The Effects of Steam Power on the Condition of a NationT. Shrimpton and Son, 1872 - 31 pagina's |
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The Effects of Steam Power on the Condition of a Nation Thomas Stewart Omond Volledige weergave - 1872 |
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Pagina 6 - ... the perfecting of which belongs to our own age, and which even now is exerting an influence in the four quarters of the globe — will at no distant day produce moral and physical changes, all over the world, of a magnitude and permanency, surpassing the effects of all the wars and conquests which have convulsed mankind since the beginning of time...
Pagina 28 - Clothing the palpable and the familiar With golden exhalations of the dawn. Whatever fortunes wait my future toils, The beautiful is vanished — and returns not.
Pagina 14 - Fortifying, Attacking and Defending. The Ancients had more Occafion for Mechanics in the Art of War than we have : Gun-powder readily producing a Force far exceeding all the Engines, they had contrived for Battery. And this I reckon has loft us a good Occafion of improving our Mechanics : The Cunning of Mankind never exerting itfelf fo much, as in their Arts of deftroying one another. But, as Gunpowder has made Mechanics lefs...
Pagina 18 - In every street of every town, persons were to be found who were holders of railway shares. Elderly men and women of small realized fortunes, tradesmen of every order, pensioners, public functionaries, professional men, merchants, country gentlemen, — the mania had affected all...
Pagina 7 - ... at the rate of three or four miles an hour, and would reach their destination near Vienna long before we should.
Pagina 14 - had more occasion for mechanics in the art of war than we have, gunpowder readily producing a force far exceeding all the engines they had contrived for battery. And this, I reckon, has lost us a good occasion of improving our mechanics, the cunning of mankind never exerting itself so much as .in their arts of destroying one another.
Pagina 30 - For it is she that feeds this inner life, this soul-life, this life wherein alone in any true sense we live and move and have our being, this life which is hid in God.