Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... say to the reader , as Quarles said in the preface to his " Emblems , " " I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading as I had in the writ ing . " In fact , the last three chapters were in some measure the cause of the book being ...
... say to the reader , as Quarles said in the preface to his " Emblems , " " I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading as I had in the writ ing . " In fact , the last three chapters were in some measure the cause of the book being ...
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... say to the reader , as Quarles said in the preface to his " Emblems , " " I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading as I had in the writ ing . " In fact , the last three chapters were in some measure the cause of the book being ...
... say to the reader , as Quarles said in the preface to his " Emblems , " " I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading as I had in the writ ing . " In fact , the last three chapters were in some measure the cause of the book being ...
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... say that man has become so much wiser during that period ; for , though he has grown in knowledge , the most fruitful of all things were said by " the heirs of all the ages " thousands of years ago . But as regards physical science ...
... say that man has become so much wiser during that period ; for , though he has grown in knowledge , the most fruitful of all things were said by " the heirs of all the ages " thousands of years ago . But as regards physical science ...
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... says Charnock , " these useful persons among his own subjects , he soon formed a corps sufficient to rival those states which had rendered themselves most dis- tinguished by their knowledge in this art ; so that the fame of Genoa and ...
... says Charnock , " these useful persons among his own subjects , he soon formed a corps sufficient to rival those states which had rendered themselves most dis- tinguished by their knowledge in this art ; so that the fame of Genoa and ...
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... says Camden , " stiled her the restorer of naval glory and Queen of the Northern Seas . " In imitation of the queen , opulent subjects built ships of force ; and in course of time England no longer depended upon Commerce of Spain and ...
... says Camden , " stiled her the restorer of naval glory and Queen of the Northern Seas . " In imitation of the queen , opulent subjects built ships of force ; and in course of time England no longer depended upon Commerce of Spain and ...
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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...