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Page 10
... force of the lamen- tation of the poet , " Truths would you teach , to save a sinking land , All shun , none aid you , and few understand . " As I had occasion to pass daily to and from the building- yard , while my boat was in progress ...
... force of the lamen- tation of the poet , " Truths would you teach , to save a sinking land , All shun , none aid you , and few understand . " As I had occasion to pass daily to and from the building- yard , while my boat was in progress ...
Page 40
... force and motion , thus derived from natural agencies , to the arts of life . This is the object of mechanical philosophy . None can doubt , certainly , the high importance of this sort of knowledge , or fail to see how suitable it is ...
... force and motion , thus derived from natural agencies , to the arts of life . This is the object of mechanical philosophy . None can doubt , certainly , the high importance of this sort of knowledge , or fail to see how suitable it is ...
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... force and motion , penetrating into the secret principles which hold the universe of God together , and balancing world against world , and system against system . When we seek to accompany those , who pursue their studies at once so ...
... force and motion , penetrating into the secret principles which hold the universe of God together , and balancing world against world , and system against system . When we seek to accompany those , who pursue their studies at once so ...
Page 43
... less than its own to other bodies , or by enabling it to overcome a power of greater intensity or force than its own . And it is usually said that every machine , however apparently complex , is capable of being WEBSTER'S LECTURE . 43.
... less than its own to other bodies , or by enabling it to overcome a power of greater intensity or force than its own . And it is usually said that every machine , however apparently complex , is capable of being WEBSTER'S LECTURE . 43.
Page 44
... force of human genius , and cultivated by the last degree of human assiduity , will ever exhaust the combinations into which these elementary forms may be thrown . An indefinite , though not an infinite reach of invention may be ...
... force of human genius , and cultivated by the last degree of human assiduity , will ever exhaust the combinations into which these elementary forms may be thrown . An indefinite , though not an infinite reach of invention may be ...
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