James WattDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 241 pages |
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... mothers of the line - equally important ? For what a Scotch boy born to labor is to become , and how , cannot be ... mother was Agnes Muirhead , a descendant of the Muirheads of Lachop , who date away back before the reign of King ...
... mothers of the line - equally important ? For what a Scotch boy born to labor is to become , and how , cannot be ... mother was Agnes Muirhead , a descendant of the Muirheads of Lachop , who date away back before the reign of King ...
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... mother , on returning home , her childish surprise that " Mrs. Watt had two candles lighted on the table ! " Among these and other remi- niscences of her youth , one venerable informant described James Watt's mother , in her eloquent ...
... mother , on returning home , her childish surprise that " Mrs. Watt had two candles lighted on the table ! " Among these and other remi- niscences of her youth , one venerable informant described James Watt's mother , in her eloquent ...
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... mother of the late statesman , the other his wife and the mother of his sons . So with the Watt family , of which we have records of three marriages . Our Watt , therefore , had but one - eighth of the original Watt strain ; seven ...
... mother of the late statesman , the other his wife and the mother of his sons . So with the Watt family , of which we have records of three marriages . Our Watt , therefore , had but one - eighth of the original Watt strain ; seven ...
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... mother's company and tender care . Happy chance ! What teacher , what companionship , to compare with that of such a mother ! She taught him to read most of what he then knew , and , we may be sure , fed him on the poetry and romance ...
... mother's company and tender care . Happy chance ! What teacher , what companionship , to compare with that of such a mother ! She taught him to read most of what he then knew , and , we may be sure , fed him on the poetry and romance ...
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... mother's knee . Such mothers as Watt had are the appointed trainers of genius , and make men good and great , if the needed spark be there to enkindle : " Kings they " make gods , and meaner subjects kings . " We have another story of ...
... mother's knee . Such mothers as Watt had are the appointed trainers of genius , and make men good and great , if the needed spark be there to enkindle : " Kings they " make gods , and meaner subjects kings . " We have another story of ...
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