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... railways , to the quays or wharfs where the stone is put on ship - board . At the slate - quarries in Caernarvonshire the slabs are placed on sledges , which , by an engine , are drawn up an inclined plane ; and , from the summit of ...
... railways , to the quays or wharfs where the stone is put on ship - board . At the slate - quarries in Caernarvonshire the slabs are placed on sledges , which , by an engine , are drawn up an inclined plane ; and , from the summit of ...
Page 205
... railways have been projected , which will have part of their course in this county ; one from Dublin to Kilkenny , which will follow the right bank of the Barrow , and another from Dublin to Limerick , which will run nearly parallel to ...
... railways have been projected , which will have part of their course in this county ; one from Dublin to Kilkenny , which will follow the right bank of the Barrow , and another from Dublin to Limerick , which will run nearly parallel to ...
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... RAILWAY , a road in which smooth tracks of wood , iron , or other suitable material are laid to facilitate the motion of wheel - carriages . Railways are of various kinds , and have been used for a very considerable time as a means of ...
... RAILWAY , a road in which smooth tracks of wood , iron , or other suitable material are laid to facilitate the motion of wheel - carriages . Railways are of various kinds , and have been used for a very considerable time as a means of ...
Page 246
... railway led to the use of edge - rails , which have now almost entirely super- seded the previous form . The first edge - railway of any considerable extent was that completed in 1801 for the conveyance of slate from the quarries of ...
... railway led to the use of edge - rails , which have now almost entirely super- seded the previous form . The first edge - railway of any considerable extent was that completed in 1801 for the conveyance of slate from the quarries of ...
Page 247
... railway as completed , showing also the form of wheel employed . It will be readily perceived that the rounded surface of the rail renders the lodgement of extra- neous matter almost impossible . The means adopted to keep the carriages ...
... railway as completed , showing also the form of wheel employed . It will be readily perceived that the rounded surface of the rail renders the lodgement of extra- neous matter almost impossible . The means adopted to keep the carriages ...
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Page 127 - Nature confessed some atonement to be necessary : the gospel discovers that the necessary atonement is made." 2. When several semicolons have preceded, and a still greater pause is necessary, in order to mark the connecting or concluding sentiment: as, " A divine legislator, uttering his voice from heaven ; an almighty governor, stretching forth his arm to punish or reward ; informing us of perpetual rest prepared hereafter for the righteous, and of indignation and wrath awaiting the wicked : these...
Page 48 - And the Lord said unto Moses, See, I have, made thee a god to Pharaoh : and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
Page 6 - The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits, as have to do with her.
Page 126 - I shall here define it to be a conceit arising from the use of two words that agree in the sound, but differ in the sense. The only way therefore to try a piece of wit, is to translate it into a different language. If it bears the test, you may pronounce it true ; but if it vanishes in the experiment, you may conclude it to have been a pun.
Page 278 - World, implying a second and third volume, which I also intended, and have hewn out ; besides many other discouragements persuading my silence, it hath pleased God to take that glorious prince out of the world to whom they were directed...
Page 126 - I went to one of the windows which opened to the area below, where all the several voices lost their distinction, and rose up in a confused humming; which created in me a reflection that could not come into the mind of any but of one a little too studious; for I said to myself, with a kind of pun in thought, What nonsense is all the hurry of this world to those who are above, it?
Page 224 - Actius, who lived at the end of the fifth and the beginning of the sixth centuries, repeats the recommendations of Oribasius.
Page 192 - WORSHIP. ALL true and acceptable worship to God is offered in the inward and immediate moving and drawing of his own Spirit, which is neither limited to places, times, or persons...
Page 46 - Also purchase is called the possession of lands or tenements that a man hath by his deed or agreement, unto which possession he cometh not by title of descent from any of his ancestors or of his cousins, but by his own deed.
Page 24 - Table hath of late times assumed unto itself a power to intermeddle in civil causes and matters only of private interest between party and party, and have adventured to determine of the estates and liberties of the subject contrary to the law of the land and the rights and privileges of the subject...