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... side of its entrance . Outside the bar is good anchorage for ships of the largest class , except when the wind blows strong upon the shore . Within the bar is secure anchorage for a great number of vessels . This harbour is formed by an ...
... side of its entrance . Outside the bar is good anchorage for ships of the largest class , except when the wind blows strong upon the shore . Within the bar is secure anchorage for a great number of vessels . This harbour is formed by an ...
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... side of the Parliament . He made himself useful to his party by deciphering intercepted letters , an art in which he was eminent . Vieta , as we have seen , had deciphered , and Baptista Porta had written some- thing on the subject ...
... side of the Parliament . He made himself useful to his party by deciphering intercepted letters , an art in which he was eminent . Vieta , as we have seen , had deciphered , and Baptista Porta had written some- thing on the subject ...
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... side , about the size of the end opening . On one end of the shaft C , beyond the box - bearing , the .oose - and - fast pulleys D are fitted for re- ceiving the driving - band , and for turning the wings in the direction shown by the ...
... side , about the size of the end opening . On one end of the shaft C , beyond the box - bearing , the .oose - and - fast pulleys D are fitted for re- ceiving the driving - band , and for turning the wings in the direction shown by the ...
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... side . It consists of a number of streets irregularly laid out and narrow . The principal coach - road between Liverpool and Manchester passes through the town , and formerly as many as seventy public carriages were running daily ; but ...
... side . It consists of a number of streets irregularly laid out and narrow . The principal coach - road between Liverpool and Manchester passes through the town , and formerly as many as seventy public carriages were running daily ; but ...
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... side of Warwick , and runs north - west by Hatton and Knowle to Birmingham , where it joins a branch of the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal , on the east side of the town of Birmingham . It is 224 miles long , and belongs to Warwickshire ...
... side of Warwick , and runs north - west by Hatton and Knowle to Birmingham , where it joins a branch of the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal , on the east side of the town of Birmingham . It is 224 miles long , and belongs to Warwickshire ...
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Seite 232 - In these hymns there is no doggerel; no botches; nothing put in to patch up the rhyme; no feeble expletives. Here is nothing turgid or bombast, on the one hand, or low and creeping on the other. Here are no cant expressions, no words without meaning.
Seite 231 - In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther's Preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation; and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the...
Seite 135 - ENLARGED THE RESOURCES OF HIS COUNTRY, INCREASED THE POWER OF MAN, AND ROSE TO AN EMINENT PLACE AMONG THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS FOLLOWERS OF SCIENCE AND THE REAL BENEFACTORS OF THE WORLD.
Seite 140 - The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal...
Seite 104 - His heart was not warm in its affections; but he exactly calculated every man's value, and gave him a solid esteem proportioned to it. His person, you know, was fine, his stature exactly what one would wish, his deportment easy, erect and noble; the best horseman of his age, and the most graceful figure that could be seen on horseback.
Seite 246 - March 9, they came to this resolution, " that the legislative and judicial power of bishops in the house of peers, is a great hinderance to the discharge of their spiritual function, prejudicial to the commonwealth, and fit to be taken away by bill ; and that a bill be drawn up to this purpose.
Seite 62 - The Divine Legation of Moses demonstrated on the Principles of a Religious Deist, from the Omission of the Doctrine of a Future State of Rewards and Punishments in the Jewish Dispensation ;" which being attacked by several opponents, he published a " Vindication
Seite 104 - ... war, where hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever was best ; and certainly no General ever planned his battles more judiciously. But if deranged during the course of the action, if any member of his plan was dislocated by sudden circumstances, he was slow in a re-adjustment. The consequence was, that he often failed in the field, and rarely against an enemy in station, as at Boston and York. He was incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers with the calmest unconcern.
Seite 62 - The Doctrine of Grace : or, the office and operations of the Holy Spirit vindicated from the insults of Infidelity and the abuses of Fanaticism,
Seite 140 - We have said that Mr. Watt was the great Improver of the steamengine ; but, in truth, as to all that is admirable in its structure, or vast in its utility, he should rather be described as its Inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures, and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable...