Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 49

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Pagina 305 - It is better, on this account, in graduating the bottle, to make two scratches as represented in the drawing, one at the top and the other at the bottom of the curve : this prevents any future mistake.
Pagina 106 - Well then, quoth Master More, how say you in this matter ? What think ye to be the cause of these shelves and flats that stop up Sandwich haven ? Forsooth, Sir, quoth he, I am an old man ; I think that Tenterton steeple is the cause of Goodwin sands. For I am an old man, Sir...
Pagina 241 - During this contest the degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon him by the university of...
Pagina 121 - Goodwin's sands. And now the old man had told a rational tale, had he found but the due favour to finish it. and thus, sometimes, that is causelessly accounted ignorance of the speaker, which is nothing but impatience in the auditors, unwilling to attend to the end of the discourse.
Pagina 106 - More saw this aged man, he thought it expedient to hear him say his mind in this matter, for being so old a man it was likely that he knew most of any man in that presence and company. So Master More called this old aged man unto him and said,
Pagina 106 - Sir, quoth he, and I may remember the building of Tenterton steeple, and I may remember when there was no steeple at all there. And before that Tenterton steeple was in building, there was no manner of speaking of any flats or sands that stopped the haven ; and therefore I think that Tenterton steeple is the cause of the destroying and decay of Sandwich haven.
Pagina 106 - Ye are the eldest man that I can espy in all this company, so that if any man can tell any cause of it, ye of likelihood can say most in it; or at leastwise more than any other man here assembled.
Pagina 121 - Hereupon all heartily laughed at his unlogical reason, making that the effect in Nature, which was only the consequent in time ; not flowing from, but following after, the building of that steeple. But one story is good till another is heard. Though this be all whereon this proverb is generally grounded, I met since with a supplement thereunto. It is this. Time out of mind money was constantly collected out of this county to fence the east banks thereof against the eruption of the seas ; and such...
Pagina 106 - Among others, came in before him an old man with a white head, and one that was thought to be little less than an hundred years old.
Pagina 106 - Master More was once sent in commission into Kent, to help to try out (if it might be) what was the cause of Goodwin Sands, and the shelf that stopped up Sandwich Haven. Thither cometh...

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