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... give encour- agement to men of genius , but employment to whole classes in the subordinate arts ? They not only create a demand for labour ; but make that very labour a means of subsistence to many , who must otherwise be idle and ...
... give encour- agement to men of genius , but employment to whole classes in the subordinate arts ? They not only create a demand for labour ; but make that very labour a means of subsistence to many , who must otherwise be idle and ...
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... give in this history of the steam - boat , a slight illustration of the slow progress of inventions . It may not be unacceptable , as a tribute to the memory of a man , who united in himself a great love of science with an ...
... give in this history of the steam - boat , a slight illustration of the slow progress of inventions . It may not be unacceptable , as a tribute to the memory of a man , who united in himself a great love of science with an ...
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... gives it a superiority of one per centum upon the capital employed . An instance , illus- trative of these remarks , occurred in the course of my own official duties , in a suit for the infringement of a patent right . A beautiful ...
... gives it a superiority of one per centum upon the capital employed . An instance , illus- trative of these remarks , occurred in the course of my own official duties , in a suit for the infringement of a patent right . A beautiful ...
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... Every new attainment is a new source of pleasure ; and thus the desire for it increases as fast as it is gratified . It not only widens the sphere of our thoughts , but it elevates them , and thus gives STORY'S DISCOURSE . 21.
... Every new attainment is a new source of pleasure ; and thus the desire for it increases as fast as it is gratified . It not only widens the sphere of our thoughts , but it elevates them , and thus gives STORY'S DISCOURSE . 21.
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thoughts , but it elevates them , and thus gives them a live- lier moral action . When one has seen an apple fall from a tree , and is told for the first time , that its fall is regulated by the law of gravitation , the simplicity of ...
thoughts , but it elevates them , and thus gives them a live- lier moral action . When one has seen an apple fall from a tree , and is told for the first time , that its fall is regulated by the law of gravitation , the simplicity of ...
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