Knowledge is PowerBell and Daldy, 1866 - 426 pages |
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... Inventions that diminish risk - Science raising up new employments Electricity - Galvanism -- Photography- Mental la- bourers - Enlightened public sentiment CHAPTER XXI . Invention of printing - Effects of that art — A daily newspaper ...
... Inventions that diminish risk - Science raising up new employments Electricity - Galvanism -- Photography- Mental la- bourers - Enlightened public sentiment CHAPTER XXI . Invention of printing - Effects of that art — A daily newspaper ...
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... invention of printing ; and even after that invention we must be content to form our conclusions from a few scattered facts not recorded for any such purpose as we have in view , but to be gathered incidentally from slight observations ...
... invention of printing ; and even after that invention we must be content to form our conclusions from a few scattered facts not recorded for any such purpose as we have in view , but to be gathered incidentally from slight observations ...
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... invention of printing , at the time of the valuation of Colchester , books in manu- script , from their extreme costliness , could be purchased only by princes . The royal library of Paris , in 1378 , con- sisted of nine hundred and ...
... invention of printing , at the time of the valuation of Colchester , books in manu- script , from their extreme costliness , could be purchased only by princes . The royal library of Paris , in 1378 , con- sisted of nine hundred and ...
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... inventions , which enabled them to make a living out of their business , being destroyed , they have abandoned the business altogether . A day's work will now no longer purchase as much bread as before . The horse , it might be probably ...
... inventions , which enabled them to make a living out of their business , being destroyed , they have abandoned the business altogether . A day's work will now no longer purchase as much bread as before . The horse , it might be probably ...
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... inventions that constitute the power of civilization . They would eat up the little corn which they raised themselves , and have nothing to give in exchange for clothes , and coals , and candles , and soap , and tea , and sugar , and ...
... inventions that constitute the power of civilization . They would eat up the little corn which they raised themselves , and have nothing to give in exchange for clothes , and coals , and candles , and soap , and tea , and sugar , and ...
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