Journal of the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia and Affiliated Societies, Bände 21-22Engineers Club of Philadelphia, 1904 |
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Seite 79 - ... the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in states.
Seite 278 - Providence which has dealt its favors to us with so profuse a hand ; would to God we may have wisdom enough to improve them. I shall not rest contented till I have explored the western country, and traversed those lines, or a great part of them, which have given bounds to a new empire.
Seite 278 - Last surrender to cupids feather' d Dart And now lays Bleeding every Hour For her that's Pityless of my grief and Woes And will not on me Pity take He sleep amongst my most inveterate Foes And with gladness never wish to wake In deluding sleepings let my Eyelids close That in an enraptured Dream I may In a soft lulling...
Seite 81 - I have ever seen, excepting, perhaps, the passes of the Simplon, and Mont Cenis in Sardinia ; but even these remarkable passes, viewed as engineering works, did not strike me as being more wonderful than the Alleghany Railway in the United States.
Seite 383 - Government Engineers, Geologists and Surveyors, and the range of instruments as made by them for River, Harbor, City, Bridge...
Seite 278 - I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be, within and without...
Seite 278 - I, not being so good a woodsman as the rest, stripped myself very orderly and went into the bed, as they called it, when, to my surprise, I found it to be nothing but a little straw matted together, without sheet or any thing else but only one threadbare blanket, with double its weight of vermin. I was glad to get up and put on my clothes and lie as my companions did.
Seite 278 - States, from maps and the information of others; and could not but be struck with the immense extent and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence which has dealt its favors to us with so profuse a hand.
Seite 225 - No. 80 mixture: Shall be made from corn sirup mixed with not less than 10 per cent nor more than 20 per cent of cane sugar beet sugar, corn sugar, maple sugar, first centrifugal molasses, second centrifugal molasses, cane-juice sirup, maple sirup, sorghum or honey, either separately or in combination.
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