Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also, Lives of Distinguished European Mechanics, Together with a Collection of Anecdotes, Descriptions, Etc., Etc. ...W.F. Peckham, 1840 - 482 pages |
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... England Primer all by heart , from Adam's fall to the end of the catechism . But the most surprising thing of my learning ap- pears to me to be this : My father had an old arithmetic book in the house , by one Hodder , with the old ...
... England Primer all by heart , from Adam's fall to the end of the catechism . But the most surprising thing of my learning ap- pears to me to be this : My father had an old arithmetic book in the house , by one Hodder , with the old ...
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... England . I knew no better , but thought myself perfect master , but learned nothing of logarithms , or of calculation by latitude and departure , only geometrically . As I had learned common arithmetic out of school by myself , I had ...
... England . I knew no better , but thought myself perfect master , but learned nothing of logarithms , or of calculation by latitude and departure , only geometrically . As I had learned common arithmetic out of school by myself , I had ...
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... England . With slender means of his own , and aided , or rather mocked , by some timid and unsteady patronage , he there resumed with untiring energy his great undertaking . He proceeded to procure patents of the British government for ...
... England . With slender means of his own , and aided , or rather mocked , by some timid and unsteady patronage , he there resumed with untiring energy his great undertaking . He proceeded to procure patents of the British government for ...
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... England under the supposed patronage of the governor . - Disap- pointment and imposition . - Thrown upon his own resources , and works in London as a journeyman printer . - Writes a pamphlet . - Attracts the attention of literary men ...
... England under the supposed patronage of the governor . - Disap- pointment and imposition . - Thrown upon his own resources , and works in London as a journeyman printer . - Writes a pamphlet . - Attracts the attention of literary men ...
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... England about twenty - four years before , followed the occupation of a soap- boiler and tallow - chandler , a business to which he had not been bred , and by which he seems with difficulty to have been able to support his numerous ...
... England about twenty - four years before , followed the occupation of a soap- boiler and tallow - chandler , a business to which he had not been bred , and by which he seems with difficulty to have been able to support his numerous ...
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Page 404 - About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt: and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
Page 44 - I have been the more particular in this description 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.
Page 43 - They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation, and that in their different guesses at the author, none were named but men of some character * among us for learning and ingenuity.
Page 43 - ... accordingly, under my name for several months. At length a fresh difference arising between my brother and me, I took upon me to assert my freedom, presuming that he would not venture to produce the new indentures. It was not fair in me to take this advantage, and this I therefore reckon one of the first errata of my life...
Page 41 - I also sometimes jumbled my collection of hints into confusion, and after some weeks endeavored to reduce them into the best order before I began to form the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, I discovered many faults, and corrected them; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that, in certain particulars of small consequence, I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language,...
Page 45 - I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther. Thus refreshed, I walked again up the street, which by this time had many clean -dressed people in it, who were all walking the same way.
Page 297 - ... 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 the...
Page 41 - I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind and make me master of it.
Page 65 - Spirits, at the same time, are to be fired by a spark sent from side to side through the river, without any other conductor than the water; an experiment which we some time since performed, to the amazement of many.
Page 45 - I walked again up the street, which by this time had many clean-dressed people in it, who were all walking the same way. I joined them, and thereby was led into the great meeting-house of the Quakers near the market. I sat down among them, and, after looking round...