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Pliny Earle & Brothers letter to Alexander Skinner, Leiscester, 7th mo 13th 1811

Pliny Earle requests monies due from Thomas Rotch, around $50 for goods previously on order. Earle again asks Rotch for a report on how well the carding machine is working.
Earle, Pliny & Brothers
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Pliny\u27s Encyclopedia: The Reception of the Natural History [PDF]

, 2010
Review of Pliny\u27s Encyclopedia: The Reception of the Natural History by Aude ...
Damon, Cynthia
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Letters to the emperor : epistolarity and power relations from Cicero to Symmachus [PDF]

, 2007
Traditionally Latin prose letters have been classified in one of two ways: often they are seen as historical documents to be mined for political, historical and social information; otherwise they are viewed as literature, to be read with a consideration ...
Creese, Maggi
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Pecunia otiosa and a risky business plan of Pliny the Younger (ep. 10.54)

Acta Iuris Stetinensis
Two letters that have survived in a collection of correspondence between Pliny the Younger and Emperor Trajan constitute a fascinating source for the study of financial policies of the Roman state at the beginning of the second century AD.
Maciej Jońca
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Pliny Earle letter to Thomas Rotch, Sauquoit, Oneida County, New York, 3mo 23rd 1823

Pliny Earle announces that he is quitting the woolen manufacturing business and joining his brother in the salt making business. He then imparts detailed information to Thomas Rotch regarding his experience with various kinds of cloth and machinery.7.9 ...
Earle, Pliny
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Pliny Ward Reasoner

, 1881
Portrait of Pliny Ward Reasoner as a young ...

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Pliny Earle letter to Thomas Rotch, Leicester, 1st mo 26th 1822

Pliny Earle offers his opinion of various facets of manufacturing in the new republic. He provides extensive information about how wool should be processed and spun.
Earle, Pliny
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Los datos geográficos en la descripción de Hispania en la "Naturalis Historia" de Plinio

Revista de Historiografía, 2017
Resumen: El objetivo de este trabajo es reflexionar sobre la imagen geográfica y etnográfica de Hispania ela­borada por Plinio el Viejo en los libros III y IV de la Naturalis Historia, en el marco de su descrip­ción del orbis terrarum y del conocimiento
Pilar Ciprés
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De Caniculae voce Procynos sensu praedita

Classica Wratislaviensia. Series Altera
The article investigates the exceptional cases in which the name Canicula is used by ancient authors in the sense of ‘The Lesser Dog’. The passages discussed are Plin. Nat. hist. XVIII 268 and Hyg. Astron. II 4, 4.
Mikołaj Szymański
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Pliny Reasoner, Our Patron

W.B. Thompson describes Pliny Reasoner. He gives a brief biography, a recounting of his first meeting with Pliny, and the story of Pliny Reasoner establishing a Sunday School in ...
Thompson, W.B.;
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