 | Edward Nicoll Dickerson - 1856 - 70 pages
...the steam engine, says a kindred spirit, that fought the battles of Europe, and which now enables us to maintain the arduous struggle in which we are still engaged with countries less oppressed with taxation ; so that upon the slender thread of Watt's prosperity, which... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 pages
...productions. It was our improved steam-engine, in short, that fought the hattles of Europe, and exalted and sustained, through the late tremendous contest,...of our land. It is the same great power which now enahles us to pay the interest of our deht, and to maintain the arduous struggle in which we are still... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1857 - 292 pages
...its productions. It is our improved steam-engine that has fought the battles of Europe, and exalted and sustained, through the late tremendous contest,...greatness of our land. It is the same great power which enables us to pay our national debt, and to maintain the arduous struggle in which we are still engaged... | |
 | Jane Marcet - 1858 - 630 pages
...its productionS. It is our improved steam-engine that has fought the battles of Europe, and exalted and sustained, through the late tremendous contest,...greatness of our land. It is the same great power that now enables us to pay the interest of our debts, and to maintain the arduous struggle in which... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 440 pages
...its productions. It is our improved steamengine that has fought the battles of Europe, and exalted and sustained, through the late tremendous contest,...the arduous struggle in which we are still engaged, [1819], with the skill and capital of countries less oppressed with taxation. But these are poor and... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 652 pages
...steam-engine that has fought the battles " of Europe, and exalted and sustained, through the late tre" mendous contest, the political greatness of our land. It is...arduous struggle " in which we are still engaged, [1819], with the skill and " capital of countries less oppressed with taxation. But these " are poor... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1861 - 654 pages
...contest, the political greatness of our land;" — a power which upon the return of peace, " enabled us to pay the interest of our debt, and to maintain the arduous struggle in which we were engaged with the skill and capital of countries less oppressed with taxation. "§ That great power... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1861 - 622 pages
...imitation ; a power, of which it was said in 1819 that it had '' fought the battles of Europe, and exalted and sustained, through the late, tremendous contest, the political greatness of our land ; " — a power which upon the return of peace, " enabled us to pay the interest of our debt, and to... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 300 pages
...productions. It was our improved steam-engine, in short, that fought the battles of Europe, and exalted and sustained, through the late tremendous contest,...of our debt, and to maintain the arduous struggle with the skill and capital of countries less oppressed with taxation. But these are poor and narrow... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 pages
...productions. It was our improved Steam-engine, in fihort, that fought the battles of Europe, and exalted and sustained, through the late tremendous contest,...the arduous struggle in which we are still engaged [1819], with the skill and capital of countries less oppressed with taxation. But these are poor and... | |
| |
But these are poor and narrow views of its importance. 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. 
