Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society, Volume 1The Society, 1859 |
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... called on me to join them , saying that " this was Mr. Watt . " Up till this time I had continued to work at what I was doing when they came , and although I heard all that was said I had not joined the party till I learned who he was ...
... called on me to join them , saying that " this was Mr. Watt . " Up till this time I had continued to work at what I was doing when they came , and although I heard all that was said I had not joined the party till I learned who he was ...
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... called Taylor's Pit . " He , " the workman , " could not say what kind of an engine it was , but it was the fastest going one ever he saw . " From its small size , and from being placed in a small timber house , the colliers called it ...
... called Taylor's Pit . " He , " the workman , " could not say what kind of an engine it was , but it was the fastest going one ever he saw . " From its small size , and from being placed in a small timber house , the colliers called it ...
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... called , sometimes extended no farther than to Gorbals . Branks ( of which I have examined an old speci- men ) was a sort of iron case which covered the back part and top of the head , with an iron strap that firmly bound up the lower ...
... called , sometimes extended no farther than to Gorbals . Branks ( of which I have examined an old speci- men ) was a sort of iron case which covered the back part and top of the head , with an iron strap that firmly bound up the lower ...
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... called . This was a wooden platform above the " houf door " of the steeple , with two of its sides defended by an iron rail , on which delinquents , also on the market day , were submitted to the observation of the multitude . The ...
... called . This was a wooden platform above the " houf door " of the steeple , with two of its sides defended by an iron rail , on which delinquents , also on the market day , were submitted to the observation of the multitude . The ...
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... called the " hangman's dues . " He kept to his market domain very closely ; but woe to him when he ventured out . Any sort of indignity was deemed too lenient for such a wretch . The most of schoolboys had a deadly hatred to him , and I ...
... called the " hangman's dues . " He kept to his market domain very closely ; but woe to him when he ventured out . Any sort of indignity was deemed too lenient for such a wretch . The most of schoolboys had a deadly hatred to him , and I ...
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Page 454 - Cum sailing to the land. O lang, lang may the ladies stand, Wi thair gold kems in their hair, Waiting for thair ain deir lords, For they'll se thame na mair.
Page 221 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 450 - And they twa met, and they twa plat, And fain they wad be near; And a' the warld might ken right weel, They were twa lovers dear.
Page 10 - I must get quit of the condensed steam and injection water, if I used a jet as in Newcomen's engine. Two ways of doing this occurred to me. First the water might be run off by a descending pipe, if an...
Page 10 - I was thinking upon the engine at the time and had gone as far as the Herd's house when the idea came into my mind, that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication was made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it, and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder.
Page 453 - Wi' the auld moon in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm." They hadna sailed a league, a league, A league but barely three, When the lift grew dark, and the wind blew loud, And gurly grew the sea. The ankers brak, and the topmasts lap, It was sic a deadly storm; And the waves cam o'er the broken ship, Till a
Page 453 - Now, ever alake ! my master dear, I fear a deadly storm ! " I saw the new moon, late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon in her arm ; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.
Page 10 - Street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far as the herd's house, when the idea came into my mind that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication...
Page 226 - He was a man of middle age ; In aspect manly, grave, and sage, As on King's errand come ; But in the glances of his eye, A. penetrating, keen, and sly Expression found its home ; The flash of that satiric rage, Which, bursting on the early stage, Branded the vices of the age, And broke the keys of Rome.
Page 13 - ... the next room ; and with so great ease and geometrical symmetry, that, though it work day and night, from one end of the year to the other, it will not require forty shillings reparation to the whole engine, nor hinder one day's work.