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... writes to Little- ' I rise in the morning at 7 o'Clock and will continue to get up earlier till it comes to 5 - I then set seriously to work , to make out Accts , write on business , or draw till breakfast which is at 9. Going round ...
... writes to Little- ' I rise in the morning at 7 o'Clock and will continue to get up earlier till it comes to 5 - I then set seriously to work , to make out Accts , write on business , or draw till breakfast which is at 9. Going round ...
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... writes to his son , ' Thucydides engages me much . He thinks and writes so much like an English- man and Demosthenes might with great propriety have been spoken in the British Senate in the late Great War . ' To his sons he wrote a ...
... writes to his son , ' Thucydides engages me much . He thinks and writes so much like an English- man and Demosthenes might with great propriety have been spoken in the British Senate in the late Great War . ' To his sons he wrote a ...
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... writes : ' Really I am puzzled by this long silence from my best and I may say only Counceler in my intricate business ' and a fortnight later , I am now determined to write you a letter every week till I get an answer THE GOTHA CANAL ...
... writes : ' Really I am puzzled by this long silence from my best and I may say only Counceler in my intricate business ' and a fortnight later , I am now determined to write you a letter every week till I get an answer THE GOTHA CANAL ...
Contents
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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