American Engineer and Railroad Journal, Volume 4

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Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1835

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Page 83 - Duer, William Alexander. A Course of Lectures on the Constitutional jurisprudence of the United States; Delivered Annually in Columbia College, New York.
Page 179 - All day thy wings have fanned At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Page 66 - Now know ye, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said George Freeman, do hereby declare, that the nature of my said invention, and the manner in which...
Page 227 - She sees him approach, now advancing, now receding, now swelling in every part with something of anger, while his neck is arched beautifully like that of a wild horse under the curb, until, at length, tired as it were of play, like the cat with its victim, she...
Page 86 - ... propose one person, and of the two names so proposed, one shall be drawn by lot, in the presence of the four original commissioners.
Page 195 - Gentlemen of the House of Commons, — I have directed the estimates for the ensuing year to be prepared, and to be laid before you without delay.
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Page 221 - The Committee on Science and the Arts constituted by the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, for the promotion of the Mechanic Arts, to whom was referred for examination — "An improved Axle box," invented by Robert McWilliams and assigned to Samuel W.
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