...distinguished poet foretold its success in the following beautiful manner : " Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or. on wide waving wings expanded, bear The flying chariots through the fields of air." Where was Robert Fulton...

...fallacy of attending to the hits and overlooking the misses. (27) ' Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid...bear The flying chariot through the fields of air.' Darwin's Economy of Vegetation, canto i. ' There is reason to believe it may in time be applied to...

...creature without seeing in it an overwhelming manifestation of the wisdom of the Creator. June, 1850. * Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car. This is fulfilled. Who shall say that the rest of the prophecy may not come to pass ? — Or, on wide...

...Garden," in which the poet, among some predictions, not yet verified, has this remarkable one : — " Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd Steam, afar Drag the...rapid car ! Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear Thy flying chariot through the fields of air." Bisset thus pays his tribute to the same inspiring theme...

...178.0, but written, it is well known, at least twenty years before the date of its publication : " Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or on wide waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air. Fair crews triumphant...

...1789, but written, it is well known, at least twenty years before the date of its publication : ** Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or on wide waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air. Fair crews triumphant...

...Garden," in which the poet, among some predictions, not yet verified, has this remarkable one : — " Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ! Or on wide- waving wings expanded hear Thy flying chariot through the fields of air." Bisset thus pays his...

...known, at least twenty years before the date of its publication : " Soon shall thy arm, unconqucr'd Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or on wide waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air. Fair crews triumphant...

...occurs the following prediction respecting steam : — ' Soon shall thy steam, afar arm, unconquer'd Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or, on...bear The flying chariot through the fields of air, Fair crews triumphant leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering 'kerchiefs as they move ; Or...

...the more obvious purposes of mine drainage and the like, Darwin, in his Botanic Garden, wrote — " Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd Steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car." And in an appended note prophecies that the new agent might " in time be applied to the rowing of barges,...