James WattDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 241 pages |
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... 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 her benefactors ; probably , in the extent and quality of the influence he exerted upon the national character ...
... 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 her benefactors ; probably , in the extent and quality of the influence he exerted upon the national character ...
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... never saw such an idle boy ; take a book or employ yourself usefully ; for the last hour you have not spoken one word , but taken off the lid of that kettle and put it on again , holding now a cup and now a silver spoon over the steam ...
... never saw such an idle boy ; take a book or employ yourself usefully ; for the last hour you have not spoken one word , but taken off the lid of that kettle and put it on again , holding now a cup and now a silver spoon over the steam ...
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... never occurred , it matters little . They should have occurred , for they are too good to lose . We could part with many of the actual characters of the flesh in history without much loss ; banish the imaginary host of the spirit and we ...
... never occurred , it matters little . They should have occurred , for they are too good to lose . We could part with many of the actual characters of the flesh in history without much loss ; banish the imaginary host of the spirit and we ...
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... never have been perfected , so often did failure of experiments arise solely because it was in that day impossible to find men capable of executing the plans of the inventor . His problem was to teach them by example how to obtain the ...
... never have been perfected , so often did failure of experiments arise solely because it was in that day impossible to find men capable of executing the plans of the inventor . His problem was to teach them by example how to obtain the ...
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... Never was there an inventor who had such reason to thank fortune that in his youth he had learned to work with his hands . It proved literally true , as his fellow- workmen in the shop predicted , that " Jamie's fortune was at his ...
... Never was there an inventor who had such reason to thank fortune that in his youth he had learned to work with his hands . It proved literally true , as his fellow- workmen in the shop predicted , that " Jamie's fortune was at his ...
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