Quarterly Review, Volume 103John Murray, 1858 |
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Pagina 3
... feet above the surface of the river , was received with the same hoot of incredulity as Stephenson's proposal to form a line of railway across Chat Moss . The practical men of the day spoke of it as a ' castle in the air , ' and the ...
... feet above the surface of the river , was received with the same hoot of incredulity as Stephenson's proposal to form a line of railway across Chat Moss . The practical men of the day spoke of it as a ' castle in the air , ' and the ...
Pagina 5
... feet high with a base of one hundred and fifty thousand square yards . Mr. Robert Stephenson has estimated the total amount on all the railways of England as at least five hundred and fifty millions of cubic yards ! And what does this ...
... feet high with a base of one hundred and fifty thousand square yards . Mr. Robert Stephenson has estimated the total amount on all the railways of England as at least five hundred and fifty millions of cubic yards ! And what does this ...
Pagina 9
... feet gradual slope to the solid land around . From the remains of trees , chiefly alder and birch , which have been dug out , and which must have previously flourished upon the soil below , it is probable that the sand and clay base on ...
... feet gradual slope to the solid land around . From the remains of trees , chiefly alder and birch , which have been dug out , and which must have previously flourished upon the soil below , it is probable that the sand and clay base on ...
Pagina 10
... feet , which distributed the weight over a greater surface - a contrivance adopted by themselves when taking the levels , and by the workmen when engaged in making drains in the softest parts of the moss . But the puzzling problem ...
... feet , which distributed the weight over a greater surface - a contrivance adopted by themselves when taking the levels , and by the workmen when engaged in making drains in the softest parts of the moss . But the puzzling problem ...
Pagina 11
... feet long and five feet wide , thus covering a surface of a hundred square feet . Then , by extending the bearing by means of cross - sleepers , supported upon a matting of heath and branches of trees strewed with a few inches of gravel ...
... feet long and five feet wide , thus covering a surface of a hundred square feet . Then , by extending the bearing by means of cross - sleepers , supported upon a matting of heath and branches of trees strewed with a few inches of gravel ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
admirable agricultural animals appears army beauty better Bishop body Bohemian Boswell Buonarroti called Casa Buonarroti century character Chat Moss Church Cron crops cultivation Earl effect England English European existence farm farmers favour feeling feet Florence France French genius give Government guano guns hand honour House human hundred idea improvement India Italy Johnson labour land less literary living London Lord Lord Palmerston machine manufacture manure means ment Michael Angelo mind native nature never Norfolk object officers once opinion pain parish passed Peerage persons plough Pope present produced Prosp railway remarkable rendered right of asylum Rome says Sepoy Sevastopol Siege of Lucknow Sistine ceiling Smollett society soil specimens spirit success superphosphate thing thought tion turnips Vasari whole Wiltshire writing young
Populaire passages
Pagina 206 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Pagina 69 - On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave...
Pagina 299 - Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow; so indeed he did. The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy; But ere we could arrive the point propos'd, Caesar cried, 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!
Pagina 196 - And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.
Pagina 298 - Don't you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman ? I will not be baited with what and why ; what is this ? what is that ? why is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy ?" The gentleman, who was a good deal out of countenance, said, " Why, Sir, you are so good, that I venture to trouble you.
Pagina 400 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Pagina 207 - The shock produced a stupor similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of the cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though quite conscious of all that was happening.
Pagina 107 - Thy spirit, Independence ! let me share, Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye ! Thy steps I follow 'with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.
Pagina 133 - In every parish is (or was) a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, &c., utensils for dressing provision. Here the housekeepers met and were merry, and gave their charity. The young people were there too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, &c., the ancients sitting gravely by, and looking on.
Pagina 281 - I am absolutely certain that my mode of biography, which gives not only a History of Johnson's visible progress through the world, and of his publications, but a view of his mind in his letters and conversations, is the most perfect that can be conceived, and will be more of a Life than any work that has ever yet appeared.