Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, المجلد 16،العدد 136 -المجلد 18،العدد 160William Chambers, Robert Chambers William and Robert Chambers, 1847 |
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... death . Left almost destitute by that event , he was taken care of by relations till he grew up , when , manifesting a decided taste for mathematical science , in which he had already attained great proficiency , he removed to Greenock ...
... death . Left almost destitute by that event , he was taken care of by relations till he grew up , when , manifesting a decided taste for mathematical science , in which he had already attained great proficiency , he removed to Greenock ...
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... death , of a great part of the fortune which he had acquired . He died in 1782 , at the age of eighty - four , having for some years lived retired from business . His wife , Agnes Muirhead , the mother of the illustrious Watt , was of a ...
... death , of a great part of the fortune which he had acquired . He died in 1782 , at the age of eighty - four , having for some years lived retired from business . His wife , Agnes Muirhead , the mother of the illustrious Watt , was of a ...
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... death of his wife in Glasgow while he was absent on his survey of the Caledonian Canal . Two children , a son and a daughter , survived their mother . This event would probably have the effect of withdrawing his attention still more ...
... death of his wife in Glasgow while he was absent on his survey of the Caledonian Canal . Two children , a son and a daughter , survived their mother . This event would probably have the effect of withdrawing his attention still more ...
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... DEATH- PERSONAL HABITS AND CHARACTER . Mr Watt's various patents expired in the year 1800. In that year , therefore , he withdrew entirely from business , leaving his share in the Soho establishment to his sons , James and Gregory ; the ...
... DEATH- PERSONAL HABITS AND CHARACTER . Mr Watt's various patents expired in the year 1800. In that year , therefore , he withdrew entirely from business , leaving his share in the Soho establishment to his sons , James and Gregory ; the ...
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... death , he was added to the small number of English members of the Royal Institute of France . In one of the public squares of Glasgow - the city which witnessed Watt's early struggles a statue has been erected to his memory ; and thus ...
... death , he was added to the small number of English members of the Royal Institute of France . In one of the public squares of Glasgow - the city which witnessed Watt's early struggles a statue has been erected to his memory ; and thus ...
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الصفحة 9 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
الصفحة 28 - And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies ; A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.
الصفحة 11 - THE glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on Kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
الصفحة 15 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
الصفحة 20 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial, endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me?
الصفحة 6 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
الصفحة 27 - Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw. 0 make in me those civil wars to cease: 1 will good tribute pay, if thou do so. Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed, A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light, A rosy garland and a weary head: And if these things, as being thine by right, Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me, Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.
الصفحة 9 - Come, let us go while we are in our prime; And take the harmless folly of the time. We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun...