Chambers's Edinburgh JournalWilliam Orr, 1844 |
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... feet , and that of Mr Muspratt 406 feet in height . The latter , however , is wider , and contains three millions of bricks , being a third more than what is in the former . We believe chimneys equally high are raising in other parts of ...
... feet , and that of Mr Muspratt 406 feet in height . The latter , however , is wider , and contains three millions of bricks , being a third more than what is in the former . We believe chimneys equally high are raising in other parts of ...
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... feet , when I found myself on a stone floor , on which a gleam of light fell from a dis- most modern improvements , too , depending upon the tant window . Going forward in the direction of the consent of the many , there was a world of ...
... feet , when I found myself on a stone floor , on which a gleam of light fell from a dis- most modern improvements , too , depending upon the tant window . Going forward in the direction of the consent of the many , there was a world of ...
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... feet above the level , which was the surface of the natural flow of water at that place , and sets the water back about six miles , forming the foun- tain reservoir , which covers an area of about four hun- dred acres . The country ...
... feet above the level , which was the surface of the natural flow of water at that place , and sets the water back about six miles , forming the foun- tain reservoir , which covers an area of about four hun- dred acres . The country ...
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... feet square , forty - five feet deep , and con- tains twenty millions of gallons . This last reservoir may be considered the termination of the Croton Aque- duct , and is distant from the fountain reservoir forty and a half miles . The ...
... feet square , forty - five feet deep , and con- tains twenty millions of gallons . This last reservoir may be considered the termination of the Croton Aque- duct , and is distant from the fountain reservoir forty and a half miles . The ...
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... feet were imprisoned in a groove - box , heel against heel , and knees turned outwards ; my martyred feet accustomed themselves naturally at last to fall in a parallel line . This is what is called " se tourner . ” After half an hour of ...
... feet were imprisoned in a groove - box , heel against heel , and knees turned outwards ; my martyred feet accustomed themselves naturally at last to fall in a parallel line . This is what is called " se tourner . ” After half an hour of ...
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Page 222 - Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Page 47 - Work ! work ! work ! from weary chime to chime ; work ! work ! work ! as prisoners work for crime. Band, and gusset, and seam ; seam, and gusset, and band ; till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, as well as the weary hand.
Page 47 - Work, work, work! From weary chime to chime ; Work, work, work, As prisoners work for crime : Band and gusset and seam, Seam and gusset and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand.
Page 222 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 47 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang this "Song of the Shirt.
Page 217 - Remains," it is remarked, that "there is a kind of physiognomy in the titles of books, no less than in the faces of men, by which a skilful observer will as well know what to expect from the one as the other.
Page 254 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 204 - And with them the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Page 82 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 47 - Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet. With the sky above my head. And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal!