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 - Página 420de Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1890 - 1058 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...; it has extended the range of the human vision ; it has multiplied the power of the human muscle; ises to cultivate to traverse the )and on cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which sail against... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 338 páginas
...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... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 páginas
...day; It h»8 tfxtendM the range of the human vision; it has multiplied the power of the human muscle ; it has accelerated motion ; it has annihilated distance;...has enabled man to descend to the depths of the sea, tb s6ar into the air, to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 páginas
...; it has 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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 596 páginas
...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...into the air, to penetrate securely into the noxious VOL. n. K recesses of the earth, to traverse the land in cars which whirl along without horses, and... | |
| William Keddie - 1854 - 400 páginas
...my colleagues, to a chair which had been honoured by the last days of Newton." SCIENCE-ITS TRIUMPHS. It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it...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... | |
| 1857 - 240 páginas
...PHILOSOPHY. ASK a follower of Bacon what the new philosophy, as it was called in the time of diaries the Second, has effected for mankind, and his answer...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... | |
| 1858 - 398 páginas
...have been equally able to do without it ?' Such questions, we suspect, would have puzzled Siinplicius and Isidore. Ask a follower of Bacon what the new...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 - 1858 - 780 páginas
...day; it has extended the range of the human vision ; it has multiplied the power of the human muscle; ndour still remains to be mentioned. If lie exerted...persecuting hierarchy, he exerted himself in conjunction inM the air, to penetrate securely into the noxinus recesses of the earth, to traverse the lamí on... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 768 páginas
...motion; it has annihilated distance; it has facilitated intercourse, correspondence, all friendly ofncRS. all despatch of business; it has enabled man to descend...penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the lam! on cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which sail against... | |
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