Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... ascertained . When it was first proposed , Sir Joseph Banks , President of the Royal Society , said : " It is a pretty plan , but there is just one point over- Steam Navigation . 3 looked - that the steam - 2 Phineas Pett .
... ascertained . When it was first proposed , Sir Joseph Banks , President of the Royal Society , said : " It is a pretty plan , but there is just one point over- Steam Navigation . 3 looked - that the steam - 2 Phineas Pett .
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... Royal Fleet began in the reign of Henry VII . Only six or seven vessels then belonged to the king , the largest being the Grace de Dieu , of comparatively small tonnage . The custom then was to hire ships from the Venetians , the ...
... Royal Fleet began in the reign of Henry VII . Only six or seven vessels then belonged to the king , the largest being the Grace de Dieu , of comparatively small tonnage . The custom then was to hire ships from the Venetians , the ...
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... royal dock- yards - first at Woolwich , then at Portsmouth , and , thirdly , at Deptford - for the erection and repair of ships . Before then England had been principally de- pendent upon Dutchmen and Venetians , both for ships of war ...
... royal dock- yards - first at Woolwich , then at Portsmouth , and , thirdly , at Deptford - for the erection and repair of ships . Before then England had been principally de- pendent upon Dutchmen and Venetians , both for ships of war ...
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Samuel Smiles. of France . The Regent was the ship royal , with Sir Thomas Knivet , master of the horse , and Sir John Crew , of Devonshire , as captains . The fleet amount- ed to twenty - five well - furnished ships . The French fleet ...
Samuel Smiles. of France . The Regent was the ship royal , with Sir Thomas Knivet , master of the horse , and Sir John Crew , of Devonshire , as captains . The fleet amount- ed to twenty - five well - furnished ships . The French fleet ...
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... Royal George afterwards went down , and the ship was under repair , her gun - ports being very low when she was laid over , " the shipp turned , the water entered , and sodainly she sanke . " What was to be done ? There were no English ...
... Royal George afterwards went down , and the ship was under repair , her gun - ports being very low when she was laid over , " the shipp turned , the water entered , and sodainly she sanke . " What was to be done ? There were no English ...
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Página 205 - But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages...
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