-
maximum beam. It is
expressed in "tons burden" (Early
Modern English:
burthen,
Middle English: byrthen), and
abbreviated "tons bm". The
formula is: Tonnage...
-
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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- whom ye can or will live in peace; he [Breakspear]
shall no
longer be a
burthen to you". When
Breakspear was
later pope, however, he
seemed to
favour St...
-
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...
-
performed all the
duties of a
common servant,
chopping wood,
carrying burthens, etc. with
little or no
suffering or
inconvenience from his wound." Although...
- 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...
- 1841 to 1946,
Cambridge University Press. Tarling,
Nicholas (1982) The
burthen, the risk, and the glory: a
biography of Sir
James Brooke,
Kuala Lumpur;...
