... itself, with the gigantic powers conferred upon it by the immortal Watt, will dwindle into insignificance in comparison with the hidden powers of nature still to be revealed... The Southern Botanic Journal - Side 2221838Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| 1838 - 520 sider
...doth so far forget himself as to say on another occasion, " Philosophy already directs her finger at sources of inexhaustible power in the phenomena of...and many causes combine to justify the expectation [belief] that ire are on the eve of mechanical discoveries still greater than ang which have yet appeared... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1836 - 362 sider
...scientific men are held, and the personal honours and rewards which begin to be conferred upon them, all justify the expectation that we are on the eve of...discoveries still greater than any which have yet appeared ; and that the steam engine itself, with the gigantic powers conferred upon it by the immortal Watt,... | |
| Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1837 - 504 sider
...anticipated the invention of which we are speaking. " Philosophy," said he, " already directs her finger at sources of inexhaustible power in the phenomena of...discoveries still greater than any which have yet appeared ; and that the steam-engine itself, with the gigantic powers conferred upon it by the immortal Watt,... | |
| Benjamin Silliman - 1837 - 118 sider
...anticipated the invention of which we are speaking. " Philosophy," said he, " already directs her finger at sources of inexhaustible power in the phenomena of...discoveries still greater than any which have yet appeared ; and that the steam engine itself, with the gigantic powers conferred upon it by the immortal Watt,... | |
| 1837 - 494 sider
...anticipated the invention of which we are speaking. " Philosophy," said he, " already directs her finger at sources of inexhaustible power in the phenomena of...discoveries still greater than any which have yet appeared ; and that the steam-engine itself, with the gigantic powers conferred upon it by the immortal Watt,... | |
| 1838 - 716 sider
...even the learned Doctor also says on another page : — " Philosophy already directs her finger at sources of inexhaustible power in the phenomena of...greater than any which have yet appeared; that the steam-engine itself, with the gigantic powers conferred on it by the immortal Watt, will dwindle into... | |
| 1838 - 588 sider
...this head. ' Philosophy/ he says, in his book on the steam-engine — ' already directs her fiugcr at sources of inexhaustible power in the phenomena of...the expectation that we are on the eve of mechanical discoreria still greater than any wluch have yet appeared; and that the steiitengine itself, with the... | |
| 1838 - 348 sider
...anticipated the invention o which we are speaking. " Philosophy," saic he, "already directs her finger at sources of inexhaustible power in the phenomena of...combine to justify the expectation that we are on the era of mechanical discoveries still greater than any which have yet appeared ; and that the steam engine... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1838 - 604 sider
...directs her finger at sources of inexhaustible power in the phenomena of electricity and magnctism, and many causes combine to justify the expectation...mechanical discoveries still greater than any which have yct appearedi and that the steam-engine itself, with the gigantic powers conferred upon it by the immortal... | |
| 1838 - 510 sider
...doth so far forget himself as to say on another occasion, " Philosophy already directs her finger at sources of inexhaustible power in the phenomena of...and many causes combine to justify the expectation [belief] that we are on ike eve of mechanical <liscoveries still greater than any which hare y it appeared... | |
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