 | Alfred Emory Lee - 1892 - 1202 pages
...Journal, February 5, 1883. CHAPTER XIX. FROM TRAIL TO TURNPIKE. 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... | |
 | Charles McClellan Stevens - 1893 - 248 pages
...Grandpa, let me read what is on the right side of the doorway : " Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for civilization." That was Macaulay, the great essayist and historian of England. I wish I had known he... | |
 | 1896 - 1154 pages
...other's welfare. "Of all inventions (the alphabet and printing press excepted)," says Macaulay, "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 materially, and not... | |
 | James Lewis Cowles - 1896 - 360 pages
...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 materially, and not... | |
 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute - 1913 - 516 pages
...conditions presented by this important feature of our modern civilization. As Macaulay has well said,- "Of all inventions, the alphabet and printing press...have done most for the civilization of our species." This statement has lost nothing of force or fact during the sixty-odd years since it was written and... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 464 pages
...ancestors found in passing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing-press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance...of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially; and not only facilitates... | |
 | George William Tillson - 1901 - 608 pages
...LORD MACATTLAT said in his History of England: " Of all inventions, the alphabet and printing-press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance...have done most for the civilization of our species." Adam Smith once asserted that " the construction of roads is the greatest of all improvements." While... | |
 | George William Tillson - 1900 - 580 pages
...LORD MACATJLAT said in his History of England: " Of all inventions, the alphabet and printing-press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance...have done most for the civilization of our species." Adam Smith once asserted that " the construction of roads is the greatest of all improvements." While... | |
 | George William Tillson - 1900 - 580 pages
...LORD MACAULAT said in his History of England: " Of all inventions, the alphabet and printing-press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance...have done most for the civilization of our species." Adam Smith once asserted that " the construction of roads is the greatest of all improvements." While... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 446 pages
...ancestors found in passing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing-press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance...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... 
