| David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 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! And... | |
| David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 454 pages
...sure foundation for all those future miracles of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the labors of after generations. It is to the genius of one man,...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... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1905 - 494 pages
...man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned ; completed the dominion of mind over matter; and laid a sure foundation for all those future...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... | |
| Andrew Carnegie - 1905 - 260 pages
...foundation for all those future miracles of mechanical power which are to aid and reward the labors of after generations. It is to the genius of one man,...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... | |
| Andrew Carnegie - 1905 - 272 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 labors of after generations. It is to the genius of... | |
| Edward Potts Cheyney - 1908 - 830 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; and... | |
| James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard - 1909 - 576 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 ; and... | |
| 1820 - 618 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,...man ever before bestowed such a gift on his kind. " In his temper and disposition, Mr. Watt was not only kind and affectionate, but generous, and considerate... | |
| Samuel Drew - 1820 - 566 pages
...can !«• assigned, completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory qualities of matter, aud laid a sure foundation for all those future miracles...man ever before bestowed such a gift on his kind. " In his temper and disposition, Mr. Watt was not only kind and affectionate, but generous, and considerate... | |
| 1835 - 782 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 future mira- ! cles of mechanic power which are to add to and reward the labors of after-generations. Already... | |
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