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... people who are contented with trudging on in the beaten Path but I am not contented unless I can reason on every particular . I am now very deep in Chemistry — the manner of making Mortar , led me to enquire into the Nature of Lime ...
... people who are contented with trudging on in the beaten Path but I am not contented unless I can reason on every particular . I am now very deep in Chemistry — the manner of making Mortar , led me to enquire into the Nature of Lime ...
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But what was want of wealth to thee , Whose bold capacious mind , In native independence free , By Nature was design'd . For as Ben Lomond fo'er our hills , In towering grandeur stands , And lochs and rivers sees like rills , Descending ...
But what was want of wealth to thee , Whose bold capacious mind , In native independence free , By Nature was design'd . For as Ben Lomond fo'er our hills , In towering grandeur stands , And lochs and rivers sees like rills , Descending ...
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Numerous applications of this 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 ...
Numerous applications of this 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 ...
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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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