 | 1849 - 820 páginas
...of the Constitution. "Of all inventions," says Macaulay, "the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance...the civilization of our species." Every improvement, oy which time or distance from place to place is lessened, benefits mankind morally and intellectually,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 550 páginas
...found in passing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance...the civilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially, and not... | |
 | 1849 - 854 páginas
...authors of the day, has remarked, that, " of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance...the civilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually, as well as materially, and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 664 páginas
...saluted the lord lieutenant. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printmg press alone exoepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done...the civilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially, and not... | |
 | 1852 - 556 páginas
...in civilization of our forefathers, " Of all inven' tions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, ' those inventions which abridge distance...the civilization of our species. Every improvement of ' the means of locomotion benefits mankind, morally and intel' lectually, as well as materially,... | |
 | 1852 - 566 páginas
...in civilization of our forefathers, " Of all inven' tions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, ' those inventions which abridge distance...the civilization of our species. Every improvement of ' the means of locomotion benefits mankind, morally and intel' lectually, as well as materially,... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1853 - 616 páginas
...great modern historian of England has well said, that next to the alphabet and the printing press, those inventions which .abridge distance have done most for the civilization of mankind. We may add, truly, that the rail-road is the great apostle of progress. Though it has come... | |
 | Michigan State Agricultural Society - 1854 - 1088 páginas
...been beautifully written, " of all inventions, the alphabet and printing press alone excepted, these inventions which abridge distance have done most for...the civilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually, as well as materially, and... | |
 | John Blakely - 1856 - 302 páginas
...by so many beneficial results. Of all human inventions — the alphabet, the manufacture of paper, and the printing press excepted — those inventions...have done most for the civilization of our species. It has been remarked by an acute observer of historical changes1 that " every improvement in the means... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 páginas
...END OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. OF all inventions, the alphabet and printing alone excepted, those which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. In the seventeenth century, the inhabitants of London were, for almost every practical purpose, further... | |
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Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually... 
