Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... hand there is really a great future before Ire- land . The last chapter , on " Astronomers in Humble Life ... hands and heads to the im- provement of their own characters , if not to the ad- vancement of the general community ...
... hand there is really a great future before Ire- land . The last chapter , on " Astronomers in Humble Life ... hands and heads to the im- provement of their own characters , if not to the ad- vancement of the general community ...
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... hand there is really a great future before Ire- land . The last chapter , on " Astronomers in Humble Life ... hands and heads to the im- provement of their own characters , if not to the ad- vancement of the general community ...
... hand there is really a great future before Ire- land . The last chapter , on " Astronomers in Humble Life ... hands and heads to the im- provement of their own characters , if not to the ad- vancement of the general community ...
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... hands of foreigners . The seas were swept by privateers , little better than pirates , who plundered without scruple every vessel , whether friend or foe , which fell in their way . The British navy has risen from very low begin- nings ...
... hands of foreigners . The seas were swept by privateers , little better than pirates , who plundered without scruple every vessel , whether friend or foe , which fell in their way . The British navy has risen from very low begin- nings ...
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... hands . " Nevertheless , they failed with all their ef- forts , and it was not until the year 1836 that Mr. Dean , the engineer , succeeded in raising not only the Royal George , but the Mary Rose , and cleared the roadstead at ...
... hands . " Nevertheless , they failed with all their ef- forts , and it was not until the year 1836 that Mr. Dean , the engineer , succeeded in raising not only the Royal George , but the Mary Rose , and cleared the roadstead at ...
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... hand when Pett was ordered to Woolwich , to prepare the Bear and other vessels for conveying his patron , the lord high admiral , as an ambassador extraordinary to Spain for the purpose of concluding peace , after a strife of more than ...
... hand when Pett was ordered to Woolwich , to prepare the Bear and other vessels for conveying his patron , the lord high admiral , as an ambassador extraordinary to Spain for the purpose of concluding peace , after a strife of more than ...
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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...