| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 lehte
...called in the time of Charles the Second, has effected for mankind, and his anwer 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... | |
| William Swinton - 1874 - 240 lehte
...Harsh thunder. — Milton. 10. It (Bacon's Philosophy) has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain 5 it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has given ncw securities to the mariner ; it has furnished ncw arms to the warrior ; it has spanned great rivers... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1875 - 876 lehte
...extinguished diseases; i' has increased the fertility of the sol; it has given new securities to ia« mariner; it has furnished new arms to the warrior; it has spanned gre»< rivers nnd estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers; it 1"* guided the thunderbolt... | |
| Isaac T. Coates - 1876 - 78 lehte
...claims for the Baconian philosophy may quite as well be claimed for our self-government, that, " It hath 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... | |
| Robert Lomas - 1876 - 122 lehte
...be quite as graceful as another. SYDNEY SMITH, " Moral Philosophy." THE PHILOSOPHY OF 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... | |
| 1876 - 794 lehte
...applied to the Natural Sciences, England's greatest historian and essayist has so well said : " 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 thunder-bolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it... | |
| 1878 - 312 lehte
...follower of Bacon what the new philosophy 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... | |
| Joseph Gostwick - 1878 - 522 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... | |
| 1878 - 632 lehte
...effected for mankind, and his answer is ready : " It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; il has extinguished diseases ; it has increased the fertility...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... | |
| 1907 - 576 lehte
...summarized in the article just referred to that I cannot forbear quoting the concluding paragraph: "It. has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished...increased the fertility of the soil; it has given new seciirities to the mariner; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown... | |
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