 | 1813 - 670 pages
...the bottom of the impost down stream, which makes a fall of fire feet, and it was »o« " IX, • F ' All our honours are now in the dust! • It cannot now be said, that ifl the course of thirty years practice, and engaged in some of the most diflicult enterprises, not... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1815 - 574 pages
...expressive of his feelings, that we make no apology for giving it at length: ' To Mr. PlCKEBKELL. • All our honours are now in the dust! It cannot now...practice, and engaged in some of the most difficult enterprizes, not one of Smeaton's works ha*failed: Hexham bridge is a melancholy witness to the contrary... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Engineers - 1861 - 544 pages
...lay a wreck in the i See eugraving at p. 2. bottom of the river. Writing to Pickernell, he said,— " All our honours are now in the dust! It cannot now...Smeaton's works has failed! Hexham Bridge is a melancholy instance to the contrary." Thus the same engineer who had founded a lighthouse far out at sea, so firmly... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Engineers - 1861 - 540 pages
...a wreck in the 1 Sec engraving al p. ?. bottom of the river. Writing to Pickernell, he said, — " All our honours are now in the dust ! It cannot now...the course of thirty years' practice, and engaged iu some of the most difficult enterprises, not one of Smeaton's works has failed ! Ilexham Bridge is... | |
 | John Smeaton (F.R.S., Civil Engineer.) - Chromolithography - 1876 - 134 pages
...beautiful Hexham Bridge lay in ruin at the bottom of the Tyne. Writing to his engineer, he said : — " All our honours are now in the dust ! It cannot now...that in the course of thirty years' practice, and [after being] engaged in some of the most difficult enterprises, not one of Smeaton's works has failed... | |
 | Arthur Percy Morris Fleming, Harold John Brocklehurst - Technology & Engineering - 1925 - 330 pages
...river surge, demolished the bridge. Writing to his resident engineer, Mr. Pickernell, Smeaton said: "All our honours are now in the dust ! It cannot now...Smeaton's works has failed ! Hexham Bridge is a melancholy instance to the contrary." Later he added: " The news came to me like a thunderbolt, as it was a stroke... | |
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All our honours are now in the dust! It cannot now be said that in the course of thirty years' practice, and engaged in some of the most difficult enterprises, not one of Smeaton's works has failed! Hexham Bridge is a melancholy instance to the contrary. 