A Treatise on Bridge Architecture: In which the Superior Advantages of the Flying Pendent Lever Bridge are Fully Provedauthor, 1811 - 256 Seiten |
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Seite 32 - Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. In ev'ry work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend
Seite xx - Load some vain church with old theatric state, Turn arcs of triumph to a garden gate ; Reverse your ornaments, and hang them all On some patch'd dog-hole ek'd with ends of wall ; Then clap four slices of pilaster on't, That,
Seite 95 - th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver winding way.*
Seite xiv - made, in Jerusalem, engines invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. Corn mills were early invented, for we read in Deuteronomy
Seite xxvii - as to enable men to consider things either in general or in detail, as the occasion may require. Whichever of these habits may happen to gain an undue ascendant over the mind, it will necessarily produce a character limited in its powers, and fitted only for particular
Seite 267 - The heart of a tree is never in its centre, but always nearer to the north side, and the annual coats of •wood are thinner on that side. In conformity to this it is a general opinion of carpenters, that timber is stronger whose annual plates are thicker. The
Seite 273 - We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow ; Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so. But
Seite 267 - are weaker than the simple ligneous fibres. These air vessels are the same in diameter and number of rows, in trees of the same species, and they make the visible separation between the annual plates. Therefore, when these are thicker, they contain a greater proportion of the simple ligneous fibres.
Seite 46 - sixty feet deep, for the passage of travellers, but particularly for miners : the Bridge is seventy feet in length, and little more than two feet broad, with a hand rail on one side, and planked in such a manner that the traveller experiences all the tremulous motion of the chain, and sees himself suspended over a roaring gulf, on an agitated
Seite 32 - And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults is due.* * ALEXANDER POPE.