 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 754 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...weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivance, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility,—for the prodigious... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English literature - 1846 - 756 pages
...utility, he should rather be described as its Inventor. It was by his inventions that its action Avas so regulated, as to make it capable of being applied...weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivance, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility,—for the prodigious... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 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...weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivance, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility— for the prodigious... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 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...weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivance, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility — for the prodigious... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 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 of being applied to the finest und most delicate manufactures, and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance.... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1852 - 344 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...his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupendous, alike for its force and flexibility, for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...structure, or vast in its utility, he should rather be described as its inrciitor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable...weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivance, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility — for the prodigious... | |
 | Harry Howells Horton - 1853 - 304 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...weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivance, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, for the prodigious... | |
 | Harry Howells Horton - Birmingham (England) - 1853 - 310 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...weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivance, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, for the prodigious... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1853 - 172 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...weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivance, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility — for the prodigious... | |
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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... 
