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... never sees his country house but he says within himself " O might I but rest in this spot and never more go three miles from home I should be happy " --but he is now entangled in so extensive a plan , that he says he is doubtful that he ...
... never sees his country house but he says within himself " O might I but rest in this spot and never more go three miles from home I should be happy " --but he is now entangled in so extensive a plan , that he says he is doubtful that he ...
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... never run smoothly for long . ' Dr. Harwood , ' wrote Telford on one occasion , ' has written me to say that the Navigators are making sad Havock in his ground , I should not wish that any unnecessary damage should be done , especially ...
... never run smoothly for long . ' Dr. Harwood , ' wrote Telford on one occasion , ' has written me to say that the Navigators are making sad Havock in his ground , I should not wish that any unnecessary damage should be done , especially ...
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... Never- theless , there is one trait to which I may refer , because from it the observation of his most intimate friends was carefully excluded , but which , from the position I occupied , I could not escape from occasionally witnessing ...
... Never- theless , there is one trait to which I may refer , because from it the observation of his most intimate friends was carefully excluded , but which , from the position I occupied , I could not escape from occasionally witnessing ...
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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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