Chambers's Papers for the PeopleWilliam Chambers William & Robert Chambers, 1854 - New Zealand |
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... fact that the Emperor Trajan reached the Persian Gulf from the Euphrates with a fleet built in the mountains of Nisibus . True , the communication between the Persian Gulf and India would be ultimately interrupted , and the invading ...
... fact that the Emperor Trajan reached the Persian Gulf from the Euphrates with a fleet built in the mountains of Nisibus . True , the communication between the Persian Gulf and India would be ultimately interrupted , and the invading ...
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... fact a long zig - zag staircase , as of its narrowness . A baggage camel filled the space completely ; and if one of these should press against a ridden camel , the rider's limbs would probably be crushed against the rock . . . . . The ...
... fact a long zig - zag staircase , as of its narrowness . A baggage camel filled the space completely ; and if one of these should press against a ridden camel , the rider's limbs would probably be crushed against the rock . . . . . The ...
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... fact , by which Cheops must have passed it if he ever went that road . It will be now quite clear to the reader that the products and mer- chandise exchanged between Great Britain and Eastern and Southern Asia will continue to be sent ...
... fact , by which Cheops must have passed it if he ever went that road . It will be now quite clear to the reader that the products and mer- chandise exchanged between Great Britain and Eastern and Southern Asia will continue to be sent ...
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... fact that the communication could not be kept open at all for vessels of any the lightest draught during four months in the year must damage this project irretrievably in the estimation of a great com- mercial nation whose relations ...
... fact that the communication could not be kept open at all for vessels of any the lightest draught during four months in the year must damage this project irretrievably in the estimation of a great com- mercial nation whose relations ...
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... fact , we have every ground to infer that the water of the Red Sea is more saline , and consequently heavier , than ... facts ' are daily increasing the tendency to ignore the existence of obstacles which engineering science cannot break ...
... fact , we have every ground to infer that the water of the Red Sea is more saline , and consequently heavier , than ... facts ' are daily increasing the tendency to ignore the existence of obstacles which engineering science cannot break ...
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Page 1 - And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs or of vines or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
Page 17 - For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as was before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
Page 29 - ... jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner. These are not merely opinions, but facts ; for I actually passed three carts broken down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory.
Page 27 - It is a plea available only to the defendant : no plaintiff can offer it as a supplementary ground of action. Thus, if any suit could be brought against Lord Byron, for the purpose of compelling him to put into court a certain quantity of poetry...
Page 2 - The gross exaggerations of the powers of the locomotive steam-engine (or, to speak in plain English, the steam-carriage), may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification of those concerned.
Page 29 - It was conducted over pathless sierras buried in snow; galleries were cut for leagues through the living rock ; rivers were crossed by means of bridges that swung suspended in the air; precipices were scaled by stairways hewn out of the native bed; ravines of hideous depth were filled up with solid masonry ; in short, all the difficulties that beset a wild and mountainous region, and which might appal the most courageous engineer of modern times, were encountered and successfully overcome.
Page 27 - Byron, for the purpose of compelling him to put into court a certain quantity of poetry, and if judgment were given against him, it is highly probable that an exception would be taken were he to deliver for poetry the contents of this volume. To this he might plead minority; but, as he now makes voluntary tender of the article, he hath no right to sue, on that ground, for the price in good current praise, should the goods be unmarketable.
Page 29 - ... -down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer...
Page 32 - ... rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal-merchants.