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" ... of an engineer, in regard to some of the general principles. He should accommodate a new line of road to local circumstances, so far as could be without superseding public advantages. It would be ridiculous to follow the old Roman fashion, on the... "
Journal of the Franklin Institute - Page 28
1843
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 23

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 628 pages
...to make serpentine roads merely for the entertainment of travellers; but it is intended to point out that a strict adherence to a straight line is of much less consequence than is usually supposed.' — EdgewortA, p. 12. We wish this observation could be impressed on those merciless aunihilntors of...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 23

1820 - 632 pages
...make serpentine roads merely for the entertainment of travellers ; but it is intended to point out that a strict adherence to a straight line is of much less consequence than is usually supposed '-Edsemorlh, p 1 2. We wish this observation could be impressed on those merciless annihilators of...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 23

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 616 pages
...to make serpentine roads merely for the entertainment of travellers; but it is intended to point out that a strict adherence to a straight line is of much less consequence than is usually supposed.'—-Edgeworth, p. 12. We wish this observation could be impressed on those merciless annihilators...
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The Subscribers, the Acting Committee of "The Pennsylvania Society for the ...

Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of Internal Improvements in the Commonwealth - 1833 - 16 pages
...recommended to make serpentine roads merely for the entertainment of travellers ; but to point out that a strict adherence to a straight line is of much less consequence than is usually supposed; and that it will be frequently adCM vantageous to deviate from the straight line to avoid inequalities...
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The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, Volume 5

William Laxton - 1842 - 496 pages
...must be avoided, I'jtrns must be resorted to, and the sudden bends of rivers must be shunned. It n not suggested that roads should be made serpentine,...adherence to a straight line is of much less consequence thin ii usually supposed, even in actual distance over long lengths. It was ••II known that a blind...
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A Practical Treatise on Making and Repairing Roads

Edmund Leahy - 1844 - 348 pages
...to make serpentine roads merely for the entertainment of travellers, but it is intended to point out that a strict adherence to a straight line is of much less consequence than is usually supposed, and that it will be perfectly advantageous to deviate from the direct line to avoid inequalities of...
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Farm Roads, Fences, and Gates. A Practical Treatise ...

John Scott (land valuer.) - 1883 - 192 pages
...go over it by various windings, avoiding always abrupt or sudden turnings." Edgworth was of opinion that a strict adherence to a straight line is of much less consequence than is usually supposed, and that it will be frequently advantageous to deviate from the direct line to avoid inequalities of...
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Classical Economics: January 1820 to November 1820, Volume 2

Donald Rutherford - 1996 - 528 pages
...to make serpentine roads merely for the entertainment of travellers; but it is intended to point out that a strict adherence to a straight line is of much less consequence than is usually supposed.'— Edgeworth, p. l2. We wish this observation could be impressed on those merciless annihilators of rural...
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The Surveyor, Engineer, and Architect, Volume 2

1841 - 436 pages
...detail, either of the laying out or the construction of roads, but he must add a few observations, as connected with the duties of an engineer, in regard...over long lengths. It was well known that a blind man was, some years ago, advantageously employed, through Yorkshire and Derbyshire, in laying out roads...
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Journal of the Franklin Institute

Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1843 - 442 pages
...out, or the construction, of roads, but he must add a few observations, as connected with the dnties of an engineer, in regard to some of the general principles....over long lengths. It was well known that a blind man was, some years ago, advantageously employed, through Yorkshire and Derbyshire, in laying out roads...
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