The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 70A. Constable, 1840 |
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... respects it has been almost entirely reconstructed . The original estimate of the London and Birmingham Railway was two millions ; but the actual expenditure had some time ago exceeded four millions ; and we have no doubt that five ...
... respects it has been almost entirely reconstructed . The original estimate of the London and Birmingham Railway was two millions ; but the actual expenditure had some time ago exceeded four millions ; and we have no doubt that five ...
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... respects security , for adding to the present depth , or for other improvements ; but , in referring to the detail I have given , I find that only about half of the whole sum ( exclusive of the steam tugs ) can be placed to the head of ...
... respects security , for adding to the present depth , or for other improvements ; but , in referring to the detail I have given , I find that only about half of the whole sum ( exclusive of the steam tugs ) can be placed to the head of ...
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... dragging vessels against adverse winds , removed all reasonable complaints respect- ing their detention below Greenock . Thus was the canal from Paisley to Saltcoats rendered unne- 1839 . 27 Life and Works of Thomas Telford .
... dragging vessels against adverse winds , removed all reasonable complaints respect- ing their detention below Greenock . Thus was the canal from Paisley to Saltcoats rendered unne- 1839 . 27 Life and Works of Thomas Telford .
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... respects was in such a state that Mr Telford describes it as little better than a crooked ditch , with scarcely the ap- ' pearance of a haling - path , the horses frequently sliding and stag- gering in the water , the haling - lines ...
... respects was in such a state that Mr Telford describes it as little better than a crooked ditch , with scarcely the ap- ' pearance of a haling - path , the horses frequently sliding and stag- gering in the water , the haling - lines ...
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... respect those grand conceptions which provide for the moral and physical wants of our species . When a railway shall carry our persons from London to Edinburgh in the fraction of a day , and a penny - post shall convey in the same brief ...
... respect those grand conceptions which provide for the moral and physical wants of our species . When a railway shall carry our persons from London to Edinburgh in the fraction of a day , and a penny - post shall convey in the same brief ...
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Page 310 - England by lofty halls and by the constant waving of fans. The number of the prisoners was one hundred and forty-six. When they were ordered to enter the cell, they imagined that the soldiers were joking ; and being in high spirits on account of the promise of the Nabob to spare their lives they laughed and jested at the absurdity of the notion. They soon discovered their mistake. They expostulated ; they entreated ; but in vain. The guards threatened to cut down all who hesitated. The captives were...
Page 317 - ... gloomily in his tent, haunted, a Greek poet would have said, by the furies of those who had cursed him with their last breath in the Black Hole. The day broke — the day which was to decide the fate of India.
Page 318 - The battle commenced with a cannonade in which the artillery of the Nabob did scarcely any execution, while the few field-pieces of the English produced great effect. Several of the most distinguished officers in Surajah Dowlah's service fell.
Page 96 - I scarcely ever met with a better companion ; he has inexhaustible spirits, infinite wit and humour, and a great deal of knowledge ; but a thorough profligate in principle as in practice, his life stained with every vice, and his conversation full of blasphemy and indecency. These morals he glories in — for shame is a weakness he has long since surmounted.
Page 183 - ... unfeigned assent and consent as aforesaid, and subscribed the declaration aforesaid, and shall not take and subscribe the oath following : I, AB, do swear that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the king...
Page 102 - Talking of the manner of Mr. Pitt's speaking, he said ' There he would stand, turning up his eyes to heaven, that witnessed his perjuries, and laying his hand in a solemn manner upon the table, that sacrilegious hand that had been employed in tearing out the bowels of his mother country !
Page 310 - Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows, fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies, raved, prayed, blasphemed, implored the guards to fire among them.
Page 192 - Richard, Richard, dost thou think we'll hear thee poison the court ? Richard, thou art an old fellow, an old knave ; thou hast written books enough to load a cart, every one as full of sedition, I might say treason, as an egg is full of meat. Hadst thou been whipped out of thy writing trade forty years ago, it had been happy.
Page 311 - The day broke. The Nabob had slept off his debauch, and permitted the door to be opened. But it was some time before the soldiers could make a lane for the survivors, by piling...
Page 176 - Papists and delinquents, and to remove the dividers, that the king might again return to his parliament; and that no changes might be made in religion, but by the laws which had his free consent. We took the true happiness of king and people, church and state, to be our end, and so we understood the covenant, engaging both against Papists and schismatics...