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Page 16
... lead future generations . We can scarcely imagine the number of minds , which have been already stimulated to the pursuit of practical science by their successful example . Whichever way we turn , we ' may see minds of the first class ...
... lead future generations . We can scarcely imagine the number of minds , which have been already stimulated to the pursuit of practical science by their successful example . Whichever way we turn , we ' may see minds of the first class ...
Page 28
... leads me to remark , in the next place , as matter of pride , as well as of encouragement , that to mechanics themselves we are , indebted for some of the most useful and profitable inventions of our age . I have already ad- verted to ...
... leads me to remark , in the next place , as matter of pride , as well as of encouragement , that to mechanics themselves we are , indebted for some of the most useful and profitable inventions of our age . I have already ad- verted to ...
Page 32
... lead of him , who merely knows , and has none of the skill to apply power , or the practical sagacity to overcome difficulties ; that he , whose interest is indissolubly connected with his science , and who feels at every turn the ...
... lead of him , who merely knows , and has none of the skill to apply power , or the practical sagacity to overcome difficulties ; that he , whose interest is indissolubly connected with his science , and who feels at every turn the ...
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... lead in mechanical improvements , and give another bright example to the world , by the demonstration of the truth , that free governments are as well adapted to perfect the arts of life , and foster inventive genius , as they are to ...
... lead in mechanical improvements , and give another bright example to the world , by the demonstration of the truth , that free governments are as well adapted to perfect the arts of life , and foster inventive genius , as they are to ...
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... lead him to the deserts , and give him for his favourite home the torrid plains of the tropics . It was placing the King of Babylon sufficiently out of the rank of human beings , though he carried all his reasoning faculties with him ...
... lead him to the deserts , and give him for his favourite home the torrid plains of the tropics . It was placing the King of Babylon sufficiently out of the rank of human beings , though he carried all his reasoning faculties with him ...
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