 ... knots an hour against the wind. These are but a part of its fruits, and of its first fruits. For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is...  Critical and historical essays - Page 396by Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Arthur Elley Finch - 1872 - 132 pages
...earth ; to traverse the land in cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which run ten knots an hour against the wind. These are but...to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow.' — ' Lord Bacon,' by Macaulay — -Macaulay's Works, vol. vi. p. 222. Longmans, 1866. NOTE L, p. 42.... | |
 | A. Elley Finch - 1872 - 136 pages
...earth ; to traverse the land in cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which run ten knots an hour against the wind. These are but...to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow.' — ' Lord Bacon,' by Macaulay — Macaulay's Works, vol. vi. p. 222. Longmans, 1866. NOTE L, p. 42.... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1872 - 1254 pages
...earth, to traverse the land in cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which sail against the wind. These are but a part of its fruits,...philosophy which never rests, which has never attained it, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 pages
...the ocean in ships which run ten knots an hour against the wind. These are but a pai-t of its fraits, and of its first fruits. For it is a philosophy which...various as the powers of Bacon were, he owes his wide and durable fame chiefly to this, that all those powers received their direction from common sense.... | |
 | James Booth - 1873 - 268 pages
...horses, and the ocean in ships which run ten knots an hour against the wind. These are but a part of its fruits. For it is a philosophy which never rests —...goal to-day and will be its starting-post to-morrow.' (P. 399.) There is something to be said, therefore, for the material results of science ; and although... | |
 | William Richard Hughes - 1875 - 100 pages
...in mind the quotation from Lord Macaulay which a former President* gave some time ago : — " It is philosophy which never rests, which has never " attained,...was invisible, is its goal to-day, and will be its " starting point to-morrow." This aphorism eminently applies to the Marine Aquarium, as to every other... | |
 | Isaac T. Coates - 1876 - 78 pages
...but a part of its fruits, and of its first fruits. For it is a philosophy [as ours is a government] which never rests, which has never attained, which...to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow." The inventive genius of America will next, through the instantaneous production of a vacuum, drive... | |
 | 1876 - 778 pages
...earth, to traverse the land with cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which run ten knots an hour against the wind. These are but...progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its gaol to-day, and will be its starting post to-morrow. " Into this realm of Exact Science the Germans... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 898 pages
...earth, to traverse the land in cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which nin ten knots an hour against the wind. These are but...has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law it progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post... | |
 | 1878 - 312 pages
...of its first-fruits. For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained its limit, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point...goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow. XXXVI. NOR did Bacon ever meddle with those enigmas which have puzzled hundreds of generations, and... | |
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