 | Thousand notable things - 1822 - 604 pages
...one day's work. And I may boldly call it THE MOST STUPENDOUS WORK IN THE WHOLE WORLD : not only With little charge to drain all sorts of mines, and furnish...•with water, though never so high seated, as well to keep them sweet, running through several streets, and so performing the work of scavengers, as well... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 576 pages
...feet diameter. And I may boldly call it, the most stupendous work in the whole world: not only with little charge to drain all sorts of mines, and furnish...cities with water, though never so high seated, as well to keep them sweet, running through several streets, and so performing the work of scavengers, as well... | |
 | 1825 - 490 pages
...cilies with water, though never so high seated, as well to keep them tweet, running through sercral streets, and so performing the work of scavengers, as well as furnishing Ihc inhabitants with sufficient water for Aeir private occasions ; but lifceWJM Mipnlying rivers with... | |
 | Robert Stuart - 1829 - 510 pages
...work ; and I may boldly call it the most tlupendiurus work in the whole world : and not onely with little charge to drain all sorts of mines, and furnish...with sufficient water for their private occasions ; but likewise supplying rivers with sufficient to maintaine and make them portable from towne to towne,... | |
 | Robert Stuart - 1829 - 550 pages
...work ; and I may boldly call it the most ilupendtunts work in the whole world : and not onely with little charge to drain all sorts of mines, and furnish...the work of scavengers, as well as furnishing the inhabitaats with sufficient water for their private occasions ; but likewise supplying rivers with... | |
 | 1833 - 426 pages
...one's day-work,* and I may boldly call it the most stupendous work in the whole world ; not only, with little charge, to drain all sorts of mines, and furnish...cities with water, though never so high seated, as well to keep them sweet, running through several streets, and so performing the work of scavengers, as well... | |
 | John Scott Russell - 1841 - 422 pages
...day's work ; and I may boldly call it the most stupendous work in the whole world ; and not only with little charge to drain all sorts of mines, and furnish...with sufficient water for their private occasions, but likewise supply rivers with sufficient to maintaine and make them portable from towne to towne,... | |
 | 1837 - 800 pages
...one day's work. And I may boldly call it the most itupendotu mark in the whole world ; not only with little charge to drain all sorts of mines, and furnish...cities with water, though never so high seated, as well to keep them sweet, running through several streets, and so performing the work of scavengers, as well... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - 1842 - 612 pages
...day's work ; and I may boldly call it the most stupendous work in the whole world : not only, with little charge, to drain all sorts of mines, and furnish...with sufficient water for their private occasions ; but likewise supplying rivers with sufficient to maintain and make them portable from town to town,... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - 1842 - 608 pages
...one day's work; and I may boldly call it the most stupendous work in the whole world : not only, with little charge, to drain all sorts of mines, and furnish...with sufficient water for their private occasions ; but likewise supplying rivers with sufficient to maintain and make them portable from town to town,... | |
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... to keep them sweet, running through several streets, and so performing the work of scavengers, as well as furnishing the inhabitants with sufficient water for their private occasions... 
