 | John Beswicke Greenwood - 1859 - 282 pages
...each, they were capable of exporting 120,000 quarters (see Arbuthnofs Weights and Measures, p. 237); and the country which could bear so large an exportation,...already have attained an improved state of agriculture." This corn, no doubt, would be grown in the South of Britain: but it is clear that agriculture and the... | |
 | John Beswicke Greenwood - 1859 - 286 pages
...each, they were capable of exporting 120,000 quarters (see Arbuthnots Weight* and Measures, p. 237) ; and the country which could bear so large an exportation,...already have attained an improved state of agriculture." This corn, no doubt, would be grown in the South of Britain : but it is clear that agriculture and... | |
 | Robert Scott Burn - 1863 - 380 pages
...Reckoning the tonnage of each of these at 70 tons, " they were capable," says Gibbon, "of exporting 120,000 quarters ; and the country which could bear so large an exportation must have attained an improved state of agriculture." Mr. Hewitt Davis has some ingenious and interesting... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - Agricultural chemistry - 1869 - 1296 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 <if Rum. Emp. c. xix.) Possessing this... | |
 | Frederick Grimké - Democracy - 1871 - 1018 pages
...; and if we compute the 600 ships at only seventy tons each, they were capable of exporting 120,000 quarters; and the country which could bear so large...says: "The spirit of improvement had passed the Alps, and was felt even in the woods of Britain, which were gradually cleared to open a free space for convenient... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1875 - 626 pages
...praefect of Gaul, of exporting 120,000 quarters, (see Arbuthnot's \Veights.and.Measures, p- 237 ;) aii^ the country which could bear so large an exportation,...already have attained an improved state of agriculture. 98 The troops once broke out into a mutiny, immediately before the •second |jassage of the Rhine.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1875 - 624 pages
...exporting 120,000 quarters, (see Arbuthnot's Weights and Measures, p. 237 ;) an.; the countrj wliich could bear so large an exportation, must already have attained an improved state of agriculture. *" The troops once broke out into a mutiny, immediately before the second passage of the Rhine. Ammiau.... | |
 | Sussex Archaeological Society - Archaeology - 1894 - 382 pages
...600 corn ships of Julian from Britain as at only 70 tons each, they were capable of exporting 120,000 quarters, and the country which could bear so large an exportation must have attained a very improved state of agriculture. " In all probability this large amount of grain... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1900 - 642 pages
...tons each, they were capable of exporting 120,000 quarters (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. to direct, the administration of Julian. — Ammian. xvi. 5, xviii. 1; Mamertinus Paneg. Vet. xi. 4.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1901 - 602 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...already have attained an improved state of agriculture. was the ruling principle which directed, or seemed to direct, the administration of Julian.89 He devoted... | |
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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. 
