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" ... feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned, completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory qualities of matter, and laid a sure foundation for all those future miracles of mechanic power which are to aid... "
Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham - Page 204
by Englishmen - 1837
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Heidelbergische [afterw.] Heidelberger Jahrbücher der Literatur, Part 2

1828 - 640 pages
...futura miracles qfmechanic powert which are to aid and reward the labour of öfter ge* nerations. Jt is to the genius of one man too , that all this is mainly owing, u. 8. w., und dieser Mann ist denn Watt, dessen Charakter und Lebensweise der Verf. mit den lebhaftesten...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 12

1823 - 946 pages
...those future miracles of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the labours of after generations. It is to the genius of one man too that all this is...owing; and certainly no man ever before bestowed such a gilt on his kind. The blessing is not only universal, but unbounded ; and the fabled in. ventors of...
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Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c

1819 - 490 pages
...those future miracles of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the labours of after generations. It is to the genius of one man, too, that all this...of the plough and the loom, who were deified by the erring gratitude of their rude contemporaries, conferred less important benefits on mankind than the...
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The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 5

1825 - 458 pages
...those future miracles of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the labours of after generations. It is to the genius of one man, too, that all this...of the plough and the loom, who were deified by the erring gratitude of their rude contemporaries, conferred less important benefits on mankind than the...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for ..., Volume 89, Part 2

1819 - 800 pages
...foundation for those future miracles of mechanic power which are to reward the labours of after generations. It is to the genius of one man too that all this is...of the plough and the loom, who were deified by the erring gratitude of their rude contemporaries, conferred less important benefits on mankind than the...
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The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of ..., Volume 5

1819 - 610 pages
...those future miracles of mechanic power which ere ta aid and reward the labours of after generations. It is to the genius of one man too that all this is...unbounded ; and the fabled inventors of the plough anil the loom, who were deified by the erring gratitude of their rude contemporaries, conferred less...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 89, Part 2; Volume 126

1819 - 708 pages
...for those future miracle* of mechanic power which are to reward the labours of after generations. U is to the genius of one man too that all this is mainly...certainly no man ever before bestowed such a gift mi his kind. The blessing i< not only universal, but unbounded ; and the fabled inventors of the plough...
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The Quarterly Journal, Volume 8

1820 - 450 pages
...those future miracles of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the labours of after generadons. It is to the genius of one man too that all this is...of the plough and the loom, who were deified by the erring gratitude of their rude contemporaries, conferred less important benefits on mankind than the...
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Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 6

1820 - 496 pages
...those future miracles of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the labours of after generations. It is to the genius of one man too that all this b mainly owing ; and certainly no man ever belore bestowed such a gift OD his kind. The blessing is...
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A History of Useful Arts & Manufactures

1822 - 184 pages
...which are to aid and reward the labours of after generations. It is to the genius of one man, loo, that all this is mainly owing ; and certainly no> man ever before bestowed such a gift on mankind as the inventor of our present steam -engine. Let us conclude this brief account of the Steam...
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