 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 Seiten
...productions. It was our improved steamengine, in short, that fought the battles of Europe, and exalted and sustained through the late tremendous contest,...the arduous struggle in which we are still engaged (1819) with the skill and capital of countries less oppressed with taxation. But these are poor and... | |
 | Illinois State Agricultural Society - 1865 - 1022 Seiten
...winds. " It is our improved steam engine that has fought all the recent battles of Europe, and exalted and sustained, through the late tremendous contest,...the political greatness of our land. It is the same power which enaoles us to pay our national debt and to maintain the arduous struggle in which we are... | |
 | John Bourne (C. E.) - 1868 - 602 Seiten
...the steam-engine, says a kindred spirit*, that fought the battles of Europe, and which now enables us to maintain the arduous struggle in which we are still engaged with countries less oppressed with taxation ; so that upon the slender thread of Watt's prosperity, which... | |
 | Missouri. State Board of Agriculture - 1870 - 592 Seiten
...winds. " It is our improved steam engine that has fought all the recent battles of Europe, and exalted and sustained, through the late tremendous contest,...the political greatness of our land. It is the same power which enables us to pay our national debt and to maintain the arduous struggle in which we are... | |
 | Charles Dana Wilber - 1870 - 70 Seiten
...winds. "It is our improved steam engine that has fought all the recent battles of Europe, and exalted and sustained, through the late tremendous contest, the political greatness of our laud. It is the same power which enables us to pay our national debt and to maintain the arduous struggle... | |
 | 1872 - 556 Seiten
...productions. It was our improved steam-engine, in short, that fought the battles of Europe, and exalted and sustained, through the late tremendous contest,...the arduous struggle in which we are still engaged [1819] with the skill and capital of countries less oppressed with taxation. But these are poor and... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 Seiten
...our improved steam engine that fought the battles of Europe, and exalted and sustained through the tremendous contest the political greatness of our land. It is the same great power which enables us to pay the interest of our debt, and to maintain the struggle with the skill and capital... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 232 Seiten
...productions. It was our improved steam-engine, in short, that fought the battles of Europe, and exalted and sustained, through the late tremendous contest,...the arduous struggle in which we are still engaged [1819] with the skill and capital of countries less oppressed with taxation. But these are poor and... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 448 Seiten
...productions. It was our improved steam-engine, in short, that fought the battles of Europe, and exalted and sustained, through the late tremendous contest,...of our debt, and to maintain the arduous struggle with the skill and capital of countries less oppressed with taxation. But these are poor and narrow... | |
 | Hermann Lange - 1883 - 294 Seiten
...sustained and exalted, through 6 the late tremendous contest, the political greatness of our land. // is the same great power which now enables us to pay the interest of our debt, and to maintain 6 the arduous struggle in which we are still engaged (1819) with the skill ' and capital of countries... | |
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But these are poor and narrow views of its importance. It has increased indefinitely the mass of human comforts and enjoyments, and rendered cheap and accessible, all over the world, the materials of wealth and prosperity. 
