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Common terms and phrasesadmiration amongst application Archimedes Arkwright arts Bart belong benefits Boulton British empire C. H. TURNER carried unanimously character civilised claims conferred contemplate coveries of Watt creased delightful discoveries distin distinction distinguished duty Earl of Liverpool effect eminent enjoyment equal erecting a Monument eulogy exalted exertions extraordinary feel fortunate FREEMASONS genius and talents genius of Watt Gentlemen Gentlemen:—We glory guished happy heard human humble improvements individual industry inventors justice justly knowledge labour LATE JAMES WATT learned friend live Lord Bacon Lord Liverpool lordship M.P. Sir manufac manufacture memory ment mind national gratitude nisters noured occasion peculiar perfect personal acquaintance philosopher pounds sterling present President produced public gratitude public meeting rank recollection rendered respect Robert Peel Royal Society satisfaction scientific seconding the resolution Sir James Mackintosh Steam Engine testimony thousand tion tribute of national ture Watt's inventions Watt's merits wealth Popular passagesPage 57 - to others. I have heard him refuse the honour universally ascribed to him, of being the inventor of the Steam Engine, and call himself simply its improver; though, in my mind, to doubt his right to that honour would be as inaccurate as to question Sir Isaac Newton's claim to his greatest discoveries, because Page 14 - That the late James Watt, by the " profound 'science and original genius " displayed in his admirable inventions, " has more than any other man of this " age exemplified the practical utility " of knowledge, enlarged the power of " man over the external world, and " both multiplied and diffused the Page 24 - country, we look as men to the benefits which Mr. Watt's inventions have imparted, and are still imparting, to the whole race of man ; or whether, as members of that great and powerful community of which he was a member, we confine ourselves to contemplate the special benefits which he conferred upon this Page 23 - inadequate I feel myself to do justice to my own sentiments in this respect, I cannot but be gratified that I have a public opportunity to bear my humble acknowledgment of gratitude for his services, and of respect for his memory. Gentlemen :—whether, abstracting ourselves for a moment from all Page 84 - such a duty as is this day to be performed, all political distinctions are forgotten ! We seem to rise into a higher region of light and truth, of genius and of science, where none of those passions darken, and none of those baser emotions discompose the atmosphere, that are Page 26 - ago, murdered and devoured our intrepid but unfortunate navigator, Captain Cook, have, within that short period, become acquainted with many of the comforts of life, and made a greater progress, perhaps, towards improvement, than remains for them to make, in order to entitle themselves to Page 34 - I feel most forcibly my own want of power to do justice to my sentiments on this occasion, and that I gladly relieve myself from any further prosecution of the attempt by proposing to you the following Resolution : " That those benefits, conferred by Mr. Page 57 - imitation ; he was not only entirely free from jealousy, but he exercised a careful and scrupulous self-denial, and was anxious not to appear, even by accident, as appropriating to himself that which he thought belonged Page 35 - which owes a tribute of national " gratitude to a man who has thus ho" noured her by his genius, and promoted " her well-being by his discoveries. Page 41 - world ; the rather because the other two prosecutions are ever culpable of much perturbation and injustice: but this is a work truly divine, which cometh in aura leni without noise or observation."—Fragments of Valerius Terminus, on the Interpretation of Nature. Bibliographic information
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