Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... building . A later chapter , kindly prepared for me by Mr. Harland of Belfast , relates to the origin and progress of ship - building in Ireland . Many of the facts set forth in the " Life and Inven- tions of William Murdock " have ...
... building . A later chapter , kindly prepared for me by Mr. Harland of Belfast , relates to the origin and progress of ship - building in Ireland . Many of the facts set forth in the " Life and Inven- tions of William Murdock " have ...
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... build- PAGE ing 1 · II . FRANCIS PETTIT SMITH : Practical Introducer of the Screw Propeller ̊ . ✓ . 49 • • III ... BUILDING IN BELFAST : By E. T. Harland , En- gineer and Shipbuilder . XII . ASTRONOMERS AND STUDENTS IN HUMBLE LIFE ...
... build- PAGE ing 1 · II . FRANCIS PETTIT SMITH : Practical Introducer of the Screw Propeller ̊ . ✓ . 49 • • III ... BUILDING IN BELFAST : By E. T. Harland , En- gineer and Shipbuilder . XII . ASTRONOMERS AND STUDENTS IN HUMBLE LIFE ...
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... BUILDING . " A speck in the Northern Ocean , with a rocky coast , an ungenial climate , and a soil scarcely fruitful , this was the material patrimony which descended to the English race - an inheritance that would have been little ...
... BUILDING . " A speck in the Northern Ocean , with a rocky coast , an ungenial climate , and a soil scarcely fruitful , this was the material patrimony which descended to the English race - an inheritance that would have been little ...
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... build our piers and harbors , and even to pump our wa- ter at London Bridge . Though a seafaring population lived round our coasts , we did not fish our own seas , * " In 1862 the steam - tonnage of the country was 537,000 tons ; in ...
... build our piers and harbors , and even to pump our wa- ter at London Bridge . Though a seafaring population lived round our coasts , we did not fish our own seas , * " In 1862 the steam - tonnage of the country was 537,000 tons ; in ...
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... building was doubtless borrowed from the Venetians , then the greatest naval power in Europe . The length of the masts , the height of the ship above the water's edge , and the ornaments and decorations , were better adapt- ed for the ...
... building was doubtless borrowed from the Venetians , then the greatest naval power in Europe . The length of the masts , the height of the ship above the water's edge , and the ornaments and decorations , were better adapt- ed for the ...
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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...
Página 98 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent, To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow, To have thy prince's grace yet want her Peers...