 | George Pryme - 1870 - 432 páginas
...be applied to the rowing of barges, and the moving of carriages along the Road1." " Soon shall thine arm, unconquered Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car." Stuart Mill says, "hitherto it is a question if all the inventions yet made have lightened the day's... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1874 - 810 páginas
...who_"in simmering cauldrons played." Darwin is poetical when he becomes prophetic : " Soon shall tby arm, unconquered Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car." The prophecy is accomplished. But steam has another work to do : " Or, on wide waving wings expanded... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1887 - 460 páginas
...published in 1791, a year after Adam Smith died, were still but a bold prediction : "Soon shall thine arm, unconquered Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car." Bold as it was, how far beyond the utmost vision of the poet, or the imagination of the scientist,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1880 - 1318 páginas
...the " Nymphs," who " in simmering cauldrons played." Darwin is poetical when he becomes prophetic : " Soon shall thy arm, unconquered Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car." The prophecy is accomplished. But steam has another work to do : "Or, on wide waving wings expanded... | |
 | Lionel Arthur Tollemache (hon.) - 1884 - 456 páginas
...come of it. He, however, quoted from Darwin, the poet, a very striking prophecy about steam : — " Soon shall thy arm, unconquered Steam, afar , Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car." The poet was perhaps a less cautious prophet when he added that, with the aid of steam, there will... | |
 | Edward Woodall - 1884 - 100 páginas
...been since accomplished. It was years before the first locomotive was constructed when he wrote — Soon shall thy arm, Unconquered Steam, afar, Drag the slow barge or drive the rapid oar ; and in other fields besides that of science he was before his time : which has been characteristic... | |
 | Clara L. Matéaux - 1885 - 160 páginas
...patience, and his motto, " Persevere." CHAPTER VII. THE LOCOMOTIVE : ITS STORY. " Soon shall thine arm, unconquered Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car." Darmln, i784. " To the public at large, to the community, the introduction of railways has been of... | |
 | Postal Microscopical Society - 1886 - 358 páginas
...rightly enough by his grandson Charles. Prophet he certainly was, and as such was before his time. " Soon shall thy arm, Unconquered Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car," said he, years before the first railway-engine astonished the natives. The spread of temperance, the... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1888 - 824 páginas
...steam locomotive. Erasmus Darwin, in a poem published in 1781, made this remarkable prediction : " Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car." The first locomotive of which we have any certain record was invented, and put in operation on a model... | |
 | Thomas Curtis Clarke - 1889 - 492 páginas
...Locomotiv*. locomotive. Erasmus Darwin, in a poem published in 1781, made this remarkable prediction : "Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car." The first locomotive of which we have any certain record was invented, and put in operation on a model... | |
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