| Walter Scott - 1820 - 290 pages
...unparalleled feats to private family-parties, if required." Amidst this company stocjd Mr. Watt, the man whose genius discovered the means of multiplying our...combination; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth—giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite—commanding manufactures... | |
| Walter Scott - 1820 - 348 pages
...unparalleled feats to private family -parties, if required." Amidst this company stood Mr Watt, the man whose genius discovered the means of multiplying our...resources to a degree perhaps even beyond his own stupendouspowers of calculation and combination; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 552 pages
...unparalleled feats to private family-parties, if required." Amidst this company stood Mr Watt, the man whose genius discovered the means of multiplying our...combination ; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth — giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite — commanding manufactures... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 352 pages
...character of the great inventor of the steam engine:— " ' Amidst this company stood Mr. Watt, the man whose genius discovered the means of multiplying our...combination ; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth. Giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of the Afrite — commanding manufactures... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1827 - 356 pages
...character of the great inventor of the steam engine:— " ' Amidst this company stood Mr. Watt, the man whose genius discovered the means of multiplying our...combination ; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth. Giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of the Afrite — commanding - manufactures... | |
| Walter Scott - 1830 - 382 pages
...unparalleled feats to private familyparties, if required." Amidst this company stood Mr Watt, the man whose genius discovered the means of multiplying our...combination ; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth — giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite — commanding manufactures... | |
| Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1833 - 502 pages
...with him, whether in body or spirit, it matters not. * * Amidst this company stood Mr. Watt, the man whose genius discovered the means of multiplying our...combination — bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth— giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite — commanding manufactures... | |
| Walter Scott - 1833 - 852 pages
...stupendous ^owera of calculation MH! t-jwnbinnuon ; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth — giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Af rite— commanding manufacture*! to arise, ai the rod of the prophet produced water in the desert,... | |
| 1834 - 614 pages
...ages." rt Amidst this company stood Mr. Watt, c the man ' genius discovered the means of multiplying oar national resources to a degree perhaps even beyond...combination; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth; giving the feeble arm of man, the momentum of an Afrite : commanding manufactures... | |
| Edmund Bellchambers - 1835 - 426 pages
...of the author of Waverley, his " genius discovered the means of multiplying our natural resources in a degree, perhaps, even beyond his own stupendous...combination, bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth ; giving tbe feeble arm of man the momratum of an Afrite; commanding tufactures... | |
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