The American Library of Useful Knowledge, Volume 1Stimpson and Clapp, 1831 |
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... once gave it the highest value ; and laid the broad foundation of their present wealth and prosperity . At this very moment , New England annually consumes , in her manufactories , more than one fifth part of the eight hun- dred and ...
... once gave it the highest value ; and laid the broad foundation of their present wealth and prosperity . At this very moment , New England annually consumes , in her manufactories , more than one fifth part of the eight hun- dred and ...
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... once awakened by it , never sleeps ; the genius , which is once kindled at its altar , burns on with an inex- tinguishable flame . It has been remarked , that such was the progress of astronomical science , and the number of minds ...
... once awakened by it , never sleeps ; the genius , which is once kindled at its altar , burns on with an inex- tinguishable flame . It has been remarked , that such was the progress of astronomical science , and the number of minds ...
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... once powerful , flexible , capable of innumerable modes and varieties of action , and terminated by an instrument of wonderful , heavenly work- manship , the human hand . This marvellous physical conformation , gives man the power of ...
... once powerful , flexible , capable of innumerable modes and varieties of action , and terminated by an instrument of wonderful , heavenly work- manship , the human hand . This marvellous physical conformation , gives man the power of ...
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... once so high , so vast and so exact ; when we arrive at the disco- veries of Newton , which pour in day on the works of God , as if a second fiat for light had gone forth from his own mouth ; -when , further , we attempt to follow those ...
... once so high , so vast and so exact ; when we arrive at the disco- veries of Newton , which pour in day on the works of God , as if a second fiat for light had gone forth from his own mouth ; -when , further , we attempt to follow those ...
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... should think they would at once force themselves on men's adoption , have , neverthe- less , been accomplished slowly and by painful efforts . But if the history of the progress of the mechanical 5 WEBSTER'S LECTURE . 49.
... should think they would at once force themselves on men's adoption , have , neverthe- less , been accomplished slowly and by painful efforts . But if the history of the progress of the mechanical 5 WEBSTER'S LECTURE . 49.
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