Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... afterwards showed the power of steamboats in navigating the rivers of America and Britain . After various experiments , it was proposed to unite England and America by steam . Dr. Lardner , how- ever , delivered a lecture before the ...
... afterwards showed the power of steamboats in navigating the rivers of America and Britain . After various experiments , it was proposed to unite England and America by steam . Dr. Lardner , how- ever , delivered a lecture before the ...
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... 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 en- gineers ...
... 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 en- gineers ...
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... of Elizabeth that great maritime adventures began to be made . Navi- gators were not so venturous as they afterwards be- came . Without proper methods of navigation , they The Great Navigators . 15 were apt to be carried 14 Phineas Pett .
... of Elizabeth that great maritime adventures began to be made . Navi- gators were not so venturous as they afterwards be- came . Without proper methods of navigation , they The Great Navigators . 15 were apt to be carried 14 Phineas Pett .
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... afterwards took in Phineas Pett , the poet shipwright's son . He Phineas Pett was the second son of his father . was born at Deptford , or " Deptford Strond , " as the place used to be called , on the 1st of November , 1570 . At nine ...
... afterwards took in Phineas Pett , the poet shipwright's son . He Phineas Pett was the second son of his father . was born at Deptford , or " Deptford Strond , " as the place used to be called , on the 1st of November , 1570 . At nine ...
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... afterwards my utter undoing almost , had not God been more merciful to me . " " His mother married again , “ a most wicked husband , " says Pett , in his au- tobiography , * " one Mr. Thomas Nunn , a minister , " but of what ...
... afterwards my utter undoing almost , had not God been more merciful to me . " " His mother married again , “ a most wicked husband , " says Pett , in his au- tobiography , * " one Mr. Thomas Nunn , a minister , " but of what ...
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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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