Tube, Train, Tram, and Car: Or Up-to-date LocomotionG. Routledge & sons, Limited, 1903 - 291 páginas |
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Página 278 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ;w But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Página 281 - God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts, That can alone make sweet the bitter draught, That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in the fields and groves...
Página 143 - ... (b) As to the desirability of establishing some authority or tribunal to which all schemes of railway or tramway construction of a local character should be referred, and the powers which it would be advisable to confer upon such a body.
Página 111 - Our song and feast shall flow To the fame of your name, When the storm has ceased to blow; When the fiery fight is heard no more, And the storm has ceased to blow.
Página 142 - Commission deem most effectual for the improvement of the same by the development and inter-connection of railways and tramways on, or below, the surface, by increasing the facilities for other forms of mechanical locomotion ; by better provision for the organisation and regulation of vehicular and pedestrian traffic, or otherwise...
Página 74 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take: Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Página 286 - I see in part That all, as in some piece of art, Is toil cooperant to an end.
Página 105 - Bell's only answer was to walk, with rather a proud air, to the piano, and there she sat down and played a few bars. She would not speak ; but the well-known old air spoke for her, for it said, as plain as words could say,
Página 191 - The signal lanterns of Paul Revere displayed in the steeple of this church April 18, 1775, warned the country of the march of the British troops to Lexington and Concord.
Página 14 - Sprung, doubtless, from Abdallah's son, Thy miracles thy sire's outrun, Thy cures his deaths outnumber; His coffin soars 'twixt heav'n and earth, But thou, within that narrow birth, Immortal, ne'er shalt slumber. Go, bid that turban'd...