Perseverance Under Difficulties, as Shown in the Lives of Great MenSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1862 - 294 pages |
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... machine had been used instead of the kite . Franklin after- wards brought down the lightning into his house by means of an insulated iron rod , and repeated the experiments at his leisure . His active and practical mind now led him to ...
... machine had been used instead of the kite . Franklin after- wards brought down the lightning into his house by means of an insulated iron rod , and repeated the experiments at his leisure . His active and practical mind now led him to ...
Page 170
... machine . Thus , without doing any regular lessons , he was always picking up knowledge , and even turning it to use . His schoolfellows , when he was well enough to go to school , looked down upon the quiet , suffering- looking little ...
... machine . Thus , without doing any regular lessons , he was always picking up knowledge , and even turning it to use . His schoolfellows , when he was well enough to go to school , looked down upon the quiet , suffering- looking little ...
Page 187
... machine thus proposed by Papin exemplified two very important principles , neither of which appears to have been thought of in the application of the power of steam before his time . The first is , the communication of the moving force ...
... machine thus proposed by Papin exemplified two very important principles , neither of which appears to have been thought of in the application of the power of steam before his time . The first is , the communication of the moving force ...
Page 189
... machine depended on the regularity with which these stop - cocks were turned . An accidental contrivance remedied this incon- venience . A boy of the name of Humphrey Potter was employed to tend one of Newcomen's engines , and finding ...
... machine depended on the regularity with which these stop - cocks were turned . An accidental contrivance remedied this incon- venience . A boy of the name of Humphrey Potter was employed to tend one of Newcomen's engines , and finding ...
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... machine the very expensive engine made by Newcomen ; but this was not the case . Watt's model engine was erected in 1765 , and in two years no progress was made in applying it to any practical purpose . The reason of this was that Watt ...
... machine the very expensive engine made by Newcomen ; but this was not the case . Watt's model engine was erected in 1765 , and in two years no progress was made in applying it to any practical purpose . The reason of this was that Watt ...
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Page 91 - How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting, that The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that There will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
Page 39 - Indians, painted according to their savage fashion, and decorated with their national ornaments of gold; after these were borne various kinds of live parrots, together with stuffed birds and animals of unknown species, and rare plants supposed to be of precious qualities; while great care was taken to make a conspicuous display of Indian coronets, bracelets, and other decorations of gold, which might give an idea of the wealth of the newly discovered regions.
Page 91 - Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy, and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night ; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. Drive thy business, let not that drive thee; and early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise,
Page 92 - An acquaintance, who was also learning it, used often to tempt me to play chess with him. Finding this took up too much of the time I had to spare for study, I at length...
Page 221 - It seemed as if every subject that was casually started in conversation, with him had been that which he had been last occupied in studying and exhausting, such was the copiousness, the precision, and the admirable clearness of the information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to the studies connected with his ordinary pursuits. That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and...
Page 85 - American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer! We had an alehouse boy, who attended always in the house to supply the workmen. My companion at the press drank every day a pint before breakfast, a pint at breakfast with...
Page 221 - That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law.
Page 87 - I composed a sheet a day, and Meredith worked it off at press ; it was often eleven at night, and sometimes later, before I had finished my distribution for the next day's work, for the little jobs sent in by our other friends now and then put us back.
Page 110 - The best in the world. They submitted willingly to the government of the Crown, and paid, in all their courts, obedience to acts of parliament. Numerous as the people are in the several old provinces, they cost you nothing in forts, citadels, garrisons or armies, to keep them in subjection. They were governed by this country at the expence only of a little pen, ink and paper.
Page 80 - I discovered it, when I began to be considered a little more by my brother's acquaintance, and in a manner that did not quite please him, as he thought, probably with reason, that it tended to make me too vain.