Writings of Levi Woodbury, LL.: D. Political, Judicial and Literary, Volume 3Little, Brown, 1852 - 453 páginas |
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... progress of the sciences and the arts , have elevated society to such a condition , that the statesmen of most sagacity seek to give a due preference to practical talents over mere theoretic acquirements , -to place much of the ...
... progress of the sciences and the arts , have elevated society to such a condition , that the statesmen of most sagacity seek to give a due preference to practical talents over mere theoretic acquirements , -to place much of the ...
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... progress in hydraulics , over the clumsy aqueducts of antiquity ? The whole art of teaching the deaf and dumb , formed on most scien- tific principles ? The power of gravitation , and the laws which govern the revolution of the whole ...
... progress in hydraulics , over the clumsy aqueducts of antiquity ? The whole art of teaching the deaf and dumb , formed on most scien- tific principles ? The power of gravitation , and the laws which govern the revolution of the whole ...
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... progress of civilization and the advancement of human happiness greatly depend on the efforts of learned and ingenious persons in the various arts and sciences ; " and a patent was secured to the author of all improvements . But still ...
... progress of civilization and the advancement of human happiness greatly depend on the efforts of learned and ingenious persons in the various arts and sciences ; " and a patent was secured to the author of all improvements . But still ...
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... him that the whole is but another fruit of modern progress in science and its various uses , under the direction , in most cases , of only individual enterprise , -- a single mechanic , here 28 PROMOTION AND USES OF SCIENCE .
... him that the whole is but another fruit of modern progress in science and its various uses , under the direction , in most cases , of only individual enterprise , -- a single mechanic , here 28 PROMOTION AND USES OF SCIENCE .
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... progress in the use of architectural science . But it has taken chiefly a like practical direction , and the most rapid advances have been either in private dwellings for daily occupation , or , when the highest acquirements and largest ...
... progress in the use of architectural science . But it has taken chiefly a like practical direction , and the most rapid advances have been either in private dwellings for daily occupation , or , when the highest acquirements and largest ...
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Página 393 - Breathes there a man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself has said, This is my own, my native land!
Página 202 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of...
Página 44 - If you forgive me, I rejoice ; if you are angry, I can bear it : the die is cast, the book is written ; to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which : it may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.
Página 202 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Página 120 - Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak, or stain, \ Of his unrivalled pencil. He inspires Their balmy odours, and imparts their hues, And bathes their eyes with nectar, and includes, In grains as countless as the seaside sands, The forms, with which he sprinkles all the earth.
Página 202 - Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Página 21 - There is no end to machinery. Even the horse is stripped of his harness, and finds a fleet fire-horse yoked in his stead.
Página 202 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Página 415 - Stand, never overlooked, our favourite elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut ; While far beyond, and overthwart the stream, That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, The sloping land recedes into the clouds ; Displaying on...
Página 202 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.