The Story of Telford: The Rise of Civil Engineering |
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... wrote Telford , ' and there will now be occasion for all his exertions , for besides the real labour that attends such a great public work , Contentions , jealousies and prejudices are stationed like gloomy sentinels from one extremity ...
... wrote Telford , ' and there will now be occasion for all his exertions , for besides the real labour that attends such a great public work , Contentions , jealousies and prejudices are stationed like gloomy sentinels from one extremity ...
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... wrote , ' It was on his able conduct , unwearied zeal and per- severance that the entire success of the improvements chiefly depended , '13 while of Hope he said , ' the result of his skill and integrity in managing the perplexities ...
... wrote , ' It was on his able conduct , unwearied zeal and per- severance that the entire success of the improvements chiefly depended , '13 while of Hope he said , ' the result of his skill and integrity in managing the perplexities ...
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... wrote to a correspondent , ' his present employment will certainly inure him to habits of business , a most im- portant object for a youth to acquire at an early period of life , it smooths his progress and renders employment and ...
... wrote to a correspondent , ' his present employment will certainly inure him to habits of business , a most im- portant object for a youth to acquire at an early period of life , it smooths his progress and renders employment and ...
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The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
First Highland Survey 1801Second Highland | 60 |
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