 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 pages
...END OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. OF all inventions, the alphabet and printing alone excepted, those which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. In the seventeenth century, the inhabitants of London were, for almost every practical purpose, further... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1864 - 816 pages
...printing press alone exoepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of...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... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1864 - 136 pages
...TRAVELLING IN ENGLAND IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 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... | |
 | 1864 - 632 pages
...inventions,' says Lord Macaulay, in his ' History of ' England,' ' the alphabet and the printing press alone ' excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done ' most for the civilisation of our species.' ' Every improve' mcnt,' he adds, ' of the means of locomotion benefits... | |
 | William Lewins - 1865 - 366 pages
...to the extension of commerce." — PENNANT. " Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing-press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance...morally and intellectually, as well as materially." — LORD MACAW.AY. HER MAJESTY'S MAILS. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. ON EARLY POSTAL COMMUNICATIONS. IT is... | |
 | William Lewins - 1865 - 362 pages
...commerce." — PENNAMT. " Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing-press alone excepted, 1 hose inventions which abridge distance have done most for...morally and intellectually, as well as materially." — LOUD MACAUIAY. HER MAJESTY'S MAILS. INTRODUCTOKY CHAPTER. ON EARLY POSTAL COMMUNICATIONS. IT is... | |
 | Thomas Rawlings - 1865 - 278 pages
...ancestors found in passing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printingpress alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance...civilization of our species. Every improvement of means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially, and not only... | |
 | James Kerr - 1865 - 410 pages
...and 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... | |
 | Henry Dircks - 1865 - 670 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 civilization of our species." He then adds, speaking of steam, that it has — "in our day, produced an unprecedented revolution... | |
 | 1867 - 596 pages
...benefited. It has been well said, that of all inventions (the alphabet and the printingpress alone exceptcd) those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species, end that every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually,... | |
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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,... 
