-
maximum beam. It is
expressed in "tons burden" (Early
Modern English:
burthen,
Middle English: byrthen), and
abbreviated "tons bm". The
formula is: Tonnage...
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Modest Proposal for
Preventing the
Children of Poor
People from
Being a
Burthen to
Their Parents or Country, and for
Making Them
Beneficial to the Publick...
- Look up Burden or
burden in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Burden or
burthen may
refer to:
Burden (surname),
people with the
surname Burden Burden,...
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until 1960. His own
considerable output, such as the
ballet Donald of the
Burthens (1951), was
influenced by
Scottish themes and folk tunes.
Register of Deaths...
- mind free; That all
attempts to
influence it by
temporal punishments or
burthens, or by
civil incapacitations tend only to
beget habits of
hypocrisy and...
-
performed all the
duties of a
common servant,
chopping wood,
carrying burthens, etc. with
little or no
suffering or
inconvenience from his wound." Although...
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religion at home; good
affection and
harmony with our
Indian neighbors; our
burthens lightened, yet our
income sufficient for the
public wants, and the produce...
- 1611, "He has the
prettiest Loue-songs for
Maids ... with such
delicate burthens of ****'s and Fadings.": Act IV,
scene iv) Sadie, S. (Ed.). (1980). The...
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Progressive influence of the
Commons in
granting Supplies, and
imposing Burthens upon the People.
Exclusion of the
Lords from the
right of
amending Money...
- two
decks high. She was 165 feet (50.29 m) long,
measuring 1,000 tons
burthen and
having a
complement of 700 men. She was
ordered by
Henry VIII, probably...
