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England XXXII Potland England
And it was repeated before the Royal College of Art, London, The Corporation of Bradford and the British Architectural Association, London, etc. chapter LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Building the Public Buildings, Philadelphia I The New House, Philadelphia II The Manufacturers' Club and Stock Exchange, Philadelphia III Oil Refining, Point Breeze, Philadelphia IV Oil Wells, Alberta, British Columbia V Steel at Gary, Indiana VI The Jaws, Chicago VII Stock Yards, Chicago VIII Under the Bridges, Chicago IX The Cambria Steel Works, Johnstown X Pittsburgh, No. 3 XI Edgar Thomson Steel Works, Pittsburgh XII On the Way to Bessemer XIII Carnegie's Works, Homestead XIV Coal Breakers, Shenandoah XV Work Castles, Wilkes-Barre XVI Building a Power-house, Niagara XVII Building a Skyscraper, Night, New York XVIII Building the Woolworth Building, New York XIX Butte, Montana, on its Mountain Top XX Anaconda, Montana XXI Approach to Duluth, the Land of Work and Beauty XXII Ore Wharves, Duluth XXIII Ore Mines, Hibbing XXIV Flour Mills, Minneapolis XXV The Incline, Cincinnati XXVI Victor Emmanuel Monument at Rome XXVII Rebuilding the Campanile, Venice XXVIII Return from Work, Carrara, Italy XXIX The New Bay of Baie, Italy XXX The Harbor at Genoa, Italy XXXI The Great White Cloud, Leeds, England XXXII Potland, England XXXIII The River of Work, Leeds, England XXXIV
— from Joseph Pennell's Pictures of the Wonder of Work Reproductions of a Series of Drawings, Etchings, and Lithographs, Made by Him about the World, 1881-1915, with Impressions and Notes by the Artist by Joseph Pennell

et X palfridos et
Cestriæ debet D marcas et X palfridos et X laissas Leporariorum, &c. that is, five hundred marks, ten horses, and ten leashes of greyhounds.—An.
— from The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Joseph Strutt

Ed xxiii PRELIMINARY ESSAY
We revert to the author's first plan, substituting the name Coleridge for "Editor."— Ed. {xxiii} PRELIMINARY ESSAY.
— from Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

EMBRANDT X P ETER
IN THE N ORTH IX R EMBRANDT X P ETER DE H OOGH AND C UYP XI V AN D YCK XII V ELASQUEZ XIII R EYNOLDS AND THE E IGHTEENTH C ENTURY XIV T URNER XV T HE N INETEENTH C ENTURY INDEX LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS I N THE C OLOURS OF THE O RIGINAL P AINTINGS
— from The Book of Art for Young People by Conway, William Martin, Sir


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