The rare handwritten copy of "Sonnet 116" features several additional lines, which may have been an attempt to insert British ...
As Franklin later recalled, he “acquired fair writing pretty soon ... decimal British currency and a gentle introduction to 17th-century England’s bamboozling array of weights and measures.
The research shows that 17th century Britain saw a steep decline ... In fact, by the early 1800s, when William Blake was writing of "dark satanic mills," numbers involved in manufacturing had ...