The official illustrated guide to the North-western railwayA. Hall, 1859 - 761 páginas |
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Página 448 - But it may be that I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of goodwill in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labour and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.
Página 8 - ... any gale of wind which would affect the traffic on the Mersey would render it impossible to set off a locomotive engine, either by poking of the fire, or keeping up the pressure of the steam till the boiler was ready to burst.
Página 104 - Every person knows the manifold uses of this truly precious metal. It is capable of being cast in moulds of any form; of being drawn out into wires of any desired strength or fineness ; of being extended into plates or sheets ; of being bent in every direction ; of being sharpened, hardened, and softened at pleasure.
Página 184 - My bellows, too, have lost their wind; . My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid. My coal is spent, my iron's gone, My nails are drove, my work is done ; My fire-dried corpse lies here at rest, And, smoke-like, soars up to be bless'd.
Página 184 - My bellows, too, have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid ; My coal is spent, my iron gone, My nails are drove, my work is done.
Página 104 - ... the needle, the graver, the spring of a watch or of a carriage, the chisel, the chain, the anchor, the compass, the cannon, and the bomb. It is a medicine of much virtue, and the only metal friendly to the human frame.
Página 90 - European languages," the other for "erecting a building for the reception of the Pomfret statues belonging to the University of Oxford, and for paintings, engravings, and other curiosities, which may occasionally be left to that learned body.
Página 410 - ... core, as its name denotes, is a part or portion situated within the body of the cast ; and its purpose is to form a centre to the work by Which the thickness or substance of the metal may be regulated. In coring, the mould is first made complete ; into this, clay or wax, or any other fit substance or material, is then squeezed or pressed in a layer of uniform thickness ; in large works it is usually from half an inch to an inch thick. This layer represents the metal. The mould, if in parts, is...
Página 144 - ... quarterings of Lord Leycester's Arms, separately emblazoned, as displayed on his own and on that of his son's monument in the Beauchamp Chapel, with the Sidney arms added, along with the bear and ragged staff and the porcupine, the former Lord Leycester's and the latter the Sidney's crest.
Página 507 - If I were capable of painting in words the impression Liverpool made on my imagination, it would form a beautiful picture indeed ! I had before often been at the principal seaports in this island ; and believing that, having seen Bristol, and those other towns that...