Our home islands [by T. Milner, Volume 31857 |
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... render the marshy places stable , by means of cause- ways , that his soldiers , treading with safety , might easily pass them , and having firm footing , fight to advantage . For many parts of the British country , B being constantly ...
... render the marshy places stable , by means of cause- ways , that his soldiers , treading with safety , might easily pass them , and having firm footing , fight to advantage . For many parts of the British country , B being constantly ...
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... rendered to the body : the latter is the ministration of benefit to the soul . The good in the one case is temporal : in the other it extends from time to eternity . " CHAPTER II . COMMON AND TURNPIKE ROADS . Importance of 20 OUR HOME ...
... rendered to the body : the latter is the ministration of benefit to the soul . The good in the one case is temporal : in the other it extends from time to eternity . " CHAPTER II . COMMON AND TURNPIKE ROADS . Importance of 20 OUR HOME ...
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... rendering all places accessible to all by good thoroughfares was frowned upon by various parties . The farmers of the metropolitan counties petitioned Parliament not to sanction the extension of turnpike - roads , lest high prices for ...
... rendering all places accessible to all by good thoroughfares was frowned upon by various parties . The farmers of the metropolitan counties petitioned Parliament not to sanction the extension of turnpike - roads , lest high prices for ...
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... render it surpris- ing that it should have been left to an individual unconnected with the postal department to propose it . This was a Mr. Palmer , the proprietor of the theatre at Bath , whose attention was called to the subject by ...
... render it surpris- ing that it should have been left to an individual unconnected with the postal department to propose it . This was a Mr. Palmer , the proprietor of the theatre at Bath , whose attention was called to the subject by ...
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... rendering the treasures of a portion of his estates available . Such was the conduct of Francis Egerton , the third and last duke of Bridgwater , at the age of twenty - two . Some other motive doubtless operated with him than a future ...
... rendering the treasures of a portion of his estates available . Such was the conduct of Francis Egerton , the third and last duke of Bridgwater , at the age of twenty - two . Some other motive doubtless operated with him than a future ...
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Page 115 - For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly warflame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone: it shone on Beachy Head. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire , Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire.
Page 53 - The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, Make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, And every mountain and hill shall be made low: And the crooked shall be made straight, And the rough places plain: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together: For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 243 - Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Page 64 - It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine down to ten miles an hour, but it must be done, and I did my best.
Page 209 - our astronomical observer" at a salary of £100 per annum, his duty being "forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation.
Page 151 - Far in the bosom of the deep, O-er these wild shelves my watch I keep; A ruddy gem of changeful light, Bound on the dusky brow of night: The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his tim'rous sail.
Page 60 - Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ? "
Page 247 - BUT yesterday a naked sod The dandies sneered from Rotten Row, And cantered o'er it to and fro : And see 'tis done ! As though 'twere by a wizard's rod A blazing arch of lucid glass Leaps like a fountain from the grass To meet the sun...
Page 138 - As you enter the dock, the sight of the forest of masts in the distance, and the tall chimneys vomiting clouds of black smoke, and the manycoloured flags flying in the air, has a most peculiar effect; while the sheds, with the monster wheels arching through the roofs, look like the paddle-boxes of huge steamers.
Page 64 - I was in education, and made up my mind that he should not labour under the same defect, but that I would put him to a good school, and give him a liberal training. I was, however, a poor man; and how do you think I managed ? I betook myself to mending my neighbours...