 In my own time," says Seneca, "there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows, tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building, short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the...  An Elementary Course of Plane Geometry - Page viby Richard Wormell - 1870 - 16 pagesFull view - About this book
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...human race had no protection against the cold but the skins of wild beasts — no screen from the sun but a cavern. To impute to such a man any share in...warmth equally ' through all parts of a building, — short-hand, which has lieen car' ried to such perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most... | |
 | 1838 - 822 pages
...human race had no protection against the cold but the skins of wild beasts — no screen from the sun but a cavern. To impute to such a man any share in...sort, — transparent windows, — tubes for diffusing warmtli equally through all parts of a building, — short-hand, which has been carried to such perfection... | |
 | 1838 - 870 pages
...hnmnn race had no protection against the cold but the skins of wild beasts — no screen from the sun but a cavern. To impute to such a man any share in the invention or improvement of о plough, a ship, or a mill, is an insult. 'In my own time,' says Seneca, 'there have been inventions... | |
 | Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams - China - 1839 - 674 pages
...cold but the skins of wild beasts — no screen from the sun but a cavern." — Perfectly Chinese. " In my own time," says Seneca, " there have been inventions...diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building, — short hand, which has been carried to such perfection that the writer can keep pace with the most... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 516 pages
...human race had no protection against the cold but the skins of wild beasts, no screen from the sun but a cavern. To impute to such a man any share in...diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building, short-hand, which has been carried to such perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1843 - 520 pages
...human race had no protection against the cold but the skins of wild beasts, no screen from the sun but a cavern. To impute to such a man any share in...diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building, short-hand, which has been carried to such perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 410 pages
...human race had no protection against the cold but the skins of wild beasts, no screen from the sun but a cavern. To impute to such a man any share in...says Seneca, " there have been inventions of this sort—transparent windows, tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building, short-... | |
 | Job Roberts Tyson - Pennsylvania - 1845 - 102 pages
...physical aids and comforts of those who inhabit it. To impute to so etherial and sublime a principle the invention or improvement of a plough, a ship, or a mill, was, it seems, to derogate from its dignity and to disparage its elevated sphere. After referring to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...protection against the cold but the skins of wild beasts, no screen from the sun but a cavern. To im pute to such a man any share in the invention or improvement...says Seneca, " there have been inventions of this sorttransparent windows, tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building, shorthand,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 338 pages
...human race had no protection against the cold but the skins of wild beasts, no screen from the sun but a cavern. To impute to such a man any share in...diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building, short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid... | |
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