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... usually styled by the neighbours , was employed as fireman to the engine
which pumped water from the coal - pit , an employment of a toilsome kind , but
requiring no great skill , and accordingly requited by the wage of a common
labourer .
... usually styled by the neighbours , was employed as fireman to the engine
which pumped water from the coal - pit , an employment of a toilsome kind , but
requiring no great skill , and accordingly requited by the wage of a common
labourer .
Side 4
... and take no thought of the future : or shrinking from this too common routine ,
he may , in the face of untold difficulties , make a sacrifice , for the sake of moral
and intellectual improvement , with which not unusually comes an improvement
in ...
... and take no thought of the future : or shrinking from this too common routine ,
he may , in the face of untold difficulties , make a sacrifice , for the sake of moral
and intellectual improvement , with which not unusually comes an improvement
in ...
Side 9
Proprietors and managers began to entertain a high idea of his qualities , which
were obviously not those of a pretender . Referring to this period , when in 1835
he gave evidence before a select committee of the House of Commons on ...
Proprietors and managers began to entertain a high idea of his qualities , which
were obviously not those of a pretender . Referring to this period , when in 1835
he gave evidence before a select committee of the House of Commons on ...
Side 10
He made a steam - carriage to run on common roads or rails in 1802 , and
exhibited it in the metropolis . Improving on this , he , in 1804 , completed a
locomotive to draw coal on the Merthyr - Tydvil Railway in South Wales . It did its
work well ...
He made a steam - carriage to run on common roads or rails in 1802 , and
exhibited it in the metropolis . Improving on this , he , in 1804 , completed a
locomotive to draw coal on the Merthyr - Tydvil Railway in South Wales . It did its
work well ...
Side 21
... with his own family — a species of adoption common enough in the villages of
France , where the dwellers beneath their thatched roofs consider themselves as
the natural guardians of the orphans left among them without home or support .
... with his own family — a species of adoption common enough in the villages of
France , where the dwellers beneath their thatched roofs consider themselves as
the natural guardians of the orphans left among them without home or support .
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| Titel | Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts, Bind 1–2 Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts, William Chambers |
| Redaktører | William Chambers, Robert Chambers |
| Udgiver | Lippincott, 1869 |
| Oprindeligt fra | University of Illinois ved Urbana-Champaign |
| Digitaliseret | 12. aug 2016 |
| Eksporter henvisning | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |