The Numismatic Chronicle, Τόμος 3

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John Yonge Akerman, Sir John Evans, William Sandys Wright Vaux, Frederic William Madden, Barclay Vincent Head, Herbert Appold Grueber, Edward James Rapson, Oliver Codrington, Sir George Francis Hill, George Cyril Brooke
Royal Numismatic Society., 1863
With v. 1 is bound; Horta, de, chevalier. Catalogue d'une partie de la collection de médailles. Londres, J. Wertheimer.
 

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Σελίδα 3 - July 14, 1890, are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except where otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. United States notes are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt.
Σελίδα 62 - ... for any man under a duke; but told him at the same time that it might be altered with a very few touches, and that he himself would be at the charge of it. Accordingly they got a painter by the Knight's directions to add a pair of whiskers to the face, and by a little aggravation of the features to change it into the Saracen's Head.
Σελίδα 66 - Hops were then grown to be a national commodity ; but it was not many years since the famous city of London petitioned the parliament of England against two nuisances ; and these were Newcastle coals, in regard to their stench ; and hops, in regard they would spoyl the taste of drink, and endanger the people.
Σελίδα 135 - I find it recorded that one James Farr, a barber, who kept the coffee-house which is now the Rainbow, by the Inner Temple Gate, (one of the first in England), was, in the year 1657, presented by the Inquest of St. Dunstan's in the West, for making and selling a sort of liquor called coffee, as a great nuisance and prejudice to the neighbourhood, &c.
Σελίδα 135 - I did send for a cup of tee (a China drink), of which I never had drank before.
Σελίδα 66 - The hop for his profit I thus do exalt, It strengtheneth drink, and it favoureth malt; And being well brewed, long kept it will last, And drawing abide — if ye draw not too fast.
Σελίδα 66 - An old writer says : • Hops, reformation, bays, and beer, Came into England all in one year...
Σελίδα 7 - They are, by the most probable conjectures, supposed to have been the remains nf the Britons slain in a bloody battle fought on the shore between this place and Folkstone, with the retreating Saxons, in the year 456, and to have attained their whiteness by lying for some length of time on the sea shore. Several of the skulls have deep cuts in them, as if made by some heavy weapon, most likely of the Saxons.
Σελίδα 66 - ... the utter want of hops is the reason why ale lasteth so little a time, but either dyeth or soureth, and therefore they will to every barrel of the best ale allow half a pound of good hops.
Σελίδα 62 - ... most extraordinary manner, I could still discover a distant resemblance of my old friend. Sir Roger, upon seeing me laugh, desired me to tell him truly if I thought it possible for people to know him in that disguise.

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