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You ask me what I shall do all winter , ' he 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 ...
You ask me what I shall do all winter , ' he 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 ...
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I keep reading at nights as usual , ' he writes to his son , ' Thucydides engages me much . He thinks and writes so much like an Englishman and Demosthenes might with great propriety have been spoken in the British Senate in the late ...
I keep reading at nights as usual , ' he writes to his son , ' Thucydides engages me much . He thinks and writes so much like an Englishman and Demosthenes might with great propriety have been spoken in the British Senate in the late ...
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18 During the early months of 1818 the debate went on continuously in the Diet whether the canal should be wholly abandoned or not . ' The failure of our loan bank , ' writes Von Platen , 22nd February , 1818 , ' and the general ...
18 During the early months of 1818 the debate went on continuously in the Diet whether the canal should be wholly abandoned or not . ' The failure of our loan bank , ' writes Von Platen , 22nd February , 1818 , ' and the general ...
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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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