 | Thomas Dick - 1857 - 892 pages
...Jeffrey," the feeble hand of man with a power to which no limits can be assigned—completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory qualities of matter,...aid and reward the labours of after generations." The first person who appears to have entertained the idea of employing steam for propelling vessels,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 490 pages
...of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned ; completed the dominion of miud over the most refractory qualities of matter; and...of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the labors of after generations. — Lord Jeffrey. 4. IGNORANCE OF GREAT PHYSICAL TRUTHS. — How few men... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1857 - 292 pages
...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...a sure foundation for all those future miracles of mechanical power which are to aid and reward the labours of after generations." SECTION II. OP DIVISION... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 pages
...magnificently the field of its exertions, but multiplied a thousandfold the amount of its productions. It is to the genius of one man, too, that all this is mainly owing. And certainly no man ever bestowed such a gift on his kind. The blessing is not only universal but unbounded ; and the fabled... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 pages
...of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the lahors of after generations. It is to the genins of one man, too, that all this is mainly owing ! And certainly no man ever bestowed such a gift on his kind. The blessing is not only universal, but unbounded ; and the fabled... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1858 - 656 pages
...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...all this is mainly owing ; and certainly no man ever " bestowed such a gift on his Mnd. The blessing is not only " universal, but unbounded ; and the fabled... | |
 | Jane Marcet - 1858 - 630 pages
...man, in short, with a AA power to which no limits can be assigned, completed the dominion of mind over matter, and laid a sure foundation for all those future miracles of mechanical power which are to aid and reward the labour of after-generationS." At our next meeting... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 652 pages
...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...all this is mainly owing ; and certainly no man ever be" stowed such a gift on his kind. The blessing is not only " universal, but unbounded ; and the fabled... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1859 - 430 pages
...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...to aid and reward the labours of after generations. On the 1st of May, 1851, was opened in a palace of glass, erected in Hyde Park, the great Exhibition... | |
 | Graduated series - 1859 - 462 pages
...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...of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the labors of after generations... It is to the genius of one man, too, that all this is mainly owing !... | |
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