Crossword-Solution: CONTRIVERS 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Great discoverers must be great observers, dexterous manipulators, ingenious contrivers, and patient thinkers.

There are no worse instruments, than these general contrivers of suits; for they are but a kind of poison, and infection, to public proceedings.

Who cannot but discern the fineness of this politic drift, and who are the contrivers; that while bishops were to be baited down, then all presses might be open; it was the people's birthright and privilege in time of Parliament, it was the breaking forth of light.

Had Parsons and his wife, and the other contrivers of the Cock Lane deception, lived two hundred years earlier, they would not, perhaps, have found a greater number of dupes, but they would have been hanged as witches, instead of being imprisoned as vagabonds.

Walter was impressed with the conviction that a much more rapid printing of newspapers was feasible than by the slow hand-labour process; and he endeavoured to induce several ingenious mechanical contrivers to take up and work out his idea.