The Useful Arts and Manufactures of Great Britain: (First Selection.) ...1850 - Industrial arts - 493 pages |
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... mine * found from time to time in the old caverns or weel- dons of the mountain limestone formation . These acknowledged evils undoubtedly affected the economy and prosperity of the trade , until some more fortu- nate or more ingenious ...
... mine * found from time to time in the old caverns or weel- dons of the mountain limestone formation . These acknowledged evils undoubtedly affected the economy and prosperity of the trade , until some more fortu- nate or more ingenious ...
Page 14
... mines till the final abandonment of Britain by the Romans about a.d. 409. Immense beds of iron cinders , left by the Romans , have been discovered in the forest of Dean in Monmouthshire , in Yorkshire , and other counties , among which ...
... mines till the final abandonment of Britain by the Romans about a.d. 409. Immense beds of iron cinders , left by the Romans , have been discovered in the forest of Dean in Monmouthshire , in Yorkshire , and other counties , among which ...
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... mines were all situated in the wooded districts of England . Iron mines were almost unknown in the north of England , and the metal was of course very scarce , and highly prized . In a predatory expedition made by the Scots in the ...
... mines were all situated in the wooded districts of England . Iron mines were almost unknown in the north of England , and the metal was of course very scarce , and highly prized . In a predatory expedition made by the Scots in the ...
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... mines everywhere , for the casting of which there are furnaces up and down the country , and abundance of wood is yearly spent ; many streams of water are drawn into one channel , and a great deal of meadow ground is turned into pools ...
... mines everywhere , for the casting of which there are furnaces up and down the country , and abundance of wood is yearly spent ; many streams of water are drawn into one channel , and a great deal of meadow ground is turned into pools ...
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... mines , ten yards thick , and iron mine under it , according to other coal works ; which coal works being brought unto per- fection , the author was by force thrown out of them , and the bellows of his new furnace and invention , by ...
... mines , ten yards thick , and iron mine under it , according to other coal works ; which coal works being brought unto per- fection , the author was by force thrown out of them , and the bellows of his new furnace and invention , by ...
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Page 5 - O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
Page 5 - Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thce, " And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts ; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one brcaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again : and they shall bury them in tophet, till there be no place to bury.
Page 62 - And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
Page 3 - ... a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and...
Page 71 - Of sounding an alarm assaults these doors Till the street rings; no stationary steeds Cough their own knell, while, heedless of the sound, The silent circle fan themselves, and quake: But here the needle plies its busy task, The pattern grows; the well-depicted...
Page 43 - I myself thought good to imitate the Italian fashion by this forked cutting of meate, not only while I was in Italy, but also in Germany, and oftentimes in England since I came home...
Page 42 - I observed a custome in all those Italian cities and townes through the which I passed, that is not used in any other country that I saw in my travels ; neither do I think that any other nation of Christendome doth use it, but only Italy.
Page 4 - Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter : so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Page 17 - So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan : but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.
Page 27 - From the first appearance of this ground may be dated the origin of the modern pillow lace trade ; but it was not until the beginning of the present century that the...