deformed beggars in every town,--quarrelling and fighting in the streets,--rows and drinkings at wa...
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said much and done little, --attempted nothing and consequently achieved nothing. He might have got...
build, on two wheels, were called "Faugh-a-ballagh," or "clear the way"; while the intermediate car...
travelling to about seven miles an hour, and the passengers were often obliged to walk up hills. Th...
estates in Tipperary. "On our way home, the carriage stopped to let me down and see the strange re...
less than 400,000 acres have been disused for this purpose.[3] Wheat can be bought better and cheap...
pilchard; they believe it to be an unlucky fish, and that it will rot the net that takes it. The Co...
and families upon the fruits of their labour--instead of living upon poor-rates levied from the lab...
skilled and ingenious persons, and extends the influence of learning and literature into all civili...
that the pipes must necessarily be intensely hot. When it was proposed to light the House of Common...
consultation with you, but have been prevented by sundry matters among others by that plaguey stove...
FREDERICK KOENIG: INVENTOR OF THE STEAM-PRINTING MACHINE. "The honest projector is he who, having b...
describing the history of his invention, "the first printing machine was completed exactly upon the...
attributed the invention to the Proprietors of The Times, though Mr. Walter himself had said that h...
printing in the office of Dodsley, the proprietor of the 'Annual Register.' He afterwards pursued t...