Memoir of the Life of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel: Civil Engineer, Vice-president of the Royal Society, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, Etc. ...Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 - 359 páginas Covering the whole of Marc Isambard Brunel's life, the chapters of this memoir include Insurrection in St. Domingo; Miss Kingdom imprisoned; and Brunel's claims to be the author of the block machinery vindicated. The full range of his inventions and works are covered as well as his personal life. |
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Memoir of the Life of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel: Civil Engineer, Vice ... Richard Beamish Visualização integral - 1862 |
Memoir of the Life of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel: Civil Engineer, Vice ... Richard Beamish Visualização integral - 1862 |
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Página 95 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Página 88 - Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home ; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour, or to devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary or memory have its full fraught : then with useful and generous labours preserving the body's health and hardiness to render lightsome^...
Página 42 - ... persons and society; but he that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows; and blessing itself cannot make him happy: so that all the commandments of God enjoining a man to " love his wife," are nothing but so many necessities and capacities of joy. " She that is loved is safe; and he that loves is joyful.
Página 312 - Je suis jeune, il est vrai; mais aux âmes bien nées La valeur n'attend point le nombre des années.
Página 348 - In the blue lake the sky, o'er-reaching far, Is hollowed out, and the moon dips her horn, And twinkles many a star. Inverted in the tide Stand the gray rocks, and trembling shadows throw, And the fair trees look over, side by side, And see themselves below. Sweet April ! many a thought Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed ; Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought, Life's golden fruit is shed.
Página 262 - Brunei had no alternative but to abandon himself to the tremendous wave, which, in a few seconds, bore him on its seething and angry surface to the top of the shaft. With such force, indeed, did the water rise, that it jumped over the curb at the workmen's entrance. Three men who, finding the staircase choked, endeavoured to ascend a long ladder which lay against the shaft, were swept under the arch by the recoil of the wave. The ladder and the lower flight of the staircase were broken to pieces....
Página 22 - ... their burning habitations. They almost all took refuge in the United States, where they were received with the most generous hospitality ; but the frigate La Fine foundered on the passage, and five hundred of the survivors from the flames perished in the waves. 16. Thus fell the queen of the Antilles, the most stately monument of European opulence that had yet arisen in the New World.
Página 207 - ... destroyer of timber — the Teredo navalis. He examined the perforations, and afterwards the animal. He found it armed with a pair of strong shelly valves which enveloped its anterior integuments, and that, with its foot as a fulcrum, a rotatory motion was given by powerful muscles to the valves, which, acting on the wood like an auger, penetrated gradually but surely, and that as the particles were removed, they were passed through a longitudinal fissure in the foot, which formed a canal to...
Página 262 - ... who had succeeded in placing themselves out of danger, forgetful of their less fortunate companions, stopped and blocked up the passage. Unable to make his way into the west arch and to the visitors' staircase, which was quite clear, owing to the rapidity with which the water rose, Isambard Brunei had no alternative but to abandon himself to the tremendous wave, which, in a few seconds, bore him on its seething and angry surface to the top of the shaft. With such force, indeed, did the water...