These are some of those many inventions man hath sought out.
In a word, all man’s inventions are to hasten misery on him, or to blindfold himself till it come on; all his invention cannot reach a delivery from this misery.
He is now left to such a tutor and guider, and it is full ofinventions indeed.
If any man comes this length, as to apprehend some misery, yet how vain are his inventions about the remedy of it.
All the rare inventions and fancied stories of men come infinitely short of this.
As improvements in machinery were perfected and inventions of all kinds multiplied and spread both in the factory and on the farm, the ten-hour day was ushered in.
The telephone, the daily mail, the automobile, and other inventions are at hand, in the country as well as in the city.
Many inventions might be utilized on the farm to better advantage than they are at present.
Capital had these inventions and improvements in its possession and a laboring man could now do twice as much with the same labor as formerly.
Every calamity due to inadequate machines or to poor methods has had its influence toward causing further advancements in inventions for the benefit of mankind.
It was inevitable in this age of inventions and improvements.
With the aid of inventions the worker, on the average, can do more in the short day of eight or ten hours than he did formerly in the sixteen-hour day.
A mighty change has taken place in regard to liberty, freedom of personal action, the possibility of coming into contact with varied life and an enlarged participation in the bounties of nature and the inventions of genius.
The facilities of travel and communication, the new inventions and the use of machinery in manufacturing, bring men into close and uniform relations, and induce the disappearance of national characteristics and of race peculiarities.
Almost all the great inventions and the ingenious application of principles have many claimants for the honor of priority.
A very large number of inventions for making bricks by machinery have been patented.
I suppose you have read his address at the Royal Society on the inventions of the last thirty years?
We know that fragments of Greek and Roman art--a few manuscripts saved from Christian destruction, some inventions and discoveries of the Moors--were the seeds of modern civilization.
And yet a Cardinal of the nineteenth century, living in the land of Shakespeare, regrets the change that has been wrought by the intellectual efforts, by the discoveries, by the inventions and heroism of three hundred years.
Intelligence, the development of the mind, the discoveries of science, the inventions of genius, the cultivation of the imagination through art and music, and the practice of virtue will redeem the human race.
Philarete-- "Her true beauty leaves behind Apprehensions in my mind Of more sweetness, than all art Or inventions can impart.
If thou canst think of the Almighty Father in want of a title, and stooping to borrow the inventions of men, why was I not bidden ask for a Caesar at once?
All the trampling by the many nations, all the harrowing by kings, all the inventions of enemies, all the changes of time, have been in vain.
He says they are godless inventions of unbelievers and Shechemites.
Annibale catching something of the critical taste of Agostino, learnt to work more slowly, and to finish with more perfection, while his inventions were enriched by the elevated thoughts and erudition of Agostino.
These early inventions led to the discovery of tables of wood; and as cedar has an antiseptic quality from its bitterness, they chose this wood for cases or chests to preserve their most important writings.
All these, and such like maxims as may mar Your soaring plots, or show you what you are, We shall omit, lest our inventions shake them: Why should the men be wiser than you make them?
Among these earlyinventions many were singularly rude, and miserable substitutes for a better material.
Forged conspiracies and reports of great but distant victories were inventions to keep up the spirit of a party, but oftener prognosticated some intended change in the government.
It may be exhibited as one of the most extravagant inventions of a pedant.
At first she tried all the fertile inventions of a woman to persuade the king that she was his humblest creature, and the good people of England that she was quite in love with them.
Footnote 161: These inventions for keeping every thirsty soul within bounds are alluded to by Tom Nash; I do not know that his authority will be great as an antiquary, but the things themselves he describes he had seen.
Great stress has often been laid on the two last mentioned species as inventionsentirely new, and of great importance, and peculiar theories have been devised for them, &c.
The inventions to which they have recourse are often everything but probable, without charming us by their happy novelty; they are chiefly deficient, however, in perspicuity and easy development.
On the other hand, the Birds transports us by one of the boldest and richest inventions into the kingdom of the fantastically wonderful, and delights us with a display of the gayest hilarity: it is a joyous- winged and gay-plumed creation.
