The Quarterly Review, Volume 34William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1826 |
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... employed , the increase was entirely due to improved methods of manufacturing . The multi- plication by three , however , would give but a feeble idea of the power of machinery . In France , the fabrication of woollens was probably ...
... employed , the increase was entirely due to improved methods of manufacturing . The multi- plication by three , however , would give but a feeble idea of the power of machinery . In France , the fabrication of woollens was probably ...
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... employed to overcome early difficulties , and the very obstacles which , in the first instance , seem to forbid all indul- gence . But what constitutes the particularity of France is , that while she was tributary to England and ...
... employed to overcome early difficulties , and the very obstacles which , in the first instance , seem to forbid all indul- gence . But what constitutes the particularity of France is , that while she was tributary to England and ...
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... employed in England are equal to the force of 320,000 horses ( 1820 ) , and can raise 862,800,000 tons to the height of one metre in twenty - four hours . But 624,000,000 tons being less than three - fourths of this quantity , it ...
... employed in England are equal to the force of 320,000 horses ( 1820 ) , and can raise 862,800,000 tons to the height of one metre in twenty - four hours . But 624,000,000 tons being less than three - fourths of this quantity , it ...
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... employed in it . Hence the work now performed in this single branch would -half a century ago - have required 42,000,000 of men - accord- ing to some 53,000,000 ; that is to say , at the lowest computa- tion , more than twice as many ...
... employed in it . Hence the work now performed in this single branch would -half a century ago - have required 42,000,000 of men - accord- ing to some 53,000,000 ; that is to say , at the lowest computa- tion , more than twice as many ...
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... employed in the cotton manufac- tures alone , of England , exceeds the manufacturing powers of all the rest of Europe collectively . The population of this con- tinent does not amount to 200,000,000 , or to five times forty . Now one ...
... employed in the cotton manufac- tures alone , of England , exceeds the manufacturing powers of all the rest of Europe collectively . The population of this con- tinent does not amount to 200,000,000 , or to five times forty . Now one ...
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Page 154 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 90 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed; For each seemed either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on...
Page 354 - O God ! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea : and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips...
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