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a The Commissioner's House , though the principal work that engaged his attention , was not the sole interest : there was the building of a Chapel for the Dockyard , and towards the end of the same letter another activity is mentioned ...
a The Commissioner's House , though the principal work that engaged his attention , was not the sole interest : there was the building of a Chapel for the Dockyard , and towards the end of the same letter another activity is mentioned ...
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Wren put forward proposals as part of his scheme for rebuilding the City ; but then as later vested interests were so many and so complex that agreement could never be reached . There were many optimists after Wren with equal success .
Wren put forward proposals as part of his scheme for rebuilding the City ; but then as later vested interests were so many and so complex that agreement could never be reached . There were many optimists after Wren with equal success .
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I am afraid , that it is now too evident , that of late years the Commercial and Manufacturing interests have increased too far beyond that of the Agricultural , so that the produce of the Land has not borne any just proportion to that ...
I am afraid , that it is now too evident , that of late years the Commercial and Manufacturing interests have increased too far beyond that of the Agricultural , so that the produce of the Land has not borne any just proportion to that ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
Edinburgh at the beginning of the Twentieth Century I | 8 |
The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
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| Title | The Story of Telford: The Rise of Civil Engineering |
| Author | Sir Alexander Gibb |
| Publisher | A. Maclehose & Company, 1935 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Jan 2006 |
| Length | 357 pages |
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