American Library of Useful Knowledge, Volume 1Stimpson and Clapp, 1831 - Science |
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... possesses science , will be his facility in passing from one branch of an art to another ; and his ability to command a higher price for his services . His capacity , too , for adopting improvements , and keeping pace with the genius of ...
... possesses science , will be his facility in passing from one branch of an art to another ; and his ability to command a higher price for his services . His capacity , too , for adopting improvements , and keeping pace with the genius of ...
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... possess the saga- city of genius , may build a solid immortality upon the foundation of his own inventions . study of its pro- sure , as any thing He may even go And why should it not be so ? Why should not our youth , engaged in the ...
... possess the saga- city of genius , may build a solid immortality upon the foundation of his own inventions . study of its pro- sure , as any thing He may even go And why should it not be so ? Why should not our youth , engaged in the ...
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... possessed more leisure , I should have preferred to have given you , as a more suitable topic for an introductory discourse , some account of the rise and progress of the more important arts and inventions in modern times . A close ...
... possessed more leisure , I should have preferred to have given you , as a more suitable topic for an introductory discourse , some account of the rise and progress of the more important arts and inventions in modern times . A close ...
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... possess it , it would but teach him the deformity of his own structure , the unloveliness of his frame , though " the hugest of things , " his disability to act on external matter , and the degrading nature of his own physical wants ...
... possess it , it would but teach him the deformity of his own structure , the unloveliness of his frame , though " the hugest of things , " his disability to act on external matter , and the degrading nature of his own physical wants ...
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... possessing . But doubtless the reasoning faculty , the mind , is the leading characteristic attribute of the human race . By the exercise of this , he arrives at the knowledge of the properties of natural bodies . This is science ...
... possessing . But doubtless the reasoning faculty , the mind , is the leading characteristic attribute of the human race . By the exercise of this , he arrives at the knowledge of the properties of natural bodies . This is science ...
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