...man, not brute matter to deal with, and I will baffle the boast of that antique dreamer, who said, ' Give me where I may stand, and I will move the world.' There be weights some may not raise with levers, and others can balance with a straw. Slight engineers...

...man, not brute matter to deal with, and I will baffle the boast of that antique dreamer, who said, ' Give me where I may stand, and I will move the world.' There be weights some may not raise with levers, and others can balance •with a straw. Slight engineers...

...is evinced by his famous declaration to the same monarch : Aof miü arCi, xai rev sóauov nivriaa, " Give me where I may stand, and I will move the world." But his greatest efforts of mechanic skill were displayed during the siege of Syracuse, when be contrived...

...found it." His acquaintance with the power of the lever is evinced by his famous declaration to Hiero : "Give me where I may stand, and I will move the world." At the time of the siege of Syracuse he is said to hare fired the Roman fleet by meane of immense reflecting...

...mechanician, Archimedes, is said to have exclaimed, on his discovery of the power of the lever : — " Give me where I may stand, and I will move the world !" The schoolmaster should take a hint from this. Standing on human nature, with the human heart for...

...antiquity, born at Syracuse, in Sicily. Referring to the powers of the lever, he Is said to have remarked, "Give me where I may stand, and I will move the world." By the invention of machines he for a long time defended Syracuse on its being besieged by the Romans...

...is evinced by his famous declaration to the same monarch : .\V TTOV aru, xal T&V noaftov xivriau, " Give me where I may stand, and I will move the world." But his greatest efforts of mechanic skill were displayed during the siege of Syracuse, when he contrived...

...lessen the punishment, with the labours of visitors to make the punishment a means of amendment. " Give me where I may stand and I will move the world," said Archimedes of Syracuse. He had acquired a true knowledge of the lever and comprehended its uses...

...command. KINO HENRY V. WHEN Archimedes indicated his knowledge of the lever, by his famous declaration, " Give me where I may stand, and I will move the world," there is no reason to believe that he was advised of the existence of Constant Earle's inexhaustible...

...evinced by his famous declaration to the same monarch : Aaf той ara, /caí rñv nóu/jov mvijau, '• Give me where I may stand, and I will move the world." But his greatest efforts of mechanic skill were displayed during' the siege of Syracuse, when he contrived...