A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, Volume 12Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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Pagina 27
... town a cut of eight miles and a - half goes off to a place between Sandiacre and Long Eaton , and there joins the Erewash Canal . The canal is forty - four feet wide at top , twenty- four at bottom , and five feet deep , except the ...
... town a cut of eight miles and a - half goes off to a place between Sandiacre and Long Eaton , and there joins the Erewash Canal . The canal is forty - four feet wide at top , twenty- four at bottom , and five feet deep , except the ...
Pagina 28
... town of Top- sham , and terminates in the Tone River at Taun- ton Bridge ; it has a cut of about seven miles to Tiverton , and other short ones to Cullumpton and Wellington . The Thames and Severn Canal commences in the Stroudwater ...
... town of Top- sham , and terminates in the Tone River at Taun- ton Bridge ; it has a cut of about seven miles to Tiverton , and other short ones to Cullumpton and Wellington . The Thames and Severn Canal commences in the Stroudwater ...
Pagina 29
... town from 24s . to 13s . 6d . per ton . The objects of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal are the export of coals , and a more direct communication between Birmingham and the Severn . It commences in the Severn at Diglis , just below ...
... town from 24s . to 13s . 6d . per ton . The objects of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal are the export of coals , and a more direct communication between Birmingham and the Severn . It commences in the Severn at Diglis , just below ...
Pagina 39
... town . On the west side of the town is a stone bridge . This place was formerly walled , and of some note , as appears by the foun- dations of several castles and large buildings discovered in it . The town of Innishannon , to- gether ...
... town . On the west side of the town is a stone bridge . This place was formerly walled , and of some note , as appears by the foun- dations of several castles and large buildings discovered in it . The town of Innishannon , to- gether ...
Pagina 77
... town and colony of the Volsci in Latium , on the confines of Sam- nium , at the confluence of the rivers Liris and Melpis , now in ruins . INTERAMNA , Or INTERAMNIA , Prætutianorum , a town in the territory of the Prætutiani , a part of ...
... town and colony of the Volsci in Latium , on the confines of Sam- nium , at the confluence of the rivers Liris and Melpis , now in ruins . INTERAMNA , Or INTERAMNIA , Prætutianorum , a town in the territory of the Prætutiani , a part of ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 89 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Pagina 69 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Pagina 264 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage ; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head, Like the brass cannon ; let the brow o'erwhelm it, As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height.
Pagina 52 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it :— therefore I'll none of it : Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Pagina 15 - Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds ; That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself...
Pagina 383 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Pagina 265 - A gown made of the finest wool, Which from our pretty lambs we pull, Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
Pagina 36 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please...
Pagina 188 - Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings : My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise; and nothing is, But what is not.
Pagina 4 - The informations that are exhibited in the name of the king alone are also of two kinds: first, those which are truly and properly his own suits, and filed ex officio, by his own immediate officer, the attorney-general; secondly, those in which, though the king is the nominal prosecutor, yet it is at the relation of some private person or common informer; and they are filed by the king's coroner and attorney in the court of king's bench, usually called the master of the crown-office, who is for this...