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... Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century - Page 1by Robert Routledge - 1893 - 681 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1846 - 512 pages
..."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 pages
..."laudator temporís acti" ? Take your answer from one who has drawn the comparison in a right spirit. " It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it...it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has pVen new securities to the mariner; it has furnished new arms to the warrior ; it has spanned great... | |
| 1838 - 822 pages
...was fjlloJ in the time of Charles the Second, has effected fur mankind, and his answer is ready — 'It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it...diseases; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it baa giren new securities to the mariner ; it has furnished new arms to the warrior ; it has spanned... | |
| 1838 - 870 pages
...ю the warrior; it has spanned great men and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to oar father«; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day ; it has extended the racee of the human vision ; it has multiplied the power of... | |
| John William Carleton - 1846 - 508 pages
..."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... | |
| Alonzo Potter - 1841 - 484 pages
...it was called in the time of Charles the Second, has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready. It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; 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 pages
...it was called in the time of Charles the Second, has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready; "It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it...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 pages
...was called in the time of Charles the Second, has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready; " st of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers....them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. We are oo r fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the... | |
| 1846 - 458 pages
...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 - 406 pages
...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... | |
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