 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1869 - 472 pages
...CHAPTER X. FROM BARR03O TO SAO JOAO D'EL-REI. " 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." — Macavluy. RISING before dawn on the next day, we found from the bloodclotted hides of our animals... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1869 - 474 pages
...BARROSO TO SAO JOAO D'EL-REI. " Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone exccpted, those inventions which abridg-e distance have done most for the civilization of our species."— Mactiulay. RISING before dawn on the next day, we found from the bloodclotted hides of our animals... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 692 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 have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally... | |
 | Michigan. State Board of Agriculture - 1871 - 498 pages
...declaration of Lord Macanlay is fully borne out, that, next to the alphabet and the printing-press, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of man. And what is true on a large scale, is just as true on a small scale. While railways care for the... | |
 | National Board of Trade (U.S.) - 1872 - 360 pages
...abridge distance, have done most for the civilization of our species." " Every improvement," he adds, " of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually, as well as physically." It may be asked, however, is the abridgement of distance to be desired, and is improvement... | |
 | Edward Jeboult - 1873 - 394 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 have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally... | |
 | Herbert Russell Clinton - 1874 - 392 pages
...1829. Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1830. " Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing-press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of onr species " (Macaulay). London Police Force established by Sir Robert Peel, 1829.... | |
 | Robert Furley - 1874 - 536 pages
...Paul's, and Is. Gil. metnge. It has been truly said that " of all inventions, printing excepted, those which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species." Now, when on our principal thoroughfare from Dover to London there were during this century many parts... | |
 | James Hamblin Smith - 1876 - 184 pages
...palace, and of debates in the parliament. (23) 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. (24) You thus employed, I will go root away The noisome weeds, that without... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - 506 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 have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally... | |
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Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially, and not only facilitates the interchange of the various productions of nature and art, but tends to remove national and provincial antipathies,... 
