 | United States. Department of State, John Quincy Adams - Weights and measures - 1821 - 276 pages
...end of thirty years, ask a tradesman, or shopkeeper, in any of our cities what is a dime or a mille, and the chances are four in five that he will not...unit of the Spanish piece of eight, and the shop or market-man will take it for a shilling. Carry it to Boston or Richmond, and you shall be told it is... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1822 - 488 pages
...years, ask a tradesman, or shopkeeper, in any of our cities, what is a dime or a mille, and the ehances are four in five that he will not understand your...unit of the Spanish piece of eight, and the shop or market-man will take it for a shilling. Carry it to Boston or Richmond, and you shall be told it is... | |
 | John Bowring - Decimal system - 1854 - 304 pages
...end of thirty years, ask a tradesman or shopkeeper in any of our cities what is a dime or a mille, and the chances are four in five that he will not...unit of the Spanish piece of eight, and the shop or marketman will take it for a shilling. Carry it to Boston or Richmond, and you shall be told it is... | |
 | Robert Slater - 1855 - 156 pages
...end of thirty years, ask a tradesman or shopkeeper in any of our cities what is a dime or a mille, and the chances are four in five that he will not...payment the Spanish coin, the unit of the Spanish piece-of-eight, and the shop or market man will take it for a shilling ; carry it to Boston, or Richmond,... | |
 | 1858 - 594 pages
...end of thirty years, ask a tradesman or shopkeeper in any of our cities what is a dime or a mille, and the chances are four in five that he will not...the shop or market man will take it for a shilling. . . . And thus we have English denominations most absurdly and diversely applied to Spanish coins,... | |
 | Charles Davies - Science - 1871 - 394 pages
...end of thirty years, ask a tradesman, or shopkeeper, in any of our cities what is a dime or a mille, and the chances are four in five that he will not...unit of the Spanish piece of eight, and the shop or market-man will take it for a shilling. Carry it to Boston or Richmond, and you shall be told it is... | |
 | Mathematics - 1901 - 594 pages
...end of thirty years, ask a tradesman or shopkeeper, in any of our cities what is a dime or a mille, and the chances are four in five that he will not understand your question. Bat go to New York and offer in payment the Spanish coin, the unit of the Spanish piece of eight, and... | |
 | Association of Engineering Societies (U.S.) - Engineering - 1886 - 544 pages
...of eight " bits" (to use an American expression for the eighth of a dollar), Mr. Adams said : * * " Go to New York and offer in payment the Spanish coin,...unit of the Spanish piece of eight, and the shop or market-man will take it for a shilling." And again : " For all the transactions of retail trade, the... | |
 | Weights and measures - 1971 - 326 pages
...end of thirty years, ask a tradesman, or shopkeeper in any of our cities what is a dime or a mille, and the chances are four in five that he will not understand your question. . . . [They] remain, to the great mass of the people, among the hidden mysteries of political economy—... | |
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... instead of a tenth, part of a dollar. Even now, at the end of thirty years, ask a tradesman, or shopkeeper, in any of our cities what is a dime or a mille, and the chances are four in five that he will not understand your question. But go to New York... 