 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 - 1903 - 820 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1907 - 576 pages
...summarized in the article just referred to that I cannot forbear quoting the concluding paragraph: "It. has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ;...increased the fertility of the soil; it has given new seciirities to the mariner; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 406 pages
...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...diseases; it has increased the fertility of the soil; it 1ms given new securities to the mariner ; it has furnished new arras to the warrior; it has spanned... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1879 - 882 pages
...nothing to show. Against this indictment is set the record of the "new philosophy," beginning thus: "It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished diseases," and rehearsing the scientific and industrial achievements of the past three hundred years. The old... | |
 | 1879 - 876 pages
...nothing to show. Against this indictment is set the record of the "new philosophy," beginning thus: "It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished diseases," and rehearsing the scientific and industrial achievements of the past three hundred years. The old... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 668 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 828 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1907 - 2170 pages
...pronounced by Macaulay on the philosophy of Bacon : "It lias lengthened life. It has mitigated pain. It lias extinguished diseases. It has increased the fertility...heaven to earth. It has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day. It has extended the range of tho human vision. It has multiplied the power of... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 250 pages
...The infernal doors ; and on their hinges gvate Harsh thunder. — Milton. 10. It (Bacon's Philosophy) has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it has...it has furnished new arms to the warrior ; it has scanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1881 - 486 pages
...wisdom far more practical and preferable. This new philosophy, with which we ourselves are blessed, has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it has...spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form and material unknown to our forefathers ; it has guided the thunder-bolt innocuously from heaven to... | |
 | 1881 - 898 pages
...man! What pen or tongue can record all its benefactions ! In the words of Macaulay, we may say that "it has lengthened life, it has mitigated pain, it...has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges unknown to our fathers, it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth, it has lighted... | |
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