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LIVES
of the
ENGINEERS.
THE LOCOMOTIVE.
GEORGE AND ROBERT STEPHENSON.
BY SAMUEL SMILES,
author of ‘character,’ ‘self-help,’ etc.
“Bid Harbours open, Public Ways extend;
Bid Temples, worthier of God, ascend;
Bid the broad Arch the dang’rous flood contain,
The Mole projected break the roaring main,
Back to his bounds their subject sea command,
And roll obedient rivers through the land.
These honours, Peace to happy Britain brings;
These are imperial works, and worthy kings.”Pope.
A NEW AND REVISED EDITION.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1879.
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