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Page vii
... trade of the locality prior to " It is first noticed by Richard of Cirencester , as the Roman station Bremenium ; and in Doomsday Book ( 1086 ) by the name of ' Berming- ham . ' Dugdale , who supposed the name to have been received from ...
... trade of the locality prior to " It is first noticed by Richard of Cirencester , as the Roman station Bremenium ; and in Doomsday Book ( 1086 ) by the name of ' Berming- ham . ' Dugdale , who supposed the name to have been received from ...
Page viii
... trade for which it con- tinued subsequently famous , though it has now been long extinct as characteristic of the place . St. Martin's Church is the only conspicuous vestige of antiquity left to us ; and though confessedly a very ...
... trade for which it con- tinued subsequently famous , though it has now been long extinct as characteristic of the place . St. Martin's Church is the only conspicuous vestige of antiquity left to us ; and though confessedly a very ...
Page xi
... trade , in which the town has ever since been unsurpassed , was established for the production of glittering trifles , in the shape of pouncets , pomanders , tags , étui - cases , and other appurte- nances of personal vanity . I have ...
... trade , in which the town has ever since been unsurpassed , was established for the production of glittering trifles , in the shape of pouncets , pomanders , tags , étui - cases , and other appurte- nances of personal vanity . I have ...
Page xii
... trade . " The revolution , " says Hutton , " was remarkable for the introduction of William , of liberty , and of the minute buckle , not differing much in size and shape from the horse - bean . This offspring of fancy , like the clouds ...
... trade . " The revolution , " says Hutton , " was remarkable for the introduction of William , of liberty , and of the minute buckle , not differing much in size and shape from the horse - bean . This offspring of fancy , like the clouds ...
Page xiii
... trade and population have more than quadrupled themselves . The entire aspect , as well of the suburbs as of the town , has changed ; more than a hundred miles of streets have stretched out into the fields and gardens in every direction ...
... trade and population have more than quadrupled themselves . The entire aspect , as well of the suburbs as of the town , has changed ; more than a hundred miles of streets have stretched out into the fields and gardens in every direction ...
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Page 272 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air...
Page 40 - Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create, And what perceive; well pleased to recognise In nature and the language of the sense, The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being.
Page 265 - America,* it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, — for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease and precision and ductility with which it can be varied, .distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend an oak is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of war like a bauble in the air.
Page 266 - And certainly no man ever bestowed such a gift on his kind. The blessing is not only universal, but unbounded ; and the fabled inventors of the plough and the loom, who were Deified by the erring gratitude of their rude contemporaries, conferred less important benefits on mankind than the inventor of our present steam-engine.
Page 219 - The vapors which gather round the rising sun, and follow it in its course, seldom fail, at the close of it, to form a magnificent theatre for its reception, and to invest with variegated tints, and with a softened effulgence, the luminary which they cannot hide Though I disapprove of his [Dr.
Page 274 - NYMPHS! you erewhile on simmering caldrons play'd, And call'd delighted Savery to your aid ; Bade round the youth explosive Steam aspire, In gathering clouds, and wing'd the wave with fire; Bade with cold streams the quick expansion stop, And sunk the immense of vapour to a drop. Press'd by the ponderous air the piston falls Resistless, sliding through its iron walls; Quick moves the balanced beam, of giant birth, Wields his large limbs, and nodding shakes the earth.
Page 265 - It would .be difficult to estimate the value of the benefits which these inventions have conferred upon the country. There is no branch of industry that has not been indebted to them ; and in all the most material, they have not only widened most magnificently the field of its exertions, but multiplied a thousandfold the amount of its productions.
Page 219 - ... or those who have opposed him, will be alike forgotten. Distinguished merit will ever rise superior to oppression, and will draw lustre from reproach. The vapours which gather round the rising sun, and follow it in its course, seldom fail at the close of it to form a magnificent theatre for its reception, and to invest with variegated tints, and with a softened effulgence, the luminary which they cannot hide...
Page 218 - I told her that she had never approached me without diffusing a ray of pleasure over the mind, except when any little disagreement had happened between us. She replied, " I can say more " than that. You never appeared in my sight, " even in anger, without that sight giving me
Page 259 - THE poet in a golden clime was born, With golden stars above ; Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.