Arkansas know what to ship — we should have a steady market and regular supply. This argument we have heard used by grave persons of reputed common sense, but to us it seems the most notorious and superficial nonsense ; and the only thing that can be... The London Quarterly Review - Page 1691846Full view - About this book
| Charles Tomlinson - 1850 - 276 pages
...the fan in the ventilation of buildings ; but it appears to be in every respect an inferior machine. The only thing that can be said in its favour is, that it is entirely self-acting, requiring no power to set it in motion, * Ure, Philosophical Transactions.... | |
| 1857 - 500 pages
...with the table, the name of an ancient vicar, which had previously been emblazoned on the reading-pew. The only thing that can be said in its favour is, that it is an improvement on the old system ; but when restorations, however humble, are carried out, great... | |
| Charles Tomlinson - 1858 - 312 pages
...the fan in the ventilation of buildings; but it appears to be in every respect an inferior machine. The only thing that can be said in its favour is, that it is entirely self-acting, requiring no power to set it in motion, * Ure, Philosophical Transactions.... | |
| William Reid (wool-broker.) - 1871 - 202 pages
...drains. By this process of drying the soil there is a great amount of valuable pasture land wasted ; and the only thing that can be said in its favour is its cheapness and easy adaptability to the most inaccessible places in the highest hills. There cannot... | |
| Albert Barnes Moss - 1881 - 324 pages
...whose name it bears. Several rebuildings have taken place since that time — the last being in 1778. The only thing that can be said in its favour is that it is commodious. As for grace — of course architectural grace — it has none. It is a large redstone... | |
| Francis Cotterell Hodgson - 1913 - 464 pages
...Hawkins's Anecdotes, etc., I, pp. 26-7. of Literature. It is, as I have said, quite unreadable now, and the only thing that can be said in its favour is that it has a good deal of the smoothness of Pope's versif1cation without any of the venom of his satire. There... | |
| 1913 - 346 pages
...consisting of a sort of screen hanging loosely outside the lower portion of each wheel, is very ineffective. The only thing that can be said in its favour is that it swings out of the way and does not, as a rule, break itself up when the 'bus rubs along the edge of... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1921 - 778 pages
...cousin, the louse, 'is a beastly Creature and known better in Times and Armies than it is Wellcome,' and the only thing that can be said in its favour is that in medieval times, when godliness and cleanliness were at opposite poles, it kept good company, being... | |
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