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... later life ever to have alluded to his efforts . And yet there is much worse poetry than his daily published and acclaimed . An early poem pub- lished in Ruddiman's Weekly Magazine in 1771 was addressed to Burns , whom he may at a later ...
... later life ever to have alluded to his efforts . And yet there is much worse poetry than his daily published and acclaimed . An early poem pub- lished in Ruddiman's Weekly Magazine in 1771 was addressed to Burns , whom he may at a later ...
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... later days . Parnell , who later became Lord Congleton , continued to be closely associated with him for the rest of Telford's life . An active and influential Whig - a member of the administration that failed to pass the first Reform ...
... later days . Parnell , who later became Lord Congleton , continued to be closely associated with him for the rest of Telford's life . An active and influential Whig - a member of the administration that failed to pass the first Reform ...
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... later , referred in his Presidential Address to the general indifference and definite hostility against which the ... ( later Sir Charles William ) Pasley , subse- quently Director of the Royal Engineering Academy at Chatham ; David ...
... later , referred in his Presidential Address to the general indifference and definite hostility against which the ... ( later Sir Charles William ) Pasley , subse- quently Director of the Royal Engineering Academy at Chatham ; David ...
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The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
First Highland Survey 1801Second Highland | 60 |
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