The Life of Robert Stephenson, F.R.S. Etc. Etc: Late President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 1Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864 |
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... wrote home on the 5th , but from yours it appears my father would be set off for London before the arrival of my letter , in which I desired him to send me a bill for £ 26 . I should feel obliged if you will send me it at your first con ...
... wrote home on the 5th , but from yours it appears my father would be set off for London before the arrival of my letter , in which I desired him to send me a bill for £ 26 . I should feel obliged if you will send me it at your first con ...
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... wrote with his accustomed energy and confidence to Mr. Longridge . Dublin : Sept. 10 , 1823 . DEAR SIR , We have just arrived at Paddy's Land ' in far Dublin city . ' We left London . on Monday , at half - past one o'clock , travelled ...
... wrote with his accustomed energy and confidence to Mr. Longridge . Dublin : Sept. 10 , 1823 . DEAR SIR , We have just arrived at Paddy's Land ' in far Dublin city . ' We left London . on Monday , at half - past one o'clock , travelled ...
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... wrote to Mr. Long- ridge . Cork : Sept. 16 , 1823 . DEAR SIR , -We left Dublin on the evening of the day we wrote our last , for Cork , in the mail , and we were not a little alarmed , when it stopped at the post office , to see four ...
... wrote to Mr. Long- ridge . Cork : Sept. 16 , 1823 . DEAR SIR , -We left Dublin on the evening of the day we wrote our last , for Cork , in the mail , and we were not a little alarmed , when it stopped at the post office , to see four ...
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... wrote a letter to Mr. Pease reflecting on George's conduct in violent and unjust terms . The contents of this epistle were inconsiderately imparted by Mr. Pease to George Stephenson ; and the consequence was a stormy interview between ...
... wrote a letter to Mr. Pease reflecting on George's conduct in violent and unjust terms . The contents of this epistle were inconsiderately imparted by Mr. Pease to George Stephenson ; and the consequence was a stormy interview between ...
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... wrote to his father , begging him no longer to oppose his wish to go to Colombia . But now ( he wrote ) let me beg of you not to say anything against my going out to America , for I have already ordered so many instruments that it would ...
... wrote to his father , begging him no longer to oppose his wish to go to Colombia . But now ( he wrote ) let me beg of you not to say anything against my going out to America , for I have already ordered so many instruments that it would ...
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Page 198 - ... or mentioned in the said books of reference, or any correction thereof, such temporary or permanent inclined planes, tunnels, embankments, aqueducts, bridges, roads, ways, passages, conduits, drains, piers, arches, cuttings and fences as they think proper.
Page 203 - Street, Somers Town, in the parish of St. Pancras, in the county of Middlesex...
Page 170 - That the case for the promoters of the bill having been concluded, it does not appear to the Committee that they have made out such a case as would warrant the forcing of the proposed railway through the land and property of so great a proportion of dissentient landowners and proprietors.
Page 207 - The great Pyramid of Egypt, that stupendous monument which seems likely to exist to the end of all time, will afford a comparison. After making the necessary allowances for the foundations, galleries...
Page 279 - Little more than a quarter of a century has elapsed, since Parliament first began to legislate for railways. In that period a multitude of laws have been placed upon the statute-book, which will certainly excite the wonder, if they fail to be the admiration, of future ^generations.
Page 125 - Other engines with boilers of a variety of construction, were made, all having in view the increase of the heating surface, as it then became obvious to my father that the speed of the engine could not be increased without increasing the evaporative power of the boiler.
Page 234 - ... with the extinction of man himself. Mr. Cooke, in his turn, touched the keys and returned the answer. ' Never did I feel such a tumultuous sensation before...
Page 123 - 8. The price of the engine which may be accepted, not to exceed £550, delivered on the rail-way; and any engine not approved, to be taken back by the owner.
Page 254 - Edinbro', every other Saturday, or to the black swan in Holborn, every other Monday, at both of which places they may be received in a...
Page 282 - Give us," we say, " a tribunal competent to form a sound opinion. Commit to that tribunal, with any restrictions you think necessary, the whole of the great questions appertaining to our system. Let it protect private interests apart from railways; let it judge of the desirability of all initiatory measures, of all proposals for purchases, amalgamations, or other railway arrangements : delegate to it the power of enforcing such regulations and restrictions as may be thought needful to secure the...