James WattDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 241 pages |
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Page 6
... means needed for his own support . " President Garfield's verdict was to the same effect , " The best " heritage to which a man can be born is poverty . " The writer's knowledge of the usual effect of the heritage of milliondom upon the ...
... means needed for his own support . " President Garfield's verdict was to the same effect , " The best " heritage to which a man can be born is poverty . " The writer's knowledge of the usual effect of the heritage of milliondom upon the ...
Page 8
... means of judging for himself . One of the author's informants on such points more than twenty years ago , a venerable lady , then in her eighty - fifth year , was wont to speak of the worthy Bailie's wife with much characteristic ...
... means of judging for himself . One of the author's informants on such points more than twenty years ago , a venerable lady , then in her eighty - fifth year , was wont to speak of the worthy Bailie's wife with much characteristic ...
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... means exactly the same to him , and appears not less important to his family and friends than what leadership is to the public man , or in any of the pro- fessions . He has all their pride of profession , and less vanity than most . How ...
... means exactly the same to him , and appears not less important to his family and friends than what leadership is to the public man , or in any of the pro- fessions . He has all their pride of profession , and less vanity than most . How ...
Page 40
... means for tuning to any system , contrivances for improving the stops , etc. Lest we are led into a sad mistake here , let us stop a moment to consider how Watt so easily accomplished wonders , as if by inspiration . In all history it ...
... means for tuning to any system , contrivances for improving the stops , etc. Lest we are led into a sad mistake here , let us stop a moment to consider how Watt so easily accomplished wonders , as if by inspiration . In all history it ...
Page 48
... mean ? we hear the reader inquire . Let us try to explain it in simple language . Arago pronounced Black's experiment revealing it as one of the most remarkable in modern physics . Water passed as an element until Watt found it was a ...
... mean ? we hear the reader inquire . Let us try to explain it in simple language . Arago pronounced Black's experiment revealing it as one of the most remarkable in modern physics . Water passed as an element until Watt found it was a ...
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