Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... SHIP - BUILDING IN BELFAST : By E. T. Harland , En- gineer and Shipbuilder . XII . ASTRONOMERS AND STUDENTS IN HUMBLE LIFE : A New Chapter in the " Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties " INDEX . 284 319 . 373 PROPERTY OF THE CITY OF ...
... SHIP - BUILDING IN BELFAST : By E. T. Harland , En- gineer and Shipbuilder . XII . ASTRONOMERS AND STUDENTS IN HUMBLE LIFE : A New Chapter in the " Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties " INDEX . 284 319 . 373 PROPERTY OF THE CITY OF ...
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... SHIP - BUILDING . " A speck in the Northern Ocean , with a rocky coast , an ungenial climate , and a soil scarcely fruitful ... ships , printing , the needle , etc. , were discovered within the memory of history . " If this were true in ...
... SHIP - BUILDING . " A speck in the Northern Ocean , with a rocky coast , an ungenial climate , and a soil scarcely fruitful ... ships , printing , the needle , etc. , were discovered within the memory of history . " If this were true in ...
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... ships , which has already produced so great an effect upon commerce , navigation , and the spread of popula- tion over the world . Equally important has been the influence of the rail- way , now the principal means of communication in ...
... ships , which has already produced so great an effect upon commerce , navigation , and the spread of popula- tion over the world . Equally important has been the influence of the rail- way , now the principal means of communication in ...
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... ships , there to be manufactured into cloth . Nearly every article of im- portance was brought from abroad , and the little com- merce which existed was in the hands of foreigners . The seas were swept by privateers , little better than ...
... ships , there to be manufactured into cloth . Nearly every article of im- portance was brought from abroad , and the little com- merce which existed was in the hands of foreigners . The seas were swept by privateers , little better than ...
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... ships from the Venetians , the Genoese , the Hanse towns , and other trading people ; and as soon as the service for which the vessels so hired was performed they were dismissed . When Henry VIII . ascended the throne , in 1509 , he ...
... ships from the Venetians , the Genoese , the Hanse towns , and other trading people ; and as soon as the service for which the vessels so hired was performed they were dismissed . When Henry VIII . ascended the throne , in 1509 , he ...
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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...