| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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