When I state to the court, that a very large sum to the individual will depend on the event of this cause; ... Can it be seriously be contended, that the invention of Mr. Watt, which, ... has been admired by all Europe as the greatest practical advance ever made in the arts, is a more abstract discovery in science? ...
Rous, George,1744?-1802.
[London?,
1799?]
"This speech was delivered by the learned counsel from a written paper. The few copies of which were afterwards printed, (but not published), for the use of Mr. Watt and his friends ..", Muirhead, J. P., The origin and progress of the mechanical inventions of James Watt.
Title from opening lines of text on p. 1.
A speech delivered by George Rous, counsel for James Watt and Matthew Boulton, defendents in the cause Boulton and Watt versus Hornblower and Maberly, in the Court of Kings̀ bench, Hilary term, 1799.
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