Railways and Other Ways: Being Reminiscences of Canal and Railway Life During a Period of Sixty-seven Years; with Characteristic Sketches of Canal and Railway Men, Early Tram Roads and Railways, Steamboats and Ocean Steamships, the Electric Telegraph and Atlantic Cable, Canada and Its Railways, Trade and CommerceWilliamson & Company, 1894 - 407 páginas |
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Railways and Other Ways: Being Reminiscences of Canal and Railway Life ... Myles Pennington Vista de fragmentos - 1896 |
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Página 393 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Página 395 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Página 329 - The Queen is convinced that the President will join with her in fervently hoping that the electric cable which now connects Great Britain with the United States will prove an additional link between the nations whose friendship is founded upon their common interest and reciprocal esteem. The Queen has much pleasure in thus communicating with the President and renewing to him her wishes for the prosperity of the United States.
Página 322 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Página 279 - ... these prodigious efforts of the human race — so fruitful of praise, but so much more fruitful of lasting blessings to mankind — have forced a tear from my eye by that unhappy casualty which deprived me of a friend and you of a representative ? " It is scarcely necessary that we should here speak of the commercial results of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
Página 336 - That man is not the discoverer of any art who first says the thing; but he who says it so long, and so loud, and so clearly, that he compels mankind to hear...
Página 240 - Rouse to some work of high and holy love, And thou an angel's happiness shalt know, Shalt bless the earth while in the world above ; The good begun by thee shall onward flow In many a branching stream, and wider grow ; The seed that, in these few and fleeting hours, Thy hands unsparing and unwearied sow, Shall deck thy grave with amaranthine flowers, And yield thee fruits divine in heaven's immortal bowers.
Página 278 - Northumbrian" engine, with the carriage containing the Duke of Wellington, was drawn up on one line, in order that the whole of the trains might pass in review before him and his party on the other.
Página 16 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Página 329 - The Queen desires to congratulate the President upon the successful completion of this great international work, in which the Queen has taken the greatest interest. The Queen is convinced that the President will join with her in fervently hoping that the electric cable, which now...