 | Alexander Wynter Blyth - 1882 - 676 pages
...false pretences of all kinds were the instruments of commerce most generally in use. No buyer would trust the word of a seller, and there was hardly any...neighbour intended to rob or even to murder him."* ASSIZES OF BREAD-BAKERS. § 3. The sale of bread was regulated in England as early as the fourth year... | |
 | Alexander Wynter Blyth - Agua - 1896 - 848 pages
...commerce most generally in use. No buyer would trust the word of a seller, and there was hardly any cluss in which a man might not with reason suspect that...neighbour intended to rob or even to murder him."* ASSIZES OF BREAD— BAKERS. § 3. The sale of bread was regulated in England as early as the fourth... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - Anglo-Saxon race - 1897 - 380 pages
...killed without mercy every man who came in their way, and vied with each other in their brutality. . . . False weights, false measures, and false pretences...neighbour intended to rob or even to murder him." a If we go back a generation before Henry II., we find the historian declaring that " no more ghastly... | |
 | Alexander Wynter Blyth - 1903 - 676 pages
...ix. c. 18. 2 Dioscorides, iv. 65 ; Pliny, xx. 76. 3 Pliny, xviii. 29. 4 Pliny, xxxiv. • Op. cit. the word of a seller, and there was hardly any class...neighbour intended to rob or even to murder him." l ASSIZES OP BREAD — BAKERS. § 3. The sale of bread was regulated in England as early as the fourth... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1903 - 1160 pages
...false pretences of all kinds were the instruments of commerce most generally in use. No buyer would trust the word of a seller, and there was hardly any...which a man might not with reason suspect that his neighbor intended to rob or even to murder him." Men are better than that to-day. Not so many will... | |
 | Nutrition - 1903 - 814 pages
...false pretenses of all kinds were the instruments of commerce most generally in- use. No buyer would trust the word of a seller, and there was hardly any...which a man might not with reason suspect that his neighbor intended to rob or even to murder him." " The early efforts to prevent adulteration in England,... | |
 | Alexander Wynter Blyth, Meredith Wynter Blyth - Food - 1909 - 746 pages
...i. ix. c. 13. a Dioscorides, iv. 65 ; Pliny, xx. 76. 1 Pliny, xviii. 29. 4 Pliny, xxxiv. ' Op. eit. the word of a seller, and there was hardly any class...neighbour intended to rob or even to murder him." 1 ASSIZES OF BREAD — BAKERS. § 3. The sale of bread was regulated in England as early as the fourth... | |
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They killed without mercy every man who came in their way, and vied with each other in brutality. . . . False weights, false measures, false pretences of all kinds were the instruments of commerce most generally in use. No buyer would trust the word of... 