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To his sons he wrote a series of letters full of dry humour and cynical wisdom that well deserve publication in full . There was almost invariably a postscriptum in which his advice was contained such as ...
To his sons he wrote a series of letters full of dry humour and cynical wisdom that well deserve publication in full . There was almost invariably a postscriptum in which his advice was contained such as ...
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... wich you Prophetized , ' he wrote on one occasion , ' are going pretty well on , particularly as even foreing people are not to well pleased with the business ; but I mind them as little as I take notice of them — the having been ...
... wich you Prophetized , ' he wrote on one occasion , ' are going pretty well on , particularly as even foreing people are not to well pleased with the business ; but I mind them as little as I take notice of them — the having been ...
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I think you should fix upon a line for your son , ' he wrote to a correspondent , his present employment will certainly inure him to habits of business , a most important object for a youth to acquire at an early period of life ...
I think you should fix upon a line for your son , ' he wrote to a correspondent , his present employment will certainly inure him to habits of business , a most important object for a youth to acquire at an early period of life ...
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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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