Descriptive Essays Contributed to the Quarterly Review: The air we live inJ. Murray, 1857 |
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Descriptive Essays Contributed to the Quarterly Review: The air we live in Sir Francis Bond Head Volledige weergave - 1857 |
Descriptive Essays Contributed to the Quarterly Review: The air we live in Sir Francis Bond Head Volledige weergave - 1857 |
Descriptive Essays Contributed to the Quarterly Review: The air we live in Sir Francis Bond Head Volledige weergave - 1857 |
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Pagina 96 - article is defined. Without, however, describing in detail this property, we must beg our readers to descend with us to a large, pitch-dark, subterranean, vaulted chamber, warmed by hot-air iron pipes, in which are deposited the flock of lost sheep, or, without metaphor, the lost luggage of the last two years. Suspended from
Pagina 30 - comparatively few and prominent, but they appear to have a concurrent effect in producing consumption." The results of good ventilation in the prevention or alleviation of disease are clearly manifested in our hospitals. In a badly ventilated house—the Lying-in Hospital in Dublin—there died in four years 29-14 children out of
Pagina 34 - From what I have observed, I am fully convinced that if shambles were built upon any spot, and all who choose were allowed to occupy them, they would soon be occupied by a race lower than any yet known. I have often said, that if empty casks were placed along the streets of
Pagina 305 - addressed. The duty however of solving all the enigmas, and of deciphering those astonishing specimens of writing that are continuously afflicting the Inland Post-Office, is imposed upon a gentleman selected from all the sortingclerks, and who, from being gifted with extraordinary memory, very sharp wits, and above all,
Pagina 190 - his message by certain twists of his wrists, each of which imparts to the needles on his dials, as well as to those on the dial« of his distant correspondent, a convulsive movement, designating the particular letter of the telegraphic alphabet required.
Pagina 96 - are made up are to be seen, on shelves and in compartments, the innumerable articles that have been left in the trains during the last two months, each being ticketed and numbered with a figure corresponding with
Pagina 211 - And yet, fast as these words flew like lightning past him, the information they contained, with all its details, as well as every secret thought that had preceded them, had already consecutively flown millions of times faster
Pagina 212 - not only effectually puzzled all pursuit, but that his appearance at so many coffee-houses would assist him, if necessary, in proving an alibi ; but, whatever may have been his motives or his thoughts, he had
Pagina 306 - however who has watched the facility with which every compositor in a printing-office) can read bad writing, would be much surprised at the ease with which the, blind man gets over that portion of his troubles. Indeed as almost
Pagina 302 - to London, a pork-pie. To London, a woodcock, also a pair of piebald mice, which were kept in the Post-Office a month, fed, and at last delivered to the owner, who called for them. From Manchester to Castle-street,