Northern Star and Yorkshire Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 1C. Bentham, 1817 |
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... remains of a tower , built of the whitest stone , and containing a large archway of early Norman architecture , overtopped by shrubs , and thrown into complete shade by the hanging wood on the left , its colour faintly bearing it out of ...
... remains of a tower , built of the whitest stone , and containing a large archway of early Norman architecture , overtopped by shrubs , and thrown into complete shade by the hanging wood on the left , its colour faintly bearing it out of ...
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... remains , cannot boast of a ruin superior to the vestiges of this Abbey , nor of one where the beauties of the architecture better assort with the surrounding scenery . Here every object that can please the eye , or interest the fancy ...
... remains , cannot boast of a ruin superior to the vestiges of this Abbey , nor of one where the beauties of the architecture better assort with the surrounding scenery . Here every object that can please the eye , or interest the fancy ...
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... remains . But I am not versed in the lore of antiquity , and the description of these relics of the times that are gone , is fitted for a stronger pen than mine . 66 The hand of cultivation has been extended to these wastes , and in a ...
... remains . But I am not versed in the lore of antiquity , and the description of these relics of the times that are gone , is fitted for a stronger pen than mine . 66 The hand of cultivation has been extended to these wastes , and in a ...
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... remains to be done . Independent of the sure improve- ments which time will produce , it wants the hand of taste to give a finish to its beauties . To the visitor it would be more accommodating were its roads levelled , and its walks ...
... remains to be done . Independent of the sure improve- ments which time will produce , it wants the hand of taste to give a finish to its beauties . To the visitor it would be more accommodating were its roads levelled , and its walks ...
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... remains of Conisbro ' Castle at about the distance of twelve miles , those of Tickhill about sixteen , and the venerable ruins of Roche Abbey within that of twenty miles . The neighbouring seats are , Campsall Hall , the Rev. Edward ...
... remains of Conisbro ' Castle at about the distance of twelve miles , those of Tickhill about sixteen , and the venerable ruins of Roche Abbey within that of twenty miles . The neighbouring seats are , Campsall Hall , the Rev. Edward ...
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Page 39 - When those difficult cases occur, they are difficult, chiefly, because, while we have them under consideration, all the reasons pro and con are not present to the mind at the same time ; but sometimes one set present themselves, and at other times another, the first being out of sight. Hence the various purposes or inclinations that alternately prevail, and the uncertainty that perplexes us.
Page 39 - ... consideration, I put down under the different heads short hints of the different motives, that at different times occur to me for or against the measure. When I have thus got them all together in one view, I...
Page 39 - I endeavor to estimate their respective weights; and where I find two, one on each side, that seem equal, I strike them both out: if I find a reason pro equal to some two reasons con, I strike out the three.
Page 39 - Then, during three or four days consideration, I put down under the different heads short hints of the different motives, that at different times occur to me, for or against the measure.
Page 23 - Every six days they call a founday, in which space they make eight tun of iron, if you divide the whole sum of iron made by the foundays : for at first they make less in a founday, at last more. The hearth by the force of the fire, continually blown, grows wider and wider, so that...
Page 39 - And, though the weight of reasons cannot be taken with the precision of algebraic quantities, yet when each is thus considered, separately and comparatively, and the whole lies before me, I think I can judge better, and am less liable to make a rash step, and in fact I have found great advantage from this kind of equation, in what may be called moral or prudential algebra.
Page 37 - Bqjador, was by that prince ordered to carry his prisoners back to Africa : he landed them at Rio del Oro, and received from the Moors in exchange, ten blacks, and a quantity of gold dust, with which he returned to Lisbon.
Page 24 - ... the hammer. Under which they, then removing it, and drawing a little water, beat it with the hammer very gently, which forces cinder and dross out of the matter ; afterwards, by degrees, drawing more water, they beat it thicker and stronger 'till they bring it to a bloom, which is a foursquare mass of about two feet long. This operation they call shingling the loop.
Page 48 - ... when observations have been making on the sun, to take notice of every cloud that interrupted the observation, almost as justly as they who could see it. He could tell when any thing was held near his face, or when he passed by a tree at no great distance, provided...
Page 23 - ... hours, more or less, and then it is run into a sow. The hearth, or bottom, of the furnace is made of a sand-stone, and the sides round, to the height of a yard or thereabout; the rest of the furnace is lined up to the top with brick.