Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... early chapters relate to the history of a very important branch of British industry - that of ship- building . A later chapter , kindly prepared for me by Mr. Harland of Belfast , relates to the origin and progress of ship - building in ...
... early chapters relate to the history of a very important branch of British industry - that of ship- building . A later chapter , kindly prepared for me by Mr. Harland of Belfast , relates to the origin and progress of ship - building in ...
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... early as 1819 ; but steam was only used occasionally during the voyage . In 1825 the Enterprise , with engines by Maudslay , made the voyage from Falmouth to Calcutta in one hundred and thir- teen days ; and in 1828 the Curaçoa made the ...
... early as 1819 ; but steam was only used occasionally during the voyage . In 1825 the Enterprise , with engines by Maudslay , made the voyage from Falmouth to Calcutta in one hundred and thir- teen days ; and in 1828 the Curaçoa made the ...
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... early navigators in attempting to pass by the North Pole to Cathay through snow and storm and ice in such miserable little cockboats ! The pinnace was lost ; the Michael , under Owen Griffith , a Welshman , deserted ; and Martin ...
... early navigators in attempting to pass by the North Pole to Cathay through snow and storm and ice in such miserable little cockboats ! The pinnace was lost ; the Michael , under Owen Griffith , a Welshman , deserted ; and Martin ...
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... early age , when 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 ...
... early age , when 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 ...
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... early times the Dutch were not unworthy rivals of the English . After they had succeeded in throwing off the Spanish yoke and achieved their in- dependence , they became one of the most formidable of maritime powers . In the course of ...
... early times the Dutch were not unworthy rivals of the English . After they had succeeded in throwing off the Spanish yoke and achieved their in- dependence , they became one of the most formidable of maritime powers . In the course of ...
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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...