 | William Mudge, Isaac Dalby, Thomas Colby - 1801 - 690 pages
...INTRODUCTION. ACCURATE surveys of a country are universally admitted to be works of great public utility, as affording the surest foundation for almost every kind...defence against the invasions of an enemy in time of war ; in which last circumstances their importance usually becomes the most apparent. Hence it happens,... | |
 | Basil Jackson - 1847 - 410 pages
...&c. "Accurate surveys of a country are universally admitted to be works of great public utility, as affording the surest foundation for almost every kind...against the invasions of an enemy in time of war; in which last circumstance, their importance usually becomes the most apparent. Hence, it happens,... | |
 | Sir Henry Edward Landor Thuillier - 1851 - 826 pages
...it. " Accurate surveys of a country are universally admitted to be works of great public utility, as affording the surest foundation for almost every kind...defence against the invasions of an enemy in time of war ; in which last circumstance their importance usually becomes the most apparent. Hence, it happens... | |
 | John Gascoigne - 1998 - 264 pages
...the scientific advantages of the project but also the fact that it was 'of great public utility, as affording the surest foundation for almost every kind...defence, against the invasions of an enemy in time of war'.30 The project involved collaboration between the Royal Society and two separate arms of government:... | |
 | Miles Ogborn, Charles W. J. Withers - 2004 - 242 pages
...London in 1785. He noted that: 'Accurate surveys of a country are works of great public utility, as affording the surest foundation for almost every kind...against the invasions of an enemy in time of war.' Surveying was a route to economic progress and military power. It was a means of turning knowledge... | |
 | 362 pages
...are universally admitted to be works of great public utility, as affording the surest foundation of almost every kind of internal improvement in time...peace, and the best means of forming judicious plans for defence against the invasion of an enemy in time of war. '3 This too typical sample of the cumbrous... | |
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Accurate surveys of a country are universally admitted to be works of great public utility, as affording the surest foundation for almost every kind of internal improvement in time of peace, and the best means of forming judicious plans of defence against... 