 | 1838 - 278 pages
...Maiming1:! Surrey, vol. ,'i, p. 4S9. ** Geot. Mag. lain, part II. p. 12. lo holding a dial. of it : ' Sir Samuel Morland's well, the use of which he freely...passenger, or poor thirsty beggar. July 8, 1695.' * * * * " But Morland's principal claims to the notice of posterity are his writings and mechanical... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1922 - 1124 pages
...adventure to incur God's displeasure by denying a cup of cold waU'r (provided at another's cost and not of their own) to either neighbour, stranger, passenger, or poor thirsty beggar. July 8th, 1G8S. Sir Samuel Morland's house and garden were on the eastern side of the creek where Stamford... | |
 | John Timbs - Discoveries in science - 1860 - 432 pages
...fixed in the wall, and is still preserved. The following is a 102 The Speaking-Trumpet. copy of it : " Sir Samuel Morland's Well, the use of which he freely...passenger, or poor thirsty beggar. July 8, 1695." Morland, shortly before his death, as a penance for his past life, buried in the ground, six feet deep,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Steam-engines - 1865 - 560 pages
...refers was on a stone tablet fixed on the wall of his house, still preserved, which runs thus : — " SIR SAMUEL MORLAND'S WELL, the use of which he freely...passenger, or poor thirsty beggar. July 8, 1695." The next prominent experimenter on the powers of gendre humain, particulierement pour 1'clevation dos... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Engineers - 1865 - 556 pages
...tablet fixed on the waU of his house, still preserved, which runs thus :—" SIR SAMUEL MORLAND'S WKLL, the use of which he freely gives to all persons: hoping...passenger, or poor thirsty beggar. July 8, 1695." The next prominent experimenter on the powers of gendre humain, particulierement pour 1'elevation des... | |
 | William Hanks Levy - Blind - 1872 - 598 pages
...tablet fixed on the wall, and is said to be still preserved. The following is given as a copy : — ' ' Sir Samuel Morland's Well, the use of which he freely...passenger, or poor thirsty beggar. July 8, 1695." Here we have the existence of the first drinkingfountain, which was the precursor of a system that... | |
 | William Hanks Levy - Blind - 1872 - 548 pages
...wall, and is said to be still preserved. The following is given as a copy : — " Sir Samuel Morland' s Well, the use of which he freely gives to all persons,...passenger, or poor thirsty beggar. July 8, 1695." Here we have the existence of the first drinkingfountain, which was the precursor of a system that... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1883 - 866 pages
...him will adventure to incur God's displeasure, by denying a cap of cold water (provided at another s cost, and not their own) to either neighbour, stranger, passenger, or poor thirsty beggar. July 8, 1685. The pump has been removed, but the stone bearing the inscription was preserved in the garden... | |
 | Richard Cameron - 1905 - 76 pages
...to incur God's displeasure, by denying a cup of cold water (provided at another's cost and not his own) to either neighbour, stranger, passenger, or poor thirsty beggar — July 8, 1685.' Tiie pump has been removed, but the stone bearing the inscription was preserved in the garden... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1922 - 1696 pages
...adventure to incur God's displeasure by denying a cup uf «old water (provide! at another's cost and not of their own) to either neighbour, stranger, passenger, or poor thirsty beggar. July 8th, 1685. Sir Samuel Morland's house and garden were on the eastern side of the creek where Stamford... | |
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Sir Samuel Morland's well, the use of which he freely gives to all persons, hoping that none who shall come after him, will adventure to incur God's displeasure, by denying a cup of cold water (provided at another's cost and not their own) to either neighbour,... 
