James WattDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 241 pages |
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... compulsory education for all the people , the secret of Scotland's progress . Great as was the service Knox rendered in the field ecclesiastical , probably what he did for the cause of public education excels 4 LIFE OF JAMES WATT.
... compulsory education for all the people , the secret of Scotland's progress . Great as was the service Knox rendered in the field ecclesiastical , probably what he did for the cause of public education excels 4 LIFE OF JAMES WATT.
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Andrew Carnegie. what he did for the cause of public education excels it . The man who proclaimed that he would never rest until there was a public school in every parish in Scot- land must stand for all time as one of the foremost of ...
Andrew Carnegie. what he did for the cause of public education excels it . The man who proclaimed that he would never rest until there was a public school in every parish in Scot- land must stand for all time as one of the foremost of ...
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... cause father , mother , sister and brother to hang their heads among their neighbors in secluded village , on far - away moor or in lonely glen . The Scotch have strong traces of the Chinese and Japanese religious devotion to " the ...
... cause father , mother , sister and brother to hang their heads among their neighbors in secluded village , on far - away moor or in lonely glen . The Scotch have strong traces of the Chinese and Japanese religious devotion to " the ...
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... caused the loss ? This was soon determined . The cylinder was necessarily cooled at the top because it was open to the air , and also cooled below in condensing the charge of steam that had driven the piston up in order to create a ...
... caused the loss ? This was soon determined . The cylinder was necessarily cooled at the top because it was open to the air , and also cooled below in condensing the charge of steam that had driven the piston up in order to create a ...
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... cause , and while engaged trying numerous expedients to meet this , and many different things for stuffing , he wrote to a friend , " My old White Iron ' man is dead . " This being the one he had trained to be his best mechanic , was a ...
... cause , and while engaged trying numerous expedients to meet this , and many different things for stuffing , he wrote to a friend , " My old White Iron ' man is dead . " This being the one he had trained to be his best mechanic , was a ...
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