Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... constructed by foreign artisans , prin- cipally by Italians , and was launched in 1515. She was said to be of a thousand tons ' portage - the largest ship in England . The vessel was four - masted , with two round tops on each mast ...
... constructed by foreign artisans , prin- cipally by Italians , and was launched in 1515. She was said to be of a thousand tons ' portage - the largest ship in England . The vessel was four - masted , with two round tops on each mast ...
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... constructed by Pett , and was one of the first , if not the very first in England , his highness partook of a banquet which the ship - builder had hastily prepared for him in his temporary lodgings . One of the circumstances which ...
... constructed by Pett , and was one of the first , if not the very first in England , his highness partook of a banquet which the ship - builder had hastily prepared for him in his temporary lodgings . One of the circumstances which ...
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... constructed in England . The Prince Royal was , at the time she was built , considered one of the most wonderful efforts of human genius . Mr. Charnock , in his " Treatise on Marine Architecture , " speaks of her as abounding in ...
... constructed in England . The Prince Royal was , at the time she was built , considered one of the most wonderful efforts of human genius . Mr. Charnock , in his " Treatise on Marine Architecture , " speaks of her as abounding in ...
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... construct a pinnace of forty tons , in respect of which Pett remarks : " Towards the whole of the hull of the pinnace , and all her rigging , I received only £ 100 from the Lord Zouche , the rest Sir Henry Main- waring ( half - brother ...
... construct a pinnace of forty tons , in respect of which Pett remarks : " Towards the whole of the hull of the pinnace , and all her rigging , I received only £ 100 from the Lord Zouche , the rest Sir Henry Main- waring ( half - brother ...
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... constructing vessels from the forest , we are now digging new navies out of the bowels of the earth , and our walls , " instead of wood , are now of iron and steel . 66 The attempt to propel ships by other means than sails and oars went ...
... constructing vessels from the forest , we are now digging new navies out of the bowels of the earth , and our walls , " instead of wood , are now of iron and steel . 66 The attempt to propel ships by other means than sails and oars went ...
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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...