| Phebe Lankester - 1880 - 270 pagine
...strength to work. "I endeavoured to convince him that the bodily strength furnished by the beer, could only be in proportion to the solid part of the barley...dissolved in the water of which the beer was composed ; that there was a larger portion of flour in a penny loaf, and that consequently if he ate this loaf,... | |
| Joseph Livesey - 1885 - 376 pagine
...strength to work. I endeavoured to convince him that the bodily strength furnished by the beer could only be in proportion to the solid part of the barley...dissolved in the water, of which the beer was composed : that there was a larger portion of flour in a penny loaf, and that consequently if he ate this loaf,... | |
| W & R CHAMBERS - 1887 - 238 pagine
...strength to work. I endeavoured to convince him that the bodily strength furnished by the beer could only be in proportion to the solid part of the barley dissolved in the water of which the beer was composed—that there was a larger portion of flour in a penny loaf; and that, consequently, if he... | |
| Sydney George Fisher - 1926 - 446 pagine
...mastery of details, reasoned with him that the strength furnished by the beer could come only from the barley dissolved in the water of which the beer was composed ; that there was a larger portion of flour in a penny loaf, and if he ate a loaf and drank a pint of... | |
| Christopher J. Murrey - 2002 - 254 pagine
...mastery of details, reasoned with him that the strength furnished by the beer could come only from the barley dissolved in the water of which the beer was composed; that there was a larger portion of flour in a penny loaf, and if he ate a loaf and drank a pint of... | |
| 1859 - 846 pagine
...to work. "I endeavoured to convince him that the bodily strength furnished by the beer could only bo in proportion to the solid part of the barley dissolved in the water of which the beer was composed; that there was a larger portion of flour in a penny loaf, and that, consequently, if he ate this loaf,... | |
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