Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also, Lives of Distinguished European Mechanics; Together with a Collection of Anecdotes, Descriptions, &c. &c., Relating to the Mechanic ArtsHarper & brothers, 1847 - 482 páginas |
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... give as much variety as possible within our assigned limits , we have reluctantly excluded several characters , who , but for their similarity of pursuit , would have adorned our pages . The materials are drawn from a variety of sources ...
... give as much variety as possible within our assigned limits , we have reluctantly excluded several characters , who , but for their similarity of pursuit , would have adorned our pages . The materials are drawn from a variety of sources ...
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... give a tone and direction to character . We can all of us refer to some of the most apparently trivial events of ... gives for complying with this request was , that his life had been filled with such a variety of changes , affording ...
... give a tone and direction to character . We can all of us refer to some of the most apparently trivial events of ... gives for complying with this request was , that his life had been filled with such a variety of changes , affording ...
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... give me leave to say a word in my behalf . As my father had that evening gone a courting , I had nowhere to apply to for redress , therefore was obliged not only to submit to the greatest indignities , but to the greatest injustice . On ...
... give me leave to say a word in my behalf . As my father had that evening gone a courting , I had nowhere to apply to for redress , therefore was obliged not only to submit to the greatest indignities , but to the greatest injustice . On ...
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... give me a knowledge of the whole world , which was Salmon's Geog- raphy . I repeatedly requested my father to get it for me , but to no purpose . I then proposed to him to give me some headlands at the end of a field to plant potatoes ...
... give me a knowledge of the whole world , which was Salmon's Geog- raphy . I repeatedly requested my father to get it for me , but to no purpose . I then proposed to him to give me some headlands at the end of a field to plant potatoes ...
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... give up to any one , the one - half of my shares , who would , at his own expense , make a boat go at the rate of eight miles an hour , in dead water , in eighteen months , or forfeit all the expenditures on failing ; or I would engage ...
... give up to any one , the one - half of my shares , who would , at his own expense , make a boat go at the rate of eight miles an hour , in dead water , in eighteen months , or forfeit all the expenditures on failing ; or I would engage ...
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