Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts, Bind 1–2William Chambers, Robert Chambers Lippincott, 1869 |
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... hundred passengers , how little are we apt to think that this marvel of science and art is due mainly to two men , who , in the outset of their career , occupied an obscure position -James Watt and George Stephenson ; one a Scotsman ...
... hundred passengers , how little are we apt to think that this marvel of science and art is due mainly to two men , who , in the outset of their career , occupied an obscure position -James Watt and George Stephenson ; one a Scotsman ...
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... hundred a year , and paying no house - rent , did not know a letter . To one with much natural sagacity , and an ambition to improve in circumstances , we cannot easily conceive a more dreary condition . Let any one picture to himself ...
... hundred a year , and paying no house - rent , did not know a letter . To one with much natural sagacity , and an ambition to improve in circumstances , we cannot easily conceive a more dreary condition . Let any one picture to himself ...
Side 7
... hundred and fifty miles , he performed on foot . Disagreeing after a short period with the owners , he trudged back to his home at Killing- worth , bringing with him £ 28 as savings . One of the first things he did after his return was ...
... hundred and fifty miles , he performed on foot . Disagreeing after a short period with the owners , he trudged back to his home at Killing- worth , bringing with him £ 28 as savings . One of the first things he did after his return was ...
Side 9
... 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 an oven and ...
... 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 an oven and ...
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... hundred and fifty miles from hence . ' ' Two hundred and fifty miles ! If I must go so far to be cured , I am pretty sure of remaining ill to my dying day . ' ' Try and get conveyed there , my good fellow , ' said the kindly veteran ...
... hundred and fifty miles from hence . ' ' Two hundred and fifty miles ! If I must go so far to be cured , I am pretty sure of remaining ill to my dying day . ' ' Try and get conveyed there , my good fellow , ' said the kindly veteran ...
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