Both the reader and the writer are deeply indebted to that gracious Providence which has cast our lot in the most favored of all times. Chiefly through the progress of the Arts, the average of existence has been lengthened many years, and into these years it is possible to concentrate an amount of literary acquisition, and moral achievement, and intellectual enjoyment, for which Methuselah himself had not leisure. For lives thus lengthened let us show our gratitude by living to good purpose; and, remembering that railways and telegraphs and steam-printed books are the good gifts of God, let the age which enjoys them be also the age of holiest obedience and largest benevolence.
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Knapp’s “Chemical Technology,” p. 179.
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See Professor Brande’s “Lecture,” Jan 31, 1851.
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The invention of Mr. Grant, of the Victualling Department,
Somerset House.
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SNOW.
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BY J. P. ADDISON.