| John Bagnell Bury - 1920 - 402 lehte
...being extended to all branches of science, industry, and art. . . . Gentlemen, the Exhibition of 185i is to give us a true test and a living picture of...at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting-point from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions."1... | |
| Asa Briggs - 1975 - 368 lehte
...the Great Exhibition of 1851, which dominated the year. Its purpose was "to present a true test and living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived . . . and a new starting point, from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions."... | |
| Edward Cornish - 1977 - 322 lehte
...the achievements of modern invention, and we can traverse them with incredible ease. . . . Gentlemen, the Exhibition of 1851 is to give us a true test and...at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting point from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions.... | |
| 1862 - 602 lehte
...laws his standard of action, to conquer nature to his use ; himself a Divine instrument ' Gentlemen, the Exhibition of 1851 is to give us a true test and a living picture of tho point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting... | |
| Ullrich Kockel - 1994 - 228 lehte
...everybody; thought is communicated with the rapidity and even by the power of lightning. . . The Exhibition is to give us a true test and a living picture of...at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task. The Consort's speech is the primal statement of our dilemma. On the one hand the hegemonic... | |
| Lori Anne Loeb - 1994 - 237 lehte
...industrial accomplishment. The Great Exhibition had achieved its goal: "to present a true test and living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived . . . and a new starting point, from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions."10... | |
| Adrian J. Desmond, James Richard Moore - 1994 - 910 lehte
...of the division of labour' was the 'moving power of civilization,' and that the Great Exhibition was a 'living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived'?8 However, a great stumbling block still had to be overcome, one that had damped down belief... | |
| Bruce Rich - 1994 - 396 lehte
...to all branches of science, industry and art. . . . Gentlemen, the Exhibition of 1851 is to give us a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting-point from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions.... | |
| Seán McConville - 1995 - 838 lehte
...of Health in 1 848. 18 The Prince Consort hoped that the Exhibition would "present a true test and living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting-point, from which all nations will be able 10 direct their further exertions"... | |
| Elsbeth Heaman - 1999 - 446 lehte
...speech owed much to one given by Prince Albert earlier that year which heralded the coming gathering as 'a true test and a living picture of the point of...at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting point from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions.'17... | |
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