| 1868 - 820 pages
...annihilated distance ; it has facilitated intercourse, correspondence, all friendly offices, all despatch of business ; it has enabled man to descend to the...soar into the air. to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the land in cars which whirl along without horses, and the... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1870 - 1186 pages
...correspondence, all friendly offices, all dispatch of business ; it has enabled man to descend into the depths of the sea, to soar into the air, to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of tbe earth, to traverse the bind in cars which whirl along without horaes, and tho... | |
| 1871 - 604 pages
...day ; it has extended the range of human vision ; it has multiplied the power of the human muscle ; it has accelerated motion ; it has annihilated distance;...soar into the air, to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the land in cars which whirl along without horses, and the... | |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...annihilated distance ; it has facilitated intercourse, correspondence, all friendly offices, all despatch of business ; it has enabled man to descend to the...soar into the air, to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the land in cars which whirl along without horses, and the... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 732 pages
...annihilated distance ; it has facilitated intercourse, correspondence, all friendly offices, all despatch of business ; it has enabled man to descend to the...soar into the air, to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the land in cars which whirl along without horses, and the... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 586 pages
...annihilated distance ; it has facilitated intercourse, correspondence, all friendly offices, all despatch of business ; it has enabled man to descend to the...soar into the air, to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse th-; land in cars which whirl along without horses, and... | |
| John Addington Symonds - 1871 - 470 pages
...annihilated distance ; it has facilitated intercourse, correspondence, all friendly offices, all dispatches of business ; it has enabled man to descend to the...soar into the air, to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the land on cars which whirl along without horses, and the... | |
| A. Elley Finch - 1872 - 136 pages
...annihilated distance ; it has facilitated intercourse, correspondence, all friendly offices, all despatch of business ; it has enabled man to descend to the...soar into the air, to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth ; to traverse the land in cars which whirl along without horses, and... | |
| Massachusetts - 1872 - 1254 pages
...annihilated distance ; it has facilitated intercourse, correspondence, all friendly offices, all despatch of business ; it has enabled man to descend to the...soar into the air, to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the land in cars which whirl along without horses, and the... | |
| Arthur Elley Finch - 1872 - 132 pages
...annihilated distance ; it has facilitated intercourse, correspondence, all friendly offices, all despatch of business ; it has enabled man to descend to the...soar into the air, to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth ; to traverse the land in cars which whirl along without horses, and... | |
| |