 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 448 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;...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... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 232 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;...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... | |
 | Hermann Lange - 1883 - 294 pages
...N. 2) man, in short1, with a power to which no limits can be assigned 2 ; completed 3 the dominion of mind over the most refractory qualities of matter *, and laid a sure foundation for 5 all those future miracles of mechanic power which 6 are to aid and reward the labours of after generations.... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1885 - 328 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. 8. It is to the genius of one man, too, that all this is mainly owing ! And certainly no man ever bestowed... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1886 - 450 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 ; and laid a sure foundation for all those futuru miracles of mechauical power, which are to aid and reward th« labors of after generations."... | |
 | John Cleaves Henderson - 1890 - 414 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...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... | |
 | John Mackintosh - 1896 - 532 pages
...feeble arm 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 miracles of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the labours of after generations.... | |
 | Charles William Colby - 1899 - 398 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...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 William Colby - 1899 - 378 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...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... | |
 | 1899 - 730 pages
...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 qualities of matter, and laid a sure foundation for all those future miriu-les of mechanical power that are to aid and reward the labors of after generations. It is to... | |
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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 all those future miracles of mechanic power which... 
