 | William Jacks - 1901 - 260 pages
...of the earth — giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite — commanding manufactures to arise, as the rod of the prophet produced water...and of sailing without that wind which defied the commands and threats of Xerxes himself. This potent commander of the elements — this abridger of... | |
 | William Henry Doolittle - 1903 - 550 pages
...to the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite — commanding manufactures to rise — affording means of dispensing with that time and tide which...and of sailing without that wind which defied the commands and threats of Xerxes himself. This potent commander of the elements — this abridger of... | |
 | James Lumsden - 1903 - 360 pages
...summit of the earth ; giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite ; commanding manufactures to arise, as the rod of the prophet produced water...desert ; affording the means of dispensing with that tide and time which wait for no man, and of sailing without that wind which defied the commands and... | |
 | William Henry Doolittle - 1903 - 562 pages
...earth—giving to the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite—commanding manufactures to rise—affording means of dispensing with that time and tide which wait for no man—and of sailing without that wind which defied the commands and threats of Xerxes himself. This... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - 1905 - 272 pages
...embodied by another. I am well entitled to say this, and have often experienced it in my own case. This potent commander of the elements, this abridger...magician, whose cloudy machinery has produced a change in the world, the effects of which, extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be... | |
 | James Lumsden - 1905 - 388 pages
...summit of the earth ; giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite ; commanding manufactures to arise, as the rod of the prophet produced water...desert ; affording the means of dispensing with that tide and time which wait for no man, and of sailing without that wind which defied the commands and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1912 - 810 pages
...no man, and of sailing without that wind which defied the commands and threats of Xerxes himself.1 This potent commander of the elements, this abridger...this magician, whose cloudy machinery has produced 1 Prohably the ingenious author alludes to the national adage : The king said sail, But the wind said... | |
 | 1919 - 434 pages
...of the earth — giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite — commanding manufacture to arise as the rod of the prophet produced water in the desert, affording the means to dispense with that time and tide which wait for no man, and of sailing without that wind which defied... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1923 - 666 pages
...summit of the earth, giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite, commanding manufactures to arise, as the rod of the prophet produced water...and of sailing without that wind which defied the commands and threats of Xerxes himself.1 This potent commander of the elements, this abridger of time... | |
 | Delaware and Hudson Company - 1925 - 902 pages
...earth — has given to the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite — has commanded manufactures to arise as the rod of the prophet produced water in the desert — has afforded the means of dispensing with that tide and time which wait for no man — and of sailing... | |
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... giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite; commanding manufactures to arise, as the rod of the prophet produced water in the desert; affording the means of dispensing with that time and tide which wait for no man; and of sailing without... 
