Life of Charles Blacker Vignoles ...: Soldier and Civil Engineer, Formerly Lieutenant in H.M. 1st Royals, Past-president of Institution of Civil Engineers; a Reminiscence of Early Railway HistoryThis memoir of the life and work of the late Mr C.B. Vignoles is in three sections: his life of adventure as an officer in the British Army; his work as one of the small group of civil engineers engaged in the construction of the earliest railways in England and Ireland; and his foreign engineering work. |
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... arrived at eleven o'clock on Sunday night . When we came to Staines the storm of wind and rain was dreadful , and continued with increasing violence all the rest of the way . It was one of the coldest nights I ever was out in . When I ...
... arrived at eleven o'clock on Sunday night . When we came to Staines the storm of wind and rain was dreadful , and continued with increasing violence all the rest of the way . It was one of the coldest nights I ever was out in . When I ...
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... arrive , nothing would have induced me to leave Sandhurst while you were there . When the merciless storm beat about the windows on Sunday night , I pictured you exposed to its inclemency , and I felt miserable lest you had not the ...
... arrive , nothing would have induced me to leave Sandhurst while you were there . When the merciless storm beat about the windows on Sunday night , I pictured you exposed to its inclemency , and I felt miserable lest you had not the ...
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... arrived at a place a little more civilized than the desolate island of Goree . It was not till Thursday afternoon that we left Harwich , having been detained on account of a King's messenger with despatches . I will not attempt to ...
... arrived at a place a little more civilized than the desolate island of Goree . It was not till Thursday afternoon that we left Harwich , having been detained on account of a King's messenger with despatches . I will not attempt to ...
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... arrived at a town called Oudenbosch in the evening , where I found the Royals had just come in , and I was soon met by poor Captain Wetherall , at whose quarters I spent the evening , and it was the happiest I had had since I left you ...
... arrived at a town called Oudenbosch in the evening , where I found the Royals had just come in , and I was soon met by poor Captain Wetherall , at whose quarters I spent the evening , and it was the happiest I had had since I left you ...
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... arrival in America to make my superior officers my friends . ' Still , he is evidently afraid of the possible results of ' hours of idleness , ' for he adds : If we shall only have garrison duty , I expect I shall employ my faculties to ...
... arrival in America to make my superior officers my friends . ' Still , he is evidently afraid of the possible results of ' hours of idleness , ' for he adds : If we shall only have garrison duty , I expect I shall employ my faculties to ...
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