 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
 | John Swett - 1884 - 412 pages
...loughs and flowers and fennel gay ; While broken teacups, wisely kept for show, 3. BACON'S PHILOSOPHY. It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it...extinguished diseases ; it has increased the fertility of the sbil ; it has given new securities to the mariner ; it has furnished new arms to the warrior ; it has... | |
 | William George Ward - 1884 - 410 pages
...Philosophy has lengthened life; it IIHS mitigated pain; it has extinguished diseases; it has increased tho fertility of the soil; it has given new securities to the mariner; it has furnished now arms to the warrior; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to... | |
 | Alfred Ritter von Urbanitzky - 1886 - 922 pages
...mentioned in Macaulay's eulogium of the Philosophy of Bacon may be claimed for electricity : — " It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished diseases ; it has given new securities to the mariner ; it has furnished new arms to the warrior ; it has guided the... | |
 | 1900 - 368 pages
...promoting human •welfare, is justified, and more than justified by the facts about us : ' " Science has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it has...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... | |
 | 1895 - 366 pages
...promoting human •welfare, is justified, and more than justified by the facts about us: " Scieuce has 'lengthened life; it has mitigated pain ; it has...arms to the warrior; it has spanned great rivers and esturries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from... | |
 | Ignatius Donnelly - 1888 - 528 pages
...Ask a follower of Bacon what the new philosophy 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1890 - 520 pages
...That of Bacon produced observations, experiments, discoveries, machines, entire arts and industries: " It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it...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... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1890 - 402 pages
...new philosophy. Something of what it has effected has 1 * • ( O been thus described by Macaulay : " It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain; it has extinguished diseases; it has increased the i'ertility of the soil; it has given new securities to the mariner ; it has furnished new arms to the... | |
 | 1891 - 360 pages
...in promoting human welfare, is justified, and more than justified by the facts about us : "Science has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it has...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... | |
 | Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society - 1891 - 360 pages
...in promoting human welfare, is justified, and more than justified by the facts about us : "Science has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it has...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... | |
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