 | Wisconsin State Agricultural Society - 1882 - 514 pages
...combined. There is probably not a man, woman or child, whose interest or comfort has not been in gome degree subserved by them. They bring to our doors...take a train of inhabited palaces from the Atlantic coist, and, with a marvelous swiftness, deposit it on the shores that are washed by the Pacific seas.... | |
 | Parker McCobb Reed - 1882 - 582 pages
...There is scarcely a want, wish, or aspiration of the human heart which they do not in some measure tend to gratify. They promote the pleasures of social life...conception of the eastern imagination, which pictured the genie as transporting an inhabited palace from the Atlantic coast, and with marvelous swiftness, depositing... | |
 | Robert Percival Porter, William Patterson Jones, Henry Gannett - 1882 - 694 pages
...bring the skilled physician swiftly from a distance to attend the sick and the wounded, and enable his friend to be present at the bedside of the dying....which pictured the genii as transporting inhabited palaqes through the air. They take a train of inhabited palaces from the Atlantic coast, and with marvelous... | |
 | 1901 - 660 pages
...aspiration of the human heart which they do not in some measure help to gratify. They promote the pleasure of social life and of friendship; they bring the skilled...palaces through the air.. They take a train of inhabited pal' aces from the Atlantic coast and with marvelous swiftness deposit it on the shores that are washed... | |
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They scatter the productions of the press and literature broadcast through the country with amazing rapidity. There is scarcely a want, wish or aspiration of the human heart, which they do not in some measure help to gratify. They promote the pleasures... 