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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 civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually... "
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Sivu 177
tekijä(t) Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1867
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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 850 sivua
...alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion...of London were, for almost every practical purpose, further from Reading than they now are from Edinburgh, and further from Edinburgh than they now are...

The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Nide 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 sivua
...alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion...of London were, for almost every practical purpose, further from Reading than they now are from Edinburgh, and further from Edinburgh than they now are...

Friends' Review: A Religious, Literary and Miscellaneous Journal, Nide 2

1849 - 854 sivua
...alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion...together all the branches of the great human family." from St. Louis to San Francisco in ten, or at furthest, in twelve days, and from New York to the Pacific...

Southern Literary Messenger, Nide 15

1849 - 820 sivua
...from place to place is lessened, benefits mankind morally and intellectually, as well as physically ; not only facilitates the interchange of the various productions of nature and art, but tende to remove national and provincial antipathies, and to bind together all the branches of the great...

Atlantic and Transatlantic: Sketches Afloat and Ashore

Lauchlan Bellingham Mackinnon - 1852 - 332 sivua
...which abridge distance have done most for civ* Macaulay. History of England, Chap. III. ilization. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits...and provincial antipathies, and to bind together all th( branches of the great human family.' " If ever such a remark could be directly applied, it is to...

Atlantic and Transatlantic: Sketches Afloat and Ashore

Laughlan Bellingham Mackinnon - 1852 - 352 sivua
...done most for civ* Macaulay. History of England, Chap. III. ilization. Every improvement of the menus of locomotion benefits mankind, morally and intellectually,...the interchange of the various productions of nature und art, but tends to remove national and provincial antipathies, and to bind together all th< branches...

The Calcutta Review, Nide 18

1852 - 556 sivua
...species. Every improvement of ' the means of locomotion benefits mankind, morally and intel' lectually, as well as materially, and not only facilitates the...of the various productions of nature and art, but Q ' tends to remove national and provincial antipathies, and to ' bind together all the branches of...

The Calcutta Review, Nide 18

1852 - 566 sivua
...species. Every improvement of ' the means of locomotion benefits mankind, morally and intel' lectually, as well as materially, and not only facilitates the...of the various productions of nature and art, but Q ' tends to remove national and provincial antipathies, and to ' bind together all the branches of...

Transactions of the State Agricultural Society of Michigan: With Reports of ...

Michigan State Agricultural Society - 1854 - 1088 sivua
...alone excepted, these inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion...together all the branches of the great human family." And considering the many hindrances in the way of social improvement which beset the life of the western...

A Letter to Robert Lowe, Esq., ... on the condition and requirements of the ...

John Bruce Norton - 1854 - 350 sivua
...civilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of " locomotion benefits mankind generally and intellectually as well " as materially, and not only facilitates the interchange of the va" rious productions of nature and art, but tends to remove national " and provincial antipathies,...




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