"Invention" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... form was the invention of the Church. The religious service by which the neophyte was initiated as a knight has been traced back to the time of Otto III, when it appears in the liturgy of the Roman churches. But the ceremony was not in general use, outside Italy, before the age of the Crusades. It was Urban II who ...
— Medieval Europe • H. W. C. Davis
... opinion it is the finest view of the progress of natural philosophy, the most enlarged, the most just in its judgments of the past, and in its prescience of the future; in the richness of experimental knowledge, in its theoretic invention, the greatest work by any one individual since the time ...
— Helen • Maria Edgeworth
... bolting-table, and the shifting and laying by sections, was Ford's invention, but he modestly stood ...
— Empire Builders • Francis Lynde
... second phase of her romantic career. Arab fancy has surrounded her history with many surprising incidents, and Lope de Vega, the Spanish dramatist, has made her the heroine of a romantic play, but her actual history is so full of interest that we need not draw contributions from fable or invention. ...
— Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII • Charles Morris
... think a snow-storm's all right to travel in, all right to sleep in," said the Colonel one morning; "but to cook in, eat in, make or break camp in—it's the devil's champion invention." For three days they had worked like galley-slaves, and yet covered less than ten miles a day. "And you never get rested," the Colonel went on; "I get up as tired as I go to bed." Again the Boy only nodded. His body, if not his temper, had ...
— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)
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