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<p>degree of dexterity, such as any person whatever may <lb/> be sure of acquiring with a very little degree of practice, <lb/> on the part of the remainder.</p> | <p>degree of dexterity, such as any person whatever may <lb/> be sure of acquiring with a very little degree of practice, <lb/> on the part of the remainder.</p> | ||
<p>That for the invention of the species of building <lb/> | <p>That for the invention of the species of building <lb/> aforesaid, your Memorialist is indebted in <lb/> great measure, and for the system of machinery <lb/> aforesaid, altogether, to his Brother Samuel Bentham <lb/> Knight of the Order of the S<hi rend="superscript">t</hi> George of Russia <lb/> and Brigadier General in her Imperial Majesty's <lb/> service, but at present residing with your Memorialist <lb/> at his House in Westminster. </p> | ||
<note>9 <lb/>Advantageous undertaking <lb/>foregone on this <lb/> account. </note> | |||
<p>That it had been the intention of your Memorialist's <lb/> said Brother, by the assistance of <lb/> your Memorialist ot otherwise, to carry into effect <lb/> the said inventions by the power of Steam, by <lb/> means of which, according to the most approved <lb/> calculations, force may be obtained at as cheap <lb/> a rate, as if the same quantity of force being <lb/> obtained from men, such men were to be paid <add>at the rate</add> <lb/> 2<hi rend="superscript">d</hi>1/4 to 3<hi rend="superscript">d</hi> or thereabouts a day. </p> | |||
<p>That on the faith of the treaty above mentioned, <lb/> an at the earnest <sic>sollicitation</sic> of your Memorialist, <lb/> your Memorialist's said Brother <lb/> was prevailed upon to quit the design of carrying <lb/> on the said works by <add>Steam</add> Engines, and to confine <lb/> his plan of operation, to such sorts of machines.</p> | |||
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degree of dexterity, such as any person whatever may
be sure of acquiring with a very little degree of practice,
on the part of the remainder.
That for the invention of the species of building
aforesaid, your Memorialist is indebted in
great measure, and for the system of machinery
aforesaid, altogether, to his Brother Samuel Bentham
Knight of the Order of the St George of Russia
and Brigadier General in her Imperial Majesty's
service, but at present residing with your Memorialist
at his House in Westminster.
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Advantageous undertaking
foregone on this
account.
That it had been the intention of your Memorialist's
said Brother, by the assistance of
your Memorialist ot otherwise, to carry into effect
the said inventions by the power of Steam, by
means of which, according to the most approved
calculations, force may be obtained at as cheap
a rate, as if the same quantity of force being
obtained from men, such men were to be paid at the rate
2d1/4 to 3d or thereabouts a day.
That on the faith of the treaty above mentioned,
an at the earnest sollicitation of your Memorialist,
your Memorialist's said Brother
was prevailed upon to quit the design of carrying
on the said works by Steam Engines, and to confine
his plan of operation, to such sorts of machines.
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