The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 70A. Constable, 1840 |
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... successful one - though the fault lay in the masonry more than in the iron - work — it was nevertheless a bold measure in Mr Telford to recommend an iron bridge at Buildwas . He had studied , however , the causes of the partial failure ...
... successful one - though the fault lay in the masonry more than in the iron - work — it was nevertheless a bold measure in Mr Telford to recommend an iron bridge at Buildwas . He had studied , however , the causes of the partial failure ...
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... successful adaptations of them , the navi- gation was found to be both toilsome and dilatory . The person who first recognised the imperfect character of our river communications , and perceived the immense benefit of a still - water ...
... successful adaptations of them , the navi- gation was found to be both toilsome and dilatory . The person who first recognised the imperfect character of our river communications , and perceived the immense benefit of a still - water ...
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... success of so daring a project ; joint - stock companies were every where formed , and England was speedily covered ... successful engineers of his age , he was so truly illiterate that he is said to have been scarcely able to read or to ...
... success of so daring a project ; joint - stock companies were every where formed , and England was speedily covered ... successful engineers of his age , he was so truly illiterate that he is said to have been scarcely able to read or to ...
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... distin- ' guished himself then by his foresight and judicious counsels at the most critical periods of that great measure ; by his unfailing ' confidence in its success , and by the boldness 1839 . 31 Life and Works of Thomas Telford ,
... distin- ' guished himself then by his foresight and judicious counsels at the most critical periods of that great measure ; by his unfailing ' confidence in its success , and by the boldness 1839 . 31 Life and Works of Thomas Telford ,
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Or Critical Journal. ' confidence in its success , and by the boldness and sagacity which ' prompted him to advise the making of the North Level drainage , ' in full expectation of the results for the sake of which the Nene ' Outfall was ...
Or Critical Journal. ' confidence in its success , and by the boldness and sagacity which ' prompted him to advise the making of the North Level drainage , ' in full expectation of the results for the sake of which the Nene ' Outfall was ...
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Seite 310 - England by lofty halls and by the constant waving of fans. The number of the prisoners was one hundred and forty-six. When they were ordered to enter the cell, they imagined that the soldiers were joking ; and being in high spirits on account of the promise of the Nabob to spare their lives they laughed and jested at the absurdity of the notion. They soon discovered their mistake. They expostulated ; they entreated ; but in vain. The guards threatened to cut down all who hesitated. The captives were...
Seite 317 - ... gloomily in his tent, haunted, a Greek poet would have said, by the furies of those who had cursed him with their last breath in the Black Hole. The day broke — the day which was to decide the fate of India.
Seite 318 - The battle commenced with a cannonade in which the artillery of the Nabob did scarcely any execution, while the few field-pieces of the English produced great effect. Several of the most distinguished officers in Surajah Dowlah's service fell.
Seite 96 - I scarcely ever met with a better companion ; he has inexhaustible spirits, infinite wit and humour, and a great deal of knowledge ; but a thorough profligate in principle as in practice, his life stained with every vice, and his conversation full of blasphemy and indecency. These morals he glories in — for shame is a weakness he has long since surmounted.
Seite 183 - ... unfeigned assent and consent as aforesaid, and subscribed the declaration aforesaid, and shall not take and subscribe the oath following : I, AB, do swear that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the king...
Seite 102 - Talking of the manner of Mr. Pitt's speaking, he said ' There he would stand, turning up his eyes to heaven, that witnessed his perjuries, and laying his hand in a solemn manner upon the table, that sacrilegious hand that had been employed in tearing out the bowels of his mother country !
Seite 310 - Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows, fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies, raved, prayed, blasphemed, implored the guards to fire among them.
Seite 192 - Richard, Richard, dost thou think we'll hear thee poison the court ? Richard, thou art an old fellow, an old knave ; thou hast written books enough to load a cart, every one as full of sedition, I might say treason, as an egg is full of meat. Hadst thou been whipped out of thy writing trade forty years ago, it had been happy.
Seite 311 - The day broke. The Nabob had slept off his debauch, and permitted the door to be opened. But it was some time before the soldiers could make a lane for the survivors, by piling...
Seite 176 - Papists and delinquents, and to remove the dividers, that the king might again return to his parliament; and that no changes might be made in religion, but by the laws which had his free consent. We took the true happiness of king and people, church and state, to be our end, and so we understood the covenant, engaging both against Papists and schismatics...