It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it has extinguished diseases; it has increased the fertility of the soil; it has given new securities to the mariner; it has furnished new arms to the warrior; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with... Reviews, Essays, and Poems - Pągina 420per Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1890 - 1058 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1846 - 512 pągines
...accelerated motion ; it has anmhilated distance ; it has facilitated intercourse, correspondence, and all friendly offices, all despatch of business ; it...penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth ; to traverse the earth in cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which run... | |
| 1837 - 538 pągines
...philosophy was to supply our vulgar wants. The former aim was noble ; but the latter was attainable. Ask the follower of Bacon, what the- new philosophy, as it...penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, "to traverse the land on cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which sail against... | |
| 1837 - 608 pągines
...answer is ready — 'It has 'lengthened life; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished dis' eases ; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has...intercourse, correspondence, all friendly offices, 'all dispatch of business; it has enabled man to descend to the • depths of the sea, to soar into the... | |
| 1838 - 822 pągines
...guided the thunderbolt innocuously (rum heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day ; it has extended the range of the human...correspondence, all friendly offices, all despatch of Ьиsinē*s ; it has enabled man to descend to the depths of the sea, to soar into the air, to penetrate... | |
| 508 pągines
...accelerated motion ; it has annihilated distance ; it has facilitated intercourse, correspondence, and all friendly offices, all despatch of business ; it...penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth ; to traverse the earth in cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships winch ran... | |
| John William Carleton - 1846 - 508 pągines
...accelerated motion ; it has anmhilated distance ; it has facilitated intercourse, correspondence, and all friendly offices, all despatch of business ; it...penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth ; to traverse the earth in cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which run... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 pągines
...guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day ; it has extended the range of the human...depths of the sea, to soar into the air, to penetrate x securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the land on cars which whirl along without... | |
| Alonzo Potter - 1841 - 484 pągines
...guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day ; it has extended the range of the human...friendly offices, all despatch of business ; it has enab) •< man to descend to the depths of the sea ; to soar imo the air, to penetrate securely into... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 pągines
...without it ? What has it enabled us to do which we should not have been equally able to do without it ? " Such questions, we suspect, would have puzzled Simplicius...penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the land in cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which run ten... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 410 pągines
...day; it hjas extended the range of the human vision; it has multiplied the power of the human muscle; it has accelerated motion; it has annihilated distance;...penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the land on cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which sail against... | |
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