 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
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 560 pages
...Second, has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready : " It has lengthened life ; it has migitated pain ; it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased...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... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 438 pages
...Second, has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready : " It has lengthened life ; it has migitated pain ; it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased...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 - 1900 - 508 pages
...That of Bacon produced observations, experiments, discoveries, machines, entire arts and industries : "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... | |
 | Charles Henry Ham - 1900 - 508 pages
...pain; extinguished diseases; increased the fertility of the soil ; given new securities to the mariner; spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers; guided tins thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; lighted up the night with the splendor of... | |
 | Harold Bayley - 1902 - 334 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...unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt inocuously from heaven to earth; it has lighted up the night with the splendour of the day ; it has... | |
 | William Henry Doolittle - 1903 - 550 pages
...the fertility of the soil ; given new security to the mariner ; furnished new arms to the warrior; spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of...heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with splendour of the day ; it has extended the range of human vision ; it has multiplied the power of the... | |
 | 1904 - 530 pages
...fallen upon men, Macaulay is found declaring the fceneficence of science in his overflowing strain: — "It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain ; it...increased the fertility of the soil; it has given new security to the mariner, and new arms to the warrior — these are but a part of its fruits, and of... | |
 | 1908 - 766 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...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... | |
 | Illinois State Geological Survey - 1909
...has given new securities to the mariner; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of a form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt...heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with splendor of day ; it has extended the range of human vision ; it has multiplied the power of the human... | |
 | 1906 - 762 pages
...has lengthened life, increased the fertility of the soil, furnished new securities to the mariner and new arms to the warrior; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form quite unknown to our forefathers, and guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth." " This... | |
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