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... relationship and sentiment sternly and rigorously to the background , it was only occasionally that he allowed expression to his deepset love of home . To the ordinary observer it might seem that home and family were wholly ...
... relationship and sentiment sternly and rigorously to the background , it was only occasionally that he allowed expression to his deepset love of home . To the ordinary observer it might seem that home and family were wholly ...
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3 . dockyards also , seems to have been too busy to give full attention to Portsmouth . In June 1784 the Controller at Portsmouth , Mr. Martin — later Sir Henry Martin , Bart . , M.P. for Southampton - complained that there was no one ...
3 . dockyards also , seems to have been too busy to give full attention to Portsmouth . In June 1784 the Controller at Portsmouth , Mr. Martin — later Sir Henry Martin , Bart . , M.P. for Southampton - complained that there was no one ...
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Whether he could rightly claim this distinction or not , it does seem that he was the inventor of the type of flat ... It seems to have been a complete surprise to Telford to find that anyone had approached the problem in the same way ...
Whether he could rightly claim this distinction or not , it does seem that he was the inventor of the type of flat ... It seems to have been a complete surprise to Telford to find that anyone had approached the problem in the same way ...
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Contents
The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
First Highland Survey 1801Second Highland | 60 |
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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 | 7 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 357 pages |
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