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... and is now referred to a Committee - his remarks on the latter I on Saturday lay before a general meeting of the Commissioners , and very probably shall have the new modelling their plan of that large building , as he has found ...
... and is now referred to a Committee - his remarks on the latter I on Saturday lay before a general meeting of the Commissioners , and very probably shall have the new modelling their plan of that large building , as he has found ...
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You will be surprised that I have not mentioned this to you before , but the fact is that I had no idea of any such thing untill an application was made to me from some of the leading Gentlemen , and I was appointed at their meeting ...
You will be surprised that I have not mentioned this to you before , but the fact is that I had no idea of any such thing untill an application was made to me from some of the leading Gentlemen , and I was appointed at their meeting ...
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Except by reason of indisposition , he never failed to attend a meeting if he were in London , and it is said that no other member equalled his record of attendance . Every Tuesday he would hold a dinner party at 24 Abingdon Street ...
Except by reason of indisposition , he never failed to attend a meeting if he were in London , and it is said that no other member equalled his record of attendance . Every Tuesday he would hold a dinner party at 24 Abingdon Street ...
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CHAPTER | 1 |
Edinburgh at the beginning of the Twentieth Century I | 8 |
The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
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