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... stone and whitewashed , with flat roofs . The inhabitants are principally the Dutch and the Hottentots . Here is a naval yard with storehouses , & c . to supply the Queen's ships , and a beautiful building appropriated for the residence ...
... stone and whitewashed , with flat roofs . The inhabitants are principally the Dutch and the Hottentots . Here is a naval yard with storehouses , & c . to supply the Queen's ships , and a beautiful building appropriated for the residence ...
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... Stone and 35 686 20 斗 Rubbish . 1176 1209 Granite . March 15 , Aug. 1 , 1824 1831 Blackfriars Bridge 1000 42 69 6989 58 135 76 Portland January , 1750 Stone . 1739 9.100 Portland June , 1770 Stone . 1760 Vauxhall Bridge . 809 36 54 9 ...
... Stone and 35 686 20 斗 Rubbish . 1176 1209 Granite . March 15 , Aug. 1 , 1824 1831 Blackfriars Bridge 1000 42 69 6989 58 135 76 Portland January , 1750 Stone . 1739 9.100 Portland June , 1770 Stone . 1760 Vauxhall Bridge . 809 36 54 9 ...
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... stone ; few of them weigh less than a ton , while many are two , three , four , and some as much as five , tons each . The span of the middle arch is seventy - six feet . The bridge , and its approaches , cost £ 387,500 . Government ...
... stone ; few of them weigh less than a ton , while many are two , three , four , and some as much as five , tons each . The span of the middle arch is seventy - six feet . The bridge , and its approaches , cost £ 387,500 . Government ...
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... stone work like a huge rock , of twenty - four feet high , and the horse and man are twenty - six feet high , thus being fifty feet above the road . We are told by those who knew George the Third , that it is very much like him ; he is ...
... stone work like a huge rock , of twenty - four feet high , and the horse and man are twenty - six feet high , thus being fifty feet above the road . We are told by those who knew George the Third , that it is very much like him ; he is ...
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... so well described , there is no charge allowed to be made for seeing it , and here are to be found books treating upon every possible subject , shells and geological specimens of every description , ores and stones from 96.
... so well described , there is no charge allowed to be made for seeing it , and here are to be found books treating upon every possible subject , shells and geological specimens of every description , ores and stones from 96.
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Page 477 - Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear, That mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stayed thy progress to the seats of bliss • No more confined to grov'ling scenes of night, No more a tenant pent in mortal clay, Now should we rather hail thy glorious flight, And trace thy journey to the realms of day.
Page 271 - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home — taxes on the raw material — taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man...
Page 272 - The school-boy whips his taxed top — the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; — and the dying Englishman pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent. into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent. — flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid twenty-two per cent.
Page 272 - His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers — to be taxed no more.
Page 272 - ... restores him to health ; on the ermine which decorates the Judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal ; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice ; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribbons of the bride ; — at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
Page 271 - ... of man — taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health — on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal — on the...
Page 282 - Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak She quells the floods below, As they roar on the shore When the stormy winds do blow ; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow!
Page 353 - Exchequer shall always ex officio form three. The President is also nominated by the Crown, is usually a cabinet minister, and in all changes of Administration retires from office together with the salaried Commissioners and Secretary.
Page 474 - As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest ease in beauty shines most bright. Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all.
Page 205 - He welcomed me into the country ; and, after having made me observe the turnpike on my left, and the ' Golden Wheatsheaf ' on my right, he conducted me into his house, where I was received by his lady, who made a thousand apologies for being catched in such a dishabille. " The hall (for so I was taught to call it) had its white wall almost hid by a curious collection of prints and paintings.