 | Europe - 1823 - 946 pages
...structure, or vast in its utility, he should rather be described as its inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable...increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility... | |
 | 1842 - 634 pages
...structure, or vast in its utility, he should rather be described as its inventor ; for it was by him, that its action was so regulated, as to make it capable...increased, as to set weight and solidity at defiance. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is nothing to it. It can engrave a... | |
 | 1825 - 458 pages
...structure, or vast in its utility, he should rather be described as its inventor. It was by bis inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being dpplied to the finest and most delicate manufactures, and its power so increased as to set weight and... | |
 | 1819 - 610 pages
...structure, or vast in its utility, he should rather be described as its inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable...increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his ad* This notice of the character of Mr Watt appeared first in the Scotsman newspaper. It follows... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1819 - 780 pages
...structure, or vast in its utility, he should rather be described as its inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable...increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1819 - 708 pages
...ilsatructure, or vast in its utility, he should rather be described as its inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable...to the finest and most delicate manufactures, and ils power so increased as to let weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it... | |
 | 1820 - 450 pages
...structure, or vast in its utility, he should rather be described as its inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable...increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility... | |
 | 1820 - 482 pages
...structure, or vast in its utility, he should rather be described as its inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable...increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility... | |
 | Great Britain - 1820 - 494 pages
...structure, or vast in its utility, he should rather be described as its iiiventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable...increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility... | |
 | 1820 - 496 pages
...or vast in its utility, he should rather be described as its inventor. It was by his investigation that its action was so regulated as to make it capable...increased, as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupeadous alike for its force . and its flexibility;... | |
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We have said that Mr. Watt was the great improver of the steam-engine; but, in truth, as to all that is admirable in its structure, or vast in its utility, he should rather be described as its inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so... 
