 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. It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no...  The Annual Biography and Obituary - Page 3961820Full view - About this book
 | 1819 - 800 pages
...world the materials of wealth and prosperity. It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned, completed...qualities of matter, and laid a sure foundation for those future miracles of mechanic power which are to reward the labours of after generations. It is... | |
 | 1819 - 610 pages
...materials of wealth and prosperity. It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which ho limits can be assigned, completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory qualities ofrnatter, and laid a sure foundation for all those future miracles of mechanic power which ere ta... | |
 | 1820 - 496 pages
...wealth ;!. nl prosperity. It has armed the feeble band of man, in short, with a power to which no Rmits can be assigned, completed the dominion of mind over...generations. It is to the genius of one man too that all this b mainly owing ; and certainly no man ever belore bestowed such a gift OD his kind. The blessing is... | |
 | 1820 - 450 pages
...world the materials of wealth and prosperity. It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned, completed...power which are to aid and reward the labours of after generadons. It is to the genius of one man too that all this is mainly owing ; and certainly no man... | |
 | 1821 - 444 pages
...world, the materials of wealth and prosperity. It has, in short, armed the feeble hand of man with a power to which no limits can be assigned, completed...to aid and reward the labours of after generations '. 28. — SAINT AUGUSTINE. Augustine was born at Thagaste, a town in Numidia, in the year 354. He... | |
 | 1822 - 184 pages
...power to w'r.ich no limits can he assigned, and laid a sure foundation for all those future wonders of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the...after generations. It is to the genius of one man, loo, that all this is mainly owing ; and certainly no> man ever before bestowed such a gift on mankind... | |
 | 1823 - 944 pages
...world the materials of wealth and prosperity. It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with ax power to which no limits can be assigned, completed...generations. It is to the genius of one man too that nil this is mainly owing; and certainly no man ever before bestowed such a gilt on his kind. The blessing... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...world the materials of wealth and prosperity. It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned ; completed...a sure foundation for all those future miracles of mechanick power which are to aid and reward the labours of after generations. It is to the genius of... | |
 | 1824 - 492 pages
...world, the materials of wealth and prosperity. It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned ; completed...all those future miracles of mechanic power, which arc to aid and reward the labours of after generations. It is to the genius of one man, too, that all... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1827 - 398 pages
...vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned ; completed...of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the labour of after generations. QUESTIONS. — 1. What is the principle of the diving bell ? 2. What were... | |
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