Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... passing through Ireland last year , that much remained to be said on that subject ; and , looking to the increasing means of the country , and the well - known industry of its people , it seems reasonable to expect that , with peace ...
... passing through Ireland last year , that much remained to be said on that subject ; and , looking to the increasing means of the country , and the well - known industry of its people , it seems reasonable to expect that , with peace ...
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... passing through Ireland last year , that much remained to be said on that subject ; and , looking to the increasing means of the country , and the well - known industry of its people , it seems reasonable to expect that , with peace ...
... passing through Ireland last year , that much remained to be said on that subject ; and , looking to the increasing means of the country , and the well - known industry of its people , it seems reasonable to expect that , with peace ...
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... 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 steamers were im- pelled by means of paddle - wheels , but these are now almost ...
... 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 steamers were im- pelled by means of paddle - wheels , but these are now almost ...
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... passed through the Straits of Magellan , and entered the Pacific Ocean . Drake took an immense amount of booty from the Spanish towns along the coast , and captured the royal galleon , the Cacafuego , laden with treasure . After trying ...
... passed through the Straits of Magellan , and entered the Pacific Ocean . Drake took an immense amount of booty from the Spanish towns along the coast , and captured the royal galleon , the Cacafuego , laden with treasure . After trying ...
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... passed some time in questioning the divers material things concerning it , and demanded whether I could build the great ship in all parts like the same ; for I will , says his majesty , compare them together when she shall be finished ...
... passed some time in questioning the divers material things concerning it , and demanded whether I could build the great ship in all parts like the same ; for I will , says his majesty , compare them together when she shall be finished ...
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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...