The Quarterly Review, Volume 289William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1951 |
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Page 501
... navvies , and the distinction is important . Between navvies and labourers there was a wide gulf . The navvy was the aristocrat , the expert . He was paid twice as much as the labourer , and he emphasised his superiority by the ...
... navvies , and the distinction is important . Between navvies and labourers there was a wide gulf . The navvy was the aristocrat , the expert . He was paid twice as much as the labourer , and he emphasised his superiority by the ...
Page 507
... navvies there , 32 had fatal and 140 non - fatal but severe accidents . Again , where Irish and Highlander navvies met there was always trouble , and that is why the scenes along the North British line were uglier than those anywhere ...
... navvies there , 32 had fatal and 140 non - fatal but severe accidents . Again , where Irish and Highlander navvies met there was always trouble , and that is why the scenes along the North British line were uglier than those anywhere ...
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... Navvy Mission in 1876. But the real hero of the various missions to navvies was undoubtedly a little , elderly Nonconformist minister who was sent by the Manchester City Mission to the navvies on the Settle and Carlisle line . He had a ...
... Navvy Mission in 1876. But the real hero of the various missions to navvies was undoubtedly a little , elderly Nonconformist minister who was sent by the Manchester City Mission to the navvies on the Settle and Carlisle line . He had a ...
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