James WattDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 241 pages |
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... thoughts were upon other matters . This settled the question , as I supposed , but in this I was mistaken . Why shouldn't I write the Life of the maker of the steam - engine , out of which I had made fortune ? Besides , I knew little of ...
... thoughts were upon other matters . This settled the question , as I supposed , but in this I was mistaken . Why shouldn't I write the Life of the maker of the steam - engine , out of which I had made fortune ? Besides , I knew little of ...
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... thought , however , that the lad was not being educated in some very important departments . The young mind was absorbing , though its acquisitions did not count in the school records . Much is revealed of his musings and inward ...
... thought , however , that the lad was not being educated in some very important departments . The young mind was absorbing , though its acquisitions did not count in the school records . Much is revealed of his musings and inward ...
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... thoughts and time , and astronomy also became a fascinating study . Long hours were often spent , lying on his back in a grove near his home , studying the stars by night and the clouds by day . Watt met his first irreparable loss in ...
... thoughts and time , and astronomy also became a fascinating study . Long hours were often spent , lying on his back in a grove near his home , studying the stars by night and the clouds by day . Watt met his first irreparable loss in ...
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... the suggested safeguards combined scarcely weigh as much as preventives against disgracing himself as the thought that it would not be only himself he would disgrace , but that he would also bring disgrace upon GLASGOW TO LONDON 27.
... the suggested safeguards combined scarcely weigh as much as preventives against disgracing himself as the thought that it would not be only himself he would disgrace , but that he would also bring disgrace upon GLASGOW TO LONDON 27.
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... thought that he would in any respect discredit the good name of his forbears . Many London shops were visited , but the rules of the trade , requiring apprentices to serve for seven years , or , being journeymen , to have served that ...
... thought that he would in any respect discredit the good name of his forbears . Many London shops were visited , but the rules of the trade , requiring apprentices to serve for seven years , or , being journeymen , to have served that ...
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