 | Thomas Carlyle - 1831 - 294 páginas
...iron, as if it were soft paste; seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without Tools : without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.' Here may we not, for a moment, interrupt the stream of Oratory with a remark, that this Definition... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1837 - 322 páginas
...iron, as if it were soft paste ; seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without tools ; without tools he is nothing, with isools he is all." baj Here may we not, for a moment, interrupt the tream of oratory with a remark... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 páginas
...iron, as if it were soft paste ; ' HOUS are his smooth highway, winds and fire his un' wearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without ' Tools ; without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is ' all.' Here may we not, for a moment, interrupt the stream of Oratory with a remark that this Definition of... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1910 - 528 páginas
...the weakness of man, writes : " Nevertheless he can use tools, can devise tools. . . . Nowhere do we find him without tools, without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all." In no line of engineering work are the tools more essential than in the modern art of tunnelling. In... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1841 - 326 páginas
...if it were soft paste ; seas are his smooth highway ; winds and fire his unwearying steeds. No where do you find him without Tools; without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all."* Necessity is said to be the mother of invention; it never would have been sufficient in itself to have... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1841 - 694 páginas
...if it were soft paste; seas are his smooth highway ; winds and fire his unwearying steeds. No where do you find him without Tools; without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all."* Necessity is said to be the mother of invention ; it never would have been sufficient in itself to... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1846 - 490 páginas
...iron, as if it were soft paste ; seas are his smooth highway, ' winds and fire his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him ' without Tools ; without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.' Here may we not, for a moment, interrupt the stream of Oratory with a remark that this Definition of... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1848 - 654 páginas
...iron, as if it were soft paste ; seas are his smooth highway, ' winds and fire his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him ' without Tools; without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.' Here may we not, for a moment, interrupt the stream of Oratory with a remark that this Definition of... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 412 páginas
...iron, as if ' it were soft paste; seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire ' his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without Tools; ' without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.' Here may we not, for a moment, interrupt the stream of Oratory with a remark, that this Definition... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1864 - 426 páginas
...glowing iron as if it were soft paste ; seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire his unvarying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without tools : without tools he is nothing ; with tools he is all." His very first contrivances to support life were tools of the simplest and rudest construction; and... | |
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Nevertheless he can use Tools, can devise Tools: with these the granite mountain melts into light dust before him; he kneads glowing iron, as if it were soft paste; seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find... 
