Trip to the far west [of England.].Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1840 - 192 páginas |
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... iron water - tight bulk - heads , as quoted in the Times of 4th of October , 1839 .--- " A desire to lessen or prevent those accidents to which ships are liable at sea , has long engaged the labours and at- tention of humane and ...
... iron water - tight bulk - heads , as quoted in the Times of 4th of October , 1839 .--- " A desire to lessen or prevent those accidents to which ships are liable at sea , has long engaged the labours and at- tention of humane and ...
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... iron wedges , which are driven into the surface of the rock . Several men work at once , hammering the wedges ; when , after repeated blows , the granitic mass is severed , and , generally , is cut off in a tolerably straight line . The ...
... iron wedges , which are driven into the surface of the rock . Several men work at once , hammering the wedges ; when , after repeated blows , the granitic mass is severed , and , generally , is cut off in a tolerably straight line . The ...
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... iron being so bent , that this triangle and the wooden handle form an obtuse angle of about ten degrees . The shovel is the same shape , but the iron - work is thinner , and wider . This Cornish spade or shovel seems the uni- versal ...
... iron being so bent , that this triangle and the wooden handle form an obtuse angle of about ten degrees . The shovel is the same shape , but the iron - work is thinner , and wider . This Cornish spade or shovel seems the uni- versal ...
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... iron- triangle , that is indispensable ; the soil being shallow , and having an uneven granitic bottom , a square - ended London spade would meet much more resistance ; whilst the acute angle of the Cornish spade easily pierces the soil ...
... iron- triangle , that is indispensable ; the soil being shallow , and having an uneven granitic bottom , a square - ended London spade would meet much more resistance ; whilst the acute angle of the Cornish spade easily pierces the soil ...
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... iron chain attached to it , by which it is connected with the supporting column . There are also two wooden blocks beneath the lower end , to prevent over - much vi- bration the shaking ( or logging ) being easily producible , by ...
... iron chain attached to it , by which it is connected with the supporting column . There are also two wooden blocks beneath the lower end , to prevent over - much vi- bration the shaking ( or logging ) being easily producible , by ...
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adorned Austin Austle battery beautiful beneath bottom Breage bucket Buddle called captain Carclaze chapel CHAPTER Christian church circumjacent Cornish Cornwall deck descended distant east eastern engine England entered Ethelbert Falmouth feet long furnace gentleman granite half handsome harbour heath Helston Hennah houses inches iron Kent labour land Land's End Launceston Liskeard Lizard Point lodes lofty hills Logan Rock London look Lostwithiel Marazion Mawes metal Michael miners mines mount Edgecumbe Mount St night passed passengers pearance Pendennis Castle Penglase Penryn Penzance picturesque Plymouth port pretty promontory pulverized quay reached Reculver retired rise river Fal road route Royal Adelaide Ruan Lanihorne scene scenery Sennon shewed ship shore side soon Stampers stands steep stone stream tower town Tregony Trenery vessel visited walked wall western Wheal wheel wherry whilst wide wine wood wreck yard
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Página 63 - Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. 7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
Página 64 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.
Página 95 - Lo ! on a narrow neck of land, 'Twixt two unbounded seas I stand Secure, insensible ; A point of time, a moment's space Removes me to that heavenly place, Or shuts me up in hell.
Página 87 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures...
Página 59 - But the kind hosts their entertainment grace With hearty welcome, and an open face : In all they did, you might discern with ease A willing mind, and a desire to please.
Página 126 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Página 101 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Página 22 - Besides, this division fell so well in with the business of the several parts of the vessel as to give it at once precedence. The centre section would then be occupied by the engine, boiler, and coalbunkers ; thus detaching them entirely from all other parts of the vessel. The sections, Nos. 2 and 4, would be the fore and after holds, or, in case of passengers...
Página 66 - Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale; Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good.
Página 22 - ... considered impossible), there can be no danger of submersion : and experience has proved, that a very small addition of buoyancy would prevent a vessel from sinking after it had been so immersed that the deck was on a level with the surface of the sea. Now, this improvement in the construction of steamers is not brought forward as an ingenious theory, or a matter of unascertained efficiency ; I merely submit, for general information, what in practice is adopted by the Dublin...