Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... five hours . * The problem was solved , and great ocean steamers have ever since passed in continuous streams between the shores of England and America . In an age of progress , one invention merely paves the way for another . The first ...
... five hours . * The problem was solved , and great ocean steamers have ever since passed in continuous streams between the shores of England and America . In an age of progress , one invention merely paves the way for another . The first ...
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... five thousand , with about four millions of aggre- gate tonnage . * 66 In olden times this country possessed the materials for great things , as well as the men fitted to develop them into great results . But the nation was slow to ...
... five thousand , with about four millions of aggre- gate tonnage . * 66 In olden times this country possessed the materials for great things , as well as the men fitted to develop them into great results . But the nation was slow to ...
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... then of nearly almost as much importance as London , † * The last visit of the plague was in 1665 . Roll of Edward the Third's Fleet . Cotton's Library , British Mu- seum . which latter city only furnished twenty - five vessels ,
... then of nearly almost as much importance as London , † * The last visit of the plague was in 1665 . Roll of Edward the Third's Fleet . Cotton's Library , British Mu- seum . which latter city only furnished twenty - five vessels ,
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Samuel Smiles. which latter city only furnished twenty - five vessels , with six hundred and sixty - two mariners . The Royal Fleet began in the reign of Henry VII . Only six or seven vessels then belonged to the king , the largest being ...
Samuel Smiles. which latter city only furnished twenty - five vessels , with six hundred and sixty - two mariners . The Royal Fleet began in the reign of Henry VII . Only six or seven vessels then belonged to the king , the largest being ...
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... five well - furnished ships . The French fleet were thirty - nine in number . They met in Brit- tany Bay , and had a fierce fight . The Regent grap- pled with a great carack of Brest ; the French , on the English boarding their ship ...
... five well - furnished ships . The French fleet were thirty - nine in number . They met in Brit- tany Bay , and had a fierce fight . The Regent grap- pled with a great carack of Brest ; the French , on the English boarding their ship ...
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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...