It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been b...rought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to po...or suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time or is like to--this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favourably on the morality of the country?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not becom...e picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The lords of life, the lords of life,-- I saw them pass... In their own guise, Like and unlike, Portly and grim,-- Use and surprise, Surface and dream, Succession swift, and spectral wrong, Temperament without a tongue, And the inventor of the game Omnipresent without name;--LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But a man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him. Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the h...int of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world. But it is found that the machine unmans the user. What he gains in making cloth, he loses in general power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own ana...tomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has ...he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »