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Pagina vii
... Town Commissioners marred by Indi- 101 vidual Negligence 107 101 Hamilton Square 108 Various Railway Lines opening to the Inhabitants of Birkenhead Commercial and Social Improvements of Birkenhead 102 effected by a small Number of ...
... Town Commissioners marred by Indi- 101 vidual Negligence 107 101 Hamilton Square 108 Various Railway Lines opening to the Inhabitants of Birkenhead Commercial and Social Improvements of Birkenhead 102 effected by a small Number of ...
Pagina xi
... Town • 207 208 Bleaching Powder , brought to perfection at the begin- ning of the present Century . 203 Achievements wrought by the Cotton Manufacture System 208 ILLUSTRATIONS . Designer . 53. Stockport Viaduct . BROWN . Engravers ...
... Town • 207 208 Bleaching Powder , brought to perfection at the begin- ning of the present Century . 203 Achievements wrought by the Cotton Manufacture System 208 ILLUSTRATIONS . Designer . 53. Stockport Viaduct . BROWN . Engravers ...
Pagina 69
... town itself . The Ken flows past the town with a sufficient descent of stream to give the river a rippled and sparkling and cheerful aspect . It is true that a walk along the banks , within the precincts of the town itself , brings into ...
... town itself . The Ken flows past the town with a sufficient descent of stream to give the river a rippled and sparkling and cheerful aspect . It is true that a walk along the banks , within the precincts of the town itself , brings into ...
Pagina 90
... town . The apex of this area is the confluence of the Sheaf , and the Don ; on each side of it , but more gently towards the Sheaf and the Porter than in the direction of the Don , the apex rises into a boldly swelling hill , the ridge ...
... town . The apex of this area is the confluence of the Sheaf , and the Don ; on each side of it , but more gently towards the Sheaf and the Porter than in the direction of the Don , the apex rises into a boldly swelling hill , the ridge ...
Pagina 98
... town . A town may extend in length and breadth ; or new channels of commercial prosperity may be opened to it ; or it may become the recipient of new municipal or electoral privileges - all these changes may occur ; yet there are but ...
... town . A town may extend in length and breadth ; or new channels of commercial prosperity may be opened to it ; or it may become the recipient of new municipal or electoral privileges - all these changes may occur ; yet there are but ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 15 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Pagina 3 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Pagina 12 - And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
Pagina 221 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage, And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to- the wild ocean.
Pagina 218 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was...
Pagina 115 - HERE lies old Hobson ; death hath broke his girt And here, alas, hath laid him in the dirt; Or else the ways being foul, twenty to one, He's here stuck in a slough, and overthrown.
Pagina 325 - ... the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady...
Pagina 58 - Now to the sister hills that skirt her plain, To lofty Harrow now, and now to where Majestic Windsor lifts his princely brow. In lovely contrast to this glorious view, Calmly magnificent, then will we turn To where the silver Thames first rural grows.
Pagina 218 - In this kind of settlement he continued for : some time, till an extravagance that he was guilty of, forced him both out of his country, and that way of living which he had taken up...
Pagina 13 - We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.