 Amidst this company stood Mr Watt, the man whose genius discovered the means of multiplying our national resources to a degree perhaps even beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation and combination; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit...  Life of James Watt - Page 85by François Arago - 1839 - 142 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 348 pages
...means of multiplying our national resources to a degree perhaps even beyond his own stupendouspowers of calculation and combination; bringing the treasures...of the abyss to the summit of the earth — giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite — commanding manufactures to arise, as the rod of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 290 pages
...of multiplying our national resources- to a degree perhaps even beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation and combination; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth—giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite—commanding manufactures to arise,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 344 pages
...calculation and combination; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth — giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite — commanding manufactures to arise, as the rod of the prophet produced water, in the desert, affording the means of dispensing with that... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 506 pages
...calculation and combination ; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the surface of the earth ; giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite; commanding manufactures to arise, as the rod of the prophet produced water in the desert ; affording the means of dispensing with that... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 552 pages
...of multiplying our national resources to a degree perhaps even beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation and combination ; bringing the treasures...of the abyss to the summit of the earth — giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite — commanding manufactures to arise, as the rod of... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 352 pages
...multiplying our national resources, to a degree, perhaps, even beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation and combination ; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth. Giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of the Afrite — commanding manufactures to arise, as the rod of... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1827 - 356 pages
...multiplying our national resources, to a degree, perhaps, even beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation and combination ; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth. Giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of the Afrite — commanding - manufactures to arise, as the rod... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 382 pages
...of multiplying our national resources to a degree perhaps even beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation and combination ; bringing the treasures...of the abyss to the summit of the earth — giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite — commanding manufactures to arise, as the rod of... | |
 | 1830 - 524 pages
...commanded manufactures to arise, as the rod of the prophet produced water in the desert ; afforded the means of dispensing with that time and tide which wait for no man, and with its cloudy machinery produced a change in the world, the effects of which, extraordinary as they... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 382 pages
...of multiplying our national resources to a degree perhaps even beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation and combination; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth—giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite —commanding manufactures to arise,... | |
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