The Life of James Watt: With Selections from His CorrespondenceJ. Murray, 1859 - 580 pages |
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... received by the press and the public is gratefully acknowledged . The long series , however , of large copper - plate engravings of ma- chinery by which it was illustrated , - ( thirty - four in number , delineating no fewer than sixty ...
... received by the press and the public is gratefully acknowledged . The long series , however , of large copper - plate engravings of ma- chinery by which it was illustrated , - ( thirty - four in number , delineating no fewer than sixty ...
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... received that blessing promised to the father- less to compensate their loss . Where those relations lived who thus benevolently rescued from destitution the poor orphan does not appear . He was born , according to one account , in 1639 ...
... received that blessing promised to the father- less to compensate their loss . Where those relations lived who thus benevolently rescued from destitution the poor orphan does not appear . He was born , according to one account , in 1639 ...
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... received from his mother his first lessons in reading ; " his father taught him writing and arithmetic . Owing to “ variable health , his attendance on public classes at Greenock 66 " was irregular ; his parents were proud of 18 CHAP ...
... received from his mother his first lessons in reading ; " his father taught him writing and arithmetic . Owing to “ variable health , his attendance on public classes at Greenock 66 " was irregular ; his parents were proud of 18 CHAP ...
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... education which he was thus receiving , the boy is said to have been often known to stand angling from a jetty which ran out into the sea , at the back of his father's house on the shore at Greenock ; CHAP . IV . 25 HIS SCHOOLS .
... education which he was thus receiving , the boy is said to have been often known to stand angling from a jetty which ran out into the sea , at the back of his father's house on the shore at Greenock ; CHAP . IV . 25 HIS SCHOOLS .
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... received the check that it did when I was young ; since a muscular habit from high health , and strong " spirits , are not , I think , in general accompanied with that " sensibility of mind which is both favourable to piety and to 66 ...
... received the check that it did when I was young ; since a muscular habit from high health , and strong " spirits , are not , I think , in general accompanied with that " sensibility of mind which is both favourable to piety and to 66 ...
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The Life of James Watt: With Selections from His Correspondence James Patrick Muirhead Affichage du livre entier - 1858 |
The Life of James Watt: With Selections from His Correspondence James Patrick Muirhead Affichage du livre entier - 1859 |
The Life of James Watt: With Selections from His Correspondence James Patrick Muirhead Affichage du livre entier - 1859 |
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Page vii - Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears: "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 393 - A Description and Draught of a new-invented Machine, for carrying Vessels or Ships out of, or into, any Harbour, Port, or River, against Wind and Tide, or in a calm.
Page 442 - True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise ; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self ; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions...
Page 475 - ... 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. He was well acquainted, too, with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their most recent literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer...
Page 471 - Not to perpetuate a name which must endure while the peaceful arts flourish, but to show that mankind have learned to honour those who best deserve their gratitude, the King, his ministers, and many of the nobles and commoners of the realm, raised this monument to James Watt, who directing the force of...
Page 462 - The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality ; Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Page 241 - Johnson had been with us: for it was a scene which I should have been glad to contemplate by his light. The vastness and the contrivance of some of the machinery would have " matched his mighty mind." I shall never forget Mr. Boulton's expression to me, " I sell here, sir, what all the world desires to have — POWER.
Page vii - That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom To shape and use.
Page 476 - It is needless to say that, with those vast resources, his conversation was at all times rich and instructive in no ordinary degree ; but it was, if possible, still more pleasing than wise, and had all the charms of familiarity, with all the substantial treasures of knowledge. No man could be more social in his spirit, less assuming or fastidious in his manners, or more kind and indulgent towards all who approached him. He rather liked to talk, at least in his...
Page 105 - An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels be strong enough ; for I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it...