The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 80
meonly at the opportune moment needs not be examinedhere. Experience will bear out the assertion that occa-sion creates the instrument. The world has had thou-sands of unknown Alexanders and Napoleons; and thereason that they remained obscure, and never conqueredworlds, was that there were no… … CHAPTEE YI. FEINTING; OR, THE ART PRESERVATIVE OF ARTS. AS in many other cases, the world is indebted to thedespised Chinese for its first knowledge of printing;not printing as now practiced with movable types, butprinting in which an impression of the types is taken onpaper. So far as can be…
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