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
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...protection against the cold but the skins of wild beasts, no screen from the sun tut a cavern. To im pute to such a man any share in the invention or improvement...diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building, shorthand, which has been carried to such perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid... | |
| English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...protection, against the cold but the skins of ,wild beasts, no screen from the sun but a cavern. To im pute physical world, against the rage of the winter and...influence of that most pernicious of superstitions, fordiffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building, shorthand, which has been carried to such... | |
| Albert Barnes - Christianity - 1855 - 386 pages
...substances, and of all mechanical contrivances. To impute to a philosopher any share in the invention of a plough, a ship, or a mill, is an insult. ' In...sort; transparent windows; tubes for diffusing warmth through all the parts of a building; short-hand, which has been carried to such perfection that a writer... | |
| Albert Barnes - Christianity - 1855 - 376 pages
...substances, and of all mechanical contrivances. To impute to a philosopher any share in the invention of a plough, a ship, or a mill, is an insult. ( In my own time/ says Seneca, e there have been inventions of this sort; transparent windows; tubes for diffusing warmth through... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 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...diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building, shorthand, which has been carried to such perfection that a writer can keep pace wiih llie most rapid... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...protection against the cold but the skins of wild beasts, no screen from the sun but a cavern. To im pule dy so ill as himself That such a. man should have...not all. Many persons who have conducted themselv — transparen t windows, tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building, shorthand,... | |
| Edwin Troxell Freedley - Industries - 1858 - 538 pages
...of mind to invention as well as handicraft operations, was regarded as unworthy of freemen. "In my time," says Seneca, "there have been inventions of...diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building ; shorthand, which has been carried to such perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid... | |
| John Frederick Boyes - Books and reading - 1859 - 302 pages
...which he quotes Seneca, with reference to what are ordinarily considered modern inventions : — " In my own time," says Seneca, " there have been inventions...diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building ; shorthand, which has been carried to such perfection, that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1859 - 768 pages
...protection against the cold but the skins of wild boasts, no screen from the sun but a cavern. To im pute to such a man any share in the invention or improvement of a plough, a ship, or a mill, is an insnlt. " In my own time," says Seneca, " there have been inventions of this sorttransparent windows,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1897 - 950 pages
...had no protection against the cold but the skins of wild beasts, no screen from the sun but a caveni. To impute to such a man any share in the invention...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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