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" ... subject is susceptible, not considering how far it should be extended, or where it finds its boundary in the nature of things and of man, enacts laws inadequate to their purpose, inconsistent with one another, sometimes stubbornly resisting, at others... "
The Metric Fallacy: An Investigation of the Claims Made for the Metric ... - Page 12
by Frederick Arthur Halsey - 1919 - 229 pages
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Report Upon Weights and Measures, Issues 1-7

United States. Department of State, John Quincy Adams - Weights and measures - 1821 - 276 pages
...another ; sometimes stubbornly resisting, at others weakly yielding to inveterate usages or abuses ; and finishes by increasing the diversities which it was...his intention to abolish, and by loading his statute book only with the impotence of authority, and the uniformity of confusion. This inquiry into the theory...
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The Metric System

Charles Davies - 1871 - 386 pages
...another; sometimes stubbornly resisting, at others weakly yielding to inveterate uses or abuses; and finishes by increasing the diversities which it was his intention to abolish, and by loading his statutebook only with the impotence of authority, and the uniformity of confusion. This inquiry into...
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The Metric System: Hearings Before the Committee on Coinage, Weights and ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures - Metric system - 1906 - 338 pages
...another, sometimes stubbornly resisting, at others weakly yielding to inveterate uses or abuses ; and finishes by increasing the diversities which it was his intention to abolish, and by loadng the statute book only with the impotence of authority and the uniformity of confusion. The makers...
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Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Volume 40

American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Mechanical engineering - 1919 - 2288 pages
...the difficulties of carrying it into execution are always great and have often proved insuperable. The legislator . . . finishes by increasing the diversities...that we are fighting. THE RESULTS ARE NOT SURPRISING 48 Some who read this Report will, no doubt, be surprised at the condition disclosed in Spanish and...
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The Metric System: Testimony by Witnesses at the Hearings Before the ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures - Metric system - 1926 - 376 pages
...another, sometimes stubbornly resisting, at others weakly yielding to inveterate uses or abuses, and finishes by increasing the diversities which it was...his intention to abolish, and by loading his statute book only with the impotence of authority and the uniformity of confusion. The CHAIRMAN. Does that...
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The Metric System: Hearings Before the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures - Metric system - 1926 - 374 pages
...another, sometimes stubbornly resisting, at others weakly yielding to inveterate uses or abuses, and finishes by increasing the diversities which it was...his intention to abolish, and by loading his statute book only with the impotence of authority and the uniformity of confusion. The CHAIRMAN. Does that...
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The Metric System, Hearings ..., on H.R. 10 ..., Feb 1-Mar 18, 1926

United States. Congress. House. Committee on coinage, weights & measures - 1926 - 394 pages
...another, sometimes stubbornly resisting, at others weakly yielding to inveterate uses or abuses, and finishes by increasing the diversities which it was...his intention to abolish, and by loading his statute book only with the impotence of authority and the uniformity of confusion. The CHAIRMAN. Does that...
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