The Quarterly Review, Volume 120John Murray, 1866 - English literature |
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Page 73
Under the common name of iron are included virtually distinct metals , which in
external characters differ far more from each other than many chemically distinct
metals . Without carbon the manifold uses of iron would be greatly restricted ; and
...
Under the common name of iron are included virtually distinct metals , which in
external characters differ far more from each other than many chemically distinct
metals . Without carbon the manifold uses of iron would be greatly restricted ; and
...
Page 76
... considerably earlier . The fact of iron having been applied to common hammer
- heads , for which bronze might have proved a tolerably good substitute ,
indicates that iron was certainly as cheap , if not cheaper , in those days than
bronze ...
... considerably earlier . The fact of iron having been applied to common hammer
- heads , for which bronze might have proved a tolerably good substitute ,
indicates that iron was certainly as cheap , if not cheaper , in those days than
bronze ...
Page 77
In the neighbourhood of Lanchester the process seems to have been carried on
very extensively . On the division of the common , two large heaps were removed
, the one containing about 400 cartloads of iron slag , the other 600. It was used ...
In the neighbourhood of Lanchester the process seems to have been carried on
very extensively . On the division of the common , two large heaps were removed
, the one containing about 400 cartloads of iron slag , the other 600. It was used ...
Page 80
The former , as early as 1766 , converted pig - iron into malleable iron in the
reverberatory furnace without the addition of anything more than common raw pit
- coal ; and the latter , in 1783 , employed a puddlingfurnace , the fire of which
was ...
The former , as early as 1766 , converted pig - iron into malleable iron in the
reverberatory furnace without the addition of anything more than common raw pit
- coal ; and the latter , in 1783 , employed a puddlingfurnace , the fire of which
was ...
Page 107
He could not inform his faces with mind and heart , or invest his figures with grace
and dignity , or impart poetic sentiment to incidents from common life , or thrill the
spectator with the magical effects of composition and colour . Hogarth , who ...
He could not inform his faces with mind and heart , or invest his figures with grace
and dignity , or impart poetic sentiment to incidents from common life , or thrill the
spectator with the magical effects of composition and colour . Hogarth , who ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 120 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Sir John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1866 |
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