 Amidst this company stood Mr Watt, the man whose genius discovered the means of multiplying our national resources to a degree perhaps even beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation and combination ; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit...  Harry and Lucy: with Other Tales - Page 386by Maria Edgeworth - 1842Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - Monastic and religious life - 1820 - 344 pages
...Mr Watt, the man whose genius discovered the means of multiplying our national resources to a degree perhaps even beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation...earth — giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite — commanding manufactures to arise, as the rod of the prophet produced water, in the desert,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1820 - 348 pages
...means of multiplying our national resources to a degree perhaps even beyond his own stupendouspowers of calculation and combination; bringing the treasures...earth — giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite — commanding manufactures to arise, as the rod of the prophet produced water, in the desert,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 290 pages
...Watt, the man whose genius discovered the means of multiplying our national resources- to a degree perhaps even beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation...bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth—giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite—commanding manufactures to arise,... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 506 pages
...that writer, " whose genius discovered the means of multiplying our national resources to a degree perhaps even beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation...combination ; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the surface of the earth ; giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite; commanding manufactures... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 572 pages
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 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 552 pages
...Mr Watt, the man whose genius discovered the means of multiplying our national resources to a degree perhaps even beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation...earth — giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite — commanding manufactures to arise, as the rod of the prophet produced water in the desert,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 382 pages
...Mr Watt, the man whose genius discovered the means of multiplying our national resources to a degree perhaps even beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation...earth — giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite — commanding manufactures to arise, as the rod of the prophet produced water in the desert,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 382 pages
...Mr Watt, the man whose genius discovered the means of multiplying our national resources to a degree perhaps even beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation...bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth—giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite —commanding manufactures to arise,... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1833 - 502 pages
...Watt, the man whose genius discovered the means of multiplying our national resources, to a degree perhaps even beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation...earth— giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite — commanding manufactures to rise as the rod of the Prophet produced water in the desert... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1833 - 852 pages
...reaourcea to a degree perhaps even beyond hi* own stupendous ^owera of calculation MH! t-jwnbinnuon ; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit...earth — giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Af rite— commanding manufacture*! to arise, ai the rod of the prophet produced water in the desert,... | |
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