A Book about Travelling, Past and PresentWilliam P. Nimmo, 1877 - 608 páginas |
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appear boat bridge Britain British canal Captain carriage carried century chair chariot Charles Bianconi Clyde coachman coal construction conveyance conveyed coolie cost danger Darlington distance early Edinburgh Edward Pease engine England English favour feet four French George Stephenson give Glasgow Greenock highwaymen horse-power horses illustration improvement inches India interesting invention Ireland iron jin-riki-sha John Hawkshaw journey labour lady land less letters Liverpool locomotive London Lord mail coaches ment miles an hour night passed passengers persons port present quoted rail railway remarkable river road round sailing says Scotland seat sedan chairs seen shaft ship side speed stage coach steam navigation steamboat steamer Stephenson Stockton story streets Suez Canal tide tion tons town traffic train travelling tunnel vehicle vessel voyage waggons wheels William Symington writer
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Página 6 - He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.
Página 260 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Página 322 - Bid harbours open, public ways extend, Bid temples worthier of the God ascend, Bid the broad arch the dangerous flood contain, The mole projected break the roaring main ; Back to his bounds their subject sea command, And roll obedient rivers through the land : These honours, peace to happy BRITAIN brings, These are imperial works, and worthy kings.
Página 439 - And down she sucked with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die. And first one universal shriek there...
Página 94 - A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged to hire two men at one place to support my chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible country, which must either dislocate their bones with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand.
Página 101 - I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman ; but she should be one who could understand Jme, and would add something to the conversation.
Página 367 - ... heard, the crews (if what was said in the newspapers of the time be true) in some instances shrunk beneath their decks from the terrific sight, and left their vessels to go on shore, while others prostrated themselves, and besought Providence to protect them from the approaches of the horrible monster, which was marching on the tides and lighting its path by the fires which it vomited.
Página 35 - Where they did all get in; Six precious souls, and all agog To dash through thick and thin. Smack went the whip, round went the wheels, Were never folk so glad, The stones did rattle underneath, As if Cheapside were mad.
Página 454 - ... rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldrons of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal-merchants.
Página 111 - Hark ye, Clinker, you are a most notorious offender. You stand convicted of sickness, hunger, wretchedness, and want. But, as it does not belong to me to punish criminals, I will only take upon me...