Chambers's Edinburgh JournalWilliam Orr, 1844 |
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Page 35
... feet high was pierced by a tunnel about a mile in length . This tunnel was eight feet high and eight feet wide , and in it there was cut a channel thirty feet deep by three feet wide , through which the water flowed in a covered course ...
... feet high was pierced by a tunnel about a mile in length . This tunnel was eight feet high and eight feet wide , and in it there was cut a channel thirty feet deep by three feet wide , through which the water flowed in a covered course ...
Page 36
... feet deep and four broad pierces the rock for a distance of more than a mile . One of these aqueducts was formed of two channels , one above the other ; they were , however , constructed at different periods , the most elevated being ...
... feet deep and four broad pierces the rock for a distance of more than a mile . One of these aqueducts was formed of two channels , one above the other ; they were , however , constructed at different periods , the most elevated being ...
Page 37
... feet by several bold arches , the largest of which has a height of 250 feet , and a span of 115 . But it was not alone in the eastern hemisphere that the ancients excelled in the construction of aqueducts ; we have evidence of the ...
... feet by several bold arches , the largest of which has a height of 250 feet , and a span of 115 . But it was not alone in the eastern hemisphere that the ancients excelled in the construction of aqueducts ; we have evidence of the ...
Page 41
... feet broad , on each side of the principal street , along with a double row of gas lamps , as hand- some as anything of the kind in the metropolis . Ob- taining one hundred pounds , as I understood , from the impoverished burghal funds ...
... feet broad , on each side of the principal street , along with a double row of gas lamps , as hand- some as anything of the kind in the metropolis . Ob- taining one hundred pounds , as I understood , from the impoverished burghal funds ...
Page 52
... feet . The largest known in that country is one at Studley Park , Yorkshire , which has attained the amazing height of 118 feet ; but the tree is more remark- able for its lateral spread than its upward growth . A stem of Doric ...
... feet . The largest known in that country is one at Studley Park , Yorkshire , which has attained the amazing height of 118 feet ; but the tree is more remark- able for its lateral spread than its upward growth . A stem of Doric ...
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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!