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... Nature was design'd . For as Ben Lomond † o'er our hills , In towering grandeur stands , And lochs and rivers sees like rills , Descending through the lands . So rais'd by Heav'n o'er bustling men , Far round thy glance was thrown With ...
... Nature was design'd . For as Ben Lomond † o'er our hills , In towering grandeur stands , And lochs and rivers sees like rills , Descending through the lands . So rais'd by Heav'n o'er bustling men , Far round thy glance was thrown With ...
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... nature would suggest the necessity of it . A conviction of the advantages of an Institution of Engineers has , however , now induced a few young men of the profession to come forward with their endeavours to obtain that object , and ...
... nature would suggest the necessity of it . A conviction of the advantages of an Institution of Engineers has , however , now induced a few young men of the profession to come forward with their endeavours to obtain that object , and ...
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... nature were incessantly made to him ; and while in many cases the most liberal aid was afforded , I never knew an instance of unkind rejection . The possession of any talent , literary , scientific or mechanical , I always observed was ...
... nature were incessantly made to him ; and while in many cases the most liberal aid was afforded , I never knew an instance of unkind rejection . The possession of any talent , literary , scientific or mechanical , I always observed was ...
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Edinburgh at the beginning of the Twentieth Century I | 8 |
The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
William Jessop Civil Engineer 17451814 | 32 |
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