Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... give as accurate an ac- count as possible of the invention of the steam printing - press , and its application to the production of newspapers and books - an invention certainly of great importance to the spread of knowledge , science ...
... give as accurate an ac- count as possible of the invention of the steam printing - press , and its application to the production of newspapers and books - an invention certainly of great importance to the spread of knowledge , science ...
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... give the proper present value . Popenruyter seems to have been the great gun - founder of the age ; he supplied the principal guns and gun - stores for the English navy , and his name occurs in every ordnance account of the series ...
... give the proper present value . Popenruyter seems to have been the great gun - founder of the age ; he supplied the principal guns and gun - stores for the English navy , and his name occurs in every ordnance account of the series ...
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... four others . The report is headed , " The Prince Royal : imper- fections found upon view of the new work begun at Woolwich . " It would occupy too much space to give the results here . caught in the dock - gates , and settled hard.
... four others . The report is headed , " The Prince Royal : imper- fections found upon view of the new work begun at Woolwich . " It would occupy too much space to give the results here . caught in the dock - gates , and settled hard.
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... give the vessel the appearance of being moved by some magical power . " Then comes another claimant - Mr . Robert Wilson , then of Dunbar ( not far from Coldingham ) , but after- wards of the Bridgewater Foundry , Patricroft . In his ...
... give the vessel the appearance of being moved by some magical power . " Then comes another claimant - Mr . Robert Wilson , then of Dunbar ( not far from Coldingham ) , but after- wards of the Bridgewater Foundry , Patricroft . In his ...
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... gives the first idea of a machine who is entitled to the merit of its introduction , or the man who repeats the idea , and re - repeats it , but the man who is so deeply im- pressed with the importance of the discovery that he insists ...
... gives the first idea of a machine who is entitled to the merit of its introduction , or the man who repeats the idea , and re - repeats it , but the man who is so deeply im- pressed with the importance of the discovery that he insists ...
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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...