The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., المجلد 12Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) 1839 |
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... nearly three - quarters of a mile , to the duke's coal works . There the passage divides into two channels , one of which goes 500 yards to the right , and the other as many to the left . In some places the passage is cut through solid ...
... nearly three - quarters of a mile , to the duke's coal works . There the passage divides into two channels , one of which goes 500 yards to the right , and the other as many to the left . In some places the passage is cut through solid ...
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... nearly four miles above Derby , from which town a cut of eight miles and a - half goes off to a place between ... nearly 600 feet , and , during a part of this distance , the canal skirts precipitous mountains at the height of nearly 300 ...
... nearly four miles above Derby , from which town a cut of eight miles and a - half goes off to a place between ... nearly 600 feet , and , during a part of this distance , the canal skirts precipitous mountains at the height of nearly 300 ...
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... nearly north - east for about thirty - five miles , in the counties of Devon and Somerset : it crosses the south - western branch of the grand- ridge ; its objects being a connexion between the southern coast and the Bristol Channel ...
... nearly north - east for about thirty - five miles , in the counties of Devon and Somerset : it crosses the south - western branch of the grand- ridge ; its objects being a connexion between the southern coast and the Bristol Channel ...
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... nearly opposite the London and West India Docks , near the Victualling Office , and will proceed from thence in a south - west direction , to Walworth Common , by the foot of Brixton Hill , to Streatham Common ; then be- tween the towns ...
... nearly opposite the London and West India Docks , near the Victualling Office , and will proceed from thence in a south - west direction , to Walworth Common , by the foot of Brixton Hill , to Streatham Common ; then be- tween the towns ...
الصفحة 34
... nearly 600 miles . We have already entered so fully into the local history of canals in this country that our limits will permit but a brief notice of the great northern canal which unites the eastern and western oceans by Inverness and ...
... nearly 600 miles . We have already entered so fully into the local history of canals in this country that our limits will permit but a brief notice of the great northern canal which unites the eastern and western oceans by Inverness and ...
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الصفحة 93 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
الصفحة 275 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
الصفحة 11 - Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is the disputer of this world ? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world...
الصفحة 72 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
الصفحة 70 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
الصفحة 38 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please...
الصفحة 397 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
الصفحة 285 - A gown made of the finest wool, Which from our pretty lambs we pull, Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
الصفحة 62 - Cameron's gathering' rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their...
الصفحة 10 - Eternal God, on what are thine enemies intent! What are those enterprises of guilt and horror, that, for the safety of their performers, require to be enveloped in a darkness which the eye of heaven must not pierce ! Miserable men ! Proud of being the offspring of chance ; in love with universal disorder ; whose happiness is involved in the belief of there being no witness to their designs, and who are at ease only because they suppose themselves inhabitants of a forsaken and fatherless world...