 | 1842 - 820 pages
...oe»ree active — that it has made great advances in every branch of natural philosophy — that it has produced innumerable inventions tending to promote...government, police, and law have been improved, though not quite to the same extent. Yet, we see that during these two hundred and fifty years, Protestantism... | |
 | 1843 - 784 pages
...degree active — that it has made great advances in every branch of natural philosphy — that it has produced innumerable inventions tending to promote...government, police, and law, have been improved, though not quite to the same extent. Yet we see that during these two hundred ahd fifty years, Protestantism has... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...degree active — that it has made great advances in every branch of natural philosophy — that it has esar, or of the Old Guard of Napoleon. The. sepoys...fare, but to propose that all the grain should be quite to the same extent. Yet we see thai, during these two hundred and fifty years, Pro testantism... | |
 | 1846 - 278 pages
...advances in every hranch of natural philosophy, that it has produeed iunumerable inventions tendiug to promote the convenience of life, that medicine,...engineering, have been very greatly improved — that goverument, police, and law have been improved, though not to so great an extent as the physical sciences.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...activethai it has made great advances in evcrj branch of natural philosophy — that it has pro duced JL + ::)x o 9 7A vM&ڋ Ra# aI 5 quite to the same extent. Yet we see thai, during these iwo hundred and fifty years, Pro testantism... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...activethai it has made great advances in everj branch of natural philosophy — that it has pro duced ars of war, her commerce was interrupted only by the...defeat of the Armada, English statesmen continued to pi>lice, and law have been improved, though not quite to the same extent. Yet we see that, during these... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1854 - 452 pages
...highest degrcs active, that it has made great advances in every branch of natural philosophy, that it has produced innumerable inventions tending to promote...police, and law have been improved, though not to so'great an extent as the physical sciences. Yet we see that, during these two hundred and fifty years,... | |
 | William Gideon Michael Jones Barker - Wensleydale (England) - 1854 - 366 pages
...degree active — that it has made great advances in every branch of natural philosophy — that it has produced innumerable inventions tending to promote...medicine, surgery, chemistry, engineering, have been improved, though not quite to the same extent. Yet we see that, during these 250 years, Protestantism... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...aciivethat it has made great advances in everj branch of natural philosophy — that it has pro duced innumerable inventions tending to promote the convenience...government, police, and law have been improved, though not quite to the same extent. Yet we see thai, during these two hundred and fifty years, Pro testantism... | |
 | John Francis Maguire - 1857 - 504 pages
...degree active ; that it has made great advances in every branch of natural philosophy ; that it has produced innumerable inventions tending to promote...government, police, and law, have been improved., though riot to so great an extent as the physical sciences. Yet we see that, during these two hundred and... | |
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But we see great reason to doubt whether this be a well-founded expectation. We see that during the last two hundred and fifty years the human mind has been in the highest degree active; that it has made great advances in every branch of natural philosophy;... 
