Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... labor of head and hand there is really a great future before Ire- land . The last chapter , on " Astronomers in Humble Life , " consists for the most part of a series of auto- biographies . It may seem , at first sight , to have lit ...
... labor of head and hand there is really a great future before Ire- land . The last chapter , on " Astronomers in Humble Life , " consists for the most part of a series of auto- biographies . It may seem , at first sight , to have lit ...
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... labor of head and hand there is really a great future before Ire- land . The last chapter , on " Astronomers in Humble Life , " consists for the most part of a series of auto- biographies . It may seem , at first sight , to have lit ...
... labor of head and hand there is really a great future before Ire- land . The last chapter , on " Astronomers in Humble Life , " consists for the most part of a series of auto- biographies . It may seem , at first sight , to have lit ...
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... labor is but in- herited skill ; great discoveries and inventions are worked up to by the efforts of myriads ere the goal is reached . " - H . M. HYNDMAN . THOUGH a long period elapsed between the times of Phineas Pett and " Screw ...
... labor is but in- herited skill ; great discoveries and inventions are worked up to by the efforts of myriads ere the goal is reached . " - H . M. HYNDMAN . THOUGH a long period elapsed between the times of Phineas Pett and " Screw ...
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... labor , and expenditure . * Undeterred by * The story is told in Scribner's Monthly Illustrated Magazine for April , 1879. Ericsson's modest bill was only $ 15,000 for two years ' labor . He was put off from year to year , and at length ...
... labor , and expenditure . * Undeterred by * The story is told in Scribner's Monthly Illustrated Magazine for April , 1879. Ericsson's modest bill was only $ 15,000 for two years ' labor . He was put off from year to year , and at length ...
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... labor , and his ingenuity in conferring a great pub- lic benefit , without receiving any adequate reward ; and the company , instead of distributing dividends , lost about £ 50,000 in introducing this great invention ; after which , in ...
... labor , and his ingenuity in conferring a great pub- lic benefit , without receiving any adequate reward ; and the company , instead of distributing dividends , lost about £ 50,000 in introducing this great invention ; after which , in ...
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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...