 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1906 - 500 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... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1906 - 896 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... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - 1908 - 830 pages
...improved and support steam-engine that has fought the battles of Europe, and exalted gr eat armies and sustained, through the late tremendous contest,...greatness of our land. It is the same great power which enables us now to pay the interest of our debt, and to maintain the arduous struggle in which we are... | |
 | Empire State Forest Products Association - 1908 - 652 pages
...Review, in 1819. said: '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 now to pay the interest on our debt, and to maintain the arduous struggle in which we are... | |
 | Charles Downer Hazen - 1923 - 1296 pages
...Francis Jeffrey in the Edinburgh Review in 1819, " 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 now to pay the interest of our debt, and to maintain the arduous struggle in which we are... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1927 - 914 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 that created the wealth which enabled England to carry on the fight against Napoleon,... | |
 | 1820 - 618 pages
...political greatness of ou' land. It is the same great power wh'™ now enables us to pay the interest "' our debt, and to maintain the arduous struggle in which we are still enp^f '• with the skill and capital of countries less oppressed with taxation. »"' these are poor... | |
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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. 
