 | John Charnock - Naval architecture - 1801 - 956 pages
...they were capable of exporting 120,000 quarters; (see Arbuthnot's Weights and Measures, page 237.) and the country which could bear so large an exportation,...already have attained an improved state of agriculture." * Some judgment may be formed of its insignificance in respect to the size or burthen of the vessels... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 436 pages
...they were capable of exporting 120,000 •Quarters {see Arbuthnot's Weights and Measures, p. 237.) ; and the country which could bear so large an exportation,...already have attained an improved state of agriculture. CHAP, restored a free and secure navigation, which Con•_ t ' - stantius had offered to purchase at... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1810 - 462 pages
...120.OOO quarters. (See Arhntlmot's Weights and Measures, p. 237); and the country which could hear so large an exportation, must already have attained an improved state of agriculture. 88 The troops once broke out into a mutiny, immediately hefore the second passage of the Uhine. Ammian.... | |
 | Philip Miller - 1834 - 250 pages
...Gibbon, " we compute those vessels at only seventy tons each, they were capable of exporting 120,000 quarters : and the country which could bear so large an exportation must have attained an improved state of agriculture." (Dec. and Fall of Rom. Emp. cap. xix). Possessing... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1840 - 564 pages
...exporting 120.000 quarters: (see Arbuthnot'a Weighljand Measures, p. 337.) and the country which could hear so large an exportation, must already have attained an improved state of agricul* ture. t The troops once broke ont into n mutiny, immediately before the second passage of... | |
 | William Blackwood - 1841 - 646 pages
...Gibbon, " we compute those vessels at only seventy tons each, they were capable of exporting 120,000 quarters, and the country which could bear so large an exportation must have attained an improved state of agriculture."—(Dec. and Fall of Pom. Emp. cap. xix.) Possessing... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - Agricultural chemistry - 1842 - 1364 pages
...Gibbon, " we compute those vessels at only seventy tons each, they were capable of exporting 120,000 quarters; and the country which could bear so large an exportation must have attained an improved state of agriculture." (Dec. and Fall of Rom. Emp. c. xix.) Possessing this... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 830 pages
...exporting one hundred and twenty thousand quarters ; (see Arbulhnot's Weights and Mmturci, p. 237.) and the Country which could bear so large an exportation...already have attained an improved state of agriculture." (Gibbon's Decline and Fail, ¡ft. ch. xix.) J Liban. Oral, Parent, in Imp. Julian, c. 38. Julian evinced... | |
 | John Allen Giles - Great Britain - 1847 - 440 pages
...each, they were capable of exporting 120,000 quarters, (see Arbnthnot's Weights and Measures, p. 237,) and the country, which could bear so large an exportation,...already have attained an improved state of agriculture." marched at the head of some light auxiliary troops, to which were added some companies of the Heruli,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 466 pages
...each, they were capable of exporting 120,000 quarters (see Arbuthnot's Weights and Measures, p. 237) ; and the country which could bear so large an exportation must already have attained an unproved state of agriculture. 88 The troops once broke out into a mutiny, immediately before the second... | |
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Weights and Measures, p. 237); and the country which could bear so large an exportation, must already have attained an improved state of agriculture. 
