 | Sir Archibald Alison - Europe - 1852 - 656 pages
...difficult to explain it ; but every Iv' gentleman knows it : it is something which has existed in 1819this country for eight hundred years, three hundred years before the introduction of gold.' Mr Locke, with all his powers of understanding, could not succeed in defining what he meant by a pound.... | |
 | Sir Robert Peel - Great Britain - 1853 - 806 pages
...pound. His answer was, " I find ft difficult to explain it, but every gentleman in England knows it." The committee repeated the question, and Mr. Smith...after elucidating the subject of identity, dispelling all the erroneous views with respect to innate ideas, and endeavouring to penetrate even the properties... | |
 | Robert Peel - Great Britain - 1853 - 816 pages
...His answer was, 11 1 find ft difficult to explain it, but every gentleman in England knows it." Tbe Committee repeated the question, and Mr. Smith answered,...after elucidating the subject of identity, dispelling all the erroneous views with respect to innate ideas, and endeavouring to penetrate even the properties... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1854 - 668 pages
...find it difficult to explain it ; but every gentleman knows it : it is something which has existed in this country for eight hundred years — three hundred years before the introduction of gold.' Mr Locke, with all his powers of understanding, could not succeed in defining what he meant by a pound.... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1854 - 666 pages
...find it difficult to explain it ; but every gentleman knows it : it is something which has existed in this country for eight hundred years — three hundred years before the introduction of gold.' Mr Locke, with all his powers of understanding, could not succeed in defining what he meant by a pound.... | |
 | Thomas Doubleday - Great Britain - 1856 - 536 pages
...; and Mr Smith answered — ' It is something that has existed in this country •without variation for eight hundred years, three hundred years before the introduction of gold.' And this was the only definition he could give. * * * * * Sir Isaac Newton, retiring from the sublime... | |
 | Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler - Gentry - 1869 - 400 pages
...pound, and Mr. Smith answered — " It is something that has existed in this country without variation for eight hundred years, three hundred years before the introduction of gold ;" and this was the only definition he could give. Mr. Peel told the House that Sir Isaac Newton, retiring... | |
 | william g. summer - 1874 - 416 pages
...it.' The committee repeated the question and Mr. Smith answered, ' It is something which has existed in this country for eight hundred years — three hundred years before the introduction of gold.' ' "Sir Isaac Newton . . . entered on the examination of this subject, but that great man came back... | |
 | William Graham Sumner - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 416 pages
...pound. His answer was, ' I find it difficult to explain it, but every gentleman in England knows it.' The committee repeated the question and Mr. Smith answered, ' It is something which has existed in this country for eight hundred years — three hundred years before the introduction... | |
 | William Graham Sumner - Currency question - 1874 - 400 pages
...pound. His answer was, ' I find it difficult to explain it, but every gentleman in England knows it/ The committee repeated the question and Mr. Smith answered, ' It is something which has existed in this country for eight hundred years — three hundred years before the introduction... | |
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He was required to define wh«t he meant by the pound. His answer was, " I find it difficult to explain it, but every gentleman in England knows it." The committee repeated the question, and Mr. Smith answered, " It is something that has existed without... 
