Lectures on History, and General Policy: To which is Prefixed, an Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life : and an Additional Lecture on the Constitution of the United States : the Whole Corrected, Improved and Enlarged: with a Chart of History and a Chart of Biography, Том 1P. Byrne, 1803 |
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Сторінка 238 - ... be reckoned thirty times cheaper than it is now. In the reign of William the Conqueror commodities were ten times cheaper than they are at prefent j from which we cannot help forming a very high idea of the wealth and power of that king.
Сторінка 241 - ... in this country than before. The price of corn in the time of James I. and confequently that of other...