 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 560 pages
...difficulty which our ancestors found in passing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which...of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially, and not only facilitates... | |
 | 1849 - 854 pages
...the most popular authors of the day, has remarked, that, " of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which...of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually, as well as materially, and not only facilitates... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 664 pages
...saluted the lord lieutenant. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printmg press alone exoepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done...of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially, and not only facilitates... | |
 | 1849 - 820 pages
...is one of the pillars of the Constitution. "Of all inventions," says Macaulay, "the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which...the civilization of our species." Every improvement, oy which time or distance from place to place is lessened, benefits mankind morally and intellectually,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 pages
...difficulty which our ancestors found in passing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 464 pages
...difficulty which our ancestors found in passing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every ' improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally... | |
 | 1852 - 566 pages
...checked the advance in civilization of our forefathers, " Of all inven' tions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, ' those inventions...of our species. Every improvement of ' the means of locomotion benefits mankind, morally and intel' lectually, as well as materially, and not only facilitates... | |
 | 1852 - 556 pages
...checked the advance in civilization of our forefathers, " Of all inven' tions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, ' those inventions...of our species. Every improvement of ' the means of locomotion benefits mankind, morally and intel' lectually, as well as materially, and not only facilitates... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1853 - 616 pages
...great modern historian of England has well said, that next to the alphabet and the printing press, those inventions which .abridge distance have done most for the civilization of mankind. We may add, truly, that the rail-road is the great apostle of progress. Though it has come... | |
 | Michigan State Agricultural Society - 1854 - 1088 pages
...been beautifully written, " of all inventions, the alphabet and printing press alone excepted, these inventions which abridge distance have done most for...of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually, as well as materially, and not only facilitates... | |
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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... 
