Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 42
Página 4
... results . But the nation was slow to awake and take advantage of its opportunities . There was no enterprise , no commerce , no go " in the peo- ple . The roads were frightfully bad , and there was little communication between one part ...
... results . But the nation was slow to awake and take advantage of its opportunities . There was no enterprise , no commerce , no go " in the peo- ple . The roads were frightfully bad , and there was little communication between one part ...
Página 13
... result of an excellence in sea- manship which prevailed widely around them . The age of English maritime adventure only began in the reign of Elizabeth . England had then no colo- nies , no foreign possessions whatever . The first of ...
... result of an excellence in sea- manship which prevailed widely around them . The age of English maritime adventure only began in the reign of Elizabeth . England had then no colo- nies , no foreign possessions whatever . The first of ...
Página 21
... result was , that they captured thirty - nine of the Spanish ships . Sir Amias Preston , Sir John Hawkins , and Sir Francis Drake also continued their action upon the seas . Lord Admiral Howard and the Earl of Essex made their famous ...
... result was , that they captured thirty - nine of the Spanish ships . Sir Amias Preston , Sir John Hawkins , and Sir Francis Drake also continued their action upon the seas . Lord Admiral Howard and the Earl of Essex made their famous ...
Página 36
... result of the inquiry was not only to cause a great trouble and ex- pense to all the persons accused , but , as Pett says in his memoir , " the government itself of that royal office was so shaken and disjoined as brought almost ruin ...
... result of the inquiry was not only to cause a great trouble and ex- pense to all the persons accused , but , as Pett says in his memoir , " the government itself of that royal office was so shaken and disjoined as brought almost ruin ...
Página 38
... result was that their lordships reported favor- ably of the design of the ship , and the progress which had already been made . The Earl of Northampton interposed his influence ; and the king himself , accom- panied by the young prince ...
... result was that their lordships reported favor- ably of the design of the ship , and the progress which had already been made . The Earl of Northampton interposed his influence ; and the king himself , accom- panied by the young prince ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
afterwards astronomer became Belfast Bensley Bianconi Board of Longitude boat Boulton Boulton & Watt built Captain carried Charles Bianconi chronometer Clonmel Cloth coast constructed contrived cylinder difficulty employed employment engine England English enterprise experiments feet fish fleet four Francis Pettit Smith Half Calf Harrison History hour Huguenots hundred tons Illustrations improved inches industry invention inventor Ireland Irish iron Italian John John Lombe JOHN S. C. ABBOTT Koenig labor land length letter Liverpool Lombe London longitude Lord lord high admiral machinery manufacture marine chronometer mechanical ment Messrs method miles Murdock navigation navy newspaper organzine paper patent Pett Phineas Pett printing machine proceeded propeller Royal sail says Scotland screw ship-building ships silk steam steam-engine steamers telescope thousand tion took town trade vessel vols voyage Walter Watt William William Murdock young
Pasajes populares
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...