| Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 páginas
...Hector about Johnson's early days, and saw the works of Boulton, Watt's partner, who said to him, " I sell here, sir, what all the world desires to have — -power" Thence they went to Lichfield, and met more of the rapidly thinning circle of Johnson's oldest friends.... | |
| James Boswell - 1907 - 638 páginas
...contrivance of some of the machinery would have " matched his mighty mind." I shall never forget Mr. Bolton's expression to me. " I sell here, Sir, what all the...seemed to be a father to his tribe. One of them came tohim, complaining grievously of his landlord for having distrained his goods. " Your landlord is in... | |
| Esther Singleton - 1908 - 548 páginas
...contrivance of some of the machinery would have matched his mighty mind. I shall never forget Mr. Boul- ' ton's expression to me,' — (I sell here, sir, what all the world desires to have — Power!' " It is unnecessary, for our purpose, that we should pursue the history of the final estab" lishment... | |
| James Boswell - 1916 - 370 páginas
...contrivance of some of the machinery would have "matched his mighty mind." I shall never forget Mr. Bolton's expression to me, "I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have — power. ' ' Dr. Johnson said to me in the morning. "Yon will see, Sir, at Mr. Hector's, his sister, Mrs. Careless,... | |
| Esther Singleton - 1916 - 358 páginas
...contrivance of some of the machinery would have matched his mighty mind. I shall never forget Mr. Boulton,s expression to me,' — 'I sell here, sir, what all the world desires to have — Power!, " It is unnecessary, for our purpose, that we Establish, should pursue the history of the final estabment... | |
| John Howard Bertram Masterman - 1920 - 142 páginas
...ordinance of baptism. Boswell was shown over the Soho factory by Boulton, whom he quotes as saying " I sell here, sir, what all the world desires to have — POWER. ' ' Next day J ohnson drove to Lichfield, remarking, when Boswell charged the inhabitants with being... | |
| Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1921 - 296 páginas
...imagination. Boswell, who visited the works in this same year, 1776, says, "I shall never forget Mr. Boulton's expression to me. 'I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have, Power.' " It does not appear that any rotative engines were made during the early years of the partnership.... | |
| Reginald James White - 1967 - 308 páginas
...the admiring visitors from all over the world who came to gaze upon his engineering works at Soho: 'I sell here, sir, what all the world desires to have — POWER.' Dr Johnson, visiting Derby with James Boswell in 1776, left Boswell to visit Soho alone. 'I wish that... | |
| Nigel Kelly, Jane Shuter, Rosemary Rees - 1998 - 296 páginas
...Boulton and Watt's factory in Soho. Boswell wrote this after the visit. I shall never forget Mr Boulton's expression to me: 'I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have power'. This is a diagram of a typical 'sun and planet gear'. The driving rod (A) goes up and down (parallel... | |
| Nigel Kelly, Rosemary Rees, Jane Shuter - 1998 - 102 páginas
...Boulton and Watt's factory in Soho. Boswell wrote this after the visit. I shall never forget Mr Boulton's expression to me: 'I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have power'. This is a diagram of a typical 'sun and planet gear'. The driving rod (A) goes up and down (parallel... | |
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