Harry and Lucy: With Other Tales ...Harper, 1836 |
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... bridge to build , and a canal to cut , and a lock to make . These were some of the projects which he had formed during the journey , and which he was now eager to carry into execution . He found a fine place for his canal , between two ...
... bridge to build , and a canal to cut , and a lock to make . These were some of the projects which he had formed during the journey , and which he was now eager to carry into execution . He found a fine place for his canal , between two ...
الصفحة 40
... bridge at this place would be a public and private benefit seem- ed evident , and Harry was ambitious of building a real , substantial , arched bridge , which should last , he would not say for ever , but as long as man could reasonably ...
... bridge at this place would be a public and private benefit seem- ed evident , and Harry was ambitious of building a real , substantial , arched bridge , which should last , he would not say for ever , but as long as man could reasonably ...
الصفحة 41
... bridge project started , and his consent , assistance , and advice anxiously requested . Lucy thought his first look was not favourable . He shook his head , and answered , that he feared Harry would find it beyond his skill or present ...
... bridge project started , and his consent , assistance , and advice anxiously requested . Lucy thought his first look was not favourable . He shook his head , and answered , that he feared Harry would find it beyond his skill or present ...
الصفحة 42
... bridge which I saw the mason building in that lane where we went to look at the road mend- ing . I measured the centring as it lay on the ground when they had done with it , and I drew my arch exact- ly by that centring . " " What is ...
... bridge which I saw the mason building in that lane where we went to look at the road mend- ing . I measured the centring as it lay on the ground when they had done with it , and I drew my arch exact- ly by that centring . " " What is ...
الصفحة 43
... bridge of the same size , and he named the quantities . Then he had farther to ask for a bucket , a hod , a trowel , and a plumb - line , and the mason's centring , and the mason or the mason's man , if he could be had , for three days ...
... bridge of the same size , and he named the quantities . Then he had farther to ask for a bucket , a hod , a trowel , and a plumb - line , and the mason's centring , and the mason or the mason's man , if he could be had , for three days ...
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الصفحة 101 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell, Of every star that Heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
الصفحة 330 - Who has e'er had the luck to see Donnybrook Fair? An Irishman, all in his glory, is there, With his sprig of shillelah and shamrock so green!
الصفحة 228 - The beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, The beginning of every end, and the end of every place.
الصفحة 25 - When it is perfectly formed, the shell gapeth open, and the first thing that appeareth is the foresaid lace or string ; next come the legs of the bird hanging out, and as it groweth greater, it openeth the shell by degrees, till at length it is all come forth, and hangeth only by the bill. In short space after it cometh to full maturity, and falleth into the sea...
الصفحة 46 - Any thing reticulated or decussated at equal distances with interstices between the intersections.
الصفحة 24 - Herbal," giving an account of the miraculous origin of the Solan Goose. It runs : " But what our eyes have seen and hands have touched we shall declare.
الصفحة 199 - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts. In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts. While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanced, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise!
الصفحة 227 - O'erturning her presumptuous plan, Up climbs the old usurper — man, And she jogs after as she can.
الصفحة 249 - I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train ; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion.
الصفحة 215 - ... of the ship was in flames ; the masts and sails now taking fire, we moved to a distance, sufficient to avoid the immediate explosion ; ,but the flames were now coming out of the main hatchway, and seeing the rest of the crew, with the captain, &c.