The Story of John Smeaton and the Eddystone LighthouseT. Nelson and Sons, 1876 - 117 من الصفحات |
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... channels of the Nile were painted on their walls , and that these charts were afterwards transferred to sheets of papyrus . The priests in charge of them taught the sciences of hydrography and HOMER AND THE FIRE - TOWERS . 9 pilotage ,
... channels of the Nile were painted on their walls , and that these charts were afterwards transferred to sheets of papyrus . The priests in charge of them taught the sciences of hydrography and HOMER AND THE FIRE - TOWERS . 9 pilotage ,
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... channel between the two massive piers that formed the harbour , and its ruins were extant as late as the fifteenth century , when they were visited by Pope Pius II . Scarcely inferior in architectural excellence was the pharos which ...
... channel between the two massive piers that formed the harbour , and its ruins were extant as late as the fifteenth century , when they were visited by Pope Pius II . Scarcely inferior in architectural excellence was the pharos which ...
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... channel , more lights became necessary , and thus the old system of lights had to give way to a more regular and extensive lighthouse system . The first modern lighthouse of a solid and per- manent character erected on the shores of ...
... channel , more lights became necessary , and thus the old system of lights had to give way to a more regular and extensive lighthouse system . The first modern lighthouse of a solid and per- manent character erected on the shores of ...
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... channel , lies a reef or ledge of rocks , known , in allusion to the swirl of currents always tossing and seething around it , by the name of the Eddystone . This reef is situated in a line with Lizard Head in Cornwall , and Start Point ...
... channel , lies a reef or ledge of rocks , known , in allusion to the swirl of currents always tossing and seething around it , by the name of the Eddystone . This reef is situated in a line with Lizard Head in Cornwall , and Start Point ...
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... channel the weather would frequently prove of such terrible violence that , for ten or fourteen days in succession , the waters would boil and toss about the rocks - vexed by contrary winds , and by the inrush of the swelling billows ...
... channel the weather would frequently prove of such terrible violence that , for ten or fourteen days in succession , the waters would boil and toss about the rocks - vexed by contrary winds , and by the inrush of the swelling billows ...
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الصفحة 117 - THE LIGHTHOUSE. THE rocky ledge runs far into the sea, And on its outer point, some miles away, The Lighthouse lifts its massive masonry, A pillar of fire by night, of cloud by day.
الصفحة 106 - His mind was as clear as crystal, and his demonstrations will be found mathematically conclusive. To this day there are no writings so valuable as his in the highest walks of scientific engineering ; and when young men ask me, as they frequently do, what they should read, I invariably say, 'Go to Smeaton's philosophical papers; read them, master them thoroughly, and nothing will be of greater service to you.
الصفحة 112 - To the dulling of my spirits : sit down and rest. Even here I will put off my hope, and keep it No longer for my flatterer : he is drown'd Whom thus we stray to find ; and the sea mocks Our frustrate search on land.
الصفحة 48 - He forged his iron and steel, and melted his metal ; he had tools of every sort for working in wood, ivory, and metals. He had made a lathe by which he...
الصفحة 117 - A speechless wrath. that rises and subsides In the white lip and tremour of the face . And, as the evening darkens , lo ! how bright , Through the deep purple of the twilight air , Beams forth the sudden radiance of its light , With strange, unearthly...
الصفحة 27 - With that Winstanley went his way, And left the rock renowned, And summer and winter his pilot star Hung bright o'er Plymouth Sound. But it fell out, fell out at last, That he would put to sea, To scan once more his lighthouse tower On the rock o