Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... present representative of the family , Mr. Murdock , C.E. , of Gilwern , near Abergavennyt tod I have also endeavored to give as accurate an ac- count as possible of the invention of the steam printing - press , and its application to ...
... present representative of the family , Mr. Murdock , C.E. , of Gilwern , near Abergavennyt tod I have also endeavored to give as accurate an ac- count as possible of the invention of the steam printing - press , and its application to ...
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... the writ ing . " In fact , the last three chapters were in some measure the cause of the book being published in its present form . LONDON , November , 1884 . СПАР . CONTENTS . PAGE I. PHINEAS PETT : Beginnings iv Preface .
... the writ ing . " In fact , the last three chapters were in some measure the cause of the book being published in its present form . LONDON , November , 1884 . СПАР . CONTENTS . PAGE I. PHINEAS PETT : Beginnings iv Preface .
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... reading as I had in the writ ing . " In fact , the last three chapters were in some measure the cause of the book being published in its present form . LONDON , November , 1884 . CONTENTS . CIIAP PAGE 1 . I. PHINEAS PETT : iv Preface .
... reading as I had in the writ ing . " In fact , the last three chapters were in some measure the cause of the book being published in its present form . LONDON , November , 1884 . CONTENTS . CIIAP PAGE 1 . I. PHINEAS PETT : iv Preface .
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... now . Most of the inventions which are so greatly influencing , as well as advancing , the civilization of the world at the present time , have been discovered within 1 СПАР PAGE PHINEAS PETT: Beginnings of English Ship-build- ing.
... now . Most of the inventions which are so greatly influencing , as well as advancing , the civilization of the world at the present time , have been discovered within 1 СПАР PAGE PHINEAS PETT: Beginnings of English Ship-build- ing.
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Samuel Smiles. world at the present time , have been discovered within the last hundred or hundred and fifty years . We do not say that man has become so much wiser during that period ; for , though he has grown in knowledge , the most ...
Samuel Smiles. world at the present time , have been discovered within the last hundred or hundred and fifty years . We do not say that man has become so much wiser during that period ; for , though he has grown in knowledge , the most ...
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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...