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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Page 276
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 744 pages
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The New sporting magazine, Volume 11

1846 - 512 pages
..."laudator temporis acti" ? Take your answer from one who has drawn the comparison in a right spirit. " It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it...and estuaries with bridges, of form unknown to our forefathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the...
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The Sportsman

508 pages
...mitigated pain ; it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has pVen new securities to the mariner; it has furnished new...and estuaries with bridges, of form unknown to our forefathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the...
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The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'., Volume 15

John William Carleton - 1846 - 508 pages
..."laudator temporis acti" 1 Take your answer from one who has drawn the comparison in a right spirit. " It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it...and estuaries with bridges, of form unknown to our forefathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the...
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The Principles of Science Applied to the Domestic and Mechanic Arts: And to ...

Alonzo Potter - Agricultural innovations - 1841 - 484 pages
...philosophy was to supply our vulgar wants. The former aim was noble ; but the latter was attainable. Ask the follower of Bacon, what the new philosophy, as it...and estuaries with bridges, of form unknown to our father^ ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 410 pages
...should not have been equally able to do without it?" Such questions, we suspect, would have puzzled Simplicius and Isidore. Ask a follower of Bacon what...the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it'has lighted up the night with the splendour of the day; it hjas extended the range of the human...
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The Freemason's Monthly Magazine, Volume 5

Freemasonry - 1846 - 406 pages
...has lengthened life, given new security to the mariner ; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges...heaven to earth, it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day ; it has extended the range of human vision, it has multiplied the power of human...
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The Freemason's Monthly Magazine, Volume 5

Freemasonry - 1846 - 458 pages
...has lengthened life, given new security to the mariner; it has increased the fertility of the soil; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges...heaven to earth, it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day ; it has extended the range of human vision, it has multiplied the power of human...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, with notes by A. Spiers

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...progress, that owes its origin to the genius of Francis Bacon. " Ask a follower of Bacon," says Macaulay, " what the new philosophy, as it was called in the time...furnished new arms to the warrior; it has spanned great riven and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunder-bolt innocuously...
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The Modern British Essayists: Macaulay, T.B. Essays

English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...Second, has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready; "It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pam; my twenty times as numerous as his own. Before him...lay a river over which it was easy to advance, but rr rivers and estuaries with bridges of form i known to our fathers ; it has guided the I" derbolt...
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The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral ; and The Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...to the genius of Francis Bacon. Second, has cfforted for mankind, and his answer is ready : 'It hath lengthened life: it has mitigated pain; it has extinguished...heaven to earth; it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the , day ; it has extended the range of the human vision ; it Itas multiplied the power...
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