 All sorts of produce were brought to the latter town, at moderate rates, from the farms and gardens adjacent to the navigation, whilst the value of agricultural property was immediately raised by the facilities afforded for the conveyance of lime and...  James Brindley and the Early Engineers - Page 225by Samuel Smiles - 1864 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 600 pages
...one of more curiosity than importance, but there is at least no proof of the truth of the assumption. The history of Francis Duke of Bridgewater is engraved...face of the country he helped to civilize and enrich. — His memory is held in veneration in his own country, and beyond it ; and, we may add, in affection... | |
 | Gilbert James French - Inventors - 1859 - 340 pages
...41 Francis Egerton, third and last Duke of Bridgewater, left, it lias been well said, bis biography engraved in intaglio on the face of the country he helped to civilize and enrich. He was born in 1736 (the birth-year of James Watt) and died in 1803. — Imperial Dictionary of Universal... | |
 | Gilbert James French - Spinning - 1859 - 340 pages
...41 Francis Egerton, third and last Duke of Bridgewater, left, it has been well said, his biography engraved in intaglio on the face of the country he helped to civilize and enrich. He was born in 1736 (the birth-year of James Watt) and died in 1803. — Imperial Dictionary of Universal... | |
 | Gilbert James French - Spinning - 1860 - 342 pages
...16 Francis Egerton, third and last Duke of Bridgewater, left, it has been well said, his biography engraved in intaglio on the face of the country he helped to civiland of his wonderful engineer, Brindley,16 proved that the greatest physical difficulties might... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Engineers - 1861 - 536 pages
...operations of industry in all ways. The canal was no sooner opened than its advantages were at once felt. The charge for water-carriage between Liverpool...canal yielded an income which eventually reached about 80,00(M. a year, it was planned and executed by Brindley at a rate of pay considerably less than that... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Bridges - 1861 - 532 pages
...manure, as well as by reason of the more ready access to good markets which it provided for the fanning classes. The Earl of Ellesmere has not less truly...canal yielded an income which eventually reached about 80,000/. a year, it was planned and executed by Brindley at a rate of pay considerably less than that... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1862 - 584 pages
...the entire community. 'The ' history of Francis, Duke of Bridgewater,' said the Earl of Ellesmere, ' is engraved in intaglio on the face of the country he ' helped to civilize and enrich.' The Duke always took a deep interest in his canals, and it was one of his regulations that when any... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Civil engineers - 1874 - 392 pages
...from Worsley to Manchester, and from Longford Bridge to the Mersey at Euncorn, amounted to 220,000Z. A truly magnificent undertaking, nobly planned and...canal yielded an income which eventually reached about 80,000Z. a year, it was planned and executed by Brindley at a rate of pay considerably less than that... | |
 | Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower - Australia - 1883 - 440 pages
...left some account of the ancestor to whom he was so greatly indebted. ' His history,' he writes, ' is engraved in intaglio on the face of the country he helped to civilise and enrich.' Those interested in engineering and such matters will have read in Smiles's '... | |
 | Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower - England - 1884 - 712 pages
...has left some account of the ancestor to whom he was so greatly indebted. " His history," he writes " is engraved in intaglio on the face of the country he helped to civilize and enrich.' Those interested in engineering and such matters will have read in Smiles's " Life of Brindley " of... | |
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