 | Maine. Board of Agriculture - 1871 - 524 halaman
...undue emphasis : " Of all inventions, the alphabet and printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. * * * Every improvement of the means of locomotioq benefits mankind morally and intellectually, as... | |
 | James Hamblin Smith - 1882 - 238 halaman
...parliament. 23. 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. 24. You thus employ 'd, I will go root away The noisome weeds, which without profit suck The soil's... | |
 | James Charles Blomfield - 1882 - 342 halaman
...inventions," says Lord Macaulay, " 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, "as well... | |
 | Burton Willis Potter - 1886 - 132 halaman
...Macaulay declares that of all inventions, the alphabet and 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 as well as... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1888 - 742 halaman
...persistence of vision. I may once again draw attention to the words of Macaulay : " Those projects which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species," and then mention the discovery of an instrument which I think realizes those words more nearly than... | |
 | Albert Augustus Pope - 1889 - 30 halaman
...OCTOBER 17, 1889. Transporta tío« Librajy \гЛ V. У /лMR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN : Macaulay says that of all inventions, the alphabet and printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. A nation, or... | |
 | 1891 - 496 halaman
...England says : "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. The inhabitantsjof London were for almost every practical purpose further from Reading (in the seventeenth... | |
 | Alfred Emory Lee - 1892 - 1202 halaman
...TO TURNPIKE. 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 as well as... | |
 | James Lewis Cowles - 1896 - 198 halaman
...operation within the limits of the United States. " Of all inventions, the alphabet and printingpress excepted, those which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. Every improvement in the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as... | |
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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... 
