 | James Ferguson, Sir David Brewster - Astronomy - 1806 - 506 pages
...that I never attempted to make such another machine again, especially as I was thoroughly convinced I could never make one that would be of any real use....the late Sir James Dunbar of Durn (about seven miles from where my father lived), as I had heard that Sir James was a very good-natured, friendly, inquisitive... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1814 - 420 pages
...that I never attempted to make such another machine again, especially as I was thoroughly convinced I could never make one that would be of any real use....late Sir James Dunbar, of Durn (about seven miles from where my father lived), as I had heard that Sir James was a very good-natured, friendly, inquisitive... | |
 | First steps - Astronomy - 1828 - 456 pages
...hammer struck the hours, was the neck of a broken bottle." WILLIAM. Do read a little more. MOTHER. my globe, clock, and copies of some other maps besides...late Sir James Dunbar, of Durn, about seven miles from where my father lived, as I had heard that Sir James was a very good-natured, friendly, inquisitive... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 464 pages
...that I never attempted to make such another machine again, especially as I was thoroughly convinced I could never make one that would be of any real use." What a vivid picture is this of an ingenuous mind thirsting for knowledge! and who is there, too, that... | |
 | Great Britain - 1834 - 654 pages
...that 1 never attempted to make such another machine again, especially as I was thoroughly convinced I could never make one that would be of any real use." Ferguson now turned his attention to clock-repairing, as a means of subsistence, and had the satisfnction... | |
 | Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...that 1 never attempted to make such another machine again, especially as I was thoroughly convinced I could never make one that would be of any real use." Ferguson now turned his attention to clock-repairing, as a means of subsistence, and had the satisfaction... | |
 | Exemplary and instructive biography - Biography - 1836 - 348 pages
...that I never attempted to make Such another machine again, especially as I was thoroughly convinced I could never make one that would be of any real use....that of the world, to the late Sir James Dunbar of Burn, about seven miles from where my father lived, as I had heard that Sir James was a very good-natured,... | |
 | 1843 - 350 pages
...especially as I was thoroughly convinced I could never make one, that would be of any real use.—As soon as I was able to go abroad, I carried my globe,...maps, besides that of the world, to the late Sir James Dun. bar of Durn (about seven miles from where my father lived,) as I had heard that Sir James was... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - English fiction - 1845 - 502 pages
...that 1 never attempted to make such another machine again, especially as I was thoroughly convinced I could never make one that would be of any real use.'" " True, I will keep the rest for her dressing time," said Frank. " But mamma is quite out of hearing,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1845 - 778 pages
...that I never attempted to make such another machine again, especially as I was thoroughly convinced I could never make one that would be of any real use." What a vivid picture is this of an ingenuous mind thirsting for knowledge! And who is there, too, that... | |
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I could never make one that would be of any real use. As soon as I was able to go abroad, I carried my globe, clock, and copies of some other maps besides that of the world, to the late Sir James Dunbar of Durn (about seven miles 
