | |
 | John Davis - Circle-squaring - 1854 - 190 pages
...be considered as entering into the economical arrangements and daily concerns of every family. It is necessary to every occupation of human industry, to...to every transaction of trade and commerce, to the labors of the husbandman, to the ingenuity of the artificer, to the studies of the philosopher, to... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1871 - 386 pages
...together, are the only ingredients of practical uniformity for a system of weights and measures. It has proved, that gravity and extension will not walk together...to every transaction of trade and commerce ; to the labors of the husbandman ; to the ingenuity of the artificer; to the studies of the philosopher ; to... | |
 | Charles Davies - Science - 1871 - 394 pages
...difficulties of carrying it into execution are always great, and have often proved in- ' superable. Weights and measures may be ranked among ' the necessaries...to every transaction of trade and commerce ; to the labors of the husbandman ; to the ingenuity of the artificer; to the studies of the philosopher ; to... | |
 | American Pharmaceutical Association - 1887 - 764 pages
...difficulties to be overcome, perhaps the greatest is the abandonment of old and familiar units or standards. "Weights and measures may be ranked among the necessaries...to every transaction of trade and commerce ; to the labors of the husbandman ; to the ingenuity of the artificer ; to the studies of the philosopher; to... | |
 | American Pharmaceutical Association. Annual Meeting - Pharmaceutical industry - 1896 - 1002 pages
...weights and measures, shows, very forcibly, the reasons for conservatism in this matter. He says : " They enter into the economical arrangements and daily concerns of every family. " The knowledge of them, in established use, is among the first elements of education, and is often... | |
 | American Pharmaceutical Association - 1896 - 1010 pages
...weights and measures, shows, very forcibly, the reasons for conservatism in this matter. He saya : " They enter into the economical arrangements and daily concerns of every family. " The knowledge of them, in established use, is among the first elements of education, and is often... | |
 | Weights and measures - 1971 - 326 pages
...1821 Report Upon Weights and Measures, probably summarized all of them most adequately when he wrote: "The substitution of an entire new system of weights...to every transaction of trade and commerce; to the labors of the husbandman; to the ingenuity of the artificer; to the studies of the philosopher; to... | |
 | Henry Adams - History - 1919 - 344 pages
...always found them so. To this day they have never succeeded in applying the decimal system to time. "Weights and measures may be ranked among the necessaries...to every transaction of trade and commerce; to the labors of the husbandman; to the ingenuity of the artificer; to the studies of the philosopher; to... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Manufactures - 1922 - 630 pages
...instead of one long establ'shed and in general use, is one of the most arduous exercises of legislataive authority. There is indeed no difficulty in enacting...necessary to every occupation of human industry ; to thedistribution and security of every species of property ; to every transaction of trade and commerce... | |
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Weights and measures may be ranked among the necessaries of life, to every individual of human society. They enter into the economical arrangements and daily concerns of every family. They are necessary to every occupation of human industry; to the distribution... 
