The Triumphs of Perseverance and Enterprise: Recorded as Examples for the YoungEvans & Dickerson, 1854 - 376 páginas |
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... inches by five , three prisoners under sentence of transportation came by turns to breathe , being confined in that wretched hole for nearly two months . When Howard visited this place , the door had not been opened for five weeks ...
... inches by five , three prisoners under sentence of transportation came by turns to breathe , being confined in that wretched hole for nearly two months . When Howard visited this place , the door had not been opened for five weeks ...
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... inches ; in length , from the root of the tail to the top of the head , sixteen feet ; and ten feet round the neck . He had upwards of eighty balls in his head and body . His only remaining tusk , when taken out , weighed thirty - six ...
... inches ; in length , from the root of the tail to the top of the head , sixteen feet ; and ten feet round the neck . He had upwards of eighty balls in his head and body . His only remaining tusk , when taken out , weighed thirty - six ...
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... inches ; in length , from the root of the tail to the top of the head , sixteen feet ; and ten feet round the neck . He had upwards of eighty balls in his head and body . His only remaining tusk , when taken out , weighed thirty - six ...
... inches ; in length , from the root of the tail to the top of the head , sixteen feet ; and ten feet round the neck . He had upwards of eighty balls in his head and body . His only remaining tusk , when taken out , weighed thirty - six ...
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... inches high . " Dr. Oudney , the partner of Denham and Clapperton , in their adventurous enterprise , affords details more frightful in character . " Strict orders had been given during a cer- tain day of the journey , " he informs us ...
... inches high . " Dr. Oudney , the partner of Denham and Clapperton , in their adventurous enterprise , affords details more frightful in character . " Strict orders had been given during a cer- tain day of the journey , " he informs us ...
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... inch from its bed of sand . The chiefs eyed him with jealousy , and conceived , as usual , that he came in quest of hidden treasures ; and the Fellahs were with difficulty set to work , having made up their minds that it was a hopeless ...
... inch from its bed of sand . The chiefs eyed him with jealousy , and conceived , as usual , that he came in quest of hidden treasures ; and the Fellahs were with difficulty set to work , having made up their minds that it was a hopeless ...
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Página 56 - Now you will not assert, gentlemen, said I, that it is more difficult to construct a machine that shall weave than one which shall make all the variety of moves which are required in that complicated game.
Página 56 - Independently of his great attainments in mechanics, Mr. "Watt was an extraordinary, and in many respects a wonderful man. Perhaps no individual in his age possessed so much and such varied and exact information, had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and so well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious memory, and a certain rectifying and methodising power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented to it.
Página 201 - I cannot give an adequate idea of this beautiful and invaluable piece of antiquity, and can only say, that nothing has been brought into Europe from Egypt that can be compared with it. The cover was not there: it had been taken out, and broken into several pieces, which we found in digging before the first entrance.
Página 56 - The warp was placed perpendicularly, the reed fell with the weight of at least half a hundred weight, and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket. In short, it required the strength of two powerful men to work the machine at a slow rate, and only for a short time.
Página 217 - The use of the posts was allowed to those who claimed it by an Imperial mandate; but though originally intended for the public service, it was sometimes indulged to the business or conveniency of private citizens.
Página 216 - Mountains were perforated, and bold arches thrown over the broadest and most rapid streams. -The middle part of the road was raised into a terrace, which commanded the adjacent country, consisted of several strata of sand, gravel, and cement, and was paved with large stones, or in some places near the capital with granite.
Página 177 - Unshaven since I know not when, dirty, dressed in the rags of wild beasts instead of the tatters of civilization, and starved to the very bones, our gaunt and grim looks, when contrasted with those of the well-dressed and well-fed men around us, made us all feel, I believe for the first time, what we really were, as well as what we seemed to others.
Página 93 - The people at the mouth of the den, who had listened with painful anxiety, hearing the growling of the wolf and supposing their friend to be in the most imminent danger, drew him forth with such celerity that his shirt was stripped over his head and his skin severely lacerated. After he had adjusted his clothes and...
Página 216 - They united the subjects of the most distant provinces by an easy and familiar intercourse; but their primary object had been to facilitate the marches of the legions; nor was any country considered as completely subdued, till it had been rendered, in all its parts, pervious to the arms and authority of the conqueror.
Página 27 - The discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion; and the captain of the Hampshire grenadiers (the reader may smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Roman empire.