 | John Cleaves Henderson - 1890 - 414 pages
...steamengine, in short, that fought the battles of Europe, and * The Scotsman, Sept. 4th, 1819. 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... | |
 | John Cleaves Henderson - 1890 - 414 pages
...steamengine, in short, that fought the battles of Europe, and * The Scotsman, Sept. 4th, 1819. exalted and sustained, through the late tremendous contest, the political greatness of our land. It is the saVne great power which now enables us to pay the interest of our debt, and to maintain the arduous... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1896 - 820 pages
...productions. It is our improved steam engine that has fought the battles of Europe, and exalted and SUBtalned, through the late tremendous contest, the political...the arduous struggle in which we are still engaged." If this was true in the days of Nelson and Wellington, how much truer it is in our day and in our country.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1896 - 848 pages
...Europe, and exalted and BUStained, through the late tremendous contest, the political greatness of oar land. It is the same great power which now enables...the arduous struggle in which we are still engaged." If this was true in the days of Nelson and Wellington, how much truer it is in our day and in our country.... | |
 | Charles William Colby - 1899 - 398 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,...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... | |
 | Charles William Colby - 1899 - 378 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,...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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 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,...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... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1903 - 708 pages
...Jeffrey in his eulogy of Watt (written in 1819), " which has fought the battles of Europe, and exalted and sustained through the late tremendous contest the political greatness of our land." It was the steam engine which created the wealth which England used so lavishly in carrying on the fight... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1905 - 494 pages
...that fought the battles of Europe, and exalted and sustained, through the late tremendous contest, the greatness of our land. It is the same great power which now enables us to pay the interest of our national debt. But these are poor and narrow views of its importance. It has increased human comforts... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1905 - 870 pages
...Jeffrey in his eulogy of Watt (written in 1819), " which has fought the battles of Europe and exalted and sustained through the late tremendous contest the political greatness of our land." It was the steam engine which created the wealth which England used so lavishly in carrying on the fight... | |
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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. 
