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Page 222 - Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.
Page 36 - I blow the bellows, I forge the steel, In all the shops of trade; I hammer the ore, and turn the wheel, Where my arms of strength are made ; I manage the furnace, the mill, the mint ; I carry, I spin, I weave; And all my doings I put into print On every Saturday eve. I've no muscle to weary, no breast to decay, No bones to be laid on the shelf, And soon I intend you may go and play, While I manage the world by myself.
Page 35 - And the Orient floods divine. The ocean pales where'er I sweep, To hear my strength rejoice, And the monsters of the briny deep Cower, trembling at my voice. I carry the wealth and the lord of earth, The thoughts of his godlike mind ; The wind lags after my flying forth, The lightning is left behind.
Page 35 - The mountain's steep decline ; Time — space — have yielded to my power — The world — the world is mine! The rivers the sun hath earliest blest, Or those where his beams decline : The giant streams of the queenly West, Or the orient floods divine.
Page 7 - Nevertheless he can use Tools, can devise Tools: with these the granite mountain melts into light dust before him; he kneads glowing iron, as if it were soft paste; seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without Tools; without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.
Page 222 - ... he that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, so in all fortunes.
Page 157 - the most common mode of keeping records in Assyria and Babylon was on prepared bricks, tiles, or cylinders of clay, baked after the inscription was impressed." European public museums and private collections contain many of these curiosities of the first steps taken in the art of printing. It is strange that the Greeks and Roman's were slower in discovering even this initial step in the art.
Page 28 - ... steam, entering through the lower tube, has pushed the piston to the top of the cylinder, the valve is pushed down to cover the end of that tube, leaving the end of the other uncovered, so that the steam may pass through it to act above the piston.
Page 202 - Their diagnosis from ovarian tumours is the most important and, at the same time, the most difficult.