Addresses Delivered at the Triennial Celebration ...1824 |
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... skill ; thus producing an hon- ourable competition among the members of the va- rious mechanical professions . On former occasions , premiums have been award- ed for new and useful inventions , and for superior specimens of workmanship ...
... skill ; thus producing an hon- ourable competition among the members of the va- rious mechanical professions . On former occasions , premiums have been award- ed for new and useful inventions , and for superior specimens of workmanship ...
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... skill . Wherever a liberal patronage is extended to the arts , a much greater share of inventive , as well as practical tal- ent is brought into operation . What a boundless field does the science of me- chanics present for the exercise ...
... skill . Wherever a liberal patronage is extended to the arts , a much greater share of inventive , as well as practical tal- ent is brought into operation . What a boundless field does the science of me- chanics present for the exercise ...
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... skill of enlight- ened freemen , which will vie with the proudest ef- forts of Athens or Corinth ! * " The great superiority of the Greeks in Architecture is to be traced to causes simi- lar to those which occasioned their preeminence ...
... skill of enlight- ened freemen , which will vie with the proudest ef- forts of Athens or Corinth ! * " The great superiority of the Greeks in Architecture is to be traced to causes simi- lar to those which occasioned their preeminence ...
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While so much depends upon the talent and skill of the architect , it is obvious that no considerations of a pecuniary nature , should deprive the man of genius of a liberal compensation for his services . While our rich capitalists are ...
While so much depends upon the talent and skill of the architect , it is obvious that no considerations of a pecuniary nature , should deprive the man of genius of a liberal compensation for his services . While our rich capitalists are ...
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... skill , was bred an anchor smith . See Johnson's Life of Greene . ROGER SHERMAN , one of the signers of the declaration of inde- pendence , was in early life , a saddler , but by his own industry and application , acquired an education ...
... skill , was bred an anchor smith . See Johnson's Life of Greene . ROGER SHERMAN , one of the signers of the declaration of inde- pendence , was in early life , a saddler , but by his own industry and application , acquired an education ...
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