 | Daniel Defoe - 1998 - 356 páginas
...by making the most rational Judgment of things, every Man may be in time Master of every mechanick Art. I had never handled a Tool in my Life, and yet...by Labour, Application, and Contrivance, I found at last that I wanted nothing but I could have made it, especially if I had had Tools; however I made... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 páginas
...needles and thread, muskets, gunpowder and shot. Implements formed the basis of civilization reborn: 'I had never handled a tool in my life; and yet, in...by labour, application, and contrivance I found at last that I wanted nothing but I could have made, especially if I had the tools.'29 Innovation was... | |
 | Gordon Mursell - 2001 - 604 páginas
...described as a spirituality of work. Robinson Crusoe is no skilled workman: 'I had never handled aTool in my Life, and yet in time by Labour, Application, and Contrivance, I found at last that I wanted nothing but I could have made it.'334 Some have argued that Robinson Crusoe represents... | |
 | Royal Historical Society - 2003 - 516 páginas
...needles and thread, muskets, gunpowder and shot. Implements formed the basis of civilisation reborn: 'I had never handled a tool in my life; and yet, in...by labour, application, and contrivance I found at last that I wanted nothing but I could have made, especially if I had the tools.' Technological innovation... | |
 | Rashna B. Singh - 2004 - 390 páginas
...by making the most rational Judgment of things, every Man may be in time Master of every mechanick Art. I had never handled a Tool in my Life, and yet...by Labour, Application, and Contrivance, I found at last that I wanted nothing but 1 could have made it, especially if I had had Tools; however I made... | |
 | Simona Corso - 2004 - 205 páginas
...by making thè most rational Judgement of things, every Man may be in time Master of every mechanick Art. I had never handled a Tool in my Life, and yet...by Labour, Application, and Contrivance, I found at last that I wanted nothing but I could have made it, especially if I had had Tools... (p. 55). Nel... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1925 - 336 páginas
...by making the most rational Judgment of things, every Man may be in time Master of every mechanick Art. I had never handled a Tool in my Life, and yet...by Labour, Application and Contrivance, I found at last that I wanted nothing but I could have made it, especially if I had had Tools ; however, I made... | |
 | 1899 - 844 páginas
...by making the most rational judgment of things, every man may be in time master of every mechanical art. I had never handled a tool in my life, and yet...by labour, application, and contrivance, I found at last that I wanted nothing but I could have made it, especially if I had bad tools. However, I made... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 434 páginas
...in the world. I could not write, or eat, or do several things with so much pleasure without a table. I had never handled a tool in my life ; and yet, in time, by labor, application, and contrivance, I found, at last, that I wanted nothing but I could have made... | |
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I had never handled a tool in my life, and yet in time by labour, application, and contrivance, I found at last that I wanted nothing but I could have made it, especially if I had had tools... 
