Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also, Lives of Distinguished European Mechanics, Together with a Collection of Anecdotes, Descriptions, Etc., Etc. ... |
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... Employed in Kentucky as a surveyor . - Taken prisoner by the Indians , and carried into captivity . - Release . - Returns to the east . - First idea of a steamboat . - Curious reflections . - Dr . Thornton's account of his ex- periments ...
... Employed in Kentucky as a surveyor . - Taken prisoner by the Indians , and carried into captivity . - Release . - Returns to the east . - First idea of a steamboat . - Curious reflections . - Dr . Thornton's account of his ex- periments ...
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... employed in the shop , so neglected to instruct him , that at the expiration of two years and a half , Fitch left almost entirely ignorant of his profession . After this he went to work with a brother of his former em . ployer , who was ...
... employed in the shop , so neglected to instruct him , that at the expiration of two years and a half , Fitch left almost entirely ignorant of his profession . After this he went to work with a brother of his former em . ployer , who was ...
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... employed himself , as he tells us , “ in doing small brass work . ' This was pursued by him with so much in- dustry ... employ . ment on some farm as a common laborer , but his sickly appear . ance baffled all his efforts , no one would ...
... employed himself , as he tells us , “ in doing small brass work . ' This was pursued by him with so much in- dustry ... employ . ment on some farm as a common laborer , but his sickly appear . ance baffled all his efforts , no one would ...
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... employed , and which , thanks to Providence , so well succeeded with me . They may also deem them fit to be imitated , should any of them find themselves in similar circumstances . " It is not many years since this letter was , for the ...
... employed , and which , thanks to Providence , so well succeeded with me . They may also deem them fit to be imitated , should any of them find themselves in similar circumstances . " It is not many years since this letter was , for the ...
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... employ him there , he now resolved to make his way to New York , the nearest place where there was a printer ; and accordingly , after selling his books to raise a little money , he embarked on board a vessel for that city , without ...
... employ him there , he now resolved to make his way to New York , the nearest place where there was a printer ; and accordingly , after selling his books to raise a little money , he embarked on board a vessel for that city , without ...
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Page 404 - About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt: and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
Page 44 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there.
Page 43 - They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation, and that in their different guesses at the author, none were named but men of some character * among us for learning and ingenuity.
Page 43 - ... accordingly, under my name for several months. At length a fresh difference arising between my brother and me, I took upon me to assert my freedom, presuming that he would not venture to produce the new indentures. It was not fair in me to take this advantage, and this I therefore reckon one of the first errata of my life...
Page 41 - I also sometimes jumbled my collection of hints into confusion, and after some weeks endeavored to reduce them into the best order before I began to form the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, I discovered many faults, and corrected them; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that, in certain particulars of small consequence, I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language,...
Page 45 - I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther. Thus refreshed, I walked again up the street, which by this time had many clean -dressed people in it, who were all walking the same way.
Page 297 - ... had been that which he had been last occupied in studying and exhausting ; such was the copiousness, the precision, and the admirable clearness of the information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to the studies connected with his ordinary pursuits. That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and the...
Page 41 - I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind and make me master of it.
Page 65 - Spirits, at the same time, are to be fired by a spark sent from side to side through the river, without any other conductor than the water; an experiment which we some time since performed, to the amazement of many.
Page 45 - I walked again up the street, which by this time had many clean-dressed people in it, who were all walking the same way. I joined them, and thereby was led into the great meeting-house of the Quakers near the market. I sat down among them, and, after looking round...