... comes the potent agency of steam. In comparison with the past, what centuries of improvement has this single agent comprised, in the short compass of fifty years ! Everywhere practicable, everywhere efficient, it has an arm a thousand times stronger... The American Library of Useful Knowledge - Side 501831 - 320 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 sider
...years ! Everywhere practicable, everywhere efficient, it has an arm a thousand times stronger than that of Hercules, and to which human ingenuity is...influence of its strong propulsion, the gallant ship, " Apunct the wind, against the tide Still tteadies, with an upright keel." It is on the rivers, and... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 sider
...practicable, everywhere efficient, it has an arm a thousand times stronger than that of Hercules, and to *hich human ingenuity is capable of fitting a thousand times as many hands as belonged to Bnareus. Steam is found, in triumphant operation, on the seas; and under the influence of its strong... | |
| Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - 1831 - 570 sider
...a thousand times stronger than that of Hercules, and to which human ingenuity is capable of filling a thousand times as many hands as belonged to Briareus....ship, " Against the wind, against the tide, Still •Uarfic«, with an upright keel.1' It toon the rivera, and llu boatman may repose on bis oars, it... | |
| 1831 - 336 sider
...years! Every where practicable, every where efficient, it has an arm a thousand times stronger than that of Hercules, and to which human ingenuity is...fitting a thousand times as many hands as belonged to <£' WEBSTER'S LECTURE. 51 Briareus. Steam is found, in triumphant operation, on the seas ; and under... | |
| 1834 - 614 sider
...fifty years! Everywhere practicable, everywhere efficient, it has an arm a thousand times stronger than that of Hercules, and to which human ingenuity is...with an upright keel.' "It is on the rivers, and the boatmen may repose on his oars; i^ is in highways, and begins to exert itself along the courses of... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1835 - 524 sider
...years ! Everywhere practicable, everywhere efficient, it has an arm a thousand times stronger than that of Hercules, and to which human ingenuity is...fitting a thousand times as many hands as belonged to Bnareus. Steam is found, in triumphant operation, on the seas; and under the influence of its strong... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 sider
...years ! Every where practicable, every where efficient, it has an arm a thousand times stronger than that of Hercules, and to which human ingenuity is...capable of fitting a thousand times as many hands as beloneed to Briareus. Steam is found, in triumphant operation, on the seas; and under the influence... | |
| Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 sider
...thou-sand times strong-er || than that of Herand to which A«-man tn-ge-n«-i-ty is co-pa-ble || of .^-ting a thou-sand times as ma-ny hands, as be-longed to...found in tri-um-phant op-er-a-tion || on the seas; the »,«M;mt ship " A.-gainsl the wind, I a-gainst the tide, Still stead-ies I with an up-right keel."... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 614 sider
...years ! Everywhere practicable, everywhere efficient, it has an arm a thousand times stronger than that of Hercules, and to which human ingenuity is capable of fitting a thousand times as many heads as belonged to Briareus. Steam is found in triumphant operation on the seas ; and under the influence... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1848 - 524 sider
...which human ingenuity is capable of fitting a thousand times as many hands as belonged to Bnareus. Steam is found, in triumphant operation, on the seas; and under the influence of its strong pro pulsion, the gallant ship, " Against the wind, against the tide Still steadies, with an upright... | |
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