 | James Walker - 1829 - 278 sider
...laid down and arranged with that skill and conformity with the rules of mechanical science, which will equally challenge approbation, whether considered...public utility, or as a magnificent .specimen of art. " A second objection to the measure (which, however, was insisted upon out of doors more than in Parliament)... | |
 | John Vallance - 1833 - 80 sider
...laid and arranged with that " skill and conformity with the rules of mechanical science, which will equally challenge approbation, " whether considered...public utility, or as a magnificent specimen " of art." Yet, notwithstanding the " undoubted talent " of those " most eminent engineers," and their "assistants,"... | |
 | Francis Maceroni - 1834 - 170 sider
...the Directors, raising the capital from 400,0002. to 510,0002. ; that is, from 12,000/. to 17,0002. per mile, and in order to produce the most perfect...professional estimate, the cost having risen from 17,0002. to nearly 40,7332. per mile. — See Statement No. 1. " Before, however, we proceed more particularly... | |
 | 1834 - 426 sider
...science, xvhich " would equally challenge approbation, " whether considered as a national un" dertaking of great public utility, or as " a magnificent specimen...professional estimate, the cost having risen from 17.000/. to nearly 40,733Z. per mile. Before, however, we proceed more particularly to point out other... | |
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Unhappily, however, not even the ' most eminent engineers,' nor the ' undoubted talents and activity of the Surveyors,' have been able to prevent a fourth break down in the professional estimate, the cost having risen from 17,0002. 