 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1846 - 828 pages
...like manner it will follow that a timber bridge costing only half of a stone one, and lasting twenty years, will be cheaper in the end than a stone bridge...lasting for ever, because the other half of the capital tbua srivcil would, in twenty years, more than double itself, or reproduce the whole sum of the original... | |
 | 1846 - 784 pages
...that a timber bridge costing only Ir.ilt of a stone one, and lusting twenty years, will be cbeaper ia the end than a stone bridge lasting for ever, because...the other half of the capital thus saved would, in twenty years, more than double itself, or reproduce the whole sum of the original investment."* Again... | |
 | 1846 - 782 pages
...a timber bridge costing only half of a stone one, and lasting twenty years, will be cheaper in Ihe end than a stone bridge lasting for ever, because the other half of the capital thus saved would, in twenty years, more than double itself, or reproduce the whole sum of the original investment." * Again... | |
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Ihe end than a stone bridge lasting for ever, because the other half of the capital thus saved would, in twenty years, more than double itself, or reproduce the whole sum of the original investment. 