...called in the time of Charles the Second, has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready : ' It hath lengthened life; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished...securities to the mariner; it has furnished new arms to tho warrior; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers;...

...would have puzzled Simplicius and Isidore. Ask a follower of Bacon what the new philosophy, as it wns called in the time of Charles the Second, has effected...thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it nas lighted up the night with the splendour of the day ; it has extended the range of the human vision...

...gorgeous rhetoric as to be well worth citing, however hackneyed. Physical science, he proclaims, " has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it has...unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuous from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the splendors of the day; it has...

...increased the fertility of the soil, given new security to the mariner, furnished new arms to the warrior, spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of...heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with splendor of the day ; it has extended the range of human vision ; it has multiplied the power of the...

...increased the fertility of the soil, given new security to the mariner, furnished new arms to the warrior, spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of...heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with splendor of the day ; it has extended the range of human vision ; it has multiplied the power of the...

...increased the fertility of the soil, given new security to the mariner, furnished new arms to the warrior, spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of...heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with splendor of the day; it has extended the range of human vision ; it has multiplied the power of the...

...philosophy confessed, nay boasted, that for every end but one it was useless. Had it attained that one end ? Suppose that Justinian, when he closed the schools...given new securities to the mariner ; it has furnished new_arms to the warrior ; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to...

...Second, has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready : " It has lengthened life ; it has migitated pain ; it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased...heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day ; it has extended the range of the human vision ; it has multiplied the power of...

...Second, has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready : " It has lengthened life ; it has migitated pain ; it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased...heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day ; it has extended the range of the human vision ; it has multiplied the power of...

...Second, has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready : " It has lengthened life ; it has migitated pain ; it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased...heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day ; it has extended the range of the human vision ; it has multiplied the power of...