... originally well made, and only refuses to work when worn out with age ; it is equally active in all climates, and will do work of any kind ; it is a water-pumper, a miner, a sailor, a cottonspinner, a weaver, a blacksmith, a miller, &c. The Book of the Farm - Pàgina 41per Henry Stephens - 1852Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1842 - 634 pàgines
...spinner, a weaver, a blacksmith, a miller, &c. &c. and a small engine, in the character of a steam pony, may be seen, dragging after it, on a railroad, a hundred tons of merchandize, or a regiment of soldiers, with greater speed than that of our fleetest coaches. It is... | |
| Neil Arnott - 1829 - 542 pàgines
...cotten-spinner, a weaver, a blacksmith, a miller, &c. &c. : and a small engine in the character of a steam poney may be seen dragging after it on a rail-road a hundred tons of merchandize, or a regiment of soldiers, with greater speed than that of our fleetest coaches. It is... | |
| 1830 - 592 pàgines
...a weaver, a blacksmith, a miller, &c. &c. ; and a small engine, in the character of a steam poney, may be seen dragging after it on a rail-road a hundred tons of merchandize, or a regiment of soldiers, with greater speed than that of our fleetest coaches. It is... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 424 pàgines
...a weaver, a blacksmith, a miller, &c. &c. ; and a small engine, in the character of a steam poney, may be seen dragging after it on a railroad a hundred...coaches. It is the king of machines, and a permanent realization of the Genii of Eastern fable, whose supernatural powers were occasionally at the command... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 438 pàgines
...weaver, a blacksmith, a miller, &.c, &.c ; and a small engine, in the character of a sleaar poney, may be seen dragging after it on a railroad a hundred...coaches. It is the king of machines, and a permanent realization of the Genii of Eastern fable, whose supernatural powers were occasionally at the command... | |
| 1837 - 538 pàgines
...water-pumper, a miner, a sailor, a cotton-spinner, a weaver, a blacksmith, a miller, &c. ; and a small engine, in the character of a steam-pony, may be seen dragging...coaches. It is the king of machines, and a permanent realization of the genii of eastern fable, whose supernatural powers were occasionally at the command... | |
| 1837 - 260 pàgines
...water-pumper, a miner, a sailor, a cotton-spinner, a weaver, a blacksmith, a miller, &c. ; and a small engine, in the character of a steam-pony, may be seen dragging...coaches. It is the king of machines, and a permanent realization of the genii of eastern fable, whose supernatural powers were occasionally at the command... | |
| Herbert Mayo - 1838 - 360 pàgines
...water-pumper, a miner, a sailor, a cotton-spinner, a weaver, a blacksmith, a miller, SEC. ; and a small engine in the character of a steam-pony may be seen dragging...coaches. It is the king of machines, and a permanent realization of the genii of eastern fable, whose supernatural powers were occasionally at the command... | |
| Neil Arnott - 1838 - 596 pàgines
...cotton-spinner, a weaver, a blacksmith, a miller, &c. &c. : and a small engine in the character of a steam poney, may be seen dragging after it on a rail-road a hundred tons of merchandize, or a regiment of soldiers, with thrice the speed of our fleetest horse coaches. It is... | |
| 1838 - 492 pàgines
...cotton-spinner, a weaver, a blacksmith, a miller, etc., and a small engine in the character of a steam pony, may be seen dragging after it, on a railroad, a hundred tons of merchandize, or a regiment of soldiers, with thrice the speed of our fleetest horse coaches. It is,... | |
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