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... he is honesty and good nature itself and has been working all this time a common Journeyman contented with a few shillings pr week more than the rest - indeed he is ador'd by both His Master and fellow workmen , but I believe your ...
... he is honesty and good nature itself and has been working all this time a common Journeyman contented with a few shillings pr week more than the rest - indeed he is ador'd by both His Master and fellow workmen , but I believe your ...
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But what was want of wealth to thee , Whose bold capacious mind , In native independence free , By Nature was design'd . For as Ben Lomond I o'er our hills , In towering grandeur stands , And lochs and rivers sees like rills ...
But what was want of wealth to thee , Whose bold capacious mind , In native independence free , By Nature was design'd . For as Ben Lomond I o'er our hills , In towering grandeur stands , And lochs and rivers sees like rills ...
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Fullest of matter without verbosity , ' was Lamb's description , and ' Manners like the husk of a cocoa nut , ' said Southey , ' but his inner nature like the milk within . ' With Telford he formed a close bond of union and to their ...
Fullest of matter without verbosity , ' was Lamb's description , and ' Manners like the husk of a cocoa nut , ' said Southey , ' but his inner nature like the milk within . ' With Telford he formed a close bond of union and to their ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
First Highland Survey 1801Second Highland | 60 |
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