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...supplement to recent historical research. Poet's present some of the most sensitive perceptions of their world, and Lonsdale shows us that eighteenth century life was not simply about sprawling manors, doddering curates, fox hunting and professional male poets, but also about the horrors, and joys, of opium, chimney sweeping, marriage, bread riots, the difficulty of being a woman in a man's world, soldiering, and even the laundry. The book helps us to a broader understanding of the time...
...vision of the grey fog of people, "Lost and bewildered in the thickening mist" presents the wen at its gloomist. Also intriguing are Hannah More and William Parsons' words on the tumuluous bred riots that swept the nation towards the end of the century. And Mary Alcock's "The Chimney Sweeper's Complaint" whisks in the industrial fervor...
...chimney stacks along the St. Nicolaas beach on Aruba no longer belch smoke into the luminous tropical air. After 60 years of refining more than 6.5 billion bbl. of crude, including 1 out of every 16 bbl. of aircraft fuel used by Allied forces in World War II, Exxon's Lago refinery, once the largest in the world, will shut down this week. The closing marks the end of an era in the world oil industry and spells trouble for the 70-sq.-mi. Caribbean island. The refinery has provided Aruba with more than half its annual income for better...
...like that, the corridor between Washington and Boston looks like a great oil spill at sea. By contrast, Idaho, because of its configuration and lack of residents, looks like an alabaster chimney with only a few smudges. Idaho, the popular saying goes, "is what America...
...pole mounted on a round base, solved the problem neatly. It would inject an expanding prong into the satellite's rear motor, locking on to it and providing a grip for the wrangler-astronauts. As Allen explained, "It's like opening an umbrella inside a chimney." In practice sessions Allen could not reach the handle to "open" the umbrella. Another redesign was needed. It was now August...