Old-world Questions and New-world AnswersK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1885 - 369 pages |
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... fifty years , these Englishmen of Englishmen remained without any accession to their numbers , except from men of their own race and religion . During all this time , they toiled unceasingly , and as one man , at the almost desperate ...
... fifty years , these Englishmen of Englishmen remained without any accession to their numbers , except from men of their own race and religion . During all this time , they toiled unceasingly , and as one man , at the almost desperate ...
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... Fifty years ago , the great wave of European emigration , which , to - day , throws annually more than a million of souls on the American shore , had scarcely begun to rise . At that time there was hardly a name in New England which was ...
... Fifty years ago , the great wave of European emigration , which , to - day , throws annually more than a million of souls on the American shore , had scarcely begun to rise . At that time there was hardly a name in New England which was ...
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... fifty - fold greater than the length of any ordinary telephone line . A telegraph line may be regarded as a road , along which electric currents travel from a battery at one end of the wire to some form of mechanism which is capable of ...
... fifty - fold greater than the length of any ordinary telephone line . A telegraph line may be regarded as a road , along which electric currents travel from a battery at one end of the wire to some form of mechanism which is capable of ...
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... fifty feet square , at one end of which stand twenty - four large dynamos , weighing together some sixty tons . These are driven by engines of six hundred horse - power , and the resulting current of electricity is carried through thick ...
... fifty feet square , at one end of which stand twenty - four large dynamos , weighing together some sixty tons . These are driven by engines of six hundred horse - power , and the resulting current of electricity is carried through thick ...
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... Fifty years ago , a clock was an heirloom , even in well- to - do American families , but scarcely any home is without one to - day , and this change has been brought about by the skill and enterprise of the Connecticut man . Towards ...
... Fifty years ago , a clock was an heirloom , even in well- to - do American families , but scarcely any home is without one to - day , and this change has been brought about by the skill and enterprise of the Connecticut man . Towards ...
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