A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, Band 12Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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... miles . But the canals of the late duke of Bridge- water , the great father of inland navigation in this country , are of much greater importance , both for the extent and the natural difficulties that were surmounted by the fertile ...
... miles . But the canals of the late duke of Bridge- water , the great father of inland navigation in this country , are of much greater importance , both for the extent and the natural difficulties that were surmounted by the fertile ...
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... miles and a - half are level , to three miles above the Abergavenny branch , whence to Brecon is eighteen miles and a - half , with a rise of sixty - eight feet . Near its commencement it crosses the little river Avon , on an aqueduct ...
... miles and a - half are level , to three miles above the Abergavenny branch , whence to Brecon is eighteen miles and a - half , with a rise of sixty - eight feet . Near its commencement it crosses the little river Avon , on an aqueduct ...
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... 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 , the sup- ply of the country with coals ...
... 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 , the sup- ply of the country with coals ...
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... miles , is a rise of 428 feet , by seventy - one locks ; thence to the Birmingham Canal , fourteen miles , is level . The width of the canal at top is forty- two feet , and the depth is six feet ; the locks are eighty feet long and ...
... miles , is a rise of 428 feet , by seventy - one locks ; thence to the Birmingham Canal , fourteen miles , is level . The width of the canal at top is forty- two feet , and the depth is six feet ; the locks are eighty feet long and ...
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... miles in length , in the course of which navigation the vessels are raised , by means of twenty locks , to the height of 155 feet above the level of the sea ; proceeding afterwards on the summit of the country for eighteen miles , it ...
... miles in length , in the course of which navigation the vessels are raised , by means of twenty locks , to the height of 155 feet above the level of the sea ; proceeding afterwards on the summit of the country for eighteen miles , it ...
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Seite 89 - 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...
Seite 69 - 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?
Seite 264 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage ; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head, Like the brass cannon ; let the brow o'erwhelm it, As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height.
Seite 52 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it :— therefore I'll none of it : Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Seite 15 - Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds ; That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself...
Seite 383 - 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...
Seite 265 - 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.
Seite 36 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please...
Seite 188 - Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings : My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise; and nothing is, But what is not.
Seite 4 - The informations that are exhibited in the name of the king alone are also of two kinds: first, those which are truly and properly his own suits, and filed ex officio, by his own immediate officer, the attorney-general; secondly, those in which, though the king is the nominal prosecutor, yet it is at the relation of some private person or common informer; and they are filed by the king's coroner and attorney in the court of king's bench, usually called the master of the crown-office, who is for this...