History of the Atlantic Telegraph

ISBN: 9781330797549 出版年：2016 页码：442 Henry M Field Forgotten Books

The means by which it is attained. What toil and patience have gone before; what days and nights of watching and weariness; how often hope deferred has made the heart sick; how year after year has dragged on, and seen the end still afar off — all that counts for little, if the long struggle do not close in victory. And yet in the history of human achievements, it is.