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He dropped versifying and seems scarcely in later life ever to have alluded to his efforts . And yet there is much worse poetry than his daily published and acclaimed . An early poem published in Ruddiman's Weekly Magazine in 1771 was ...
He dropped versifying and seems scarcely in later life ever to have alluded to his efforts . And yet there is much worse poetry than his daily published and acclaimed . An early poem published in Ruddiman's Weekly Magazine in 1771 was ...
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That was the final stage in the long agitation , and incidentally the start of perhaps the closest friendship of Telford's later days . Parnell , who later became Lord Congleton , continued to be closely associated with him for the rest ...
That was the final stage in the long agitation , and incidentally the start of perhaps the closest friendship of Telford's later days . Parnell , who later became Lord Congleton , continued to be closely associated with him for the rest ...
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Vignolles , one of the earliest members , and President many years later , referred in his Presidential Address to the general indifference and definite hostility against which the Institution and Telford had to fight .
Vignolles , one of the earliest members , and President many years later , referred in his Presidential Address to the general indifference and definite hostility against which the Institution and Telford had to fight .
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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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