Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... means of the country , and the well - known industry of its people , it seems reasonable to expect that , with peace , security , energy , and diligent labor of head and hand there is really a great future before Ire- land . The last ...
... means of the country , and the well - known industry of its people , it seems reasonable to expect that , with peace , security , energy , and diligent labor of head and hand there is really a great future before Ire- land . The last ...
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... means of the country , and the well - known industry of its people , it seems reasonable to expect that , with peace , security , energy , and diligent labor of head and hand there is really a great future before Ire- land . The last ...
... means of the country , and the well - known industry of its people , it seems reasonable to expect that , with peace , security , energy , and diligent labor of head and hand there is really a great future before Ire- land . The last ...
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... means of communication in all civilized countries . This invention has started into full life within our own time . The locomotive engine had for some years been employed in the haulage of coals ; but it was not until the opening of the ...
... means of communication in all civilized countries . This invention has started into full life within our own time . The locomotive engine had for some years been employed in the haulage of coals ; but it was not until the opening of the ...
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... means of paddle - wheels , but these are now almost entirely superseded by the screw . And this , too , is an invention almost of yesterday . It was only * This was not the first voyage of a steamer between England and America . The ...
... means of paddle - wheels , but these are now almost entirely superseded by the screw . And this , too , is an invention almost of yesterday . It was only * This was not the first voyage of a steamer between England and America . The ...
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... means was at liberty to fit out his own ships ; and , with tolerable vouchers , he was able to procure a com- mission from the court , and proceed to sea at his own risk and cost . Thus the naval enterprise and pio- neering of new ...
... means was at liberty to fit out his own ships ; and , with tolerable vouchers , he was able to procure a com- mission from the court , and proceed to sea at his own risk and cost . Thus the naval enterprise and pio- neering of new ...
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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...