 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1855 - 556 sivua
...which abridgo-distance have done it most for the civilization of our species. \Every improvement f^ of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally...remove national and provincial antipathies, and to t bind together all the branches of the great human family^ In the seventeenth century the inhabitants... | |
 | George Roberts - 1856 - 620 sivua
...alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion...together all the branches of the great human family." In this century many have been saluted in London with this inquiry, "What, all the way from Dorset?" It... | |
 | John Blakely - 1856 - 314 sivua
...species. It has been remarked by an acute observer of historical changes* that " every improvement in the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and...together all the branches of the great human family." By way of illustration it is added, " In the seventeenth century the inhabitants of London were, for... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1858 - 480 sivua
...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 as well as mate- ' rially, and not only facilitates the interchange of the various productions of nature and art,... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1864 - 816 sivua
...alone exoepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion...intellectually as well as materially, and not only fiicili tales the interchange of the various productions of nature and art, but tends to remove national... | |
 | 1864 - 632 sivua
...distance have done ' most for the civilisation of our species.' ' Every improve' mcnt,' he adds, ' of the means of locomotion benefits mankind ' morally and intellectually as well as materially.' Yet the introduction of well-constructed roads, albeit the first and most necessary condition of secure... | |
 | Thomas Rawlings - 1865 - 278 sivua
...inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. Every improvement of means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually...together all the branches of the great human family." There is another aspect of the question. RAILWAY ROUTE FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC. We are well... | |
 | William Lewins - 1865 - 362 sivua
...alone excepted, 1 hose inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. . . . Every improvement of the means of locomotion...morally and intellectually, as well as materially." — LOUD MACAUIAY. HER MAJESTY'S MAILS. INTRODUCTOKY CHAPTER. ON EARLY POSTAL COMMUNICATIONS. IT is... | |
 | James Kerr - 1865 - 410 sivua
...the printing press alone excepted, " those inventions which abridge distance have done most for our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion...morally and intellectually as well as materially." — See Macaulay's History of England. tone of national morality, there are scarcely any more powerful... | |
 | 1867 - 596 sivua
...those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species, end that every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits...together all the branches of the great human family. And if this be true (and it must be admitted to be so). shall we not all agree that the introduction... | |
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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... 
