 Our engineers have no real scientific instruction, and we let them learn their business at our expense by the rule of thumb ; but it is a ruinous system of blunder and plunder. A man without the requisite scientific knowledge undertakes to build a difficult...  The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta - Stran 2111894Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Matthew Arnold - 1868 - 396 strani
...expense by the rule of thumb; but it is a ruinous system of blunder and plunder. A man without the requisite scientific knowledge undertakes to build...because abroad they cannot afford our extravagance. The scientific training of the foreign engineers is therefore perfectly right. Take the present cost... | |
 | Schools inquiry commission - 1868 - 532 strani
...expense by the rule of thumb ; but it is a " ruinous system of blunder and plunder. A man without the " requisite scientific knowledge undertakes to build...not have been " suffered to build his first bridge till he had satisfied competent te persons that he knew how to build it, because abroad they " cannot... | |
 | Museum and English journal of education - 1869 - 496 strani
...expense by the rule of thumb; bnt it is a ruinous system of blunder and plunder. A man without the requisite scientific knowledge undertakes to build...would not have been suffered to build his first bridge till he hud satisfied competent persons that he knew how to build it, because abroad they cannot afford... | |
 | John Mill - 1871 - 338 strani
...expense, by the rule of thumb ; but it is a ruinous system of blunder and plunder. A man without the requisite scientific knowledge undertakes to build...failures. In France or Switzerland he would not have been allowed to build his first bridge till he had satisfied competent persons that he knew how to build... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1874 - 448 strani
...expense by the rule of thumb; but it is a ruinous system of blunder and plunder. A man without the requisite scientific knowledge undertakes to build...because abroad they cannot afford our extravagance. The scientific training of the foreign engineers is therefore perfectly right. Take the present cost... | |
 | John Croumbie Brown - 1879 - 20 strani
...expense by the rule of thumb, but it is a vicious system of blunder and plunder. A man without the requisite scientific knowledge undertakes to build...because abroad they cannot afford our extravagance. The scientific training of the foreign engineers is therefore perfectly right. Take the present cost... | |
 | 1880 - 906 strani
...expense by the rule of thumb, but it is a vicious system of blunder and plunder. A man without the requisite scientific knowledge undertakes to build...because abroad they cannot afford our extravagance. The scientific training of the foreign engineers is therefore perfectly right. Take the present cost... | |
 | 1885 - 788 strani
...system of blunder and plunder. A man without the requisite scientific knowledge undertakes to build a bridge; he builds three which tumble down, and so learns how to build a fourth, which stands. In France, in Switzerland, he would not have been suffered to build his first bridge until he had satisfied... | |
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