 | William Grimshaw - 1829 - 314 pages
...made rivers navigable for the purposes of commerce; and projected a canal, which would have opened a communication between the German Ocean and the Black Sea, by uniting the Danube with the Rhine; a noble project, which failed in the execution, for want of adequate machines.... | |
 | William Russell - 1839 - 582 pages
...rivers navigable, for the purpose of commerce ; and to project that grand canal, which would have opened a communication between the German Ocean and the Black Sea, by uniting the Danube and the Rhine.^3) This illustrious project failed in the execution, for want of those machines... | |
 | 1839 - 568 pages
...and the improvement of his people still more, he formed the magnificent project of opening a direct communication between the German ocean and the Black sea, by uniting the waters of the Danube and the Rhine. Unhappily, the low state of scientific attainment and skill at... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1842 - 820 pages
...rivers navigable for the purposes of commerce ; and to project that grand canal which would have opened a communication between the German Ocean and the Black Sea, by uniting the Danube and the Rhine." Amidst ail his greatness, his personal habits were simple ; his dress was of... | |
 | W. O. Blake - 1856 - 1016 pages
...rivers navigable for the purposes of commerce ; and to project that grand canal which would have opened a communication between the German Ocean and the Black Sea, by uniting the Danube and the Rhine.' Amidst all his greatness, his personal habits were simple ; his dress was of... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 702 pages
...and formed public roads, built bridges, made rivers navigable, and projected a grand canal to open a communication between the German Ocean and the Black Sea, by uniting the Danube and the Rhine. This great prince was no less amiable in private life than illustrious in his... | |
 | William Chambers - 1857 - 824 pages
...rivers navigable for the purposes of commerce; and to project that grand canal which would have opened a communication between the German Ocean and the Black Sea, by uniting the Danube and the Rhine.' Amidst all his greatness, his personal habits were simple; his dress was of... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - 1898 - 422 pages
...Ludwig. LUDWIGSLUST, in Mecklenburg -Schwerin, was a hunting seat erected by Duke Christian Ludwig n. in 1756. LUDWIGHAFEN, on the Lake of Constance, bears...communi•cation between the German Ocean and the Black Sea, by uniiing the Main, a tributary of the Rhine, with the Altmuhl, a tributary of the Danube. LUDWIGHÖHE,... | |
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... manifested a particular regard for the common people, and studied their ease and advantage. The same love of mankind led him to repair and form public roads ; to build bridges where necessary ; to make rivers navigable for the purposes of commerce;... 