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The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… Business improving a little with us. 2. Went errands, went on with map, altered diagram etc. Fine. 3. Finished map, went to Gas Inspectors, drew letters on railway map, cut up wood etc. There has just been opened … equal. It stands for the present and future ages to admire or envy. The ornament under the grand entrance of the …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… Jan. 1. 1858. Cut up wood, put figures in block, on with Peterboro' Cathedral, etc. Fine. This last year has … on my hands, for when they begin to itch I cannot work or do anything else. 28. Went on with Louvre, out errands, … the occasion. 'How well does he recall the breathless interest and curiosity of the congregation ... at one …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… London Diary, January-June 1859 1. January. 1859. Went on with alphabet, out errands etc. The new Portsmouth Railway … out errands, stamped blocks etc. Oh, what a world it is. Or at least what a strange world of creatures we are. My … tickets with his own hand and appears to take some little interest in the affair. Very fine. My mother went down today …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… and were going to destroy them, but 2 of them exploded on the poop of a ship, severely wounding Admiral Seymour and … their opponents crow the more, with joy at it. 6. Went on with the 'work table,' cut up wood. No news. Very fine … Russia instead of the Western powers as before. Nothing or next to nothing has been done in Parliament because it is …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… 'shearing machine' and fish. No news. My uncle John came on a visit to us today. Fine day, very nice and cool. 4. Drew … are going to make a triumphal? procession through London, or at least so say the papers! They are to be headed by the … what he was saying, but just as the climax was reached the interest was excited to hear, he suddenly dropt his voice and …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… stay there. The enquiry into the causes of the accident on the North Kent Railway still goes on, and from it there … was of a young lady poisoning her young man. But after 7 or 8 days' investigation, the jury have acquitted Miss … we shall be able to pay back (although not possibly with interest) the debt we owe to the sepoys, the wretches. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… the name, in the Celtic language, signifies a village or small town on an arm of the sea, appears to have been originally … in which about 300 children are taught. The poor have the interest of bequests producing 18 per annum. The principal …
A History of the County of Northampton
… some 2,321 acres 37 in the extreme south of Cleley hundred on the north bank of the Great Ouse, which here forms the … 40 by the union of two previously separate parishes, Wick (or Wyke) Dive and Wick Hamon, which were already distinct … 69 and appear also to have acquired the Lucys' life interest. 70 Woodville, by then Lord Rivers, had a grant of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… used in 1897 to build of brick, by public subscription, on the same 1/2-rood site the Diamond Jubilee Almshouses, … the last of his family, left £10 to Wicken's poor, the interest to be given on Midlent Sunday. 18 Other 17th-century … In 1994-5, when two dwellings were vacant, new grants and loans, with £7,500 of charity capital, permitted the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the mortmain law, her trustees paid c. £40, as 4 per cent interest, to the school until c. 1870, when those … youths to read and write, besides geography, in 1866. 87 On Government insistence the school was reconstructed, the …