 | 1908 - 766 lehte
...called in the time of Charles the Second, has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready: 'It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it has extinguished...spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it has... | |
 | 1906 - 762 lehte
...has lengthened life, increased the fertility of the soil, furnished new securities to the mariner and new arms to the warrior; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form quite unknown to our forefathers, and guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth."... | |
 | 1907 - 402 lehte
...not undeserving of such a eulogium as that pronounced by Macauley on the philosophy of Baeon: "It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it has extinguished...spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it has... | |
 | Georges Chatterton-Hill - 1907 - 620 lehte
...thus recorded the benefits which humanity has derived from the philosophy of Francis Bacon : " It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it has extinguished...spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it has... | |
 | Cyrus Northrop - 1910 - 568 lehte
...is to be distinguished. "It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it has extinguished disease; it has increased the fertility of the soil; it has...spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it has... | |
 | 1911 - 400 lehte
...Macaulay summed up the results of the philosophy of Utility and Progress in a memorable passage : " It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished...spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 824 lehte
...called in the time of Charles the Second, has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready ; ' It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished...spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - 1917 - 690 lehte
...writes as follows of the value to the world of the methods laid down in the " Novum Organum ": " It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it has extinguished...spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it has... | |
 | Thomas Ernest Rankin, Wilford Merton Aikin - 1917 - 490 lehte
...the philosophy of Bacon has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished disease ; it has increased the fertility of the soil; it has...spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it has... | |
 | Frank Aydelotte - 1923 - 450 lehte
...called in the time of Charles the Second, has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready: "It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it has extinguished...spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it has... | |
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It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it has extinguished diseases; it has increased the fertility of the soil; it has given new securities to the mariner; it has furnished new arms to the warrior; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with... 
