"One-ninth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... deviation would render the collection of the duty liable to great difficulties; and that it would not benefit the distiller much, since his price was enhanced to the customer by any increase of expense in the fabrication. Here then is a case in which a quantity, amounting to one-ninth of the total produce, is actually lost to the country. A similar effect arises in the coal trade, from the effect of a duty, for, according to the evidence before the House of Commons, it appears that a considerable quantity ...
— On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures • Charles Babbage
... the brightness of one of the fixed stars at the distance of Sirius, which may be used as the unity of distance, 1, then if it is moved to the distance 2, its apparent brightness will be one-fourth; if to the distance 3, one-ninth; if to the distance 4, one-sixteenth, and so on, the apparent brightness diminishing as the square of the distance increases. The distance may be taken as an order of magnitude. Stars at the distances two, ...
— Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works • Edward Singleton Holden
... the gas from one of the wires was hydrogen, the one-ninth of water. What should you guess the gas from the other wire ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 • Various |
