Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... carry suffi- cient coal to raise steam enough during the voyage . But this theory was also tested by experience in the same year , when the Sirius , of London , left Cork for New York , and made the passage in nineteen days . Four days ...
... carry suffi- cient coal to raise steam enough during the voyage . But this theory was also tested by experience in the same year , when the Sirius , of London , left Cork for New York , and made the passage in nineteen days . Four days ...
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... carried on their manufactures of woollen , linen , and silk , and established many new branches of industry . * Five years later , in 1572 , the Massacre of St. Bar- tholomew took place in France , during which the Ro- man Catholic ...
... carried on their manufactures of woollen , linen , and silk , and established many new branches of industry . * Five years later , in 1572 , the Massacre of St. Bar- tholomew took place in France , during which the Ro- man Catholic ...
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... 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 .
... 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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Samuel Smiles. The Great Navigators . 15 were apt to be carried away to the south , across an ocean without limit . In 1565 a young captain , Martin Frobisher , came into notice . At the age of twenty- five he captured in the South Seas ...
Samuel Smiles. The Great Navigators . 15 were apt to be carried away to the south , across an ocean without limit . In 1565 a young captain , Martin Frobisher , came into notice . At the age of twenty- five he captured in the South Seas ...
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... carrying on a coasting trade , his imagination was inflamed by the exploits of his protector , Hawkins , in the New World , and he joined him in his last un- fortunate adventure on the Spanish Main . He was not , however , discouraged ...
... carrying on a coasting trade , his imagination was inflamed by the exploits of his protector , Hawkins , in the New World , and he joined him in his last un- fortunate adventure on the Spanish Main . He was not , however , discouraged ...
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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...