The Principles of Science Applied to the Domestic and Mechanic Arts, and to Manufactures and Agriculture:: With Reflections on the Progress of the Arts, and Their Influence on National WelfareMarsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb., 1840 - 444 páginas |
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... hand to apply , these pow- ers , until , from the weakest and most helpless of ani- * Our readers are aware , that this delightful and instructive ro- mance of Defoe was founded on the adventures of Alexander Sel- kirk , a sailor , who ...
... hand to apply , these pow- ers , until , from the weakest and most helpless of ani- * Our readers are aware , that this delightful and instructive ro- mance of Defoe was founded on the adventures of Alexander Sel- kirk , a sailor , who ...
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... hand , have been too well content with rules , adopted empirically , and followed blindly and without reflection . The pursuits of the scholar and the artisan , which have really the same object in view , and which ought to have been ...
... hand , have been too well content with rules , adopted empirically , and followed blindly and without reflection . The pursuits of the scholar and the artisan , which have really the same object in view , and which ought to have been ...
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... hand . There it operates , with silent but ceaseless activity , and , while moulded , in some slight degree , to our purposes , and employed in supplying our wants , is carrying on , over wider scenes , its mighty operations ; imparting ...
... hand . There it operates , with silent but ceaseless activity , and , while moulded , in some slight degree , to our purposes , and employed in supplying our wants , is carrying on , over wider scenes , its mighty operations ; imparting ...
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... secure of permanent success . The Author will have more than attained his object , if , on the one hand , he can succeed in impressing , upon any considerable number of minds , the great importance of taking prac- 18 INTRODUCTION .
... secure of permanent success . The Author will have more than attained his object , if , on the one hand , he can succeed in impressing , upon any considerable number of minds , the great importance of taking prac- 18 INTRODUCTION .
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... hand to guide , the various processes of his art ; he may , at the same time , be studying the principles on which that art depends . In every process , he avails himself of some law of Nature . That law he may be made to comprehend ...
... hand to guide , the various processes of his art ; he may , at the same time , be studying the principles on which that art depends . In every process , he avails himself of some law of Nature . That law he may be made to comprehend ...
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