London Society, Volume 37James Hogg, Florence Marryat William Clowes and Sons, 1880 |
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... Blackdike , Blackmires , Black- shaw , Swamp , and Harrowins are amongst the other distinctive ap- pellations which attach to locali- ties in and around Queensbury , and they sufficiently indicate the original nature of this half - moun ...
... Blackdike , Blackmires , Black- shaw , Swamp , and Harrowins are amongst the other distinctive ap- pellations which attach to locali- ties in and around Queensbury , and they sufficiently indicate the original nature of this half - moun ...
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... Black- dike , the site of a farmstead at Queensbury , which had been in his wife's family since the year 1779 . He was ... Blackdike Works - as a wild and reckless investment of capital ; but those who best understood Mr. Foster's ...
... Black- dike , the site of a farmstead at Queensbury , which had been in his wife's family since the year 1779 . He was ... Blackdike Works - as a wild and reckless investment of capital ; but those who best understood Mr. Foster's ...
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... Blackdike did not fail to keep his eye upon the experiments that were being made to improve the new loom , and when he saw that it could with safety and profit be adopted by him he was not slow in bringing it into operation in his own ...
... Blackdike did not fail to keep his eye upon the experiments that were being made to improve the new loom , and when he saw that it could with safety and profit be adopted by him he was not slow in bringing it into operation in his own ...
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... Black- dike Mills became one of the industrial wonders of the district . It was a period of great com- mercial depression when Mr. Wil- liam Foster assumed the position he was destined for so long a time to occupy at Blackdike . The ...
... Black- dike Mills became one of the industrial wonders of the district . It was a period of great com- mercial depression when Mr. Wil- liam Foster assumed the position he was destined for so long a time to occupy at Blackdike . The ...
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... Black- dike had much to do with the firm's success . At first sight , the inaccessibility of the concern would ... Blackdike Works were established ; but the country was busy with all manner of railway projects , and , although no ...
... Black- dike had much to do with the firm's success . At first sight , the inaccessibility of the concern would ... Blackdike Works were established ; but the country was busy with all manner of railway projects , and , although no ...
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Page 30 - Thou h'ast tasted of prosperity and adversity; thou knowest what it is to be banished thy native country, to be over-ruled as well as to rule and sit upon the throne; and being oppressed, thou hast reason to know how hateful the oppressor is both to God and man...
Page 390 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 489 - There are thousands of houses in England at this moment where wives, mothers, and children are dying of hunger. Now/ he said, ' when the first paroxysm of your grief is past, I would advise you to come with me and we will never rest till the Corn Law is repealed.
Page 56 - If time be heavy on your hands, Are there no beggars at your gate, Nor any poor about your lands ? Oh ! teach the orphan boy to read, Or teach the orphan girl to sew, Pray heaven for a human heart, And let the foolish yeoman go.
Page 156 - He is of necessity a miserable and useless man ; and he is so, even though he be clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day.
Page 138 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
Page 560 - Oh, -woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou.
Page 20 - These are the forgeries of jealousy : And never, since the middle summer's spring Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain, or by rushy brook, Or on the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.
Page 394 - ... discussion, the numbers were — For the Ministerial Address, 269 ; amendment, 360 — majority against the Government, 91. Ministers now resigned office, and on the 31st of the month Sir Robert Peel accepted her Majesty's commands to form a Ministry. Mr. Gladstone received from his leader the appointments of Vice-President of the Board of Trade and Master of the Mint. In appearing on the hustings at Newark...
Page 15 - O we will walk this world, Yoked in all exercise of noble end, And so thro' those dark gates across the wild That no man knows. Indeed I love thee : come, Yield thyself up : my hopes and thine are one : Accomplish thou my manhood and thyself; Lay thy sweet hands in mine and trust to me.