 | 1842 - 634 pages
...it is obedient to the hand of a child ; its aliment is coal, wood, charcoal, or other combustibles ; it consumes none while idle ; it never tires ; and...equally active in all climates ; and will do work of any kiind ; it is a water pumper, a miner, a sailor, a cotton spinner, a weaver, a blacksmith, a miller,... | |
 | Neil Arnott - 1827 - 692 pages
...obedient to the hand of a child ; — its aliment is coal, wood, charcoal, or other combustible ; — it consumes none While idle ; — it never tires, and wants no sleep ; — is not subject to malady when originally well made, and only refuses to work when worn out with... | |
 | Neil Arnott - 1829 - 542 pages
...obedient to the hand of a child; — its aliment is coal, wood, charcoal, or other combustible; — it consumes none while idle; — it never tires, and...climates, and will do work of any kind; — it is a water pumper, a miner, a sailor, a cotten-spinner, a weaver, a blacksmith, a miller, &c. &c. : and... | |
 | 1830 - 592 pages
...wood, charcoal, or other combustible ; — it consumes none while idle ; — it never tires, and it wants no sleep ; — it is not subject to malady when...blacksmith, a miller, &c. &c. ; and a small engine, in the character of a steam poney, may be seen dragging after it on a rail-road a hundred tons of merchandize,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 424 pages
...obedient to the hand of a child ; — its aliment is coal, wood, charcoal, or other combustible, — it consumes none while idle, — it never tires, and...blacksmith, a miller, &c. &c. ; and a small engine, in the character of a steam poney, may be seen dragging after it on a railroad a hundred tons of merchandise,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 438 pages
...obedient to the hand of a child ; — its aliment is coal, wood, charcoal, or other combustible, — it consumes none while idle, — it never tires, and...blacksmith, a miller, &.c, &.c ; and a small engine, in the character of a sleaar poney, may be seen dragging after it on a railroad a hundred tons of merchandise,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 432 pages
...obedient to the hand of a child ; — its aliment is coal, wood, charcoal, or other combustible, — it consumes none while idle, — it never tires, and wants no sleep ; — it if not subject to malady when originally well made, and only refuses to work when worn out with age... | |
 | Exemplary and instructive biography - 1836 - 348 pages
...it is obedient to the hand of a child. Its aliment is coal, wood, charcoal, or other combustible ; it consumes none while idle ; it never tires, and...blacksmith, a miller, &c. &c ; and a small engine in the character of a steam pony may be seen dragging after it on a railroad a hundred tons of merchandise,... | |
 | 1837 - 260 pages
...and even when possessing Hie power of a hundred horses, it is obedient to the hand of a child: — it never tires, and wants no sleep; it is not subject...cotton-spinner, a weaver, a blacksmith, a miller, &c. ; and a small engine, in the character of a steam-pony, may be seen dragging after it on a railroad... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...horses, it is obedient to the hand of a child: it 182 THE SATURDAY MAGAZINES J85 worn out with age ; It U equally active in all climates, and will do work of...cotton-spinner, a weaver, a blacksmith, a miller, &c. ; and a small engine, in the character of a steam-pony, may be seen dragging after it on a railroad... | |
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Its aliment is coal, wood, charcoal, or other combustible ; it consumes none while idle ; it never tires, and wants no sleep ; it is not subject to malady when originally well made, and only refuses to work when worn out with age ; it is equally active... 
