Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts, Bind 1–2William Chambers, Robert Chambers Lippincott, 1869 |
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Side 3
... able - bodied ploughman , but his tastes did not lie in the agricultural line . What he wished was , to be employed about a colliery , so as to be among bustle of wheels , gins , and pulleys . Accordingly , quitting farm - work , he got ...
... able - bodied ploughman , but his tastes did not lie in the agricultural line . What he wished was , to be employed about a colliery , so as to be among bustle of wheels , gins , and pulleys . Accordingly , quitting farm - work , he got ...
Side 6
... able to write his own name , which he did for the first time when he was nineteen years of age . To improve his acquirements , he afterwards , in the winter of 1799 , went to an evening - school , kept by Andrew Robert- son , a Scotch ...
... able to write his own name , which he did for the first time when he was nineteen years of age . To improve his acquirements , he afterwards , in the winter of 1799 , went to an evening - school , kept by Andrew Robert- son , a Scotch ...
Side 7
... able to save a guinea , which is recorded as being the nest - egg of his fortune . Of course , he never could have laid by so much as a guinea , had he , like most of his acquaintances , frequented public - houses and consumed ...
... able to save a guinea , which is recorded as being the nest - egg of his fortune . Of course , he never could have laid by so much as a guinea , had he , like most of his acquaintances , frequented public - houses and consumed ...
Side 9
... able to save a hundred guineas , which , in consequence of the demand for bullion during the French war , he sold to money - brokers for twenty- six shillings each . At intervals in his ordinary labour , he employed himself in building ...
... able to save a hundred guineas , which , in consequence of the demand for bullion during the French war , he sold to money - brokers for twenty- six shillings each . At intervals in his ordinary labour , he employed himself in building ...
Side 10
... able to begin running his locomotive , called the Blucher , on the Killingworth Railway . It was still only a coal - drag , and at best a clumsy apparatus , but it hauled eight loaded wagons weighing thirty tons , at about four miles an ...
... able to begin running his locomotive , called the Blucher , on the Killingworth Railway . It was still only a coal - drag , and at best a clumsy apparatus , but it hauled eight loaded wagons weighing thirty tons , at about four miles an ...
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