Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts, 第 10 卷 |
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... tunnels , shafts , pits , and mines ; to span torrents and ravines with bridges ; to construct chimneys that rival the loftiest spires and pyramids in height ; to climb mountains with roads and railways ; to sink wells to vast depths in ...
... tunnels , shafts , pits , and mines ; to span torrents and ravines with bridges ; to construct chimneys that rival the loftiest spires and pyramids in height ; to climb mountains with roads and railways ; to sink wells to vast depths in ...
第 10 頁
... tunnels , running in many parts for miles through mountains , and through the solid rock . In one part , the New Anio is said to have extended six miles and a half in one continued series of arches , many of them upwards of 100 feet ...
... tunnels , running in many parts for miles through mountains , and through the solid rock . In one part , the New Anio is said to have extended six miles and a half in one continued series of arches , many of them upwards of 100 feet ...
第 12 頁
... tunnel , 6975 feet long , through a mountain , and then by numerous aqueducts and tunnels to a reservoir near Glasgow , a distance of 25 miles . Vast schemes were put forth in 1866 for supplying London with water , either from the ...
... tunnel , 6975 feet long , through a mountain , and then by numerous aqueducts and tunnels to a reservoir near Glasgow , a distance of 25 miles . Vast schemes were put forth in 1866 for supplying London with water , either from the ...
第 15 頁
... tunnel , in some places as much as 12 feet high by 9 feet wide . The middle - level sewer , beginning at Kensal Green , passes through or near Kensington Park , Notting Hill , Bayswater Road , Oxford Street , Clerkenwell , and ...
... tunnel , in some places as much as 12 feet high by 9 feet wide . The middle - level sewer , beginning at Kensal Green , passes through or near Kensington Park , Notting Hill , Bayswater Road , Oxford Street , Clerkenwell , and ...
第 16 頁
... tunnels , twelve feet by nine for many miles of their length , are almost as smooth as dressed stone on their inner surfaces , and ( the engineer hopes ) almost as durable . The five great systems all running from west to east ...
... tunnels , twelve feet by nine for many miles of their length , are almost as smooth as dressed stone on their inner surfaces , and ( the engineer hopes ) almost as durable . The five great systems all running from west to east ...
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第 31 頁 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
第 26 頁 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
第 19 頁 - Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love; O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight; O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees; O'er ladies...
第 28 頁 - So may the outward shows be least themselves : The world is still deceiv'd with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text...
第 10 頁 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
第 2 頁 - Be absolute for death ; either death, or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life : — If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep : a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences, That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, Hourly afflict.
第 2 頁 - There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond, And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit ; As who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips let no dog bark...
第 28 頁 - Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor : For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich ; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
第 18 頁 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams...
第 1 頁 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.