Annual Report, 20–22. köide1852 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 88
Page iii
... Miners ' Quadrant , by Mr. W. Wilton , St. Day 101 Improved Refrigerator , by Mr. J. Wilkins , Hayle 102 ...... Improved Lock for Sliding Pannels and Doors , by Mr. J. Lidstone ... Mines .... 122 ERRATA . Page XXIII . , line 2 , for.
... Miners ' Quadrant , by Mr. W. Wilton , St. Day 101 Improved Refrigerator , by Mr. J. Wilkins , Hayle 102 ...... Improved Lock for Sliding Pannels and Doors , by Mr. J. Lidstone ... Mines .... 122 ERRATA . Page XXIII . , line 2 , for.
Page ix
... Mines . Resolved , That the thanks of the Society be given to those Gentlemen who acted as a Committee of Arrangement at the last exhibition . Resolved , ―That the Premium offered by Capt . Richards in conjunction with the Society stand ...
... Mines . Resolved , That the thanks of the Society be given to those Gentlemen who acted as a Committee of Arrangement at the last exhibition . Resolved , ―That the Premium offered by Capt . Richards in conjunction with the Society stand ...
Page x
... Mines , London.- By Robert Hunt , Esq . Remarks on the City Smoke Prevention Act . - By W. Keld Whytehead , C.E. - By the Author . Lectures on the Great Exhibition , given before the Society of Arts , London . - From the Society ...
... Mines , London.- By Robert Hunt , Esq . Remarks on the City Smoke Prevention Act . - By W. Keld Whytehead , C.E. - By the Author . Lectures on the Great Exhibition , given before the Society of Arts , London . - From the Society ...
Page xii
... miners ' lamps and candles , and candle lamps for domestic use , which were sent to the exhibition by Mr. Edward Simons , of Birmingham , who kindly attended on one of the days of the exhibition and gave an able lecture on the various ...
... miners ' lamps and candles , and candle lamps for domestic use , which were sent to the exhibition by Mr. Edward Simons , of Birmingham , who kindly attended on one of the days of the exhibition and gave an able lecture on the various ...
Page xv
... mine and machinery by S. Hancock , a working man , as both novel and ingenious , and displaying an amount of perseverance and talent of no ordinary kind . With these brief remarks they present their report , and in doing so have no ...
... mine and machinery by S. Hancock , a working man , as both novel and ingenious , and displaying an amount of perseverance and talent of no ordinary kind . With these brief remarks they present their report , and in doing so have no ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Alfred Fox attached barley Bart birds Budock bottom Budock church Budock lane Bullmore's Camborne Capt Carne Caroline Fox Carrying spawn Charles Fox Charles Lemon China-clay China-stone clay Cocks College wood colour committee common corn Cornish Cornwall Devonport DISTRICT drawings eggs Enys exhibition Falmouth feet felspar field formed Fowey garden granite Gwyllyn-vase Hedge HELSTON improved inches insects Jago James JAMES GOODFELLOW John kaolin larvæ Linn Liskeard marsh means miners mines Miss observations old Penryn road Panscoth lane Pennance placed plentiful Polytechnic Society pool premium Price of wheat prize value Punnett quantity R. W. Fox rain rare Redruth Richard Richard Davey rocks Rogers Rundell scarce second bronze medal Selley's shaft silver medal small prize specimens stone Sulivan surface Swanpool temperature Trescobeas farm Tresidder Trevethan Treviskey Truro Tweedy uncommon ventilation Vigurs vulgaris Wheal Williams
Popular passages
Page 14 - For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram : once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
Page 15 - And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: ~] And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Page 15 - ... but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
Page 15 - And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Page 34 - But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still his master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone...
Page 29 - ... green meadows of England in autumn, for the myrtle and orange groves of Italy, and for the palms of Africa : he has always objects of pursuit, and his success is secure. Even the beings selected for his prey are poetical, beautiful, and transient.
Page 25 - So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, (If chance his mate's shrill call he hear,) And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy William's lip those kisses sweet.
Page 29 - He is the joyous prophet of the year — the harbinger of the best season: he lives a life of enjoyment amongst the loveliest forms of nature : winter is unknown to him; and he leaves the green meadows of England in autumn, for the myrtle and orange groves of Italy, and for the palms of Africa: — he has always objects of pursuit, and his success is secure.
Page 58 - I have counted above 10,000,000), so subtile (they are scarcely visible to the naked eye, and often resemble thin smoke), so light (raised, perhaps, by evaporation into the atmosphere), and are dispersed in so many ways (by the attraction of the sun, by insects, wind, elasticity, adhesion, &c.), that it is difficult to conceive a place from which they can be excluded.
Page 56 - May at times, when the wild products of the field are nearly consumed, the ivy ripens its berries, and...