The land we live in, a pictorial and literary sketch-book of the British empire1847 |
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... brought into Parliament in 1843 , to sanction the Building of the Birkenhead Docks . 101 99 First Stone of the Birkenhead Docks laid in 1844 . 101 Page Page The Woodside Ferry Ferry - boats between Liverpool vi ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS ...
... brought into Parliament in 1843 , to sanction the Building of the Birkenhead Docks . 101 99 First Stone of the Birkenhead Docks laid in 1844 . 101 Page Page The Woodside Ferry Ferry - boats between Liverpool vi ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS ...
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... brought the Oxford scholars , as we have seen , out of the North with their pack - horses . The most famous of all the old carriers was he of Cambridge , of whom Milton wrote , " Here lies old Hobson ; Death hath broke his girt , And ...
... brought the Oxford scholars , as we have seen , out of the North with their pack - horses . The most famous of all the old carriers was he of Cambridge , of whom Milton wrote , " Here lies old Hobson ; Death hath broke his girt , And ...
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... brought into their inns by torch - light , when it is too late to sit up to get a supper ; and next morning they are forced into the coach so early that they can get no breakfast . " Added to these troubles the fault - finder alleges ...
... brought into their inns by torch - light , when it is too late to sit up to get a supper ; and next morning they are forced into the coach so early that they can get no breakfast . " Added to these troubles the fault - finder alleges ...
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... brought about the ultimate perfection of coach- engine of our civilization first set in motion . Before Mr. Palmer suggested his improvements to the Go- vernment , letters sent by the post , which left Bath on Monday night , were not ...
... brought about the ultimate perfection of coach- engine of our civilization first set in motion . Before Mr. Palmer suggested his improvements to the Go- vernment , letters sent by the post , which left Bath on Monday night , were not ...
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... brought to bear upon the turnpike lines . Common sense changed their form and re - organized their material . The most beautiful engineering was applied to raise valleys and lower hills . Mountains were crossed with ease ; rivers were ...
... brought to bear upon the turnpike lines . Common sense changed their form and re - organized their material . The most beautiful engineering was applied to raise valleys and lower hills . Mountains were crossed with ease ; rivers were ...
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The Land We Live In, a Pictorial and Literary Sketch-Book of the British Empire British Empire Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Ambleside ancient antiquities appearance arrangements beautiful Birkenhead boat bridge building built called Cambridge carried Castle Castle of Sheffield cathedral centre century chapel church coach cotton curious district docks dwellings England erected establishment factories feet Ferry gallery gardens gate Glasgow Gosport Gravesend ground Hall Hampton Court harbour Henry Henry VIII hills hundred inhabitants Isle Isle of Thanet King labour ladies lake Lancashire land live Liverpool London look Lord Manchester manufacture Margate ment Mersey miles monks Museum noble Norwich palace Park pass passengers picturesque pleasant port Portsea Portsmouth present Queen railway Ramsgate Reculver Richborough Richmond Richmond Park river road scene scenery sculptures seen Shakspere Sheffield ships side spot steam steam-boat steamers stone Stratford streets tion tower town village visitor walk Wallasey Pool walls warehouses whole Windermere
Pasajes populares
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.