 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...  Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Pagina 278door Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 744 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1846 - 512 pagina’s
..."laudator temporis acti" ? Take your answer from one who has drawn the comparison in a right spirit. " It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it...and estuaries with bridges, of form unknown to our forefathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the... | |
 | 508 pagina’s
...mitigated pain ; it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has pVen new securities to the mariner; it has furnished new...and estuaries with bridges, of form unknown to our forefathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1846 - 508 pagina’s
..."laudator temporis acti" 1 Take your answer from one who has drawn the comparison in a right spirit. " It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it...and estuaries with bridges, of form unknown to our forefathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 512 pagina’s
...been held in the highest esteem by the public ; it has drawn to itself almost all the sap and vigor of the human intellect, and what has it effected ?...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... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - 1841 - 484 pagina’s
...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...and estuaries with bridges, of form unknown to our father^ ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 410 pagina’s
...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...the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it'has lighted up the night with the splendour of the day; it hjas extended the range of the human... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pagina’s
...should not have been equally able to do without it ?" Such questions, we suspect, would have puss zled Simplicius and Isidore. Ask a follower of Bacon what...rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to oo r fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the... | |
 | 1846 - 406 pagina’s
...has lengthened life, given new security to the mariner ; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges...heaven to earth, it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day ; it has extended the range of human vision, it has multiplied the power of human... | |
 | 1846 - 458 pagina’s
...has lengthened life, given new security to the mariner; it has increased the fertility of the soil; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges...heaven to earth, it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day ; it has extended the range of human vision, it has multiplied the power of human... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pagina’s
...progress, that owes its origin to the genius of Francis Bacon. " Ask a follower of Bacon," says Macaulay, " what the new philosophy, as it was called in the time...furnished new arms to the warrior; it has spanned great riven and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunder-bolt innocuously... | |
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