 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - 602 стор.
...locks will attain your object; but the improvement of harbours, and of drainage by rivers, depends on management and direction of natural causes and effects: in which, I may say, observation had been so torpid, that till twenty years since, much more harm than good had been the result of interference.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - 666 стор.
...locks will attain your object; but the improvement of harbours, and of drainage by rivers, depends on management and direction of natural causes and effects : in which, I may say, observation had been so torpid, that till twenty years since, much more harm than good had been the result of interference.... | |
 | John White - 1840 - 100 стор.
...locks will attain your object; but the improvement of harbours, and of drainage by weirs, depends on management and direction of natural causes and effects,...till twenty years since, much more harm than good Eas been the result of interference. All the reports of Mr. Smeaton, and some made scarcely sixteen... | |
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management and direction of natural causes and effects; in which, I may say, observation has been so torpid, that till twenty years since, much more harm than good had been the result of interference. All the reports of Mr. Smeaton, and some made scarcely... 