A Guide to Some Aspects of English Social History, 1750-1859Columbia University, 1916 - 149 pages |
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A Guide to Some Aspects of English Social History, 1750-1859 Judith Blow Williams Affichage du livre entier - 1916 |
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Page 127 - TREATISE ON ROADS; Wherein the Principles on which Roads should be made are explained and illustrated by the Plans, Specifications, and Contracts made use of by Thomas Telford, Esq. on the Holy-head Road.
Page 151 - PARSLOE, Joseph.— Our Railways. Sketches, Historical and Descriptive. With Practical Information as to Fares and Rates, etc., and a Chapter on Railway Reform. Crown 8vo, 6s. PASCAL, Blaise.—Th& Thoughts of.
Page 116 - FREE TRADE AND PROTECTION: an Inquiry into the Causes which have retarded the general adoption of Free Trade since its introduction into England.
Page 108 - Free Trade, or an Inquiry into the Expediency of the present Corn Laws; the relations of our Foreign and Colonial Trade ; the advantages of our Navigation System ; the propriety of preventing Combinations among Workmen ; and the circumstances which occasion a derangement of the Currency. Comprising a general Investigation of the alterations lately adopted, and still further meditated, in the Commercial Policy of the Country. By Alexander M'Donnell, Esq.
Page 89 - An Inquiry into the Causes and Consequences of the Orders in Council, and an Examination of the Conduct of Great Britain towards the Neutral Commerce of America.
Page 135 - Canals, and boats of two to five feet wide, containing from two to five tons burthen. With a description of the Machinery for facilitating Conveyance by Water through the most Mountainous Countries, independent of Locks and Aqueducts...
Page 142 - Report to the directors of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, on the comparative merits of locomotive and fixed engines, as a moving power.
Page 136 - CANAL NAVIGATION,— On the Resistance of Water to the Passage of Boats upon Canals and other bodies of Water.
Page 98 - Practical Abridgment of the Custom and Excise Laws, relative to the Import, Export, and Coasting Trade of Great Britain and her Dependencies ; including Tables of the Duties, Drawbacks, Bounties, and Preminms.