Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... employed in the haulage of coals ; but it was not until the opening of the Liver- pool and Manchester Railway , in 1830 , that the impor- tance of the invention came to be acknowledged . The locomotive railway has since been everywhere ...
... employed in the haulage of coals ; but it was not until the opening of the Liver- pool and Manchester Railway , in 1830 , that the impor- tance of the invention came to be acknowledged . The locomotive railway has since been everywhere ...
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... employed were Hans Popenruyter , gun - founder of Mechlin ; Robert Sakfeld , Robert Skorer , Fortuno de Catalenago , and John Cavelcant . On one occasion , £ 2797 19s . 4d . was disbursed for guns and grind- stones . This sum must be ...
... employed were Hans Popenruyter , gun - founder of Mechlin ; Robert Sakfeld , Robert Skorer , Fortuno de Catalenago , and John Cavelcant . On one occasion , £ 2797 19s . 4d . was disbursed for guns and grind- stones . This sum must be ...
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... employed in trading voyages to all parts and countries . " The principal shipping which frequented the English ports still continued to be foreign - Italian , Flemish , and German . * Macpherson , " Annals of Commerce , " vol . ii . p ...
... employed in trading voyages to all parts and countries . " The principal shipping which frequented the English ports still continued to be foreign - Italian , Flemish , and German . * Macpherson , " Annals of Commerce , " vol . ii . p ...
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... employed during the previous reign in making war against the commerce of Spain , and declared himself to be at peace with all the world . James was as peaceful as a Quaker . He was not a fighting king , and , partly on this account , he ...
... employed during the previous reign in making war against the commerce of Spain , and declared himself to be at peace with all the world . James was as peaceful as a Quaker . He was not a fighting king , and , partly on this account , he ...
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... employed many Eng- lish as privateers against the Spaniard . After the war , many were loath to lead an inactive life . They had their commissions revoked , and were proclaimed pirates . The public looked upon them as gal- lant fellows ...
... employed many Eng- lish as privateers against the Spaniard . After the war , many were loath to lead an inactive life . They had their commissions revoked , and were proclaimed pirates . The public looked upon them as gal- lant fellows ...
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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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