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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... mind into its peculiar model ; and we can there perceive the origin of that misanthropical cast of thought , that eccentricity of character and that looseness of sentiment in regard to concerns of a serious nature , which so strongly ...
... mind into its peculiar model ; and we can there perceive the origin of that misanthropical cast of thought , that eccentricity of character and that looseness of sentiment in regard to concerns of a serious nature , which so strongly ...
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... mind , as great , perhaps , as the Trojan war on the minds of heroes . " " When I was four years old I went to school : I know from the circumstance that my mistress used to ask me how my mother was , and she died when I was five years ...
... mind , as great , perhaps , as the Trojan war on the minds of heroes . " " When I was four years old I went to school : I know from the circumstance that my mistress used to ask me how my mother was , and she died when I was five years ...
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... mind of an ardent projector , who had been so long devoted to one darling object , which it was not his destiny to accomplish ! —and how touching is the sentiment found in his journal : The day will come when some more powerful man will ...
... mind of an ardent projector , who had been so long devoted to one darling object , which it was not his destiny to accomplish ! —and how touching is the sentiment found in his journal : The day will come when some more powerful man will ...
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... mind , and make me master of it . There fore , I took some of the tales in the Spectator , and turned them into verse ; and after a time , when I had pretty well forgotten the prose , turned them back again . I also sometimes jumbled my ...
... mind , and make me master of it . There fore , I took some of the tales in the Spectator , and turned them into verse ; and after a time , when I had pretty well forgotten the prose , turned them back again . I also sometimes jumbled my ...
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... he , " in this de- scription of my journey , and shall be so of my first entry into that city , that you may , in your mind , compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there . I 44 AMERICAN MECHANICS .
... he , " in this de- scription of my journey , and shall be so of my first entry into that city , that you may , in your mind , compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there . I 44 AMERICAN MECHANICS .
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