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" ... the water like a giant rejoicing in his course, — stemming alike the tempest and the tide ; — accelerating intercourse, shortening distances, — creating, as it were, unexpected neighbourhoods and new combinations of social and commercial relations,... "
The Penny Mechanic and Chemist: A Magazine of the Arts and Sciences - Page 315
1841
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A Letter to the Right Hon. George Canning: To Explain in what ..., Volume 23

Henry Burgess - 1826 - 166 pages
...power—new, at least, in the application of its might— which walks the water, like a giant rejoicing in his course; stemming alike the tempest and the tide; accelerating...neighbourhoods and new combinations of social and commercial relations; and giving to the fickleness of winds, and the faithlessness of waves, the certainty and...
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Knowledge for the people, or, The plain why and because, Part 1

John Timbs - 1831 - 302 pages
...times. Steamboats — " these new and wonderful machines walk the water, like a giant rejoicing in his course ; stemming alike the tempest and the tide;...neighbourhoods, and new combinations of social and commercial relations; and giving to the fickleness of winds and the faithlessness of waves, the certainty and...
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Knowledge for the People ...

John Timbs - 1832 - 362 pages
...times. Steamboats — " these new and wonderful machines walk the water, like a giant rejoicing in his course ; stemming alike the tempest and the tide ;...neighbourhoods, and new combinations of social and commercial relations; and giving to the fickleness of winds and the faithlessness of waves, the certainty and...
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Knowledge for the People: Or, the Plain why and Because. Familiarizing ...

John Timbs - 1832 - 332 pages
...times. Steamboats — " these new and wonderful machines walk the water, like a giant rejoicing in his course ; stemming alike the tempest and the tide;...neighbourhoods, and new combinations of social and commercial relations; and giving to the fickleness of winds and the faithlessness of waves, the certainty and...
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A Treatise on the Principles, Practice, & History of Commerce

John Ramsay McCulloch - 1833 - 144 pages
...mail-coach travelling ! ' These new and wonderful machines walk the water, like a giant rejoicing in his course, — stemming alike the tempest and the tide,...neighbourhoods, and new combinations of social and commercial relations ; and giving to the fickleness of winds, and the faithlessness of waves, the certainty and...
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The Rise and Progress of the City of Glasgow: Comprising an Account of Its ...

James Cleland - 1840 - 112 pages
...observes, — " That new and mighty power (new, at least, in the application of its might) which walks the water like a giant, rejoicing in its course, stemming...creating, as it were, unexpected neighbourhoods, and new continuations of social and commercial relations, and giving to the fickleness of winds and the faithlessness...
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A Manual of Chemistry

Richard Dennis Hoblyn - 1841 - 314 pages
...of Navigation — ' that new and mighty pbwer,' to use the eloquent language of Canning, ' new l[t least in the application of its might, which stalks the Water like a giant rejoicing in its course — stemmin alike 4 the tempest and the tide — accelerating intercourse, short ening distances ;...
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A Manual of the Steam Engine

Richard Dennis Hoblyn - 1842 - 340 pages
...that new and mighty power, "to use the eloquent language of Canning, " new at least in the'application of its might, which stalks the water like a giant...stemming alike the tempest and the tide — accelerating intercourses, shortening distances ; creating, as it. were, unexpected neighbourhoods, and new combinations...
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The Life of Henry Bell: The Practical Introducer of the Steam-boat Into ...

Edward Morris - 1844 - 206 pages
...his calculation that new and mighty power, new at least in the application of its might, which walks the water like a giant, rejoicing in its course, stemming...neighbourhoods, and new combinations of social and commercial relations, and giving to the fickleness of winds, and the faithlessness of waves, the certainty and...
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A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, Volume 1

Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson - 1852 - 338 pages
...described it as " that new and mighty power, new at least in the application of its might, which walks the water like a giant, rejoicing in its course, stemming...neighbourhoods, and new combinations of social and commercial relations, and giving to the fickleness of winds, and the faithlessness of waves, the certainty and...
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