The Story of a Blind Inventor: Being Some Account of the Life and Labours of Dr. James Gale |
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affliction alluded amused ancient appeared assistance barrels became become began BLIND INVENTOR boyish burning cartridge character Colonel Anderson companion considerable Cornwall Crediton danger dark Dartmoor deaf deprived of sight destruction Devon Devonport Devonshire door effect electricity employed enabled Erith experiments explosion explosive material eyes eyesight fire forms French frequently Gale found Gale's invention Gale's process gaze gentleman glass Government magazines grains Greek Fire hand hearing hundred James Gale labour lady less light London magazines manner manufacture Marshwood means ment mind Mount Edgecumbe nature never non-explosive occasion perceived persons pleasure Plymouth portion possessed present proceeded procured protected gunpowder protected powder protective mixture proved Purfleet purpose quantity rendered result river Tavy Salonica saltpetre says scarcely scene scientific sightless smile stored strange suddenly sulphur Tavistock terrible Theophilus Gale tion Tonic Sol-fa tower town various vessel young Gale youthful
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Page 5 - Look how the Lion of the sea lifts up his ancient crown, And underneath his deadly paw treads the gay lilies down. So stalked he when he turned to flight, on that famed Picard field, Bohemia's plume, and Genoa's bow, and Caesar's eagle shield.
Page 5 - And crushed and torn beneath his claws the princely hunters lay. Ho! strike the flagstaff deep, Sir Knight: ho! scatter flowers, fair maids: Ho! gunners, fire a loud salute: ho! gallants, draw your blades: Thou sun, shine on her joyously; ye breezes, waft her wide; Our glorious SEMPER EADEM, the banner of our pride.
Page 229 - On helm and harness rings the Saxon hammer, Through Cimbric forest roars the Norseman's song, And loud, amid the universal clamor, O'er distant deserts sounds the Tartar gong.
Page 12 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased ; The which observed, a man may prophesy With a near aim of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasure"d. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 16 - The sum is this : If man's convenience, health, Or safety, interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all, the meanest things that are, As free to live and to enjoy that life As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Page 38 - In truth he was a strange and wayward wight, Fond of each gentle, and each dreadful scene. In darkness, and in storm, he found delight : Nor less, than when on...
Page 238 - The Secrets of Art and Nature ;" wherehi he states, that " from saltpetre and other ingredients, we are able to make a fire that shall burn at what distance we please...
Page 38 - But why should I his childish feats display ? Concourse, and noise, and toil, he ever fled ; Nor cared to mingle in the clamorous fray Of squabbling imps ; but to the forest sped, Or roam'd at large the lonely mountain's head, Or, where the maze of some bewilder'd stream To deep untrodden groves his footsteps led, There would he wander wild, till Phoebus' beam, Shot from the western cliff, released the weary team.