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 - Page 420by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1890 - 1058 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1846 - 512 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 Ьиsinç*s ; it has enabled man to descend to the depths of the sea, to soar into the air, to penetrate... | |
| 508 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English essays - 1840 - 516 pages
...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 - Agricultural innovations - 1841 - 484 pages
...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 - English literature - 1843 - 520 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1843 - 410 pages
...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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