 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1855 - 640 pages
...invent no more. Indeed, I am not near so capable as I was once. I find that I am not the same person I was four years ago, when I invented the fire-engine,...have always been a dupe. The necessary experience in great was wanting ; in acquiring it I have met with many disappointments. I must have sunk under... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1855 - 712 pages
...capable as I was on-: . I find that I am not the same person I was four years ago, when I invented th« fire-engine, and foresaw, even before I made a model,...have always been a dupe. The necessary experience in great was wanting ; in acquiring it I have met with many disappointment*. I must have sunk under... | |
 | Technology - 1855 - 708 pages
...was once. I find that I am not the same person I was four years ago, when I invented the are-engine, and foresaw, even before I made a model, almost every...placing myself above want, without being obliged to hare much dealing with mankind, to whom I have always been a dupe. The necessary experience in great... | |
 | English literature - 1858 - 592 pages
...is an evidence of the settled despondency which clouded his mind, and even cramped his faculties. ' I have resolved, unless these things that I have now...have always been a dupe. The necessary experience in great* was wanting ; in acquiring which I have met with many disappointments. I must have sunk under... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1858 - 694 pages
...I can resist it, to invent no more. Indeed, I am not near so capable as I once was ; I find that 1 am not the same person that I was four years ago,...have always been a dupe. The necessary experience in great* was wanting ; in acquiring which I have met with many disappointments. I must have sunk under... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - Inventors - 1858 - 656 pages
...invent no more. Indeed, I " am not near so capable as I was once. I find that I MI " not the same person I was four years ago, when I invented " the fire-engine,...•' at that time spurred on by the alluring hope of plying " myself above want, without being obliged to have much " dealing with mankind, to whom I have... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 652 pages
...invent no more. Indeed, I " am not near so capable as I was once. I find that I am " not the same person I was four years ago, when I invented " the fire-engine,...have always been a dupe. " The necessary experience in great* was wanting ; in ac" quiring it I have met with many disappointments. I must " have sunk... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - Inventors - 1859 - 440 pages
...invent no more. Indeed, I am not near so capable as I was once. I find that I am not the same person I was four years ago, when I invented the fire-engine,...have always been a dupe. The necessary experience in great was wanting ; in acquiring it I have met with many disappointments. I must have sunk , under... | |
 | William King Tweedie - Biography - 1864 - 482 pages
...find I am not the same person I was four years ago, when I invented the fire — steam — engine, and foresaw, even before I made a model, almost every...circumstance that has since occurred. I was at that time pressed on by the alluring hope of placing myself above want, without being obliged to have much dealing... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - Great Britain - 1881 - 506 pages
...named Moore had plagiarised his invention : ' I have resolved,' he says, ' unless those things which I have now brought to some perfection reward me for...occurred. I was at that time spurred on by the alluring prospect of placing myself above want, without being obliged to have much dealing with mankind, to... | |
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I find that I am not the same person I was four years ago, when I invented the fire-engine, and foresaw, even before I made a model, almost every circumstance that has since occurred. I was at that time spurred on by the alluring hope of placing myself... 
