 | Samuel Hazard - 1828 - 436 pages
...eighteen1 feet high, makes one revolution, and that three are performed in a minute. That ene fire-engine conveys warmth to every individual part of the machine;...ear upon the spot. Had the author made the number of wheels 10,000 less, he would liave been nearer the mark; or if he had paid an unremitting attendance... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1829 - 460 pages
...three are performed in a minute. That one fire-engine conveys warmth to every individual part of (lie machine; and that one regulator governs the whole.'...ear upon the spot. Had the author made the number ofwhteb 10,000 less, he would have been nearer the mark; or if he had paid an unremitting attendance... | |
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By these wholesale numbers the reader is left about as wise as before. The design of writing .is to communicate the same intelligence to the understanding as might be conveyed through the eye or the ear upon the spot. Had the author made the number of... 