The illustrated record of the International exhibition of the industrial arts and manufactures, and the fine arts ... 1862, by T.P. Shaffner and W. Owen |
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admiration afforded Aluminium Amongst apparatus architecture arrangement artists Austria awarded beautiful Belgium British building carriages chiefly Class coal collection colonies colour construction contributed copper cotton Court display effect employed engines engraving excellent Exhibition of 1862 exhibitors extensive feet France French galleries glass gold guns heat honourable mention illustrated important improvement inches India instruments interesting invention iron Italy J. M. W. Turner Jurors kinds light London machine machinery Maizena Majolica manufacture material medal Messrs metal method mineral mines models nave needle notice numerous objects obtained ornamental plate porcelain portion present principal produced Prussia purposes quantity railway remarkable represented respect rich sent ships shown silica silk silver Sir William Armstrong South South Wales Spain specimens steel stone sub-class Sweden Tasmania tons Transept trophy United Kingdom valuable variety various vessel weight whilst wire wood wrought iron Zollverein
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Page 97 - O YE children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem : for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
Page 16 - O ye, the wise who think, the wise who reign, From growing commerce loose her latest chain, And let the fair white-wing'd peacemaker fly To happy havens under all the sky, And mix the seasons and the golden hours ; Till each man find his own in all men's good, And all men work in noble brotherhood...
Page 105 - And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers : and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech. And, behold, Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and said unto the reapers, The Lord be with you.
Page 16 - The world-compelling plan was thine, And lo ! the long laborious miles Of Palace, lo ! the giant Aisles Rich in model and design...
Page 16 - UPLIFT a thousand voices full and sweet, In this wide hall with earth's invention stored, And praise the invisible universal Lord, Who lets once more in peace the nations meet, Where Science, Art, and Labour have outpour'd Their myriad horns of plenty at our feet.
Page 294 - The name of Shakespeare is the greatest in our literature, — it is the greatest in all literature. No man ever came near to him in the creative powers of the mind ; no man had ever such strength at once, and such variety of imagination.
Page 16 - And let the fair white-wing'd peacemaker fly To happy havens under all the sky, And mix the seasons and the golden hours ; Till each man find his own in all men's good, And all men work in noble brotherhood, Breaking their mailed fleets and armed towers, And ruling by obeying Nature's powers, And gathering all the fruits of earth and crown'd with all her flowers.
Page 10 - LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine ; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all...
Page 1 - The Exhibition of 1851 is to give us a true test and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting point from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions.
Page 37 - ... from 3^ to 4 tons of hard coke being consumed for each ton of metal thus melted. When large masses of steel are required, a great many crucibles must be got ready all at the same moment, and a continuous stream of the melted metal from the several crucibles must be kept up until the ingot is completed, since any cessation of the pouring would entirely spoil it : hence in proportion to the size of the ingot are the cost and risk of its production increased. The ordinary manufacture of cast steel...