 It has increased indefinitely the mass of human comforts and enjoyments; and rendered cheap and accessible, all over the world, the materials of wealth and prosperity. It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can...  The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select - Page 172by Reuben Percy - 1826Full view - About this book
 | 1828 - 640 pages
...futura miracles qfmechanic powert which are to aid and reward the labour of öfter ge* nerations. Jt is to the genius of one man too , that all this is mainly owing, u. 8. w., und dieser Mann ist denn Watt, dessen Charakter und Lebensweise der Verf. mit den lebhaftesten... | |
 | 1823 - 946 pages
...prosperity. It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned, completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory...owing; and certainly no man ever before bestowed such a gilt on his kind. The blessing is not only universal, but unbounded ; and the fabled in. ventors of... | |
 | 1819 - 708 pages
...prosperity. It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned, completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory...qualities of matter, and laid a sure foundation for those future miracle* of mechanic power which are to reward the labours of after generations. U is... | |
 | 1819 - 610 pages
...limits can be assigned, completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory qualities ofrnatter, and laid a sure foundation for all those future miracles of mechanic power which ere ta aid and reward the labours of after generations. It is to the genius of one man too that all... | |
 | 1820 - 496 pages
...prosperity. It has armed the feeble band of man, in short, with a power to which no Rmits can be assigned, completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory...generations. It is to the genius of one man too that all this b mainly owing ; and certainly no man ever belore bestowed such a gift OD his kind. The blessing is... | |
 | 1820 - 450 pages
...prosperity. It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned, completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory...power which are to aid and reward the labours of after generadons. It is to the genius of one man too that all this is mainly owing ; and certainly no man... | |
 | 1821 - 444 pages
...prosperity. It has, in short, armed the feeble hand of man with a power to which no limits can be assigned, completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory...to aid and reward the labours of after generations '. 28. — SAINT AUGUSTINE. Augustine was born at Thagaste, a town in Numidia, in the year 354. He... | |
 | 1822 - 184 pages
...power to w'r.ich no limits can he assigned, and laid a sure foundation for all those future wonders of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the...after generations. It is to the genius of one man, loo, that all this is mainly owing ; and certainly no> man ever before bestowed such a gift on mankind... | |
 | 1823 - 944 pages
...prosperity. It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with ax power to which no limits can be assigned, completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory...generations. It is to the genius of one man too that nil this is mainly owing; and certainly no man ever before bestowed such a gilt on his kind. The blessing... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...prosperity. It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned ; completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory...a sure foundation for all those future miracles of mechanick power which are to aid and reward the labours of after generations. It is to the genius of... | |
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