There existed no real knowledge of the fine arts, which were favoured merely like other foreign fashions and inventions of luxury.
There is more of a spirit of observation than of fancy in the comic inventions of Jonson.
Not in cavalry, not in fire-arms and powder, ridiculous toy inventions of modern times.
I think of all Inventions of this Sort, the same which told [4] you of Politeness, that they are the joint Labour of Many, Human Wisdom is the Child of Time.
Among the inventions of Ta-Ke was a cylinder of polished brass, along which her victims were forced to walk over a bed of fire below, she laughing in great glee if they slipped and fell into the flames.
Whether McClellan was the victim or the accomplice of the inventions of his "secret service," we cannot tell.
Such inventions were a kind of popular recognition of his well-known neglect of forms, as well as of his kind heart.
Oliver Evans, born in 1755 of a respectable family, was a miller at Faulkland, where his smaller inventions were first put in use.
Would not the modern novelist rejoice in the privilege of intermingling supernatural inventions to break the level of his every-day incidents and his trivial passions so soon forgotten?
Or were such marvellous fictions the shrewdinventions of these children of nature, more cunning than the men of Europe, stupified and credulous from their sovereign passion?
But all theinventions and fashions of man have their date and their termination.
To such ineptitudes are the allegorists sometimes driven, from the sickly taste of gratifying the infirmity of readers by cloaking their freest inventions in the garb of piety and morality.
And what but "the dead letter," as this hierophant of mystic senses asperses the free inventions of genius, can now interest the readers of Spenser?
We may smile at these repeated attempts of the learned English, in their inventions of alphabets, to establish the correspondence of pronunciation with orthography, and at their vowelly conceits to melodise our orthoepy.
In this play I met with nothing extraordinary at all, but very dull inventions and designs.
Time and space themselves are comparatively annihilated by the inventions of the steam-carriage and the electric telegraph.
These inventions gave rise, as is well known, to an industrial revolution, a revolution which altered the whole civil society; one, the historical importance of which is only now beginning to be recognised.
Trades' Unions, hitherto considered inventions of the devil himself, were now petted and patronised as perfectly legitimate institutions, and as useful means of spreading sound economical doctrines amongst the workers.
He had been asking me about my watch, and enquiring whether such dangerous inventions were tolerated in the country from which I came.
On the question of the patent laws, Mr. Brunel held the opinion that the system of protecting inventions by means of letters patent was productive of immense evil.
He had had great experience on this subject, being compelled daily to examine inventions of various kinds, and having himself constantly to invent in the occupations in which he was engaged.
He was always ready to encourage inventions which seemed likely to produce good results, and to enquire into their merits, if they were patented; but not otherwise, lest it should be said that confidence had been placed in him.
Other inventionssoon followed, some of the lamps being regulated by clockwork, some by electricity and magnetism.
Equipped with these two marvelous inventions he was able to extend the hitherto narrow bounds of his dwelling-place, passing northward to the regions which at an earlier stage of his development he dared not penetrate.
Duplicate inventions have been made and will be made again, but they are uncommon.
These dissimilarities were inventions of each hemisphere independent of the other.
They are sheer misconstructions--inventions of the priests and of their helots.
It was established for the purpose of centralizing information relating to buildings, and collecting in a permanent exhibition all materials, appliances, or inventions of a practical or ornamental character.
Its advantages are: First, educational, by placing before the interested public an aggregation of building intelligence in the form of exhibits of the actual materials, appliances, and inventions employed in modern construction.
The Catholic and Protestant divines differ chiefly on the ideas pertaining to government and ecclesiastical institutions, and the various inventions of the Middle Ages to uphold the authority of the Church, not on dogmas strictly theological.
The power of Christianity is in its truths; in its religion, and not in its forms and institutions, in its inventions to uphold the arms of despotism and the tools of despotism.
Inventions and discoveries succeeded the new scope for energies which the Crusades opened.
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