. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . t the waves and windsof Eddystone have found their master. The greatest storms haveburst upon it without effect. In 1762 there was one of so furious acharacter, that a certain person who had been in the habit of pre-dicting- the destruction of the building, said if it stood that it wouldstand anything until the day of judgment. In the morning therewas the lighthouse safe as ever—not even a pane of glass brokenin-the lantern. No wonder there were people who now went a littleto the opposit
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . t the waves and windsof Eddystone have found their master. The greatest storms haveburst upon it without effect. In 1762 there was one of so furious acharacter, that a certain person who had been in the habit of pre-dicting- the destruction of the building, said if it stood that it wouldstand anything until the day of judgment. In the morning therewas the lighthouse safe as ever—not even a pane of glass brokenin-the lantern. No wonder there were people who now went a littleto the opposite extreme. The men of Plymouth began to talk ofthe inhabitants of the lighthouse being rather more secure undertheir building, exposed to all the violence of winds and water, thanthey were themselves in their houses, endangered by the former engravings (Figs. 2372, 2373) show the form of the lighthouse,and many readers will recognise in it the architects model. It wasNature who taught him how to resist herself—she bade him markhow the oak withstood the mightiest warfare that the element* .. !
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